What are the characteristics of China's traditional culture reflected in The Night Banquet in Tang Palace from a political perspective?

The reason why Henan Spring Festival Gala is widely praised is that its supporting point is the profound cultural heritage of the Yellow River and the spiritual outlook of Henan. The person in charge of Henan Radio and Television Station said that as the provincial mainstream media in Henan Province, Henan Radio and Television Station always regards telling the story of the Yellow River as the top priority of content production. In this context, the director group set the general tone of "absorbing nutrients from traditional culture and innovating on the basis of inheritance" for the 20021Henan Spring Festival Gala, and created the content based on the eclectic Yellow River culture with 5,000 years of civilization.

The banquet in Tang Palace is full of rich cultural atmosphere from the choreography of dance to the display of scenes, from the makeup of actors to the costumes on their bodies. It is based on the Yellow River culture, the spirit of the Central Plains and national culture, with a group of three-color musical figurines in the Tang Dynasty as the origin, which highly restores the beauty of costumes, colors, forms and culture in the Tang Dynasty and fully shows the shocking beauty of the Yellow River culture.

What's more, The Night Banquet in Tang Palace combines Tao Ren, Zanhua Ladies, Shandong Xuminxing Tomb Mural, and thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, as well as cultural relics unearthed in Henan, such as beauty statues, lotus crane pots and Jia Hu bone flutes. Dancers are like walking through ancient paintings, substituting the audience into the unique aesthetic space of Damei Huaxia.

"The wind is blowing, the girl is floating, as if she were dancing with a rainbow skirt and feather clothes" and "The wonderful night of the girl in the Tang Dynasty in the museum" appeared in comments and barrage, and netizens praised themselves without hesitation. Many people praised it as "not catering to, kitsch, and sensational", and made bold innovations in adhering to tradition, making national art and traditional culture show strong vitality of the times.

Wei Yao, editor-in-chief of Belgian Chinese Business Times, is from Zhengzhou, Henan. She was shocked when she saw the banquet in Tang Palace. She said that the beauty of the banquet in Tang Palace lies in its youth and reality, and it is full of heavy China history and culture. It is the double beauty of form and content, subjective and objective, and the heavy culture nourishes and touches the needs and pursuits of the national spiritual and cultural level.

"The banquet in Tang Palace inspired my dream. I must go to the Henan Museum and enjoy the rich Yellow River culture! " Li Na, a media person who has lived in Canada for many years, said.

Activating traditional cultural resources with science and technology

If cultural self-confidence injects soul into the Tang Palace banquet, technological empowerment makes the Spring Festival Evening in Henan come alive, which makes many young people feel that it is a cool visual feast that can be obtained.

The Banquet at Tang Palace was adapted from the entries of the 12th China Lotus Dance Award of Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theatre in 2020. Chen Lei, general director of the Spring Festival Evening of Henan Satellite TV, said that the adapted Tang Palace Banquet didn't make a big adaptation of the dance full of charm, but only adjusted the duration, added ink painting, national treasure, VR and other special effects, and combined the virtual scene with the stage to add extra points to the presentation effect of this dance from the perspective of TV packaging. It is the flexible application of high and new technology on the stage of Henan Spring Festival Evening that upgrades the traditional stage composed of a floor and a space into a more three-dimensional space with infinite possibilities, creating a more aesthetic, pluralistic and multidimensional visual artistic effect.

In terms of technical communication, Henan Satellite TV also adopted a different way from traditional TV programs in the Spring Festival Evening. "On the evening of February 10, our live TV broadcast began at 19: 30, and at the faster time of Aauto, it began at 19: 00. The mobile terminal starts broadcasting half an hour earlier than the big screen terminal. Few people dared to do this before. " According to the relevant person in charge of Henan Radio and Television Station, "the mobile terminal starts broadcasting half an hour in advance" fully embodies the reform idea of traditional media actively adapting to the new communication situation.

Ma Xiaolin, director of the Henan Provincial Museum, said: "This program makes the cultural relics in the museum come alive, makes the musical figurines and dance pictures move, permeates the cultural charm, humanistic feelings and artistic charm behind the cultural relics into the hearts of the public, and nourishes people's spiritual world."

Reproduce traditional cultural resources with art

"There are nine meanders of the Yellow River and sand in Wan Li, and the waves and winds rise from the horizon". The Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, is a river of culture that moistens all things and runs through the long history.

"We believe that rich history and culture should not only be displayed in museums, but also be refined and disseminated through multi-element artistic techniques." The relevant person in charge of Henan Radio and Television Station told the reporter.

Take the banquet in Tang Palace as an example. After seeing the unique musical and dancing figures in the museum, the director began to think about how to "live" the history behind the musical and dancing figures in the Tang Dynasty by artistic means. Finally, 14 female dancers are determined to present the traditional cultural image of the prosperous Tang Dynasty with graceful dances.

Not only that, Tai Chi's performance "In Heaven and Earth", in which Tai Chi wears a spacesuit and Fang Jinlong, a master of Chinese music, plays a thousand-year-old bone flute, and "Fantasia of Chinese music in the New Year", which cooperates with Huaxia Ancient Orchestra and Henan Pavilion Electro-acoustic Band, are all praised by netizens as "the perfect integration of modern culture and ancient culture!"

Eric, a famous critic, cultural scholar and director of the Network Literature Center of the Chinese Writers Association, believes that the Yellow River is a symbol of China culture and the Yellow River culture is the basic root of China culture. China culture is based on the Yellow River culture. The origin of China civilization can be traced back to Zhixia, Shang and Zhou. Henan is also a province rich in cultural resources and an important foundation for the construction of a strong cultural province in Henan. The Tang Palace Banquet shows the traditional cultural resources in the form of "modern expression", which completes a good artistic expression and provides a good inspiration for us to use cultural resources. The cultural and creative products developed by the Forbidden City have set off a boom in recent years, which shows that the public is very interested in traditional culture. However, in recent years, we often seek elegance or parody in the development of traditional cultural resources, and have not found a good form suitable for the public.

Auguste Tian, a signing writer of Henan College of Literature and vice chairman of Zhengzhou Writers Association, believes that the dance "The Banquet at the Tang Palace" has attracted widespread attention because people's spiritual demands are highly compatible with the humanistic spirit of the Central Plains and the beauty of the Yellow River culture.

August Day said that the Yellow River has a far-reaching influence on China's politics, economy and culture. As an ideology, the Yellow River culture has penetrated into every corner of society, into the blood of China people, into the customs of the Yellow River basin, and into our life and work. To tell the story of the Yellow River well in the new period is to discover, excavate and eulogize the beauty of the Yellow River culture and present the essence of the humanistic spirit of the Yellow River. This is also the expansion and supplement of China's story.

Think of the cultural and creative product "archaeological blind box" created by Henan Museum in 2020, and combine the concept of blind box with historical relics. Burying "miniature cultural relics" such as bronzes and tongjian underground to attract young people to "dig cultural relics" is an example of making good use of living cultural resources.

In the face of heavy cultural resources, only artistic expression and reproduction can achieve good communication effect under modern conditions and enter the hearts of the new generation. Tang Palace Banquet is a successful attempt to reproduce traditional cultural resources under modern conditions.

"Henan Spring Festival Evening adheres to the attitude of taking culture seriously, combining tradition with technology, combining elegance with simplicity, and combining solemnity with banter." In Chen Lei's view, the basic principle of the 20021Henan Spring Festival Gala is "the modern expression of Chinese civilization", which extracts the essence we want to express from the ancient and heavy precious culture, presents it in a brand-new artistic expression way, and shows a kind of cultural self-confidence to stand on the forefront bravely.