Xiaoyan Prototype in The Night Banquet in Tang Palace

The prototype of Tang Gong Xiao Yan is Chen Lin.

As early as 20 17, Chen Lin came up with the idea of showing the traditional culture of the Central Plains with beautiful classical dance. To this end, Chen Lin and his team members visited the museum many times. In the process of searching for information, the painted pottery female figurines in Henan Museum, the Tang music and dance figurines in Henan Museum and Luoyang Museum caught her attention.

Chen Lin began to learn dance at the age of 4. She loves the history and culture of China very much. She thinks that she is the same age as a Tang Yue dancer. "Although there is a gap of 1500 years, there is no barrier between time and space in art. I look at them through the glass cover in the museum, just like talking to my predecessors 1500 years ago."

In the play, this dialogue is presented in an artistic way: Chen Ran seems to have returned to the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and saw Xiaoyan, a musician with a pipa, and her story.

Night Banquet in Tang Dynasty Palace

"Tang Palace Banquet" is a dance program of Henan Satellite TV in 20021Spring Festival Evening, which is adapted from the entry "Tang Warrior" of Zhengzhou Song and Dance Theatre in the 12th China Dance Lotus Award in 2020. In the program, 14 female dancers perfectly presented the traditional cultural image of the prosperous Tang Dynasty on the stage with graceful dances.

Its overall style is humorous without losing its cultural heritage. According to Chen Lei, the general director of the 202 1 Henan Spring Festival Gala, besides exquisite cultural relics, dancers not only wore jumpsuits filled with sponges, but also held cotton in their mouths to reproduce the plump figure of Tang figurines.

"Tang Palace Banquet" is not only about banquets, but also focuses on banquet musicians, showing the process of girls in Tang Dynasty from preparation, makeup arrangement to banquet performance.