The east wind is as green as the new, and the green water and green mountains are lovely. It is expected that the spring mountain is deeper, and the beginning of the immortal source is not limited to red dust. (Yuan) Zhang Gui's inscription Zhan Ziqian's "Spring Tour".In this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the song "Shangchun Mountain" quickly became the focus of heated discussions among the audience with its profound cultural heritage and beautiful stage design. This song not only shows the innovation of modern times, but also is deeply rooted in the fertile soil of traditional Chinese culture, and skillfully integrates the charm of ancient poetry with the artistic conception of green landscapes, presenting a moving picture.
Screenshot of the 2024 CCTV Spring Festival Gala "Shangchun Mountain".
The lyrics of "Shangchun Mountain" use a number of ancient poems, and these classic poems inject profound cultural heritage into the song. From "February day willows drunk with spring smoke" to "spring is troublesome and sleepless", each lyric seems to be a vivid picture of spring, leading the audience to travel through time and space and feel the poetic life of the ancients. The use of these ancient poems not only enhances the artistic taste of the songs, but also allows modern people to have a moment of tranquility in their busy lives and taste the ancient rhyme.
The lyrics correspond to the poems:
In February, the willows are drunk with spring smoke
Qing Gao Ding's "Village Dwelling": The grass grows and the warbler flies in the February sky, and the willows on the embankment are drunk with spring smoke.
March 3 comes, the mountains are green and the grass is long
Tang Dai Shulun's "Suxi Pavilion": The grass on Suxi Pavilion is long, who leans on the east wind and the twelve. The swallow does not return to the late spring, and the apricot blossoms are cold.
Note: The March 3rd Shangsi Festival is also an important traditional festival for ethnic minorities in many regions of Guizhou. ）
The most beautiful is the April day on earth
Lin Huiyin's "You Are the April Day of the World": I said that you are the April Day of the World, the laughter lights up the four winds, light and agile, dancing and changing in the glory of spring.
A river of spring water is as green as blue
Tang Bai Juyi's "Memories of Jiangnan": Jiangnan is good, and the scenery is old. The sunrise river flowers are red, and the spring river is as green as blue. Can you not remember Jiangnan?
Spring is noisy and sleepless
Song Wang Anshi's "Night Straight": The spring color is annoying and I can't sleep, and the moon moves and the shadow of the flowers is dry.
Spring rains fill the pond and call for water lilies
Tang Anonymous's "Untitled": Spring water and spring ponds are full, and spring grass grows in spring. Spring people drink spring wine, and spring birds make spring sounds.
Spring flowers bloom all over the murmuring swallows
Lin Huiyin's "You Are the April Day of the World": You are the blossom of a tree, and the swallow is whispering among the beams.
The spring breeze is proud
Tang Mengjiao's "After Dengke": The spring breeze is proud, and you can see all the Chang'an flowers in one day.
Children on the mountain release paper kites
Qing Gao Ding's "Village Residence": Children return early from school, and they are busy taking advantage of the east wind to release paper kites.
People in the lower reaches of the mountain chased the boat
Northern Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu's "Huanxi Sand": The people on the embankment draw boats one by one, and shoot the spring water of the embankment hanging down to the sky. The green poplar building goes out on the swing.
The east wind blows people's faces, and the flowers fall as hairpins
Song Lu You's "Four Songs of the South Park (Part 1)": Xiaoying urges the willow side boat, and Lao Mo is soft in the east wind.
Walking all over the spring mountain does not want to return
Song Ge Tan's "Nian Nu Jiao": Walking all over Spring Mountain, returning to lie high, smiling and smiling.
Bright smile like this year
Song Chen's "A Cut of Plum Shou Wu Jing Nian Ritual": The wine gentleman wants to ask the year. Laughing at the pine tsubaki, when it is the same year, I wish to be from the next 8,000 years. Looks like this year. Looks like this year.
The stage design of "Shangchun Mountain" gives full play to the elements of green landscapes. The whole stage is dominated by turquoise, like a flowing landscape painting. Dressed in light costumes, the dancers dance among the mountains and rivers, as if they were fairies coming from a painting. The stage also draws on the composition techniques and artistic conception creation methods of traditional landscape painting, and the stage background shows the mountains and flowing water in spring through ink rendering, which complements the theme of the song.
Screenshot of the 2024 CCTV Spring Festival Gala "Shangchun Mountain".
As one of the important genres of traditional Chinese painting, green landscape has unique artistic characteristics and development process. It is based on blue and green, focusing on the vitality and vitality of natural landscapes. In terms of composition skills, he pays attention to the layering of distance and nearness, and between virtual and real. In the world of green landscapes, the mountains are stacked with green, waterfalls and springs, and the clouds and mist are shrouded, like a fairyland on earth. This unique artistic style not only shows the magnificence and mystery of nature, but also entrusts the awe and yearning of the ancients for nature.
Zhan Ziqian, "Spring Tour" detail.
The origin of the green landscape can be traced back to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it reached its peak in the Sui and Tang dynasties. Among the existing works of art, our earliest and most complete landscape painting is the green and heavy color landscape painting created by Zhan Ziqian in the Sui Dynasty, which shows us the unique charm of green landscape painting. In the Tang Dynasty, the green landscape paintings of Li Sixun and Li Zhaodao are even more representative, and their paintings give full play to the artistic charm of green landscapes.
Li Sixun's "Jiangfan Pavilion Map" part of the "Old Tang Book" states: ".Si Xun is especially good at Danqing, and so far the painter has pushed General Li's landscape。He is also called in the "Records of Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties".It has long been known as art at that time, a family of five people and good Danqing, the world is salty, and the calligraphy and painting are called the wonder of the moment。His son Li Zhaodao directly inherited Li Sixun's painting method. Zhang Yanyuan said of him: ".The trend of changing fathers is wonderful and excessive。Erli and his son pushed Zhanziqian's green landscape to a climax, forming the most influential landscape painting school in the Tang Dynasty.
Li Zhaodao "Ming Emperor Xingshu Map".
Song Dynasty painting plays a pivotal role in the history of Chinese painting, and courtyard painting is a representative of Song Dynasty painting. In particular, the courtyard landscape painting of the Song Dynasty, represented by outstanding painters such as Wang Ximeng, Li Tang and Zhao Boju, has become a monument in the history of the development of green landscape painting after the Tang Dynasty with its magnificent atmosphere, gorgeous and beautiful color depiction and profound symbolic expression.
Wang Ximeng, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" (detail).
Wang Ximeng's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" depicts thousands of mountains and ravines, interlaced rivers and vast smoke waves, marking that the green landscape has entered a new peak, and is a representative work of green landscape painting in the Northern Song Dynasty, becoming one of the top ten famous paintings in China, and has a far-reaching influence on later generations.
Qian Xuan "Mountain Dwelling Map" part.
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Qian Xuan was famous in the painting world for his green landscape paintings. Influenced by the retro trend of thought since the Northern Song Dynasty, Qian Xuan's treatment of color has reached a subtle and delicate level in his pursuit of a fresh and elegant new artistic conception. He successfully transformed the traditional realm of "rich immortals" into the realm of "hidden immortals", showing an aesthetic pursuit of transcendence and yearning for nature.
Qiu Ying, "Xunyang Farewell Picture" (detail).
Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, and Qiu Ying in the Ming Dynasty were all masters of green landscapes. Qiu Ying's works are even more outstanding in the Ming Dynasty, and even in the entire history of painting. "Ming Painting Record" praises it".Hair cui hao gold, silk silk wisp, exquisite and glamorous, no ashamed ancients", showing the exquisiteness of his painting skills.
Zhang Daqian's "Li Jianfa Lin Xiao Santu" local green landscape because of its unique charm, made it difficult for landscape painters of the past dynasties to give up. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the small green painting method has gradually become the mainstream of green landscape painting. This painting method not only reflects the coexistence of the breadth and diversity of the landscape painting tradition, but also shows the profound influence of the change of creative thinking on the creative style.
Nowadays, the charm of green landscapes goes far beyond the level of painting, and gradually penetrates into all fields of modern art, showing infinite possibilities. In addition to "Shangchun Mountain", the same is true of "Only This Green", which amazed everyone on the stage of the 2022 Spring Festival Gala, which perfectly combines the artistic conception of green landscapes with dance art, and brings the audience into a poetic and picturesque landscape world through the flexible posture of the dancers and the exquisite scenery of the stage.
Screenshot of the 2022 Spring Festival Gala "Only This Green".
This allows us to appreciate the profound heritage and infinite charm of traditional Chinese culture while appreciating the dance and dance. This kind of cross-era artistic inheritance and innovation is not only amazing, but also points out the direction of future art development for us - continuous innovation and development on the basis of inheriting traditions, so that the treasures of Chinese culture will shine with more brilliance in the new era.