Dongfanghong consists of more than 30 revolutionary songs and more than 20 dances, including 5 choruses, 7 performances and 18 recitations. Many poets, composers and dancers participated in the creation; More than 3000 musicians and dancers, stage artists, workers, students, young pioneers and other amateur actors from more than 70 units participated in the performance.
1965, the film version of the music and dance epic Dongfanghong reduced the last two scenes of the original stage version to six scenes. The last scene, "China people stand up", reproduces the festive scene of people of all ethnic groups singing and dancing in founding ceremony. At the end, the audience stood up and sang the Internationale.
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The main contents of the dance epic Dongfanghong;
The music and dance epic Dongfanghong is divided into eight acts. The titles of each drama are: Oriental Dawn, Spark, Qianshan, Anti-Japanese Fire, Ruining the Chiang Dynasty, China People Stand Up, Forward of the Motherland and Forward of the World.
The performance kicked off in the majestic prelude and chorus of Dongfanghong. Dozens of actresses faced a red sun rising on the sea and danced happily into a sunflower formation, presenting a vivid scene of "Sunflowers facing the sun and people turning to the party".
The whole large-scale song and dance performance is an ode to the China Revolution and Mao Zedong Thought. From the first "Oriental Dawn" when the red flag was raised, every scene clearly reflected Mao Zedong Thought's great historical role in the process of China's revolution and construction.