Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Huang Zhouhui
In October 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into the Cantonese Opera Art Museum during his inspection in Guangzhou and talked cordially with Cantonese opera ticket holders, hoping that they would carry forward the inheritance of Cantonese opera well. In October 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed during his inspection in Chaozhou that Chao embroidery, Chao porcelain, Tide sculpture, Tide sculpture, Chao opera, Gongfu tea, Chaozhou cuisine, etc. are all treasures of Chinese culture, which are precious and rare. In the past three years, the general secretary has visited Guangdong twice and mentioned Guangdong drama twice, and The Guangdong dramatists are deeply happy and encouraged.
In recent years, Guangdong has kept in mind the entrustment of General Secretary Yin Yin, adhered to cultural self-confidence, kept right and innovated, and contributed to the promotion, inheritance and development of Guangdong's theater industry and the construction of a culturally strong province in Guangdong.
Cantonese opera is passed down from generation to generation, and famous artists give performances (data map) Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Liang Yu Song Jinyu photo
Policy support Theatrical inheritance guarantees more
In 2021, the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress also reviewed and approved the regulations on the protection and inheritance of Chao opera in Shantou, Chaozhou and Jieyang, which came into effect on January 1, 2022. The regulations clearly stipulate that the three places should strengthen the work coordination between relevant government departments and improve the level of regional chao opera protection and inheritance through regional consultation, information sharing, and joint law enforcement. This is a microcosm of Guangdong's escort for the development of the theater industry in recent years.
At the policy level, in 2011, the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress adopted and promulgated the Regulations on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Guangdong Province to strengthen the protection of intangible cultural heritage such as Cantonese opera; in 2016, the General Office of the People's Government of Guangdong Province issued the Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Inheritance and Development of Local Opera; in 2017, the Regulations on the Protection and Inheritance of Cantonese Opera in Guangdong Province were promulgated in the form of a governor's decree. At the same time, Guangzhou, Foshan and other places have formulated and implemented plans and programs for further revitalizing Cantonese opera and promoting the inheritance and development of opera in light of actual conditions. Through these policy guidance, it provides institutional guarantees for the protection and inheritance of Cantonese opera such as Cantonese opera and Chao opera.
In addition to institutional guarantees, Guangdong has also increased its support for the creation of local drama genres such as Cantonese opera and Chao opera. Among them, the establishment of special funds for the prosperity and development of culture in Guangdong Province, the special fund for the protection of intangible cultural heritage in Guangdong Province, the Guangdong Prosperous Cantonese Opera Foundation, the Guangzhou Revitalization of Cantonese Opera Foundation, etc., to provide financial support for Cantonese opera creation, script incubation, talent training, etc.; the establishment of projects such as the "Guangdong Drama Literature Award Script Award, Theoretical Criticism Award" and "Guangdong Drama Writer's Home" to establish and improve the script incubation mechanism; the holding of several guangdong provincial senior drama choreography and directing training classes and Guangdong provincial playwright reading classes and "traditional classics, youth presentation"" Theme performances such as "Famous Family Drama" helped solve the dilemma of no professional screenwriters in the provincial and municipal Cantonese theater troupes, gathered a group of young and middle-aged professional Cantonese opera screenwriters, and formed a Cantonese opera creation team that began to take shape.
The Cantonese Opera Art Museum attracts many citizens to visit and study, and more and more teenagers are interested in Cantonese opera Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter He Ben photographed
Guangdong has also added theater performance venues to optimize and improve theatrical cultural facilities to help the inheritance and dissemination of drama. The completion of Cantonese opera professional venues such as Guangdong Cantonese Opera Art Center, Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Art Museum, Guangdong Cantonese Opera Museum, Guangzhou Opera Theatre, Guangdong Arts Theatre, Zhuhai Grand Theatre, Foshan Grand Theatre, and the new site of Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Theatre, which is about to be completed, has provided good conditions for the creation, production and performance of drama, and has become the main front for promoting local drama culture.
The foundation for the development of drama is even stronger
On February 1 (the first day of the first lunar month), at the "2022 Spring Festival Opera Gala" broadcast by the Central Radio and Television Corporation, Lin Yanyun, deputy head of the Guangdong Chao Theater Troupe and winner of the "Plum Blossom Award", and 11 other students of the first Chao Drama Class of the China Academy of Drama, wu Jialin, Wu Liting, Dai Shudiao and other 11 students jointly performed the classic Chao opera "Chen SanWu Niang" "Guan Lantern", so that chao opera once again showed its unique charm in front of the national audience. As early as April 18, 2021, the Shantou Municipal Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the China Academy of Performing Arts in Beijing. According to the plan, in 2021, 24 Chao opera students will enter the national opera school, marking the official inclusion of Chao opera in the enrollment scope of national opera.
In recent years, the Guangdong theater industry has insisted on producing people and playing dramas, consolidating the foundation for the development of local dramas. According to incomplete statistics, in recent years, Guangdong has created a large number of outstanding drama works, including: Cantonese opera "Huan Jin Ji", "Wind Rises In Southern Yue", "Bahe Guild Hall", "Chu Xin", "Qingshui Riverside", "Red Turban", Chao Opera "A Generation of Overseas Chinese Leaders", Guangdong Han Opera "Wang Zhaojun", "Li Jianzhen" and so on. Among them, the Cantonese opera "Red Turban" was selected for the national outstanding stage art exhibition, the Lei opera "Our Lady of Lingnan" won many awards such as the "Excellent Repertoire" of the Fourth Chinese Ethnic Minority Drama Festival, and the Guangdong Han opera drama film "Baimen Liu" won the 15th Guangzhou University Student Film Festival Most Popular "Intangible Cultural Heritage" Film Award. Ou Kaiming, Wu Feifan, Mai Yuqing, Zeng Xiaomin, Su Chunmei, Lin Yanyun, Peng Qinghua and other outstanding theatrical actors won the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, of which Ou Kaiming "opened twice".
Of particular note is the compilation of the Cantonese Opera Performing Arts Compendium. In September 2017, the compilation project of the book was officially launched, and the compilation of the two volumes of "Doing The Scroll" and "Singing the Scroll" has been published. "The compilation of the Cantonese Opera Performing Arts Encyclopedia is a great innovation and a demonstration in the Chinese opera industry." Many colleagues in the domestic drama industry lamented that this made Cantonese opera the first drama in the domestic opera industry to systematically sort out artistic performances. In May 2020, in the top ten good book selection activities organized by the organizers of the Yangcheng Book Festival, the Cantonese Opera Performing Arts Encyclopedia "Doing Rolls" topped the list with more than 150,000 votes. In September 2020, in the 2019 "Zhang Geng Opera Academic Nomination" event sponsored by the China Academy of Arts, the Cantonese Opera Performing Arts Encyclopedia "Doing Scrolls" was selected as a theoretical work and won the award with a high vote, which was also the only book volume that won the National Opera Theory Works Award in that year.
Fusion out of the circle Theater culture spread more widely
Promoting the innovative and integrated development of traditional local dramas, cross-border out of the circle, making the theater culture more widely disseminated, attracting and cultivating more young audiences, is a major highlight of the development of Guangdong drama in recent years.
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, Guangdong Cantonese Theatre and Guangzhou Cantonese Theatre continued to launch "online spring classes", so that theater fans can "see the drama" online without leaving home during the Spring Festival holiday. According to statistics, from February 3 to 7, the "online spring class" of Guangdong Cantonese Theatre attracted more than 280,000 people to click and watch.
In 2021, Guangdong organized five endangered drama genres, including orthographic drama, white character opera, Western Qin opera, Hua dynasty opera, and Lechang flower drum opera, to carry out 500 free and low-fare performances to benefit the people, promoting the protection and inheritance of endangered drama species; launched the first 4K Cantonese opera film "White Snake Legend and Love" in China, helping Cantonese opera to "break the circle" across borders, with a film box office of more than 21 million yuan, refreshing the box office record of opera films, and was called a new milestone in Chinese cinema by the opera film and television industry; the Cantonese opera film "Nanyue Palace Words" created by Guangzhou City. Won the 34th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards Best Opera Film Award, local opera has a new brilliance; as the first promoter of the Guangdong Literature and Art Touyan Project, in 2021, The Guangdong Cantonese Theatre launched the "Guangdong Literature and Art Touyan Project Zeng Xiaomin Cantonese Opera Art National Tour" to spread Cantonese opera culture to audiences everywhere, setting off a wave of Cantonese opera performances everywhere; the country's first "Cantonese Opera Social Art Level Examination Institution" landed in operation, the first Cantonese Opera Examination Activity was held, and more than 100 young students from the pilot base participated in the examination... ...
In addition, Guangdong has also promoted the popularization of drama education and expanded the path of the dissemination and promotion of Cantonese opera and other dramas. Troupes throughout the province hold a series of drama activities to enter the campus through the method of "please come in and go out". Taking Cantonese opera as an example, for more than ten years, all Cantonese opera troupes in the province have held more than 1,000 campus activities in the form of performances, lectures, experiences and children's Cantonese opera classes, so as to achieve full coverage of primary and secondary schools and colleges and universities of "Cantonese opera into the campus". Guangdong has also built nearly 50 cantonese opera heritage education activity bases, planned activities such as Cantonese opera youth elite training classes, and nearly 200,000 students have benefited. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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