Following Xiaoman’s copywriting plagiarism controversy, recently the popular dance poetry drama " Only This Green " was also suspected of being plagiarized. According to The Paper report, on the afternoon of May 22, Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, the choreographers of "Only This Green" discovered that a dance work titled "Double Fragrance Path" published on a certain TV station's video account, regardless of whether The action elements are also costumes and styles, which are "almost 99% similar" to "Only Green".
A comparison video between "Only This Green" and "Two Fragrant Paths" compiled by netizens
Moreover, the work released by the TV station's video account clearly bears the word "original". The creator said that it "felt stinging", and many netizens also expressed Angry. The video has been removed from the shelves and an apology statement was issued on the video account.
Zhou Liya said that after discovering the incident, she went to the TV station’s video account to leave a message to defend her rights, but was blocked by the other party.
"Double Fragrance Path" fragment
"Only Green" shows the green landscape of the Northern Song Dynasty famous painting " Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains ". The author is the 18-year-old genius boy Wang Ximeng.
The clip of the dance poetry drama "Only Green" has become a phenomenal stage art work after being "out of the circle" in the Year of the Tiger Spring Festival Gala, and is very popular among the audience.
In order to accurately reproduce the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty, the creative team first studied "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", and then verified it in the poetry and paintings of the Song Dynasty. In addition to holding discussions with experts from the Palace Museum, they also invited representative inheritors of national and provincial intangible cultural heritages to enter the rehearsal hall to provide intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship guidance to the actors. Therefore, it took more than a year to create and another five and a half months to rehearse before it was finally put on stage.
The two directors said in an interview with The Paper, "The plagiarism environment hurts not only us, but also the next generation and young creators, who will think it is a shortcut."
Zhou Liya said: " This time I was really helpless. They made it very clear that it was 'original'. The word "original" really hurt us."
Source: The Paper Global Times
