(Interview between NPC and CPPCC) Zeng Xiaomin, Dean of Guangdong Cantonese Opera Theatre
China News Service, Guangzhou, February 26. Title: Zeng Xiaomin, Dean of Guangdong Cantonese Theater: Let the world feel the charm of China through literature and art
China News Agency reporter Tang Guijiang
"Cantonese opera is a gem of Lingnan culture. It is not only a ray of light from history to the present, but also a road to future culture." Zeng Xiaomin, a representative of the National People's Congress and director of the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Theatre, said in an exclusive interview with China News Agency in Guangzhou a few days ago. Traditional culture is the gene of Chinese culture. It is necessary to create more literary products that conform to modern lifestyles and that more young people are willing to accept, so that the world can feel the charm of Chinese culture.
Zeng Xiaomin, representative of the National People's Congress and dean of the Guangdong Cantonese Theater, attended the meeting.
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Zeng Xiaomin is the winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, the Wenhua Performance Award, a national first-class actor, and the spokesperson of the "famous celebrities endorsing excellent traditional culture" in Guangdong Province.
In the 2021 China Central Radio and Television Spring Festival Gala opera show "The Prosperity Hundred Gardens", Zeng Xiaomin and the famous Cantonese opera artist Zhu Hongxing jointly appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage and performed the fresh and soft Cantonese opera "The Legend of the White Snake: Love" on the Spring Festival Gala. It showed the unique charm of Cantonese opera.
As the National Two Sessions are about to be held in 2021, Zeng Xiaomin, who is still busy performing Cantonese opera during the Spring Festival, said in an interview with China News Agency that he is very concerned about the continuous revival and continuous innovation of traditional culture; he hopes to keep pace with the times. Traditional culture injects new vitality and expands the influence and creativity of traditional culture.
"As the gene of Chinese culture, how does traditional culture reflect its irreplaceable value and play its role in promoting daily life?" Zeng Xiaomin said that culture is the foundation of cohesion, innovation, and development, and it enhances cultural identity and value identity. The practical need to promote the coordinated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Zeng Xiaomin (first from left) performed "The Legend of the White Snake: Love" representing Cantonese opera on the stage of the 2021 Chinese Opera Spring Festival Gala.
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Over the years, Cantonese opera has been integrated with the culture of the Greater Bay Area, nourishing and promoting each other.
Cantonese opera itself is an important gene of the excellent traditional culture of the Greater Bay Area. The future direction of Cantonese opera culture depends on the current foundation of Cantonese opera culture and the close relationship with the next generation of young people.
Zeng Xiaomin said that the construction of a world-class Bay Area has attracted much attention. In the construction of the Greater Bay Area, Cantonese opera is not only a leader of traditional culture, but also a provider of excellent cultural content.
The future of Cantonese opera should be a strategic connection between the countries of the Greater Bay Area, dialogue with the world's advanced culture, and at the same time fusion and reconstruction, so as to create cultural symbols with unique Chinese content with international competitiveness.
At the two sessions this year, the "14th Five-Year Plan" was a topic of general concern to the delegates.
As a representative of China's theater and cultural circles, Zeng Xiaomin said that the related plans to improve the country's cultural soft power and promote the strategic goal of a socialist cultural power have made the theater industry very excited.
Zeng Xiaomin, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Guangdong Cantonese Theater.
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"Our country has become the second largest economy in the world. We have made the world understand China with our unique Chinese cultural temperament and fighting spirit." Zeng Xiaomin said that more people who pay attention to Chinese culture should be allowed to adopt more excellent culture. The works feel the charm of China.
"At the two sessions, I am also concerned about how popular culture and excellent traditional culture can be integrated, and how can excellent traditional culture be integrated into and lead future life? Especially for the representative of excellent traditional culture-the support of traditional opera culture, the proportion of resources, and the systematic nature of education I continue to pay attention to investment and so on.” Zeng Xiaomin said.
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