......On December 28, "Cantonese rhyme sings the new Baiyun" - the 2023 Baiyun District Sending Opera to the Countryside Literary and Artistic Performance Activity came to Huakeng Village, Zhongluotan Town, and the Baiyun District Quyi Artists Association took turns to stage wonderful traditional excerpts and sketches of Cantonese opera, enriching the cultural life of the villagers and meeting the spiritual and cultural needs of the grassroots people.
The live interpretation of "Di Qing Breaks the Three Levels", "The Palace of Eternal Life on July 7", "Flowers and the Full Moon", "Blind Gong Asks Rice", "Lalang with the Flute" and other programs made the audience full of praise and continuous appeals.
The audience shouted "Come back for the New Year!" and "See you next year!" to praise the show. Adults and children, men, women and children are in an endless stream, sit early and wait for the play to open, immerse themselves in the play, the atmosphere is pleasant, the villagers all say that it is better to let children know more about traditional culture than to watch TV and play with mobile phones at home, I hope this kind of activity will be frequent.
Li Zhiliang, chairman of the Baiyun District Quyi Artists Association, said that as one of the intangible cultural heritages, Cantonese opera is carried out to send operas to the countryside to carry out theatrical performances, in order to enrich the spiritual food of the masses, deepen the people's understanding of Cantonese opera, and better inherit the Cantonese opera culture, and at the same time promote the implementation of the town's "Millions of Thousands Project" and jointly promote rural revitalization.
In 2024, under the guidance of the Baiyun District Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Baiyun District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, the association will continue to bring traditional opera culture such as Cantonese opera to the grassroots level, promote the dissemination, popularization and inheritance of opera art in rural areas of Baiyun, and let more new forces learn about this kind of traditional culture.