Co-produced by the Palace Museum, China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd., and People’s Daily Online Co., Ltd., and jointly produced by Yushang Hemei Culture Development Co., Ltd. Landed on the 3rd and 4th of China Yangzhou Canal Grand Theater, this newspaper will reveal the behind-the-scenes of this dance drama for you in advance.
Traces of the Northern Song Dynasty: A Long Scroll of Jiangshan Paintings by Young People
In 1113, the Northern Song Dynasty was in Zhenghe three years.
Song Huizong loved painting and built a painting academy in the palace to raise a group of painters to paint for the palace. An 18-year-old boy came to the painting academy.
The young man uses mulberry silk as a canvas, and he writes with ease. The drawn pattern is a vast and empty country, and the opening is a peak that towers into the clouds. In the picture, there are fishermen living on the shore, and there are hermits in the mountains.
Soon following the painting was completed, the young man died. Regarding his records, there is only one left in history: “Given on the first day of the fourth month in the third year of Zhenghe, Ximeng was eighteen years old. He used to be a student of painting, and was called into the library of forbidden Chinese books. The superior knew that his nature might be taught, so he instructed him, and taught him the method himself. If he was not more than half a year old, he would advance in this way. The superior praised him, and because he gave him the capital, he said that all the scholars in the world were doing it.” Word.
The young man’s name is Wang Ximeng. No one knows where he came from. With his 18-year-old talent, he painted “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”, one of the top ten famous paintings in China. Today, this painting of “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains” is treasured in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and has been rated as “no failure in every single painting”.
Spring Festival Evening Appearance: The dance scene shocked the world
January 31, 2022, the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger.
The opening of the dance poem “Only Green” was silent, with only the ripples on the water surface, swaying lightly on the stage in circles. The dancer’s bun, raised high, has a unique and diverse shape. The costumes of the dancers are green and green, from shallow to deep.
When the music starts, the dancers turn slowly, when each bun turns into the distant mountains and mountains, when each piece of Chinese clothing changes into the calmness of living next to the water, then the audience suddenly understands that this is the performance of “Dance”. A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”.
This dance is the only way to pay tribute to ancient Chinese paintings with modern Chinese dances.
After the Spring Festival Gala, the popularity of “Only This Green” remained high.
Staged in Yangzhou: “Only This Green” will be exhibited
On September 3 and 4, 2022, Yangzhou Canal Grand Theater. The dance poem “Only This Green” will be staged here, and “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains” will be exhibited in Yangzhou.
At that time, the dance poem “Only This Green” will take “poetry drama” as the genre, with chapters such as “exhibiting scrolls, asking seals, singing silk, finding stones, studying brushstrokes, quenching ink, and entering paintings” as the outline. The audience follows a modernist. From the perspective of the researcher of the Forbidden City – the exhibition person, wandering in the legendary Chinese traditional aesthetic interest.
“Only This Green” adopts a time-space staggered narrative structure. The exhibitor entered into Wang Ximeng’s heart because of his dedicated study of “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”, and accompanied him through the precious time of painstakingly drawing “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”. Out of “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”, the accident and inevitability of “one thousand years alone”, and understand the emotional connection between ancient cultural relics and modern people.
