This year's Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and Cao Yu Script Award were announced

This year's Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and Cao Yu Script Award were announced

Fifteen actors won the Plum Blossom Award and 6 playwrights won the Cao Yu Script Award

Guangming Daily Nanjing, May 21 (Reporter Li Jinrong) The 30th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and the 24th Cao Yu Script Awards Ceremony ended in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on the 21st, with a total of 15 actors winning the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award that night, and 5 works created by 6 playwrights winning the Cao Yu Script Award.

Stills of the Cantonese opera "Peng Qinghua Folding Zi Opera Special" performed by this year's Plum Blossom Award winner Peng Qinghua. Profile picture

The 30th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Awards kicked off in Nanjing on May 8. This year's live competition and award ceremony was co-sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Chinese Dramatists Association and the Nanjing Municipal People's Government. After fierce competition, the winners of the opera category are Lou Sheng (Wu Opera), Yang Shaopeng (Peking Opera), Huang Qifeng (Peking Opera), Li Xiaoxu (Yue Opera), Huang Yanyan (Puxian Opera), Yang Shengjuan (Qin Cavity), Peng Qinghua (Cantonese Opera), Zhang Xuan (Peking Opera), Wu Meilian (Huang Mei Opera), Xiong Mingxia (Peking Opera), Yu Weigang (Chu Opera), Wu Siting (Gui Opera), Zhang Yan (Sichuan Opera), the drama winner is Tu Songyan, and the opera winner is Wang Lida.

The 24th Cao Yu Script Awards Ceremony was held at the same time, and the drama "Three Bays, That Night" created by Wang Baoshe, the Hunan flower drum drama "Cai Kunshan Cultivating the Field" by Wu Aojun, the drama "Jiake" by Yu Rongjun, the Kunqu opera "Mei Lanfang Meilang" by Luo Zhou, and the opera "Dust Settled" by Feng Bilie and Feng Baiming won the award. The drama "Memory Code" (author Li Ting), Peking Opera "Spring and Autumn Erxu" (author Feng Gang), Peking Opera "Yan'an Past" (author Song Yang, Chen Zhuo), Yao opera "Miss Tong's Battlefield" (author Huang Xiangang), drama "Water of the Waves" (author Mao Jianfeng) were nominated for awards.

Plum blossoms bloomed for 30 years, and the fruits were fruitful. In the evening, some of the previous plum blossom award-winning artists also came to the scene, and the famous rookies jointly interpreted the classics and paid tribute to the century. Zhao Baoxiu, winner of the 5th Plum Blossom Award, and Du Zhenjie, winner of the 22nd Plum Blossom Award, sang the Beijing song "Wing Mei"; Chen Xiaoduo, winner of the 26th Plum Blossom Award, brought excerpts from the classic opera "Carmen"; Zhang Xinyue, winner of the 27th Plum Blossom Awards, performed excerpts from the Peking opera "Noble Concubine Drunk"; Li Shujian, vice chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association and winner of the second plum, performed the excerpts of the Yu opera "Dadeng Dian"; xie Tao, vice chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association and winner of the second plum, performed the excerpts of the Jin opera "Hitting the Golden Branch" Fu Xiru, winner of the 29th Plum Blossom Award, brought excerpts from the modern Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain"; Shang Changrong, honorary chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association and the first plum blossom award winner, Xi Meijuan, winner of the 5th Plum Blossom Award, Wen Yujuan, winner of the 4th Plum Blossom Award, and Guo Guangping, winner of the 27th Plum Blossom Award, jointly brought a poetry recitation of "Meizan Centennial". Mao Weitao and Shen Tiemei, vice chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association and winner of the Plum Blossom Award, sang the opera song "The Great River Rushing Plum Yunnong".

The Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award is the highest award for Chinese drama performing arts approved by the Central Propaganda Department and co-sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Performing Arts and the China Drama Association. Since its inception in 1983, it has always adhered to the pace of the times, people-centered, focused on promoting fine products and cultivating new talents, and selected a total of 696 award-winning actors covering opera, drama, opera, dance drama and other theatrical arts. They have become the main force in the prosperity and development of contemporary Chinese drama. The Chinese Drama Award Cao Yu Script Award is a national professional award for drama script creation approved by the Central Propaganda Department and co-sponsored by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Dramatists Association, and is selected every two years. The organizers said that from the situation of the works submitted nationwide, the theme of this year's Cao Yu Script Awards highlights the two major themes of "building a well-off society in an all-round way" and "a hundred years of the founding of the party", with diversified dramas and wide geographical distribution.

On the occasion of celebrating the centenary of the party and starting a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, the significance of this year's plum blossom award activities is particularly different, which is not only a concentrated display of the new achievements and new appearance of China's theater art since the new era, but also a generous gift presented by the vast number of theater workers to the centennial birthday of the Communist Party of China. From the list of winners of this Year's Plum Blossom Award, we can see that the drama garden of the new era has shown a gratifying atmosphere: all kinds of theater forms have developed in an all-round way, and three generations of dramatists of the old, middle and young generations have passed on the torch. The history and achievements of the Plum Blossom Award and the Cao Yu Script Award fully reflect the prosperity and development of China's drama industry under the leadership of the party, and embody the integrity and innovation of dramatists in the new era.

The live competition of the Plum Blossom Award in the form of repertoire performance is a clear interpretation of advocating the basic performance of theatrical art, and it is also the overall presentation of drama as a comprehensive artistic creation. In this competition, a number of newly created modern dramas competed to appear, focusing on major themes such as "all-round well-off" and "centenary of the founding of the party", composing the main theme of the times, praising the glory of the past century, and showing the enterprising style of realistic theme creation. Sort out and adapt traditional plays and newly edited historical dramas, highlight the traditional skills of singing and playing, and reflect the creative practice of dramatists who adhere to cultural positions, integrate into contemporary consciousness, and consciously inherit and explore "creative transformation and innovative development".

At the awards ceremony that evening, a commemorative plaque award and flag handover ceremony were held in the city where the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award was held. Yang Fengyi, vice chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association, winner of the Plum Blossom Award and famous Kunqu opera performance artist, presented Nanjing with a commemorative plaque to nanjing. The banner of the 31st Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award was handed over to Guangzhou.

Guangming Daily ( 2021-05-22 07 edition)

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