Shanghai literary and art workers at the National Literary Congress: in line with the people's hearts and the times

The 11th National Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association opened in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of December 14.

In the past five years, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles has deeply studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important expositions on literary and artistic work, adhered to the work orientation of "people-centered", actively implemented the task requirements of prospering and developing socialist literature and art and deepening the reform of the masses, united and gathered the vast number of literary and art workers in Shanghai to focus on the center and serve the overall situation, take the road of reform and innovation, take the road of cross-border integration, take the road of new media dissemination, and take the road that the people like to hear. Constantly create a new situation in career development.

The Paper brings you the testimonials of some representatives of the Shanghai delegation of the National Literary Congress.

The scene of the group discussion of the Shanghai delegation to the 11th National Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles

Wang Rugang

(Consultant of China Ququ Association, Director of Expert Steering Committee, Secretary and Director of Shanghai One-Legged Opera Art Heritage Center)

Wang Rugang, a representative of the Shanghai qu art circles who has participated in the National Literary Congress for the sixth time, felt very excited and inspired after listening to General Secretary Xi's speech. Wang Rugang believes that General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech is far-sighted, pointing out the direction for the next 5 years, and also solving the problems that have been discussed and debated by the literary and art circles, especially the qu and art circles, for many years. ”

What particularly impressed Wang Rugang was General Secretary Xi's exposition on the popularity and vulgarity of literature and art: "The general secretary mentioned that literature and art should be popular, but it must not be vulgar, vulgar and kitsch. Literature and art must live, but they must not become the makers, followers, and advocates of unhealthy trends. Literature and art must be innovative, but we must not engage in strange and absurd things. Literature and art must be effective, but they must not be contaminated with the smell of copper and become slaves to the market. Creation depends on painstaking efforts, performance depends on strength, image depends on shaping, efficiency depends on quality, and reputation depends on virtue. Low-style funny, bottomless indulgence, eye-catching entertainment, endless desire, there are hundreds of harms to literature and art without any benefit! The vast number of literary and art workers must have a reverence for art and a sincere heart for their profession, and devote themselves to real efforts, practice their true skills, and seek their true names. ”

Wang Rugang said that in the field of qu art, popular and vulgar consciousness are a topic of debate, and General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech solves our problems very well, strictly distinguishes between vulgarity and popularity, and also points out the path to solve the problem.

In his speech, the general secretary also quoted the Russian writer Tolstoy as saying: "Art is not a skill, it is the transmission of the feelings experienced by the artist." "This has also deeply touched and thought about the music and art community that has been discussing technical and artistic issues." Wang Rugang said, "We qu art workers are all eating open rice, many skills come from the folk, how to find good things in the traditional soil, distinguish art and skills, and develop art with contemporary spirit from skills are all things we should pursue and think about."

"'Learning from the ancient is not muddy, breaking the law is not violating the law,' and two traditional Chinese art proverbs were also quoted in the speech, which fully embodies the high degree of integration between General Secretary Xi Jinping's revolutionary literary and artistic concept in the new era and china's excellent traditional culture." Wang Rugang said.

As a veteran literary and art worker and a deputy to the Literary Congress, Wang Rugang felt a lot of encouragement in the general secretary's speech, and in some places he was particularly moved, saying that "the cause of literature and art is an important cause of the party and the people, the literary and artistic front is an important front of the party and the people, and the vast number of literary and art workers are worthy of the expectations and demands of the party and the people." The party and the people need you, trust you, and thank you! At that time, Wang Rugang said that at that time, he and many old literary and art workers around him wanted to stand up and applaud.

"In addition to these expositions, the 5-point hope put forward by the general secretary also pointed out the direction of progress for us and put forward new requirements for our literary and artistic work.

Valley is good

(Vice Chairman of Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, Chairman of Shanghai Opera Association, Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Shanghai Xiqu Art Center, Director of Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe)

"This is the second time I have participated in the National Literary Congress, and every time I have learned and grown." Gu Haohao, vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of the Shanghai Dramatists Association, and president of the Shanghai Xiqu Art Center, said. "The literary and artistic undertakings of New China are inseparable from the care and guidance of the party. General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions, instructions and instructions on literary and artistic work, such as guiding the way to guide our work. ”

After listening to General Secretary Xi Jinping's speeches at the opening ceremonies of the 11th National Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Literary Circles and the 10th National Congress of the China Writers Association, Gu Haohao was very excited. "Let the hundred gardens of literature and art bloom for the people forever" has also become her profound feeling. "The general secretary emphasized the significance of 'literature and art for the people'. In the past five years, we Shanghai theater workers have adhered to keeping pace with the times and taking the people as the center, adhering to the principle of 'attaching equal importance to realistic themes, revolutionary themes and traditional themes', adhering to 'going deep into life and taking root in the people', making good use of the red culture, Shanghai culture and Jiangnan cultural resources, and striving to create excellent works that have left a mark in history and a reputation among the people. ”

"It is in line with the people's hearts and the times." Gu Haohao said that we must conscientiously study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and perceive the new picture of socialist literature and art with Chinese characteristics in the new era. "Originating from the people, for the people, and belonging to the people is the fundamental position of socialist literature and art, and it is also the driving force for the prosperity and development of socialist literature and art." Only by truly taking the people as the center can we exert the greatest positive energy. ”

In the past few years, adhering to the principle of "inheriting and innovating, innovating without abandoning tradition", Shanghai Xiqu Art Center has launched many classic plays and new creations; produced the 3D Kunqu opera film "Jingyang Zhong" and the 3D Yue opera film "West Chamber", which have emerged in the domestic and international film circles and won awards; and also created important brand projects such as "China Small Theater Opera Festival", "Performing Arts World, Oriental Rhyme", "Shanghai Xiqu Art Center Artists' 'Deep Life, Rooted in the People' Theme Practice Activities", etc. Lead the cultural needs of the audience and boost the development of regional performing arts ecology. At the same time, we actively promote the combination of culture and education, cultivate the campus for decades, and explore ways to promote opera aesthetic education.

In 2021, the Shanghai Opera Art Center will firmly grasp the major themes of the centenary of the founding of the Party and the all-round well-off, and launch works such as Peking Opera "Red Agent", Kun opera "Self-Descendants", Shanghai opera "Chen Yi in Shanghai", Yue opera "Deep Feelings of Mountains and Seas", Huai Opera "Hanmei", and Pingtan "No Smoke in Battle" to carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture and patriotic national spirit.

Gu Haohao said that as literary and art workers in the new era, we must strengthen our conviction and adhere to the supremacy of the people, not only to let the people become the protagonists of the works, but also to integrate our ideological tendencies and feelings with the people. With full enthusiasm to create high-quality works, with innovative thinking to open up a new realm of literature and art, with the soul of the writing of the people's struggle epic, in order to create a number of characteristics of the times, Chinese characteristics, Shanghai characteristics of the masterpiece and struggle.

Zhou Ping

(Vice Chairman of the China Symphony Orchestra Alliance, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Music Association, Director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra)

After listening to the general secretary's speech, Zhou Ping, director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, sighed that there are many bright spots, many keywords, and a very large pattern, which is rooted in Chinese cultural traditions, has confidence, and has thinking.

"Culture is the spiritual lifeblood of the nation, and literature and art are the horns." Literature and art have the responsibility of the times, and the new era and new journey are the historical orientation of contemporary Chinese literature and art. Literature and art must be combined with the times and highlight the characteristics of the times in order to glow with vitality. Only when literature and art are upward and good can it become the clarion call of the times. Literature and art originate from and serve the people. ”

Zhou Ping believes that the symphony orchestra should think more about how to turn its attention to the world and all mankind; as an international language, symphony should tell the Story of China with affection and strength, and show the world an amiable, lovely and respectable image of China.

In the past five years, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra has promoted the advent of original works such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Dunhuang", "Sorrow and Joy", "Ode to China" and other original works; appeared on the Lucerne Music Festival, Edinburgh International Arts Festival, and The Getaway Music Festival to make a Chinese voice on the world's most mainstream music festival platform; signed the world's most prestigious classical record label DG, released the album "Doorway" and "Song of the Earth", vigorously promoted Chinese works, and used Chinese music to communicate with the world; planned and launched the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition. Setting Chinese standards in top international competitions also provides an excellent model for telling Chinese stories well in competitions.

Xu Zhong

(Executive Director of Shanghai Music Association, President of Shanghai Opera House)

"The words of the general secretary are warm-hearted, sonorous and powerful, and the tone is long." Xu Zhong, president of the Shanghai Opera House, was most impressed by "adhering to the people's position and writing an endless people's epic" and "creating a 'art aircraft carrier' that the people really like and truly satisfy, especially the Shanghai Opera House, such an 'art aircraft carrier', must be kept in mind." ”

In the past five years, the Shanghai Opera House has taken the people as the center and successively launched a series of original works such as the national opera "Morning Bell", "Tian Han", "Heaven and Earth Shennong", the musical "Song of the Kingdom", the dance "Early Spring february", "The Legend of the Moon of Chang'e" and so on.

On the road to internationalization, the Shanghai Opera House and the Royal Opera House of the United Kingdom, the Paris Orchestra, the German Elft Theater, the Grand Palace of Arts in Budapest, Hungary and other world-famous musical institutions and theaters have jointly produced a series of classic operas that have exploded the market, such as "Aida", "Turandot", "Nabuco", "Military Girl", "Falstaff", "Wandering Dutchman", "Smile Kingdom" and so on.

At the same time, the Shanghai Opera House has also made two foreign visits to London, the "Capital of Drama", as well as a series of international exchanges with the Saarbrücken Music Festival in Germany, the Sarema Opera Festival in Estonia, and the opening ceremony of the Dubai Opera Season, so that the world can see the strength of Shanghai culture and Chinese opera through the Shanghai Opera House.

"Adhere to the promotion of the right way, in the pursuit of virtue and art double Xin to achieve the value of life", the general secretary's words on Xu Zhong's touch is also very big, "Moral art double Xin, not only my requirements for myself, but also my requirements for every cast member of the Shanghai Opera House." ”

"The general secretary also mentioned the cultivation of young talents, hoping that we will recognize, emphasize and use talents, let young people pick the beams, and support them to be the protagonists." Xu Zhong said that the average age of the cast and crew of the Shanghai Opera House is 35 years old, and the large and small performances have excellent backbone and abundant reserve talents to provoke the beams, so that the artistic production of the theater has always maintained vitality and vigor.

Luo Xiaoci

(Vice Chairman of Shanghai Music Association, Director of Shanghai Chinese Orchestra)

After listening to the general secretary's speech, Luo Xiaoci, director of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, was also very excited, and the general secretary proposed "the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional culture", which also guided the pursuit of Haipai folk music in recent years.

"The role of culture is bacon to shape the soul, this root and soul should be the Chinese root and the Chinese soul, folk music is a splendid branch of China's excellent traditional culture, so how to do a good job in the inheritance and innovation of Chinese national music is the heavy responsibility we have to give back to this era."

At the same time, Luo Xiaoci believes that it is still necessary to insist on promoting the contemporary expression of folk music, and to work harder on the contemporary temperament of folk music, because the aesthetics and rhythms of contemporary audiences have changed, and artistic creation is to serve the people.

"Folk Music on the Sea" is an active attempt by the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra in the contemporaryization of folk music. Since its premiere at the Shanghai International Arts Festival in 2016, "Folk Music on the Sea" has successively launched multimedia music scenes, national orchestral concerts, national chamber music and other versions, and has been invited to tour to Britain, Belgium, Germany, the United States, Russia and other countries, which is a business card of Haipai folk music.

This autumn in October, the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra built a national style music scene based on "Folk Music on the Sea", entered the Shanghai Concert Hall in the form of resident performances, and through the intertext expression of Chinese music, light and shadow, and stage space, met old friends and new acquaintances in the audience group of 15,000 people, and also rode on the east wind of the integration and development of culture and tourism, so that this music brand once again achieved quality expansion and became a window to show Chinese music culture to Chinese and foreign audiences.