How beautiful is female power? Like flowers. From June 28th to 30th, the 2024 Chinese rural women's inspirational competitive variety show "Flowers Bloom" came to Nanjing to start the second recording session of early recruitment. Representatives of "Huaer" from all over the country used their passion and courage to fight for their hometown, walked on the "Flower Road" in Nanjing, blossomed themselves, and jointly gave a wonderful performance. A reporter from Modern Express visited the recording site to give everyone a "spoiler" of the show.
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"Flowers Bloom" Nanjing Station attracts attention, and all kinds of flowers "roll up"
"Flowers Bloom" program is produced by Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV. If Dali, the first stop, shows the bold and hot ethnic minority style in the southwest, then Nanjing embodies more of the graceful and poetic Jiangnan style. The program team said that in choosing Nanjing for the second recording stop, in addition to considering the discovery of "flowers" with more individuality and regional characteristics, they also chose Nanjing for the city's unique history and cultural heritage.
The recording of "Flowers Bloom" was filmed in She Village, "the first ancient village in Jinling", where Zhong Lingyuxiu is beautiful. This quaint village is like a paradise far away from the hustle and bustle. Surrounded by Qinglong Mountain and Huanglong Mountain, Shuanglong Lake and Tianyun Lake are sparkling, and the ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties exude a simple and quiet charm, forming a very unique pastoral picture. As an Internet celebrity check-in spot that has soared in popularity in recent years, She Village, located in Dongshan Street, Jiangning District, Nanjing, integrates humanities, history, and natural landscapes. Its unique charm and "Flowers Bloom" are a program that tells rural stories in the new era and promotes rural revitalization. The concepts coincide, and it has become an excellent stage for the "flowers" to show themselves.
In the past few days of recording, "flowers" from all walks of life appeared on stage to show off their unique skills. There were entrepreneurial girls who returned to their hometowns with their pet alpacas to help out, elite returnees who came on stage holding ducks, and Oroqen hunters with a mysterious color. civil.
△Zhu Meiqi
Zhu Meiqi, the "flower" from Shanxi, appeared in an apron, and her image of a pretty little cook made everyone at the scene brighten up. Although she is only 23 years old, Zhu Meiqi is a full-fledged "second generation" of rural entrepreneurs. As a food blogger for more than two years, she has promoted more than 100 Shanxi specialties, with over 20 million likes. At the scene, Zhu Meiqi presented homemade Shanxi steamed buns to the guests of the "Flower Planting Group" and demonstrated the skill of cutting noodles while blindfolded, allowing everyone to experience the unique style from Shanxi. In the end, this beautiful country "flower" captured the love of the "flower planting group" on site and became the first lucky person on this site to receive a pass card.
△Gu Yayi
Another person who also received a pass was Gu Yayi, a Kirgiz girl from Xinjiang. She calmly locked in her place in the next competitive challenge stage. From the mountains to the world's top fashion stage, she has spared no effort to promote her hometown and has become the spokesperson for her hometown's tourism image.
A girl from Xuzhou was successfully shortlisted and wanted to make the dough break through the "dimension wall"
As the representative of the local "Hua'er", Li Ziyi from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province caught everyone's attention as soon as she came on the stage. Her mother is Xuzhou dough sculptor Zhu Yuexiang. Li Ziyi, 24 years old, loves dough sculptures, dough figures, and plays with dough. He also has dozens of intangible cultural heritage skills such as paper cutting, sachets, tie-dyeing, blue and white flowers, and sugar painting. At the scene, Li Ziyi showed everyone his exquisite dough sculpture works, which aroused exclamations from the audience.
△Li Ziyi
Although he is young, Li Ziyi has already received various honors. In her opinion, whether it is sugar painting or dough sculpture, they are excellent traditional Chinese culture and deserve to be discovered and passed on. In normal times, she uses these intangible cultural heritage skills to teach villagers and college students in her hometown, and has provided employment to a total of 83 craft enthusiasts. She and her team members also went to campus and provided more than 8,600 teaching services. She even taught intangible cultural heritage courses to foreign friends, allowing them to experience the ingenuity and charm of Chinese craftsmanship.
Coming to the stage of "Flowers Bloom" this time, Li Ziyi hopes to use his performance to speak for the intangible cultural heritage culture and his hometown, so that while the intangible cultural heritage skills can enter the countryside, the countryside can also take the intangible cultural heritage skills out. In the end, she was also successfully shortlisted and retained her qualifications to enter the next competitive challenge stage.
Modern Express/Modern+ reporter Li Ming
(Picture source: Hunan Satellite TV)