The tenth "Wonderful Tour" has another surprise, the wind is blowing on the Qingming screen

What color is the clarity in your eyes? Are the peaches red and willows green, the grass growing and orioles flying, or the misty rain and the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River?

What festival do you think of Qingming? Pay homage to the ancestors, sweep the tombs of ancestors, be cautious about pursuing the future, or go on an outing and get close to nature?

Yes, Qingming seems to be a very contradictory festival, full of hope of spring and excitement of life, but also full of desolation and sorrow for old friends. How would you describe this holiday?

Everyone has set their sights on Henan Radio and Television’s Qingming Wonderful Tour, with expectations and questions:

This is already the second Qingming Wonderful Tour on the same holiday. Second expression, how to create a different feeling? Unknowingly, we have arrived at Henan Radio and Television's tenth "Wonderful Tour". Can the Chinese Festival series exceed the rising expectations of netizens?

After watching the program, I can only say: You can always trust Henan Radio and Television! The tenth "Wonderful Tour" competition is high!

From the emergence of the Tang Palace Night Banquet during the Spring Festival in 2021, to the cultural expression of a series of 7 Chinese festivals in 2021, to the Chinese solar terms and Chinese festivals in 2022, the re-innovation of the "Double Festival" series , what lasts and remains unchanged throughout the ages is the respect and admiration for traditional culture.

Return because of respect, understand because of return, and become profound because of understanding;

Pursue because of admiration, change because of pursuit, and innovate because of change;

Respect makes people have a bottom line, sense of measure, and understands the solemnity and profound connotation of traditional culture;

Admiration makes people curious and have desires, and hope to carry it forward with current creative expressions.

These two emotions. Or two feelings, which run through the program innovation of Henan Radio and Television Station. They are not only the self-requirements of all the main creative teams, but also the knee-jerk reflex of integrating into the spiritual blood.

As the program director Chen Jia said, every creation is an in-depth exploration of traditional culture.

In the Qingming Wonderful Tour in 2021, the two-dimensional Tang Palace lady opened the Qingming River Scene, and went out and played everywhere in the form of time travel, cleverly integrating reality and AR technology, a "Paper "Fan the Scholar" takes the audience on a cultural study tour.

The Qingming Wonderful Tour in 2022 will use "The Elegant Gathering in the West Garden" as the grand narrative background and fixed blueprint. The entire party will include both people in the elegant gathering and things outside the elegant gathering. The team used Chinese classical literature as a link to integrate the tradition of elegant gatherings of Chinese literati and the natural characteristics of the Qingming solar term to connect the program and plot, thus achieving the theme of "The wind blows on the Qingming screen".

The so-called "Xiyuan Elegant Gathering" is one of the famous "team-building" activities of literati in history, which took place in Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty. Sixteen famous literati, including Su Shi, Su Che, and the Four Su Men, gathered here for a garden gathering. After the meeting, Li Gonglin and Mi Fu wrote notes to describe this grand event in the literary world. The so-called "the joy of pure openness in the world is nothing more than this." Another elegant collection that is equally famous is the "Lanting Collection" of Shanyin in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Literati and celebrities drank in the water and talked about the quiet feelings. The great calligrapher Wang Xizhi wrote "Lanting Collection" "Preface" has become a good story.

The five thousand years of Chinese culture are rooted in the heart, connected by blood, and passed down unchangingly. Who would have thought that a thousand years later, with respect, admiration, creative imagination and technological empowerment, Henan Radio and Television Station would reproduce this elegant gathering of literati on the screen, and design each outstanding character full of charm and sincerity with ingenuity and uniqueness. programme.

In the program list, there is the dance "Singing on the Long Shang" that shows the busy scene of the Qingming Festival, and the customary performance "Spring is so close to the Qingming Festival" that reproduces the scene of the ancients outing, riding and shooting, and shows the Qingming Festival eating youth dumplings and steamed rice dumplings. "Dream Cold Food", a song about children's dietary customs, "Qingming Guest", a song that expresses the memory of returning to one's homeland, "A Thousand Miles of Falling Flowers", a dance that outlines the image of a young hero galloping on the battlefield, and "Landing the Bright Moon", which combines instrumental music, Peking opera, and storytelling. Pingtan + Kunqu Opera concept interpretation of the opera "Qingming Ming Repays a Friend" and so on.

On the basis of respecting and admiring traditional culture, Henan Radio and Television has continuously broken expectations, raised thresholds, and broken expectations again... It is really rare. So what breakthroughs did this "Qingming Wonderful Tour" have?

First of all, in terms of content arrangement, Qingming Wonderful Tour has more sophisticated creativity, upgraded structure and profound cultural understanding.

Chen Jia introduced that the program has made some bold practices in the integration and breakthrough of drama + film and television + variety shows. On the basis of paying homage to the three unities of classical drama, it has transformed and superimposed in the time dimension to coincide with the Qingming Festival. The parallel universe parallel small theater builds a more open and rich structural design.

"We use the unique paragraph-by-scene description method of "Xiyuan Gathering Pictures" to present the program in the form of 'picture-in-picture', 'play-in-play', or playing the piano and listening to music. , or reciting poems and songs, feasting and watching dances, or enjoying spring and having fun, they were organically embedded in the spring gatherings of literati in the Song Dynasty."

The structural upgrade is backed by a profound cultural understanding.

In Chen Jia's view, the Qingming Festival embodies the Chinese people's view of life and death, conveying the concept of 'the unity of nature and man' - just like what is said in "Zhuangzi: Equality of Things", ' Heaven and earth are alive with me, and all things are one with me.'

Chen Jia said: "I think people should face life, old age, illness and death positively and calmly. The people who have passed away do not really leave, they just live in our hearts. I hope we can remember that they have been here. We have lived, loved, lived, and fought for the beauty of this world; and those of us who are alive should run towards the future, yearn for the light, and love our lives even more. This is what we want to convey on Qingming Festival - let the respect last. Change, let the longing last forever. ”

Just like the narration at the end of the program, you who have settled in my life are like the stars shining in the clouds, no longer touching me, but still illuminating me. Goodbye, my love.

Another significant change is that the filming location has moved from Henan to the whole country, from the cultural Central Plains to cultural China, reflecting a more open and inclusive creative mentality and cultural confidence.

In the 2021 Qingming Wonderful Tour and the series of "Chinese Festival" programs, the filming locations mainly come from the rich cultural accumulation of Henan. Cultural monuments such as Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Dengfeng, Anyang, etc. have appeared one after another, and even Set off a tourism boom. This is very logical. As the birthplace of Chinese civilization, you can see Qin bricks and Han tiles when you step on them, and you can see Spring and Autumn culture when you reach out. Henan itself is a treasure house of traditional cultural resources; but during this Qingming wonderful tour, we were delighted to see that this man born in the Central Plains The program is open and inclusive, moving towards a broader cultural space.

According to Chen Jia, "2022 Qingming Wonderful Tour" was not only filmed in Henan Province, but also went to Beijing, Yunnan, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Guangxi and other places for filming, hoping to make it a "real Chinese festival" . When the audience enjoys this wonderful tour, they can see not only the black gray of "rainfall during Qingming Festival", the whiteness of "Xinshe when swallows come", the beauty of "human faces and peach blossoms complementing each other", and the The elegance of "popular willows and wind"...

Take "Qingming Guest" sung by Li Yugang as an example. The background is the smoke and dreams of the Jiangnan countryside and the blending of mountains and rivers, which fully demonstrates the poetry and charm of homesickness during the Qingming Festival. The pictures are taken from three locations in Lishui, Zhejiang: Ancient Yan Painting Township, Heyang Ancient Residential Houses and Xiandu.

Here is the legendary "China's must-see natural ink sunset painting"; here is Dufeng Academy, known as the eight major academies in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, which carries the Neo-Confucian concepts and educational concepts of Zhu Xi, a famous thinker in the Song Dynasty; here There are also ancient villages dating back more than a thousand years. Speaking of this "living fossil of an ancient village", it also has a close relationship with Henan. It is said that the ancestors of the ancient village are brothers surnamed Zhu from Xinyang, Henan. For thousands of years, descendants of Heyang have inherited the customs and etiquette of their ancestors and hold various activities every year to recreate the thousands of years of ancient customs.

From the Yellow River Basin to the great rivers and mountains across the country, from the culture of the Central Plains to the Chinese civilization, behind this transformation is the self-confidence due to self-knowledge and the grandeur due to openness. Isn’t this Chinese culture? The best footnote?