Dragon Boat Festival, an ancient rhyme and a new sound, is deeply rooted in the feelings of home and country and hopes for well-being.

On June 3rd, CCTV Comprehensive Channel of the Central Radio and Television General Station launched a large-scale cultural series "Ancient Rhyme and New Sounds" Dragon Boat Festival program, which commemorated the poet Qu Yuan with a strong humanistic color and praised his ardent feelings for home and country and noble character. Based on Chinese’s careful observation of nature, we should observe the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival to get rid of summer heat and epidemic prevention, pray for well-being, get close to green mountains and green waters and enjoy the summer scenery. We also "live" with cultural relics, and creatively interpret precious cultural relics stories such as Qu Zixing’s Yin Tu by Chen Hongshou in the Ming Dynasty, Golden Dragon Walking in the Tang Dynasty, Jinming Pool’s Bid Map by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Children’s Fight Sketch by Jin Tingbiao in the Qing Dynasty, so as to trace back to the roots of the nation and build up cultural self-confidence.

First, art outlines Qu Yuan’s pure heart and promotes patriotism.In the Tang poetry, it is said that "the festival is divided into the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is rumored to be Qu Yuan through the ages." Chinese remembered Qu Yuan from generation to generation and linked the Dragon Boat Festival with him, which shows people’s deep affection for him. The opening of the Dragon Boat Festival program "Canglang Journey" is based on Qu Yuan’s work "Chuci Fisherman" during his exile in northern Han Dynasty, praising Qu Yuan’s noble ambition and unswerving feelings of home and country. Through the clever use of visual technology, the scene of Qu Yuan’s singing on the banks of the river is artistically presented, creating a rich scene of surging water and rising sun on the banks of the river in Chu, showing Qu Yuan’s childlike heart as surging as surging waves and his noble character as clear and bright as the sky. The program is ingenious, introducing cultural relics as a carrier, and excavating the deep meaning of Qu Yuan, the embodiment of patriotism depicted in cultural relics through interviews between hosts and experts. The cultural relics involved include Qu Zi Xing Yin Tu by Chen Hongshou in Ming Dynasty and Qu Yuan Tu by modern Fu Baoshi. Guided by precious cultural relics, combined with careful creation and interviews with rich knowledge points, it highlights the thick core of traditional culture that really touches the hearts of the audience. In addition, the program "Going Home" deduces the dialogue across time and space, skillfully connecting the classic poems of Qu Yuan and Yu Guangzhong as the core, symbolizing the spread of the context and the inheritance of the feelings of home and country. In the program "Searching Up and Down", the singer and hundreds of students sang together "The road is long and Xiu Yuan is Xi, I will search up and down", with a magnificent momentum and lingering sound. These programs are full of eagerness to lead the audience to explore the deepest part of the human spirit.Mark a spiritual height for our nation, so as to be more clear about our attitude and value in life, carry forward the feelings of home and country, and gather the great power of national rejuvenation.

Second, the panorama presents the connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival and builds cultural self-confidence.The program has deeply explored many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which are diverse and colorful. For example, "Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer, flying dragons in the sky" has placed people’s good wishes to welcome good fortune. The program was superimposed from "Kowloon Map" to the scene. Nine dancers showed nine images of dragons with different personalities and states one by one. Finally, all the dancers gathered into a dragon, showing the majestic momentum of "the dragon is in the sky" and expressing the Chinese nation’s worship of the dragon totem and the spiritual temperament of "self-improvement". The Song of the Race is based on Liu Yuxi’s poems, and the picture of a hundred races in Zhang Zeduan’s "The Race for the Bid in Jinming Pool" is deduced. The Dragon Boat Festival presents fans with beautiful meanings, such as encouraging benevolence. Fan Dancing Benevolence is interpreted by telling the story of "Xie An presents fans" by famous people in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Casting swords at the Dragon Boat Festival is a folk custom, and the double sword dance "Soul of Sword" uses Gu Jian, a state of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period — — Shao Yunjian and Cao Zhi’s Miscellaneous Poems, Guo Zhen’s Gu Jian/Sword Pieces, etc., interpret the artistic conception of "the sword front comes from sharpening, and the plum blossom fragrance comes from bitter cold". Wearing five-color silk thread to ward off evil spirits during the Dragon Boat Festival has a beautiful meaning of praying for Naji, and the dance acrobatic "Five-color wisp" has activated this custom. The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the "Orchid Bathing Festival", specially designed the song "Lan Cao" to show the love of ancient and modern literati for orchids and the noble character represented by orchids. Fisherman’s prideLiu Hua in May is enchanting and baking, which is created according to Ouyang Xiu’s masterpiece in the Song Dynasty, and designed visually according to the ancient painting Duanyang Story Map by Xu Yang, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, showing the colorful scenes of the ancients watching the race, hanging Ai people and wrapping corn during the Dragon Boat Festival. During the discussion, the guests of the program also listed the stories of ancient epidemic prevention and disease drive, such as hanging wormwood, killing five poisons and drinking realgar wine, and discussed the national psychology of the ancients praying for well-being during the Dragon Boat Festival. All these can be called a unique journey to trace the roots of the nation. Relying on ancient books, ancient paintings, poems, intangible cultural heritage and other elements, the program deeply digs into the folk customs, history and culture during the Dragon Boat Festival, presenting the double meanings of both humanity and nature in a panoramic way, which once brought cultural infiltration with ideological and artistic features.

Third, the shocking presentation of aesthetic audio-visual products, creative new wind blowing.The program resonates with the traditional culture and the current public demand at the same frequency, creating a "new national tide" boutique content. Taking the traditional festivals in China as the breakthrough point, the program creation team combines the stage with the live shooting from the perspective of "youth", and tells the cultural origin behind the traditional festivals in China in a way that young people like. As a result, the audience saw more real-life historical sites in Searching Up and Down, and the singer walked through the green mountains and green hills in Zigui to explore Qu Yuan’s footprints. "Flying Dragon in the Sky", "Picking Lotus Songs", "Soul of the Sword" and "Fisherman’s Pride May Liuhua" are all empowered by technology, which makes the audio-visual effect by going up one flight of stairs. Together with the dedication of artists, the programs are more exciting and bring audience an audio-visual shocking artistic feeling. The originality of the program lies in the progressive cut-in by multiple decoding and opening methods, which makes the Dragon Boat Festival cultural program like a spiritual baptism and the inheritance ceremony of excellent traditional culture. What we see is the genetic code and cultural picture hidden in the depths of China culture, which is the most vivid display of a nation’s cultural tradition, ethics, value belief and aesthetic taste. "Let the cultural relics collected in the museum, the heritage displayed on the vast land, and the words written in ancient books come alive".

Chinese civilization has a long history and is profound. It is the unique spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation, the foundation of contemporary China culture, the spiritual bond that maintains Chinese people all over the world, and the treasure of cultural innovation in China. The Dragon Boat Festival program of the large-scale cultural series "Ancient Rhyme and New Sounds" makes the most basic cultural genes of the Chinese nation adapt to the contemporary culture and coordinate with the modern society through the excavation and interpretation of Chinese excellent traditional culture, and makes Chinese excellent traditional culture integrate into the new era and enter a new life, condensing a strong centripetal force and effectively enhancing the self-confidence of the national culture. (Tang Jinggang)