Making the Past Serve the Present, and Adapting Foreign Things to Chinese Needs

The Idea and Principle of the Creation of the Oratorio “Li Bai”

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10.2991/978-2-494069-27-5_40How to use a DOI?

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Li Bai; Oratorio; Creative transformation; Making the past serve the present; Adapting foreign things to Chinese needs

Abstract

The oratorio “Li Bai” is guided by a series of important speeches and spirits made by General Secretary Xi Jinping on the literary and artistic career. In order to practice the spirit of the document “Opinions on Implementing the Project of Inheritance and Development of Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture” and “Opinions on Implementing the Cultural Inheritance and Innovation Project of Sichuan Historical Celebrities”, this large-scale musical work selected the first batch of historical celebrities in Sichuan as the object of creation. The works are based on Li Bai’s poetry, guided by the concept of creative transformation, adhere to the creative principle of “making the past serve the present, and adapting foreign things to Chinese needs”, and endows Li Bai’s poetry and its humanistic spirit with a new era of connotation and expression through the method of “collecting poems into dramas, and combining poems into songs”. The creation of the works activates the vigor and vitality of Li Bai’s poetry in the contemporary inheritance and development, which has realized the nurturing and guidance of the patriotic spirit to the social style, and played an exemplary role in promoting the cultural inheritance and innovation of Sichuan historical celebrities.

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TI  - Making the Past Serve the Present, and Adapting Foreign Things to Chinese Needs
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2022)
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