On the evening of October 26th, the second Yuntu Poetry Festival of "Yunshan·Poetry·Drama" was hosted by the Guangzhou Baiyun District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, hosted by the Baiyun District Library, and executed by Guangzhou Sappho Culture and Art Co., Ltd. in Baiyun The district library was successfully held. Hundreds of scholars, poets, writers, artists and cultural enthusiasts gathered together to witness the wonderful performance of the first original verse drama "Chenglian and Boya" by a local poet in Guangdong.
Integrating poetry, music, art, and philosophy
The poetic drama "Cheng Lian and Boya" was created by the famous poet Huang Lihai. The main creative team consists of screenwriter Huang Lihai, director Chen Jingjing, stage design Huang Chaoying, costume designer Zhou Qinshan, costume producer Wu Zongqing, and composer Wang Wanying It consists of artists such as video designers Ke Yong'en and Lin Rungu, lighting designers Kong Qingchao and Zhu Zhijun, main visual designer Fu Yanbin, stage manager Huang Yihao, and sound design Liang Jinning.
The play tells the story of young Boya who was tired of his official career and determined to study music with Chenglian, a folk master. After going through hardships and awakenings, he finally composed the famous song "Mountains and Flowing Waters". The dialogue between Boya and Chenglian is full of philosophical thoughts on art and music, and Huang Lihai's language is beautiful and affectionate, touching people's hearts directly.
In the play, Boya is tired of officialdom, so he decides to pick up music and find a new outlet in life. He came to the folk master Cheng Lian to study the piano. Unexpectedly, Cheng Lian's teaching method was so fierce that he broke Boya's Yao Qin. Boya fell into complete darkness and his passion for music no longer existed. Muti, a folk piano player, is Cheng Lian's fellow disciple, and is both an enemy and a friend of Cheng Lian. He also likes Boya's musical talent and persuades Boya to give up following Cheng Lian and follow him to find a new realm of music. Just when Boya was in a dilemma, the appearance of Chenglian's wife Bran reignited Boya's inner fire of life. Bran is a person full of spirituality. She also has a gentle inspiration for the frustrated Boya, allowing Boya to break through himself in loneliness and grief and create moving music.
""Cheng Lian and Boya" packs a lot of things into a limited and short story frame. Although the outer shell is a growth story from having a piano to not having a piano, from artifact skills to metaphysics, it is packed in The language is like a storm, reflecting many aspects. If you cut it from one fragment or one aspect, you can get rich expressions, such as silence and speech, art and violence. The sentences and rhetoric of the poet Huang Lihai are fluid. Sometimes it is very creol-like, like a collage. When you listen to the performance of these lines with your senses in the audience, you will feel overwhelmed." Novelist Saul expressed his feelings after watching it.
""Cheng Lian and Boya" is the first local original poetry drama to be put on the stage in the history of Guangdong literature, and it is also a bold breakthrough in China. The staggered stairs and the reeds swaying in the wind, two elements present the The stage effect combines elegance and pastoral, and the music is sometimes ethereal and vast, and sometimes it is mysterious and deep, reflecting the high level of stage beauty," the poet Li Wenqiao said.
Huang Lihai said: "Bo Ya's famous song "Mountains and Flowing Water" is not an ordinary thing. It has traveled through the stars and years, and was also sent into space and broadcast to the universe. It must have its inherent temptation and mystery. It comes from the song after the Western Zhou Dynasty. After staring for a period of time, in the abnormal light, I recognized Boya, Chenglian, Bran, Muti, and Fang Zichun. Their chivalrous and heroic spirit, literary spirit and fairy spirit permeated together, but their outlines appeared one by one. This is The human state is also the spiritual form of the Spring and Autumn Period. This poetic drama should be emotional, mysterious, and vibrant. Just like the water of life lifted up from the deep and cool well of wisdom, it can still nourish the innocence and innocence that are missing today. Ideal, hope and love. Boya's "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is more than just the epiphany of human beings in nature. What I touched in "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is not only the unity of nature and man, but also a performance of love. —Glory to love, still exuding eternal temptation, still looking for a better translation on the earth."
That night, the breeze blew, the reeds drifted in the wind, the light followed the heart, and the artistic conception of poetry emerged from the stage. The actors' performance was dedicated and professional, and they vividly interpreted the emotions and stories of the characters in the play, winning the audience's support. Applause.
In the 21st century, Guangdong poetic drama is at the forefront
In the West, poetic drama is an ancient style of literature, such as Homer's epic "The Iliad". " and "The Odyssey" have had an indelible impact on Western culture. In China, Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs" in the pre-Qin Dynasty was the earliest prototype of Chinese poetry. Poets such as Guo Moruo, Feng Zhi, and Mu Dan have written verse dramas, and later contemporary poets such as Haizi, Xichuan, Lan Lan, Li Qingsong, and Wang Wei have also written verse dramas, but so far only a handful of them have been performed on the stage. The creation and performance of poetic drama is still a fresh call and exploration.
In 2020, at the 12th Guangzhou New Year Poetry Conference held in the Guangzhou Library, Huang Lihai, the founder of the Poetry Society, proposed performing poetry drama for the first time and launched the Irish Poet. Yeats's poetic drama "Imel's Only Jealousy" (Fu Wenyu/director, Ji Qiao/space design, Cheng Jia/translation) creates a multi-layered aesthetic poetic space, which is attracted, loved and talked about by readers in 2022. , Huang Lihai simply proposed a new concept: "The reading of poetic drama". The first season launched "4.48 Mental Breakdown" by British playwright Sarah Kane (Chen Jingjing/Director); "The reading of poetic drama". Season 2 launches the poetic drama "Achilles' Corolla" written by the famous poet Lan Lan (directed by Chen Jingjing). After the premiere of this poetic drama by the poet Lan Lan, he was spotted by the "Edinburgh Drama Frontier" and was invited to participate in "Wuhan Literature". Season" performance. Not long ago in December 2023, the poetic drama "The Corolla of Achilles" was performed as the seed play of the "Yunshan Poetry Drama: The First Yuntu Poetry Festival" at the Baiyun District Library in Guangzhou, attracting attention again. "Cheng Lian and Boya" has promoted the "reading method of poetic drama" (season 3), and Guangdong has become one of the most important provinces in China for producing poetic drama.
It is reported that "Yunshan· As a poetry and drama performance platform, "Poetry·Drama" is open to readers and citizens, and is committed to sowing the seeds of poetry in readers' hearts. Baiyun District Library has been committed to building a charming library, and further promotes Baiyun District Library through holding cultural activities such as poetry gatherings. The library's spirit of building a new humanities library has been put into practice, and the elements of an art library have been added to give the library a new charm. On the evening of October 26th, the second Yuntu Poetry Festival of "Yunshan·Poetry·Drama" was hosted by the Guangzhou Baiyun District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, hosted by the Baiyun District Library, and executed by Guangzhou Sappho Culture and Art Co., Ltd. in Baiyun The district library was successfully held. Hundreds of scholars, poets, writers, artists and cultural enthusiasts gathered together to witness the wonderful performance of the first original verse drama "Chenglian and Boya" by a local poet in Guangdong.
Integrating poetry, music, art, and philosophy
The poetic drama "Cheng Lian and Boya" was created by the famous poet Huang Lihai. The main creative team consists of screenwriter Huang Lihai, director Chen Jingjing, stage design Huang Chaoying, costume designer Zhou Qinshan, costume producer Wu Zongqing, and composer Wang Wanying It consists of artists such as video designers Ke Yong'en and Lin Rungu, lighting designers Kong Qingchao and Zhu Zhijun, main visual designer Fu Yanbin, stage manager Huang Yihao, and sound design Liang Jinning.
The play tells the story of young Boya who was tired of his official career and determined to study music with Chenglian, a folk master. After going through hardships and awakenings, he finally composed the famous song "Mountains and Flowing Waters". The dialogue between Boya and Chenglian is full of philosophical thoughts on art and music, and Huang Lihai's language is beautiful and affectionate, touching people's hearts directly.
In the play, Boya is tired of officialdom, so he decides to pick up music and find a new outlet in life. He came to the folk master Cheng Lian to study the piano. Unexpectedly, Cheng Lian's teaching method was so fierce that he broke Boya's Yao Qin. Boya fell into complete darkness and his passion for music no longer existed. Muti, a folk piano player, is Cheng Lian's fellow disciple, and is both an enemy and a friend of Cheng Lian. He also likes Boya's musical talent and persuades Boya to give up following Cheng Lian and follow him to find a new realm of music. Just when Boya was in a dilemma, the appearance of Chenglian's wife Bran reignited Boya's inner fire of life. Bran is a person full of spirituality. She also has a gentle inspiration for the frustrated Boya, allowing Boya to break through himself in loneliness and grief and create moving music.
""Cheng Lian and Boya" packs a lot of things into a limited and short story frame. Although the outer shell is a growth story from having a piano to not having a piano, from artifact skills to metaphysics, it is packed in The language is like a storm, reflecting many aspects. If you cut it from one fragment or one aspect, you can get rich expressions, such as silence and speech, art and violence. The sentences and rhetoric of the poet Huang Lihai are fluid. Sometimes it is very creol-like, like a collage. When you listen to the performance of these lines with your senses in the audience, you will feel overwhelmed." Novelist Saul expressed his feelings after watching it.
""Cheng Lian and Boya" is the first local original poetry drama to be put on the stage in the history of Guangdong literature, and it is also a bold breakthrough in China. The staggered stairs and the reeds swaying in the wind, two elements present the The stage effect combines elegance and pastoral, and the music is sometimes ethereal and vast, and sometimes it is mysterious and deep, reflecting the high level of stage beauty," the poet Li Wenqiao said.
Huang Lihai said: "Bo Ya's famous song "Mountains and Flowing Water" is not an ordinary thing. It has traveled through the stars and years, and was also sent into space and broadcast to the universe. It must have its inherent temptation and mystery. It comes from the song after the Western Zhou Dynasty. After staring for a period of time, in the abnormal light, I recognized Boya, Chenglian, Bran, Muti, and Fang Zichun. Their chivalrous and heroic spirit, literary spirit and fairy spirit permeated together, but their outlines appeared one by one. This is The human state is also the spiritual form of the Spring and Autumn Period. This poetic drama should be emotional, mysterious, and vibrant. Just like the water of life lifted up from the deep and cool well of wisdom, it can still nourish the innocence and innocence that are missing today. Ideal, hope and love. Boya's "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is more than just the epiphany of human beings in nature. What I touched in "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is not only the unity of nature and man, but also a performance of love. —Glory to love, still exuding eternal temptation, still looking for a better translation on the earth."
That night, the breeze blew, the reeds drifted in the wind, the light followed the heart, and the artistic conception of poetry emerged from the stage. The actors' performance was dedicated and professional, and they vividly interpreted the emotions and stories of the characters in the play, winning the audience's support. Applause.
In the 21st century, Guangdong poetic drama is at the forefront
In the West, poetic drama is an ancient style of literature, such as Homer's epic "The Iliad". " and "The Odyssey" have had an indelible impact on Western culture. In China, Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs" in the pre-Qin Dynasty was the earliest prototype of Chinese poetry. Poets such as Guo Moruo, Feng Zhi, and Mu Dan have written verse dramas, and later contemporary poets such as Haizi, Xichuan, Lan Lan, Li Qingsong, and Wang Wei have also written verse dramas, but so far only a handful of them have been performed on the stage. The creation and performance of poetic drama is still a fresh call and exploration.
In 2020, at the 12th Guangzhou New Year Poetry Conference held in the Guangzhou Library, Huang Lihai, the founder of the Poetry Society, proposed performing poetry drama for the first time and launched the Irish Poet. Yeats's poetic drama "Imel's Only Jealousy" (Fu Wenyu/director, Ji Qiao/space design, Cheng Jia/translation) creates a multi-layered aesthetic poetic space, which is attracted, loved and talked about by readers in 2022. , Huang Lihai simply proposed a new concept: "The reading of poetic drama". The first season launched "4.48 Mental Breakdown" by British playwright Sarah Kane (Chen Jingjing/Director); "The reading of poetic drama". Season 2 launches the poetic drama "Achilles' Corolla" written by the famous poet Lan Lan (directed by Chen Jingjing). After the premiere of this poetic drama by the poet Lan Lan, he was spotted by the "Edinburgh Drama Frontier" and was invited to participate in "Wuhan Literature". Season" performance. Not long ago in December 2023, the poetic drama "The Corolla of Achilles" was performed as the seed play of the "Yunshan Poetry Drama: The First Yuntu Poetry Festival" at the Baiyun District Library in Guangzhou, attracting attention again. "Cheng Lian and Boya" has promoted the "reading method of poetic drama" (season 3), and Guangdong has become one of the most important provinces in China for producing poetic drama.
It is reported that "Yunshan· As a poetry and drama performance platform, "Poetry·Drama" is open to readers and citizens, and is committed to sowing the seeds of poetry in readers' hearts. Baiyun District Library has been committed to building a charming library, and further promotes Baiyun District Library through holding cultural activities such as poetry gatherings. The library's spirit of building a new humanities library has been put into practice, and the elements of an art library have been added to give the library a new charm.
Written by: Nandu reporter Zhu Rongting intern Ye Jiayi
On the evening of October 26th, the second Yuntu Poetry Festival of "Yunshan·Poetry·Drama" was hosted by the Guangzhou Baiyun District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, hosted by the Baiyun District Library, and executed by Guangzhou Sappho Culture and Art Co., Ltd. in Baiyun The district library was successfully held. Hundreds of scholars, poets, writers, artists and cultural enthusiasts gathered together to witness the wonderful performance of the first original verse drama "Chenglian and Boya" by a local poet in Guangdong.
Integrating poetry, music, art, and philosophy
The poetic drama "Cheng Lian and Boya" was created by the famous poet Huang Lihai. The main creative team consists of screenwriter Huang Lihai, director Chen Jingjing, stage design Huang Chaoying, costume designer Zhou Qinshan, costume producer Wu Zongqing, and composer Wang Wanying It consists of artists such as video designers Ke Yong'en and Lin Rungu, lighting designers Kong Qingchao and Zhu Zhijun, main visual designer Fu Yanbin, stage manager Huang Yihao, and sound design Liang Jinning.
The play tells the story of young Boya who was tired of his official career and determined to study music with Chenglian, a folk master. After going through hardships and awakenings, he finally composed the famous song "Mountains and Flowing Waters". The dialogue between Boya and Chenglian is full of philosophical thoughts on art and music, and Huang Lihai's language is beautiful and affectionate, touching people's hearts directly.
In the play, Boya is tired of officialdom, so he decides to pick up music and find a new outlet in life. He came to the folk master Cheng Lian to study the piano. Unexpectedly, Cheng Lian's teaching method was so fierce that he broke Boya's Yao Qin. Boya fell into complete darkness and his passion for music no longer existed. Muti, a folk piano player, is Cheng Lian's fellow disciple, and is both an enemy and a friend of Cheng Lian. He also likes Boya's musical talent and persuades Boya to give up following Cheng Lian and follow him to find a new realm of music. Just when Boya was in a dilemma, the appearance of Chenglian's wife Bran reignited Boya's inner fire of life. Bran is a person full of spirituality. She also has a gentle inspiration for the frustrated Boya, allowing Boya to break through himself in loneliness and grief and create moving music.
""Cheng Lian and Boya" packs a lot of things into a limited and short story frame. Although the outer shell is a growth story from having a piano to not having a piano, from artifact skills to metaphysics, it is packed in The language is like a storm, reflecting many aspects. If you cut it from one fragment or one aspect, you can get rich expressions, such as silence and speech, art and violence. The sentences and rhetoric of the poet Huang Lihai are fluid. Sometimes it is very creol-like, like a collage. When you listen to the performance of these lines with your senses in the audience, you will feel overwhelmed." Novelist Saul expressed his feelings after watching it.
""Cheng Lian and Boya" is the first local original poetry drama to be put on the stage in the history of Guangdong literature, and it is also a bold breakthrough in China. The staggered stairs and the reeds swaying in the wind, two elements present the The stage effect combines elegance and pastoral, and the music is sometimes ethereal and vast, and sometimes it is mysterious and deep, reflecting the high level of stage beauty," the poet Li Wenqiao said.
Huang Lihai said: "Bo Ya's famous song "Mountains and Flowing Water" is not an ordinary thing. It has traveled through the stars and years, and was also sent into space and broadcast to the universe. It must have its inherent temptation and mystery. It comes from the song after the Western Zhou Dynasty. After staring for a period of time, in the abnormal light, I recognized Boya, Chenglian, Bran, Muti, and Fang Zichun. Their chivalrous and heroic spirit, literary spirit and fairy spirit permeated together, but their outlines appeared one by one. This is The human state is also the spiritual form of the Spring and Autumn Period. This poetic drama should be emotional, mysterious, and vibrant. Just like the water of life lifted up from the deep and cool well of wisdom, it can still nourish the innocence and innocence that are missing today. Ideal, hope and love. Boya's "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is more than just the epiphany of human beings in nature. What I touched in "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is not only the unity of nature and man, but also a performance of love. —Glory to love, still exuding eternal temptation, still looking for a better translation on the earth."
That night, the breeze blew, the reeds drifted in the wind, the light followed the heart, and the artistic conception of poetry emerged from the stage. The actors' performance was dedicated and professional, and they vividly interpreted the emotions and stories of the characters in the play, winning the audience's support. Applause.
In the 21st century, Guangdong poetic drama is at the forefront
In the West, poetic drama is an ancient style of literature, such as Homer's epic "The Iliad". " and "The Odyssey" have had an indelible impact on Western culture. In China, Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs" in the pre-Qin Dynasty was the earliest prototype of Chinese poetry. Poets such as Guo Moruo, Feng Zhi, and Mu Dan have written verse dramas, and later contemporary poets such as Haizi, Xichuan, Lan Lan, Li Qingsong, and Wang Wei have also written verse dramas, but so far only a handful of them have been performed on the stage. The creation and performance of poetic drama is still a fresh call and exploration.
In 2020, at the 12th Guangzhou New Year Poetry Conference held in the Guangzhou Library, Huang Lihai, the founder of the Poetry Society, proposed performing poetry drama for the first time and launched the Irish Poet. Yeats's poetic drama "Imel's Only Jealousy" (Fu Wenyu/director, Ji Qiao/space design, Cheng Jia/translation) creates a multi-layered aesthetic poetic space, which is attracted, loved and talked about by readers in 2022. , Huang Lihai simply proposed a new concept: "The reading of poetic drama". The first season launched "4.48 Mental Breakdown" by British playwright Sarah Kane (Chen Jingjing/Director); "The reading of poetic drama". Season 2 launches the poetic drama "Achilles' Corolla" written by the famous poet Lan Lan (directed by Chen Jingjing). After the premiere of this poetic drama by the poet Lan Lan, he was spotted by the "Edinburgh Drama Frontier" and was invited to participate in "Wuhan Literature". Season" performance. Not long ago in December 2023, the poetic drama "The Corolla of Achilles" was performed as the seed play of the "Yunshan Poetry Drama: The First Yuntu Poetry Festival" at the Baiyun District Library in Guangzhou, attracting attention again. "Cheng Lian and Boya" has promoted the "reading method of poetic drama" (season 3), and Guangdong has become one of the most important provinces in China for producing poetic drama.