Bring life to national treasures by singing
At the beginning of 2018, a TV programme calledNationalTreasure introducing valuable cultural relics( 文物 ) of our country went popular. People learnt stories and had more interest in the treasures. Now, we have a new way to know more about the ancient paintings in the Palace Museum through music.
Tencent's QQ Music and the Palace Museum together held a songwriting competition,Ancient Paintings CanSing( 古画会唱歌 ).
The competition was open to songwriters between 17 to 35, and the songs must be based on ten ancient paintings at the Palace Museum. The winners could sing their works with pop singers at a concert held at the Palace Museum in October.
Yi Yangqianxi, a member of the famous group TFBOYS, sang the theme song, Magnificent Landscape in Painting( 《丹青千里》 ), for the competition. The idea of the song came from the famous paintingAPanoramaofRiversandMountains( 《千里江山图》 ). It was shown in the TV programme and now it's in the Palace Museum.
The writer, Fang Wenshan, wrote the lyrics( 歌词 ) of the song. He is famous for using cultural images in the lyrics. And the music is a modern style, including traditional Chinese musical instruments, such asguzheng andpipa.
The music video of the song came out online on 25 July, 2018, which was also the beginning of the competition.
Hou Deyang from the Tencent Music said that this competition could encourage young Chinese musicians to make more works and catch young people's attention to traditional Chinese art forms.
