On the evening of April 4, Henan Satellite TV's "Wind Rises on the Qingming Screen - 2022 Qingming Wonderful Tour" arrived as scheduled. This program is based on the "Xiyuan Elegant Gathering", recreating the elegant gatherings of literati in the Song Dynasty, depicting the spring and scenery of the mountains and rivers, and reinterpreting the two connotations of Qingming Festival to pay homage to ancestors and sweep their tombs, to be mindful of the past, and to go on outings and get close to nature.
Qingming Wonderful Tour
In the wonderful tour, there are "Fan Zhongyan" and "Ouyang Xiu" laughing heartily, and there are also "Li Qingzhao" and "Qin Guan" talking to each other under the crabapple flowers, and "Su Shi" and "Su Che" sit and drink and chat, as well as "Su Shi" and "Mi Fu" drink late at night, "Lu You" and "Xin Qiji" meet in their twilight years, and "Ouyang Chun" and "Bao Zheng" intersect in the world. Wait for the scene. The program draws on the scene-by-scene description method in "The Gathering of the West Garden" and breaks the boundaries of time and space in the original painting. It uses famous people from the Song Dynasty to interpret each situational story to connect this wonderful journey.
Qingming Wonderful Tour
Chen Jia, the chief director of "Qingming Wonderful Tour" said bluntly: "Qingming is both a solar term and a festival. It includes festival worship and remembrance, as well as solar term outing activities. , such as outing, flying kites, inserting willows, tug-of-war, and Cuju, we chose to use the tradition of elegant gatherings of Chinese literati and the natural characteristics of the Qingming solar term to collide and integrate with each other, and to use Chinese classical literature. As a link, the program and the plot are connected together."
Qingming Wonderful Tour
In terms of the visual presentation of the program, "2022 Qingming Wonderful Tour" also returns to nature, with fresh, elegant and Literary art is the overall tone, and the minimalist aesthetics of the Song Dynasty is the main style, which refines the elegance and purity of oriental poetry and painting. For this reason, when shooting on-site, in addition to the local scenery in Henan, the film crew also went to Guangxi, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and other places to shoot scenes, so that the audience can see both the black gray "rainfall during the Qingming Festival" and the The whiteness of "Xinshe when the swallows come", the beauty of "human faces and peach blossoms complementing each other", the elegance of "willows scattering in the gentle breeze", etc.
Qingming Wonderful Tour
At the same time, in terms of programming, the creative team also attaches great importance to the integration of people and scenery. For example, in the song "Qingming Guest" performed by Li Yugang, the lyrics use the "mirror image" perspective of "Zhuangzi·Equality of Things" to interpret a feeling of nostalgia, and integrate it into a real-life shooting of the countryside, fully demonstrating the poetry and charm of homesickness during the Qingming Festival. It also extends to another dimension of the meaning of inheriting family traditions and inheriting civilization; the opera "Qing Ming Repays a Friend" uses gardens as a carrier to show the intangible cultural heritage Pingtan, creating a touch of nostalgia and strong emotions; the fusion dance "Singing on the Long Shang" ", showing the busy scene in the fields during the Qingming Festival, and also showing the beautiful scene of the sun, moon, mountains and rivers close in front of you, wide open and closed.
The last special interactive program "Clouds and Smoke Turn into Rain" collects photos and stories with the theme of "That Year and Today", and uses the Qingming Festival to extend the thoughts and commemorations of all people and all things, making the meaning of nostalgia infinite. expand. Chen Jia said: "I think Qingming Festival is actually the unity of heaven, earth and man, and it also represents the Chinese people's inner view of life and death." To cherish the past is to cherish the present.
(This article is based on Henan Satellite TV)