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Cantonese opera is a treasure of Guangdong culture, the common root of the culture of the Greater Bay Area, and the common spiritual bond of Chinese people at home and abroad. Not only Guangzhou, but also the cultural life of many cities in the Greater Bay Area is closely related to Cantonese opera.
Cantonese opera films won the Golden Rooster Award, attracting a large number of young audiences, and even triggered the drama "national hot flash"; Cantonese opera examinations attracted enthusiastic social repercussions; "Cantonese opera into the campus" was carried out in full swing, from primary school to university, Cantonese opera clubs flourished. The younger generation loves the local culture and Lingnan culture warmly and deeply.
From the past to the present, we can draw nutrients from the profound cultural soil of Cantonese opera and continue to inherit and carry forward this traditional culture.
The picture shows the small student of a woman dressed as a man played by Su Chunmei, the winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award.
"Electric shock" has become a common practice:
Cantonese opera movies are beautiful to "break the circle"
Triggering "national hot flashes"
The stage Cantonese opera version of "Nanyue Palace Words", with a history of more than 30 years, has represented Guangzhou to perform overseas many times, and has been welcomed by Cantonese opera fans and has become the basis for moving to the big screen. The Cantonese opera film "Nanyue Palace Words" premiered at the 8th Yangcheng Cantonese Opera Festival in November 2020, attracting many audience fans to watch it. Some college student audiences said, "Opera and film are perfectly integrated, and there is a strong film texture." Watching Ou Kaiming play the King of South Vietnam in the movie, every action, every expression and even every look can be seen clearly, which is really very different from watching the performance on the stage. ”
In September 2018, the "Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Film Quality Project" was launched, and Guangzhou allocated special funds to complete the shooting of ten Cantonese opera films in three years.
In fact, in recent years, Cantonese opera movies have become popular. From "Legendary Yuanlun Wenshu", "Liu Yi's Strange Origin", "Rui Wang and Concubine Zhuang", "White Snake Legend and Love", "Wedding on the Execution Ground", "Nanyue Palace Words", many classic Cantonese operas have been made into movies.
In May 2021, the first 4K panoramic Cantonese opera film "White Snake Legend " , which won the "Most Popular Film" award in the "Most Popular Film" award of the 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival Window Unit, was released, and the Xianxia Guofeng brushed the video website, which was beautiful to "break the circle" and triggered the drama "national hot tide".
Cantonese opera films, through the aesthetic integration of the two art forms of film and opera, are displayed, so that more audiences can understand the traditional Chinese opera art and feel the charm of traditional Chinese culture, which has attracted countless young audiences.
As the male protagonist of the three films "Wedding on the Execution Ground", "Nanyue Palace Words" and "Rui Wang and Concubine Zhuang", Au Kai Ming said, "I hope to use this innovative art form to enrich the vitality of Cantonese opera and let more audiences pay attention to Cantonese opera and fall in love with Cantonese opera." ”
Cantonese Opera Examination:
Children taste the charm of Cantonese opera in systematic learning
On December 11 last year, at the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Arts Center, 100 young students participated in the first Cantonese Opera Examination As the first batch of students, the content of the examination was singing skills and body. Ding Fan, a famous Cantonese opera performance artist, praised: "The children of the first batch of examinations performed very well, and their chanting and movements were relatively standardized. ”
This is the first "Cantonese Opera Social And Artistic Level Examination Institution" approved by the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province and approved by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. From zeng xiaomin, a new generation of Cantonese opera leaders and president of Guangdong Cantonese Opera, who first put forward the "Proposal on Establishing an Amateur Opera Examination System" at the National People's Congress, to the official launch, it took nearly 3 years.
"Cantonese Opera Social Art Level Examination Textbook (Performance Chapter) sample book debuted, this is China's first set of teaching materials for the promotion and popularization of Cantonese opera education, divided into 1-10 levels, in line with the purpose of "inheritance, pioneering", a collection of representative Cantonese opera singing and playing elements, combined with the four skills and five methods of opera and a variety of Cantonese opera performance art forms, from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, step by step, scientific arrangement.
After two years of compilation and trial at the Cantonese opera training class at the Youth Palace in Liwan District, Guangzhou, this set of teaching materials has received very good feedback and evaluation from teachers, parents and students.
The 100 trainees who participated in the Cantonese Opera Examination for the first time were selected by the Liwan District Youth Palace among its Cantonese opera trainees. The excellent performance of the first batch of examination students fully proves that the examination textbooks compiled by Guangdong Cantonese Theatre have played a positive role.
On December 29 last year, the second batch of Cantonese opera examinations was held at Shunde Vocational and Technical College. Nearly 60 university students and members of major opera clubs in Shunde District participated in the college, allowing more Cantonese opera lovers and teenagers to taste the charm of Cantonese opera art in the systematic study of Cantonese opera.
Cantonese opera can be tested! Zeng Xiaomin said: "I hope that all the people who love Cantonese opera, especially young children, can participate in it, taste the charm of Cantonese opera art, and help the inheritance and development of Cantonese opera art." ”
Cantonese opera enters the campus:
Plant the seeds of love in the hearts of the younger generation
On the afternoon of November 27 last year, the series of activities of "Children's Cantonese Opera Parent-child Push Popularization Classroom" and "Traditional Culture and Science Knowledge Experience Special Session" opened at the Haixinsha Red Boat Wharf. On the stage, the primary school students followed the teacher to experience "a horse whip to walk a thousand miles", offstage, the children were eager to try, full of excitement...
At the scene, Chi Kaile, a fourth-grade student of Shipai Primary School, performed the folding play "Little Cow Herding". His parents both liked Cantonese opera, and the influence of the family atmosphere made him like Cantonese opera from an early age. In the second grade of primary school, Chi Kaile joined the school's Cantonese opera club, "I practiced this "Little Cow Herding" for half a year. Studying Cantonese opera was very helpful to my language learning and also exercised my gritty character."
Recently, the first original fusion cross-border work Experimental Dance Drama dance drama and dance theater "Emperor Girl Flower" of the Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture (Cantonese Opera) Inheritance Base of the Ministry of Education of Xinghai Conservatory of Music was officially premiered in the Cantonese Opera Art Museum Theater, interpreting Cantonese opera classics in a new way. This experimental work is based on the classic Cantonese opera repertoire "Emperor Nü Hua", combines its Cantonese opera elements with contemporary dance vocabulary, uses electronic music creation and expression techniques, completes the presentation of the core elements of opera in the conception of dance theater, and uses a new expression to explain the feelings of home and country and humanistic significance contained in the classic Cantonese opera repertoire.
In fact, in recent years, "Cantonese opera into the campus" has been carried out in full swing in Guangzhou. Cantonese opera art institutions such as Guangdong Cantonese Theatre, Guangzhou Cantonese Theatre, and RedLine Women's Art Center have entered primary schools, middle schools, and universities to guide students to learn Cantonese opera face-to-face and hand-in-hand, and Cantonese opera clubs have become popular in campuses. For example, since 2019 alone, Guangdong Cantonese Theatre has completed more than 200 on-campus lectures and conducted nearly 2,000 hours of Cantonese opera training courses in universities, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In December 2019 alone, Guangzhou Cantonese Opera housed 20 "Cantonese Opera entering the campus" event.
Cantonese opera has been passed down from youth, and red beans from the southern country have sprouted new sprouts. On the afternoon of October 29 last year, the Cantonese Opera Exchange Exhibition and Performance of the High-level Team of Primary and Secondary Schools in Guangzhou was held at the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Art Center. Luo Weiming, a fourth-grade student at Xiguan Peizheng Primary School, starred as Zhang Fei in "Shouldering the Stool Boy's Big Drama", and when he put on makeup and strangled his head backstage before going on stage, he cried in pain, but as soon as he took the stage, he was immediately energetic. In an interview with reporters, he said: "Performing with classmates, you must have a sense of responsibility and play your role well. Zhang Fei is righteous, chivalrous and brave. Zhang Fei couldn't cry. ”
Huang Yan, an associate professor of opera performance, has focused on guiding students to learn Cantonese opera in primary and secondary schools in recent years, and in her opinion, "If there is a good seedling, we will suggest him to go to the Children's Palace to continue his studies, and if he learns well, he will be advised to go to the Cantonese opera school." But our main direction is to cultivate their understanding of traditional culture and cultivate future Cantonese opera audiences. She believes that the script and lyrics of opera are very literary, which can enhance children's literary accomplishment, practice to sing and dance but also portray characters, learning Cantonese opera is very hard, there is willpower to persevere, "is a very comprehensive art, great benefits to the child's all-round quality training." ”
Guangzhou Tianrong Middle School has an original work "Guoshi and Famous Doctors", which tells the story of Lin Zexu and the famous doctor Wang Zebang exploring the future of the Chinese nation, and 12 girls and girls play 12 male characters on stage, which is very distinctive. Li Kaiyin, a music teacher at Tianrong Middle School and the founder of cantonese opera club, is a native of Guangzhou and studied Cantonese opera when she was a child. "I once resisted, but later discovered the beauty of Cantonese opera under the leadership of my teacher." In 2014, as soon as Li Kaiyin entered Tianrong Middle School, she founded the Cantonese Opera Club, which was also the first Cantonese Opera Club established by the middle school in Tianhe District. In the same way, I want students to discover the beauty of Cantonese opera. What makes Li Kaiyin happy is that some students still want to go back to the Cantonese Opera Club after graduation, "The seeds of Cantonese opera are really planted in their hearts." ”
All along, Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera private partnership bureaus have been active in urban blocks, townships and villages. The Private Partnership Bureau is a Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera society spontaneously organized by Cantonese people completely by their love of Cantonese opera, which has appeared in the Qing Dynasty at the latest.
Nowadays, efforts are being made to make more and more young people have a strong interest in Cantonese opera. This makes the mass base for the development of Cantonese opera more solid and extensive.
Cantonese opera is the common nostalgia of countless Chinese overseas, and the younger generation loves local culture and Lingnan culture warmly and deeply. The cantonese opera art, which is rooted in our bloodline, is also integrated into the cultural life of the younger generation.
Embrace young people
It's about embracing the future
There is no future for dramas without audiences, and in a sense, cultivating Cantonese opera audiences is more important than cultivating Cantonese opera actors. Young audiences are the future of Cantonese opera, Cantonese opera into the campus, Cantonese opera examination, in the popularization of Cantonese opera art at the same time, an important purpose is to cultivate Cantonese opera audience. In this regard, Cantonese opera people have always worked hard, they are constantly innovating to attract young audiences, and the aforementioned Cantonese opera films are just the tip of the iceberg.
Strengthen cultural self-confidence, carry forward the fine tradition, adhere to the integrity and innovation, show the style of the times with traditional art, and explore the new way of inheriting ancient opera. The Zeng Xiaomin Cantonese Opera Art National Tour launched in 2021 is a new attempt to disseminate Cantonese opera art, bringing Cantonese opera to the whole country, showing the innovative achievements of Lingnan culture, and communicating with multiple drama genres, learning from each other, and colliding with brilliant sparks. Everywhere the tour went, it attracted countless young people into the theater.
Embracing young people is to embrace the future, Cantonese opera people from passive wait-and-see to actively judge, embrace, create cultural feelings that can resonate with young people, learn with young people, grow together, Cantonese opera is young. "Now the Cantonese opera audience is younger, the quality is very good, and there is a high ability to appreciate, which makes us more confident in the innovation of Cantonese opera." Zeng Xiaomin said.
With the collective wisdom and efforts of all walks of life, Cantonese opera has been rejuvenated, genre singing has been carried forward, and excellent repertoire and outstanding actors have emerged in an endless stream. From the past to the present, we can draw nutrients from the profound cultural soil of Cantonese opera and continue to carry forward this traditional culture.
Children at Panyu Luobian Primary School study Cantonese opera under the guidance of Wu Feifan, winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award.
Small class test you
1
On December 30 last year, the 34th Golden Rooster Awards for Chinese Cinema was announced, and Cantonese opera films won the Best Opera Film Award.
A "Nanyue Palace Words"
B "The Strange Adventures of Liu Yi"
C "The Legend of the White Snake"
D "Rui Wang and Concubine Zhuang"
Where did Cantonese opera originate? (Multiple Choice)
A Guangzhou
B Foshan
C Nakayama
D Jiangmen
Cantonese opera, also known as (), is the most influential and widely circulated local drama in south China. (Multiple Choice)
A Cantonese drama
B Cantonese drama
C Guangzhou drama
D Cantonese opera
Cantonese opera absorbs the essence of foreign dramas such as Kun opera, Yiyang Cavity, (), etc., and draws on the strengths of all and becomes its own style. (Multiple Choice)
A Qin cavity
B Chinese opera
C Peking Opera
D Huangmei drama
The Red Line Woman created (), which pushed Cantonese opera Danjiao to a new stage.
A "Red Cavity"
B "Shrimp cavity"
C "Wind cavity"
D "Xue Cavity"
(The answer is in the next issue of Cantonese Rhyme Weekly.) ）
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Zhang Suqin
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng reporter: Li Bo, Su Junjie, Liao Xueming
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editors: Li Fenghe, Wang Yuehua