Bright as the starry Kong Ming lantern
The mysterious and shocking Sichuan opera changes its face
The tune is tactful and the style of the painting is beautiful
Embroidery made of cloth as paper
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Recently, "Falling Dust" and "Umbrella Girl"
Domestic animated films such as "Erlang God: Deep Sea Dragon" were released
The Chinese aesthetic presented is stunning
Hidden "Easter eggs" of traditional Chinese culture
It also made many viewers call "blood awakening"
Falling Dust
Looking up at the starry sky, have you ever wondered what kind of story the Cowherd Star "carried by the two children with a flat shoulder"?
"Falling Dust" uses this as the background to continue the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and the myth of the stars. The ultimate oriental aesthetics and the emotional expression with family affection as the core made many viewers express "full of stamina".
constellation
"Falling Dust" for the first time put the 28 constellations in traditional Chinese culture on the big screen, and the main plot of the film also revolves around the 28 constellations.
△ Screenshot of the movie promotional video
In order to observe the movement of celestial bodies, the ancients divided the celestial regions near the ecliptic into 28 groups, each of which was a night, and each of them was related to animals. In the movie, the soft and cute cow Taurus, the fierce and terrifying winged fire snake, and the tailed fire tiger in the hot pot restaurant are all from the twenty-eight constellations.
△ The image of the Tailed Fire Tiger in the movie
△ The image of the cow and the golden bull in the movie
According to the direction, the 28 houses can be divided into four palaces, namely the east, south, west and north, also known as the "four elephants", which are the eastern Canglong, the southern Vermilion Bird, the western white tiger, and the northern Xuanwu. The climax of the film presents these "four elephants".
The "second dragon raising its head in February" that we often mention is related to the oriental dragon in the "Four Elephants". It is composed of horns, kang, di, fang, heart, tail, and kei, and looks like a green dragon.
In the spring, shortly after dark, Kakujuku rises above the eastern horizon, and the dragon's body appears to be hidden below the horizon, revealing only its horns, which is figuratively called "dragon raising its head". In summer, this "dragon" is fully displayed in the southern sky. In winter, it hides below the horizon.
embroidery
There are a lot of silk embroidery elements in the film. Director Zhong Ding introduced that they referred to the exquisite skills of China's four famous embroideries - Suzhou embroidery, Shu embroidery, Guangdong embroidery and Hunan embroidery in their visual presentation.
△ The film uses embroidery and shadow puppetry and other elements to show the process of Jin Feng and Gyokuro subduing the stars.
Suzhou embroidery is known for its fineness, fineness, elegance and cleanliness, carrying the gentleness and softness of the south of the Yangtze River. The birth of a Suzhou embroidery work has to go through the embroidery design, stretching, sketching, wiring, splitting, embroidery, mounting and other processes, during which there is not only the "extreme operation" of splitting a silk thread into 128 parts, but also the subtlety of different paintings on both sides.
Shu embroidery has a long history, which can be traced back to the Sanxingdui civilization at the earliest. In the long history of development, Shu embroidery has formed the characteristics of rigorous stitching, bright lines, flat stitches and bright colors. Its stitching method ranks first among the four famous embroidery, a total of 12 categories of more than 100 kinds, a variety of stitches are staggered, the thickness is alternate, the combination of virtual and real, and the changes are rich.
Cantonese embroidery is the combined name of Cantonese embroidery and tide embroidery, the pattern is luxuriant, enthusiastic and unrestrained, and the decoration is strong. The operation of "three-dimensional cushioning" in the Cantonese embroidery technique can create a 3D picture on the plane: the cotton is sewn into the embroidery, and then through the operations of hooking paper, padding gold embroidery, knitting needles, and splicing, the final embroidered work is as vivid as a relief.
Hunan embroidery is rich in coloring, embroidery is like a painting, has the reputation of "embroidered peanuts fragrant, embroidered birds can listen to sounds, embroidered tigers can run, embroidered people can convey gods". The "double different embroidery" in Hunan embroidery can achieve that the shape, stitch and color of both sides of the fabric are completely different; The unique bristle stitching method can make the embroidered animal hair fluffy and textured, making the pattern more realistic.
Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival
In the film, Qigu Town is bustling, with bustling crowds, brightly lit night markets, and steaming food...... It reproduces the bustling hustle and bustle and fireworks depicted in the "Qingming Riverside Picture".
Now in the Palace Museum in Beijing, it is known as "China's most historically valuable custom scroll", which is a diary of life written by the Song people, and records the style of Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The painting is roughly divided into three parts: starting from the urban-rural junction in the suburbs of Beijing, it is a suburban scenery; The middle section is centered on Hongqiao, with a lot of traffic and dense vendors; The back section is a bustling downtown street, with all kinds of shops on the street, pedestrians rubbing shoulders with each other, including gentlemen and officials, peddlers and pawns, naughty children, walking monks, etc., and even the figure of the "takeaway brother".
△ Qingming Shanghe picture scroll (partial), pay attention to the little brother who is delivering food in the lower right corner.
The painter Zhang Zeduan took three years to complete this painting scroll of 24.8 centimeters in length and 528 centimeters in width, showing more than 500 figures, more than 50 cows and horses, and more than 20 boats.
△ Qingming Riverside Picture Scroll (Detail)
Sichuan opera changes face
The Sichuan opera face change was also staged in the lively Qigu Town, and the skill of a thousand faces in a moment amazed many audiences.
According to legend, "changing face" was originally a hideous pattern drawn on their faces by the ancients in order to scare away fierce beasts, and was later developed into a "unique performance" by the people, and gradually integrated into Sichuan opera.
At first, the "face-changing" method was relatively crude, with the actors wearing multiple layers of paper shell masks and peeling off the layers with fireworks or folding fans on the spot. Generations of "famous actors" have integrated ingenuity into performances, making the "face-changing" skills increasingly sophisticated, and have developed face-changing techniques such as "oil paint face wiping", "powder face blowing", "silk thread pulling face" and "luck changing face".
"Umbrella Girl"
Some netizens called "Umbrella Girl" a warm "intangible cultural heritage propaganda film". In the "Nianwu Pavilion", which gathers rare treasures from all sides, all kinds of ancient artifacts are anthropomorphized, and the painting style is beautiful and healing.
West Lake silk umbrella
Umbrellas have a history of more than 3,000 years in the mainland, and under the precipitation of the long years, various regions have also formed their own unique umbrella intangible cultural heritage items. The national intangible cultural heritage, the West Lake silk umbrella, is the prototype of the Qingluo umbrella in the movie.
The West Lake silk umbrella is made of silk, and the umbrella surface is woven densely and thin like cicada wings, which can depict landscapes, landscapes, flowers and birds, people, etc.; The umbrella body is split into 32 or 36 thin strips by a light bamboo tube, and is equipped with bone braces to form the umbrella bone, which is bright in color and luster, and is not easy to bend and deform even if it is exposed to the scorching sun.
What's more unique is that when the West Lake silk umbrella is opened, the umbrella surface is colorful, and the silk surface is not exposed when it is closed, and the umbrella bone is just restored to a piece of elegant round bamboo, so it has the reputation of "opening an umbrella and closing a bamboo".
Yue Opera
In the film, Boss Liu danced under the moon, and the sound was "Fairy in the Moon" sung by Li Yunxiao of the Xiaobaihuayue Troupe.
Yue Opera originated in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and gradually spread to the whole country, becoming the second largest opera genre in China. Yue opera is good at lyricism, mostly based on the theme of "talented and beautiful women", the singing tone is soft and tactful, the posture is elegant and moving, and it exudes the elegant and beautiful Jiangnan charm everywhere.
△Young Yue Opera actors Chen Lijun (left) and Li Yunxiao (right)
It can be regarded as the "youth faction" in the Liyuan group, which has only been born for more than 100 years, but its popularity is not inferior to those ancient dramas. Regardless of the old and the young, regardless of the north and south, many people can improvise and hum a few words: "Sister Lin fell from the sky, like a light cloud just out of Xiu......"
Velvet flowers
In the movie, a damaged hairpin was restored by the cultural relics restoration craftsman with velvet flower skills, and the lifelike flowers bloomed in the hands of a pinch and twist.
It is rumored that the hairpin flower in the Tang Dynasty prevailed, but the flowers are not common in all seasons, and they are easy to wither, and it is not convenient to wear, so the velvet flower of "never withering" came into being. The velvet flower is "copper wire for the bone, silk for the meat", homonym "glory", with the meaning of auspiciousness and wealth.
Historically, Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing, Yangzhou and other places have been popular velvet flowers, and the finished products are no longer limited to flowers, but have developed into many varieties of birds, animals, bonsai, wall hangings, ornaments and so on. Nowadays, from the velvet hair ornaments in costume TV dramas to the velvet hats at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics award ceremony, the cultural beauty contained in traditional art is gradually integrating into our daily life.
△ The velvet top hat at the Beijing Winter Olympics award ceremony
Fish lamps
Intangible cultural heritage fish lanterns of different shapes also appear in the movie. It is an activity prop for traditional folk festivals, and the lamp body is in the shape of a carp, which has a beautiful meaning of more than every year.
The fish lanterns are tied with thin bamboo slices, and the "fish skin" is made of rice paper and patterns are drawn on it. The body length of the large fish lamp can reach three or four meters, and it takes two adults to dance, and the small fish lamp is only twenty or thirty centimeters, but regardless of the size, the "fish head", "fish body" and "fish tail" of the fish lamp are self-contained, can be rotated flexibly, and the dance is more flexible.
Fish lanterns are a traditional folk custom in Huizhou, which has been inherited in the local area for hundreds of years. Every year in the first month, when the lights in the "fish maw" are lit, the fish lantern team begins to walk the streets and alleys, passing on the wishes of the surplus every year to everyone.
"Erlang God: Deep Sea Dragon"
"Erlang God: Deep Sea Dragon" sets the story after the battle of the gods, and Erlang God was ordered to capture the escaped Mo Qilin, but unexpectedly became involved in a huge conspiracy...... On the basis of "Fengshen Bang", the movie integrates the story of "Guan Kou Erlang Chopping Jian Jiao" in the Yuan miscellaneous drama into it, and carries out a new creation and adaptation.
Kong Ming lantern
In the film, on the day of the Lantern Festival, the lotus lantern floats into the distance along the current, and the Kong Ming lantern slowly rises in the night sky, sending blessings and thoughts to himself and those who care about him.
Many people think that Kong Ming Lantern was invented by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms, but there is no definite basis for this statement. Literally, it may be because of the special way of transmitting light and using this lamp, and it should be surrounded by a fence and leak light from the hole, so it is named "Kong Ming lantern".
The Kong Ming lantern is composed of light bamboo strips and tissue paper. Originally, it was used in the military field as a tool for transmitting intelligence. Due to its simple operation and strong ornamentation, it has gradually developed into a leisure way and has become people's "wishing lantern".
△There are strict restrictions on the release of Kong Ming lanterns, please be sure to comply with the regulations.
Sugar painting
Dandan noodles, cold noodles, fine wine...... There are a lot of delicacies in the movie, but when it comes to delicious and fun, you have to count the sugar paintings held by the little dragon↓
Sugar painting is a traditional Chinese folk handicraft skill, the person who paints sugar needs to melt the sugar first, and then pour it on a clean and smooth stone slab to outline various patterns, and after solidification, the sugar is also painted, which is appreciable and edible, and it is a work of art on the tip of the tongue.
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