On the evening of January 5th, a Peking Opera "Opening Stage", which means that everything goes smoothly, played a new chapter of the Huguang Guild Hall of "There is a play in the hall". After a year and a half of renovation, the Huguang Hall was officially unveiled.
Founded in 1807, Huguang Guild Hall is a national key cultural relics protection unit, integrating the three major cultural contexts of guild hall culture, opera culture and scholar culture, and is one of the important guild halls with opera buildings in Beijing.
The Huguang Guild Hall has left the footprints of many famous artists in Liyuan, such as Mei Lanfang, Tan Xinpei, Chen Delin, Tian Guifeng, Shi Huibao, Wang Junzhi and other Peking Opera masters have performed here. Beginning in the late Qing Dynasty, the "Gengyang Collection" is a ticket club set up by celebrities and famous ticket holders in the Huguang Guild Hall, which is famous all over the country and continues to this day.
It is understood that relying on the "Beijing Opera Museum", the Huguang Guild Hall has planned and launched two special exhibitions. "Juhai Hongmeng" Exhibition of the Birthplace of Peking Opera presents precious opera documents, cultural relics, pictures and audio-visual materials, leading the audience to experience the Peking Opera culture that originated in the fertile soil of Xicheng. The "Majestic Structure" Beijing Huguang Hall History and Culture Exhibition presents the history of Huguang that has gone through vicissitudes in three dimensions with two chapters: "Wencui Huguang" and "Brilliant Huguang".
Since the second half of 2021, Xicheng District has revitalized the space resources of characteristic guild halls according to the architectural and spatial characteristics of the old site of the guild hall, and explored the implementation path to realize the market-oriented operation of the guild hall. Tianqiao Shengshi Group introduces multicultural resources and explores the operation mode of Huguang Guild Hall, the "No. 1 Guild Hall in Contemporary Beijing", and will create a new scene of cultural relics activation and utilization through exhibitions, research, food, tea and other business formats.