Shenyang, 10 Feb (Xinhua) -- In the night sky, the "Ankang Dragon" with a red body is in a vigorous posture, as if galloping in the clouds and mist, accompanied by a "golden phoenix" with a long tail. The beautiful scene of "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" amazed the audience and took out their mobile phones to "punch in" records. The "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" performing arts landscape, which is popular among tourists, is specially upgraded and created by the Shenyang Laobei City Scenic Area to welcome the Spring Festival of the Lunar Year of the Dragon. How were "Phoenix" and "Dragon" born and how did they take off? The reporter interviewed the production team to reveal the secret.
The picture shows the "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" performing arts landscape in the scenic area of Laobei City. Xinhua News Agency.
Talking about how to think of creating a "flying" performing arts device, Zhang Yuanyi, the person in charge of the commercial reconstruction project of the Laobei City Scenic Area, said frankly that if a performing arts device can be seen by all the audiences present without being restricted by location, then it must fly.
Our entire team of forty or fifty people spent nearly three months colliding with the performance creativity of 'Phoenix Dance for Nine Days'. Zhang Yuanyi said that this is an innovative attempt to express and interpret traditional culture by means of science and technology.
The picture shows the "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" performing arts landscape in the scenic area of Laobei City. Xinhua News Agency.
Easier said than done. For the phoenix to "fly", it needs to consider many factors such as performance effects and safety. The production team first made a kite in the shape of a phoenix, and then focused on solving the problem of "flying". After ruling out many failed options, it was finally decided to use an unmanned glider to complete the flight performance.
The wonderful "Phoenix Dance Nine Days" performance won the "full house" as soon as it was launched. The success of the "Phoenix Dance" performance "out of the circle" inspired the production team to continue to innovate and "innovate".
There are two dragons carved on the east archway of the old North City scenic spot, and a dragon and a phoenix are engraved on the west archway. This year coincides with the Year of the Dragon in the Lunar Calendar, and we have upgraded the IP project of 'Phoenix Dance for Nine Days' with the addition of a 30-meter-long physical dragon - 'Ankang Dragon', creating a performing arts landscape of 'Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang'. Song Baozhuo, the person in charge of the performing arts of the old North City scenic spot, said.
The reporter noticed that although the "Ankang Dragon" is 30 meters long, it can also swing while floating in the air after liftoff, and the height restores a variety of flight postures of the dragon. Cheng Jia, a Hunan tourist who came to Shenyang to travel, specially rushed to the scenic spot of Shenyang Laobei City, just to see the wonder of "dragon and phoenix Chengxiang".
In order to ensure the safety of the live performance, both "Golden Phoenix" and "Ankanglong" have undergone hundreds of test flights before the performance. It is understood that the "Dragon and Phoenix Nest" is located on the top of a building in the scenic spot of Laobei City, and 8 staff members are required to cooperate and operate on site during the performance.
The picture shows the "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" performing arts landscape in the scenic area of Laobei City. Xinhua News Agency.
The reporter learned that in order to enrich and enrich the cultural tourism consumer market during the Spring Festival, Shenyang has carefully created a colorful festival cultural products, tourists can not only go to the old North City to visit the temple fair, see the "dragon and phoenix Chengxiang", but also go to the middle street to put a bunch of blessing digital fireworks, to the Hongmei Cultural and Creative Park to check in the "factory collection", go to Bitang Park to enjoy the lantern show, and watch the "Hunhe River Rising Bright Moon" grand scene. The immersive cultural scenes everywhere constantly enrich the spiritual and cultural needs of the masses and demonstrate the vitality of urban cultural innovation and creation.