Chinanews.com, Fuzhou, March 6th (Ye Qiuyun and Chen Xi) Between the reels and plucking strings, the contestants appeared with flying sleeves; accompanied by the bright and smooth tunes, the contestants sang and danced... The final of the 16th Fujian Provincial Drama Narcissus Award is underway Hot in progress.

　　On March 4th, 23 contestants from Liyuan Opera, Yue Opera, and Beilu Opera brought 21 excerpts from classic operas to the stage of "Narcissus Flower". expression of modernity.

　　On the 1st, the final of the 16th Fujian Provincial Drama Narcissus Award kicked off. According to the arrangement of the event, the final will last for 12 days.

It is understood that there are currently 23 local operas in Fujian, including 18 local operas and 5 inter-provincial operas. In addition, there are 5 types of shadow play and puppet show, which can be called a hundred gardens of opera art.

　　A history of Fujian opera is a history of development that expounds the old and absorbs the new, weeds out the old and brings forth the new.

　　Liyuan Opera is one of the traditional opera styles with a long history in southern Fujian, with a history of 800 years.

When Liyuan drama writer Mr. Wang Renjie was alive, he often said that "the rescue and inheritance of traditional operas of Liyuan Opera should strive to restore the original style, and do not mix modern things at will, just like the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties cannot be repaired with modern aluminum alloys." Ordinary” and “As long as you stick to the eighteen steps of Liyuan Opera and stick to the traditional music of Liyuan Opera, Liyuan Opera will never lose its shape” are two words on the lips.

　　As the only professional performance troupe of Liyuan Opera, Fujian Liyuan Opera Experimental Troupe regards these two words of Mr. Wang Renjie as a guideline for the development of the troupe.

Around 2000, the troupe began to enter into an upsurge of inheriting and rescuing traditional repertoires.

　　Over the past 20 years, Baht has accumulated nearly 60 large and small traditional operas. From the early "Walking", "Forced Writing", "Crossing the Bridge and Entering the Kiln", it has gradually "restored the old as it is" to "Wang Kui", "Zhu The singing, gong and drum scriptures, Kebai and performances of major operas such as Maichen and Lu Mengzheng have nourished a generation of young actors and cultivated a fixed audience. The ancient Liyuan Opera has shown new vitality.

　　The "bonanza" contained in classic repertoires has nourished generations of drama successors and has become the cornerstone of every actor's drama journey.

However, "the key to the prosperity and development of the opera industry lies in people".

Wu Danping, art director of Fuding Fujian-Zhejiang Border Culture and Art Exchange Center, was deeply touched.

She said frankly that there is too much shortage of people, and the new generation of actors is in short supply.

An excerpt from Shouning North Road Opera "Little Cowherd".

Photo by Xiaojun

　　Fuding Fujian-Zhejiang Border Cultural and Art Exchange Center was formerly known as Fuding Yue Opera Troupe, which was established in May 1952 and is currently the only county-level Yue Opera Troupe in the province.

In 2015, Fuding Fujian-Zhejiang Boundary Cultural and Art Exchange Center recruited a group of students in the Fujian-Zhejiang border area, and cooperated with Zhejiang Art Vocational College to conduct five-year junior college training. In 2020, these students will graduate.

Wu Danping said that these students became the "new hope" of the regiment after they graduated and returned to the regiment.

　　The lack of people is also a problem that Beilu Opera is currently facing.

Beilu Opera, commonly known as Fujian Luantan, is a kind of local opera tune formed by the fusion of Luantan introduced to Fujian in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and local folk opera. It has a history of more than 300 years and is one of the rare ancient operas in China. Shouning County, Fujian Province.

In 2006, Shouning North Road Opera was included in the list of national intangible cultural heritage, and the inheritance and protection of North Road Opera have been paid more and more attention.

　　In 2018, the North Road Opera Protection and Inheritance Center of Shouning County cooperated with Shandong Heze Art School to recruit 22 local oriented students in Shouning twice; from 2023, it plans to recruit 10-15 local oriented students in Shouning every year for training within three years .

At present, a group of students will return from their studies, injecting new vitality into the inheritance of Beilu Opera.

　　Wu Weiping, director of the North Road Troupe, said that at present, the troupe pays more attention to the cultivation of talent echelons.

Since Shouning County is located in a remote mountainous area, actors from other places will not come to Shouning easily. If local orientation students are trained, they are more likely to stay in Shouning.

　　"For opera, there must be people and it must be passed on alive. If there are no people, the opera will slowly disappear." Wu Weiping said with emotion.

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