Which painting did the green inspiration come from?

Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, directors of Only this Green, said that the creation was inspired by a map of 1,000 miles across the country.

What is "green"?

Only this Green premiered in August 2026, with China's Gemini Zhou Liya and Han Zhen as the general directors. At that time, director Han Zhen said that "Only this Green" was inspired by "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".

"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from ancient times in China. It took Wang Ximeng, a painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, six months to finish painting at the age of 18. Different from black-and-white ink painting, this painting is named after being painted with stones, bluestones and green mineral pigments, and the gorgeous turquoise tones are intertwined, depicting a magnificent scene thousands of miles away.

This is also the source of only one turquoise in the "turquoise". According to Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, the whole dance poetic drama takes the chapters of "exhibition, seal cutting, silk singing, stone searching, pen learning, ink quenching and painting" as the key link, and tells the story that a young researcher in the Forbidden City "crossed" back to the Northern Song Dynasty from the perspective of "exhibition" and "caught a glimpse" of the painter Wang Ximeng's "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".

Since last August, only Green has toured more than 50 times in 18 cities across the country.

It took nearly 1 year and 8 months from establishment to discharge.

Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, chief editors and directors, revealed that in order to create this green color, the directors first studied thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and then read almost all the poems and paintings in the Song Dynasty. It took nearly 65,438+0 years and 8 months to put this green on the stage.

During the creative process, the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism invited the national and provincial inheritors of intangible cultural heritage such as Qiu Qingnian, Wang Aijun, Zhang Wennian and Zheng Xiaohua to enter the rehearsal hall to provide technical guidance on intangible cultural heritage for the actors.

Under the guidance of the inheritors, the actors personally experienced the production skills. Although the techniques in the play have been artistically treated, they are academic and professional.

During the period, the "Wei Qing" team had many discussions and exchanges with experts from the Palace Museum. What is more commendable is that from the premiere to the tour, the creative team has been collecting feedback from the audience and making modifications and adjustments. Julia said: "Only this kind of green has no final version, only the best version."