On the afternoon of December 16, Guangzhou Library, Red Line Girl Art Center and Xingchen Society held a special activity of "Promoting Lingnan Culture and Inheriting the Essence of Cantonese Opera", organizing visually impaired readers to visit the Red Line Girl Art Center, watch and "watch" the oral documentary "A Generation of Tianjiao - Red Line Girl", and experience "poetry and distance" together.
Although the weather was cold and their vision was limited, the visually impaired people did not reduce their enthusiasm for walking, reading, and visiting. In order to provide a full range of touch reading and listening services for visually impaired readers, Guangzhou Library recruited 20 companion reading volunteers from the School of Foreign Chinese of South China Agricultural University, and trained them before the event to provide professional oral interpretation services for visually impaired readers. On the day of the event, volunteers gathered at Tancun Station of Metro Line 5 to guide visually impaired readers one-on-one and escort them all the way to the destination to participate in the event. The event aims to provide a better reading experience for visually impaired readers.
The docent led the visually impaired readers to visit the Red Line Girl Art Center.
During the activity, volunteers led visually impaired readers to visit the Red Line Girl Art Center, and gave a detailed introduction to the center's architectural style, site layout, resource construction, and collection layout. During the tour, six sculptures of red-line women in different costumes, such as "Cuilian", "Zhaojun Out of the Plug" and "Wang Zhaojun" in "Sou Shuyuan", aroused great interest among visually impaired readers, and everyone carefully read them one by one around the sculptures. In the exhibition hall on the second floor, the narrator led everyone to visit the theme exhibition of "My Life Belongs to Art, My Art Belongs to the People", and introduced and told her life around the artistic life of the red-line girl.
At the end of the day, volunteers led the visually impaired readers to sit in the multi-purpose hall and enjoy the oral documentary "A Generation of Tianjiao - Red Line Girl". The documentary is guided by the Propaganda Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, supervised by the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, and produced by the Red Line Girl Art Center. It is reported that this is the world's first Cantonese opera humanistic documentary spanning Asia, Europe and the United States, and it is also the most comprehensive documentary showing Cantonese opera characters. The film shows many never-before-released photos and video materials, reproducing the important nodes and highlights of the red-line girl's life. In addition, many representative Cantonese opera artists were invited to participate in the performance, which enhanced the sense of opera and appreciation of the documentary.
Visually impaired readers enjoy the oral documentary "A Generation of Tianjiao - Red Line Girl".
The explanations and sharing of the film by Huang Limei, Li Jieying, Lao Yanhe, and Zeng Haiyan, narrators of Xingchen Society, make visually impaired readers truly feel that the red-line girl has been dealing with Cantonese opera all her life. "She has created the 'Red School' art that is well-known at home and abroad, and has created a dazzling stage image, leaving a brilliant chapter in the history of Cantonese opera. Off the screen, the narrator narrates the content of the screen in a flat tone.
The narrator is explaining the documentary "A Generation of Tianjiao - Red Line Girl".
In the interactive session of Cantonese opera knowledge sharing, the staff of the Red Line Girl Arts Center specially prepared the "helmet" (Liyuan jargon, which is the general name for various crowns and hats worn by actors in traditional Chinese opera) in Cantonese opera costumes for readers to wear and experience. Ge Ruijuan, a national second-class actor of the Red Line Girl Art Center, taught the "helmet" on the spot and explained its types and symbolic meanings, as well as related Cantonese opera expertise. The atmosphere of the event was lively, and readers participated in the wearing experience and experienced the charm of Cantonese opera culture.
According to reports, the oral documentary is a public welfare project carried out by Guangzhou Library and Xingchen Club for special groups such as the visually impaired. Since 2021, the two sides have successively jointly carried out oral narration activities for documentaries such as "Rebirth", "Fragrance of Cantonese Rhyme" and "Forbidden City 100", which have been highly praised by visually impaired readers and have great social influence. The special activity of "Promoting Lingnan Culture and Inheriting the Essence of Cantonese Opera" is the first time that an oral documentary has gone out of Guangtu and served the community, and is a cultural and tourism activity specially carried out for the visually impaired. A total of 27 visually impaired people signed up to participate in this event, including 5 visually impaired readers from Shunde, Foshan, which played a positive role in promoting national reading, promoting local traditional culture, and sharing excellent cultural achievements.