In just one month, the "416 Women's Group", composed of 5 "post-00s" girls from the Shanghai Theater Academy, has experienced popularity, controversy, and popularity, all of which they never expected.
("416 Girl Group" sang "Exploring the Window" Video from Station B)
Recently, the "416 Women's Group on the Drama" re-interpreted "Exploring the Window" across the Chinese New Year's Eve, triggering netizens to brush the screen and praise, once again mentioning the hot search. Previously, the group had been labeled by some netizens as "tampering with Peking Opera", "not doing business properly, going to be an Internet celebrity, and also under the banner of Peking Opera", "This is a waste of Peking Opera" and other negative labels.
And they insisted on doing what they thought was right - "We didn't make any adaptations to Peking Opera itself, we just sang opera with the pronunciation of Opera, added the 'singing' and 'reading' in Peking Opera's 'Four Skills and Five Laws', used our hands and eyes, and that's it."
(One of the members of the "416 Women's Group" explained the "drama cavity" Screenshot from Weibo)
It's not as good as singing. With their cooperative recording of "Red Ling", "Silk Play", "Know It or Not", "Vientiane Chang'an" and many other ancient songs in the short video platform, as professional opera actors, they "open their mouths crisply", so that the netizens who have "blacked" them also called "on the head", so "black to powder".
They, along with a group of inheritors who love excellent traditional culture and boldly embrace the new expression of contemporary times, have successfully "pulled the national essence of Peking Opera off the altar" and made the traditional national essence the "god of national tide".
Inheriting excellent traditional culture, do you want to integrate innovation? Opinions have been divided.
Mr. Gong would like to provide you with a few references from the history of the development of Peking Opera.
From the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong to the eighth year of Jiaqing, the four emblem classes of Sanqing, Sixi, Chuntai, and Hechun, which were originally performed in the south, successively entered Beijing. They cooperated with Han tune artists from Hubei, and at the same time accepted some repertoire, tunes and performance methods of Kunqu opera and Qin cavity, and absorbed some local folk tunes, forming Peking Opera in the 20th year of Daoguang to the 10th century of Xianfeng (1840-1860).
It can be seen that Peking Opera itself is the product of the combination of traditional opera and the trend art of the time.
Nowadays, singing Peking opera works and popular songs with opera is not another fusion?
The inheritance of art is inseparable from integration and innovation, as long as more people can accept, like, and spread, it is "changed to what it is". If you are stuck in your own way, you are tantamount to cocooning yourself. You know, if an art does not have an audience base, it becomes a legacy that no one takes over, and it is easy to be obliterated by history.
Thanks to the new means of communication, more and more intangible cultural heritage items have entered the vision of netizens, changing the situation of being on the top and being shelved in the past, which is a blessing for art; thanks to the persistence and inheritance of the older generation, the national essence can retain the "essence" left to today's young generation, which is the blessing of the audience; the new generation of young people inherits the national essence in a new way, keeps the integrity and innovation, and plays the "old objects" with new tricks, which is the blessing of the nation.
This is true of Peking Opera, as are other art forms. Adapt to the needs of the times, the needs of the audience, take the road of popularization, rather than vulgarity, vulgarity, kitsch, art can reach more audiences, in the changing aesthetic needs, grow new branches.
In fact, the work of traditional culture and skill inheritance is full of loneliness and loss - hard work, low income, and difficulty in getting out of the industry, which is the fate of most people in the industry that cannot be ignored. Today, with the exception of a few opera "labels" such as the Deyun Society, there are very few traditional art folk academies that can be accepted by the market, and most of them just make ends meet.
(The "folk troupe" Qi Xuewen family inherits local opera on the short video platform)
Also a family of 8 in Qi Village, Yu County, Henan Province, which has also recently exploded on the Internet, Grandpa Qi Xuewen, who is nearly ninety years old, took the granddaughter of the "post-00s" and other family members to form a folk theater troupe, singing in the live broadcast room, which was sought after by netizens. And their offline artistic trajectory is only in the field. They may be the more real life conditions of the "internet celebrity inheritors".
Artistic inheritance, fire needs to keep the original intention, and those who are not fire need to keep the original heart.
Awakening the cultural memory and cultural identity in the genes of the Chinese people is far from being completed by a few people on new media and a few variety shows. The so-called inheritance must withstand the test of time and be willing to wear the kung fu of dripping stones.
In order to keep the national hot flashes and national heat hot enough, someone needs to walk quickly with the old craftsmanship to the front of the trend. As long as the direction is not deviated, the steps are bigger and faster, no harm. Only when the road is wider will there be more people to accompany.
Source: Workers Daily Client