Culture is the spiritual lifeblood of the nation, and literature and art are the clarion call of the times. This year's government work report has made arrangements for enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the masses of the people, and has received extensive attention from the representatives and members of the literary and art circles attending the meeting. Earlier, the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of a Clean and Honest Culture in the New Era" issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee also proposed to enrich the supply of high-quality products and services for the clean culture, and required the organization to create a number of high-quality works that are both ideological, artistic and ornamental. Focusing on the supply of high-quality works of rich and honest culture, this magazine interviewed three NPC deputies from the art academy.
Disseminating the value concept of honesty and honesty is an important responsibility of the literary and art academy
Reporter: Good literary and artistic works can enlighten the mind, warm the soul, cultivate life, and sweep away the trend of decadence and malaise. In terms of disseminating the value concept of integrity and integrity, what works has the troupe launched in recent years? What performances were held?
Li Shujian: Since 2015, our Henan Yu Theater has always paid attention to the dissemination of the value concept of honesty and honesty through opera, and has launched a number of plays with strong response. Based on the behavior of Zhang Bo, an ancient Qing official from Lankao, Henan, which General Secretary Xi Jinping has talked about many times, we have carefully created a large-scale Yu opera "Zhang Boxing" to put its principles and moral ethics of honesty and honesty on the stage. We also newly compiled the historical drama "Nine Pins Patrol And Inspection Violent Style Zhao", showing the image of a clean official with two sleeves of qingfeng going to the sky, without an inch of Jiangnan", so that the audience can enjoy the beauty of the drama while accepting the influence of clean culture. The modern drama "Family Portrait", jointly launched with the Henan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, is adapted from a real case and takes a family portrait photo from 30 years ago as a clue to tell the family story of three generations of a fallen official, showing the harm of corruption to the people and the families of the parties concerned, and sounding the alarm bell. Many party members and cadres and their families said after watching this play that they must not let the family portrait become the whole family crying. A friend of mine is a grassroots leading cadre, and his daughter was going to hold the wedding a little more generously, and after reading it, she cried and told her father: "My wedding table is not invited, and people cannot make mistakes." ”
Shen Tiemei: Sichuan opera has a profound historical accumulation, which not only contains rich cultural connotations, but also rich in clean cultural elements. For example, the Sichuan operas "Changting Gong Nephew", "Bao Gong Compensation", "Double Qingtian" and other plays are all created, narrated and performed with the themes of clean officials and honest officials, punishing corruption and rejecting corruption, and good family style. In recent years, combined with the holding of sichuan opera art and clean culture special performances and other activities, we have brought these plays into enterprises, organs and grassroots, so that the majority of party members and cadres can feel the influence of clean culture in the process of watching the opera. It is worth mentioning that we have rediscovered, excavated and improved the classic work "Sister Jiang", artistically presented the original mission of the communists condensed on Sister Jiang and the incorruptible cultural elements contained in the "Eight Articles in Prison", launched a new version of sichuan opera "Sister Jiang", and realized the perfect integration of Chongqing's excellent traditional opera culture and revolutionary culture, and each performance aroused strong resonance from the audience, and often appeared on and off stage to sing "Red Meizan" in unison. Many party members and cadres said that this is not only a literary and artistic work, but also an important lesson in party sex education.
Wang Fang: Spreading the value concept of honesty and honesty is an important responsibility of the literary and art academy. In recent years, the Suzhou Su Opera Transmission and Protection Center has conscientiously implemented the requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, and strived to make the ancient art form an excellent carrier for disseminating the core values of socialism and promoting the concept of integrity, and created and performed many works of art with the theme of integrity. For example, Su opera has a classic traditional drama called "Fifteen Guan", which tells the story of Suzhou's prefect Zhong Zhong's honest government for the people and justice for the public. From it, we selected Kuang Zhong to be the prefect's content and arranged the folding drama, which was performed at the "Gong Gong Ancestral Hall" of the Suzhou Cadre Political Ethics Education Base; and also created a new Su opera play "Gong Zhong Xingxue", which was performed in the Suzhou Confucian Temple Xiyuan Honest Government Cultural Park. This way of combining historical scenes and stage art to concentrate on presenting the virtues of honest officials and honest officials in ancient times has subtly affected the moral cultivation of party members and cadres. During last year's Jiangnan Arts Festival, many leading cadres said after watching our performance that although Guan Zhong was an ancient official, he had the characteristics of being honest and self-disciplined, upright, and diligent in government for the people, which were consistent with the requirements of party members and cadres to be loyal, clean, and responsible, and he was very educated.
Cultivate the integrity, self-discipline, and ethics of party members and cadres with clean cultural works
Reporter: Literature and art can best represent the style of an era and the best way to lead the atmosphere of an era. As the person in charge of the art academy group, what are the considerations and arrangements for creating clean cultural works and cultivating the social trend of advocating honesty and resisting corruption?
Shen Tiemei: Literature to transform people, day by day new and virtuous. Literary and art workers should give full play to the power of culture, especially to stimulate the functions of self-discipline, indoctrination, and education of a culture of honesty and honesty, and create a cultural atmosphere of "honesty, honor, and greed" in the whole society. We will persist in upholding integrity and innovation, draw wisdom and nutrition from China's excellent traditional culture, dig deep into educational resources from revolutionary culture, gather ideological consensus from advanced socialist culture, guide party members and cadres to adhere to their original intentions and undertake missions with high-quality and high-level clean cultural works, promote the infiltration and edification of literary and artistic works into the process of punishing deterrence, institutional constraints, and raising consciousness, and strive to cultivate the moral conduct of party members and cadres who are honest and self-disciplined.
Wang Fang: The art of opera has a long history, is deeply loved by the public, and is an effective carrier for cultivating the social trend of advocating honesty and resisting corruption. The Art of Su Opera, which I am engaged in, has a gentle and beautiful style, delicate and moving, with a strong Jiangnan flavor and appeal, and can well present and promote the virtues of Chinese inner show, responsibility, and integrity. To promote the creation of clean cultural works, we must first uphold the purpose of taking root in the people and taking root in life, not only to make efforts to excavate classic repertoire, but also to pay attention to the present and express real people and real events with a sense of the times; secondly, opera workers must not only improve their own artistic level, but also improve their ability to read life and reflect life, and integrate the atmosphere of the times into the creation and reflect it in the works; finally, the works must have a sense of truth, resolutely put an end to the "false void", and show the essence of art in the performance of real life. In this way, the repertoire we create and arrange can allow the audience to enjoy the beauty of art, but also be influenced and infiltrated by morality, and enhance the recognition and pursuit of the concept of integrity.
Li Shujian: Yu opera is the largest local drama in the mainland, its singing voice is sonorous and powerful, full of masculinity; its lyrics have also undergone thousands of hammers and hundreds of refinements, with the power to persuade people to be upward and good. For example, "Seven Pin Sesame Officials" Tang Cheng sang "When the official is not the master of the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes", "Qin Xianglian" Bao Gong's lyrics "Tell your parents that they are dead and do not wear filial piety, and wear red clothes in the middle of the dynasty... Love to eat or hometown food, love to wear or coarse cloth clothes, home-cooked meals, coarse cloth clothes, know cold and know hot and tie wives", are all of educational significance. In the new era, to create clean cultural masterpieces and carry forward the clean and healthy atmosphere, we must bear in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's teaching that "the people are life, life is the people", take root in the people, and deeply cultivate the fertile soil. We must have great righteousness in our hearts, shoulder responsibilities, and a clear mind in our writings, consciously draw nourishment and wisdom from the magnificent course of comprehensively and strictly administering the party, and use the vivid practice of the anti-corruption struggle to give the drama real strength. We must have a sense of fine products, strive to make the plot more compact, the lyrics more condensed, and the theme more prominent, and ensure the effective dissemination of the concept of integrity with the excellence of the works.
Create more literary and artistic masterpieces that praise the new era
Reporter: The 20th National Congress of the Party will be held in the second half of this year, which is a major event in the political life of the Party and the state. What are the specific creation and performance plans for greeting the 20th National Congress and reflecting the historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the party and the state in the new era?
Shen Tiemei: The convening of the 20th National Congress is a major event in the political life of the party and the state. It is the duty of literary and art workers to usher in the victory of the Twentieth National Congress and create more artistic masterpieces that reflect the historic achievements of the party and the state in the new era and undergo historic changes. As the person in charge of Chongqing Sichuan Theatre, I will lead the Sichuan Theatre team to use the artistic language of Sichuan opera to depict the magnificent atmosphere of the new era and new journey, and use more excellent works of literary quality and beauty to tell the world the story of China and the wonderfulness of Chongqing, so that people can feel the beauty, feel the happiness and feel the warmth. In 2022, Chongqing Municipal Chuan Theater will continue to promote the exhibition of a new version of the large-scale red classic drama "Sister Jiang", and rehearse the Sichuan opera "General BaManzi", which reflects the "spirit of loyalty and two perfections", so that the audience can feel the lofty and artistic charm of the hero from our meticulously polished and dedicated works, inherit the revolutionary spirit, continue the red blood, and firmly listen to the party, feel the gratitude of the party, and follow the party.
Li Shujian: Striving for a new journey and building a new era of meritorious service. This year, we will gather the elite and strong generals of the subordinate theater troupes to form a first-class creative team to meticulously create a modern drama with anti-corruption themes, and invite a number of plum blossom award artists from various Yu opera genres to join forces to create high-quality masterpieces that reflect the historic and pioneering achievements made in comprehensively and strictly administering the party. In addition, we will also organize a number of excellent plays such as "China Red", "Xiang Police", "Zhang Boxing", "Family Portrait" and other outstanding plays to tour in combination with cultural activities such as going to the countryside, and carry out online live broadcasts and exhibitions, so that more audiences can feel the influence of art, the wealth and strength of the country and the greatness of the times through our works.
Wang Fang: The national pulse and the cultural context are linked, and the national fortune and the cultural transport are connected. This year, our Su Opera Transmission and Protection Center will create a modern opera called "Embroidery Girl". Zhenhu is an important birthplace of Su embroidery, but this town has also taken detours and polluted the environment. In recent years, through the practice of the concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", the scale and brand of 8,000 embroidered women have been formed, and they have successfully embarked on the road to prosperity. "Embroidery Lady" uses the family changes of an embroidered lady in Suzhou Zhenhu to reflect the great changes in the lives of the people in Zhenhu since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China under the guidance of the new development concept, so as to reflect the historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the party and the country in the new era. In addition, we also put the Wenhua Award-winning Su opera "Guoding Soul" on the big screen, using the artistic language of the film to tell the arduous process and great sacrifice of Pan Da in his life to keep, protect and donate, showing the protection and faith of the sons and daughters of China in Chinese culture, and praising our country and the great new era in which we live. The film uses Panda's words when she donated, "I have found a good family for you!" "In the end, this home is the home of the nation, a home in which we were born and so fortunate.
(This article was published in China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Magazine, No. 6, 2022, reporter: Dou Kelin)
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