New Hainan client, Nanhai Net, Nanguo Metropolis Daily reporter Su Guijie
Recently, the Tayang Qiong Opera Troupe under the Hainan Qiong Opera Association has ushered in a new masterpiece - the original Qiong opera "Southern Overseas Chinese Feelings" has been rehearsed. The reporters of the New Hainan Client, Nanhai Net, and Nanguo Metropolis Daily took the opportunity of the rehearsal of "Nanqiao Feelings" to visit Guyi Tayang and interview the inheritance of Tayang people's "love, learning, and rejuvenation" Qiong opera.
The original Qiong drama "Southern Overseas Chinese Love" is starred by the Ta Yang Qiong Troupe.
Qiong opera culture has become the "soul" of Tayang Town
Guyi Tayang is named after the Jukui Pagoda and Guangrou Tianyang, which were founded in 1605. Tayang Town, Qionghai City, imitates the ancient style buildings of the Ming Dynasty. The Qiong opera culture that has been passed down through the ages has become the "soul" of Ta Yang.
Coming to Tayang, whether in the city or in the field, the sound of qiong is flying, and after the tea and dinner of the people in the town, everyone can sing a singing voice or write and perform a play by themselves. The singer sings intently, and the listener is mesmerized and joyful.
Zhenzhai Theater.
Tayang is the "hometown of Qiong opera celebrities", and there are as many as 26 Qiong opera celebrities from Tayang. Qiu Dequn, president of the Provincial Qiong Opera Foundation, sighed: "TaYang is a place rich in the legend of Qiong opera, from Zheng Changhe, the grandmaster of Qiong opera, to Chen Hua, the master of Qiong opera, to the current Qiong opera performance artists Li Guiqin and Fu Chuanjie, all of whom are among the few figures in the Qiong opera industry. ”
Many celebrities from Tayang are also paying attention to the development of Qiong opera in their hometown. In January 2022, Fu Chuanjie, member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Qiong Theater in Hainan Province, submitted a proposal to the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to approve the project. The proposal proposes to expand its area, enhance its taste, enrich its historical materials, increase its exhibits, improve its supporting facilities, and build a qiongju opera historical and cultural museum exhibition hall that integrates pictures, texts, materials, audio, video and other functions on the basis of the Tayang Qiong opera cultural exhibition hall, so as to focus on text inheritance and strengthen protection and dissemination.
"Tayang writers dig up Tayang heroes, and Tayang theater troupes interpret Tayang heroes." Li Gaolan, a local writer and screenwriter of the Qiong opera "Southern Overseas Chinese" who is committed to bringing the heroic story of Hainan Nanqiao mechanics to the Chinese War of Resistance on the stage through Qiong opera, is also a Tayang person.
The small actor of Ta Yang Qiong Drama has won the "Little Plum Blossom" Golden Flower Award for three consecutive years
"My grandmother loved Qiong opera, and under its influence, I began to study Qiong opera from the age of 11." Wang Qian, a student of the 21st grade four-year Qiong opera performance class of the Hainan Provincial Culture and Art School, told reporters that in the second year of her study of Qiong opera, when rehearsing a clip, because her understanding was not in place, she did not perform well several times, and was criticized by the teacher and almost gave up the dream of pursuing Qiong opera.
After five years of continuous exploration, Wang Qian has gone from not understanding at first, to being able to sing, to being able to read, do, and play, and become an excellent qiong opera actor.
In 2018, she won the Golden Flower Award in the 22nd "Chinese Children's Opera Little Plum Blossom Gathering" local opera amateur group, "I am very happy to win this award, and I am more confident, and I will continue to learn from my predecessors in the future and pass on the Qiong opera culture." Wang Qian said that she was a young qiong opera actor who grew up under the influence of the elders and the enthusiastic teachers.
Chen Chunxia, who won the "Little Plum Blossom" Golden Flower Award in the same year, began to study Qiong opera at the age of 8. At the time, she was in the third grade at Tayon Town Center School.
Years of diligent study and hard work have enabled her to emerge among the small actors in the Hainan Qiong opera industry, and has won a good place in the provincial and municipal Qiong opera cultural competitions for many times, and won the "Little Plum Blossom" Golden Flower Award. Because of Qiong's outstanding performance, in the fall of 2021, she was admitted to Qionghai Haigui School. At the 2022 Qionghai Lantern Party, she and Wang Qian both surprised the audience with their superb performance skills.
In addition to Wang Qian and Chen Chunxia, Wang Yuanxu and Li Pingping also won the "Little Plum Blossom" Golden Flower Award in the 23rd and 24th "Chinese Children's Opera Little Plum Blossom Gathering" local opera amateur group, and Wang Shirui won a "Little Plum Blossom" Silver Flower Award.
In a small town, five national opera "small plum blossoms" have emerged, which are unique in the national opera circle and the Hainan Qiong opera circle. The 5 winners are all students of the Children's Qiong Opera Training Base of Chen Huaqiong Drama Academy, which made the park famous for a while.
Tayang people's "love, learning, and rejuvenation" Qiong opera has become a common practice
Chen Huaqiong Drama Academy was founded by Hu Yunan, Ta Yang's daughter-in-law. Hu Yunan has long had a love for Qiong Opera. As a teenager, he was obsessed with Joan's play. After she became Ta Yang's daughter-in-law, in Ta Yang, she heard many famous stories of Ta Yang's "Qiong Opera Town", felt it deeply, and admired the famous Qiong Opera.
Chen Suzhen Qiong Drama Master Studio.
Li Xiuchun, the owner of the tea shop in Tayang Old City, is the "fourth generation of Qiong opera heirs" and a neighbor of Hu Yunan's family. At the beginning of 2015, the two joined hands to establish the "Tayang Chen Huaqiong Drama Academy".
Coming from preschool education, she paid for her own pocket and invested the income of many kindergartens that she had run for 12 years in Dalu Town, Qionghai City, into the school, with the original intention of cultivating Qiong opera seedlings and passing on the cause of Tayang Qiong opera.
After the establishment of the academy, it also received the support and help of a group of enthusiastic Qiong opera personalities such as Qiong Opera celebrities Such as Fu Chuanjie, Li Guiqin, Huang Qingping, Chen Suzhen and so on. During this period, she hired Qionghai Troupe actors Feng Hui, Lu Boran, Chen Yu and others to teach the children of the school and cultivate new people of Qionghai Opera.
In the second year after its establishment, the academy sent 6 students to represent Qionghai City to participate in the "Hainan Qiong opera classic singing section junior group competition", and the top 10 finalists in the province accounted for the top 6, which was a blockbuster.
"Whenever the children win back trophies, I think all the efforts are worth it." Hu Yunan told reporters that she was very happy to see the moment the children came on stage to receive the award. Under her painstaking management, the influence of the academy has been expanding, and all children who enter the kindergarten to learn Qiong Opera are exempted from tuition, and they enter the kindergarten every Saturday or Sunday to study, and the academy hires professional Qiong opera teachers for training.
Through the creation of the atmosphere of Xueqiong opera in the academy, Tayang people love Qiong opera, Xueqiong opera, and Xingqiong opera have become popular. In the past 6 years, the school has trained more than 120 Qiong opera seedlings, and a number of outstanding Qiong opera newcomers such as five national opera "Little Plum Blossoms" have emerged.
At present, there are more than 50 students in the park, and 15,080 citizens are studying Qiong opera for free. He led the children of the school to participate in more than 120 provincial primary and secondary school talent competitions, won the top three in the competition for many years, and was invited to participate in the Spring Festival Gala performance in Hainan Province for four consecutive years. In 2021, he was also invited to the boao forum for asia annual conference to perform qiong opera programs for international dignitaries and foreign guests, which was highly praised.
Tayondo took the initiative to build the Qiong opera brand
Tayang Town Qiong Opera Culture Exhibition Hall is located in Zhenzhai Village next to the town market, the museum collects many Qiong opera famous stills, biographies, props, ancient scripts, ancient records and other Qiong opera collections and exhibits, there are two large and small stages outside the museum.
Qiong opera culture exhibition hall.
The small stage holds a special performance of Qiong opera every weekend, and the public and tourists enjoy Qiong opera while tasting snacks, which has become a common practice and has also become a brand for Tayang's external publicity. The big stage is for performance, such as the premiere of "Southern Overseas Chinese" after the rehearsal will also make its debut on the big stage.
The small stage holds a special performance of Qiong opera every weekend.
"The cultural atmosphere of Tayang Qiong opera is strong, and a group of enthusiastic people who pursue Qiong opera culture have also emerged." Zeng Xianghuang, director of the Tayang Town Cultural Station, said that in recent years, with the support of Qionghai City and Tayang Town, the teaching conditions of Qiong opera have become increasingly mature, and more than 6.6 million yuan have been invested to build a number of Qiong theater halls such as Zhenzhai Theater, Guyi Opera Stage, and Tayang Qiong Opera Culture Exhibition Hall. On January 28, 2022, Chen Suzhen Qiong Opera Master Studio was established, aiming to play the role of "passing on the help" and promoting the inheritance and development of Qiong Opera's artistic career.
He said that Tayang Town will continue to give Tayang Qiong opera cultural undertakings from the aspects of policies and funds, provide teaching and training venues for students, open a Qiong opera exhibition hall and cultural square as a venue for Qiong opera activities, provide audio equipment to support Qiong opera teaching and performance, and provide free tutoring for Qiong opera teachers. All students who have won national, provincial and municipal competition awards shall be publicly commended and rewarded.
"In the next step, we will also create a Qiong opera commentary bomb to form a tayang card." Zeng Xianghuang said that he would make good use of the Tayang Guyi Opera Stage and the Zhenzhai Theater to do a good job in the performance of Qiong opera activities and accelerate the opening and operation of the Qiong Opera Cultural Exhibition Hall. Further display and display the cultural history of Tayang Qiong opera, and promote the formation and development of the cultural tourism industry chain of Tayang Qiong opera. At the same time, the Zhenzhai Cultural Room was used to build a Guyi Lecture Hall, forming a strong atmosphere of Qiong opera culture learning and dissemination, promoting and supporting Chen Huaqiong Opera Academy to cultivate more winners of the Little Plum Blossom Award, so that the teaching cause of Qiongju opera was thriving.