The innovative fusion of excellent traditional culture and modern art forms is a highlight of this year's Spring Festival Gala. From the dazzling stage design to the small table surrounds on the table during the cross talk scene, you can see the unique charm Traditional Chinese patterns. The creative program "Nian Brocade" skillfully integrates traditional patterns into singing and dancing, costumes, stage beauty, and special effects, fully displaying the beauty of patterns that have been passed down for thousands of years.
On this year’s Main Station Spring Festival Gala stage, the creative program “New Year” had many highlights.
The four singers are respectively dressed in the solemn deep coat of the Han Dynasty, the rich and gorgeous skirt of the Tang Dynasty, the simple and soft back of the Song Dynasty, and the dignified and elegant coat skirt of the Ming Dynasty. The clothes, skirts, collars and cuffs of each set of costumes are distinguished. Typical patterns from different periods on the canvas interpret popular classics from past dynasties.
Patterns from nature are taken from the mountains and clouds on clothing in the Han Dynasty; bird and animal patterns such as flying phoenix patterns and auspicious lion patterns on clothing in the Tang Dynasty; flower patterns such as peonies and laurels on clothing in the Song Dynasty; and gourds, lanterns, etc. in the Ming Dynasty. The auspicious patterns allow the audience to appreciate the aesthetic taste of different dynasties and the profoundness of traditional Chinese culture.
Chief Director of the "2024 Spring Festival Gala" Yu Lei: When patterns were born, they were the art of the people. Those things that have been passed down for thousands of years and still appear everywhere in our lives are the most classic things. , we also hope to use the most stunning visual language and artistic performances to present it.
As the costume designer of the "Nian Jin" program, Chinese costume history scholar Chen Shiyu has rich experience in researching and restoring ancient costumes, and has participated in many large-scale programs and film and television drama-related work, but "Nian Jin" is, for him, Still a huge challenge. In the early days of
's creation, he first selected more than 300 patterns from a large library of traditional Chinese patterns. After repeated research and comparison, he finally decided to use 25 patterns as design references. Immediately afterwards, with strict standards in craftsmanship, he began to look for traditional printing, dyeing, weaving and embroidery intangible cultural heritage units with the highest technical level across the country to cooperate.
Costume history scholar and ancient costume restoration guide Chen Shiyu: This piece is a pattern from the Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is called Changle Minguang, and the words are woven into it.
Chen Shiyu, a clothing historian and ancient clothing restoration guide: This fabric is a fabric that people in the Ming Dynasty liked to use during the Chinese New Year. Of course, our prototype is also from the collection of the Beijing Art Museum. The importance of this fabric does not lie in its material. It is its flower shape. There is a gourd here and a wishful cloud head here. Then this one is auspicious and wishful.
On the stage, classic traditional patterns selected from different historical periods of China are displayed on hundreds of LED screens, echoing the performance.
In order to present a scientific and rigorous presentation, the Spring Festival Gala director team invited Mr. Chang Shana, an expert in Dunhuang art and arts and crafts design research, to serve as the art consultant, and invited Cui Donghui, deputy dean of the School of Architecture of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, to serve as the pattern designer. Well-known architectural designer Cui Donghui is the son of Mr. Chang Shana. He served as the art consultant for the Spring Festival Gala in 2023.
Cui Donghui, Vice Dean of the School of Architecture, Central Academy of Fine Arts: The director team emphasized several points to us. We must look for important patterns from the vast and rich people’s lives, sort out these patterns, and summarize them. This work We probably did it for more than a month.
After researching and sorting out the history of pattern development, Cui Donghui’s team and the director team jointly selected four iconic dynasties with prosperous pattern development and different characteristics: Han, Tang, Song, and Ming.
Chang Shana, Dunhuang art and arts and crafts design research expert: Traditional patterns allow people to feel the depth of history and emotional warmth, and they can also reflect the cultural character of the nation through modern design.
From the prototype of museum cultural relics, to pattern extraction, to drawing electronic design drawings, and then to Mr. Chang Shana's hand-drawn modifications one by one, after 3 months and countless polishings, the main visual patterns of each dynasty in the creative program "Nian Brocade" are the same. Once finalized.
The patterns containing good blessings and folk wisdom are not only unique in their own style, but also artistically designed and carefully arranged to form a "New Year's Brocade" that symbolizes happiness and prosperity. Now that the
pattern is available, how can it be presented on the stage and organically combined with the patterns on the clothing? This is the next step for the directing team to solve.
The job of converting ideas into visual effects is mainly responsible for Feng Yi. This is his twelfth year as the head office’s ar virtual technology for the Spring Festival Gala. Feng Yi, production manager of
ar: How to make it appear more real, and how it can be well integrated with the real space environment, including the stage design, while being real, we have made some breakthroughs.
In order to make the patterns appear vivid and three-dimensional, the technical team used virtual technology to simulate the representative traditional craft materials of the four dynasties and create secondary creations on the patterns. After a series of tough battles, each pattern on the paper, in the form of ar, transformed into lacquerware from the Han Dynasty, silk from the Tang Dynasty, jade from the Song Dynasty, and enamel from the Ming Dynasty, creating a freehand space on the stage that matched the costumes, Music and performance integrated into one. Yu Lei, chief director of
's "2024 Spring Festival Gala": We actually want to tell everyone that this is a creation that has been created for thousands of years, and we are still using these most beautiful patterns to interpret our lives. It entrusts us with the best expectations for life.
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