Shang Changrong: Beijing Opera, A Cultural Channel In The City

(Shang Changrong, a famous Peking opera performance artist and chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association.

The three son of Shang Xiaoyun.

Born in Beijing in 1940, the first prize winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom award, the first batch of inheritors of the national intangible cultural heritage.

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Dear hosts, ladies and gentlemen, Hello, everyone! Today my topic is "Beijing opera, a cultural channel of the city".

I have been devoted to and devoted to Beijing opera for 200 years.

In 1790, the Anhui troupes in the south of the Yangtze River were summoned to Beijing for the birthday of Emperor Qianlong, and settled down in Beijing and Tianjin.

After more than ten years of development, it has become a new drama composed of Hui opera, Han Opera, Kunqu Opera, Shaanxi opera, Beijing Opera and folk quyi.

It is mainly based on Xi PI and ER Huang. It was called "Xi PI Er Huang" according to the singing of this new drama.

The first time that Xi PI Huang entered Shanghai was in 1867, when the city was sensational, and the citizens scrambled to see it.

According to records, the Shanghai people first saw the trend of madness, in my imagination, this is no less than the "Afanda" release caused by the movie boom.

After the Peking Opera came to Shanghai, it swept the whole city, and other performing arts were almost impossible to catch up with.

The original local Kunqu Opera performed at that time with a little hall missing.

The popularity of Peking Opera is mainly due to the tastes of both refined and popular tastes. The title of Peking Opera is also from Shanghai. In 1876, Shanghai's "Declaration" officially published the name of Peking Opera, meaning the drama drama from Beijing. Since then, it has replaced "Xi PI Er Huang" and has been used to this day.

With the famous Tan Xinpei of Beijing and Tianjin, the four famous denier and the four big students, one after another, they came to Shanghai to perform in succession. Shanghai has also sprung up a large number of celebrities.

Among them, Mr. Zhou Xinfang has become a leader.

It is he who made Shanghai the birthplace of Peking Opera and the benign competition between Shuangfeng and Beijing opera.

Beijing, Shanghai, North and South echoed, opened nearly 100 years of Peking Opera heyday.

Compared with many dramas, Peking Opera is not long in history. What causes it to become a national opera and quintessence? It becomes a representative art of national culture and one of the symbols of the Chinese nation. I think there are several points below.

First of all, Peking Opera absorbed, converged and melted the essence of many local operas and even other kinds of art. It is said to be an integral part of the Chinese family.

This spirit of integration and creation is the important gene that keeps Beijing Opera alive and developing.

It is especially worth mentioning that Peking Opera has been promoted by many local operas, and has returned to local operas with profound ideology and exquisite artistry, so that many local operas have been nourished and improved.

Thus promoting the diversification, progress and prosperity of the entire Chinese opera art.

Secondly, Peking Opera has gathered a large number of large scale teachers and their large number of classical works, which are far more than other operas.

This is limited to the relationship of time, not enumerated.

Another reason is that the artistic vocabulary of Beijing opera has broken through the geographical restrictions, so it can pass through the whole country.

With excellent performing arts and excellent repertoire, it has the most extensive audience and the deepest mass foundation.

Fourth, it is also a crucial point. Peking Opera has been strongly supported and promoted by the city. It originated in the countryside and was born and matured in Beijing. It flourished and flourished in Shanghai.

It is the strong concentration and radiance of the city that makes Peking Opera greatly expand the space for existence, gain the height of ascension and make great progress. Only in Shanghai, the city has not only established a name for Peking Opera, but also played a crucial supporting role in many aspects such as stage art, performance market, comment theory and so on.

It is hard for us to imagine a kind of drama that has entered the mega cities. Its art can be greatly improved, and its market can be fully developed. Its influence can have such a broad fame and far-reaching influence.

On the other hand, the prosperity of Beijing opera has greatly enriched the urban culture and enriched the spirit of the city. The power of the city has promoted the growth of Beijing opera. The charm of Peking Opera has shaped the culture of the city.

Therefore, the relationship between Beijing Opera and the city is connected and cannot be dismantled.

Of course, an art has its own natural law of ups and downs. In recent decades, opera art has gradually become marginalized from the mainstream position of civic culture and entertainment.

There are the impact of foreign culture, the influence of multiple choices, and the problems that Peking opera itself has encountered.

In short, the reasons are numerous and complex.

There is no longer a discussion here, but there is one thing that makes me believe that, since in the last two centuries, in the vast space of 9 million 600 thousand square kilometers, our entire nation is deeply immersed in the wonderful artistic enjoyment of Peking Opera, then it deserves and should be forever cherished and cherished by us.

This is because we come from tradition, and our bodies and hearts all carry traditional marks.

Tradition is the basis and foundation for us to face today and to the future.

What's more, Beijing Opera is such a beautiful drama that is pleasing to the eye and engraved on the mind.

So we have no reason to abandon Peking Opera, only the mission of protection and promotion.

I believe that only by carrying forward and upgrading the fine traditions and seeking unity with the modern market in the antagonism and seeking harmony in harmony, can the city's culture have a bright and deep sense at the same time, and possess a heavy weight in the light of fashion.

First of all, we should cultivate outstanding inheritors who are interested in Peking opera art, and inherit the traditional skills and the original flavor of the classics, as a proper preservation of the intangible cultural heritage. This needs the support of the government and the extensive mobilization of the people.

Secondly, on the basis of faithfully inheriting traditional skills, using a number of excellent new repertoire, linking Peking opera culture with modern people's value orientation, Peking Opera should be regarded as a contemporary extension of intangible cultural heritage in the contemporary performing arts space, mainly depending on the efforts of Peking opera artists.

In my opinion, only by doing the above two points simultaneously can Peking Opera and urban culture shine the dual charm of the old and the modern at the same time and achieve the beautiful vision of city life.

Finally, allow me to use a metaphor as the end of this speech. A healthy man, from a child to a teenager, a young man from a young man to a young man, his bones and muscles expanding, his mind and talent mature, his veins extending with the increase of bones and muscles, so that the blood and nutrients supplied by the heart continue to be sent out, and always have plenty of vitality.

We find that in this process of growth, nothing has been completely replaced, and nothing has been completely eliminated. They are only progressing, evolving, and growing together in harmony.

If the city is compared to a healthy and growing person, then the building is its skeleton and body, its territory is its muscles, its science and technology, production level and the living standard of the citizens are its blood.

And support and accomplishment is a cultural channel.

Peking Opera is an eternal beating. Its pulsation affects Chinese history, Chinese literature and all kinds of Chinese arts. It forms the whole city with other tens of millions of channels.

The strong spiritual network of the whole nation.

Without the spiritual network of Peking Opera, without a cultural channel, how a city can rise again, and how large it can be, is only a body lacking intelligence and vitality.

This is unacceptable to us.

Thank you.