Qujing Rong Media News (Reporter Chen Hongjie and Yang Ziyu) On the evening of December 29, the "Meet Qujing Warm New Year" hosted by Qujing Rong Media Center - the 2024 New Year Concert and the first performance of the courtyard drama "Qujing Story" was held at Qujing's "Qingfeng Theater" opened in the Chen Family Courtyard at Dayou Lane, Wenchang Street, Qilin District. Qujing Media Center conducted a live broadcast of the performance.
Music, drama programs and folk experience activities such as courtyard dramas, folk music concerts, cultural interpretations of Qujing place names, national costume experiences, intangible cultural heritage projects, and making tea by the fire are all on stage. The content of
's entire live broadcast was unique, novel, and exciting, and the atmosphere was pushed to a climax time and time again, providing the audience with a cultural feast that was full of color, flavor, and flavor.
This event uses the Chen Family Courtyard as the stage. As the largest, most complete, and oldest ancient courtyard building in Qujing City, the Chen Family Courtyard serves as an important cultural element and successfully integrates traditional folk customs and local culture with this event. The themes of the concert are closely integrated, adding to the richness of history. The live broadcast of the
event started with a conversation between the host and three guests. Together they reviewed Qujing’s customs of welcoming the new year, the long history of Qujing Old Town, and also talked about Qujing Old Street and the story behind its name. The host Gui Yu also led the audience in front of the camera to visit the National Costume Fair, displaying many unique national costumes, such as horse-faced skirts, and also specially introduced the local costume of Qujing - the fire grass jacket, which was displayed in an all-round way Its characteristics and production methods.
At the same time, the folk program "Rice Cake Beating" was also held. The host, guests and the audience were full of praise after tasting the freshly made rice cakes. The wonderful interaction instantly ignited the atmosphere at the scene, and the event also included a lottery interactive session. Everyone ate, played and watched the show, enjoying the dual experience of taste buds and audio-visual.
The concert officially started at 7 p.m., with melodious flute and melodious pipa, and various traditional musical instruments including wooden flute, sheng, pipa and erhu taking turns. Instrumental ensemble "The King of Elephants", Erhu ensemble "Horse Racing", instrumental ensemble "Little River Flows", large violin duet "Slowly Falling in Love with You", instrumental ensemble "Cold Moon", medley of film and television hits, etc., including Jiangnan minor tunes, From exotic folk songs to popular classic film and television hits, the audience was immersed in the wonderful performances of the concert.
Among them, the folk music quartet "Cold Moon" based on the Yunnan opera tune "Little Taohong" is the most attractive. The distant tune takes the audience back to the ancient days of Qujing.
As one of the most representative local operas in Yunnan, Yunnan opera absorbs and integrates elements of Yunnan's multi-ethnic culture and has very distinct regional and national characteristics. The program team is unique in the selection and arrangement of activities.
An audience member at the scene told reporters: "My favorite thing about this concert is "Cold Moon". After the adaptation of this play, I find it refreshing."
The courtyard drama "Qujing Story" pushed the show to another high dynasty. "Qujing Story" is the most representative folk tale of Qujing. It tells the story of the old city of Qujing and Zhuge Liang and Sun Shiyin, and shows the rich and colorful history and culture of Qujing.
The audience gave great recognition to "The Story of Qujing". They thought the story was very well told, interesting in form, and blended with local sentiments.
Every city has its own unique history. This unique New Year's concert uses a novel form of courtyard drama and concert that combines ancient and modern Chinese and Western styles to present Qujing's long history of more than 2,000 years and the characteristics of local folk culture. Let everyone feel a different New Year.
