The three large-scale music and dance epics of New China are "The East is Red", "Song of the Chinese Revolution" and "Road to Revival".
In 1964, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the music and dance epic "The East is Red" was created and performed under the initiative of Zhou Enlai, and it is an excellent work that perfectly combines content and form.
The music and dance epic "Song of the Chinese Revolution", performed in 1984, summarizes China's glorious and arduous historical process of more than half a century from the May Fourth Movement to the Twelfth Congress of the People's ****ing Party of China.
The large-scale music and dance epic "The Road to Revival", performed in 2009, artistically recreates the 169-year history from the Opium War in 1840 to the present day.
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The Road to Revival is the third large-scale music and dance epic of great political and cultural significance in the history of Chinese culture and art, following Oriental Red and Song of the Chinese Revolution.
It takes time as the clue and major historical events as the carrier, and is divided into five plates, namely, "Sacrifice of Mountains and Rivers", "Footprints of Fervor", "Entrepreneurship", "Tidal Wave Song", and "Ode to China", which, through the rich vocabulary of dance and music, artistically and centrally show the glorious and great road of rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the past 169 years since 1840.
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