After 95, Gao Xin wore a phoenix crown and a female python, with a high-pitched and clear voice, and performed the Peking Opera "Drunken Concubine" vividly with Meipai singing. Under the long-lost sunshine of Shencheng, the plane tree in front of Xiangyang Park quietly became shady, and the audience in the front row of the audience closed their eyes slightly, followed by a gentle beat, and the song was still lingering at the end.
Yesterday (13th), the performance brought by the Xietu Street Community Cultural Activity Center is also the first performance of the 2024 Mass Culture Week Weekly Performance in Xuhui District. As an important part of the Xuhui District Citizen Cultural Festival, during the "Weekly Performance", the District Culture and Tourism Bureau joined hands with 13 towns to select representative and popular programs to hold special performances, and deliver a spring literary and artistic feast to the public at the "doorstep" every weekend with a frequency of two performances per week.
Under the stage, the pre-arranged chairs and stools were already full, and the standing audience also surrounded the three layers inside and three layers outside. In the crowd, Zhang Junjun followed and hummed softly. She is a new Shanghainese born in the 90s, and she inadvertently stopped by shopping, and the familiar singing reminded her of her grandfather who loved Peking Opera, and inadvertently swelled with that emotion.
Over the years, Xuhui District has played a nourishing and leading role in social aesthetic education, highlighting the cultural characteristics of "one street, one product", and shaping and cultivating distinctive cultural brands and literary teams, covering vocal music, dance, opera, folk songs, dramas, pingtan and other artistic categories.
For example, in the six years since its establishment, the Xietu Street community opera culture brand "Rihui Youxi" has become an important platform for opera lovers to communicate, and has held nearly 500 opera-themed activities, serving more than 45,000 people. During this period, a group of "people's stars" like Sun Art have emerged, who love to perform for community residents on weekdays, and aunts and uncles in the community know them. "They are not only a vital force in the cultural ecology of the masses, but also an endogenous driving force and vitality for spreading humanities and arts and participating in community governance. The relevant person in charge of the Xietu Community Cultural Activity Center said that the "Zhou Zhou Performance" stage provides a platform for the "people" to show themselves and shine, and also shows the cultural demeanor and spiritual outlook of the citizens.
Gao Xin's job is a Peking Opera makeup artist, and by chance he met the Xietu Street Qunwen team and joined the white-collar Peking Opera Club. In recent years, he has clearly felt that more and more young people are watching Peking Opera in the audience. "When the stage is moved into the park, anyone who passes by, regardless of age or occupation, will have the opportunity to learn about Peking Opera and bring the art of opera to thousands of households. ”
Next, during the "Weekly Performance", all streets and towns in Xuhui District will "show their family backgrounds and show their unique skills", and form special performances with representative and popular programs that the masses like to see. For example, the creation of micro-dramas in Lingyun Street, the shadow puppet show in Kangjian Street, and the Red Maple Chorus Festival in Tianlin Street.
"We deliberately chose to set the stage in an outdoor open space for the 'Weekly Performances' series. According to the relevant person in charge of the Xuhui District Culture and Tourism Bureau, in recent years, the cultural atmosphere of Xujiahui Park and Xiangyang Park has become increasingly strong, and brands such as "Weekly Concert" and "Wutong Concert" have become increasingly loud. "We hope to open the wonderful cultural performances to the public, benefit all age groups to the greatest extent, and let the citizens fully participate in and experience the culture. In the next "May Day" holiday, the special performance will also be embedded in the national intangible cultural heritage project "Shanghai Longhua Temple Fair", which will be staged in Longhua Civic Square.