At 19:30 on the first day of the Lunar New Year in the Year of the Dragon, the "2024 Silk Road Spring Festival Gala" will make its debut, bringing an audio-visual feast with the flavor of the Chinese New Year and full of Silk Road style to the global audience.
The Year of the Dragon Silk Road Spring Festival Gala uses the word "tide" as the core creative expression of the entire evening party. It runs through the dual main lines of "Silk Road" and "Spring Festival". The three chapters of the Tide from the East, Riding on the Tide, and the Mighty Trend lead everyone to immerse themselves in In the tide of the times, you can feel the cultural boom that is coming. It also strongly links the "wishes" of reunion and blind date during the Chinese New Year with the "mood" of the people in countries and regions along the "One Belt and One Road" looking forward to sharing the beauty and common prosperity, creating a better world. A diverse, youthful, cross-border and international audio-visual trend festival.
Integration and creation of "Silk Road Fantasy Show·Flying Mirror under the Moon"
Innovative expression of Silk Road elements, diverse characteristics blooming with new charm
"A road, through spring, through four seasons..." Familiar "One Road" by Peter Chen The melody was played softly, accompanied by the pyrotechnics of the city scene, slowly opening the curtain of the party with emotion.
Gong Linna , Zhao Rang , Zhang Hexuan, and Li Shuo jointly performed the song and dance "Listen to the Dragon's Roar". In the program, the dragon image soared into the sky during the Spring Festival Gala. It was majestic and audio-visual. The traditional dragon lanterns and dragon lanterns were presented in ar and xr ways. Through the paper-cutting, the national intangible cultural heritage Fengxiang clay sculpture dragon and clothing shapes blend together to innovatively display the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
singer Huang Ling's song "Echoes of the Silk Road" "resurrected" the Tang Sancai camel figurines carrying music, a national treasure, and explored the echoes of history and modernity. In the fusion creation of "Silk Road Fantasy Show·Flying Mirror under the Moon", Gong Linna appears in a scene where real and virtual blend, music and fashion complement each other. Her smart and ethereal singing voice and Dunhuang mural patterns and fashions create a fantasy show that travels through time and space.
The song "Back to Xi'an"
Youth blooms under the ancient city wall. Use the power of music to fill the New Year atmosphere.
The Year of the Dragon Silk Road Spring Festival Gala has set up the main stage and the Ximen Wengcheng branch venue of the Xi'an City Wall. When the ancient city of Xi'an encountered the magic of music, history and future , modernity and fashion, emotion and music are intertwined here. On the main stage of
, trendy musician wakes up and youth representatives from all walks of life sing a song "rising land", bringing out the trendy, inspiring and youthful atmosphere. Deng Yujun's song "Stepping in the Snow" combines classic poetry with modern music, and the singing voice is full of free and easy Chinese style.
At the City Wall Concert branch venue, the eight main songs showed the history, scenery, customs, markets, fashion, feelings, etc. under the Xi'an City Wall. They spanned age groups and watched the ancient city wall of Xi'an shine in an interesting and unique way. Youthful style, using the power of music to fill the New Year atmosphere!
Music creation "Sound of the Silk Road"
Artistic innovation leads the trend and cross-border integration opens up infinite possibilities
"More cross-borders" is one of the highlights of the Year of the Dragon Silk Road Spring Festival Gala, with excellent traditional culture, Chinese and Western musical instrument ensembles, and new technology presentations, What kind of new experience will the cross-border mashup of classic animation, film and television dramas bring to the audience?
He Guofeng, as a representative musician of northern Shaanxi folk songs, this time he performed a new interpretation of his masterpiece "Gods Can't Stop People from Thinking of People" in the music creation "Sound of the Silk Road", playing with Indian sitar, tabla drum and Mongolian patriarch The blend of tune and humai presents a new appeal. Northern Shaanxi storyteller Zhou Lin and the 844 band jointly performed the Chinese rock "Wu", a cross-border mashup of trendy electroacoustic bands, Northern Shaanxi storytellers and classic animations. The animated image of Wukong from different eras evokes "memory killing".
The ancient Persian musical instruments santur, oud and setar came to China from the ancient Silk Road. They have the same tune and performance as the Chinese traditional musical instruments dulcimer, pipa and three-stringed instrument. The ancient musical instruments represent and integrate the origin of world civilization. Representative instruments and percussion instruments played "The Harmony of Mountains and Seas" together, launching an imaginative, trendy and special civilizational dialogue. Guo Fangfei's piano solo "Fire Tree" was played by the Kunming Pool. The cheerful music style was stunningly combined with the traditional intangible cultural heritage, presenting a warm, splendid, golden and dreamy festival night.
Song and dance "Toast with the United States"
Artists from many countries jointly performed to create a Silk Road cultural feast
The international elements of the entire party were very eye-catching, with Italian singers, Persian orchestras, women's groups from five Central Asian countries, and Indian classical instrument masters coming from the Silk Road Many artists and actors from 10 countries and regions along the route performed on the same stage, and various music forms demonstrated a palace-level artistic combination.
The world-renowned coloratura soprano Wu Bixia sang the theme song of the party "Silk Road Together" with transnational girl groups from five Central Asian countries on the same stage, "Holding my hand, just like when we first met a thousand years ago; waiting for your wind , the sails are blowing and the camel bells are ringing." We look forward to joining hands with each other on the Silk Road to have a strong friendship and a common destiny.
's song and dance "Toast with the United States", Italian singers and Chinese young singers sang together, the opera "Drinking Song" and the Chinese folk song "Toast Song" complement each other, a song of one Silk Road, two cities, expressing the countries and regions along the "Belt and Road" Let’s move forward hand in hand and share the beauty and joy. The children's chorus "Listen to the Wind Whispers" was sung by Du Xuguang, Zhang Zimo and Zhang Linxi, the cast members of "Art Teacher's Sheep Herding Class", as well as children from countries and regions along the Silk Road. The heavenly voices echoed in the emotions of reunion, relatives and blind dates. Swinging out layers.
's heart-to-heart cooperation and heart-stirring performances, the party will show pure and moving musical charm. It is not only an exchange and collision of music, but also the perfect fusion of Eastern and Western cultures on the Silk Road Spring Festival Gala stage. Let us look forward to it. This trendy and majestic performance has allowed civilizations to learn from each other and resonate further into the distance.
(China Daily Shaanxi Reporter Station Qin Feng | Zhang Haishan Wei Runlin)