"The new crown virus is coming to the front, the angel in white is rushing forward, why is it charging forward?" They are giving up their small families and caring for everyone to fight against the virus..." On the afternoon of March 22, in the live broadcast of "Rap Puyang" Douyin, the newly edited Yu drama "Tribute to angels in white" sung by liang Keke, a post-90s opera actor, attracted more than 3,000 people to watch. The whole live broadcast lasted about 3 hours, and she and 6 other opera actors took turns to appear on the stage, presenting a good play for netizens.
Affected by the epidemic, Puyang County, Henan Province, suspended this year's drama sending to the countryside, Liang Keke's troupe moved the stage into the Douyin live broadcast room, and the rural singing opera became an online live broadcast. In more than a month, the live broadcast room has accumulated more than 100,000 people every day, half of whom are compatriots in other provinces.
Netizens have commented that online listening to drama has retrieved childhood memories, and the rural voice can be heard thousands of miles away. Zhang Xiangbin, the creator of the account and the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage, said that the live broadcast room has become a new opera stage, injecting new vitality into the inheritance of opera culture.
The opera actors of "Rap Puyang" are rehearsing in the live broadcast room.
Live singing fellows thousands of miles away to watch
Every day at 3 p.m., the "Rap Puyang" vibrato live broadcast room will start on time, and chen Hua, an old opera fan, will watch for a while as long as he is idle, and hum a few words. After inadvertently brushing the account during the Spring Festival this year, he was attracted by the professional singing voice of the actors, and even ordered a play and had a drama addiction.
Like Chen Hua, there are not a few people who have become online fans of "Rap Puyang". The account began live broadcasting on February 6 this year, with 38,000 fans in more than a month, with an average of more than 100,000 daily viewers. However, when it comes to the original intention of the creation of "Rap Puyang", Zhang Xiangbin said that this is a helpless move, because the epidemic troupe has been unable to perform for many months, and the "sending drama to the countryside" that has been done in previous years cannot be carried out. "It's a pity that such a good team can't perform, and after much consideration, we changed the 'sending the drama to the countryside' to an online live broadcast, taking into account the epidemic prevention and control and the needs of the villagers."
What Zhang Xiangbin did not expect was that when it began broadcasting on June at the beginning of the first month, it attracted the attention of many netizens, and the number of real-time viewers of the first session was six or seven thousand. On the same day, a Puyang fellow who worked in Guangzhou entered the live broadcast room and soon pulled his parents in to listen to the play together. The fellow said that every year when he returned to his hometown, he would take his parents to a neighboring village to watch a play, and this year because he could not return to his hometown because of the epidemic, he has been searching for various opera videos on the Internet and sending them to his parents. Many times searched for unsuccessfully, until the "Rap Puyang" live broadcast room made his eyes light up, and immediately pulled his parents into the live broadcast room.
The reason why "Rap Puyang" quickly became popular is inseparable from the strength of the actors, in addition to Zhang Xiangbin is the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project, there are also winners of the national qu art "Peony Award", henan satellite TV "Pear Garden Spring" column annual finals of gold, silver and bronze awards, etc., professional ability is excellent. According to Ji Houzhen, the head of operation of the "Rap Puyang" account and the head of the Puyang County Revitalization Quyi Rap Group, there are more than 20 people in their group, and the people who participate in the live broadcast of Douyin are all business backbones, and the 15 opera programs rehearsed have been on CCTV 6 times.
Fans from Guangzhou to Hangzhou, Wuhan to Kunming, Guizhou, Ji Houzhen said that more and more Henan compatriots who work in other places poured into the live broadcast room, listening to the drama across the screen every day and relieving their homesickness. Up to now, more than half of the fans outside the province in the "Rap Puyang" live broadcast room have been more than half, and the Yu opera and the classic songs of the big flat tune that cannot be heard in the hometown can be listened to for two or three hours in the live broadcast room.
Many fans praised the opera actors.
Income growth makes artistic heritage more motivating
Passed down from the Tang and Song dynasties, the "big string drama" that preceded the Yuan miscellaneous drama, as well as the "big flat tune", "qu opera", "falling drama", etc., Puyang County has so far circulated 21 kinds of native local dramas in Henan, which is a well-deserved "drama nest". But these classic operas have also encountered inheritance problems in recent years. Zhang Xiangbin's stage career has exceeded 40 years, witnessing the rise and fall of drama, once a temple fair hundreds of people from ten miles and eight townships came to listen to the play, and now the number of people watching the theater is slowly decreasing.
"I'm 58 years old, and singing, writing lyrics, and arranging plays have been routines for more than 40 years. I really didn't expect that our local drama could be so popular on TikTok. Zhang Xiangbin said that when performing in the countryside before, the people who watched the play were generally over 50 years old, and there were hundreds of spectators at most, but thousands of people in the douyin live broadcast room watched the play at the same time, and the vast majority of fans were young people.
The traditional opera industry under the impact of the epidemic has shown a bright willow through live broadcasting, not only in the youth of the fan group, but also in the increase in the income of opera actors, making the inheritance of opera more motivated. Ji Houzhen introduced that before the income of opera actors had two parts, one was that the troupe undertook the county's rural performances, performed more than 100 times a year, and there would be certain government subsidies, which could ensure the basic clothing and props expenditure. On the other hand, some actors will also take over some performances in hotels and temple fairs, and under normal circumstances, the cost of a singing performance is only 500 yuan. After the launch of the live broadcast, the troupe also had some new income, and this recognition of traditional culture made the actors feel very pleased.
In addition, during the live broadcast, some netizens directly commented on the level of singing, giving opera actors the opportunity to accept more suggestions. "Online performances do not need to be staged, nor do we need to get up early and rush to the scene, so that we have more time to practice our basic skills, and there is also time for rehearsal in the troupe, and we can use more time to create new plays." Liang Keke said.
With the increasing number of audiences, the account operation of "Rap Puyang" is also more professional. Zhang Xiangbin said that they plan to take the live broadcast of Fuhua Road to a higher level, after the end of the epidemic, they will continue to promote the "sending drama to the countryside", set up the live broadcast in the nursing home or village, so that more people who love to listen to the drama can listen to the drama and listen to the good drama, and strive to make the "rap Puyang" vibrato live broadcast room become Puyang's new cultural business card.
"Live broadcasting gives us, the opera dreamers who grew up on the banks of the Yellow River, have a new stage, and with the recognition of the audience, we must do our best to continue." Zhang Xiangbin said. (Source: Dahe News, Mammoth News, etc., Editor: Qin Daixin)