As the spring equinox approaches, the theater of Jiaozhou City Citizen Cultural Center in Qingdao, Shandong Province is filled with melodious bamboo and silk. A song adapted from the traditional Maoqiang tune called "Four Seasons Song · Solar Term Ballad" has attracted cheers from the entire hall. The actors dressed in seasonal themed costumes performed the phenological changes of "the arrival of the mysterious bird and the sound of thunder" with a gentle singing style. Sheng Dan Jingchou transformed into "seasonal messengers" and demonstrated the number nine on the winter solstice through "scattered board slow singing" and the cicada chirping on the summer solstice through "tight beating slow singing", making the culture of the 24 solar terms an audible and perceptible artistic symbol. Maoqiang is a popular form of folk opera in the Jiaodong Peninsula region, with a history of over 200 years. It is known as the "flower of Jiaodong" and was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. When the gentle and melodious singing of Maoqiang meets the agricultural wisdom of the 24 solar terms, what kind of sparks will collide? We have specially created a series of plays that integrate the agricultural activities and folk customs of the 24 solar terms into the Maoqiang singing section. Through operatic storytelling, such as "Spring Equinox Ballad" and "Frost Descent Lament," the audience can feel the interweaving of nature and culture in audio-visual enjoyment; The rearranged traditional music pieces "Blooming Flowers" and "Lou Lou Lou" incorporate seasonal proverbs and ancient poems, retaining the graceful charm of Maoqiang and endowing it with contemporary connotations Chen Yuwei, the head of the Maoqiang Opera Troupe in Jiaozhou City, introduced that the deep integration of the two major intangible cultural heritages has sparked a new cultural trend in the local area. Professional actors and fellow citizens perform together on stage, from the vitality of the Beginning of Spring to the tranquility of the Winter Solstice. The rotation of the 24 solar terms unfolds slowly in the rhythm of the play, singing a reverence for nature and making us cherish the roots of traditional culture even more Citizen Zhang Na sighed as she watched the performance at the Citizen Cultural Center Theater. In order to expand the influence of traditional culture, Jiaozhou City has also launched an online platform called "Cloud Maoqiang · Solar Terms Micro Classroom", which reproduces the outing scene in the selected section of "Qingming Festival". Viewers can experience the elegance of "curved water flowing from the cup" through gesture interaction. What is even more refreshing is that participants can follow the inheritors of Maoqiang intangible cultural heritage to learn the "Solar Term Gesture Dance", simulating natural phenomena such as "rain moistening things" and "awakening of insects and thunder" through the body movements of traditional Chinese opera. The platform also plans to recreate traditional musical instruments through an AI composition system. By inputting seasonal characteristic parameters, the program can generate singing styles that combine ancient charm and new sounds, forming a "human-machine co creation" mode to produce seasonal theme new tunes. At the Shaohai Confucius Six Arts Park in Jiaozhou, the integration of Maoqiang and solar term culture has extended from the stage to daily life scenes. In the intangible cultural heritage workshop, young designer Zheng Yun is debugging the "Awakening Insects" themed costume: "We use gradient colored silk threads to present the image of 'grass and trees sprouting' instead of the bee and butterfly patterns in traditional embroidery samples." The 24 solar terms have been deconstructed into 192 visual symbols, giving rise to various cultural and creative products such as tea utensils, lanterns, and interactive installations. At present, Jiaozhou City has more than 30 folk Maoqiang opera troupes. The integration with the 24 solar terms is not only an innovative attempt to protect intangible cultural heritage, but also a vivid interpretation of rural revitalization and cultural confidence Sun Zhan, Secretary of the Party Group of the Culture and Tourism Bureau of Jiaozhou City, said that solar term culture is the wisdom crystallization of agricultural civilization, and Maoqiang is originally an art in the fields. Next, Jiaozhou plans to promote the "Maoqiang+24 Solar Terms" model to campuses and communities, using multidimensional innovative methods to transform local opera from cultural memory to contemporary lifestyle, providing an "audible" carrier for solar term culture, and achieving the coexistence and prosperity of "dual heritage". (New Society)
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