Elephant News reporter Song Shuangqing Correspondent Feng Weifeng
Spring fills China and brings blessings to thousands of families. The program list of China Central Radio and Television's "2024 Spring Festival Gala" has been officially released this morning. 88 students from Henan Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School will participate in three program sections: "Inspiring the Dragon", "Healthy to the Order" and "Struggle for Spring". After repeated polishing, the program has become increasingly mature and will be held on New Year's Eve with Meet national and global audiences.
In the opening program "Inspiring the Dragon", students from Tagou Martial Arts School innovated dragon dance methods, which fit the festive and peaceful atmosphere of the Chinese New Year. They fully integrated dragon elements into their martial arts movements. Based on the martial arts equipment "double whip" and using red and yellow as the main color tone, they adapted the traditional multi-person dragon dance into a double whip dragon and a single dragon dance, and made Performing difficult movements in the air, the image of a dragon with both softness and strength is refreshing; by Tagou Martial Arts School student and singer Zhou Shen in the program "Health to Order". Together, we will show the audience an innovative interpretation of Ba Duan Jin, which consists of eight different movements, each with its own unique effect; the Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala martial arts program "Struggle for Spring", with Yuan Heping as the martial arts instructor, Fan Shaohuang, Wu Yue, The three celebrities here and the students from Tagou Martial Arts School were divided into three dragon dance teams to compete in martial arts and compete for youth with martial arts.
In May 2023, Tagou Martial Arts School started preparations for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon early. The school has specially formed a Spring Festival Gala preparation team, which is responsible for program creativity, actor selection, daily rehearsals, prop production, etc. I believe that this group of children from Henan will definitely live up to expectations and present a "full of martial arts" flavor to the national audience on New Year's Eve in their best condition and full of spirit.
