Chinanews.com, Fuzhou, January 22 (Reporter Liu Kegeng) A wonderful song to bid farewell to the old year and a good show to celebrate the new year.

On the first day of the first lunar month of the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Rabbit, the Shaoxing opera drama "Taiping Yan" was broadcast online, opening the prelude to the "Fujian Good Show" series of performances during the Spring Festival of Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater.

  That night, Chen Liyu, the winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award of the Fanghua Yue Theater in Fujian Province and the inheritor of Yin School's intangible cultural heritage, will perform a classic piece of Yin School's "Pan Wife Suo Wife Bridal Chamber" at the Zhejiang Satellite TV Yue Opera Spring Festival Gala.

The picture shows the Shaoxing opera "Taiping Yan".

Photo courtesy of Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater

  Zheng Quan, director of the Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater, said that under the guidance of the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, during the Spring Festival, in order to enrich the spiritual and cultural needs of the public during the festival, the theater will carry out various online and offline "Fujian Good Shows" Huimin performances bring joy to the people.

  During the Spring Festival, Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater not only launched the excellent stage art work "Liu Yong" which won the national award simultaneously on multiple network platforms, but also broadcast the small Yue opera drama "Drugs Harm People Deeply" online.

From the third day of the first lunar month, theater actors will also hold "Peacock Flying Southeast: Farewell" and New Year's Excerpts in scenic spots such as the Fuming Theater by the West Lake in Fuzhou, the Yinyu Theater of the Theater, and the Waterside Stage in Fuzhou Three Lanes and Seven Alleys. The performance meets and interacts with offline audiences.

  On the eighth night of the first lunar month, the Yue opera drama "Five Girls Blessing Their Birthday" will be performed at the Fujian Nanping Grand Theater; on the eve of the Lantern Festival, Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater will also present "Five Girls Blessing Their Birthday" at the Pingtan International Performing Arts Center in Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone, Fujian Province. Collection of Intangible Cultural Heritage Blessings·A Season of Youth—Special Performance by Fujian Fanghua Theater", "Love in Mountains and Rivers Sending Letters", "Drunken Beauty Fujian", "Pan Wife Asking Wife Bridal Chamber", excerpts from "Jiang Jie", "Making a Fuss", "Blessings of Love" Excellent excerpts such as "Farewell to the Eighteen" will be performed in Pingtan.

The picture shows the Yue opera "Liu Yong".

Photo courtesy of Fujian Fanghua Yue Theater

  The repertoire reported by the 7th Postgraduate Class for Outstanding Young Actors of Peking Opera at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Opera, the Shaoxing opera "The Lion's Roar" directed by the famous Kunqu opera artist Wang Shiyu, and the Yue opera "Tang Wan" written by the late famous playwright Wang Renjie and directed by Xu Chunlan ", will also be staged at the Fuzhou Fanghua Theater during the Spring Festival.

  Fujian Fanghua Yue Opera Theater was formerly known as Fujian Fanghua Yue Opera Troupe, which was founded in Shanghai in 1946 by people's artist Yin Guifang.

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

The theater has rehearsed hundreds of plays such as "Prince in the Desert", "A Wife Asking for a Wife", "A Dream of Red Mansions", "He Wenxiu" and "Jade Dragonfly".

For decades, "Fang Hua" has won many awards. In 2008, "Yue Opera (Yin School)" was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion project list.

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