The Jin drama "Under the Rotten Ke Mountain" has tens of millions of fans, starring Xie Tao: This time I want to say thank you to 100 million young people
In 2006, Shanxi's local opera Jin Opera was approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China and included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In the same year, a Jin opera called "Under the Rotten Ke Mountain" began to be rehearsed, and once it appeared, it was performed for a long time, and it has attracted tens of millions of fans in the past 15 years, becoming the most representative repertoire of Jin opera.
This drama is tailor-made by the famous contemporary playwright Mr. Xu Di for Xie Tao, the "first female veteran of Jin Opera" who has won the "Plum Blossom Award" of Chinese drama many times.
In the Jin drama "Under the Rotten Ke Mountain", Zhu Maichen, played by Xie Tao, not only sang the plate style of the Jin opera shengjiao, but also gave full play to the mustache and mouth skills. The degree to which this character has been restored is beyond the repercussions of Xie Tao's previous famous works and all his masterpieces.
Because of the success of "Under the Rotten Ke Mountain", this drama has been transplanted to 7 types of dramas across the country and performed in various places. It can be said that in the opera world, it is already known to everyone. However, because the audience of opera art is gradually decreasing, this name is still very unfamiliar to people who don't watch much opera on weekdays.
In a sense, this is the embarrassment faced by opera, the most classic traditional art in China, in modern life.
However, under the popular trend of "national tide" in recent years, the art of opera has become more and more respected by young people. This trend also made the national style games that are interested in promoting traditional culture yearn for it, and they took the initiative to cooperate with traditional opera art to promote it. The originally niche Jin drama also had the opportunity to be "digital" and enter the lives of young people in a way that is more restored by young people.
Recently, NetEase, which is most keen on promoting opera culture, officially announced that it would cooperate with Mr. Xie Tao to transplant the Jin opera "Under the Rotten Ke Mountain" to the game.
The promotion of opera culture in "Against the Cold" can no longer be described as "love". It not only built a thousand-year-old stage "Liyun Pavilion" in the game, but also spent four whole years in the world, inviting famous domestic opera artists to participate, and then with the help of motion capture and digital restoration, all the five most famous opera arts in China were moved into the game, realizing the "freedom of listening to opera" for players.
Every year in March's "World Drama", "Against the Cold" will add new plays to "Liyun Pavilion". And because the five traditional genres have all been included in "Against the Cold", which genre will appear has become a matter of great concern to players. Under the discovery of players, the names of Jin Opera, Xie Tao and "Under the Rotten Ke Mountain" gradually surfaced.
As early as December 2023, when Mr. Xie Tao participated in the 18th Chinese Theatre Festival, he was invited by "Against the Cold" to perfectly restore the highlights of "Under the Rotten Ke Mountain" to the game, and bring a new experience to the young player group by empowering the art of opera with modern technology.
And being able to become the first non-five opera genres in the "Pear Rhyme Pavilion" of "Against the Cold" is of great benefit to the promotion of the repertoire of "Under the Rotten Ke Mountain" and the dissemination of Jin Opera. After all, this game is the most popular national-level MMO at the moment, and the number of mobile game users has exceeded 100 million.
Therefore, Mr. Xie Tao also said: I want to say thank you to 100 million young people this time. Because it is precisely because young people have begun to pay attention to the art of opera, the craft of opera can be better passed on.
In a few days, the Jin opera "Under the Rotten Ke Mountain" will be officially staged in "Against the Cold", and young audiences who love opera culture will also enjoy a complete show up close in the virtual world.