In 2022, the first season of "Poetry and Painting China", a large-scale cultural program produced by China Central Radio and Television, was released. It collected more than 60 famous ancient paintings and more than 70 poems and essays, reaching over 2.74 billion topic views and 320 million views on the entire network. Video playback volume, won the 60th "Asia Broadcasting Federation" TV Entertainment Program Award. On January 14 this year, the second season of "Poetry and Painting China" with the theme of "Rivers Eternally Flow" will premiere on CCTV Comprehensive Channel at 8 p.m.
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This season's program uses the rivers and rivers of the motherland as clues, poetry and painting as carriers, and uses modern literary and artistic expression methods to explore the development trajectory and spiritual context of Chinese culture. Through new technologies, new interpretations, and new expressions, the classics The painting "comes alive" again. The program incorporates new technologies such as 3D mapping projection technology, AR immersive stage, and CG digital imaging technology, calling on all people to participate in creating poetry and paintings.
Fan Di'an, Chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, Wu Weishan, Director of the National Art Museum of China, and Kang Zhen, Vice President of Beijing Normal University, will continue to serve in the second season, as well as Lou Wei, Executive Vice President of the Palace Museum, and Peking University School of Urban and Environment Professor Han Maoli and other experts and scholars have joined the show, and they will lead the audience to visit landscapes and see poetry and paintings. In the first program, four scrolls will be slowly unfolded: "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River", "Jianghan Range Rover", "Shuchuan", and "Lushan High". The openers Chen Duo, Xu Song, Zeng Li, Zhang Tong and the host Sa Beining joined hands to measure the mountains and seas with poetry and painting, and jointly appreciate the beauty of China for thousands of years.
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According to reports, singer Xu Song used songs to paint paintings. He sang about the broad-minded feelings of the Northern Song Dynasty painter Li Gonglin who loved the mountains and rivers and surveyed the world between the Bashan and Shu rivers painted in the "Sichuan Picture". He composed the music for the original poem "Early Departure from Baidi City", and with the support of the Fengjie County Culture and Tourism Committee, he came to the scene "Baidi City" depicted in the painting to find out how the poet "can't stop crying apes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The state of mind of "the boat has passed the ten thousand mountains".
Actor Zeng Li, who was born in Hubei, incorporated the scenery of his hometown's Han River into the song, which led to the axis of "Jianghan Range Rover". "From now on, the yellow crane flies into the infinite blue sky." The melody of the lyrics is heard in the ears. Zeng Li takes the audience to "enter" the scene in the painting with his dramatic voice, and restores the prosperity of the three towns of Wuhan in the past through the words of the ladies of the Ming Dynasty.
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Actor Zhang Tong plays the roles of Li Bai, Su Shi, and Shen Zhou, interpreting the story behind the creation of the "High Picture of Mount Lu". Poems from the Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty will share the stage with the masters of painting from the Ming Dynasty across time and space. The magnificence of combining poetry and painting is reflected in the image of Mount Lushan with its mountains and waterfalls.
"Where have we come from, and where will we go." Following the recitation artist Chen Duo, the audience can wander through the nearly ten-meter-long "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River" volume created by the Ming Dynasty painter Wu Wei from the perspective of the traveler in the painting. With the assistance of the Propaganda Department of the Yichang Municipal Party Committee, the lead dancer Zheng Nan and the dancers of the Hubei Three Gorges Performing Arts Group conducted live shooting along the Yangtze River, presenting a magnificent Yangtze River music, dance, poetry and painting show. In the program "Ten Thousands of Poems on the Yangtze River", the magnificent scenery along the riverside is displayed one by one, fully demonstrating the long history and grandeur of the Yangtze River.
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The new season of "Poetry and Painting China" is based on the "eternal flow of rivers", focusing on the long-standing river context in the vast land, extracting geographical and humanistic clues from everyone's poems and paintings, and exploring the development trajectory and spiritual context of Chinese culture . It is worth mentioning that the newly built "water stage" will reproduce the rippling blue waves of the river, just like a flowing landscape painting. The program also transformed the audience area into a "painting studio" and innovatively launched a "Poetry, Painting and Handicraft Class", inviting contemporary artists, art lovers, inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, students from the eight major art academies or youth representatives to express their own vision through secondary creation. The Yellow River has nine bends and the Yangtze River flows.
(Source: Shangguan News Author: Zhang Yi)
