Dongfanghong is a music and dance epic to celebrate the 0/5th anniversary of China people/KLOC-and the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC). The performance premiered in the Great Hall of the People on June 2nd 1964, and was made into a color wide-screen film on June 2nd 1965, which was shown nationwide.
Through singing and dancing, it generally shows the arduous revolutionary struggle of the people of China against imperialism, feudalism and bureaucracy under the wise leadership of the Chinese Production Party and Chairman Mao Zedong. This epic selected the most representative and typical events in each revolutionary stage, making it a historical microcosm of China people's struggle for liberation.
Creative background:
Under the initiative and guidance of Zhou Enlai, Dongfanghong was created by combining the wisdom of artists from all over China, such as music, dance, poetry and fine arts.
On July 1964 and 18, Zhou Enlai proposed at the meeting of party secretaries of various ministries and commissions in the State Council that on the occasion of the 0/5th anniversary of National Day/KLOC-0, a large-scale cultural performance with perfect combination of ideology and artistry should be created to fully show the revolutionary course of China people led by China * * Production Party and the development course of Mao Zedong Thought, the party's guiding ideology.
At the same time, he hopes that through such a large-scale performance, he will embark on a new path of national song and dance. According to Zhou Enlai's proposal, Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China organized the responsible persons of relevant parties to make a serious study, and soon put forward specific opinions on the overall conception, scale, artistic expression and organizational leadership of large-scale song and dance, and drew up a report.
On August 1 day, Zhou Enlai approved the newspaper and personally drafted a leading group composed of 13 people, instructing the leading group and all the creative and cast members to go all out to do a good job and perform it during the National Day. With the consent of Zhou Enlai, the name of the big song and dance was determined as Dongfanghong.