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Guarding and cherishing our daily lives, in Jian Ping's "chronicle style", prose | chronicle style | Jian Ping
Guarding and cherishing our daily lives, in Jian Ping's "chronicle style", prose | chronicle style | Jian Ping

On the afternoon of July 1st, at Gongfei Bookstore on Duolun Road in Shanghai, a conversation between writer Jian Ping and the executive deputy director of Ba Jin's former residence, Zhou Limin, attracted many readers, and many children and parents who had just finished summer vacation came together. As the title of an article in "Jianping Chronicle Prose Essay Collection", "Thank You for Your Care", and "The Last Butterfly" states, everyone had a rare "literary afternoon". The collection of Jianping Chronological Prose Essays is published by Wenhui Publishing House and funded by the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation. It consists of two volumes, with the first volume "Thank You for Your Care" written from January 2018 to December 2019; The second volume "The Last Butterfly" was written from January 2020 to December 2021. On the waist of the book, there is a passage that reads: "The lights of every household are full of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. Everything is like a cycle of day and night, yet..."

Can dopamine become literature? Jay Chou's lyrics have high emotional intelligence and he curses people? Internet can lead to dopamine | Internet | Jay Chou
Can dopamine become literature? Jay Chou's lyrics have high emotional intelligence and he curses people? Internet can lead to dopamine | Internet | Jay Chou

Recently, citizen Hu Yu has been surrounded by the overwhelming amount of dopamine on the internet. On the short video platform, there are various kinds of "dopamine dressing" teaching, the coffee shop has launched "dopamine iced coffee", and even the reading recommendation has also appeared "dopamine literature" - but she is still confused about dopamine on the Internet. Are you still holding onto the sudden appearance of yyds and nbcs online? A new batch of online "slang", such as "dopamine", has been overwhelming. "Stems that are popular online but you don't understand" once made a hot search, and someone roast that "you can't understand Chinese anymore". However, in the view of other citizens and netizens, the Internet is expanding from the original "homophone stem" and "abbreviation stem" to deeper cultural ties and attention to social topics. "Language itself is also recording the era.

Dedicated her life to the revolution, this extraordinary woman founded a women's school, studied abroad in France, and provided financial support for the Jiangcheng assassination | Xiang Jingyu | Jiangcheng
Dedicated her life to the revolution, this extraordinary woman founded a women's school, studied abroad in France, and provided financial support for the Jiangcheng assassination | Xiang Jingyu | Jiangcheng

On July 4th and 5th, the 2023 National Art Fund Communication, Exchange and Promotion Funding Project and the modern Chu opera "Xiang Jingyu" will appear at the Wanping Theater. Through the touching plots of sisters love, comradeship love, husband and wife love, mother and son love, the play shows the noble family and country feelings of Xiang Jingyu, and causes the audience to think about the value and connotation of life. During the Shanghai station tour, "Xiang Jingyu" will participate in the selection of the Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performance Art Award. In 2019, Wuhan Chu Opera Theater created Xiang Jingyu, which captured Xiang Jingyu's revolutionary spirit and noble character of pursuing ideals, being loyal to beliefs, defending the interests of the people until death, and reproduced the life course of the early leader of the CPC

How to perform novelty?, Classic Tragic Character Camel Xiangzi in Textbooks | Stage Drama | Characters
How to perform novelty?, Classic Tragic Character Camel Xiangzi in Textbooks | Stage Drama | Characters

On July 8th, the stage play "Camel Xiangzi" will premiere at the Shanghai Drama Art Center Art Theater, featuring an 11.5-meter-high turntable and a 3-story iron cage structure, with characters slowly swimming up an 8-degree slope. On July 2nd, the drama was unveiled to the media for the first time at the Yunfeng Theater. The stage play "Camel Xiangzi" is adapted from the original work of the same name by Lao She, and tells the life experience of Xiangzi, a young and strong rickshaw driver in Beiping City, who rises and falls three times. The average age of the actors in the play is 31 years old. "Screenwriter Chen Lu and I spent half a month studying the original novel with the entire production team. The fundamental aspect of creation is respect first, and then innovation." He Nian revealed that the stage play starts with the end of the novel and goes back to the story, "first presenting the results, then pushing forward the reasons, and explaining them one by one. Everyone has their own way of life, in order to reflect on Xiangzi's fate and see."

How to "return to nature" in reinforced concrete? View the answers from 26 international artists Landscape | Art | International
How to "return to nature" in reinforced concrete? View the answers from 26 international artists Landscape | Art | International

On July 1st, the international art group exhibition with the theme of "Returning to Nature" was unveiled at the Mingzhu Art Museum in Shanghai. 26 artists from 10 countries and regions around the world have brought over 100 natural themed creations, including painting, installation, sculpture, imaging, photography, performance art, and other diverse media, to answer the questions of how to "return to nature" in reinforced concrete for urban audiences. The exhibition is divided into four chapters: "People and Scenery", "Travel", "Picture Stories", and "Questions and Explorations". It not only presents personalized artistic representation and creation of natural themes, but also questions and reflections on environmental issues, and unique expressions of "non anthropocentric views on nature". The Pearl Art Museum has always focused on issues such as sustainable development and the connection between nature and art. The "In the Name of Flowers" exhibition launched in 2020 has become an art that continues to grow and emerge from the museum

Decoding the True History Behind Traditional Chinese Opera through "Books, Literature, and Drama Theory", Reading Good Books and Appreciating Good Drama Shanghai | Peking Opera | Classical Chinese Opera
Decoding the True History Behind Traditional Chinese Opera through "Books, Literature, and Drama Theory", Reading Good Books and Appreciating Good Drama Shanghai | Peking Opera | Classical Chinese Opera

How did "Ah Qing Sao" on the stage of traditional Chinese opera become a hero in the minds of the audience? How did Shanghai opera and Beijing opera create this artistic image? On the afternoon of July 2nd, the fifth lecture of the "Shuwen Xili" series, titled "This Woman is Unusual - Ah Qing Sao on the Stage of Shanghai and Beijing Opera," was held at the Qunle Theater of the Changning Folk Culture Center in Shanghai. Shanghai opera master Chen Suping, Beijing opera master Zhao Qun, and Shanghai opera broadcasting director and veteran host Zhang Yuan lead the audience to deeply interpret the stage portrayal and real history behind Ah Qing Sao in "Shajiabang". In 1939, during the transfer of the New Fourth Army, Guo Jianguang and 18 other injured and sick soldiers stayed in Shajiabang by Yangcheng Lake. They, along with underground party member Aqing Sao, who was the owner of the Chunlai Tea House, and the local people, fought tenaciously with the "Loyal and Righteous Salvation Army" led by Hu Chuankui and Diao Deyi

Dongfang TV's "Future China 2" is scheduled for release on July 7th. Academicians and million fan bloggers work together to popularize cutting-edge science | Thought | Dongfang TV
Dongfang TV's "Future China 2" is scheduled for release on July 7th. Academicians and million fan bloggers work together to popularize cutting-edge science | Thought | Dongfang TV

ChatGPT may replace manual mental work, the Mars Migration Project is in full swing, and genes are being rewritten to treat genetic diseases... The rapid development of science is leading humanity to a future that has never been imagined before - technological progress means both opportunities and challenges. What will "Future China" look like? The second season of the first Chinese cutting-edge scientific thinking show "Future China", which is jointly broadcasted by Dongfang TV, Jiangsu TV, Zhejiang TV, and Anhui TV in the Yangtze River Delta, was officially scheduled for July 7th. The program continues to focus on cutting-edge scientific knowledge, inviting top academicians and scientists to conduct knowledge popularization, and featuring young academic elites with vision, intelligence, and more expressive abilities to compete in scientific knowledge, enabling the implementation of hardcore scientific knowledge. I have been thinking: we

This event embodies the hard work of many people, with 6-year-old "Little Magnolia" and 87-year-old "Excellent Gardener" Yueju Opera | title | event
This event embodies the hard work of many people, with 6-year-old "Little Magnolia" and 87-year-old "Excellent Gardener" Yueju Opera | title | event

On July 2nd, the 2023 Shanghai Children's Drama Little White Magnolia Award Series event, titled "Magnolia Warm Childlike Heart · Era Youth Tour," was held at the Affiliated School of Shanghai Theatre Academy. 50 people were awarded the title of "Little Magnolia", 17 programs were awarded the title of "Excellent Collective Program", and 9 teachers were awarded the "Excellent Gardener Award". The oldest "excellent gardener" Wang Peizhen is 87 years old, with 70 years of experience in the arts and 60 years of experience in drama education. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Korean War. 70 years ago, Wang Peizhen went to North Korea with famous Yue opera performers Xu Yulan and Wang Wenjuan to participate in volunteer military condolences performances. After winning the award, Wang Peizhen said, "What I am most proud of is the children's achievements. Learning opera is quite difficult, and it is not easy to cultivate an actor. We should start from childhood. I hope they will take over and contribute to traditional Chinese literature."

The documentary "Elephant Journey" will be released in 2024, and the migration journey of wild elephants in Yunnan will be brought to IMAX screen company | Production | Elephant Journey
The documentary "Elephant Journey" will be released in 2024, and the migration journey of wild elephants in Yunnan will be brought to IMAX screen company | Production | Elephant Journey

IMAX, Singapore Beach Villa Film Co., Ltd., a production company under Blue Ant Media, and China International Communications Group Interpret China Studio announced on July 3 that they will jointly produce the documentary film "Elephant Journey". This film will document the migration journey of wild Asian elephant herds that began in 2020, presenting the habitat of wild elephant herds - the hidden scenery of Yunnan, China, and revealing the stories and little-known secrets between humans and wild elephants. The documentary film has a duration of approximately 90 minutes and is currently being produced in China using IMAX cameras. It is planned to be released in IMAX theaters in 2024. "Elephant Journey" not only presents the relationship between humans and wild elephants, but also records from a new perspective the well-known departure of 16 wild Asian elephants in March 2020

This youth band challenges professional band works and welcomes two "super questions" to perform | concert | professional
This youth band challenges professional band works and welcomes two "super questions" to perform | concert | professional

The one-year summer concert of the Shanghai Poly Grand Theatre Youth Symphony Orchestra was held on July 2nd, featuring performances such as "Ode to Joy", "Carmen Overture", and Bugmuller Suite. On the occasion of the first anniversary of the band's establishment, this group of young people with music dreams, professional training, and proficiency in different instruments proved themselves to the audience through this concert. "The reason why the concert is called the 'Challenging of Summer Challenge' is because the performance of this piece, especially the two talent pieces, is quite difficult." Xue Yuan, the artistic director and conductor of the band, revealed that "the last time the band reported on the concert, the ensemble pieces mainly came from the rearrangement of Bug Mueller's practice pieces, which can be said to be advanced training works, and each piece has a relatively short duration. The two talent pieces of this concert belong to the same category."

Why did American explorer Paul hike in China?, Forever Walk from Yunnan to Heilongjiang: Meeting China | Documentary | Paul
Why did American explorer Paul hike in China?, Forever Walk from Yunnan to Heilongjiang: Meeting China | Documentary | Paul

The offline exhibition of the documentary series "Forever Walking: Meeting China" produced by the Documentary Center of Shanghai Radio and Television Station was recently held at New York University in Shanghai, with nearly 300 viewers registering to participate. On site, the creative team led by Zhu Xiaoqian, Deputy Director of the Documentary Center and Chief Producer of the program, and anthropologist Zhang Liangliang shared the story behind the scenes. Activity site map. "Forever Walk: Meeting China" is jointly created by Shanghai Broadcasting and Television Documentary Center and National Geographic of the United States. It includes a series of long documentaries and daily updates and short videos on overseas social media platforms. The documentary revolves around the hiking journey of American explorer and writer Paul Salopeko through China, showcasing a trustworthy, adorable, and respectable image of China to the world through his unique observations and hiking experiences. two thousand and thirteen

Big Zero Bay Library Holds a Series of Science Popularization Reports, How "National Treasures" Sail towards Deep Blue China | Aircraft Carrier | Deep Blue
Big Zero Bay Library Holds a Series of Science Popularization Reports, How "National Treasures" Sail towards Deep Blue China | Aircraft Carrier | Deep Blue

"Telling a good story of Chinese path to modernization through science popularization -2023 big hand in small hand science popularization report collection", a series of important national activities, was recently launched in Minhang District's Big Zero Bay Library. During the summer vacation, this series of activities will be themed "China's Far Away Ship, Pursuing Dreams and Setting Sail", and will hold interesting knowledge popularization lectures on aircraft carriers, supply ships, hospital ships, nuclear submarines, mine warships, amphibious assault ships, cruise ships, research ships, liquefied gas ships, and many other ships, stimulating the curiosity, imagination, and exploration desire of young readers. A new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is reconstructing the world and reshaping life. Aircraft carriers, domestically produced large aircraft, Tianwen-1, China's Tianyan, quantum computers... each of these "national treasures" provides impetus for China's development. Taking ships as the main theme, "China Association for Science and Technology's Big Hand Pulls Small Hand Science Popularization Report"

Often it's not just a legal issue, what key information did Cai Xukun code in the alarm receipt? Cai Xukun attempting to prove with an alarm receipt | alarm | receipt
Often it's not just a legal issue, what key information did Cai Xukun code in the alarm receipt? Cai Xukun attempting to prove with an alarm receipt | alarm | receipt

Recently, Weibo users such as "Super Photography Yang Yang" and "Understanding Guagua Gua" have repeatedly revealed that artist Cai Xukun made Ms. C pregnant in 2021 and later requested her to have an abortion. Cai Xukun's mother even hired "private detectives" to track and monitor Ms. C. A stone stirs up a thousand waves. After several days of explosive fermentation, Cai Xukun responded to the incident at noon yesterday and later stated that he had gone to the police. In the afternoon of that day, the law firm released a "Shanghai Public Security Bureau Case Reception Receipt", and in the evening, it was released again. Careful netizens have found that when this receipt was first sent out, a key piece of information was covered by a mosaic: "After verification, the case was only handled after being informed by the people's court." The reporter learned from legal professionals that as a serious judicial process, there are legal norms, relevant documents, and language for receiving and handling police

Has the melon finally ripened?, Observation | Metaverse Entertainment Pyramid | Project | Observation | Metaverse
Has the melon finally ripened?, Observation | Metaverse Entertainment Pyramid | Project | Observation | Metaverse

Xingye Taikouhui, a cultural and entertainment project called "Lost Pharaoh - Immersive Exploration of the Khufu Pyramid" has become popular. In addition to parent-child families and young couples, there are also elderly people in their 80s and visitors in wheelchairs who come to experience it. This surprised Tang Yicheng, founder and CEO of the organizer "Bo Xin Metaverse". "I didn't expect the audience's acceptance to be so high." This week, "The Disappearing Pharaoh - Immersive Exploration of the Hufu Pyramid" announced that the closing date has been extended from the originally scheduled August 27th to October 7th. Also on Nanjing West Road, the first "X-META | Time and Space of Opportunity" China-Chic Cosmos Theme Park in China in the Opportunity Center of Tomorrow Square, has combined many VR full-sense theater projects such as Luoyang in the Wind, Kunlun Maze, Mars Rescue, etc. Immersion in "Three Body: Beyond Gravity" by West Coast Phoenix Nest

How old can a dancer dance to? Dialogue with 59 year old Hong Kong dancer Qiao Yangcheng | Baoji, Shaanxi | Hong Kong
How old can a dancer dance to? Dialogue with 59 year old Hong Kong dancer Qiao Yangcheng | Baoji, Shaanxi | Hong Kong

Qiao Yang, who is 59 years old this year, reminds people of Sisyphus in Greek mythology. She is a resident artist of the Hong Kong City Contemporary Dance Troupe, and there are very few full-time dancers of this age worldwide. She started dancing at the age of 12 and has been dancing from Chinese dance to modern dance for 47 years, from Baoji in Shaanxi to Guangzhou, and then to Hong Kong. Qiao Yang has sharp short hair and fine wrinkles spreading around the corners of her eyes, but if you watch her dance, you will be amazed at how young her body is. From June 30th to July 2nd, "Qiao Yang 55" was performed three times in a row at the Shanghai International Dance Center. This 70 minute solo dance was a great test of skill, physical strength, and expression, which is unbelievable. It was completed by a 59 year old dancer. The performance of "Qiao Yang 55" in Shanghai has all come from decades of extreme self-discipline

"20th Century Chinese Piano Masterpieces" will be released in Europe, with pianist Jie Jingxian playing the Chinese Melody Piano in Munich | China | 20th Century Chinese Piano Masterpieces
"20th Century Chinese Piano Masterpieces" will be released in Europe, with pianist Jie Jingxian playing the Chinese Melody Piano in Munich | China | 20th Century Chinese Piano Masterpieces

On July 4th local time, Chinese pianist and associate professor of the Piano Department at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Jie Jingxian, held a special concert for Chinese piano works at the headquarters of Henle Publishing House in Munich, Germany. She performed works such as "Birds Facing the Phoenix", "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", "Painting of Bashu", and "Yangguan Sandai". The 20th Century Chinese Piano Masterpieces, edited and arranged by Jie Jingxian, will be released by Hengle Publishing House in Europe this year. This is also the first time that the renowned Hengle Publishing House has published Chinese piano scores. At the concert of pianist Jie Jingxian, she dressed in red and performed with a balance of strength and softness, introducing the stories behind these Chinese piano pieces to the audience in German. She studied in Germany for seven years, obtained a doctoral degree, and regarded Germany as her "second hometown". During her study abroad period, she began to consciously promote China

8 works from the previous episode will debut in Beijing, and "Awakening Era" will make its debut at the National Theatre. Yulan | Performance Season | National Theatre
8 works from the previous episode will debut in Beijing, and "Awakening Era" will make its debut at the National Theatre. Yulan | Performance Season | National Theatre

From July 7th to December 17th, the 2023 Shanghai Drama Art Center's "Magnolia Blossoming Fragrance" performance season will feature 8 participating plays in Beijing. This year, we plan to stage more than 40 excellent plays that have been accumulated and newly created over the years in Shanghai, Beijing, and other places. We will select 8 of these works as the content of the "Magnolia Blossoming Fragrance" performance season to perform in Beijing. Eight plays include the stage play "Awakening Era" adapted from the TV series of the same name, the large-scale play "Heroic Children" adapted from Ba Jin's novel "Reunion" and Changchun Film Studio's film of the same name, the stage play "Camel Xiangzi" adapted from Lao She's novel, the representative work of British "Face to Face Drama" protagonist Philip Ridley's "The Rake Knight", and the play "12 People" adapted from the Golden Bear Award winning film "Twelve Angry Men" at the Berlin Film Festival. Lauren

Visiting museums has turned into classes and quizzes: Should children "roll" or "release" when entering museums? Parents | Children | Museums
Visiting museums has turned into classes and quizzes: Should children "roll" or "release" when entering museums? Parents | Children | Museums

"Did you remember everything? Repeat it!" Recently, while visiting a museum, citizen Jiao Yue met a parent who asked her child to memorize cultural relics information. "When visiting a museum, shouldn't children be allowed to see and experience it?" Like Jiao Yue, many visitors who teach children on site at museums hope that they won't be "caught up" in the museum. However, in the eyes of some parents, museums already have entry barriers. If cultural relics, history, and art education are not provided to children, it is difficult for them to gain anything from a sheep herding style visit. Moving classrooms into cultural and museum venues for on-site teaching of cultural relics and artworks has become a norm overseas, and in recent years, there have been many attempts in China. Entering museums for research and learning has become a popular project this summer. However, there are different requirements for what to teach and how to learn in museums.

Having spent 40 years at the Central Ballet, Feng Ying: From Actor to Team Leader | Actor | Team Leader
Having spent 40 years at the Central Ballet, Feng Ying: From Actor to Team Leader | Actor | Team Leader

"Running like a gust of wind or rain, extremely romantic..." Feng Ying opened her arms and ran towards the actor. This is an ordinary afternoon, as actors sit on the stage of the Shanghai Grand Theatre, listening to the explanation of dance details by the group leader Feng Ying and the director Tong Ruirui. From June 30th to July 5th, the "Performing Arts World · 2023 Chinese Ballet Shanghai Summer Performance Season" jointly created by Shanghai Wenguang Performing Arts Group and the Central Ballet was held at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, bringing two plays, "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Little Mermaid". During interviews, Feng Ying occasionally observed the movements of the stage through the small screen in the dressing room, saying, "Our actors are not easy. They dance" Dream of the Red Chamber "at night and" Little Mermaid "in the afternoon." They entered the Chinese ballet industry at the age of less than 20. In 40 years, from an actor to a team leader, Feng Ying was the most aware of the hardships of ballet. I used to be Lin too

"Love Pack Drifting Action" Five Year Relay, Departing! From Shanghai to Yunnan School Uniform | Love | Shanghai
"Love Pack Drifting Action" Five Year Relay, Departing! From Shanghai to Yunnan School Uniform | Love | Shanghai

From 2018 to 2023, a set of school uniforms and a book "drifted" from Shanghai to primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in Yunnan, Xizang, Xinjiang, Guizhou and other places, warming students in the distance. On the afternoon of July 4th, the departure ceremony of "Love Pack Drifting Action", one of the sub brands of "Radio · Love" and a large-scale volunteer project of Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station, was held at the Shanghai Broadcasting Art Center. Starting from March this year, some schools have started to raise "love packages", and even one week before the departure ceremony, new schools continue to volunteer to join the "Love Package Drifting" alliance. In the end, 509 boxes of "love bags" went through the relay of teachers, parents, and love logistics to their first destination of Yunnan this year. Since 5 years ago, nearly 10000 sets of school uniforms donated by more than 20 primary and secondary school students in Shanghai have been sent to children in distant places

At the City Qun Art Museum, it's amazing! Dinosaur 3D Picture Books Transform into Immersive Exhibition Art Education | Exhibition | Dinosaur
At the City Qun Art Museum, it's amazing! Dinosaur 3D Picture Books Transform into Immersive Exhibition Art Education | Exhibition | Dinosaur

The Dinosaur Resurrection Record - Returning to the Dinosaur Era Interactive Experience Exhibition was held on July 5th at the Shanghai Mass Art Museum. The exhibition interprets, extends, and combines the three-dimensional book "How to Revive a Dinosaur" to provide insights into the mysteries of dinosaurs for citizens, especially children on summer vacation. The dinosaur world, made up of environmentally friendly substitute wood materials, makes the audience feel like they have entered the real world of the book. In the 1993 movie Jurassic Park, dinosaurs were still upright ferocious beasts, but in 2015 Jurassic World, they became bent down reptiles. Why is this? The Dinosaur Resurrection Record - Interactive Experience Exhibition on Returning to the Age of Dinosaurs presents the entire process of dinosaur "resurrection" through graphic and textual introductions, model displays, and scene restoration. Due to the discovery of more new fossils, scientists have conducted further research and made corrections

Reviewing Shanghai's century long industrial and cultural journey, Butterfly Factory | Industry | Culture
Reviewing Shanghai's century long industrial and cultural journey, Butterfly Factory | Industry | Culture

Shanghai is the birthplace of modern Chinese industry, the gathering place of modern industry, and the land of advanced manufacturing. It is also the birthplace of modern Chinese national industry and the cradle of the Chinese working class. A large number of milestone factories were born here, leading the development of Chinese industrial civilization and the city of Shanghai. Based on Shanghai's unique industrial resources and with the support of the Shanghai Association for Cultural Exchange with Foreign Countries, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, together with units and platforms such as the Smart Bay Science and Technology Innovation Park, has launched the "Butterfly Transformation: Shanghai Modern Industrial Cultural Heritage Image Exhibition". In 1865, the Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau in Shanghai started its industry early, with concentrated development, a large number of factories, diverse types, and a large scale of foreign investment. The cultural heritage of related buildings and landscapes is profound. The exhibition takes history as a clue and selects the most representative works since the mid-19th century

Learn to knead dough! When Love Summer Kindergarten Meets Beauty, Come Love | Aesthetic Education | Noodle Face
Learn to knead dough! When Love Summer Kindergarten Meets Beauty, Come Love | Aesthetic Education | Noodle Face

As summer vacation approaches, the caring summer care classes offered in various districts are welcomed by students and praised by parents. What are the special courses in the Love Summer Care Class? On July 4th, the first social art education boutique course "Exploring Folk Art and Feeling the Charm of Intangible Cultural Heritage - How Many Intangible Cultural Heritage Venues Know" of Baoshan District Love Summer Care Class was launched at Tianxin School in Yangxing Town, and 120 children became the "first batch of experience officers". This is the first batch of 60 "Social Art Education" courses released in June in Baoshan, and it is the first time that they have been integrated into Shanghai's practical project for the people in the form of high-quality courses - the Love Summer Care Class. "Have you visited our exhibition hall? Do you know which intangible cultural heritage projects in Baoshan?" In class, a young guide from the Baoshan International Folk Expo in Shanghai performed and shared multiple interesting stories on site, focusing on the history, skills, and other content of Baoshan's local intangible cultural heritage

Lotus Blooms on Shanghai Stage, Dunhuang Murals "Step Out" of Grottoes Dunhuang | Lotus | Murals
Lotus Blooms on Shanghai Stage, Dunhuang Murals "Step Out" of Grottoes Dunhuang | Lotus | Murals

On August 12th and 13th, Zhao Xiaogang's classic work "Xianwuren Theater" and the second installment of the Fat Tang and Thin Song series "Lotus" will once again come to Shanghai and perform for two consecutive nights at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center. The dance drama "Lotus" continues the creative ideas of Dunhuang dance dramas, using dance to construct traditional cultural relics. It tells the story of Dunhuang color sculptor "Le Ting", who starts from his perception of the truth, goodness, and beauty of lotus flowers, fearless of the cold, and goes through countless hardships to create the story of lotus clay sculptures. Through three chapters of "shaping", "walking", and "parting", it depicts the process of sculptors constantly seeking and discovering themselves. Lotus is not limited to expressing personal emotions, but focuses more on interpreting the spiritual world. In the drama, "lotus" is the core image of the entire dance drama, with a noble and holy character throughout. In terms of performance techniques in dance dramas, the personalized movements in Dunhuang dance

Offering the Voice of Beauty to the Times, Celebrities Gathering the People | Jiang Jie | The Times
Offering the Voice of Beauty to the Times, Celebrities Gathering the People | Jiang Jie | The Times

On July 1st, teachers from the Ethnic Vocal Music Teaching and Research Office of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, together with the Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra and conductor Zhang Chengjie, re rehearsed the classic arias of ethnic opera and held the "Revolutionary People Forever Young - Classic Selection of Ethnic Opera Concert". The overture "Time Flows Fragrance" is adapted from numerous classic excerpts of ethnic operas, and the familiar melody instantly evokes memories for the audience. The concert made a small arrangement for "The Water of Honghu Lake, Waves Beat Waves", changing the solo to a small choir. "The Liberation of the Laborers and the People" is a relatively long structured aria that selectively uses Hubei dialect in the pronunciation of some characters. The soprano singer Liu Fangying, who is skilled in singing folk and poetic songs, injected her personal wisdom into the interpretation of this song, which may be related to her early experience in performing opera

An exhibition reminds us to maintain a keen perception and reverence for all things, standing in the contemporary development of traditional culture | vision | tradition
An exhibition reminds us to maintain a keen perception and reverence for all things, standing in the contemporary development of traditional culture | vision | tradition

The Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum has successively launched an exhibition season of "Traditional Culture in the Contemporary Era", which includes visual interpretation of Go and artificial intelligence, integration of traditional culture such as kindness, propriety, elegance, and literary fashion with modern art, and new interpretation of works by middle-aged and young calligraphers. This is also a case worth studying that has been cultivated in the art ecology of Shanghai in the past two years. Among them, the exhibition of project achievements supported by the National Art Fund, "Accumulation, Flowing, Broadness, and Elegance - Chinese Traditional Culture and Contemporary Art Creation Exhibition," is the most worthy of promotion. The exhibition is hosted by the Central Academy of Fine Arts and is held in three cities: Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen. The interesting thing about this exhibition is that if you only look at the name of the exhibition or take a quick look around the exhibition hall, you will think it is a traditional "handicraft" exhibition. Only by further understanding the curatorial intention and art

Are you willing to work as a "one day store manager" at a bookstore?, Shanghai Gate in the Midsummer | Bookstore | Shanghai
Are you willing to work as a "one day store manager" at a bookstore?, Shanghai Gate in the Midsummer | Bookstore | Shanghai

On the warm yellow wooden door of Guyi Road in Xuhui District, the white words "2040 Bookstore" are concise and clear. Recently, the adjusted and upgraded "2040 Bookstore" has officially opened. This brand of book selection bookstore, located under the Guomai Culture Building of the publishing institution, has quietly risen to the second highest praise list of bookstores in Xuhui District and the sixth highest in Shanghai. 2040 Bookstore is located along the street in the western district of the West Coast Creative Park, and appears to have a different temperament among the numerous home and building material stores in the surrounding area. Jiang Yue, the permanent store manager and main person in charge of 2040 Bookstore, said that as a selected bookstore, "2040" means "choose one from a thousand miles", which means selecting 1000 books out of 2.04 million books in the annual book market. When choosing books to be listed, three factors are mainly considered - "whether it has been verified over time" and "whether it has been widely accepted by the general public readers"

Enhance the content security standards of learning apps and children's smart devices, and focus on the theme of minors in the "Clear Pujiang" action | Activity | APP
Enhance the content security standards of learning apps and children's smart devices, and focus on the theme of minors in the "Clear Pujiang" action | Activity | APP

In order to protect the healthy growth of minors, Shanghai recently launched a two month "Qinglang Pujiang · 2023 Summer Youth Network Environment Improvement" special action, focusing on prominent issues related to minors such as hidden mutations in harmful content, online bullying, cross space obscenity, online fraud, harmful content, internet addiction, and risks of new technology and application. The special action will carry out centralized rectification, intercept and clean up online information that infringes on the physical and mental health of minors, comprehensively compress the living space of hidden mutations of harmful information, further improve the security standards of exclusive product and service information content such as learning apps and children's intelligent devices, and create a network environment conducive to the healthy and safe growth of minors. At the same time, in order to further promote the "2023 Seedling Protection" special action and enhance the social influence of the "Green Bookmark Action"

Tao Body Theater Restarts International Tour in Shanghai: Good Art is Countertrend, Dissolving Crisis | Body | Salary | International
Tao Body Theater Restarts International Tour in Shanghai: Good Art is Countertrend, Dissolving Crisis | Body | Salary | International

The Tao Body Theater has returned. On April 28, 2022, the day before World Dance Day, the Tao Body Theater and Yang Liping's performance team for "Yunnan Impression" announced their dissolution, causing much regret. At that time, all 11 digital series works of Tao Body Theater at the National Grand Theatre Taihu Dance Art Center were cancelled for six consecutive days. However, the Tao Body Theater did not truly collapse, but hit bottom and rebounded after being suspended for several months. In February of this year, Tao Body Theater won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Biennale, and its newly restarted works "13" and "14" also set off from the National Grand Theatre, touring seven cities along the way. On July 4th and 5th, the Tao Body Theater resumed its international tour at the Shanghai Cultural Square. After Shanghai, they will go to Karamata, Greece, Genoa, Florence, Venice, and return to Italy

A wonderful night has arrived at the summer museum!, Open the Night Museum Gate | Activity | Museum
A wonderful night has arrived at the summer museum!, Open the Night Museum Gate | Activity | Museum

Entering museums is becoming a trendy way of life. Opening the doors of museums and bringing their cultural relics to life has also become a new trend in cultural and museum venues. On July 6th, the reporter learned from the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism that the "Museum Wonderful Night" brand event with the theme of "Museum Empowering a Better Life" will soon be unveiled. Starting from this weekend until the end of August, nearly 20 cultural and museum venues, including the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai History Museum, World Expo Museum, and Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall, will extend their opening hours during the summer and bring a "Museum Wonderful Night" that combines exhibitions, cultural and creative activities, lectures, handicraft experiences, salons, concerts, and other activities. Museums are temples for protecting and inheriting human civilization, serving as bridges connecting the past, present, and future. A museum is like a university. In the scorching summer, it is the prosperous night economy of the city