China News Service, Fuzhou, May 16 (Reporter Liu Kegeng) The newly edited historical drama "A Generation of Prime Minister Cai Xin" created and performed by the Bamboo Circus (Xiang Opera) Inheritance and Protection Center of Zhangpu County, Fujian Province will be held in Fuzhou on the evening of the 15th. Worker's Palace of Culture Premiere.
Under the careful guidance of the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the play has been selected as the first prize of the 28th Fujian Provincial Drama Festival Script Contest, the National Arts Fund's 2020 Large-scale Stage Play and Work Funding Project, and the Fujian Provincial Stage Art Project in 2022. key plays.
Cai Xin is from Zhangpu, Fujian.
He is a historical celebrity of Fujian origin in the Qing Dynasty. He has served as the five ministers of work, rites, officials, criminals, and soldiers. He is a scholar of Wenhua Palace, a prince, a master of the study room, and the president of "Siku Quanshu".
The Xiang Opera "A Generation of Prime Minister Cai Xin" was produced by the Zhangpu County Party Committee and County Government, and jointly produced by the Zhangpu County Party Committee Propaganda Department, Zhangpu County Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Zhangpu County Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau.
The Fuzhou premiere of the Xiang Opera "A Generation of Prime Minister Cai Xin" funded by the National Arts Fund.
Photo by Qin Hongcai
The play was created by Fang Zhaohui, a first-class screenwriter in Fujian Province, and directed by a first-class director Jin Aizhu.
Taking Cai Xin's political career as the background of writing the two stories of "Siku Quanshu" and "pacifying the Jinchuan Rebellion", through Cai Xin's transformation from protecting himself to sacrificing himself when he corrected the "criminal silver" malpractice implemented by Qianlong in his later years In the process, through correcting the "criminal silver" maladministration, purging the official atmosphere, reducing the burden on the people and other historical events, in the tortuous struggle with Heshen, it showed that Cai Xin was unavoidable and brave in the face of the rise and fall of the country and the suffering of the people. The noble character of taking responsibility allows the audience to accept the edification of a clean culture while appreciating the beauty of the drama.
Xiang Opera and Gezi Opera are the "Biandilian" of flowers blooming on both sides of the strait. They are the only artistic treasures created by the two sides of the Taiwan Strait among the 348 operas in the country. They are homophonic and connected by blood.
Zhangpu County Bamboo Circus (Xiang Opera) Inheritance and Protection Center (formerly Zhangpu County Xiang Opera Troupe) was established in 1956. It has successively created and rehearsed "Jianshi Ji", "Baby Bao Ji", "Seaside Wind", "Renamed" and "Mother-Child Bridge". More than 60 repertoires such as "Zodiac Week" and "Sesame Official Series", many of which have won the "Tianhan Drama Award" in six provinces and one city in East China, the Fujian Provincial Baihua Literature and Art Award, and the Fujian Provincial Drama Festival Repertory Award and other provincial and domestic awards. Taiwan participates in cross-strait cultural and artistic exchanges and performances.
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