has a friendly smile on his face and speaks standard Sichuan dialect. As soon as "Fat Sister" appears, people are taken back to the scene of Bashu comedians bringing countless happiness to the people of Sichuan and Chongqing. On January 21, Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress representative and Bashu comedian Zhong Yanping, who attended the second session of the 14th Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress, brought her suggestions for Sichuan to inherit China’s excellent traditional culture and revitalize folk arts.
Sichuan folk art can be traced back to the folk rap art before the Han Dynasty, including more than 20 categories such as Sanda, storytelling, comedy, and voiceless music. As the director of the Art Committee of the Sichuan Folk Art Research Institute, Zhong Yanping has been focusing on the inheritance and development of folk arts. In her opinion, Sanda storytelling in Sichuan folk art is the "talk show" of Sichuan people. However, some traditional songs with a long history in Sichuan folk art are facing the problem of having no successors.
▲Bashu comedian Zhong Yanping
The difficulty in inheriting the legacy lies in retaining young audiences. "Folk art is native to Sichuan folk. It is very down-to-earth and very popular. If you want today's young people to like it, you should let young people express it." Before coming to the meeting, Zhong Yanping was busy rehearsing the folk art drama "Peach and Plum Spring Breeze and a Pot of Wine" . This folk art drama based on light comedy combines Sichuan Qingyin, Sichuan Money Board, Sichuan Yangqin with trendy and avant-garde rock and electronic music, creating a cross-border fusion. The most special thing is that a large number of young people in their 20s are used to perform in the play, and a young man in their 30s is selected as the chief director.
’s novel exploration, Zhong Yanping said bluntly, is to retain young audiences. "Whether it is in terms of thinking or stage design, we are making some tentative breakthroughs, which means keeping integrity and innovating." She said that keeping up is to preserve the excellent artistic characteristics accumulated over thousands of years, and innovation is to empower Contemporary consciousness and contemporary aesthetics.
The difficulty of inheritance lies in the generation of young talents. Li Boqing is 77 years old, Dingdang is in his 50s, and he is almost 50 years old... Counting his predecessors and peers, Zhong Yanping deeply feels that young people need to take over to revitalize folk art. "When we stop performing, where will our students be?"
为Therefore, Zhong Yanping brought suggestions: The Sichuan Provincial Folk Art Research Institute should join forces with the Sichuan Provincial Music Association and local academies and music associations to better inherit the folk art culture and create Sichuan folk art archives by collecting physical and audio and video materials; Experts, young and middle-aged folk art backbones, and experts of various representative genres promote the compilation of Sichuan folk art series and textbooks. At the same time, we advocate and encourage art universities and general colleges and universities in the province to choose opportunities related to folk arts majors. Sichuan Arts Vocational College can serve as a provincial pilot institution to allow Sichuan characteristic music categories such as voiceless music and dulcimer to be included in the music appreciation classes of primary and secondary schools. Strengthen promotion.
It is worth mentioning that Zhong Yanping specifically called for bringing Sichuan dialect into families and training Sichuan children to speak Sichuan dialect well. For example, she said that folk art is first of all an art of "speaking", and enunciation comes before the idiom. Nowadays, newly recruited young people are not proficient in Sichuan dialect and often "invert the characters" in their singing, thus losing their due artistic standards and taste. .
"Only when you can retain the local accent can you remember the nostalgia." Zhong Yanping said.
Red Star News reporter Zhong Qini
editor Yu Mange
