On the eve of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Beijing Opera House used Peking Opera music to compose, and the popular Beijing song "Beijing Snowflakes Flutter" paid tribute to the Olympic spirit. Guo Wei, a national first-class actor of the Beijing Peking Opera House and an outstanding descendant of Cheng Pai Qingyi, used the national Peking Opera method to explain and innovate the Olympic spirit. During the New Year's Day and Spring Festival in 2022, Guo Wei staged classic Peking Opera repertoire such as "Suolin Capsule", "The Legend of the White Snake", "Red Mane Horse", "Lü Bu and the Sable Cicada" at the Beijing Peking Opera House to present the Beijing Winter Olympics.
"The Olympic Games are the world, peking opera art is the world's cultural treasures, using Peking opera art to create Winter Olympic songs, with this way of cultural exchange and collision, to help the Beijing Winter Olympics, pay tribute to the Olympic spirit", Guo Wei has a unique perspective on this creation. Once the Beijing song "Beijing Snowflakes Flutter" came out, it was unanimously praised by people inside and outside the industry and all walks of life.
Shouzheng innovation is the fundamental follow-up of the inheritance of the national essence of Peking Opera, And Guo Wei, a national first-class actor at the Beijing Opera House, participated in the first big play of the Beijing Peking Opera House in the opening year, "Suolin Capsule", and specially invited Anthony Edgar, senior expert of the Media Operation Department of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, to watch the performance. Anthony has developed a strong interest in Peking Opera, a national essence, and is looking forward to the next opportunity to watch Peking Opera performances.
In order to congratulate the successful holding of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the first stop of the series of activities of the "Beijing Peking Opera Excellent Chengpai Qingyi Guo Wei Chengpai Classic Repertoire Exhibition" will be held from April 2 to 4, 2022, at the Tiantou Yifu Stage, the largest theater in Shanghai, Shencheng, And Guo Wei will launch the "Suolin Capsule", "Tears of the Barren Mountains", and the whole book "Spring Dream" Tsung Pai Classic Dramas taught by the famous Peking Opera educator Li Wenmin, and dedicate themselves to the Shanghai audience, paying tribute to the Olympics with the national classics. The national heritage is the same as the Winter Olympics.
Guo Wei said that she was greatly encouraged by Beijing's successful hosting of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and she should take it as her duty to carry forward the art of Peking Opera, carry forward the spirit of the Olympic Games faster, higher and stronger, and dedicate more and better works of art to the audience.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Chu Peng
Editor/Xu Zhao