On July 4th, on the stage of the 3rd Jilin Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival of the Wonderful Night • 2021 Summer Performance Season, the Henan Yu Theater Youth Troupe unveiled the classic play "Vatican Palace" at the Changchun Confucian Temple Square.
Yu opera is a national intangible cultural heritage project, as one of the exhibition and performance of the third Jilin Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival, Henan Yu Theater Youth Troupe presented an unforgettable intangible cultural heritage show for the people of Jilin with a luxurious performance lineup and exquisite performance skills.
"Fan WangGong" is a work created by the Yu opera master Chen Suzhen in 1937, also known as "Luoyang Bridge" and "Yelü Hanyan". The play tells the story of a ridiculous marriage between the aristocratic maiden Yelü Hanyan and the beautiful teenager Hua Yunyin and Yang in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty.
The performance of the evening was led by Wu Suzhen, a national first-class actor of the Henan Yu Theater Youth Troupe and the winner of the "Plum Blossom Award", in the repertoire, she used Hua Dan's steps and figures, as well as techniques such as "throwing big braids", "dressing smartly", "dancing fans" and other techniques, the stage steps danced in a graceful posture, the body was beautiful and beautiful, the singing voice was ups and downs, fully mobilized the opera programs such as singing, reading, doing, and dancing, using a large number of actions refined from life, and successfully shaped the character image of Yelü Hanyan's innocent and innocent and charming characters. A series of difficult and vivid eyes, steps, shapes and other physical expressions made the audience call out wonderful, and many audiences said that they felt the deep charm of intangible cultural heritage and the importance of non-genetic inheritance through the performance.
In the wonderful night Jilin 2020 summer performance season held last year and the opening ceremony of the second Jilin Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival, the Henan Yu Theater Youth Troupe left a deep impression on the people of Jilin with a play "Mu Guiying Hanging Commander", this year, the organizer once again invited the Henan Yu Theater Youth Troupe to perform in Changchun, and the original Yu cavity Yu tone made the Jilin people more and more loved, and also had more cordial feelings.
"Henan Yu Theater is the fourth time to perform in Changchun, and many old Changchun audiences have said that Yu opera is very good after watching it. In terms of pronunciation, Yu opera is more easy to understand, Changchun audiences understand That there is no obstacle to Yu opera, and artistic means such as singing and playing can also adapt to this soil. Guan Xiaoyu, head of the Henan Yu Theater Youth League and deputy secretary of the party branch, introduced that they crossed more than a thousand kilometers to the Jilin Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival, recreated the traditional play "Fan Wang Palace", and through many days of rehearsal, deep processing, and then improvement, they wanted to better present this play to the audience, so that the audience would recognize Yu opera more after watching it.
Fu Huiqun, a citizen who lives near the Temple of Literature, said: "I think tonight's Yu opera is particularly wonderful, the actors' makeup is very beautiful, their expressions and actions are in place, and their singing is full of charm, and the wonderful night Performance in Jilin made us feel the charm of the traditional national culture and opera art, and made our amateur life more colorful."
In addition to the wonderful intangible cultural heritage drama performances, in Changchun Confucian Temple Square, more than 50 long-established brands loved by the people, ethnic flavors and cuisines, as well as intangible cultural heritage traditional skills and traditional art, attracted a large number of citizens to linger. Close to the intangible cultural heritage, watching the performance, three or five friends, the whole family out, the refreshing Jilin summer has more of a cultural sweetness and happy taste.
China Jilin Network Jike APP reporter Yang Difan/Wen
Image source: Department of Culture and Tourism of Jilin Province