The recently popular Beijing song "Beijing Snowflakes Fluttering" is a melodious song created by the Beijing Opera House in the form of Peking Opera music to welcome the Winter Olympics. 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 integrate rich Chinese excellent traditional cultural elements, and the song explained and innovatively expressed the Olympic spirit.
"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, and was widely publicized by new media, and netizens competed to sing. On January 30, 2022, the Beijing Winter Olympics Journal specially wrote an article introducing the Beijing song "Beijing Snowflakes Fluttering", which was reported by the CCTV news channel. At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Municipal People's Government "Meet in Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival and the 22nd "Meet in Beijing" International Arts Festival, it was perfectly presented and applauded for the Winter Olympics!
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 of the Beijing Opera House, not only devotes himself to artistic creation and conducts new explorations, but also does not forget his original intention, inherits the art of the Cheng school of Peking Opera, and strives to carry forward the art of the Cheng school through unremitting efforts. During the New Year's Day and Spring Festival in 2022, a number of classic traditional Peking Opera plays such as "Suolin Capsule", "The Legend of the White Snake", "Red Mane Horse", "Lü Bu and the Sable Cicada" were staged to present the Beijing Winter Olympics in a unique way. In particular, on January 1, 2022, the first big play of the Beijing Peking Opera House in the opening year, "Suolin Capsule", was specially invited to watch the performance by Anthony Edgar, senior expert of the Media Operation Department of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Mr. Anthony was deeply fascinated by the profundity and wonderful artistic presentation of the national Essence Peking Opera art, took a number of stills, and successively released social dynamic praise performances, praising Guo Wei as "the star of the night" (the beautiful star in the night sky). Not only that, Anthony also developed a strong interest in Peking Opera, the essence of the country, saying that he would fully learn Chinese Peking Opera culture and look 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. National heritage and 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 national essence of Peking Opera art, carry forward the spirit of the Olympic Games faster, higher and stronger, dedicate more and better works of art to the audience, constantly explore cross-cultural exchanges, let Peking Opera go to the world, and use Peking Opera to tell Chinese stories well.
Source: Beijing Daily Client | Journalist Kong Ning
Source: Beijing Daily Client