When the quintessence of China turns into a national tide
2022-03-30
March 27 is world drama day. According to media reports, 37 young artists from around the world gathered in the clouds to celebrate this day. As the vice president of the International Drama Association, China has selected the plum blossom award actor Lou Sheng to record Wu Opera videos to show the charm of Chinese traditional opera culture to the International Drama community. Wu Opera, commonly known as "Jinhua opera", has a history of more than 400 years. With its youth, there are archaeology, classics, classical dance cultural variety and short videos that have frequently appeared in the circle in recent years. In the last two months, the traditional dance drama "only green" captured the hearts of all the people. The twenty-four solar term countdown of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games was regarded as a new classic, and the ice pier pier and snow Rong merged into the new top of the Jin Dynasty. Chinese aesthetics and element innovation; Cultural essence and broken circle communication. Taking traditional opera as an example, it can incarnate the traditional quintessence inherited for a hundred years and accumulated for a thousand years into the national tide. First, ancient art meets the new era, new audience and new media, and realizes "youth aesthetics" with "element innovation". Opera itself is broad and profound, and its unique way of expression has distinctive characteristics. Only by innovating with the elements that the public can "understand as soon as they hear", can we achieve wide dissemination and make the audience feel "interesting" in the feeling of "this taste". From "Lanting preface", "just met you" and other popular songs to integrate opera elements and singing into the music style, to the gradual prosperity of "opera" songs on the Internet, and then to the creators of short video platforms to develop popular contents such as "opera cross dressing show", "national style makeup transformation", opera dress wedding photos and so on, many national style lovers promote the attempt of "new bottled old wine" on their own. On the short video website, the drama version of Harry Potter has reached 3 million broadcasts; The Jingyun drum version of the Lord of the rings forms a delicate balance between form and content; The total number of videos released by the women's group composed of five girls from the Shanghai Academy of drama, including laodan, Qingyi and Huadan, has exceeded 50 million. A survey report of an institution shows that under a variety of integration and innovation, the attention of the national tide has increased by about five times in the past 10 years, and the traditional quintessence has ranked among the top of the national tide, highlighting the cultural confidence and national identity of a new generation of consumers. It can be seen that with the support of the communication power of the mobile Internet, the quintessence of Chinese culture is making use of distinctive artistic features and symbolic elements in the form of "not professional but beautiful enough" to make more people feel the new sound of ancient rhyme in the popular. The times need bridges to be grafted, and art needs groups to find resonance. Young people can first overthrow the traditional concept of national quintessence, so that they can move towards a more professional and comprehensive Revival on this basis. If the above attempts are more "laymen join in the fun", the real foundation of breaking the circle of national quintessence needs more "expert preaching". Many people in the drama circle agree that it is an inevitable trend to push through the old and bring forth the new and adapt to the trend. The difficulty is how to spread a new voice while taking the right path. On the one hand, the new performance of the old drama has accelerated the innovation of the performance content. Since the successful performance of the youth version of the Peony Pavilion, narrowing the distance between young people and opera art is no longer a proposition written on paper. The attempt to make traditional folk art "live, new and bright" has never been stopped. In July 2021, teachers and students of Beijing Opera Art Vocational College and Beijing opera academy staged an adapted version of Beijing Opera Shajiabang. The singing changed from Huguang tone and Zhongzhou rhyme of traditional Beijing opera to Putonghua of Ludang fire. The duration was reduced from 3 hours to 2 hours. The performance also changed from emphasizing body shape to showing a side closer to life. On the other hand, many opera people began to take the initiative to use new media to do popular science lectures and even webcast, so as to shorten the distance between the quintessence art and the general public through the sharing of life style. In these videos, teaching voice practice is a fresh experience, practicing martial arts and playing is a thrilling spectacle, and dressing up is an aesthetic process of "becoming a living person". The daily life in the pear garden not only shows the professional attitude of the guardian of the quintessence of Chinese culture, but also demonstrates the determination and confidence of traditional art towards the future. Shang Changrong, the inheritor of Beijing opera, once said: "eat all day and do nothing. Old operas, old performances and old operas are worthless. An enterprising opera man should put down his airs." With his efforts, pop songs and Beijing Opera Aria are integrated and collided, and jointly sing the modern voice of classical opera. The old man's confidence and courage give us reason to believe that time is the best baptism for the quintessence of China. And a comment written by netizens may become the biggest peace of mind of the older generation of music artists: "compared with many super qualified video games and chasing fans, believe me, it's really no difficulty for Peking Opera to enter the pit. As a Chinese, I feel good when I listen to it for the first time. In general, Peking Opera is very beautiful and simple. Go and listen." (outlook new era)
Edit：Yuanqi Tang Responsible editor：Xiao Yu
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