Kung Fu boys from Tagou Martial Arts School in Dengfeng performed the opening program "Inspiring the Dragon" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Picture provided by reporter
Henan Daily reporter Li Yue correspondent Xue Mingrui
At 8 o'clock on New Year's Eve, the long-awaited 2024 China Central Radio and Television Station Spring Festival Gala officially met with the national audience. 88 kung fu boys from Tagou Martial Arts School in Dengfeng, Henan, through the wonderful performances of three programs: "Inspiring the Dragon", "Healthy to the Order" and "Struggle for Spring", while showing the traditional martial arts culture of the Central Plains, they also became the 21st For the first time, I sent New Year blessings to the people across the country on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
In the opening program "Inspiring the Dragon", accompanied by the vigorous and uplifting drum beats, the golden dragon controlled by 45 students from Tagou Martial Arts School attracted the most attention. The 8-meter-long golden dragon is unfolded, and the double dragon performance is innovatively combined with martial arts double whips. It is majestic and a little agile. For a time, the clouds rose and the dragon flew towards the "dragon", and a scene of a prosperous and prosperous age with great vitality and good luck appeared on the stage.
"Healthy to the Order" is a program jointly created by the program director and Tagou Martial Arts School this year. Zhou Shen's cheerful, bright, humorous and interesting singing, coupled with the dance adapted from the traditional Baduanjin, has many highlights. . Especially when the Baduanjin formula sounded, the students from Tagou Martial Arts School stood in the middle of the stage dressed in milky white robes and followed the host's formula to make movements such as "holding the sky with both hands, shaking their heads and wagging their tails", implying that Chinese martial arts can help the health of the whole people. positive effect.
The micro-film martial arts program "Struggle for Spring" created by the team led by director Yuan Heping was filmed in advance on location in Deyang, Sichuan. In the show, the kung fu boys were divided into three dragon dance teams, and they danced for spring under the leadership of stars Wu Yue, Fan Shaohuang and Ji Sha respectively. They were either hanging pots to save the world with Huang Feihong played by Wu Yue, or practicing martial arts in the boxing gym with Huo Yuanjia played by Fan Shaohuang, and some were following along with Bruce Lee played by Shi Sha. Jumping around the bonfire and talking about what you want to be when you grow up. Under the change of time and space, the three "dragons" gathered together, and each of the three parties tried their best to fight for the orb that symbolized good luck. The scene was intense, warm and interesting, and it could be called a wonderful Kung Fu feast.
Guan Jiarui, a member of the "Struggle for Spring" performance team and participating in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for the sixth time, said that the most difficult part of the show is the dragon dance group performing with Jisha, because everyone has to wear skates to perform the dragon dance. "Although many of us have participated in the performance at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Paralympics and are relatively proficient in skating, it is really difficult to master this balance point while maintaining smooth skating while ensuring that the dragon dance is vigorous and powerful." Guan Jiarui He said that through the full cooperation of the team members, everyone worked together to realize the program intention of the director team, and finally added the most dazzling "color" to the "Struggle for Spring" program.
