"See you in the theater, see you on the silver screen!" Member Zhang Jianguo issued an invitation to the vast number of theater fans

The Spring Festival is a moment of reunion for every family, full of the peaceful atmosphere of the prosperity of the motherland and the happiness of the people.

I am a Peking Opera artist, and every year during the Spring Festival, I basically spend time on the stage of Peking Opera art performances. Whenever I participate in various performances during the Spring Festival, including the Spring Festival Gala of CCTV or local television stations, I am very enthusiastic and put into work with great enthusiasm and feelings for the country and home, and I am deeply proud. There are many Peking Opera artists, and there are not many people who can dedicate peking opera art to the national audience through the TV screen during the Spring Festival, and I feel honored to be a member of this "not much".

△ Zhang Jianguo

As a performer of traditional arts, as a disseminator of traditional arts, it is a meaningful thing to be able to present our traditional Peking Opera art to the audience of the whole country and the most important traditional festival of our country and nation. During the Spring Festival, it is another pleasant thing to be able to add color and happiness to everyone's peaceful and beautiful life through the stage and through the silver screen.

Around the Spring Festival, it is also my busy and happy days. Just a few days ago, I just participated in the video recording of the Ten Courtyards directly under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to pay tribute to the national audience this year, and I have just completed the performance recording of the 2022 Spring Festival Opera Gala. Now, we are trying to rehearse the stage performance of the National Peking Opera House during the Spring Festival in recent years.

Every year during the Spring Festival, the National Peking Opera House will give wonderful Peking Opera performances to the audience at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mei Lanfang Grand Theatre or Chang'an Grand Theater. In the meantime, the classic traditional plays that the audience likes to hear, such as "Phoenix Returns to the Nest", "Shilang Visits His Mother", and "Suolin Capsule", will be presented on the stage of Peking Opera art one by one. As a performer almost every year, I always feel the endless warm applause and enthusiastic cheers of the audience at the end of the curtain, always full of excitement, satisfaction with harvest, and a sense of happiness that is recognized.

Whether this year's Spring Festival can be performed live depends on the epidemic prevention and control situation at that time. But whether we can perform live or not, we are always ready. In previous years, we would also go to perform in other places from the third to the eighth day of the Chinese New Year, after all, peking opera art is theater art. To watch Peking Opera, it is best to be in the theater. However, with the rapid development of information technology, the Internet and so on allow Peking Opera lovers in remote places to see the style and charm of Peking Opera, with incomparable advantages of live performances. Therefore, although Peking Opera art is a theater art, it is still necessary for us to widely disseminate national culture and traditional culture through technical means such as the Internet, so that more people can understand Peking Opera and love Peking Opera.

During the Spring Festival, no matter where they are, no matter what industry they are engaged in, the wanderers who are far away are looking forward to the moment of family reunion at that moment. It is also because I basically spend the Spring Festival every year in peking opera performances, and there are few moments to reunite with my family. I am often asked how to deal with the relationship between performing Peking Opera for the audience and reuniting with my family. I would tell him without hesitation that if my little family got together, then I would lose the moment to bring joy to more reunited families. As a literary and art worker in the new era, it is my duty and mission to serve the people. My family is a fan of drama, and every Spring Festival, they all choose to watch my performance in front of the screen or in the audience, and in this special form, spend a reunion year with me.

Not much more. First borrow the "People's Political Consultative Conference Daily" to the majority of theater fans and friends to say goodbye to the New Year! I wish you all a happy family reunion festival! I wish our country more prosperity and strength! We'll see you in the theater, we'll see you on the silver screen.

(Zhang Jianguo is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, chairman of the China Peking Opera Art Foundation, former head of the Three Troupes of the National Peking Opera House, and a national first-class actor)

Source: People's Political Consultative Conference Daily (January 29, 2022, 05th edition)

Oral description: Zhang Jianguo

Interview: Zhang Li

Layout Editor: Xie Ying, Yang Xue, Zhang Li, Guo Haijin

New Media Editor: Huang Zhe

Review: Jiajia Zhou