In order to promote the excellent traditional culture, the Guangdong Cantonese opera humanistic documentary "100 Years of Cantonese Rhymes" will premiere at 12:35 on March 19 on the Agricultural and Rural Channel of the Central Radio and Television Station (CCTV-17) and broadcast live on CCTV. This is the first documentary to tell the development of Cantonese opera in Guicheng From an international perspective, recording the persistent pursuit, persistence and inheritance of Cantonese opera art by Pingzhou Cantonese opera people, and showing the unique charm of Cantonese opera to the world panorama.
Cantonese opera, also known as big opera, has the reputation of "southern red beans", as early as October 2009, Cantonese opera has been included in the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage of humanity list. As one of the traditional Chinese drama genres, Cantonese opera has a strong vitality due to its art form with local characteristics and inclusive and open spirit. In 1917, a group of people of insight led by Jin Shanhe, a Cantonese opera artist in Pingzhou, founded the "Le Qunying" boy class in an ancestral hall in Jiangbiao Village, Pingzhou County, Nanhai County, which was a historical precedent for the establishment of a boy class in the rural areas of the Pearl River Delta. The boy class recruited apprentices and trained a large number of outstanding Cantonese opera artists, and since then Cantonese opera has been famous and brilliant, known as the "cradle of Cantonese opera". Generations of Cantonese opera celebrities have started from the Pingzhou Boys' Class, using their tenacity and supreme pursuit of art to bring Cantonese opera overseas and sing the "Cantonese opera" business card.
The documentary "100 Years of Cantonese Rhymes" starts from Pingzhou, the "hometown of Cantonese opera", as far as San Francisco, through the perspective of Famous Cantonese opera artists such as Lin Xiaoqun and Bai Chaohong, showing a magnificent historical picture of Cantonese opera over the past century, revealing the profound historical origin of Pingzhou Cantonese opera culture, and seeing the inheritance, development and dissemination of Cantonese opera in today. With the continuous efforts of the old, middle and young generations of Cantonese opera artists, Cantonese opera has spread its branches and leaves at home and abroad, so that the century-old opera has achieved thousands of miles of singing.
Lin Xiaoqun, born in 1932, has become a household name at the beginning of liberation, famous at home and abroad, and now at the age of 90, he is still active on the stage, and the gentle singing rhyme still exists. Mr. Bai Chaohong, the husband of Lin Xiaoqun, born in 1925, is a famous Cantonese opera student, who still insists on practicing for three hours a day at the age of 96. Lin Xiaoqun and Bai Chaohong are known as "fairy lovers", the two love, know each other, stay together, together for Cantonese opera crazy, together brilliant, grow old together. And their life course has also witnessed the centuries-old changes of Cantonese opera.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Xiaolei