On October 13, the 2024 Douyin Opera Culture and Art Festival ended in the ancient city of Langya, Linyi, Shandong, with a series of activities such as theme performances, intangible cultural heritage markets, garden check-ins, and online challenges. At 7 p.m. that night, famous actors and actresses of Peking Opera, Ping Opera, Huangmei Opera, Yue Opera, Henan Opera, Huai Opera, Hebei Bangzi and other operas gathered together to join hands with pop singers such as Dai Quan and Liu Yu and more than 500 Douyin creators to create a brilliant night of opera, and more than 8.39 million netizens watched it online in the Douyin live broadcast room.
The performance scene of the "Tide Rises in the East" Douyin Opera Culture and Art Festival
The event was hosted by the Linyi Hedong District Culture and Tourism Bureau and Douyin. The theme of the event is "The Tide Rises in the East", implying the integration of traditional oriental opera culture and modern trends. The theme performance is connected by "I Love Chinese Opera", which is divided into four chapters: Beautiful, Flowing Clouds, League of Legends, and One Sword in Ten Years, @王宁 opera anchors active on Douyin such as Beijing Peking Opera Company @淮剧陈澄 @黄梅戏陈燕 @裘丹莉, bringing wonderful performances to the audience.
The famous artists of Liyuan gathered together, and the southern and northern tones took turns to appear
This performance brought together local operas from different regions, and a number of Chinese Theatre Plum Blossom Award winners and local famous actors gathered together. @富美青年英歌队 The opening ceremony will be a lively opening with the singing and dancing of the intangible cultural heritage of the Chaoshan area, and the "whole work" of the martial arts of various operas will show the top skills, hat wing skills, and stilt skills, as well as the Peking Opera version of the "League of Legends" composed of multiple heroic dramas, as well as excerpts from Shandong's local operas such as Lv Opera, Maoxiang Opera, and Liuqin Opera, which will take turns to bring the audience a "Southern and Northern Tune" opera performance.
Douyin creator @Fumei Youth Ying Song Team brings intangible cultural heritage song and dance performances
Li Yumei, the winner of the Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre and a close disciple of Zhao Lirong, opened a "beautiful" chapter with a high-pitched and generous excerpt from Hebei Bangzi's "Da Dengdian". The national first-class actor from the Shanghai Yue Opera Theater @ Qiu Danli is Fu Pai Hua Dan, she has performed for the top leaders of China and France, and this time she brought "Diao Chan Worshipping the Moon" shows the beauty and elegance of Yue Opera. Tan Xiaozeng, the sixth generation of Peking Opera Tanmen, and Tan Zhengyan, the seventh generation, performed "Dingjun Mountain" in the finale, showing the quintessence of the country. Luo Huiqin, the inheritor of Pingju, Lian Dezhi, a disciple of the Changpai of Henan Opera, and Tang Kai, a great martial artist of Peking Opera, also brought classics of the genre.
The inheritance and innovation of the opera industry is "a good play" in itself. Chen Cheng, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage "Huai Opera" who brought the performance of "· Wang Yulian" this time, his father is Chen Delin, the founder of the Huai Opera Chen School, and his mother Huang Sulin is a famous Huai Opera performance artist. Now, Chen Cheng shares on Douyin the singing, costumes and makeup of popular science dramas in front of and behind the scenes. Since opening the Douyin account @淮drama陈成 in 2017, she has successively released more than 1,000 short videos and gained more than 330,000 fans, and is affectionately called "Huaiju Princess" by young netizens on Douyin.
"There are a lot of post-95 and post-00 fans in my live broadcast room, and wherever I go to perform, I buy tickets to support the theater as soon as possible." Chen Cheng said that the live broadcast has broken the restrictions on the number of seats and geographical space in the theater, and now many young audiences fall in love with opera and enter the theater through the small screen.
Chen Cheng's Douyin account @淮drama陈澄
Integrating classics and pop, traditional opera "glows" vitality
In this year's Douyin Opera Culture and Art Festival, the integration of tradition and modernity is a major feature of the performance. A national first-class actor from Huangmei Drama Theater in Hubei Province @黄梅operaChen Yan, cross-border cooperation @ rhythm tribe vocal combination, and the vocals imitate the sound of percussion instruments such as gongs and drums.
Pop musician @我千千, who is known for his "opera singing" style, sang songs such as "Wukong", and he recalled the creative journey of being "exposed to traditional culture" in Huangmei Opera School when he was a child, hoping to combine Chinese folk elements with pop music. The national style singer @刘宇Yu used a song "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" to take the audience to a paradise, and sang the song "Huangmei Opera" with her mother Chen Baoxia on the same stage. Peking Opera Kunsheng actor @Peking Opera Meichen partnered with musician @龍Meng寺寬度, and the two used the song "Wujia Po 2021" to tell Wang Baochuan's love story. The @Badoucai Band, which participated in the soundtrack of the movie "Man Jianghong", integrated the singing of Henan Opera into the rock style. In addition, many Douyin creators such as Cantonese Chinese style initiator @陈艺鹏 (Cantonese opera dialect), @刘丰, and @朱与墨 took the stage to sing. Liu Feng released a clip of "Exploring the Qingshui River" on Douyin in advance, and many Douyin musical instrument experts "moved when they heard the sound" and released a fancy playing video, and netizens sighed that this 2018 popular drama song "Exploring the Qingshui River" is back.
National style singer @刘宇Yu and her mother Chen Baoxia sang the song "Huangmei Opera"
Chinese opera is a broad and profound stage performance art, and when it collides with other art forms, it is often inclusive and integrated. Peking Opera actor @Wang Ning Beijing Peking Opera Company, who participated in the performance of the "League of Legends" chapter, often connects with the inheritors of other dramas in the live broadcast room, and he also connects vocal and instrumental singers and performers to communicate and learn. As the fourth-generation successor of the Peking Opera Yan School, Wang Ning has taken on the mission of inheriting the Yan School, and he regards live broadcast as the most important work in addition to daily performances, "Live broadcast is a new platform for us opera people to communicate and learn, and it is also an important stage for me to spread the art of Peking Opera and Yan School." ”
@王宁 Beijing Peking Opera Company presents excerpts from "The Battle of the Northern Plains".
Opera is not only a singing and chanting on the stage, but also an opera culture derived from its costumes, makeup and other elements, which is becoming an important part of the national style. On Douyin, the creator uses opera to explain film and television dramas, wears costumes to check in cultural and tourism attractions, "Shengdan Jingmo Ugly" makeup and face challenge...... "Everything can be opera", these opera elements integrated into daily life make netizens feel that "the DNA engraved in the bones has moved", and the "advancing with the times" in the form of opera communication will also let more young audiences realize the beauty of traditional art.
It is reported that there are 348 types of opera in the mainland, more than 260 of which have been broadcast live on Douyin, and 2,975 professional opera actors and 204 theater troupes have settled in, with a total of more than 100 million views. Douyin live broadcast rewards have brought new income to more than 10,000 rare drama actors in one year.
New media such as live streaming and short videos have not only become the "second stage" for opera performances, but also provide a platform for opera masters to communicate with the public and inherit and promote traditional opera culture. The relevant person in charge of Douyin said that the platform will continue to support the creation of excellent traditional culture, and help traditional cultural anchors connect and resonate with new scenes and new groups of people through the traffic support of the "DOU has a good show" plan and the creation of online programs.
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