In the hot land of the Corps, there is a rich cultural atmosphere everywhere, and the intangible cultural heritage is passed down from generation to generation here. Over the years, the Corps has attached great importance to the protection, inheritance and promotion of intangible cultural heritage. The client of the Cloud Corps launched a series of media works that tell the story behind the national "Intangible Cultural Heritage" project of the Corps, "Visiting the Corps' "Intangible Cultural Heritage Treasure"".
Today launched the sixth article: "Yu Rhymes Long, Singing Corps". Let us walk into the "Intangible Cultural Heritage" together, understand the "Intangible Cultural Heritage", and jointly promote the inheritance and protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Corps.
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Yu opera has a long history, as early as the Qing Dynasty, Yu opera has become a more influential opera genre in Henan; by the 1950s, Yu opera has spread throughout the north and south of the river.
In the process of its formation and development, Yu opera has absorbed the artistic factors of Kun Cavity, Gao Cavity, Leather Spring and other vocal cavity dramas, and at the same time widely absorbed the popular music, music and rap and folk songs of Henan, forming the art of Yu Opera today.
Yu opera took root and grew up in the Corps
In 1954, The Yu opera master Chang Xiangyu led a group into Xinjiang to perform condolences and performances, which opened the prelude to the development of Yu opera in Xinjiang. After the establishment of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a large number of Henan people took root in the Corps, and Yu opera and Yu opera culture also entered the Corps. In 1959, the Corps gave birth to the first professional Yu opera group, the Yu Opera Troupe of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Subsequently, Yu Opera Troupes were established in various parts of the Corps, which opened a new period of vigorous development of Yu Opera in the Corps.
▲Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Yu Opera Troupe
These Yu opera groups, while inheriting and developing Yu opera, have also cultivated the soil for Yu opera to take root and grow in the corps.
In 2021
Yu opera, declared by the Corps, was selected
The fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects
The Bingtuan Yu Opera Troupe became the protective unit of Xinjiang Yu Opera
Yu opera sings a unique charm in the corps
Locally based
The theme selection is closer to reality
The Yu opera people of the Corps pay attention to excavating local story materials to create Yu opera works, such as "Ying Wu Xiang Fei" and "Grassland Love" and a large number of plays that reflect national unity, especially the military reclamation theme Yu operas such as "Tianshan People's Home", "Desert Poplar", and "Gobi Mother" rehearsed in recent years, which also reflect the spiritual qualities of the Corps people who love the motherland, selfless dedication, hard struggle, and pioneering and enterprising.
▲ Click on the video to watch the performance excerpt of the modern Yu opera "Gobi Mother"
Inclusive
Multi-ethnic fusion of performance styles
According to the actual situation of the multi-ethnic concentration of the Corps, in the Corps, people interpret ethnic minority figures in the form of Yu opera, and in the performance, they use actions with ethnic minority characteristics such as shaking shoulders, twisting the neck, and flipping the wrists, showing the artistic characteristics of the multi-ethnic masses co-creating and co-performing.
▲Yu opera "YingWu Xiangfei"
Be actively innovating
Discover the performance program of modernity
The biggest highlight of the innovation of Yu opera by the Bingtuan Yu Opera Group is that the combination of modern song and dance with traditional opera programs not only caters to the aesthetic needs of traditional audiences, but also wins the favor of more young people for the integration of modern songs and dances.
▲Modern Yu opera "Tianshan Snow Lotus"
Yu opera developed in the inheritance of the Corps
In recent years, the Corps has promoted the inheritance and development of Yu opera in the Corps by strengthening the protection and inheritance of opera, supporting the creation and production of fine opera products, encouraging grass-roots performances under opera, and improving the training and guarantee mechanism of opera talents, so as to revitalize Yu opera in the corps.
Facing the grassroots, let Yu opera take root on the stage of the people
The Yu Opera Troupe of the Corps has extensively carried out the activities of "sending opera to the countryside" and "sending opera to the campus", so that the art of Yu opera can enter the fields and enter the border troupe. Nearly 100 huimin performances every year not only honed the cast, but also made Yu opera cultivate a deep mass base in the corps.
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Carry forward the excellent Yu opera and show the charm of "intangible cultural heritage"
In order to make it more convenient for the public to watch Yu opera, the Bingtuan Yu Opera Troupe also launched the classic origami opera online exhibition and performance month activity, through the launch of classic Yu opera works on new media platforms such as WeChat public account, douyin, kuaishou, etc., so that more people can feel the charm of this "intangible heritage" art.
▲On the WeChat public account, Douyin and Kuaishou platforms, users can easily watch classic Yu opera repertoire by entering the official account of the "Bingtuan Yu Opera Troupe".
Committed to inheritance and cultivation of opera talents
Yu opera should not only "sing" well, but also "inherit" well. The Bingtuan Yu Opera Troupe attaches great importance to the cultivation of opera talents. At present, young actors such as Zhang Peipei, Yang Guanggao, Tao Qingqing, as the fourth generation of inheritors of Yu opera, have gradually become the backbone of the development of the troupe, and Zhang Peipei is one of the leaders.
Since 2019, Zhang Peipei has won the 29th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and the 30th Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performing Arts Award, becoming the first plum blossom award and magnolia award winner among Xinjiang Hebingtuan theater actors, and also been selected for the 2021 National Opera Performance Leading Talent Training Program. Zhang Peipei's excellent achievements have become a microcosm of the emphasis on talent training attached by the Bingtuan Yu Opera Troupe in recent years.
▲ Zhang Peipei, a young actor of the Corps Yu Opera Troupe
Zhang Peipei' teachers Chengchang Xiaoyu and Bai Wenzhi, mainly focusing on Boumen Dan Qingyi, have starred in dozens of plays such as Yu opera "Tianxue", "Desert Poplar", "Gobi Mother" and so on. In order to play a living character, a simple action often makes Zhang Peipei practice thousands of times in front of the mirror, and more than ten years of persistence have honed Zhang Peipei's profound Yu opera performance skills.
Recently
With the strong support of the Corps
The Bingtuan Yu Opera Troupe continues to emerge as opera talents
Many award-winning plays!
The Corps Yu Theatre Company has won major awards in recent years
In 2008
Yu opera modern drama "Tianxue" was selected as a national stage art masterpiece funded play,
Won eight awards, including the "Best Repertoire" Award of the Autonomous Region Culture and Art Festival.
Won the "First Prize" of the Corps Wenhua Award for Outstanding Repertoire Award
In 2009
Won the Best "Honor Award" of the Third National Local Opera Outstanding Repertoire Exhibition,
Won eight awards including the "Best Repertoire" award of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Cultural and Art Festival celebrating the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
He won the "Five One Project" award for the construction of spiritual civilization at the corps level
In 2013
Yu opera modern drama "Tianshan Renjia" won the "Cultural Repertoire Award"
In 2016
Participated in the Outstanding Repertoire exhibition of Yu Opera held by the Ministry of Culture, henan cultural department and Henan Yu Theater in Beijing and won the "Special Contribution Award"
In 2018
The modern Yu opera "Gobi Mother" won eight awards such as the "Repertoire Gold Award" of the 8th Yellow River Drama Festival
In 2019
Zhang Peipei, the protagonist of "Gobi Mother", won the 29th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award.
"Gobi Mother" was nominated for the 12th China Arts Festival
In 2020
Zhang Peipei, the protagonist of the Yu opera "Gobi Mother", won the 30th Shanghai Magnolia Performing Arts Protagonist Award.
The Yu opera "When the Jujube Is Red" won the "Best Repertoire" award at the 9th Yellow River Drama Festival
Note: Awards are not fully counted
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Information and photos / Provided by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Declaration Team of the Corps Yu Opera Troupe
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