A Tapestry of a Legendary Land: the Flow and Fluidity of Beauty of Chinese Culture
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Haizhou Wang
Haizhou Wang is a professor of Film Studies at Beijing Film Academy. He serves as the Dean of the Postgraduate Department and the Head of the Library of Beijing Film Academy. He is the deputy president of Chinese Collegial Association for Visual Art and is the chair researcher of the China National Social Science Major Project “The Inheritance and Development of Chinese Artistic Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Films.” His monographs
Imagined China: Research on Chinese Film Culture of the 1980s and110 Years of Chinese Films (1905–2015) have won numerous research awards in film studies in China, including the Outstanding Research Awards in Humanities and Social Science of Institutions of Higher Education by Ministry of Education.
Abstract
The creation of the dance drama film A Tapestry of a Legendary Land (zhici qinglv, 2024) was inspired by the painting Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains (qianli jiangshangtu). Combining artistic expression means such as dance and film, it promotes the beauty of Chinese culture. Based on the aesthetics in the Huizong period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the film renders the main color tone of “green and blue,” creating a new realm for the modern presentation of the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty on the screen. The film also makes a vivid and elaborate display of splendid chapters like “painting study” and “listening to the rain” with the help of Cai Jing’s postscript and the lifestyle preference of ancient scholars for “listening to the rain,” conveying the concept of the symbiosis of Tian, Di, Ren (heaven, earth and humanity) contained in Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains.
About the author
Haizhou Wang is a professor of Film Studies at Beijing Film Academy. He serves as the Dean of the Postgraduate Department and the Head of the Library of Beijing Film Academy. He is the deputy president of Chinese Collegial Association for Visual Art and is the chair researcher of the China National Social Science Major Project “The Inheritance and Development of Chinese Artistic Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Films.” His monographs Imagined China: Research on Chinese Film Culture of the 1980s and 110 Years of Chinese Films (1905–2015) have won numerous research awards in film studies in China, including the Outstanding Research Awards in Humanities and Social Science of Institutions of Higher Education by Ministry of Education.
Acknowledgments
This research is supported by the major project of the National Social Science Foundation of China in 2020, “Research on the Value Inheritance and Innovative Development of Chinese Artistic and Cultural Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Films” (Project No.: 20ZD18).
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Postscript
The originally article entitled 《只此青绿》: 舞动的中华文化之美 was published in Dangdai Dianying 当代电影(Contemporary Cinema) 2024, (12): 31–34Suche in Google Scholar
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- A Memorandum of the Chinese Film Industry in 2024
- Xie Jin: A Distinguished Pioneer of the Mind-Nature Realism Film Paradigm
- Balanced Harmony: Aesthetic Realms in Chinese Film
- “Aspiration” and “Rhetoric”: Lyric Aesthetics of Chinese Small-Town Films
- The Cinematic Representation of the Factory Zone by Young Directors in the 21st Century
- From Drama to Film, as a Genre Bridge and New Main Melody Narrator – A Discussion on the Creation Path of Up-and-Coming Director Rao Xiaozhi
- Landscape and Memory: Homeland Narratives and Space Production of New Directors
- Interview
- Contemporary Traditional Cultural Philosophy and Re-Creation: Interview with Huo Tingxiao
- Film Reviews
- A Tapestry of a Legendary Land: the Flow and Fluidity of Beauty of Chinese Culture
- Searchlight or Scalpel? The Value and Expectancy of Upstream
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- A Memorandum of the Chinese Film Industry in 2024
- Xie Jin: A Distinguished Pioneer of the Mind-Nature Realism Film Paradigm
- Balanced Harmony: Aesthetic Realms in Chinese Film
- “Aspiration” and “Rhetoric”: Lyric Aesthetics of Chinese Small-Town Films
- The Cinematic Representation of the Factory Zone by Young Directors in the 21st Century
- From Drama to Film, as a Genre Bridge and New Main Melody Narrator – A Discussion on the Creation Path of Up-and-Coming Director Rao Xiaozhi
- Landscape and Memory: Homeland Narratives and Space Production of New Directors
- Interview
- Contemporary Traditional Cultural Philosophy and Re-Creation: Interview with Huo Tingxiao
- Film Reviews
- A Tapestry of a Legendary Land: the Flow and Fluidity of Beauty of Chinese Culture
- Searchlight or Scalpel? The Value and Expectancy of Upstream
