In order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the China Federation of Literary and Performing Arts and the China Drama Association held the "Centennial Glory - The Chinese Federation of Literary and Performing Arts and the China Drama Association Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China" at the Meilanfang Grand Theater in Beijing on the evening of June 10, 2021, with the unique form of drama art, reviewing the centennial journey, praising the glory of the centenary, expressing the deep affection and wishes of theater workers for the party and the country, and presenting a generous gift for the centennial birthday of the Communist Party of China.
Sun Jiazheng, honorary chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Wang Xiaohui, executive deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department, Tie Ning, chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Li Yi, secretary of the party leading group and vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhao Shi, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Jia Yulin, head of the discipline inspection and supervision group of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission in the Central Propaganda Department, Hu Xiaohan, member of the party group and vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Xu Yongjun, member of the party group of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Dong Yaopeng, member of the party group and secretary of the Secretariat of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Dong Wei, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Xia Chao and Yang Chengzhi, former vice chairmen of the China Federation of Literary and Literary Circles, and the Central Propaganda Department. Responsible comrades of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and other relevant departments, responsible persons of the National Literary and Artistic Associations of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, various departments of the organs, and all directly subordinate units, and members of the party groups and presidium of the China Drama Association attended the performance.
Outstanding young actors Xue Lei, Duan Yongming, Wang Zhaozhang and other performances of the opera "Red Boat" excerpts
The evening kicked off with the opera "Red Boat", where young singers from the Zhejiang Song and Dance Theatre took the audience back to the groundbreaking moment when the first congress of the Communist Party of China was held in the South Lake painting house a hundred years ago. Subsequently, Pu Cunxin, chairman of the China Drama Association and winner of the second plum blossom award, Zhang Kaili and Wu Jing'an, winners of the plum blossom award, and Zhang Zhe, host of CCTV, appeared to preside over the party. Yu Kuizhi, Shen Tiemei, Liu Ping, Han Zaifen, etc., vice chairmen of the Chinese Drama Association who have won the Plum Blossom Award, the Second Plum And Plum Blossom Awards, the second degree plum winners Wang Fang and Liu Ziwei, the Plum Blossom Award winners Li Shengsu, Cheng Guilan, Liu Yanyan, Wang Ban, Liu Wenhui, Wang Li, Yang Xiayun, Qiu Ruide, Lou Sheng, Peking Opera performance artist Guan Dongtian, and young actors Song Bolong, Tang Yibo, Wang Hexiang, etc., took turns with theater troupes from all over the country, performing 10 opera dramas, dramas and opera fragments.
Cheng Guilan, winner of the Plum Blossom Award, Liu Yanyan, winner of the Plum Blossom Award, and Wang Hexiang, an outstanding young opera singer, performed excerpts from the opera "Daughter of the Party"
On the lofty and solemn theme tone, the evening party presented the glorious course of the CPC leading the people of the Chinese to carry out revolution, construction and reform, and the glorious course of national rejuvenation in the past hundred years from the multiple narrative dimensions of the party's history and the famous works of various eras, and the prosperity and development achievements of theatrical art since the new period. In the four chapters of "Zhengrong Years", "Fiery Red Years", "A Hundred Flowers Blooming" and "Carrying on the Past and Opening Up the Future", through the opera "Daughter of the Party", Peking Opera "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Troupe", Han Opera "Sister Jiang", Yu Opera "Chaoyanggou" and other popular red classics, Hebei Zizi "Li Baoguo", drama "Xiangshan Night", Su opera "Taihu Renjia", Wu opera "Yiwu Gaohua", Beijing opera "Flag", Wuhan People's Art Theater, Wuhan Peking Opera Theater jointly performed the "anti-epidemic" drama "Retrograde", Beijing Song "City of Heroes" At the same time, it brings together classic works such as Qin Cavity's "Wang Baojun", Huang Mei opera "Wang Zhaojun", Sichuan opera "Jinzi", Peking Opera "Taizhen Waichuan", Wu opera "Mu Guiying's Great Breaking of the Heavenly Gate Array" and other classic works, which fully embodies the Chinese spirit and Chinese style of contemporary drama art, and presents the complete composition of advanced socialist culture in three dimensions.
Recitation artist Xu Tao, Plum Blossom Award winner Wang Xiaomei, Plum Blossom Award winner Hou Yansong, Plum Blossom Award winner Guo Guangping, Plum Blossom Award winner Tu Songyan, outstanding young actors Sun Qian, Wang Lejun, Zhang Keying, and students of China Academy of Drama recited "Today, is the Birthday of the Party"
Finally, composed by Wang Yong, vice chairman of the China Drama Association, winners of the Plum Blossom Award, Wang Xiaomei, Hou Yansong, Guo Guangping, Tu Songyan, recitation artist Xu Tao, young actors Sun Qian, Wang Lejun, Zhang Keying and students of the China Academy of Drama jointly performed the poem recitation "Today, is the Birthday of the Party", with Lyrics by Wang Yong, composed by Yin Xiaodong, Vice Chairman of the China Drama Association, Meng Guanglu, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Drama Association and winner of the second-degree Plum Blossom Award, and Yu Lan, Zhang Xinyue, Zhang Jianfeng, fu Xiru, winners of the Plum Blossom Award, sang the Beijing song "Toward Eternity". The atmosphere of the evening party was pushed to a climax, and the strongest sound of encouraging the people and the vast number of literary and art workers to work hard and forge ahead on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country was played.
With the support of the leadership of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the China Drama Association attaches great importance to and meticulously prepares for the evening, and has begun to prepare for the party history and program selection since half a year ago, and has hired a number of well-known experts as consultants, hired Li Bonan, a first-class director of the National Drama Theatre, as the general director, and set up a first-class creative team to create an artistic event that embodies the aesthetic style of drama. The production team of the party held more than ten planning and coordination meetings, and the working groups of the director group, the team, the lighting, the stage art, the multimedia production, the publicity planning, and the logistics support were set up to make docking preparations according to the theme style of the party and the requirements of each program to ensure the complete success of the performance.
In order to give full play to the effect of new and old media communication, while the evening party carried out public welfare performances for the Beijing audience, it was broadcast live online by many media such as Guangming Network, Central Video, China Literature and Art Network, etc., with a total of more than 600 audiences attending the performance, and more than 10 million people watching online simultaneously, and the influence of the drama was greatly disseminated. At the same time, on June 11, CCTV's "News Network" reported on the evening, and Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Central Radio, China Culture Daily, China Art News and other media reported and praised it.
Source: Guangming Network