Jimu News Chief Reporter Zhang Cong
When the entire bronze curtain wall suddenly fell towards the auditorium, when Qu Yuan hung under the chime bell and floated lightly into the sky, when a group of "leopards" traveling with mountain ghosts suddenly jumped out in the dark night, When the chess game between Zhang Yi and the King of Chu was played in the form of a human wall... the Jing Chu you are familiar with and the Chu Feng of Chu land that you may not know much about came to you in an instant.
html On the evening of July 12, the stage play "Image of Jingchu", which took three years to create and was directed by the famous artist Yang Liping and the music director by the famous musician Tan Dun, landed at the Qintai Grand Theater. All of a sudden, the weight of the bronze dragon, the imagination of flying dragons and phoenixes, the magnificence of the legend of witches and ghosts, and the endless romantic sequence came over me.At the end of the performance, Liu Jing, an audience member who has served as a docent at the Hubei Provincial Museum for a long time, lamented in an interview with Jimu News that the show can be described as "shocking". "The best elements of Chu culture are all in this show." "
The details that come to mind
are all the best elements of Chu culture
What are the best elements of Chu culture? One of them is bronze. The characteristic of "Chu people are good at smelting copper" has shocked people's hearts even before the whole play begins. On the huge bronze door at the entrance of the stage, there are chimes, tiger-seat bird-mounted drums, copper continuous kettles, bronze statues, and bronze carts. The horses are lifelike, and the giant door has a turquoise tone after the bronze has been rusted. The details made the audience praise.
Among the bronzes, the iconic carrier of Jingchu culture is of course the chimes. In the section of "Heavenly Questions", a 6.5-meter-high giant chime bell descended from the sky, and dancers dressed in chime bells appeared one after another. The audience may not have realized that the echo of the chime bell they heard came from the original chime bell of Zeng Houyi - 1997 In order to compose the symphony "Heaven, Earth, Man", Tan Dun recorded the sound of the original bell of Zeng Hou Yi in the Hubei Provincial Museum. The recording at that time was used in this "Image of Jingchu". What the audience heard was really the sound of chimes played more than 2,000 years ago!
As the soul figure of the entire stage play and the spiritual leader of Chu culture, Qu Yuan's image is vividly displayed in "Image of Jingchu".
In addition to "Heavenly Questions", "Nine Songs", "Li Sao" and "Ode to Orange" as chapters, the stage play uses a powerful space to tell the story of the towering gods written by Qu Yuan - how Hou Yi shot the sun? How does the mountain ghost ride a leopard? How does the Phoenix rise from the ashes? What is the ultimate romance represented by Mrs. Xiang? When Qu Yuan faced off against his powerful enemy Zhang Yi, and encountered the Chu Kingdom being defeated by Qin, the dance in which he threw himself into the river was poignant and magnificent with the combination of light and shadow, making the audience applaud for a long time...
Of course, many viewers will never forget it. Through the "travel map of chariots and horses" staged in a shadow play, the national treasure-level cultural relics in the Hubei Provincial Museum were staged in such a childlike way, which also made many viewers express "unexpected" and "the aesthetic level is really too online!"
The carefully translated "Chu Ci"
was painted into a painting, made into a scene, and danced into a dance.
Mysterious, romantic and imagery expressions are Yang Liping's best creative methods, and all of these are projected in "Image of Jingchu". "In the core of "Jingchu Image",
is actually a big problem. At the press conference on the 11th, Liang Geluo, the literary director of "Image of Jingchu" and the famous screenwriter, once said that the creation of this drama was due to "lack" - Chinese culture and the spiritual outlook of the Chinese nation have always been diverse. Jingchu culture represents femininity, beauty, mystery and romance, but it always feels strange to people.
He mentioned Qu Yuan, saying that when he went to search the website, the image of "Qu Yuan" that popped up always seemed to be an old man. "No one seems to be curious about what the young Qu Yuan looked like." Everyone knows "Chu Ci", but The difficulty of understanding "Chu Ci" has limited its spread. If you want to fill in the gaps, you need to make a "Image of Jingchu", but to make "Image of Jingchu" well, you must do a good job of "translation".
In the end, Yang Liping used dance and characters to perfectly complete this "translation" work - Hou Yi, who drew his bow and shot an arrow, shot down nine surging suns in the red light and shadow of the sky; beautiful as an elf. Mountain ghosts and wild beasts walk together, and behind him are endless darkness and stars... And "Feng Crying in the Morning", "Qu Zi Wen Tian" and a large number of eye-catching dances have already swept the entire network through the Henan Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala. and stage design, also cleverly immersing everyone in the romance and beauty of Jingchu culture.
Yang Liping mentioned before when introducing "Image of Jingchu" that this stage play is equivalent to the creative team turning "Chu Ci" into a painting, a scene, a play, a roar into a song, and a dance into a song. dance. It was to "sing and dance to the audience alive" those dreams that Qu Yuan had more than 2,000 years ago, and now, Yang Liping has done it.
Jimu News reporter learned that after the premiere on the 14th, Yang Liping will conduct in-depth polishing of "Image of Jingchu" for two months. After that, "Image of Jingchu" will start a nationwide tour.
(Picture provided by the official organizer of "Jingchu Image")
(Source: Jimu News)
