[Explanation] Shanghai opera is a representative opera in Shanghai. Its music is euphemistic and soft, its tunes are beautiful and pleasant, and it has a strong Jiangnan water town sentiment, and is deeply loved by the local people.

During the Spring Festival, the Shanghai Shanghai Theater has performances almost every day. In order to ensure the quality of the performances, young actors have been rehearsing intensively in the theater since the first day of the first lunar month.

  [Explanation] On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Shen Renwei, an 86-year-old Shanghai opera performing artist, came to supervise in person.

  [Concurrent] Shen Renwei, performing artist of Shanghai Opera

  (Rehearsal) is to make up for one's shortcomings and continue to develop one's good points.

Don't count one performance as another, and one performance as a fruitless one.

So I hope that everyone will treat rehearsals as seriously as performances, especially during the Chinese New Year, singing (opera) must be sung to everyone's satisfaction, and we must do the second point. I hope everyone will take it seriously.

  [Explanation] With Shen Renwei's order, the young actors immediately entered the state. During the continuous 3-hour rehearsal, the actors acted if they had a play, and "added plays" if they had no play.

Counting training such as vocal opening, lines, and body shape, it is normal to spend more than ten hours a day in the practice room.

  [Explanation] Shen Renwei told reporters that in the era of lack of entertainment activities, cultural activities such as Shanghai Opera are an important way to bring happiness to the people, and the Spring Festival is the top priority. It is their duty to bring the best performance to the audience Work, this concept he inherited from his teacher, and now it is passed on to his disciples.

  [Concurrent] Shen Renwei, performing artist of Shanghai Opera

  Spring Festival performances are the busiest, people have nothing to do, and actors can't rest.

When the actors are resting, there will be no cultural activities when everyone is resting (see).

(My) teacher also told us that whenever people are free, I am busy, and it is not good for me to rest when others are resting. He often tells us.

For the rehearsal of the Spring Festival, I think that as a literary and art worker, it is necessary to fight the battle with preparation.

Because literature and art serve society and serve the broad masses of the people.

  [Explanation] There are currently 26 actors in the Shanghai Shanghai Theater Youth Troupe, from Shanghai, Anhui, Gansu, Hunan, Shandong, and Jiangxi provinces and cities, with an average age of less than 30 years old.

Even for local actors, the time left for them during the Spring Festival is nothing more than a New Year’s Eve dinner, but the young actors do not feel regretful.

  [Concurrent] Shen Jiani, a young actress from Shanghai Shanghai Theater

  I think our profession is the most important during the Spring Festival, and it is to bring you a spiritual feast.

I am also very happy myself, because I see them (the audience) seeing our performance with smiles on their faces, so I feel really warm and happy.

  [Concurrent] Li Bingru, a young actor from Shanghai Shanghai Theater

  Because we are now the youngest generation of the Shanghai Theater, and I feel that the burden on us is still quite heavy.

First of all, we must pass it on first. The old gentlemen left these things as treasures. We must learn these things so that they will not be lost.

(Do you think you regret not being able to accompany your family during the Spring Festival?) No regrets, I think I also accompanied them in a different way. We have changed from family members, elders, and relatives to audiences and movie fans.

  Zhou Sunyu reports from Shanghai

Responsible editor: [Li Ji]