The dragon rises, the mountains and rivers spring, and the plum blossoms bring prosperity to the family and the country. On the evening of February 2, the 2024 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala, "Spring fills the port with love," was officially performed at the Ningbo International Conference Center.
The east wind of the New Year stirs up the waves on the coast of the East China Sea, awakens the spring tide on the three rivers and six banks, and brings a new atmosphere in the Year of the Dragon. Dialect songs, creative dance, symphonic music and painting, opera, acrobatics... In the three chapters of "The Year of Reunion Again", "Flowers Blooming for a Thousand Years of Spring" and "It's the Right Time to Set Sail", more than ten performances with Ningbo characteristics, innovation and technology A variety of programs were performed one after another, creating a hot "cultural New Year's Eve dinner common to Ningbo people all over the world."
2024 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is a key year for the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the 40th anniversary of Ningbo becoming one of the first coastal open cities in the country. At this moment of inheriting the past and linking up with the future, bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, the shores of Qianhu Lake play the prelude to spring, uniting and inspiring the people of Ningbo around the world to build Ningbo and go global with a more high-spirited attitude.
Shows the spiritual outlook of "Allah Ningbo people"
The dragon draws thousands of rivers, and thousands of families prosper in the New Year. "Spring" is coming back to the coast, and the port city of Ningbo presents a gratifying scene where everything is spring and full of vitality.
The 2024 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala kicked off with the pilot film "Ningbo Smile" and the opening song and dance "Dragon 2024".
The smiling Tao Er unearthed from the Yushan·Wuguishan site in Zhenhai has transformed into the smiles of people from all walks of life. They are the old man making candy in Nantang Old Street, the female traffic policeman directing traffic, the resident singing band and the crowd listening to songs in Sanjiangkou... The "smiles" passed on in groups are happy smiles and confident and self-improving. A smile is also an inclusive and open smile.
"I am at the Port of Rotterdam, I am at the Port of Singapore, I am at the Port of Hamburg, I am at the Port of Limassol, Cyprus... I wish the people of Ningbo a happy New Year!" Along with the blessings from international friends, Fenghua Bulong, Zhenhai Nine Dragon Pillars and other colorful The "Ningbo Dragon" entered the scene, presenting a dazzling scenery of dragons and tigers leaping.
We gather in the Oriental Port City to share the joy of success in the construction of a modern coastal metropolis; we gather in a famous cultural city to appreciate the gratifying results of building a high-level cultural city; we gather in a city of love to talk about hometown love and reunite, and welcome the Year of the Dragon The arrival of spring.
"New Year's ceremony, family tradition, Ala Ningbo people; beautiful hometown, hometown feelings, Ala Ningbo people..." The interactive song "Ala Ningbo People" newly created for this Spring Festival Gala took the lead. The entire audience was infected by the enthusiasm and shouted out the confident "Alan Ningbo people". The host also said based on the latest film and television hot spots, "I wish everyone will have a Ningbo uncle in 2024!"
The flying herons in the mist and rain, and the beautiful green mountains and green waters, are a reflection of Ningbo, a harmonious and livable city. The dance "Flying Egrets in the Smoke and Rain" draws inspiration from the Zhenhai Refining Egret Garden. A group of graceful Jiangnan women move lightly on lotus steps, step on the rain and listen to the rain. It is poetic and picturesque, unfolding a beautiful picture of man and nature dancing in harmony.
dance "Flying Heron in the Misty Rain". Reporter Chen Lei/Photo by
The male and female duet "Missing of the Sea Breeze" uses lyrical singing to send blessings to friends who are still working hard at their posts and all Ningbo people overseas. The dancers hold up the tower keepers, forest rangers and sentinels. Waiting for the guardian images one by one, on the big screen, Ningbo's national moral model and representative image of workers flashed warmly, illuminating thousands of households.
shows the gratifying achievements of Ningbo cultural inheritance and dissemination
cultivating treasures in the prosperous times, and conveying the charm of paintings. Last year, the "Prosperous Classics - 'Chinese Painting Series' Achievements Exhibition·Ningbo Exhibition" was held in Ningbo, which lasted 100 days and attracted more than 300,000 visitors. The exhibition scale, number of exhibits, and exhibition time broke the Ningbo art exhibition record. , becoming a "phenomenal" cultural event.
The scene dance "Revelation of the Golden Age" was introduced from ancient famous paintings. One by one, exquisitely dressed figures walked out of the paintings, and the dancers walked through them, with sleeves flying like pens and dragons and snakes. Huang Tingjian's cursive "Nine Poems on Bamboo Branches by Liu Yuxi", the "treasure of the museum" in Tianyige's calligraphy and painting category, became the final place of ink. The flying cursive script is full of wild poetry, and Ningbo’s cultural treasures handed down from generation to generation shine on the stage.
has shone for seven thousand years and shocked the world for fifty years. 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Hemudu site. The symphonic tone poem "The Light of Hemudu" is accompanied by the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra and combines recitation and singing. Through the light of civilization in Hemudu, people can feel that Chinese civilization is like a mighty river, deep and far-reaching, and endless. Today's Ningbo, with its brand-new clothes, has taken over the yearning of the two birds in Hemudu, soaring into the world and soaring into the distance.
Immediately afterwards, Russian soprano Darya Brusova sang the song "That's Me" with the accompaniment of the symphony orchestra. This is the song she participated in the 2023 Ningbo International Vocal Competition, and she performed it as an "encore" on the 2024 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala stage. Brusova sang the song in both Chinese and Russian, adding an "international touch" to the stage.
Other singers who participated in the 2023 Ningbo International Vocal Competition also sent blessings through video. People from more than ten countries, including Russia, Austria, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Serbia, sang horse lantern tunes in different languages, and celebrated the reunion.
classics always exude eternal charm. The opera program of this Spring Festival Gala is called "Dream Back to the Red Mansion". The program combines classic excerpts from the Yue opera "A Dream of Red Mansions" and the classic theme song from the 1987 version of the film and television drama "A Dream of Red Mansions" to recreate the image of Jia Baoyu and the Twelve Hairpins of Jinling on the stage. The stage is ethereal and the artistic conception is beautiful.
Classics also need inheritance and innovation. Butterfly Lovers is a classic cultural business card of Ningbo. The creative dance "Butterfly Lovers·Butterfly Lovers" on the stage of the 2024 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala uses the creative method of "technology + art", using gauze curtains, ice screens, and wires to construct a poetic and beautiful illusion, giving this ancient legend a contemporary art The charm restores people's romantic imagination of the butterfly realm for thousands of years, winning rounds of applause and cheers.
Singing together with youth
Time is like water, time is like wine, and all the quiet and beautiful years come from hard work. Singer Yu Chaoying, who has won the championship of "My Style, My Show" and the overall championship of "Starlight Conference", was born in Ningbo. On the stage, she brought her masterpiece, the song "Time". "Time pretends to be mute and doesn't speak, letting wrinkles cover your cheeks. Your children have gone to the end of the world, and only your eyes are full of concern..." The simple lyrics resonated with the audience.
Though there are ups and downs, the original intention remains unchanged. On the way forward, we are all dream chasers. The performance team of the acrobatic "Flying Dreams" "introduced" Dunhuang murals to the scene. The difficult technical moves caused a lot of exclamations.
Let’s sing together in our youth. The 20 years since the implementation of the "Double Eighth Strategy" have also been 20 years of prosperity for Ningbo's literary and artistic undertakings. Ningbo has created a large number of outstanding literary and artistic masterpieces with a high degree of cultural consciousness. 25 works have won the "Five One Project" award for national spiritual civilization construction, and more than 200 works have won standing literary and artistic awards at all levels.One of the representative works also appeared collectively on the Spring Festival Gala stage -
dance drama "Ten Miles of Red Makeup·A Daughter's Dream", which is a dance drama that incorporates 12 national and provincial intangible cultural heritage projects. It has been featured in the world's top performances such as Lincoln Center for the Arts. The stage won the "Five One Project" Award for the 11th National Spiritual Civilization Construction;
"The Classic Wife" is "a landmark work" in the history of Ningbo Opera. The small steps on the stage are a step forward for Ningbo's literary and artistic creation. Big strides, including the Plum Blossom Award for Drama, the National "Five One Project" Award, and the "Wenhua Award";
The opera "Yoyou Luming" is the first opera creation on the Chinese stage with a female scientist as the protagonist, and it has become a national opera A classic of the times, the work pays tribute to Tu Youyou, daughter of Ningbo, winner of the "Medal of the Republic", and also pays tribute to those Chinese scientists who persevere and pursue dreams and truth. The work has won the "Five Ones" of the 15th National Spiritual Civilization Construction Engineering" Award;
In 2023, the dance drama "Mulan", which had won the "Lotus Award", the highest award for Chinese dance, was performed in Boston and Washington, the United States, for six consecutive performances. It had a wide impact and wrote a wonderful chapter in Sino-US cultural exchanges;
The musical "Tell the Sea" pays tribute to the builders of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge. It took three years to experience life at the construction site. Like the bridge builders, stage artists also used their own romantic feelings to boldly, enthusiastically and creatively build the rainbow-like bridge. , the work won the 12th National Spiritual Civilization Construction "Five One Project" Award;
and the latest dance drama "Eastern Port" created by Ningbo Performing Arts Group, as a realistic industrial-themed dance drama, integrates the struggle history of small people into the big picture. The development history of the times, showing morality and responsibility in the fireworks of the world, expressing feelings and aspirations in the joys and sorrows, won the Outstanding Repertoire Award at the 14th National Dance Show.
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In the future, Ningbo City will continue to write new chapters of literature and art in the new era and promote Ningbo literature and art to create greater glory!
The new era is surging, the new journey is full of possibilities, and the struggles of countless ordinary heroes have converged into a torrent of high-spirited progress in the new era. The 2024 Ningbo Spring Festival Gala came to an end with the large-scale song and dance "Spring is Full, the Port is Full of Love". "It's spring again in the motherland, look at me in my youth!" We sing loudly towards the spring, and we set sail in the spring light.
The spring is magnificent and the dragon is flying thousands of miles. Let us run hard in the time, be indomitable on the way forward, gather the majestic power of continuous struggle, and create a new year's spring for the modern coastal metropolis!
Source: Yongpai client
