The full name of the Plum Blossom Award is "Chinese Drama Award Plum Blossom Performance Award", in 1983 the first appraisal was conducted, then called "Plum Blossom Award", from the fourteenth, the organizer was changed to the China Federation of Literature and Literature and the China Dramatists Association, with an administrative nature. Since the 11th edition, the second degree plum has been added, since the 17th edition, the actors of the folk professional theater troupe have been added, and the plum blossom award has been added since the 19th session.
The Plum Blossom Award is currently the highest award for the performing arts of theatre in mainland China, and is held every two years to recognize young and middle-aged theater actors who have made outstanding achievements in the performing arts (press, this is the threshold of art) (according to this, this is the age threshold). Due to age restrictions, people like Zhao Yanxia, Li Shiji, Tong Zhiling, Du Jinfang, Li Yuru, Wu Suqiu, Mei Baojiu, Li Hezeng, Tan Yuanshou, Feng Zhixiao, Fang Rongxiang, Li Changchun, Xu Yulan, Wang Wenjuan, Li Moran... These theater masters who were still active on the stage at that time were not among the selections.
It can be seen that the performing arts level of the winners of the Plum Blossom Award is not the highest level of the entire theater industry, but is limited to a certain age range.
Song Dandan
In 1993, there was a scandal against the principle of fairness in the selection of the Plum Blossom Award, and this year's "Plum Blossom Award" added four more winners ten days later (many years later, there was a public article saying that this was indeed caused by some judges' favoritism), so that the winner of the year, Song Dandan, a drama actor who Chinese art (at that time she had not yet divorced Yingda, and her father-in-law Ying Ruocheng was then the vice minister of culture) issued a statement refusing to accept the plum blossom award, which became a sensation.
Song Dandan's statement explained the reason for refusing to accept the plum blossom award: "In order to preserve the sacredness of my artistic pursuit and the innocence of personality and drama in my heart, I have decided to refuse to accept this tainted 'plum blossom award'. That year's plum blossom award was tarnished, and some people called the plum blossom award "mold flower award". Although it has been 29 years since this incident, the audience's doubts about the Plum Blossom Award seem to have never stopped. The following is an excerpt of three recent needleworks made by netizens from all over the world on certain phenomena that have appeared in the recommendation and selection process of the Plum Blossom Award, and their contents can be reflected with the phenomena I have observed and heard:
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Jing, Yue, Kun, Wu, Qin, Huangmei... How do they compare together? How do the judges distinguish and confirm? Plum Blossom Award winners, everyone is "plum blossom fragrance from bitter cold" but I don't know how much gold? How much water is contained. The judges did not dare to guess how much they mastered the skills of each kind of drama, but they admired the erudition and courage of the judges, and they did not dare to trust the honor of the winners.
Many viewers think that the gold content of the Plum Blossom Award is not as good as in the past, indeed! For example, at present, the number of selection places for the Plum Blossom Award for Opera Actors alone in each session has reached 15, and the threshold has naturally been lowered, and the number is not low. To take another example, for example, Li Li of Tianjin regrettably failed to be elected that year, and Kang Wansheng may not have been qualified for recommendation... Can the performance level of some award-winning actors in recent sessions surpass or rival Li Li and Kang Wansheng?
What is the plum blossom award, that is, there is a million, and then there is a relationship, you are successful.
In a municipality directly under the central government, the actors participating in the Plum Blossom Award need to hold a personal performance and need to pay 250,000 out of pocket, which is my own experience.
Li Ni and Sun Luyang are the two of them
Didn't even get a chance to get a plum blossom award on stage?
In that year, the Beijing Opera Association recommended three people to participate in the selection of the Plum Blossom Award, and Li Ni, a Huadan actor at the China Critics Theatre, wrote an article publicly questioning the impartiality of the Beijing Opera Association on the Internet, pointing out that one of the Kunqu teachers who had almost never acted in the opera was selected, and most of the selected actors did not have the performance level of their lover Sun Luyang (wei pai hua face actor), while Sun Luyang was not recommended.
I believe that the above situations are certainly individual cases, but their impact on the credibility of the Plum Blossom Awards should not be taken lightly. As the saying goes: A mouse spoils a pot of porridge, and the reason lies in this.
The Plum Blossom Award has contributed to the promotion of the development of theatrical art, fairness and justice and the purity of art are its greatest values, otherwise, it would not be a distant thing to become a "chicken rib".