Since the 7th, the Peking opera "Mother", which has just won the highest award of the 4th Hubei Arts Festival "Chu Tianhua Grand Prize", has been unveiled at the Qintai Grand Theatre and performed twice in the 9th China Peking Opera Arts Festival (Wuhan Exhibition).
The 9th China Peking Opera Arts Festival is hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Beijing Municipal People's Government, and hosted by the Department of Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and was held from September 21 to October 15. Based on the key node of the historical intersection of the "two hundred years" goal, this year's China Peking Opera Arts Festival has launched a number of excellent plays of Acura Party, Acura Motherland, Acura People and Acura Heroes, which will focus on displaying 23 big plays, 4 folding operas and 10 online performances of 27 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and 41 performance groups across the country. Among the selected plays, modern dramas, newly compiled historical dramas, and collation and adaptation of traditional plays are carried out simultaneously, which concentrates on the latest achievements of Peking Opera workers in recording the new era, writing new era, and praising the new era, reflecting the conscious pursuit of Peking Opera workers to cast bacon's soul and keep the integrity and innovation. Among them, the Peking Opera "Mother" has attracted wide attention as a representative work of revolutionary historical themes that excavates red culture and carries forward the red spirit.
Peking Opera "Mother" is created by Wuhan Peking Opera House Co., Ltd. to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the play is written by the famous playwright Zhao Ruitai, directed by the famous director artist Huang Dingshan, the winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award "Second Degree Plum", the president of the Wuhan Peking Opera House Liu Ziwei and the Shanghai Peking Opera House national first-class actor Lan Tian (specially invited) starring. Through the life trajectory of Ge Jianhao, the mother of Cai Hesen, Xiang Jingyu, Cai Chang and Li Fuchun, the early leaders of our party, in order to seek light, the whole drama takes a pair of small feet with children and daughters to struggle and walk, and successfully shapes the typical image of China's extremely epoch-making Chinese mother in the difficult transition from feudal society to democratic revolution.
In the century-long history of struggle led by the Communist Party of China, there is one person who is known as "the most bizarre woman of the twentieth century" - Ge Jianhao, the mother of small feet. This mother rushed out of the feudal cage at the end of the Qing Dynasty, took small feet, and took her children and daughters to the world to pursue light; this mother went from the old democratic revolution to the new democratic revolution, and dedicated her life to the liberation of the Chinese people. Her life's walking condensed an era; This mother nurtured the founders of the party, Cai Hesen, Xiang Jianyu, and the party's early leaders Cai Chang and Li Fuchun, and became a good story in the history of the party; this mother supported her son Cai Hesen's idea of establishing the Communist Party of China, she was a great mother standing behind the party flag; this mother strengthened her ideals and beliefs, and when three outstanding sons and daughters (Cai Hesen, Xiang Jianyu, and Cai Linsheng) were sacrificed, she healed her heart wounds, and led her grandchildren to fight with the party, composing a magnificent ode full of loyalty and martyrdom with her life; the mother went from ordinary to great, He is an outstanding representative of the Chinese people from darkness to light under the leadership of the Communist Party of China! Chairman Mao Zedong wrote down for her: Old Woman, New Woman, Heroine. This mother was not a member of the Communist Party of China, but it was passed down in the "Biography of The Characters of the History of the Communist Party of China" (volume VI), creating a miracle on earth that has been passed down through the ages.
Since its premiere in March 2021, the play has been widely praised by the audience, and in June 2021, as the only play in Wuhan to be selected for the outstanding stage art exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Federation of Chinese Literary and Art Circles, it was also unanimously praised by the participating experts at the expert seminar after the performance. In September, the play participated in the 4th Hubei Arts Festival and won the "Chu Tianhua Award".
After the exhibition, the Peking Opera "Mother" will also meet the audience again at the opening ceremony of the 17th Chinese Drama Festival held in Han on October 9. (Wuhan released Xia Junjun)