China News Service, Fuzhou, August 6th (Reporter Liu Kegeng) As a boutique play of the 5th China Yue Opera Art Festival - "Fang Hua" modern Yue Opera "Mother of All Infants", it made a wonderful appearance at the Yin Guifang Grand Theater in Xinchang on the evening of the 5th. .

　　This year's Yue Opera Festival has a total of 24 repertoires from 24 troupes across the country, and after review by the expert group, 15 major operas were finally selected to participate in the excellent repertoire performances.

The selected 15 newly created plays include original new plays that sing the main melody and inherit the red gene, modern plays that record the great era, reflect the revitalization of the countryside and common prosperity, and traditional plays that promote the truth, goodness and beauty in the world. The diversified, market-oriented and high-quality development of the company provides fertile soil and display space, which can be described as a big gathering and display of Chinese Yue Opera in Shaoxing, Zhejiang.

A still from the modern Yue Opera "Mother of All Infants".

Photo by reporter Liu Kegeng

　　Produced by Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and created and performed by Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater, the original modern Yue Opera "Mother of All Infants" presents and promotes the outstanding daughter of Fujian, the main pioneer and founder of Chinese obstetrics and gynecology in the artistic form of Yue Opera. 1 - Lin Qiaozhi is devoted to the motherland, devoting himself to the excellent quality and responsibility of medicine, and promotes the concept of people first and life first, and promotes the spirit of patriotism.

　　The whole play uses poetic brush and ink to describe Lin Qiaozhi's return from studying in the United States in 1940 to a motherland that was devastated and ravaged by the war of aggression and the smoke of war. The mental journey of snatching, saving and caring for life from the clutches of death and demons.

　　Shortly after Lin Qiaozhi returned to China, the Pacific War broke out and the Union Medical College was occupied by the Japanese army.

However, she did not leave, she still decided to stay in Peiping, and opened a clinic in the hutong, thus opening her a legendary experience of practicing medicine in the enemy-occupied area.

After the end of the war of liberation, she could have made other choices, but she still stayed in Peiping and welcomed the birth of a new China with the arrival of a new life.

　　Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater invited famous artists to be the main creators.

Written by Wang Yong, national first-class screenwriter, vice-chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association and president of the National Peking Opera Company; directed by first-class director Li Jie; national first-class composer Li Yanhua as composer (singing); national first-class composer Tang Xiaodong as composer (music) ; National first-class stage design Song Shiqiang served as lighting design.

At the same time, the young and middle-aged main creators of "Fanghua" formed a backbone team such as first-class stage beauty, makeup and styling designer Dong Hui, and jointly invited the main creators to jointly create high-quality repertoires with "Fanghua characteristics".

Zheng Quan, a national first-class actor and the non-hereditary inheritor of the Zhang School of Yue Opera, leads the role of Lin Qiaozhi in the play.

Photo by reporter Liu Kegeng

　　The play won the 2021 Fujian Provincial Special Fund for Local Opera Support, and was selected as the key repertoire of the 2022 Fujian Provincial Excellent Stage Art Project and was selected as an excellent modern drama performance in Fujian Province in "Welcome to the 20th National Congress of Progress".

　　"Mother of All Infants" is led by Zheng Quan, a national first-class actor of "Youth" and a non-genetic inheritor of the Yue Opera Zhang School, as Lin Qiaozhi, national first-class actors Xing Lihua and Shen Min, outstanding young actor Yu Aili, and national second-class actor Zhu Hongbo , Wu Minyan, outstanding young actor Zhang Qianqian, national second-level actors Fang Xiaoying, Wang Weiping, Zou Meiying, outstanding young actor Zhao Lusha, national first-class actor Mao Lexiao and other "Youth" backbone actors team all performed.

　　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.

　　China Yue Opera Art Festival is a national art festival co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the People's Government of Zhejiang Province and permanently settled in Zhejiang.

The festival is a national platform for the exchange and display of Yue Opera art, held every four years.

The 5th China Yue Opera Art Festival is hosted by the Art Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and the Shaoxing Municipal People's Government. It will be held in Shaoxing from July 31 to August 20, 2022.

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