A theatrical experience that combines music, poetry, and painting, guests undertake a journey one thousand years in the making.

“The mountains are like songs, the green is like a song, the mountains and rivers are competing for beauty, unfolding into a dream. A string of "music" from ancient to modern times, looking back at the millennium, the music sings the mountains and rivers.” The piece, of the “Jiangshan Jingxiu" genre, produced by China Oriental Performing Arts Group, traces back thousands of years to cultural heritage, with the music style blending Chinese and Western styles. The performance unfolds with a changing scene on stage, offering a unique audio-visual experience to the audience: “listen to it, watch it, and feel the distant millennium time and space and the rich cultural life.”

What is the background of Chinese traditional culture? Maybe everyone has their own answer in mind. However, exploring the contemporary expression of traditional culture is a topic that every worker in the cultural and art industry must face. This spring, Shanghai Cultural Plaza and China Oriental Performing Arts Group selected music poetry and painting "Jiangshan Jingxiu", dance poetry and drama "Only This Green" and "Dongpo", and gathered a series of "Oriental Rhyme" performances, combining the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty with The traditional charm is brought to the space of the theater again.

A music, poetry and painting combining Chinese and Western styles, a unique cultural journey of thousands of years. The mountains are like songs, the green is like a song, the mountains and rivers are competing for beauty, unfolding into a dream. A string of "music" from ancient to modern times, looking back at the millennium, the music sings the mountains and rivers. The music poetry and painting "Jiangshan Jingxiu" produced by China Oriental Performing Arts Group, traces back thousands of years to the intangible cultural heritage musical instruments, the music style blending Chinese and Western styles, and the changing stage effects slowly unfold an audio-visual picture depicting the green mountains and green waters of the motherland .

The musical poetry and painting "Jiangshan Jingxiu" presents the geographical landscape and humanistic customs in the famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" with twelve magnificent pictures, drawing lessons from "Mountains and Flowing Water", "Fishing Boat Singing Evening", "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms", "Sunset Xiaogu" and " The artistic expression of ancient songs such as "Birds in the Kongshan Mountains" is integrated with ancient national musical instruments such as chime bells, konghou, zhu, and xun, and Western brass music, adding painting, calligraphy and other expressive methods to create a grand scene of thousands of mountains and valleys and rivers. Inject majestic and profound, vigorous and light long-distance charm. Standing alone for thousands of years, the stars and the moon are alone. Wandering in the audio-visual poem volume of "there is a picture in music, and there is music in a picture", listen to it, watch it, and feel the distant millennium time and space and the rich cultural life.

Music poetry and painting "Jiangshan Jingxiu" gathered a first-class team. Wang Jianguo, Zhang Weiliang, Meng Ke, Zhao Cong and Gao Yuan served as art consultants. Famous flute player Zhang Weiliang commented: "Chinese folk music urgently needs such a concert to promote traditional Chinese culture and folk music. There is no doubt that this concert is a contemporary expression of excellent traditional culture, which has important era value and connotation". The famous composer Meng Ke explained his creation in this way: "Combining Chinese and Western, using good Western technology, thinking, and successful models to improve our music, this is the direction I want to do." 

The music, poetry and painting "Jiangshan Jingxiu" is a poetic expression of China's excellent traditional culture in the era. It is a masterpiece combining tradition and artistic innovation. Twelve pearls of different colors are connected in series with musical threads, weaving the splendid mountains and rivers of the Chinese nation, expressing the praise and reverence for the green mountains and rivers of the motherland and the great rivers and mountains of the people.