"I have been watching the Spring Festival Gala every year for 40 years. I never dreamed in my life that my granddaughter would be able to attend the Spring Festival Gala." Yiwu citizen Ji Bifang was very excited when she saw her granddaughter on the screen.
Tonight, the dance "Goose Goose" appeared on CCTV's "2024 Spring Festival Gala", innovatively performing the world classic "Swan Lake", among which 34 naive "gosels" came from Yiwu, providing a national The audience presented the "Picture of White Goose Playing in the Water" from the poem "Ode to the Goose".
Orange Persimmon Interactive reporter learned that this is the first time that a local literary and artistic team from Yiwu has appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage. The vivid "Yiwu Little Goose" has also attracted countless fans, so what is the story behind it?
The classic action is an illustration of "Singing the Goose"
On the beautiful stage, the goslings sometimes huddled up in a ball, sometimes floated on the water, sometimes fell upside down in the water...
"These unique movements are actually It's an illustration of "Ode to the Goose."" Zhou Xuguang, member of the Children's Dance Committee of the Chinese Dancers Association and vice chairman of the Yiwu Dancers Association, said with a smile.
"Look, doesn't 'Qu Xiang Xiang Tian Ge' mean to raise one's head and sing loudly? Isn't 'White Hair Floating on Green Water' just like 'Dwarf Steps' where you can't see the goose legs? Isn't that 'Anthurium Plucks Clear Waves'? Is the 'kneeling swim' drifting on the water? These movements are vivid and picturesque, and the artistic conception of poetry is also revealed."
"Children's creativity far exceeds that of adults."
Watched by Zhou Xuguang Come on, children's dance creation must see the world from the child's eyes and must conform to the expression of the child's body. When creating the movements, she often communicated and interacted with the children, asking them to imagine that they were a goose and improvise various swimming movements.
"Children in Yiwu are very smart, with strong imagination and creativity. There was a child who kneeled on the ground and performed a goose swimming. I was immediately moved by the way he performed. Later, he combined the gliding steps in hip-hop and created the 'Kneeling Swim' , perfectly showing the leisurely and contented look of the goslings."
Zhou Xuguang said, not only that, but the "dwarf steps" that show the goslings swaying left and right and running are also from the children's "creations".
Orange Persimmon Interactive reporter learned that the Spring Festival Gala dance "Goose Goose" was completed by the Yiwu Children's Dance Team in cooperation with the Zhejiang Provincial Dancers Association, CCTV Dance Group, and Shanghai Ballet. After more than 20 adaptations and five reviews, it passed the Spring Festival Gala director The joint efforts of the team and the main creative staff have carried out all-round upgrades in terms of soundtrack, lead dance, costumes, props, etc.
With the addition of the elegant and noble "swans", each feather of the large prop wings becomes as light as a cicada's wing. The costumes of the "gosels" are tailor-made, and the amount of down filling required for each part is even precise. Calculated...
Among the participating actors, 35 are from Yiwu, including a mother goose and 34 "Yiwu goslings". The oldest child among them is 10 years old, and the youngest child is only 4 and a half years old.
"At an age when I couldn't even zip my coat, I learned to endure hardship and struggle."
Along the way, the accompanying instructor Zhou Yizu was deeply touched.
When doing the "kneeling swim" movement, the thighs and upper body torso need to be tightened, which requires being very agile and stuck on every rhythm.
"The frequency of raising the knee is as high as 100 times a minute, and it takes an average of two or three movements per second to achieve the 'shadowless leg' effect and present the scene of the goose swimming silkily."
"Rehearsed several times After coming down, it is common for the knees to be red, swollen, broken, or even injured. The little guys have persisted and no one has ever cried out about the pain." Zhou Yidou said that this scene made the CCTV director and teachers couldn't help but be moved. "They fully embody the spirit of Yiwu people who dare to venture, fight hard, and work hard."
34 behind the 34 "Yiwu Goslings" are 34 families. In order to accompany their children in training, parents formed a very loving family. If you are missing something, share it together. If you have any difficulties, let us help together. Starting from December 24, they were stationed in Beijing for 47 days.
The "little geese" practiced dancing during the day and continued to study at night. Along the way, they overcame many mental and physical difficulties and successfully passed numerous reviews. Their excellent skills and professional performances were highly praised by the CCTV Spring Festival Gala directing team. affim.
Inspiration is rooted in Yiwu
"The inspiration for the program came from the poem "Ode to the Goose"." Zhou Xuguang said.
"Goose, goose, goose, singing to the sky. White hair floats on the green water, and anthurium stirs the clear waves."
This song "Ode to the Goose" was written by Luo Binwang, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, when he was 7 years old in his hometown of Yiwu. Almost everyone Chinese children’s poetry enlightenment all begins with these 18 characters.
After more than 1,300 years of dissemination, "Ode to the Goose" has long been famous overseas and has become the only children's poem in China selected into the UNESCO textbook.
It is understood that as the birthplace of "Ode of the Goose", Yiwu has successfully held three Luo Binwang International Children's Poetry Competition, becoming an important window for Zhejiang's cultural exchanges with foreign countries and the international spread of literature.
In addition to the well-known "Ode of the Goose", Yiwu is also the birthplace of the first Chinese translation of the "Communist Manifesto". Yiwu has a long history and thrives on business, making it a fertile ground for entrepreneurship and innovation. It has trade relations with more than 230 countries and regions around the world. It has profound cultural heritage and multicultural integration and development, and has also become a fertile ground for cultural and artistic creation.
Before the Spring Festival, Yiwu's literary and artistic masterpieces appeared on various Spring Festival Gala stages: Yiwu's original children's dance "The Grass Grows and the Orioles Fly in February" appeared on CCTV's 3 "I Want to Go to the Spring Festival Gala" program, and the Wu Opera " Broken Bridge " crew was invited to participate in the 2024 In the 2024 Shanxi New Year Opera Gala, the Wu Opera excerpt "Wu Song Havoc in the Lion Tower" was performed at the 2024 Shenyang Spring Festival Opera Gala, and the Wu Opera "The Cart" was broadcast on the cctv-11 opera channel "Here Comes the Horns"...
"The Golden Rooster" , silver eagles, flying back and forth to Yiwu."
According to reports, in recent years, Yiwu has continued to promote the construction of a culturally strong city, and has successively issued a series of policies and measures such as the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Promotion of the Cultural Yiwu Project in the New Era"; incentives Cultivate high-quality masterpieces, implement the "Yiwu City Cultural Quality and Cultural Talent Support and Reward Measures", create the "Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award" and "Feng Xuefeng Literary Award", support a total of 1,077 award projects, and award support funds amount to more than 30 million yuan.
Rooted in fertile soil, Yiwu's cultural work has delivered a dazzling report card: in the past three years, it has created more than 150 visual, folk arts, music and other types of literary and artistic works, and won more than 50 awards at the provincial level or above. Among them, the TV series "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky" won more than 20 awards including the "Five One Project" Award of the Central Propaganda Department, and the modern Wu opera "Yiwu Gaohua" was selected for the 18th China Theater Festival in 2023.
Picture and video source: Yiwu Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department
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