Recently, the teachers and students of the Jinfan Peking Opera Troupe of Beijing Jingyuan School appeared on the stage of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, presenting a wonderful "Great Beauty Jingyun Heritage and Innovation - Peking Opera Boutique Special Concert" for the audience, kicking off the prelude to the 2021 National Centre for the Performing Arts "Youth to the Party and Building Dreams winter Olympics" youth popularization concert, which is also the first appearance on the national stage after the school's Jingkun Art Troupe was promoted to Jinfan Art Troupe. Co-sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and the National Centre for the Performing Arts, the event aims to promote the art of Peking Opera, popularize music culture, and express young people's love for the party and their expectations and understanding of the Winter Olympics in the form of concerts. Leaders of the Municipal Education Commission, famous Peking Opera artists and 1,300 student audiences watched the performance together.
All 88 young actors of the Jinfan Peking Opera Troupe of Jingyuan School all appeared on the stage, with the theme of "Colorful Children's Hearts and Building Dreams for the Future", through four chapters and 16 programs of "Striving to Be a Good Teenager in a Strong Country", "Inheriting the Essence of the Country", "Singing and Dancing Classics" and "Children's Hearts Building Dreams and Passing on the Torch", showing the school's Jinfan Peking Opera Troupe's shouzheng innovation, inheritance and development of the educational concept and the fruitful results of the school's Peking Opera characteristic education. As a special guest, Mr. Hu Wenge, a famous Peking opera artist, first made a wonderful introduction to the Peking Opera special session, leading the audience to enter the atmosphere of Peking Opera appreciation in advance.
The first chapter, "Striving to Be a Good Boy in a Strong Country", consists of a group of well-known modern Peking Opera classics, and the young actors have successively performed programs such as "Shouldering the Red Flag", "Communist Party Members Always Listen to the Party's Call", "Red Meizan", "The Foundation of The Hope of the People", etc. They are all energetic and energetic, sonorous and powerful, full of charm, and their wonderful interpretations have won the applause of the audience. "Today' bitter drinking of celebratory wine, the ambition is not rewarded endlessly, come to Japan to show their skills, and write spring and autumn with blood!" The music sounded, and 24 young actors took the stage with passion and heroism, pushing the show to a climax.
Next, the "Ugly Gathering" program led the audience into the door of "traditional classic opera", and 3 small actors performed excerpts from "Golden Stage", "Reporting the Name of the Lamp", and "Playing the City God", which were funny and humorous, showing both the charm of the skill and the lively and playful, bringing bursts of laughter to the scene; the average age of the 11 small actors in the "Selling Water" program was only 6 years old, and their one move and one style, showing the cleverness and cuteness of Xiao Huadan, turned the whole audience upside down. Subsequently, the backbone members of the Jinfan Peking Opera Troupe successively brought classic excerpts such as "Mu Guiying Hanging Commander", "Drumming and Scolding Exercises", "Playing Dragon Robe", "Chisang Town", "Hujiazhuang" and other classic excerpts, and their singing voices were flavorful, their footwork was sound and colorful, and the classic stories and typical character images were portrayed vividly. It can be said that the life and death of the net ugly industry is complete, the singing voice is stunning and exquisite, the singing is full of fighting, and the applause on the scene is continuous, and the applause is continuous.
The third chapter is composed of a group of highly ornamental "Meipai Classic Famous Sections", "Taizhen Waichuan" program costumes are exquisite, exquisite appearance, vivid characters, delicate feelings, both gods and shapes, full of charm, bringing the audience into the beautiful Peking Opera art world; "Bawang Bijie" is a Meipai classic famous drama performed by Peking Opera art master Mei Lanfang, and the "Persuasion of the King" performed by 9 students of The Jinfan Peking Opera Troupe of Jingyuan School, which integrates singing, doing and dancing, with exquisite makeup, exquisite costumes, beautiful music and beautiful singing voice. Dancing with two swords and dancing, reflecting the wonderful artistic conception of "silent, no singing, no moving, no dancing", exquisite choreography and exquisite performance won the applause of the scene, and pushed the whole performance to the climax! Teacher Hu Wenge praised the children's performances one after another, and personally took the stage to demonstrate and guide, explaining the essence of the meipai art to the audience, reflecting the original intention of the "Youth Popularization Concert" of the National Centre for the Performing Arts to hold hands and work together to promote inheritance.
The music sounded, all the actors took the stage, surrounded by Mr. Hu Wenge, and sang the excerpt of "Ode to the Pear Blossom" with the artists, and the passing on of the torch of Peking Opera art touched all the audiences at the scene, and the famous artists and students joined hands on the same stage, interpreting the inheritance of the art, endlessly, showing the gratifying scene of the successors of the Peking Opera inheritance. Teacher Hu Wenge said: "Today's participation in the Youth Popularization Concert made me refreshed, and I was shocked to see the children's enthusiasm for traditional arts, and there was a kind of excitement born from within. The children's all-round participation, so many children on stage and offstage love traditional arts, appreciate traditional arts, the performance also covers all the professions of opera, life, dan, net, ugly all kinds of complete, there are literature and martial arts very comprehensive display of opera art makes me very surprised. It is hoped that the Grand Theatre can continue to do a good job in popularizing youth art, combine online means, show richer content to more children, and spread traditional art. ”
It is reported that the Beijing Jingyuan School Jinfan Peking Opera Troupe was founded in 2014, and in 2021 it was officially recognized by the Municipal Education Commission as the "Jinfan Peking Opera Troupe", the Jinfan Troupe adheres to the "Lide Tree", adhering to the "Towards truth, beauty, goodness, upward" Jinfan spirit, with the goal of "comprehensive education, leading demonstration, and the pursuit of excellence", with the purpose of "carrying forward the art of Peking Opera and inheriting the spirit of the country", giving full play to the school's "advantages of integrating the education of primary and secondary children", and building a "vertical connection, main line through, step by step" Peking Opera Jinfan training system. Fully build a platform for children who love Peking Opera art and have artistic talents such as performance, so that children can receive traditional virtue education in the study of Peking Opera repertoire, cultivate the perseverance of hard-working and hard-working to overcome difficulties in singing and doing training, learn the spirit of meticulous excellence under the teacher's words and deeds, and enhance aesthetic taste and artistic literacy in the study of Peking Opera, aiming to cultivate socialist builders and successors with cultural self-confidence in the "Golden Sail Cradle".
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Liu Jing
Editor/Tan Weiping