Recently, a collection of Sino-Japanese intangible cultural heritage that integrated Chinese Kunqu opera and Japan's wild words wrote a new chapter for Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges. This year is the 18th year that Zhao Jinyu, the country's first professional Kunqu Opera promoter and the descendant of the Kunqu Opera Peng School, has been engaged in the promotion of Kunqu Opera, and in recent years, Zhao Jinyu's Kunqu Opera promotion has become more and more international. Following the invitation to Tokyo, Japan for Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges last year, this year's China-Japan Intangible Cultural Heritage Gathering returned to Shanghai, China. The event also attracted international friends such as Patrick · Nais, former Belgium ambassador to China, and the wives of consuls in Shanghai.
As the ancestor of China's hundred operas, Kunqu Opera has a history of more than 600 years, and its lyrics are elegant, meticulous, singing and dancing. Kyogen is one of the traditional performing arts in Japan, born 650 years ago in the Muromachi period. In 2001, Japan's Noh music, together with Chinese Kunqu opera, was selected as one of the world's first masterpieces of the world's oral intangible cultural heritage. Putting these two equally ancient intangible cultural heritage cultures from different countries in the same living room, allowing everyone to watch the intangible cultural heritage at an effective distance of two meters, plus the performers do not use microphones, you can truly feel the sound effect produced by the physical collision of vocal cords and breath on the spot, which can be said to be a particularly rare and precious experience. In addition, the Kunqu Opera and Kyogen were completed by Chinese masters and apprentices and Japan fathers and sons respectively, which made intangible cultural heritage shine in inheritance and innovation.
At the Sino-Japanese Cultural Collection, the first performance was the classic Kunqu Opera repertoire "Butterfly Dream · Kissing", in which Zhao Jinyu and Kunqu Opera performance artist Hu Gang joined hands to interpret the story of "Zhuang Zhou's Trial Wife". "Butterfly Dream · Kiss" occupies an important position in Kunqu opera, and its lyrics are affectionate and moving, and the performance is delicate, which is deeply loved by the audience. As the two artists on the stage began to sing, the breath of Kunqu Opera spread like a breeze, and the water mill cavity spread to every corner of the scene. The light-hearted and humorous performance full of comedic effects in the play made everyone feel the sense of humor in the "elegant" Kunqu Opera.
The performers were Kentaro Okuzu and Kenichiro Okutsu, who were invited by the Chinese Quyi Artists Association to participate in the tour of "Dongdu" in China. Kentaro Okuzu is a Noh musician Kyogen Kawazumiru, and a non-genetic inheritor of Noh. He studied under the late Noh Noh Nokuro Nobuhiro, the 13th Nomura Matazaburo. His son, Kenichiro Okutsu, studied under Noraku Nobuhiro Nomura 13th Nomura and 14th Nomura Nobuyuki, as well as his father. He made his debut at the age of 5. He is currently a student at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Music, majoring in Kyogen, and is also under the tutelage of two masters, Manzo Nomura and Mansai Nomura.
The performance style of Japan Kyogen is humorous and funny, except for special scenes, masks are generally not used, and the actors' costumes are simple and simple, rich in civilianism. The show "Penshan" performed that day tells the story of a boy who likes Penshan very much and wants to get his hands on Penshan to go to a friend's house to steal, so that a series of stories that make people cry and laugh follow-up. Let the audience understand life in the seemingly "funny" performance. Kentaro Okuzu's father and son's wonderful performance at the scene allowed the Chinese audience, who are still relatively new to Kyogen, to have a close personal experience of this ancient Japan intangible cultural heritage, and also have a preliminary understanding of Japan's classical theater culture.
The inheritance of Kunqu Opera is inseparable from the oral transmission of teachers to students, and the development of Kunqu Opera is also inseparable from the innovative breakthroughs of teachers. On the same day, Zhang Xunpeng, an 85-year-old national treasure Kunqu opera artist, and his disciple Zhao Jinyu performed his newly choreographed Kunqu Opera pas de deux "Peony Pavilion · Dreaming (Pinling)". Dance makes the traditional Kunqu opera gorgeously upgraded, and the ancient and modern forms make the Kunqu opera more ornamental and inherited, and the 600-year-old Kunqu opera has been reborn in inheritance and innovation. Zhang Xunpeng is not only a performing artist, but also an educator of Kunqu opera, and her disciples are all over Beijing, Kunming, Vietnam, Shanghai and Huai, including Cantonese opera, Wenzhou Ou opera and other genres. She used the Kunqu Opera Peng School boudoir art she founded to nourish the hundred operas.
Zhao Jinyu said excitedly: "Every time I share the stage with the teacher, the teacher has fresh and fresh innovative art that makes us feel that the art is endless, and we must keep learning." And the teacher sets the heart of the field very well, so the inheritance of this kind of art is really a life force. Everyone is talking about inheritance and innovation, that must be the first thing is to inherit, know where the roots are, know why it is a standardized art, art with rules, so that from the continuous improvement of artistic skills to the formation of their own artistic ideas, there is the possibility of innovation. ”
In order to pass on the excellent traditional Chinese culture from generation to generation, Zhao Jinyu, as the country's first professional Kunqu Opera promoter, has been active on the stage of promoting Kunqu Opera for many years with his unchanging love. The concept of "Kunqu Opera+" proposed by her is to go into all walks of life and go abroad to create an international cultural exchange platform to promote Kunqu Opera culture.
This transnational intangible cultural heritage collection will also be a continuous cultural promotion method of "Kunqu Opera+" in the future. Shen Huiqin, chairman of Xindongyuan Group, is an outstanding Shanghai opera performing artist, and its president, Chen Xingyan, together with his mother, has been committed to promoting Chinese culture for many years. In order to support the promotion of Kunqu Opera by his best friend Zhao Jinyu, Chen Xingyan personally became the host of the scene. Many of Jinyu's friends and students also came to the scene to support, just like her original intention: "On the Kunqu Opera Road, I made a good relationship and slowly turned one person's Kunqu Opera into a group of people's Kunqu Opera." ”
With the improvement of the aging population, further enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the elderly has also become a social responsibility that Zhao Jinyu has taken the initiative to assume. Her innovative "Kunyun Finger Exercises" has entered many grassroots units and communities, helping more young elderly people to start the prevention of cognitive impairment earlier in the form of a combination of medical and music songs. In the future, Zhao Jinyu will also cooperate with the Xindongyuan Public Welfare Fund to light up the cultural and spiritual life of the elderly with "Kunqu Opera +", warm the hearts of the elderly with healthy and uplifting literary and artistic works, and reflect the care for the elderly in practical actions.