"I lost pride in Yang Jun and lost willow, and Yang Liu flew straight up to the heavy Xiao Jiu." Asking Wu Ganghe everything, Wu Gang held out osmanthus wine. On October 30th, in the beautiful and soft tune of Suzhou's playing lyrics "Butterfly Love Flower Answer Li Shuyi", the 6th "Weishi Cup" Yangtze River Delta Youth Music Competition of the 2021 Shanghai Citizens' Cultural Festival was held at the "Show Stage" of the Jiading District Cultural Center. The activities aim to cultivate new seedlings of quyi, discover new talents in quyi, increase the promotion of quyi culture in schools, and enhance the aesthetic taste of traditional culture of young people.
Shanghai is the birthplace of southern quyi, and has always attached great importance to the development of youth quyi. Since 2011, the "Weishi Cup" Youth Qu Art Competition has been successfully held for five sessions. Since the launch of this year's competition in March, all districts in Shanghai have responded positively, schools have actively participated, and 174 participating programs from all over the city have competed fiercely in the preliminary round, semi-final and final, and finally 50 "Quyi Stars", 50 "Quyi New Seedlings" and 30 "Little Peony Awards".
The scene of the exhibition
The 6th "Weishi Cup" Yangtze River Delta Region Youth Quyi Competition exhibition and performance activities from all the award-winning programs, carefully selected more than ten highly representative works, on October 30, the report performance was performed. The gong and drum book "Good Boy in the New Era" expresses the self-improvement and self-confidence of the Young Pioneers in traditional artistic ways; the Allegro book "I Am Chinese" expresses a deep sense of national pride; and the Pudong storytelling book "Rural Life Is Happy and Leisurely" presents the beautiful mood of country lanes and idyllic scenery.
Qian Cheng, a judge of the competition, vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Ququ Association, and deputy head of the Shanghai Burlesque Troupe, believes that compared with the past, the overall scale of the youth song art competition, the level of the contestants, the type of music art, and the stage effect have been greatly improved, "their understanding and presentation of the music art is better than before."
The competition further expands the coverage of the participants, and the age of the players is extended to under 25 years old, so that all ages of teenagers can be covered. In addition, the types of music participating in the competition are also more diverse and rich, in addition to Shanghai rap, story, burlesque, one-legged play, cross-talk, allegro, pingtan, gong and drum book, etc., but also added Shanghai tongue twister, Shanghai book, digital treasure, Yangzhou commentary and other forms of music and art with regional characteristics, fully demonstrated the vitality and style of youth song art, and promoted the exchange, sharing and integration of regional excellent music resources.
On the list of winners, many of the children's instructors are well-known, qian cheng, Gu Zhujun, Xu Shili, Zhou Hong, Huang Zhenliang and other famous artists of various genres are listed.
The "Red Scarf Rap Group" led by Shanghai rap inheritor and 72-year-old Xu Shili has won 9 awards. With the support of the Municipal Youth League Working Committee, the "Red Scarf Rap Group" was established for five and a half years and trained more than 160 people. Xu Shili believes that Shanghai rap is the local culture of Shanghai, "If we don't pass it on, the roots of Shanghai will be lost." ”
In addition to the busy performance task, Zhou Hong, a performance artist, also taught children to learn to evaluate bombs in four schools with two other colleagues, "high school, junior high school, primary school, qi". In this competition, all three schools have winning representatives. "Nowadays, a lot of bookstores are closed, and the box office of the show is not very good." Zhou Hong hopes to cultivate not only small actors, but also the audience.
Qian Cheng believes that many Shanghai quyi contain Shanghai's unique regional culture, and the participation of so many primary and secondary school students is a good protection for Shanghai's regional cultural environment. He also called on parents and children not to imprison themselves, to open their minds to enjoy life, "art is a good way to enjoy life." From the perspective of the professional development of quyi, only by inheriting it well can it develop well. This requires the joint efforts of all parties in society.
The Quyi Competition has become a platform for children's quyi to learn and communicate with each other. According to Tian Tian, director of the Jiading District Cultural Center, in order to let the traditional music art have a channel for continuous inheritance, on the day of the final, the organizer recorded the entries of all the contestants, the ardent hope of each judge for the inheritance of the music art, behind-the-scenes footage and other video materials, which will become one of the contents of the database construction. After the results of the competition were announced, the Shanghai Public Digital Culture Resource Service Library "Yousheng Vision" and the WeChat of the Jiading District Cultural Center also pushed 30 works that won the "Little Peony Award" for children to learn and enjoy online.
The youth music competition was guided by the Steering Committee of the Shanghai Civic Cultural Festival, and jointly sponsored by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Shanghai Jiading District People's Government, and the Chen Yun Memorial Hall.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Li Junna Text Editor: Li Junna Photo Editor: Xu Jiamin
Source: Author: Zhong Han