At eight o'clock tomorrow night, the "2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala of China Central Radio and Television" will meet with audiences around the world.
This year's Autumn Gala of the main station will integrate traditional intangible cultural heritage skills into the program arrangement, and the dancing local shadow puppet show and the moon shadow will complement each other.
In addition to the stage scenery of pavilions and pavilions with a strong Chinese style, the autumn evening will also integrate traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage shadow puppet art into song and dance expression. On the romantic and beautiful lakescape stage, a full moon is particularly eye-catching. Behind the moon-white curtain, the smart shadow puppets flutter and dance, and the light and shadow are intertwined, telling the story of the inheritance of Chinese folklore.
Yang Qifang, chief writer of the 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala of China Central Radio and Television: The Mid-Autumn Festival is originally a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, as long as there are Chinese people, these things left to us by the ancestors of the (customs) inherited are in the same vein as the Chinese nation and the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.
Office workers in suits and leather shoes, girls in northeast jackets, and people of the Oroqen nationality all appeared vividly and vividly one after another. These characters are all from the hands of Guan Weiying, the inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage project "Shenyang Guan's Shadow Puppet". They will also appear on the stage of this year's Autumn Gala.
"Shenyang Guanshi Shadow Puppet" is a branch of shadow puppetry in northern China, which is now spread in Liaoning, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and other places. "Shenyang Guan's Shadow Puppetry" absorbs the advantages of shadow puppetry from all over the world, integrates a large number of painting art techniques, adopts the local dialect of northern Liaoning, takes Tangshan shadow puppet as the keynote, and adds the folk tune of northern Liaoning, forming a unique artistic style that is both hearty and high-pitched, but also tactful and listening.
Guan Weiying, the fifth-generation inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage project "Shenyang Guan's Shadow Puppetry": Shadow puppetry in different countries is different, with different styles and different performance methods. Chinese shadow puppetry has regional characteristics, and as an element of it, we naturally have the responsibility to expand the influence of Chinese culture.