On October 4, in the year of Renyin (2022), the grand ceremony of sacrificing Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor to China’s Xiandu was held in Jinyun. Chen Guangsheng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and Diao Yuquan, Deputy Director General and member of the Party Leadership Group of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, participated in relevant activities and visited the performers of Zhejiang Performing Arts Group.
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This year, Zhejiang Performing Arts Group · Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater continued to act as the planning and execution performance of the sacrificial ceremony, and further “refined the details to improve the image” on the basis of the 2021 provincial festival. From editing and directing, writing, music and clothing design, to venue and dance performance, the Zhejiang Song Troupe team provided a solemn and dignified traditional cultural feast for the people of the province with high-quality stage presentation and visual expression.
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There are nine ceremonies in this sacrificial ceremony, including trombone sounding, drum beating and bell ringing, offering high incense, flower basket, wine, eulogy, bow, singing carols, music and dance. After nearly half a year of concentrated research, the main creative team of the sacrificial ceremony connected the sacrificial ceremony with a variety of performance forms and rich artistic language, and comprehensively demonstrated the theme of the festival, “The world is united in offering sacrifices to the ancestors, and the ‘two first’ chapter of enlightenment”.
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At the ceremony site, the performing artists from Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater brought a performance full of Tang style and Song rhyme to the guests. In front of the temple of the Yellow Emperor, which is full of the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the original ode “Xuanyuan Song” was played, which integrates the five tones and twelve laws of the Yellow Emperor’s period and the voiceless tones of the elegant music of the Tang and Song Dynasties, The eight part mixed chorus has increasingly created a simple and solemn atmosphere. Like flying fairies in Dunhuang, they danced for the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan. The grand sacrificial dance with the theme of “harmony between heaven, earth and people, peace between the country and the people, and the dragon bless China” pushed the whole ceremony to the climax.
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Zhang Xuesong (Zhejiang Song and Dance Theater Creation Center), the chief director of the sacrificial ceremony, introduced that the sacrificial dance was integrated with the concept of “courtesy in Zhejiang”. For the first time, the ritual music and guard of honor were added in the preface, and the etiquette, ritual music and dress were improved.
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In addition, on the evening of October 3, Zhejiang Performing Arts Group also launched two special performances tailored for Jinyun, namely, the musical dance poem “The Spring Breeze Also Greens the South Bank of the River” and the elegant collection of Jiangnan silks and bamboos “The Flowing of Clear Springs and Stones”, which further innovated the expression form of Song rhyme dance and enriched the connotation of Jinyun Yellow Emperor’s cultural identity.
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The Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan is the cultural ancestor of the Chinese nation and the common spiritual bond between Chinese people at home and abroad. Jinyun Yellow Emperor Culture is one of the cultural and artistic symbols of the new era explicitly proposed by the 15th Provincial Party Congress. The culture and tourism system of Zhejiang Province will, based on the high-quality planning and performance of the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor Sacrifice Ceremony, comprehensively promote the inheritance, protection, utilization and development of the Yellow Emperor’s culture in key areas such as cultural and tourism resources survey, cultural gene decoding, cultural and tourism industry development, art boutique creation, public cultural services and international exchanges and cooperation, and build the Yellow Emperor’s culture into an internationally influential, Chinese style It is an important cultural symbol of Zhejiang’s recognition.