More than 2,000 years ago, Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions, and Huo Qubing fought in the Hexi Corridor. At the same time, the Silk Road, a world-famous cultural exchange channel, carved a long stroke in the history of human civilization. As an important town on the Silk Road, Zhangye was once prosperous, with east-west connectivity and north-south stalemate.
During the great cause of Sui Dynasty, in order to re-open the Silk Road, under the harsh environment of sandstorm, snowstorm and wild animals, Yang Di made a westward expedition to Zhangye, which promoted the "mutual market", brought vitality to Hexi Corridor and accelerated the exchange process of human civilization. With the sandstorm, snowstorm, flying sand and stones, monsters around, and the random transformation of national heroes, Zhang Ye's legendary history is vividly displayed in front of the audience, which is a good play not to be missed. The whole performance pioneered four stage performance machines in China: quicksand device, bird-shaped lifting platform, large-scale inclined platform before and after lifting, and human screen fusion, which vividly showed scenes such as the collapse of the sky, mirage, lightning storm, etc., and combined with the deductive techniques of reality and reality, created a spectacular immersive stage experience.
"Answering Zhang Ye" is based on Zhang Ye's history and culture, and is created by digging deep into Zhang Ye's unique folk customs. The whole performance not only retains the original cultural characteristics of Zhangye, but also interspersed with the unique performance mode of Baojuan Year in Hexi. It tells the legendary story of Zhang Ye in the Han and Sui Dynasties through the five-act drama of Danxia, Zhang Guotao's arm, Guyi Ganzhou, Yang Di's westward journey and Confederacy, and vividly presents the stories of Huo Qubing's westward expedition, Yang Di's westward journey and the World Expo to the audience with the simplest folk customs.
Back to Zhang Ye, who created a number of stage installations, ranked first in the world. The world's first 400 cubic quicksand device, after the accurate calculation of big data numerical control device, sand fell from the sky and was scattered on the 80-degree inclined stage. For the first time, the magnificent scene of sandstorm explosion in the northwest desert was truly displayed on the stage. As the dancers struggle in the desert and natural disasters, they perfectly present the regional characteristics and sense of history of the western regions, allowing the audience to enter the situation instantly. The whole drama only uses 39 patented technologies and hundreds of stage basic devices, which can combine tens of thousands of stage mechanical actions. Among them, the huge bird-shaped lifting platform is also the first in the world, which breaks the conventional shape of the lifting platform, closely combines the plot with the actor's performance, and increases the expressive force of the performance.
90% of the stage of "Back Zhang Ye" is movable, which can be lifted, tilted and rotated, making the performance space of the whole stage extend from the plane to the top of the stage, giving the whole work a huge space to play and breaking the traditional flat performance experience. A large number of plots in the whole drama take place in three-dimensional space, especially in war scenes, which is the first time to move the scenes of ancient siege warfare to the stage so realistically.
In addition, "Back to Zhang Ye" is still the first stage mode of the integration of human and screen.