The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the Chinese traditional festival Little New Year. There are customs among the people to worship the Kitchen God and sweep the dust . The arrival of this day is usually regarded as the beginning of a busy year. People begin to prepare New Year’s goods, sweep the dust, and worship the kitchen, expressing their beautiful wishes to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and to welcome good fortune. If you can enjoy a folk music party that combines Chinese style music and modern expression on small , it is also a very atmosphere.
Today, the emergence of "New Minmu National Style Night" jointly created by Youku, Henan TV and Xiami Music Entertainment is just right. The evening party is based on traditional folk music, combining martial arts, rock , opera, poetry, OST (film and television soundtrack), and other musical expressions. It includes both the performance of the national team of folk music and the reproduction of intangible cultural heritage; it has both the memories of classic OST music and the new singing of ancient poetry. The unique artistic presentation makes the audience shine.
The annual Spring Festival has long become a "cultural collection" that Chinese people pay attention to. The large and small screens around the Spring Festival are colorful, and all evening parties and programs on their own are based on their own characteristics and "come to the peak". As a "new species" in the TV evening party, "New Minju National Style Night" demonstrates the artistic beauty, fusion beauty and cultural beauty of folk music and the evening party.
A program, one style
Movie texture presents the beauty of art
What kind of new folk music party can be created? Yin Liang, the entertainment manager of Xiami Music and the producer of "New Minmu National Style Night", thought to solve the problem-solving idea is - inclusiveness and "one-eye and one-size". Inclusiveness means that the evening party integrates diverse folk music art performances; "one-eye-one-size" means that a program has a style. The whole evening party is like a blind box, and the appearance of each program is unexpected. In terms of track selection, the creative team strives to have a strong cultural foundation for each song.
opening program "Lion Waking in the South China Sea" is a big show of Nanhai culture and intangible cultural heritage. The lion dance performance in Bilintang, Foshan, is vivid and vivid. The martial arts performance of Zhao Wenzhuo is so prosperous that it not only creates a lively festive atmosphere, but also exudes a magnificent Chinese spirit. At the same time, the ensemble of folk instruments such as Chinese drums, suona , flute, erhu , guzheng, and pipa instantly ignited a strong sense of national pride, laying a passionate tone for the entire evening party.
Immediately afterwards, in the exquisite landscape of the Jiangnan courtyard, Zhang Gasong 's "Northwest Flower" and Yuan Jiaying's Suzhou Pingtan sang a song "Northwest Jiangnan" with a unique charm. The enthusiasm and unrestrainedness of "Northwest Flower" collides with the elegance and restraint of Jiangnan Pingtan , and creates the new charm of folk music.
The stage of "Hundred Birds Paying to the Phoenix" can be regarded as a brilliant color in the entire evening party. The program not only integrates musicians from many countries such as the United States, Venezuela, Zambia , and other countries, but also rewrites the lyrics for this folk music that originally had no lyrics. The diversified music combination makes this classic folk music rejuvenate.
Nanyin is one of the classical music with a long history and is known as "a living fossil in the history of Chinese music." At the party, "Looking at the Spring Breeze 2022", performed by Liu Xijun and Nanyin's family of three, combines folk instruments such as Dongxiao , Nanyin Pipa , and is melodious and melodious. This time, the creative team performed Mandarin lyrics for the Cantonese version of "Looking at the Spring Breeze", giving this household-known Minnan folk song a new vitality.
What kind of melody will be played when folk music and Western musical instruments appear in a band? In "New Minmu National Style Night", the instrument ensemble "Rock Memoirs" brought by ethnic instruments such as Dongbula, Chinese percussion, guzheng, suona, Hulusi , pipa, erhu, and Western instruments such as guitar, bass , drum can be described as a masterpiece. The various instruments on the stage highlight their personality while organically blending, and the collision of rock classics and folk music was heart-warming, which made the audience excited.
As a party focusing on the expression of new folk music, "New folk music National Style Night" allows the audience to see a strong musicality.The entire evening party combines 15 kinds of Chinese-style musical instruments, including Pipa, Zhongruan , Dongbula, Guzheng, Bamboo Flute , Hulusi, Erhu, Suona, Jiegu , Guqin , Banhu, Sheng, Xiao, Chinese Drum, Sanxian , etc. At the same time, in terms of music output, the evening party is based on folk music, and each program is supplemented by different folk cultures or music combinations, presenting an unconventional texture. The blessing of
stage beauty makes the whole evening party beautiful. Unlike the traditional evening party stage presentation method, "New Minmu National Style Night" is more like the production style of a movie and MV. In terms of landscape making, the combination of film art and modern virtual technology makes the performance scene more realistic. In front of the stage, there are immersive and realistic stage visual effects such as water surface, rocks, grasslands, courtyards, palaces, etc., and behind it is an LED virtual background that depicts a fantastic national style space and beautiful artistic conception. The prospects and scenery complement each other, enhancing the viewing and artistic nature of the evening party, and the audience seemed to be in the scene during the viewing process.
In terms of shooting techniques, all programs are shot using Alai camera, and are also supplemented with shooting technologies such as " bullet time " and "free perspective". "These are not for showing off skills, but for expressing the work more concentratedly and making the music closer to the image," said Yin Liang.
There are as many music cultures as there are in the world, and the new folk music styles have as many possibilities. The work of "New Minzu National Style Night" shows a new expression of cross-border integration. It is this new idea of integration that allows creators to find new creative sources and creative power in traditional folk music, and also allows traditional folk music to burst out with beautiful and diverse new voices.
Folk Music National Team Meeting Intangible Cultural Heritage
Luxury Configuration and Reflection and Combination Beauty
"New Folk Music National Style Night" can be said to be the "Five Music National Style Gala" so far. The performance team and guests can be called "Five Music National Team". Not only are the Central National Orchestra's Feng Mantian and Chen Libao, Central Conservatory of Music and other folk music masters, but also the Central Nationality Orchestra, Beijing Nationality Orchestra, Central Conservatory of Music, China Conservatory of Music and Beijing University for Nationalities. The whole evening party is a cross-border concentrated display of the "Five Music National Team". These performers showed rich and diverse styles of music such as electronics, reggae, hip-hop, rock, folk , etc. in the evening party.
"Hundred Birds Paying to the Phoenix" performed by China's leading suona master Chen Libao and foreign musicians not only allows more people to hear the new interpretation of this classic song, but also allows the audience to feel more possibilities of suona. As the inheritor of suona, Teacher Chen Libao keeps the folk musical instruments vigorously between perseverance and innovation.
"Fisher Boat Singing Evening" performed by the well-known Chinese musician, Zhongruan master Feng Mantian, guqin player Zhao Xiaoxia, and Ding Xiaokui, a young wind blowing musician of the Central National Orchestra, incorporates Chinese breathing methods, making the work more subtle. Feng Mantian was playing Zhongruan while chanting lyrics in a low voice. Sometimes it was like smoke and the lingering sound was lingering; sometimes it was like a drum, inspiring people. He injected new vitality into this ancient oriental instrument, making the traditional instrument lively.
In addition to the big names, there are new generations of folk music such as Zhang Gasong and Tang Bohu on the stage of "New Folk Music National Style Night". Their performances also illuminate the audience. It is worth noting that both Zhang Gasong and Tang Bohu attracted public attention because of the Youku national trend music competition reality show " Chinese trendy music ". Zhang Gasong Erhu and Northwest Flowers are melodious and loud, intoxicating; Tang Bohu and Chen Libao's cross-border performances combine Chinese and Western styles, free and easy, which makes people amazed at the expressiveness and ability to integrate Chinese folk music. The reason why
invited so many big names and professional performing artists to join is because the creative team hopes to build "New Minyue National Style Night" into a highly professional and high-level evening party. "We hope to bring a more professional interpretation with more innovative production techniques to the audience a fuller audio-visual experience." "New Minmu National Style Night" music director Lu Zhongqiang believes that the most important thing in the development of folk music lies in its strong professionalism, and the performer's own strong professional qualities are the basis for innovative development.
"New Folk Music National Style Night" not only gathers the big names in the folk music industry, but also has a concentrated appearance of a variety of intangible cultural heritage cultures, including Nanhai Lion Dance, Nanyin, Henan Opera , Yue Opera , traditional ancient songs, Peking Opera , Pingtan, etc. The integration of folk music with lion dance performances, operas, poetry, rock, film and television OST and other musical forms and elements not only enhances the artistic value of the evening party, but also coordinates and integrates the emotions, attitudes and ideas in it with modern society.
In addition, "New Minyue National Style Night" has also made many bold and innovative adaptations and integrations. The classic OST " Three Inch Paradise " co-organized by Yan Yidan and Yue Opera master Zhao Zhigang and re-adapted the classic OST " Three Inch Paradise ", cleverly integrates pop music and Yue Opera. In the film's overlapping image narrative, the unspeakable emotions of waiting and helplessness are vividly interpreted. "Die is swallowed, and I am always sad when I am separated" is full of emotions and fascinating; "UI" sung by Liu Yuxin integrates the passionate and unrestrained FUNK with folk music, and the whole work is passionate and unrestrained and full of leaps and turns; "The Pleasant Boy" sung by Nawan uses Xi'an drum music and bamboo flute as the main line, supplemented by the crisp and bright rap expression, catchy and free and easy.
Folk music has the genes of embracing all rivers. In addition to regaining the gentleness and delicateness of Chinese folk music, "New Folk Music National Style Night" also gives folk music another vivid possibility.
Traditional folk music for the future
lofty intentions to demonstrate the beauty of culture
0 From ancient times to the present, Chinese music has developed for nearly ten thousand years. As early as 8800 years ago, the Chinese had created seven-sound scale , and folk music has a continuous stream of treasures that can be excavated. Looking at the moment, young people born in the 1990s and 2000s are increasingly accepting Chinese traditional culture . At the market supply level, there are also many content players and musicians pay attention to the combination and innovation of traditional national instruments with hip-hop, pop and folk songs. As Yin Liang said, the emergence of "New Folk Music National Style Night" is the result of adapting to the changes of the times.
"In fact, in the 1990s, our original music field had already used folk music instruments very widely. This is the most powerful thing about our folk music , but at that time, everyone did not pay much attention. It was more about copying the Western model to make music." Yin Liang predicted that with the maturity of various conditions, the first year of the development of Chinese style music will begin.
"New Folk Music National Style Night" party is based on inheritance and takes "rhyme from the East, joy comes to the future" as the creative concept. It integrates folk music and poetry that have been passed down for thousands of years into the current artistic expression, promotes national classics and conveys cultural confidence. At the party of
, famous poems such as Du Fu 's " Thatched Hut Broken by the Autumn Wind", Qu Yuan's " Li Sao ", Xin Qiji 's "He Xinlang·Fu Pipa", Li Zhiyi 's " Bu Suanzi·I Live in the Head of the Yangtze River HTML " were re-compiled and covered, refreshing and amazed by the audience.
"Li Sao" sung by Wu Tong combines different musical elements such as rock, world music, electronic music, etc. It has a grand structure and is full of romanticism colors, singing the deep sorrow and uncontrollable passion of this famous piece; musician Chen Weilun combines ancient Chinese percussion instrument Jie drum and Western brass instrument Furuge The vocabulary boldly integrates and a new interpretation of the realistic masterpiece "The Thatched Hut Breaked by the Autumn Wind" by the poet Du Fu. The arranged poems are like firewood burning in the fire, sometimes vigorous and sometimes sad and sad, which is unforgettable; the song "Jiang Jia" comes from the Book of Songs, and is covered in the original text of Gong Linna, with elegant and ethereal voices, and are complemented by the melodious and melodious performance of folk band , bringing the audience an immersive experience of "there are paintings in poetry and poetry in paintings".
"Don't forget the original, absorb the outside world, and face the future" is the current country's value proposition at the cultural level. On the one hand, literary and artistic works are encouraged to strengthen cultural confidence and firmly identify with China's excellent traditional culture; on the other hand, cultural content should also absorb foreign countries, exchange and learn from each other, and enrich and strengthen Chinese civilization.The emergence of "New Minyue National Style Night" is highly in line with the country's eclectic cultural development proposition. From ideological themes to program content to artistic presentation, they all have typical innovative significance.
As a netizen commented after watching it: "The New Folk Music National Style Night" not only contains the rich colors of traditional folk music culture, but also contains the popular expressions of traditional Chinese music and world trend music in the context of the new era. It is suitable for both young and old, with both elegant and vulgarity, and full of vitality."
Obviously, works that convey the beauty of culture and the changes of the times are literary and artistic innovations that the audience likes to see. "New Minmu Music National Style Night" "collections of a hundred generations of missing texts and collects the legacy of thousands of years", breaking the conventional creative ideas and allowing folk music as the protagonist to come on stage, not only writes about the brilliant achievements of Chinese traditional culture, but also shows the new atmosphere of the development of Chinese literature and art. "New Folk Music National Style Night" will become a new starting point, injecting new impetus into the development of national style music, and promoting the competition for national music and colorful flowers.
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