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At this year's two sessions, Zeng Xiaomin, a deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Guangdong Cantonese Theatre, said: "Improving the country's cultural soft power and promoting the strategic goal of a socialist cultural power has made the theater industry feel very excited. Traditional culture is the gene of Chinese culture, and it is necessary to create more literary and artistic products that conform to modern lifestyles and more young people are willing to accept, so that the world can feel the charm of Chinese culture. ”
The proposal and implementation of the development strategy of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has brought new opportunities for traditional opera and Cantonese opera. As the leader of Cantonese opera culture in the Greater Bay Area, Guangdong Cantonese Opera has been actively participating in the construction of the core cultural competitiveness of the Greater Bay Area. Driven by the digital economy, how to release the cohesion and radiation of Lingnan Cantonese opera culture? How to accelerate the cultivation of new digital formats of Cantonese opera? At this year's two sessions, Zeng Xiaomin, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Guangdong Cantonese Opera, brought his own thoughts.
Zeng Xiaomin, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Guangdong Cantonese Theatre: The 14th Five-Year Plan outlines the goal of building a cultural power by 2035, which is full of confidence and motivation for us literary and art workers. Based on the great economic development and cultural prosperity of the Greater Bay Area, as a Guangdong literary and art worker in the new era, on the one hand, we must adhere to the genes of excellent traditional culture, and at the same time, we must create more literary and artistic works that are in line with modern lifestyles and more young people are willing to accept.
The 2021 Government Work Report clearly proposes to strengthen the protection and utilization of cultural relics and the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. Zeng Xiaomin, a deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Guangdong Cantonese Theatre, said, "Adhere to the genes of excellent traditional culture, and at the same time use the thinking of 'creative transformation and innovative development' to create more literary and artistic works that are in line with modern lifestyles and more young people are willing to accept." ”
Zeng Xiaomin, president of the Guangdong Cantonese Theater, deputy to the National People's Congress: Our country has become the world's second largest economy, and our unique Chinese cultural temperament and fighting spirit have enabled the world to understand China. We should let more people who pay attention to Chinese culture feel the charm of China through our excellent cultural works.
At the two sessions, I am more concerned about the topic of excellent traditional culture, how to integrate and lead the future life, especially the representative of excellent traditional culture, the support of opera culture, the ratio of resources, and the investment of the education system, which I continue to pay attention to.
In 2009, Cantonese opera was selected into the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, how to make Cantonese opera with a history of hundreds of years approach today's audience, in recent years, Zeng Xiaomin has made a lot of efforts and attempts. In this year's Spring Festival Gala opera program "Shengshi Hundred Gardens", she and cantonese opera master Zhu Hongxing jointly took the stage to perform the Cantonese opera "White Snake Legend • Love" lake tour clip, showing the unique charm of Lingnan culture.
Zeng Xiaomin, director of the Guangdong Cantonese Theatre, a deputy to the National People's Congress: At this year's Spring Festival Gala, I performed a fragment of "White Snake Legend and Love", "White Snake Legend • Love" I created in 2014, this story is very familiar to all of us, the story of the white snake that has been circulated for thousands of years, and it is also re-written and built according to the traditional version of "White Snake Biography" performed by our predecessors, why create this work? I hope that with our ancient stories, we can bloom with unique charm and style in the new era.
In the seven years since the creation of the newly compiled Cantonese drama "The Legend of the White Snake", it has often performed and is deeply loved by young audiences. In 2019, Zeng Xiaomin won the 16th Wenhua Performance Award for this work. In the same year, this opera stage work was put on the big screen, and three top special effects teams from New Zealand, Australia and Shenzhen, China, created China's first 4K panoramic Cantonese opera film, with a total length of 101 minutes and a special effects screen of more than 90 minutes, setting a record for the largest opera film in China.
Zeng Xiaomin, director of the Guangdong Cantonese Theater, a deputy to the National People's Congress: After this play was staged, it was warmly welcomed by young audiences, we toured in the university, the effect was very good, often queuing up to sign, we had to wait for an hour, I think this is our closer distance to the audience.
With the rapid development and application of the Internet, the education and dissemination format of opera art are also changing. How to further improve the quality of socialized education in local drama? At last year's two sessions, Zeng Xiaomin suggested that various local drama genres can establish a mechanism for socialized examinations. At present, the "Cantonese Opera Social and Artistic Level Examination Institution" declared by the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Theatre has officially entered into operation.
Zeng Xiaomin, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of the Guangdong Cantonese Theatre: Since I made this proposal, I have also received a very good reply. We have also spent more than a year to do the Cantonese opera socialization examination, and now we have done all the teaching materials, evaluation standards, and auxiliary teaching materials for the Cantonese opera socialization examination, which is a big project. I believe that the spread of Cantonese opera socialization examinations can cultivate a large number of young Cantonese opera amateurs and future Cantonese opera audiences.
How to attract the younger generation, is the direction that Zeng Xiaomin has always paid attention to, she said, excellent local dramas also urgently need to share the dividends of the digital economy, and hope that relevant professional platforms can open up cooperation interfaces, focus on digital cultural industry, digital audio-visual, digital publishing, etc., and jointly affect and optimize the cultural ecological environment of the young generation. At this year's two sessions, she also put forward the proposal of "establishing an excellent traditional culture digital museum", hoping to make a new attempt to integrate Chinese traditional culture into various spatial life, especially the lives of young people, through the cultural integration that can be taken away.
Zeng Xiaomin, president of Guangdong Cantonese Opera, a deputy to the National People's Congress: Over the years, Cantonese opera and the culture of the Greater Bay Area have been integrated, nourishing each other and promoting each other, Cantonese opera itself is an excellent traditional culture in the Greater Bay Area, an important gene, so the future direction of Cantonese opera culture depends on the foundation of Cantonese opera art in the present, and whether it can build a close relationship with the next generation of young people.
In recent years, Zeng Xiaomin has invited experts and scholars to guangdong Cantonese theater for exchanges many times, walked into more than 100 colleges and universities to perform and give lectures, deeply understand the preferences of young people, and innovate the performance form and content of Cantonese opera, so that the "southern red beans" can take root and sprout in the hearts of young students.
Zeng Xiaomin, president of Guangdong Cantonese Theatre, deputy to the National People's Congress: I think in fact, traditional culture and modern culture are universal, they are passed down from generation to generation, the inheritance and development of Cantonese opera and innovation, in fact, this is also the relationship between seeds and flowers, many people may see the leafy side, do not see the original shape and charm of the seeds, so all innovation is derived from tradition, traditional culture is the gene of our Chinese culture, we as a new generation of Cantonese opera people, It is necessary to create more cultural works that are in line with modern life and more accepted by young people. The construction of a world-class bay area has attracted much attention, and in the construction of the Greater Bay Area, Cantonese opera is not only the leader of traditional culture, but also the provider of our excellent cultural content, and the future of Cantonese opera should be the connection of the national strategy of the Greater Bay Area and the advanced culture of the dialogue world.
With the continuous improvement of living standards and the growing spiritual demand, the people's requirements for the quality of cultural products are also getting higher and higher. Zeng Xiaomin said: "While promoting traditional culture, cultivating opera leaders, and revitalizing traditional repertoire, it has always been the direction of our efforts to create opera works that are widely loved by young people in the new era. In the future, I hope to create more works that can be left behind and passed on. (CCTV reporters Ren Siye, Han Yuhao, Chen Jiexiong, Guo Tianjiao)
(Editing by Li Dongming)