Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 12 (Reporter Chen Haoquan) Brazil is the largest country in South America with a population of more than 200 million. The collision and blending of different ethnic groups have created Brazil’s diverse and inclusive culture, especially music, movies and carnivals. It fully reflects the charm of this multiculturalism.
In the early morning of February 18, actors from the Samba School participated in the Carnival parade on Samba Avenue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Tiancong
Bossa Nova - the unique romance of Brazilians
"Bosa Nova" may be the most unique Brazilian music style. It cleverly combines Brazilian samba and American jazz, and perfectly interprets the "possible" style. This is a unique Brazilian romance.
In Brazilian Portuguese, bossa nova means "new way". The "new" here refers to the low-voiced chanting of singers represented by Brazilian national treasure musician João Gilberto, and also refers to the introduction of guitar playing methods into traditional jazz instruments.
On August 17, in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, musicians from China and Brazil performed an ensemble at the China Day event of the Beach Art Festival. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Lucio Tavola)
In the 1950s, American jazz gradually developed a style that was different from that before World War II. It abandoned the big band performance format and switched to musicians leading the performance. Lord. Of the many genres of the time, cool jazz may have had the greatest influence on bossa nova. This kind of jazz is based on improvisation, using smooth and soothing beats and implicit and beautiful melodies to convey the melancholy emotions of the players.
When American cold jazz meets Brazilian passionate samba, bossa nova was born.
Brazilians often say that the Portuguese word saudade cannot be translated. This word describes a melancholy emotion that is "hoped for but not achieved". Bossa nova is the perfect vehicle to interpret this emotion.
In 1958, Gilberto sang a cover of the song "Missing You" composed by musician Tom Jobin and lyrics by poet Vinicius de Moraes, officially bringing the bossa nova music style to the public. vision. In this bossa nova song, Gilberto lowers his voice and sings softly to the brisk guitar accompaniment of his lover's departure, while imagining the sweetness of his lover's return, perfectly interpreting saudade. The indescribable complex emotions it represents.
Brazilian movies - the history of seeking independent narratives
Latin American countries that have appeared in Hollywood blockbusters such as "Sicario", "Fast and Furious", and "Narcos" have all been reduced to backgrounds to set off American personal heroes. To a large extent, the history of Brazilian film development is a history of seeking independence from Western film narratives.
On November 4, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, audiences lined up waiting to enter the Odeon Cinema. The 2024 Brazil-China Film Festival opened at the Odeon Cinema in Rio de Janeiro on the 4th. The event aims to enhance mutual understanding between the people of the two countries through movies and promote mutual learning between the two civilizations. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Tiancong
In 1963, influenced by Italian neorealist films, Brazilian director Nelson Parreira de Santos filmed the movie "Hard Times", focusing on an ordinary peasant family in Brazil and telling the story of their life in Brazil. A story of struggling survival in the inhospitable land of northeastern Brazil. This film reflected the gap between the rich and the poor in Brazilian society at that time and the hardships of the people at the bottom, and opened the prelude to the Brazilian New Film Movement.
Subsequently, many films reflecting the lives of the people at the bottom of Brazil entered the international field of vision. Brazilian director Glauber Rosa has been nominated for the Cannes Film Festival many times, and won the Best Director Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for "The Death of Antonio".
At first glance, "Antonio's Death" has many similarities with the American western-themed films that were all the rage at the time. However, in the same desert setting with sparse vegetation, this Brazilian film does not tell the old story of cowboys saving a small town, but the "revolutionary road" of landowners' thugs awakening out of sympathy for the peasants and finally rebelling against the exploiters. ".
By the 1990s, Brazilian cinema was experiencing a renaissance. Movies such as "City of God" and "Grand Central Station" that are well-known to Chinese audiences were all shot during this period. These masterpieces in film history all focus on the ordinary people of Brazil and are full of simple humanistic care for the oppressed classes.
Carnival - the "only certain thing" for Brazilians
Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos once said: "If the only thing a person can be sure of is that he will die, then the only thing Brazilians are sure of is death. It’s next year’s Carnival.”
On the evening of December 1, 2023, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, actors from the Hummingbird Dance School participated in the Samba parade. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Tiancong
According to tradition, every year the mayor of Rio de Janeiro hands over the golden key representing city management rights to the "Carnival King", officially launching the Rio Carnival. Tourists, floats and dancers line up on Rio Samba Avenue Sing, dance and enjoy the carnival.
Although the Rio Carnival has a long history, the term samba avenue (sambódromo) was not coined until the 1980s. Darcy Ribeiro, then deputy governor of Rio state, combined samba with the Greek root word "dromo" and named the Rio Samba Avenue that was under construction at the time. Most of the other samba avenues later built in Brazil used this name.
This photo taken in the early morning of February 18 on Samba Avenue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil shows a samba school team participating in the Carnival parade (drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Tiancong
Samba Avenue is as important to the people of Rio as the temples were to the ancient Greeks. On the night of the annual special group samba school competition, more than 70,000 spectators poured into Samba Avenue. People listened to the call of the God of Joy and danced to their heart's content. The sense of devotion was like the ancient Greeks praying to the god.
Rio Samba Avenue is about 700 meters long. At the end of the avenue is the huge arched monument in Apotiosi Square. The word apotiohi also comes from Greek, which means to worship something to the point of deification. Behind the monument are Rio's endless residential areas built on the mountains. The lights of the bungalows are like stars in the night, shining together with the colored lights of the Arch of Apotiosi.
Suddenly, colorful fireworks rose from the ground on both sides of the avenue, and the spotlights that lit up together took away the attention of the audience. The samba drum beat and the audience cheered, and the dance school floats with lights and decorations drove out from the starting point. . The dancers participating in the samba school tour are old and young, male and female. They are not professional dancers and have their own daily lives. But once they put on their dance costumes and come to Samba Avenue, they all dance for happiness and pray to the God of Joy for blessings in the new year.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 12 (Reporter Chen Haoquan) Brazil is the largest country in South America with a population of more than 200 million. The collision and blending of different ethnic groups have created Brazil’s diverse and inclusive culture, especially music, movies and carnivals. It fully reflects the charm of this multiculturalism.
In the early morning of February 18, actors from the Samba School participated in the Carnival parade on Samba Avenue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Tiancong
Bossa Nova - the unique romance of Brazilians
"Bosa Nova" may be the most unique Brazilian music style. It cleverly combines Brazilian samba and American jazz, and perfectly interprets the "possible" style. This is a unique Brazilian romance.
In Brazilian Portuguese, bossa nova means "new way". The "new" here refers to the low-voiced chanting of singers represented by Brazilian national treasure musician João Gilberto, and also refers to the introduction of guitar playing methods into traditional jazz instruments.
On August 17, in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, musicians from China and Brazil performed an ensemble at the China Day event of the Beach Art Festival. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Lucio Tavola)
In the 1950s, American jazz gradually developed a style that was different from that before World War II. It abandoned the big band performance format and switched to musicians leading the performance. Lord. Of the many genres of the time, cool jazz may have had the greatest influence on bossa nova. This kind of jazz is based on improvisation, using smooth and soothing beats and implicit and beautiful melodies to convey the melancholy emotions of the players.
When American cold jazz meets Brazilian passionate samba, bossa nova was born.
Brazilians often say that the Portuguese word saudade cannot be translated. This word describes a melancholy emotion that is "hoped for but not achieved". Bossa nova is the perfect vehicle to interpret this emotion.
In 1958, Gilberto sang a cover of the song "Missing You" composed by musician Tom Jobin and lyrics by poet Vinicius de Moraes, officially bringing the bossa nova music style to the public. vision. In this bossa nova song, Gilberto lowers his voice and sings softly to the brisk guitar accompaniment of his lover's departure, while imagining the sweetness of his lover's return, perfectly interpreting saudade. The indescribable complex emotions it represents.
Brazilian movies - the history of seeking independent narratives
Latin American countries that have appeared in Hollywood blockbusters such as "Sicario", "Fast and Furious", and "Narcos" have all been reduced to backgrounds to set off American personal heroes. To a large extent, the history of Brazilian film development is a history of seeking independence from Western film narratives.
On November 4, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, audiences lined up waiting to enter the Odeon Cinema. The 2024 Brazil-China Film Festival opened at the Odeon Cinema in Rio de Janeiro on the 4th. The event aims to enhance mutual understanding between the people of the two countries through movies and promote mutual learning between the two civilizations. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Tiancong
In 1963, influenced by Italian neorealist films, Brazilian director Nelson Parreira de Santos filmed the movie "Hard Times", focusing on an ordinary peasant family in Brazil and telling the story of their life in Brazil. A story of struggling survival in the inhospitable land of northeastern Brazil. This film reflected the gap between the rich and the poor in Brazilian society at that time and the hardships of the people at the bottom, and opened the prelude to the Brazilian New Film Movement.
Subsequently, many films reflecting the lives of the people at the bottom of Brazil entered the international field of vision. Brazilian director Glauber Rosa has been nominated for the Cannes Film Festival many times, and won the Best Director Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for "The Death of Antonio".
At first glance, "Antonio's Death" has many similarities with the American western-themed films that were all the rage at the time. However, in the same desert setting with sparse vegetation, this Brazilian film does not tell the old story of cowboys saving a small town, but the "revolutionary road" of landowners' thugs awakening out of sympathy for the peasants and finally rebelling against the exploiters. ".
By the 1990s, Brazilian cinema was experiencing a renaissance. Movies such as "City of God" and "Grand Central Station" that are well-known to Chinese audiences were all shot during this period. These masterpieces in film history all focus on the ordinary people of Brazil and are full of simple humanistic care for the oppressed classes.
Carnival - the "only certain thing" for Brazilians
Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos once said: "If the only thing a person can be sure of is that he will die, then the only thing Brazilians are sure of is death. It’s next year’s Carnival.”
On the evening of December 1, 2023, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, actors from the Hummingbird Dance School participated in the Samba parade. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Tiancong
According to tradition, every year the mayor of Rio de Janeiro hands over the golden key representing city management rights to the "Carnival King", officially launching the Rio Carnival. Tourists, floats and dancers line up on Rio Samba Avenue Sing, dance and enjoy the carnival.
Although the Rio Carnival has a long history, the term samba avenue (sambódromo) was not coined until the 1980s. Darcy Ribeiro, then deputy governor of Rio state, combined samba with the Greek root word "dromo" and named the Rio Samba Avenue that was under construction at the time. Most of the other samba avenues later built in Brazil used this name.
This photo taken in the early morning of February 18 on Samba Avenue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil shows a samba school team participating in the Carnival parade (drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Tiancong
Samba Avenue is as important to the people of Rio as the temples were to the ancient Greeks. On the night of the annual special group samba school competition, more than 70,000 spectators poured into Samba Avenue. People listened to the call of the God of Joy and danced to their heart's content. The sense of devotion was like the ancient Greeks praying to the god.
Rio Samba Avenue is about 700 meters long. At the end of the avenue is the huge arched monument in Apotiosi Square. The word apotiohi also comes from Greek, which means to worship something to the point of deification. Behind the monument are Rio's endless residential areas built on the mountains. The lights of the bungalows are like stars in the night, shining together with the colored lights of the Arch of Apotiosi.
Suddenly, colorful fireworks rose from the ground on both sides of the avenue, and the spotlights that lit up together took away the attention of the audience. The samba drum beat and the audience cheered, and the dance school floats with lights and decorations drove out from the starting point. . The dancers participating in the samba school tour are old and young, male and female. They are not professional dancers and have their own daily lives. But once they put on their dance costumes and come to Samba Avenue, they all dance for happiness and pray to the God of Joy for blessings in the new year.
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