I wonder, how many people still want to hear Peking Opera in their lives, like listening to a song or watching a movie?
How long have you not seen Peking Opera? Or have you never seen Peking Opera? When you think of Peking Opera, what comes to mind? The Peking Opera I have seen in my image is a small section of the Spring Festival night every year, and now that the Spring Festival Gala is not watched, the Peking Opera will not be watched. When it comes to Peking Opera, the first play that comes to my mind is "Farewell to the Overlord". Of course, I have not seen the real scene, I have only seen the movie "Overlord Farewell", the scene and life of the famous generation of cheng diyi in the movie, and every time I think of it, it makes people sigh.
Just like the master said in the movie, the Peking Opera a hundred years ago caught up with the good time. Although it is an era when the mountains and rivers are broken and the people are not happy, when the Small Building of Cheng Diyi Duan appeared in the play, the audience at the bottom was full of pits and valleys, and the audience roared like a tsunami, which was especially victorious compared to the current deyun society when Zhang Yunlei appeared. Even in reality, Master Mei Lanfang's play is also a difficult ticket. And at that time, it was even more famous, the "four famous Dans" (Mei Lanfang, Xun Huisheng, Shang Xiaoyun, Cheng Yanqiu),
Four famous dans
"The Four Great Su Shengs Before and After" (Yu Shuyan, Yan Jupeng, Gao Qingkui, Ma Lianliang, Tan Fuying, Yang Baosen, Xi Xiaobo) "Winter Emperor" Meng Xiaodong are all famous horns at home and abroad! I am a person who does not watch dramas, and I still know their names, and the influence at that time is evident. In the past hundred years, the changes have changed, and Peking Opera has become the current state of urgent need for protection and difficult to sell, which makes people sigh every time they think of it.
Meng Xiaodong
As a passerby who is not even a fan of the opera, I also saw the news about the Deyun Qilin Drama Company not long ago, and suddenly wanted to talk about it and talk about the national essence we want to protect. Since it comes to the Qilin Opera Society, it is necessary to mention Guo Degang, he is a big opera fan, although he is not a professional, but often sings Peking Opera in the Qilin Opera Society, lives his own drama addiction, and the tickets are still selling well. But many people went to Guo Degang, not Peking Opera.
Peking Opera, now it is really difficult to attract the interest of young people, at least I have not heard of anyone around me who likes to listen to Peking Opera, and there is not much news about Peking Opera on the Internet. Why didn't anyone listen to it, I think it was too far away from us.
Peking Opera, as a representative of drama, I think it is Chinese opera. It's not just about singing and doing, hand-eye-to-body, it's also about having a delightful story. A hundred years ago, the feudal dynasty gradually collapsed, but people are still full of interest in the stories that happened in the feudal dynasty, the emperors in the story will be phased, the dynasty changes, people feel that it is not far away, and they are also very interested in listening to it and watching it. Now, the world has changed dramatically, and it has few new stories to attract today's audiences. The last time there was a new story, it was the eight model plays of decades ago, and it did attract a large number of young people at that time to like to watch the play, but that was the last glory of Peking Opera. In my opinion, Peking Opera is an art that is unwilling to follow the times and reflect the times, and it is also left behind by this era.
In order to write about this thing, I slightly turned over the information about the famous Peking Opera artists before (I am afraid that I remember that there are mistakes and omissions, check it out) and found an interesting phenomenon. In the past, famous artists were constantly innovating and combining their own styles into their own schools, such as: Mei Pai, Xun Pai and other familiar to everyone. Today's famous artists are mainly the second and third generations of famous artists in that year, and few can form a faction of their own. When looking at the news again, when promoting Peking Opera, they all say that this is a traditional and authentic Peking Opera; when performing Peking Opera, it is even more difficult to make a difference from the tradition. I want to say, it is all at this time, what is the use of this traditional, authentic shelf, directly let everyone spread out to try, to innovate, in case there is really one, will not be able to bring Peking Opera to the fire? I know that the most vigorous time in an industry is when many companies in it grow wildly and have the courage to innovate, and I think art is more or less similar.
In addition, I also noticed an interesting thing: people don't like to watch Peking Opera, but they like to listen to opera. In the past two years, many ancient songs with drama have become popular on short video platforms. "Yu Xi Sigh", "You Shan Love", "You Jing", "Guanshan Wine", "Ten Years of Human World" and so on are all popular songs in the past two years. Previously, songs with opera elements such as "Joke Face" and "Flower Field Mistake" were also widely sung. It can be seen that our acceptance of the tone of opera is very high. Therefore, I think that if there can be songs with more Elements of Peking Opera popular, there may be people who like the singing section of Peking Opera, so as to break through the surface and drive the overall development of Peking Opera.
About Peking Opera, I will write about this roughly, and let's end it:
Although it has been far away from us, as a national essence, I still hope that it can return to its glory. Now our national strength is thriving, the national pride and cultural self-confidence of the Chinese people are increasing day by day, and the wind of the new national tide is sweeping the country. Not only Peking Opera, but also traditional dramas such as Kunqu Opera and Huangmei Opera can take advantage of this shareholder style to leave their own glory on this prosperous stage. After all, their bodies contain not only our Chinese poetry and music, but also our culture and history.