--- Zhou Dong's heartfelt interpretation of the meaning of Chinese culture Celadon Porcelain
The main writer of the current commentary: Hao Ge
The Spring Festival Gala has just been disclosed news said that because of the "collision" with Jay Chou's performance of "Celadon Porcelain," the Spring Festival Gala's purely dance program, "Qinghua" was taken off the list. Green Flower" was taken down. In the competition between the two pure dance programs, Dunhuang culture-inspired "Flying Sky" won, and the traditional Chinese porcelain-inspired "Blue Flowers" lost. The choreography and design ideas of "Blue Flowers" were no worse than those of "Flying Sky", and even slightly better than "Flying Sky". The main reason for taking down "Blue Flowers" is that the dance collides with the theme of the song "Blue and White Porcelain" which will be sung by Jay Chou. From late November 2007 to the present nearly two months, "Blue Flowers" dozens of dancers almost every day in rehearsal of this dance, although the dancers have put a lot of effort, but in the trade-offs, the evening party first of all, or strive to ensure that the big show, because the big players for the audience's attraction is undoubtedly higher.
Dance "Qing Hua" and the song "Qing Hua Porcelain" rather than either you die or I live, it is expedient to take a flexible attitude in the innovative program. Resulting in such an end, the most difficult than the creators and actors, just because of the content of the same out of a good dance program is very regrettable, but also on the actors hard labor to pay a huge waste. A stopgap measure is to use the dance "Blue Flowers" to the song "Blue and White Porcelain" with the dance, redesign the song "Blue and White Porcelain" melody to suit the dance with the song, so why not do it? The "Porcelain" is in recent years, Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music world emerged rarely seen good song, Porcelain iron on the Spring Festival Gala with three major elements.
Song flavor. Porcelain", from all angles is a good lyrics analysis: lyrics on the beginning of a picture painted peonies on porcelain, as if holding a brush of a craftsman is porcelain blanks waving color on the ink, brush stroke flow, the thickness of the appropriate. The lyrics also have the first-person narrative perspective of "I", which can be regarded as a bystander witnessing the craftsman's superb skills, who expresses his own feelings at any time: he is taken to the fairyland by the beauty of the artistic image in front of him, and the pictures of ladies in front of him seem to become the living and breathing fairies. as if they had become living, breathing fairies. The lyrics go on to render a beautiful scene from the immediate scene to the remote imagination, not unlike the mood of the Song lyrics: misty rain, curling smoke, magnificent river, all are beautiful pictures. The lyrics repeatedly recite this mood, which is beautiful and breathtaking. The second part of the lyrics continues to express the direct lyricism, conveying the respect for the thousand-year-old porcelain culture, and continues to anthropomorphize the celadon porcelain, which has become a beautiful goddess in the singer's mind. The encounter in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River makes the singer even more intoxicated and unforgettable. Parsed out in this way, "Porcelain" becomes a great piece with rich Chinese elements, a beautiful mood, and a light language that draws on the flavor of Song lyrics.
Traditional meaning. This is a piece that describes the theme Chinese porcelain, while containing a variety of traditional cultural imagery elements. Porcelain is the most representative of the traditional Chinese culture of a large artifact, Chinese porcelain has a long history, the original meaning of the English name of China is the meaning of porcelain. Here we need to understand the cultural knowledge of blue and white porcelain: blue and white porcelain has a long history through the generations to mature. Blue and white porcelain, also known as blue and white porcelain, it is with cobalt oxide cobalt ore as raw material, in the porcelain body depicted on the pattern, and then covered with a layer of transparent glaze, the high temperature reduction flame fired at once. Cobalt material is blue after firing, with strong coloring power, bright color, high firing rate, color stability. Currently found the earliest specimens of blue and white porcelain is the Tang Dynasty; mature blue and white porcelain appeared in the Yuan Dynasty; Ming Dynasty blue and white porcelain became the mainstream of porcelain; Qing Dynasty Kangxi when the development of the peak. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, varieties of blue and red, peacock green glazed blue and white, bean green glazed blue and white, blue and red, yellow ground blue and white, and brother glazed blue and white were also created. Painting, text, decoration is a major feature of blue and white porcelain. China's ancient blue and white porcelain, painting and decorating elegant, the bottom of the porcelain text, pattern recognition of a wide range, each period of recognition have distinctive characteristics of the times. According to the form of Qinghua porcelain mark, the type of view, can be divided into chronological paragraph, auspicious words paragraph, hall name paragraph, praise paragraph and decorative paragraph five categories. Mature blue and white porcelain appeared in the Yuan Dynasty in Jingdezhen. Yuan blue and white decoration is characterized by the composition of the largest full, multi-layered but not chaotic. The brushwork is smooth and powerful with a stroke; the outlining rendering is bold and calm. The theme of the decoration of the subject matter of figures, animals, plants, poetry and other subjects. There are figures such as the figure of a high priest (the four loves) and historical figures; animals such as dragons and phoenixes, unicorns, mandarin ducks, and swimming fishes; plants such as peonies, lotus, orchids, pine, bamboo, and plums, ganoderma lucidum, flowers, leaves, and melons; and poems and writings are rarely seen. The petals of the painted peony are often left with white edges; the dragon pattern has a small head, a thin neck, a long body, three or four claws, a ridge on the back, and a grid of scales, which is robust and fierce. Auxiliary motifs are mostly curly grass, lotus petals, ancient money, seawater, back to the pattern, dozens of clouds, banana leaves and so on. Lotus petal pattern shape like "parentheses", lotus petals are often painted in the Taoist miscellaneous treasures; Ruyi cloud pattern is often painted in the sea of eight monsters or folded lotus, twining flowers, painted in the three steps of the cloud; banana leaf in the stalk for the solid (filled with green material); seawater pattern for the combination of thick and thin lines depicted. This salvage of the South China Sea shipwrecks, it is estimated that a considerable number of blue and white porcelain can be called a national treasure.
The lyrics incorporate many cultural elements: rice paper, brushes, ladies' drawings, calligraphy, and a collection of traditional Chinese cultural elements.
Fresh song style. The freshness and nature of the melody is due to the more emphasis on Chinese elements in the soundtrack, supplemented by traditional Chinese instruments such as flute, guqin and guzheng in the orchestration, and the use of plucking, percussion, wind instruments and other Chinese playing methods, the whole tune is full of ethnic style. Porcelain" also embodies the integration of Chinese and Western styles, incorporating a rock atmosphere into the Chinese melody, and using strings for the accompaniment, which makes people feel that the musical style of "Porcelain" is obviously characterized by the integration of Chinese and Western styles. People carefully savor the subtle beauty of the Chinese tradition, but at the same time, there is also a modern fashion style. The opening of the song is a fresh and melodious flute, bringing people to a picturesque mood, echoing the design of the aftermath of the music at the end of the clever application of the trespassing board percussion, both Chinese characteristics of the soundtrack, but also to let people listening to feel the real aftermath of the aftermath of the endless aftertaste.
It is no wonder that some reviews summarize the song "Porcelain" in this way: "On the mood, "Porcelain" is like a misty rain in the south of the river ink landscapes, between the clouds and water sprouting vaguely see the Yi Yi people in white, plain sleeves and skirts flying; on the words, "Porcelain" is a pen end of the window to write on the plain heart, the pen twists and turns only because of the heart like a double silk net, there are a thousand knots; on the tune, "Porcelain" is like a breeze, but it's a little bit more than that. Celadon Porcelain" as if the breeze quietly flowing stone on the mountain springs and streams, clear and bright and meandering back and forth more than the meaning of endless; these three superimposed to a place, "Celadon Porcelain" song, as its name, just like the "self-care beautiful" celadon superb, washed out the lead, simple and elegant, fresh and smooth."
"Celadon Porcelain" is destined for the Spring Festival Gala by virtue of the above three elements, this exemplary Chinese style works with the dissemination of the Spring Festival Gala is bound to become a classic track. From the island of Taiwan's popularity of the king of Zhou Dong dedication to interpretation of Chinese cultural implications of the "Porcelain", in order to promote the Spring Festival traditional cultural identity of the spirit of this refreshing Chinese style to become the Chinese heart song.