Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-media reporter Huang Zhouhui Correspondent Tan Baguio tu, video/organizer provided
Listen to Cantonese cross-talk on the Pearl River - Guangzhou citizens and foreign tourists have a new choice to understand Guangzhou's culture.
The inaugural flight ceremony and press conference of "Pearl Water Centennial South Laughing Forest" was held a few days ago. Guided by Guangzhou Liwan District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, guangzhou bus group passenger ferry co., LTD. and Huang Junying Art Museum, the project will be officially launched on July 24. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
Cross-talk and sketches are popular rap performance arts that the people like, are widely circulated and popular, especially the Cantonese cross-talk rooted in the local area, and are a wonderful flower of Lingnan culture.
Founded in the 1950s by Huang Junying, Yang Da and other artists of the older generation, Cantonese cross-talk has become a well-known art in Guangdong with the growth of several generations in Guangdong. Cantonese cross-talk uses the art form that the masses like to hear, works hard with heart and affection, lyrically writes about the people, depicts the people, and sings about the people, and is deeply loved by the broad masses of the people.
At the inaugural flight ceremony, 86-year-old Cantonese cross-talk performance artist Wong Chun-ying came to witness and encouraged the younger generation of cross-talk actors to work hard. Huang Junying said that combined with the Pearl River Tour Project, the launch of the Water Cross-Talk Theater is an unprecedented innovation.
He hopes to show the charm of Cantonese culture, especially Cantonese cross-talk, to tourists across the country through this theater, and also hopes to use this performance platform to give cross-talk actors more opportunities to take the stage to practice, polish and acclaimed works.
Huang Jie, head of the Huang Junying Art Museum, said that to promote Cantonese cross-talk, it is necessary to take the road of marketization. According to market demand, they will launch special cross-talk with different themes including red education, urban construction, fire safety and so on. At the same time, it will also accelerate the cultivation of a new generation of actors and create a number of Cantonese cross-talk works that meet the characteristics of the new era.
According to reports, the "Pearl Water Centennial Nanxiaolin" water cross-talk theater will be combined with the "Guangfu Cultural Theme Ship" of Guangzhou Bus Group Passenger Ship Co., Ltd., docked at Huangsha Wharf to receive tourists from all over the world, and jointly promoted with major travel agencies, becoming one of the attraction projects of "Guangzhou Day Trip".
The theater is mainly based on Cantonese cross-talk performances, and at the same time, according to the needs of the majority of tourists and with the pace of young trends, it can be upgraded and customized to promote Cantonese-based bilingual mix-and-match cross-talk special sessions, and can also be customized according to the needs of the team, including red education, urban construction and other different themes.
The theater opens at 18:30 on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with a performance time of about 30 minutes, after the cross-talk performance, the audience can take a 60-minute designated flight to the Pearl River Tour; the theater will also open 11:00 and 15:30 according to the needs of tourists; groups of more than 50 people can choose to charter the venue from Monday to Friday.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News • Yangcheng Pie
Editor-in-charge | Zhou Xinyi