Chapter 266 Champion
In the team cultural show in the second half of the finals, Ren Limeng's team incorporated the most distinctive intangible cultural heritage of the fourth stop, Shishi City, into the show.
As the team leader, Ren Limeng and other teammates learned the entire process of shadow puppetry performance in Shishi. Everyone put a lot of effort into it this week, but in the end, only Ren Limeng managed to master the unique skills of Shishi shadow puppetry "Ten Not Idle" and was able to perform on stage alone.
In the climax of the group show, thirty seconds later, after her teammates finished their passionate singing, Ren Limeng quickly hid behind the shadow play curtain that had been set up in the center of the stage, and operated the shadow puppet to complete the performance. While operating, Ren Limeng also had to take care of singing, accompaniment and narration by herself, perfectly recreating the master professor's "whole body busy", which was a stunning artistic performance.
Shishi shadow puppetry is famous for its one-person show. Initially, Ren Limeng's team planned to have teammates take turns manipulating the shadow puppetry to create the climax of the show. However, since only Ren Limeng could complete all the operations by himself, this initial proposal had to be abandoned.
Originally, Fei Jingting suggested that everyone could modify the shadow play and divide the work and cooperate to complete the entire shadow play performance.
Ren Limeng was about to shake her head in disapproval when the master teacher firmly objected. The shadow play in Shishi is a one-man show. Even if the program group is the most popular variety show at the moment, the master teacher is unwilling to tamper with this traditional craft. In addition to inheritance, the master teacher also has his own bottom line.
Finally, Ren Limeng took the version and decided to complete the climax of the shadow play performance by herself.
On the one hand, she thinks the master is right. Cultural heritage can be innovated and improved, but standards should not be lowered for fear of difficulties. On the other hand, Ren Limeng also wants to fully demonstrate this unique traditional technique to more people.
She remembered the couplets that were displayed neatly on both sides of the shadow play stage just before everyone started watching the show - one mouth narrates the events of the ages, two hands dance with millions of soldiers.
If they work together on stage for the so-called show, but can't even do the basic setting of the most classic one-person play in Shishi shadow puppetry, then their team's performance that puts the cart before the horse is really unnecessary.
In the final team cultural show, Ren Limeng took the initiative to reduce the number of words and shots in other parts of the performance, and had the climax time to present the shadow puppet show alone.
Even though she could only manipulate the shadow puppet show behind the scenes, with no camera focus on her face and very few personal shots during the performance, Ren Limeng was happy with it.
The voting rules for the finals are that individual love value voting and team voting are carried out at the same time. Before the host introduced the performance, some audience members had already completed the voting without even remembering who completed the shadow play performance. Ren Limeng was at a disadvantage in the love value voting session.
But when listening to the applause and cheers from the audience around her during the performance, Ren Limeng felt that it was worth it at that moment.
It's not that she doesn't care about the performance results, silently dedicates herself, sacrifices herself, and is willing to hide behind the scenes. It's just that when Ren Limeng was learning shadow puppetry, she noticed that the master with such great skills only had three or four disciples, and the youngest was already in his thirties. She inexplicably thought of the word "inheritance" and recalled the Huangmei Opera she had learned from elementary school to adulthood.
As a part of traditional culture, Ren Limeng could not turn a blind eye because she felt the same way. She still wanted more audiences to at least see shadow puppetry, give it a chance, and do her part for this traditional skill.
She seems to have suffered a loss, but the popularity value is actually not important in the finals, because in addition to the audience vote, there are too many other factors that determine the final winner.
At least, from Ren Limeng's perspective, she feels that the program team's choice is much more important than the so-called love value score.
The championship team went to Chen He's team, apparently because Chen He's team ranked third in the first half and first in the second half. The combined votes from the two games gave them exactly three more votes than the second-ranked Shen Xingzhi team, and nearly twenty more votes than the third-ranked Ren Limeng team.
But many people on the stage knew very well that the championship was finally given to Chen He's team, more because Chen He and Hong Qingli were a popular couple that had always been very popular, because they were first-line stars; because they cooperated with the program team's bundled marketing from beginning to end, and because of the four major brokerage companies behind them.
Whether it is the championship team or the individual champion of the "Shan Hai" program, the program team has to weigh too many pros and cons behind the scenes, and even if it is Chen He's team that wins the championship, Chen He will definitely not be too satisfied.
Because "Shan Hai" is a competition variety show, in the eyes of the audience and even the program crew, the individual champion has always been more important than the championship team. In the first season of "Shan Hai", the individual champion had a more popular title - the overall champion.
Since the program team has announced that the champion team is Chen He's team, it also means that Chen He will miss the individual championship. This is something that everyone knows.
Ren Limeng noticed that after Chen He heard the host Wu Yue announce the championship team, his smile actually looked forced for a moment.
Chen He and Shen Xingzhi are the two biggest stars in the show "Shan Hai" and the only two candidates for the championship who can convince more people. As the finale star who was seen for the first time, Chen He who did not win the championship in the end naturally could not be very happy. Pretending to be honored in front of the camera was just the decency of an adult.
Compared with Chen He, Ren Limeng felt that she didn't have many regrets. At least... she was happy for Shen Xingzhi.
After experiencing various crisis events such as publicizing his relationship and the agency not renewing his contract, if Chen Xingzhi can still win the championship of Orange Platform's flagship variety show "Mountains and Seas" today, it will undoubtedly be a cause for celebration. It can also send a clear enough signal to all parties inside and outside the circle, making Chen Xingzhi's contract transition period smoother.
Although Chen Xingzhi may not care, Ren Limeng still feels sincerely proud and happy.
Listening to Wu Yue finally announcing the individual champion of "Mountains and Seas", Ren Limeng raised the corners of her mouth. The smile just spread across her face, but suddenly froze at the corners of her mouth the next moment. Even though countless cameras were focused, for a second, Ren Limeng still couldn't hold back her expression. She clearly showed a hint of surprise in front of the live camera, a rare loss of composure.
Because she suddenly heard her own name.
She actually heard her own name!
How could it be the name "Ren Limeng"???
Wu Yue congratulates the champion of personal love value, why did she say her name!
During those few seconds of shock, Ren Limeng's mind went blank, and she had to think rapidly in an instant, recalling over and over again. However, Ren Limeng was still sure that Wu Yue had said her name. She did not announce Shen Xingzhi's name and mentioned her name in passing because of their relationship, but solemnly announced that she was the champion of the individual love value of the Orange platform's "Twenty Changes of Mountains and Seas" program!
They were all experienced hosts, and in such an important live broadcast, Ren Limeng could not doubt Wu Yue's slip of the tongue, nor would she question the final result announced by Wu Yue, but... she still couldn't believe it.
Online and offline, on stage and off stage, all eyes were focused on Ren Limeng. Amidst thunderous applause, Ren Limeng, who had suddenly become the center of the stage, was very confused.
She knew that something must have gone wrong, but she was just a little overwhelmed and even a little bit unable to accept the result. In her opinion, the championship should and must belong to Shen Xingzhi.
Ren Limeng had not prepared any personal championship speech at all, and this unexpected result made her speech suddenly feel hot.
It was natural to be happy to win the championship of the "Mountains and Seas" program, but Ren Limeng felt uneasy about winning the championship inexplicably. After excluding all impossible factors, she could only think of one possibility at this moment, a good intention that Ren Limeng was unwilling to accept.
Could it be that Brother Xingzhi did something secretly...
No matter how shocked and helpless she was in her heart, Ren Limeng had to face the matter first.
Her professionalism allowed Ren Limeng to quickly regain her composure even though her heart was in turmoil. She put away her flattered expression, put on a standard host smile, and walked slowly to the center of the stage, next to the host Wu Yue.
At the same time, the live big screen began to play the edited highlights of Ren Limeng's journey -
From the opening performance of "Yu Tang Chun" and the first male lead's "Heaven and Earth" banggu performance, to the second male lead's "Female Imperial Concubine" Huangmei Opera and "Time and Space", the third male lead's live broadcast of saving people and the "Laughing Spring Breeze" flower-wrapping performance, to the final moment of the final...
Suddenly, all the images on the big screen and in the live broadcast room showed only Ren Limeng standing in the center of the spotlight. Everyone watched her gracefully accept the championship trophy from Zhong Yanjun, a representative of the Orange Platform's senior leaders, and stood in front of the podium with a smile, with an unhurried and calm demeanor.
But... maybe only Ren Limeng herself knows how uneasy she is at this moment...
She didn't even prepare any acceptance speech!
The way to the stage was a long flight of stairs. Ren Limeng tried to walk calmly, but in almost the blink of an eye, she was already in front of the podium.
Along the way, Ren Limeng couldn't help but keep thinking about why she won the championship. It wasn't until she walked in front of Zhong Yanjun and accepted the golden championship trophy that she finally felt that the dust had settled and understood her current critical situation.
"Shan Hai" is now being broadcast live, and she has not prepared any acceptance speech at all.
Feeling extremely insecure, Ren Limeng could only repeatedly tell herself that she had to stay calm and get through this difficult time.
Ren Limeng didn't want to wait for the hot search to show "Ren Limeng has nothing to say". As a host, even if she spoke incoherently in front of the camera, it would be an unforgivable mistake, not to mention that it was at the finals of such an important ace variety show in the station. She had to deal with it and speak beautifully enough.
For a moment, Ren Limeng felt like she was back in the hosting competition of that year. Although what was in front of her now was not an impromptu performance under the watchful eyes of the public, what was the difference between an impromptu acceptance speech and one that she composed on the spot?
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