In less than a month, the China Central Radio and Television Station’s 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala will be with you. This year’s guests include old faces and new friends, presenting a table full of reunion to Chinese people around the world. "Cultural feast".
The party takes moon culture as the theme, with singing, dancing, symphony, and opera as the main carrier. Through multi-element artistic presentation, it integrates the traditional customs, nostalgia and feelings of home and country contained in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Through artistic presentations full of emotional colors, the audience can appreciate the deep affection and romance in the bones of the Chinese people while learning the national customs and ancient charms.
Guest performer at the China Central Radio and Television Station’s 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, Kang Huinigamaitisabeining, Zhu Guangquan: We will sing a very lively song at the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala. In fact, every time we are together, we want to give more happiness to All friends.
Guest performer at the 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala of China Central Radio and Television Station Chen Chusheng: hopes to give everyone a very warm feeling when listening to it. If there are friends who cannot return home during the holidays, I hope they can have some comfort.
This time the Main Station Autumn Gala has both old faces and new friends. Most of the performers in the show appear in the form of partners. The fusion of new and old faces, the collision of modernity and tradition, also bring more innovations and surprises to the show.
Guest performer at the China Central Radio and Television Station’s 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala Chen Lijun: I think we have also made an innovation this time, integrating pop and drama. The stage is also an atmosphere of bright moon, clear breeze, green mountains and green water. I hope to present to the audience a story of high mountains, flowing water, and close friends.
Digging deeply into the traditional cultural connotations
Ingeniously crafting the Mid-Autumn Festival story
The 2024 Main Station Mid-Autumn Festival Gala will incorporate traditional Chinese culture into it, using rich performance methods and program styles to integrate intangible cultural heritage, traditional poetry, and national style elements.
Every detail of this year's Mid-Autumn Festival party reflects the unique Chinese aesthetic. The iconic "long river" and "full moon" in poetry culture, Chinese dance with the rhythmic beauty of flowing water, and folk opera performances were all explored one by one and became important elements throughout the party.
Yang Qifang, chief writer of China Central Radio and Television Station's 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala: is like shadow play, paper-cutting, there are some intangible cultural heritage cultures, and there will also be a kind of element penetration. At the same time, we are in the show's host words and the host's connection. It will also incorporate classic elements of ancient poetry, allowing everyone to spend a wonderful Mid-Autumn Night in the rich aroma of national culture and culture.
While bringing poetry and picturesqueness to the stage, the party also continued to innovate in expression methods. It not only allowed traditional culture to "flow" with the music, but also used virtual reality, AI and other technologies to make the stage "alive" and lead the audience across mountains and seas. , traveling through ancient and modern times.
The costumes for this Autumn Gala performance also have traditional cultural connotations. The performers and hosts wore different styles of new Chinese costumes, which complemented the program content during the party. As the vane of current national fashion, new Chinese-style clothing retains the traditional charm of China while incorporating modern fashion, fully displaying the heritage of Chinese culture in elements such as embroidery, buttons, stand-up collars, and slanted lapels.
(CCTV reporters Yu Yue, Qi Lili, Wang Yanan, Hu Xiang, Jiang Zhengri, Bo Yinan)