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"Unnamed and unsigned, this is the only scroll, green for thousands of years, mountains and rivers are endless." It is based on "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", one of the ten most famous paintings handed down in China, a famous painting from the Song Dynasty that has only been exhibited four times in a century, and the "treasure of the museum" collected in the Palace Museum. It is adapted from the dance poem of the same name. The film "Only Green" co-written, directed, and performed by the original stage crew and filmmakers has officially announced that it will be released nationwide during the National Day this year. The film is co-directed by the dance "twin stars" Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, and starred by Zhang Han, Meng Qingyang, and Xie Suhao. Today, the first release of the fixed poster and trailer, the long-awaited movie "Only Green" has been revealed for the first time. The national style charm that hits the face is refreshing and amazing. Every shot and frame reveals the oriental charm of "only green, this is very Chinese".

The film will present to the audience the elegant Song Dynasty style in "Only Green" and the magnificent and beautiful "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" with a freer perspective, more gorgeous light and shadow, and richer imagination, and is expected to trigger a new round of national "green wave" again.

Xi Meng's blue-green landscape paintings are unique for thousands of years

The film invites audiences to travel through famous paintings

The release date trailer is accompanied by "No name, no signature, only this scroll, green and blue for thousands of years, mountains and rivers are endless", and the young painter Xi Meng, who is working at his desk in the studio late at night, gradually unfolds, taking the audience across time and space back to thousands of years ago to witness the birth story of the famous painting. When the person who unfolds the scroll carefully unfolds "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", the protagonist of the story - the painter Xi Meng dances in the water, and the young man bursts out of the screen with his vigor; the image character "Green" leads the dancers to dance in a clear and graceful manner, and there is elegance and tranquility in the stillness and movement, condensing the realm of "there are hills and valleys in the heart, and mountains and rivers in the eyes". The scene where the green and blue blend with the painting is even more breathtaking. When all the "mountains" rise and fall around Xi Meng, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" slowly unfolds. At that moment, it seems that the audience really "enters the painting" together and sees the green and blue for thousands of years and the endless mountains and rivers.

As the trailer says, "You can watch from afar or travel through it", it not only highly summarizes the charm of A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, but also points out that the movie "Only Green" is different from the stage. The camera breaks the fourth wall of the stage and will take the audience into "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and travel through it with a freer perspective, more gorgeous light and shadow, and richer imagination. The release poster also enters the world of A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains from a novel perspective. Xi Meng's pen creates a complex green beauty, and also highlights the Chinese cultural charm of "Only Green, This is Very Chinese" with a unique landscape painting style.

The hit dance drama "Only Green" debuts on the big screen

Authentically creating a visual feast of light and shadow

The film "Only Green" is derived from the dance-poem drama of the same name "Only Green" - the dance painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which uses the original cast of the stage version of the play to create a visual feast of light and shadow. Consistent with the essence of the dance-poem drama, the story revolves around a modern cultural relic researcher who is devoted to studying "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" when it is about to be exhibited. He travels across nearly a thousand years of time and space to enter the heart of Xi Meng, a young painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, and witnesses Xi Meng's painstaking and selfless creation, and his work with countless workers to go through untold hardships to create a painting that has been handed down from generation to generation; using the main color "green" in the painting as a visual clue, the film explores the production process of materials and tools such as seals, silk, pigments, pens, and ink required for the formation of the painting, deeply refines and displays a number of traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage skills, and vividly shows the millennium-unfading colors of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", the ingenuity of countless workers, and the continuous protection of generations of cultural relics protection workers, and together interprets a painting with Chinese aesthetic concepts and Chinese spirit.

Since its first exhibition at the National Grand Theater in Beijing in 2021, the dance drama "Only Green" has traveled to more than 70 cities in more than 1,000 days and performed more than 550 times. Tickets for each performance are "hard to get". During this period, it not only won the 17th Wenhua Award, the 2022 China Copyright Gold Award, the China Performing Arts Industry Association's 2022 China Performance Market Box Office List Comprehensive Category First, Dance Drama Category First and many other awards, but also won two World Guinness Records, and was written into the "Chinese Youth in the New Era" white paper issued by the State Council Information Office for the first time on youth groups; ranked first in the list of "Top Ten Excellent Performance Projects with Unified Social and Economic Benefits in the National Performance Market in 2023" of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism; after its excerpts were landed on the Spring Festival Gala, they reached more than 8 billion people, and triggered a "green wave" across the country. It can be said that it came out of nowhere and became popular; and it appeared overseas with the style of a "cultural business card" and successfully "went overseas", promoting Chinese traditional culture and letting the trend of oriental aesthetics shock the world.

The movie "Only Green" will bring the vast mountains and rivers to life on the big screen with the charm of light and shadow art. On the basis of fully restoring the dance drama, it will upgrade the light and shadow art and create an audio-visual feast with cutting-edge sound and light technology, so that stage art can be rejuvenated and revitalized on the big screen. The movie "Only Green" will lead the audience across thousands of years to watch the whole process of a cultural relic from its conception to its birth on the big screen, feel the passion of the creators and craftsmen of the country thousands of years ago, and feel the charm and inheritance spirit of traditional culture.

The film "Only Green" is produced by China Film Creative (Beijing) Film Co., Ltd., China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd., China Film Co., Ltd., Tianjin Lianrui Film Co., Ltd., Shanghai Shigu Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Alibaba Film Culture Co., Ltd., Aranya Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd., and New Classics Media Group Co., Ltd., and distributed by China Film Co., Ltd. and co-distributed by Shanghai Tao Piaopiao Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd. During this National Day, let us go to the cinema together, fly into the world of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", enjoy the green mountains and waters under the art of light and shadow, and admire the charm of Chinese culture.

Source: China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd.