The sound of opera rhyme is like the endless mist of history; the sound of a long song is like the endless heaven and earth.
At 19:5 on November 10, the China Central Radio and Television Station Opera Channel (cctv-11) premiered the documentary "The Best Troupe in the World", starting a legendary journey of rare dramas. The first episode of the documentary focuses on Datong's traditional local opera and children's drama. The opera is broadcast simultaneously on CCTV cmg, and CCTV.com and CCTV audio and video are simultaneously launched.
It is understood that the main creative team of the documentary "The Best Troupe in the World" produced by the Opera Channel of the China Central Radio and Television Station's Literary Program Center spent a whole year selecting multiple opera types and troupes from "East, West, South, North, and Middle" in my country, and visited The inheritors, artists, and researchers of China's rare operas have gradually outlined the regional characteristics and cultural features of rare operas through continuous excavation and compilation of records. During this period, the creative team went deep into the performance sites of "the best troupes in the world" such as Datong Children's Opera, Ningbo Ningbo Opera, Hanzhong Han Diao Huan Huan, Shaoxing Xinchang Diao Opera, etc., using the form of "documentary of drama troupes + real landscape performance", It integrates regional culture, customs, opera stories, opera performers’ style, and classic opera performances, leading the audience to listen to the most beautiful local accents and rhymes, and unlocking a new map of rare opera types in China. Each episode of the documentary focuses on one opera type and one theater troupe, systematically combing the origin, development, evolution and innovation of the opera type.
In this chapter of "The Best Troupe in the World·Yanbei Children's Play", it fully demonstrates the actor team of Datong City North Road Bangzi and Children's Opera Protection and Transmission Center, which has a national-level intangible heritage of unremitting teaching Wang Binxiang and Xue Ruihong, as well as Xue Zhihua and Lianyang, outstanding young inheritors of the opera stage, embody the entrepreneurial spirit of the new and old generations of artists working together to expand new stage positions.
In Yanbei, a land full of stories, there is a local opera called playing children. After more than 600 years of ups and downs, it is still flourishing and full of vitality. This type of play originated from Huairen, Yingxian and Datong areas in the middle reaches of the Sanggan River. Due to its long development history, "Playing Children" is also hailed by experts as a living fossil in the history of drama. The name of the opera "Hua'er" comes from an ancient tune called "Hua'er". People blend it with other opera music and folk songs, and call this tune with regional characteristics Yanbei Playing Children.
According to research, the literary and musical structure of this genre is derived from Yuan opera. The outstanding feature is that the singing voice is produced in the back voice, and the sound is emitted from the back of the throat, using a special melody to produce a unique singing style and musical effect. As early as the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, "playing children" has formed a very mature stage performance art form of opera. In the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty, the art of playing children reached its heyday. It is the local people's most enthusiastic and favorite opera dialect. There are about 40 traditional plays for playing children. Representative plays include "The Lion's Den", "Sending Sisters", "Buddha Hall", "Golden Wooden Fish", "Three Filial Piety Cards", etc. Its performance features equal emphasis on singing and dancing, and strong dancing, which is rare in other operas. The lively and popular percussion music is particularly unique, and its characteristics are positive and negative alley playing. The characters are divided into five elements: red, black, raw, dan, and ugly. The performance absorbs a lot of folk dance moves, which is quite unique. Among them are Dibu Kung Fu, Horse Whip Kung Fu, Fan Kung Fu, etc., which are full of local flavor.
Through a series of effective protection and inheritance measures, this ancient local opera has become more and more dynamic, not only retaining its unique artistic characteristics, but also gradually moving towards a broader stage. In July 1992, the Datong Children's Play Troupe was awarded "The Best Troupe in the World" by the Ministry of Culture; in April 2004, it was included in the national and folk cultural heritage protection project pilot unit by the Ministry of Culture; on May 20, 2006, the "Yanbei Children's Play Troupe" "Approved by the State Council, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists; in June 2007, "Datong Children's Play" was rated as one of the "Top Ten City Business Cards" of Datong City.
In recent years, Datong Children's Play has repeatedly won awards in various national opera competitions.Among them, in October 2005, at the invitation of the Chinese Drama Literature Society and the Organizing Committee of the China Ethnic Culture Expo, he went to Beijing to participate in the 4th China Ethnic Culture Expo Folk Drama Competition, which caused a sensation and won 19 awards in the competition. . In March 2019, by participating in activities such as "Light and Shadow - Sino-French Friendship Storytelling", the artistic charm of the drama has been more widely displayed and paid attention to, enhancing its international influence. In October this year, Datong Children's Play participated in the "National Opera Elegance" Chinese Opera Academy 2024 season intangible cultural heritage drama performance held at the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater, showing the unique charm of national intangible cultural heritage dramas to the capital audience and was well received. Full recognition and praise from experts and audiences.
The sound of opera rhyme is like the endless mist of history; the sound of a long song is like the endless heaven and earth.
At 19:5 on November 10, the China Central Radio and Television Station Opera Channel (cctv-11) premiered the documentary "The Best Troupe in the World", starting a legendary journey of rare dramas. The first episode of the documentary focuses on Datong's traditional local opera and children's drama. The opera is broadcast simultaneously on CCTV cmg, and CCTV.com and CCTV audio and video are simultaneously launched.
It is understood that the main creative team of the documentary "The Best Troupe in the World" produced by the Opera Channel of the China Central Radio and Television Station's Literary Program Center spent a whole year selecting multiple opera types and troupes from "East, West, South, North, and Middle" in my country, and visited The inheritors, artists, and researchers of China's rare operas have gradually outlined the regional characteristics and cultural features of rare operas through continuous excavation and compilation of records. During this period, the creative team went deep into the performance sites of "the best troupes in the world" such as Datong Children's Opera, Ningbo Ningbo Opera, Hanzhong Han Diao Huan Huan, Shaoxing Xinchang Diao Opera, etc., using the form of "documentary of drama troupes + real landscape performance", It integrates regional culture, customs, opera stories, opera performers’ style, and classic opera performances, leading the audience to listen to the most beautiful local accents and rhymes, and unlocking a new map of rare opera types in China. Each episode of the documentary focuses on one opera type and one theater troupe, systematically combing the origin, development, evolution and innovation of the opera type.
In this chapter of "The Best Troupe in the World·Yanbei Children's Play", it fully demonstrates the actor team of Datong City North Road Bangzi and Children's Opera Protection and Transmission Center, which has a national-level intangible heritage of unremitting teaching Wang Binxiang and Xue Ruihong, as well as Xue Zhihua and Lianyang, outstanding young inheritors of the opera stage, embody the entrepreneurial spirit of the new and old generations of artists working together to expand new stage positions.
In Yanbei, a land full of stories, there is a local opera called playing children. After more than 600 years of ups and downs, it is still flourishing and full of vitality. This type of play originated from Huairen, Yingxian and Datong areas in the middle reaches of the Sanggan River. Due to its long development history, "Playing Children" is also hailed by experts as a living fossil in the history of drama. The name of the opera "Hua'er" comes from an ancient tune called "Hua'er". People blend it with other opera music and folk songs, and call this tune with regional characteristics Yanbei Playing Children.
According to research, the literary and musical structure of this genre is derived from Yuan opera. The outstanding feature is that the singing voice is produced in the back voice, and the sound is emitted from the back of the throat, using a special melody to produce a unique singing style and musical effect. As early as the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, "playing children" has formed a very mature stage performance art form of opera. In the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty, the art of playing children reached its heyday. It is the local people's most enthusiastic and favorite opera dialect. There are about 40 traditional plays for playing children. Representative plays include "The Lion's Den", "Sending Sisters", "Buddha Hall", "Golden Wooden Fish", "Three Filial Piety Cards", etc. Its performance features equal emphasis on singing and dancing, and strong dancing, which is rare in other operas. The lively and popular percussion music is particularly unique, and its characteristics are positive and negative alley playing. The characters are divided into five elements: red, black, raw, dan, and ugly. The performance absorbs a lot of folk dance moves, which is quite unique. Among them are Dibu Kung Fu, Horse Whip Kung Fu, Fan Kung Fu, etc., which are full of local flavor.
Through a series of effective protection and inheritance measures, this ancient local opera has become more and more dynamic, not only retaining its unique artistic characteristics, but also gradually moving towards a broader stage. In July 1992, the Datong Children's Play Troupe was awarded "The Best Troupe in the World" by the Ministry of Culture; in April 2004, it was included in the national and folk cultural heritage protection project pilot unit by the Ministry of Culture; on May 20, 2006, the "Yanbei Children's Play Troupe" "Approved by the State Council, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists; in June 2007, "Datong Children's Play" was rated as one of the "Top Ten City Business Cards" of Datong City.
In recent years, Datong Children's Play has repeatedly won awards in various national opera competitions.Among them, in October 2005, at the invitation of the Chinese Drama Literature Society and the Organizing Committee of the China Ethnic Culture Expo, he went to Beijing to participate in the 4th China Ethnic Culture Expo Folk Drama Competition, which caused a sensation and won 19 awards in the competition. . In March 2019, by participating in activities such as "Light and Shadow - Sino-French Friendship Storytelling", the artistic charm of the drama has been more widely displayed and paid attention to, enhancing its international influence. In October this year, Datong Children's Play participated in the "National Opera Elegance" Chinese Opera Academy 2024 season intangible cultural heritage drama performance held at the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater, showing the unique charm of national intangible cultural heritage dramas to the capital audience and was well received. Full recognition and praise from experts and audiences.
New Yellow River Client: Chen Jie
Editor: Shanxi Editor
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