The innovative integration of China's excellent traditional culture and modern art forms has been a highlight of the Spring Festival Gala in recent years. The program and design of the Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala reflect the profound heritage of a long-standing civilization. The Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala is creative in "form" and achieves the creation and transformation of "the essence of form" and "the beauty of form".
This year, the main station specially invited Chang Shana, a 93-year-old Dunhuang art and arts and crafts design research expert, to design the "New Year Brocade", which is beautiful, elegant and unique. The creative show "Nian Jin" uses songs + virtual synthesis technology to show the charm of oriental aesthetics.
Giving new connotations in artistic creation is the innovation of "form" in this year's Spring Festival Gala.
The dance program of the party embodies the "beauty of form" full of charm. The performers of the dance "Koi" transform into playful koi and swim around, and the stage suddenly becomes a three-dimensional and vivid watercolor painting. Although there is not a drop of water between the sky and the earth, there is flowing water everywhere, and the blank space and freehand complement each other.
From last year's Spring Festival Gala's "Splendid" and "Wing Chun" to this year's "Koi" and "Wing Chun", the audience felt the vitality of China's excellent traditional culture. In these works, "form" and "beauty" echo each other to build a holistic sense of coordination, inheriting and promoting traditional culture from multiple levels such as meaning, form, and technique.
Traditional Chinese art attaches great importance to modeling, and has long paid attention to the issue of "right and not right", that is, "similarity in form" and "similarity in spirit". Gu Kaizhi, a painter in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, put forward the aesthetic proposition of "describing the spirit with form" and "imagining wonderful things"; Shi Tao of the Qing Dynasty believed that "if you are not allowed to paint famous mountains, the mountains must be similar to the paintings, and the mountains must be strange. The changes are magical and ignorant, If there is no resemblance, then bow down”… The concept of traditional Chinese art pursuing both form and spirit is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
From this perspective, the song "Dragon" can be said to be the highlight of this year's Spring Festival Gala. "We are all dragons" sings about the courage and confidence of the Chinese nation, the high-spirited fighting spirit of hundreds of millions of Chinese people, and the unremitting self-improvement and struggle. Enterprising spirit.
In order to create a joyful, auspicious and jubilant festival atmosphere, the Spring Festival Gala strives to create works with emotional concentration and memory of the times. In the interweaving of "form" and "spirit", it creates empathy and resonance with the broad masses of people pursuing a happy life, allowing the audience to From the bottom of my heart, I inspire the confidence that "tomorrow will be better" and the motivation to pioneer, innovate, work hard and contribute.
(The author Lu Fan is the director of the Audio and Video Office of the Integrated Media Center of Peking University)
(People's Daily)