The Dragon Boat Festival program "Ancient Rhyme and New Voices", a large-scale cultural program jointly launched by China Central Radio and Television and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, will be broadcast on the CCTV Comprehensive Channel (CCTV-1) of China Central Radio and Television at 20:00 on June 3. .
The program uses the form of "cultural relics exhibition + cultural interview + ancient music and dance" to sort out the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, and presents a panoramic view of the colorful Dragon Boat Festival customs and their rich humanistic connotations.
It is understood that 28 cultural relics closely related to the Dragon Boat Festival were mentioned and introduced in the program. The entire program is guided by cultural relics. By displaying cultural relics from multiple dynasties, we explore the past and present of cultural relics, and tell the audience the Dragon Boat Festival stories contained in them.
For example, in the philosophical debate on the entry and birth of the modern paintings "Qu Yuan Tu" and "Fisher Father Picture", Qu Yuan's family and country thoughts are told; a group of Tang Chijin walking dragons carry the simple hope of praying for blessings and eliminating disasters; Ming Wanli fighting Cai Zhang Tianshi cut the five poisonous patterns on the plate, which expresses people's good wishes for peace and health.

Ming Wanli Doucai Zhang Tianshi cut five poisonous pattern plate, collected by Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum.

There are different theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. The most familiar one should be to commemorate the poet Qu Yuan of Chu State, but in fact, the Dragon Boat Festival had nothing to do with Qu Yuan at first. The program searched for clues from ancient books and cultural relics, made a more in-depth exploration of the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, and let us know more about the "inside story" of the Dragon Boat Festival. There is a saying that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of the dragon totem by the ancestors of Wu and Yue in ancient times. The Eastern Canglong Qisu hangs high in the sky in the midsummer noon and noon, and the flying dragon is in the sky, which is very auspicious, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Tianzhong Festival". From about the end of the Han Dynasty, people gradually endowed the Dragon Boat Festival with more humanistic feelings, and then linked the commemoration of Qu Yuan with it, which has been passed down to this day.
By displaying the cultural relics of multiple dynasties, the program presents the audience with the lively scene of the Dragon Boat Festival of the ancients, as well as the ancestors' meticulous investigation of nature and the rich cultural connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival. Painter Zhang Zeduan of the Northern Song Dynasty's "Jinming Pond Contesting for Bids" vividly reproduces the fierce and lively scene of dragon boats competing for bids on the Jinming Pond in the royal garden of the Northern Song Dynasty; the "Children's Fighting Sketches" by the Qing Dynasty painter Jin Tingbiao vividly depicts the battle of herbs during the Dragon Boat Festival in the Qing Dynasty. The elegance and childlikeness of the Tang Dynasty; the "mini" straw-woven rice dumplings the size of Tang Dynasty fingernails unearthed in Turpan, Xinjiang, make us full of imagination about the variety of rice dumplings in the Tang Dynasty...

The Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Zeduan's "Jinmingchi Contesting for the Mark", collected by Tianjin Museum.

Qing, Jin Tingbiao's "Children's Fight Sketch" scroll, collection of the Palace Museum.

A series of cultural relics such as "Duanyang Story Map" and "Lianzhou Crescent Moon" present the lively scene of the Dragon Boat Festival of the ancients to the audience; careful inspection...
The program also uses cultural relics, ancient poems, etc. as inspiration sources, adapts a number of wonderful performances, digs deeply into the folk customs and history of the Dragon Boat Festival, and combines the unique service and transformation methods to present an audio-visual feast, giving people a "thought + art". + technology" and cultural infiltration. Original programs such as "Flying Dragon in the Sky", "Racing Song" and "Sword Soul" ushered in their first stage performances. Among them, the dance "Flying Dragon in the Sky" used a unique visual language in costume design to present the ancients' worship of dragon totem. Nine dances The dancers show nine dragon images with different personalities and states one by one, interpreting the mysterious and unpredictable dragon, making the audience feel the flying dragon with oriental charm in the sky, and showing the spirit of the Chinese nation's self-improvement through dance.

"Flying Dragon in the Sky" poster

In addition, through modern audio-visual technologies such as large screens, floor screens, AR technology screens and sets, "Homecoming" takes the "dialogue between ancient and modern" held in the same space by the contemporary poet Yu Guangzhong and the ancient poet Qu Yuan as the core creative point of the program, a period spanning thousands of years. The "dialogue" unfolds slowly, creating an immersive viewing experience.
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