[Explanation] Recently, 5 "post-00" girls from the Shanghai Theatre Academy sang ancient songs in Peking Opera opera tunes and continuously appeared on the Douyin Hot List and the hot searches on Weibo.

These girls are Yang Xi, Bian Jingting, Zhu Ibis, Cheng Xiaochen, and their school sister Zhu Jiayin, who majored in Peking Opera performance in Shanghai Opera 2017.

Because most of them live in the "416 Dormitory", they are called "the 416 Girls' Group in Shanghai Opera" by netizens.

　　Since 2019, they have continued to publish daily exercises and singing videos on short video platforms, sometimes showing Peking Opera makeup, costumes, appearance, and gestures, teaching netizens to distinguish different genres of singing, recording life, and popularizing Peking opera knowledge.

　　In April 2021, on the night of the graduation report, several people "fitted together" for the first time and sang the ancient song "Red Actress" in a dramatic accent. The beautiful tunes made several girls "break the circle".

At present, their cumulative number of likes for Peking Opera-related videos has exceeded 20 million.

　　Yang Xi told reporters that the short video created by "fit" was just to keep everyone a graduation commemoration, but he did not expect to be "a hit".

She smiled and said that the happiest thing after becoming popular is that she can often meet with her friends and create short videos together.

　　[Concurrent] Yang Xi, member of the 416 Girls Group in Shanghai Opera

　　We will find that when we are welcomed by everyone, we basically meet 8 times a month, meet every day, and work hard every day to create and contribute videos to everyone, so maybe this is a change that we feel particularly happy. .

　　[Explanation] These "post-00s" girls have inspired millions of netizens to become interested in Peking Opera, bringing Peking Opera closer to young people, and laying the foundation for entering offline theaters.

After being recognized by more and more netizens, their greatest wish is to introduce more netizens into the world of Peking Opera through theatrical singing.

　　[Concurrent] Bian Jingting, member of Shanghai Opera 416 Girls Group

　　Don't stop at the drama.

The opera tone just hopes to guide everyone (understanding Peking Opera). The opera tone is not the orthodox Peking Opera, but it is hoped that everyone can learn more about it by themselves.

　　Zhu Jiayin, member of the 416 Girls Group in the Shanghai Opera

　　Because our Peking opera is still a stage art, we still need to go into the theater to watch it. If you can’t achieve the same effect in the theater if you are in front of the camera, we have been persuading everyone that fans can enter the theater to watch the show. .

　　[Explanation] Nowadays, in addition to Zhu Jiayin who is studying at school, Yang Xi and Bian Jingting are acting as Peking Opera actors in the Nanjing Peking Opera Theatre. Cheng Xiaochen is studying while waiting for the open recruitment of her favorite theater company, and Zhu Ibis is preparing for postgraduate entrance examinations and continuing to go deeper. Learn the relevant knowledge of Peking Opera.

　　One minute on stage, ten years of work behind the scenes.

After "breaking the circle", the "Shangxi 416 Women's Group" did not want to be "net celebrities". They had their own dedication after studying opera for many years. They insisted on taking Peking Opera as their main business and recorded opera singing videos in their spare time.

Bian Jingting said that they will not forget their original intentions, and inheriting Peking Opera is the way they have been going.

　　[Concurrent] Bian Jingting, member of Shanghai Opera 416 Girls Group

　　No matter how good our short video is, it is inseparable from the biggest support our professionalism can provide to us. Without our professionalism, we would not be able to do what the short video looks like now.

Everyone likes us because we are a "post-00" inheritor of the national quintessence, so we can't give up our profession and continue to do it, and we also love our profession very much.

　　[Explanation] The data shows that, taking Douyin as an example, among the top ten most popular intangible cultural heritage projects in 2021, traditional drama occupies half of the country: Peking Opera ranks third.

Local dramas, Chaozhou operas and Yang operas included in the "Endangered Intangible Cultural Heritage Project" also received 15.89 million and 10.3 million likes in 2020.

　　Nowadays, more and more "post-95" and "post-00" intangible cultural heritage creators are arousing the attention of young people to the traditional culture of intangible cultural heritage such as Peking opera.

With the combination of intangible cultural heritage + emerging media channels, intangible cultural heritage has new vitality.

　　Xu Mingrui, Xu Jing, and Li Qiuying report from Shanghai

Editor in charge: [Ye Pan]