China News Service, Fuzhou, May 21 (Reporter Liu Kegeng) Inheriting classics and expressing youth.

The graduation report repertoire performed by the eighth-generation students of Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater, the youth version of Yue Opera "Five Girls' Happy Birthday", was staged at Fuzhou Fanghua Theater on the evening of the 20th and was well received by the audience.

The performance of the youth version of Yue Opera "Five Women's Birthday Celebrations".

Photo by reporter Liu Kegeng

  The play tells the story of Shangshu Yang Jikang's birthday, and five daughters and son-in-law came to celebrate their birthday. Because the adopted daughter Sanchun and her son-in-law Zou Yinglong were poor and lowly, Mrs. Yang was displeased and expelled from the house.

Later, Yang was dismissed because of offending Yan Song, and none of the daughters could rely on him, but Sanchun took him in.

Later, Zou Zhong was the champion and overthrew Yan Song, Yang Chen was wronged, and the daughters came to pay their respects again.

After some ups and downs, Mrs. Yang knew the warmth of the world.

Before the performance that night, Zheng Quan (right), director of Fujian Fanghua Yue Opera Theatre, and Qian Jiangnan (left), principal of Shengzhou Yue Opera Art School, had cooperation and exchanges.

Photo courtesy of Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater

  As a national intangible cultural heritage "Yue Opera·Yin Pai" and a key Yin Pai Yue Opera inheritance base built during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period in Fujian Province, Fujian Fanghua Yue Opera Theatre always regards talents as the fundamental support for inheritance and development, and is committed to talent training. No effort was spared.

On the road of upholding integrity and innovation, "Youth" has cultivated generation after generation.

  In 2019, with the support and guidance of the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Fujian Fanghua Yue Opera Theatre cooperated with Shengzhou Yue Opera Art School, and Shengzhou Yue Opera Art School provided training for Fanghua, and enrolled students including Xiaosheng in the school's Yue Opera School Inheritance Class. , Huadan, Laosheng, Laodan, including 10 "post-00" students.

Chen Liyu (first from right) and Zheng Quan (first from left) guide the eighth-generation "Youth" students who participated in the rehearsal.

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  During their studies at Shengzhou Yue Opera Art School, they have been carefully taught by many famous teachers, and their skills have been continuously improved, and they have emerged in various performances and competitions at all levels.

At the end of 2020, the eighth-generation students of "Fanghua" performed a special excerpt show in the theater; in 2021, they competed for gold and silver in the academy group of the 15th Fujian Narcissus Drama Awards Competition.

  At the same time, Fujian Fanghuayue Theater also cares deeply for this batch of "00" students.

In addition to arranging the National Class II actor of the theater and the successor of Yin Pai Wang Weiping to attend the school, it also arranged several times for the National Class I actor, the non-genetic successor of "Yue Opera·Yin Pai" Chen Liyu and the National Class I actor and the successor of the Lu Pai Chen Cuihong to attend the school several times. Shengzhou preaches and teaches for the students; whenever the "Youth" tour goes to Zhejiang, young students will be arranged to come to watch the performance seriously.

Wang Siying (right) and Wu Bingyao (left), eighth-generation students of Fujian Fanghuayue Theater, play Zou Yinglong and Yang Sanchun respectively in the play.

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  Qian Jiangnan, the principal of Shengzhou Yue Opera Art School, sent a message to the 10 eighth-generation students of "Fanghua": "Our 10 students are about to enter the Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater and embark on a new stage of life. I hope that the students will be able to further develop their skills on the new stage. Walk your own way, be beautiful, elegant, sincere, and upward, and in the future, you will shine like a bud on the big stage of life."

  Chen Liyu, winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award at Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater and the intangible inheritor of "Yue Opera Yin Pai", expressed the hope that young students will cultivate virtue first in the process of transforming from students to actors, and earnestly practice Mr. Yin Guifang's "recognition". Acting earnestly and honestly, being a pure and innocent person", started his artistic life in "Youth".

At the end of the performance, all the actors greeted the audience.

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  "The "Five Women's Birthday Celebration" performed that night was not only a graduation report, but also a coming-of-age ceremony for the eighth generation of 'Youth' newcomers from students to actors. I hope they will keep their original aspirations in art, shoulder the mission of inheritance, take dreams as horses, and live up to their youth. " said Zheng Quan, director of Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater.

  Fujian Fanghua Yue Theatre, formerly known as Fujian Fanghua Yue Opera Troupe, was founded in Shanghai in 1946 by People's Artist Yin Guifang.

In 1959, Fanghua Yue Opera Troupe moved from Shanghai to Fujian, and in October 2019 it changed its current name.

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