Beijing, April 4 -- Immersive performances such as dramas, Kunqu opera, and rural folk songs are staged at the "Xiaoyuan Theater", a boutique homestay complex located in Mentougou, Beijing, where tourists participate in drama performances and sing folk songs from the 22s and <>s with the band on the lawn... Today, the reporter learned from Mentougou District of Beijing that during the "May Day" period, the "Xiaoyuan Theater" of boutique homestay groups such as Jiadixia, Baiyu, and Tianzhuang in the district will carry out special performances of different styles.
Mentougou District of Beijing is located at the intersection of the Yongding River Cultural Belt and the Great Wall Cultural Belt in Xishan, with unique folk customs, ancient villages, ancient roads, western Beijing coal industry, prehistoric culture, Great Wall culture, farming culture, Liuli culture, Yuanqu culture and other cultural resources.
In recent years, in order to further excavate, protect and inherit these valuable cultural resources, the Mentougou District Party Committee and District Government has based itself on protecting and inheriting the historical context, shaping the iconic cultural brand of the Xishan Yongding River Cultural Belt, and actively exploring the historical and cultural connotation of Xishan Yongding River, creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional culture, creating the Jinyu Liuli Cultural Creative Industrial Park and innovating the path of national intangible cultural heritage - the living inheritance of 700-year glass firing skills. In order to better protect, inherit and enhance intangible cultural heritage and activate regional cultural resources, this year launched the characteristic cultural brand of "Small Courtyard with Drama" jointly created by the Publicity Department of the Mentougou District Party Committee and the District Culture and Tourism Bureau.
The "Xiaoyuan Theater" in Mentougou District, Beijing, carries out special performances of different styles. Photo courtesy of Mentougou District, Beijing
The Chinese style songs of Beijing dialect and jingyun, the beautiful and gentle Kunqu opera singing voice, and the relaxed and witty crosstalk are perfectly integrated into the immersive performance of "Guest to Teahouse". The performance breaks the traditional stage performance form and presents it to visitors in a new form of "blending the drama in the scenery and the drama scenery".
"The beautiful mountains and waters of Mentougou, the natural scenery is beautiful, every holiday I will come to Mentougou B&B for a leisure, I didn't expect to see such a wonderful performance, and even more unexpected is to participate in the performance, what a good experience!" Visitors to the first show were enchanted.
It is understood that the series of performances of the "Small Courtyard with Drama" cultural brand mainly combines the purchase of professional performance programs with local characteristic cultural and artistic programs, and uses professional performance teams to drive regional cultural and artistic teams to create local cultural masterpieces that adapt to the development of the new era and the taste of tourists, cultivate and support a group of rural literary and artistic teams, and inherit, protect and enhance intangible cultural heritage with a long history of more than 400 years like "Baiyuyan Opera Opera". At the same time, it will also screen the "Mentougou Small Courtyard" boutique homestay group with a wide radiation scope and deep cultural heritage, build a "small courtyard theater", and organize phased and embedded "small courtyard with drama" cultural and artistic performance activities in combination with the key time nodes of tourism and vacation, so as to create a new scene of "small courtyard with drama" cultural tourism consumption due to the "courtyard" conditions.
During this year's "May Day", Mentougou District will carry out lawn concerts, opera "Follow the Party" and other unique cultural performances in the four "small courtyard theaters" of Dongmashanjia, Jiadixia Village, Baiyu Village and Tianzhuang Village, and will also present rich and wonderful cultural performances for tourists during the Dragon Boat Festival, summer vacation and National Day, and successively launch original dramas "Ma Zhiyuan" and "Butterfly" and other immersive performance activities.
The relevant person in charge of the Publicity Department of the Mentougou District Party Committee said that Mentougou is a cultural region and a cultural relics area, accounting for 14.5% of the city's registered immovable cultural relics stations, and has rich cultural resource endowments. In the future, we will deeply excavate, condense and improve these unique cultural symbols, strengthen the originality of characteristic cultural and artistic works, make cultural elements "move", "live" and "light up", create new scenes of cultural tourism consumption of different categories and characteristics, and continue to enhance the brand influence of "small courtyard with drama".
The person in charge said that in the next step, Mentougou District will adopt the method of project declaration and substitution of awards to encourage boutique homestay groups and tourist scenic spots to carry out various forms of immersive performing arts activities, encourage grassroots literary and artistic teams to arrange and innovate high-quality literary and artistic works with Mentougou characteristics, gradually expand the "small courtyard theater" to all boutique homestay groups and scenic spots in the district, activate the innovation and creation vitality of grassroots cultural and artistic performances, and make the cultural brand of "small courtyard with theater" become a close contact, understanding, and tourism It is an important carrier to experience the culture of Mentougou and an important engine to promote the high-quality development of the rural cultural tourism industry. (End)