China News Service, Shaoxing, August 1st (Reporter Wang Titui) A century of Yue Yin, the ancient city has a rhyme.

On the evening of July 31, the 5th China Yue Opera Art Festival kicked off in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province with the theme of "A Grand Festival of Yue Opera, a Festival of the People".

  On the same day, the opening ceremony theatrical performance with the theme of "Going to the Future" was staged simultaneously.

More than 10 Yue Opera Plum Blossom Award winners from Shanghai Yue Opera Theatre, Nanjing Yue Opera Troupe, Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Theatre, Hangzhou Yue Opera Theatre, Ningbo Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe, Shaoxing Yue Opera Troupe, Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Art Training Center in Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, etc. Wenhua Award winners perform together.

At the scene, famous and famous actors and actresses were gathered and brilliant, comprehensively showing the new achievements in the development of Yue Opera stage art.

Launching Ceremony.

Photo courtesy of Shaoxing Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau

  It is reported that Yue Opera originated in Shaoxing and flourished in the south of the Yangtze River. It is one of the important cultural treasures of the Chinese nation.

In order to better inherit and promote the art of Chinese Yue Opera, at the opening ceremony, a number of famous Chinese Yue Opera representatives jointly launched the "Shaoxing Initiative for Inheritance, Innovation and Development of Chinese Yue Opera", and called for strengthening the construction of the Yue Opera art inheritance system, improving the living inheritance lineage, and promoting the art of Yue Opera. Education and popularization will allow the genre and art of Yue Opera to sprout new branches, and create a bright future for the inheritance, innovation and development of Yue Opera.

  The reporter learned that the Yue Opera Art Festival is an important platform for displaying and exchanging the art of Yue Opera, and it is also a joyous festival for fans to share the audio-visual feast.

Since its establishment in 2006 and permanent settlement in Zhejiang, the China Yue Opera Art Festival has played a huge role in inheriting the gentle temperament of Yue Opera art, promoting the prosperity and development of the Yue Opera cause, and promoting the spiritual wealth of the people.

Representatives of several famous Chinese Yue Opera masters jointly launched the Shaoxing Initiative on Inheritance, Innovation and Development of Chinese Yue Opera.

Photo courtesy of Shaoxing Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau

  As the birthplace of Yue Opera, Sheng Yuechun, Secretary of the Shaoxing Municipal Party Committee, said that Shaoxing will take the Yue Opera Art Festival as an opportunity to resolutely shoulder the responsibility of the times to inherit and promote Yue Opera culture. Regional exchanges and cooperation of Yue Opera, innovate the path of prosperity and development of Yue Opera, polish the golden name card of Yue Opera culture, create a new peak of Shaoxing culture, and strive to achieve spiritual prosperity through common prosperity, and achieve cultural first in modernization.

  As the hometown of Yue Opera and the permanent venue of the Chinese Yue Opera Art Festival, Zhejiang has given full play to its historical and cultural advantages in recent years to comprehensively promote the construction of a cultural highland in the new era.

The opening ceremony of the 5th China Yue Opera Art Festival Theatrical performance scene.

Photo courtesy of Shaoxing Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau

  It is worth mentioning that the Yue Opera business in Zhejiang has developed rapidly with the prosperity of the culture, excellent works have been emerging, the talent system has become more mature, and the dissemination and popularization has become more and more popular. The Zhejiang Yue Opera brand has improved its reputation in deep life and rooted in the people.

  At present, Zhejiang is fully focusing on the "two first" goals of common prosperity first and provincial modernization first.

To achieve this goal, it is inseparable from the joint efforts of the whole society, including art workers.

  Therefore, Cheng Yuechong, Vice Governor of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province, hopes that the vast number of Yue Opera artists will take this Yue Opera Art Festival as an opportunity to continue to focus on the mission of raising the flag, gathering people's hearts, educating new people, revitalizing culture, and exhibiting their image. Talent, pursuit of artistic dreams, and make greater contributions to the construction of Zhejiang's new era of cultural highland.

  In the opinion of Lu Yingchuan, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the 5th China Yue Opera Art Festival is important for inheriting and promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, promoting the soul casting of culture, giving play to the role of cultural empowerment, meeting the cultural needs of the people, and enhancing the spiritual strength of the people. , is of great significance.

  Based on this, he hopes that the majority of Yue Opera artists will stick to the standpoint of Chinese culture, adhere to creative transformation and innovative development, actively explore and grasp the connection between traditional culture and modern life, and create more thoughtful and artistic creations with heart and emotion. , Well-made excellent works, make new and greater contributions to the prosperity and development of socialist literature and art, building a socialist cultural power, and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

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