Chinanews.com, Jinhua, March 7th (Dong Yixin, Zhangxin to Zhao Zaizhi) A few days ago, the Zhejiang Wuju Opera Art Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as: Zhejiang Wuju Opera Troupe) performed in the countryside in Wuyi County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province.

At the scene, movie fans of all ages came here after hearing the news, and the scene was filled with excitement, which still left the participants still unsatisfied.

  "When I was young, almost every village had a Wuju opera troupe, and they would set up a stage to sing during the slack season. My mother was a Wuju opera performer, and I grew up lying on the stage." Yang Xiayun, an actress from Zhejiang Wuju troupe who participated in the performance, said.

She and her lover Lou Sheng are not only a "couple of plum blossoms", they are also from Wuyi.

Going to the countryside to perform at the scene.

Photo courtesy of Lou Sheng

  Why are there so many Wu Opera talents in the mountainous counties in central Zhejiang?

  "Inheriting and developing opera culture is the need of the times, and it is also the hope of the older generation of Wuyi Wuju opera workers to stick to their artistic lives." On the 7th, Zhang Suiping, head of Wuyi Vocational and Technical School, said that she was also an active Wuju opera stage , Wu opera actor who has won many awards.

At the critical moment when Wuyi opened an opera class and was in urgent need of excellent teachers, she stepped off the stage and stepped onto the podium.

  Wuju Opera is a national intangible cultural heritage, known as "the ancestor of Peking Opera, the authentic Hui Opera, and the living fossil of Southern Opera".

  Since 1991, Wuyi has opened a major of Chinese opera, which has been integrated into the current Wuyi Vocational and Technical School after the Second Vocational School Chinese Opera Troupe Bawu Art Garden and Lanxiang Art School.

Over the past 30 years, the school has trained more than 1,000 Wu opera performers, and Wu Yi native Wu opera actors have blossomed everywhere.

At the same time, the former Wuyi County Opera Troupe was the first county-level troupe in Zhejiang to be invited to perform abroad.

  Ye Hui, a teacher of Wuyi Vocational Technical School, said that Wuju Opera has a very deep historical accumulation and popular foundation in Wuyi.

During the peak period, there were 36 locally registered folk Wu opera troupes.

In the theater troupes in Yiwu, Dongyang and other places in the province, Wuyi people even occupy "half of the country".

Wu opera training site.

Photo by Zhao Zaizhi

  Wang Shuaishuai, a 17-year-old student of Wuyi Vocational and Technical School, was born in the "Family of Wu Opera". He has been practicing martial arts since he was 13 years old, from practicing flying feet, spinning, sweeping legs, stepping, playing coloratura, turning over, singing, to practicing opera , not falling behind, even turning 40 somersaults at a time.

  In order to allow young people to pass on Wuju opera, Wuyi launched the "Wuju Opera into Campus" campaign as early as 2008.

  Nowadays, loving Wuju, learning Wuju, singing Wuju, and performing Wuju have become popular in Wuyi Hushan Primary School, Shuxi Primary School, Xinzhai Primary School and other pilot schools. "Little plum blossoms are in full bloom", and Ruan Dengyue, the winner of the National Children's Plum Blossom Award, has emerged Wang Yuchen, the champion of Wuju fans in Zhejiang Province, and a group of new stars of Wuju opera.

  After years of cultivation, it has become a fact that Wu Opera has been passed on to successors.

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