The literary and artistic works in 2023 are not only rich in themes and excellent works, but the audience also found that many bright "new faces" have emerged. They may not have just entered the industry this year, but they have completed the creation of their works this year, relying on the solid basic skills accumulated over time and repeatedly practicing Xi, and they have also entered the public eye with those excellent works. The creative perspective precipitated in life and the professional attitude full of youth and vitality are the common characteristics of them, and they have also attracted a large number of young audiences with the same values to pay attention to literary and artistic works with different themes. From the big screen to the stage, the new generation of literary and artistic creators represented by Yu Shi, Jiang Qiming, Sun Yang, Waina, Chen Lijun, Li Yunxiao, etc., not only write stories belonging to the younger generation with sincerity, but also give the "traffic" of those good works in 2023 a positive connotation and a richer level of social value.
1. Yu Shi. 
Age: 27 years old.
2023 masterpieces: "King of the Sky" and "Fengshen Part 1".
2023 is a harvest year for Shi, and he has two big-screen works released successively - in the May 1st movie "King of the Sky", he made his debut as an Air Force pilot Deng Fang, and then in the summer movie "Fengshen Part 1", he played Ji Fa, with clear eyes, simple and lonely, and was known by many audiences. Throughout the summer, with the continuous release of "Fengshen Part 1", Yu Shi has also begun to receive widespread attention as an actor.
Fengshen Part 1" The whole movie unfolds the story from Ji Fa's perspective, and he has two identities in the film, one is as the second son of Xibohou, and the other is as the proton of Yin Shou. At first, he regarded Yin Shou as a spiritual idol, and in the opening battle of Jizhou City, he saw the aura of the idol as a king on the battlefield, but he was relatively indifferent to his father in blood relations. However, when he witnessed Yin Shou's gradual depravity, his worldview changed. In the performance, Yu Shi grasped the subtle emotional changes of the characters, the righteous indignation when he first saw Ji Chang, and then felt pity when he saw his father in prison, and finally went to rescue his father without hesitation, showing the complex psychological growth trajectory of a young man, and also completing the character narrative of the hero's growth.
Yu Shi played Ji Fa in "Fengshen Part 1".
In the movie "King of the Sky", Deng Fang, a test pilot codenamed "Mountain Eagle" played by Yu Shi, has strong professional ability, does not panic when controlling the fighter, and will do his best to do it if he believes in one thing, and does it to the extreme. But he is also a maverick because of his style of acting, not particularly gregarious, and a ruthless character who doesn't talk much. However, Deng Fang also has a tender side in addition to firmness and coldness, and in the end he is willing to be the wingman of his opponent Lei Yu, and the relationship between him and Lei Yu has also changed, giving the character an arc. When Yu Shi played this role, he had already experienced the tempering of "Fengshen Trilogy", which shows his maturity in performance.
Although Yu Shi is not an actor, he has continued to try on this road through hard work, allowing the industry and the audience to see the birth of a new actor force. After that, the movies "Fengshen Part II" and "Welcome to Me" starring Yu Shi, as well as the contemporary national drama "My Altay" will also meet the audience one after another.
2, Jiang Qiming.
Age: 31 years old.
2023 representative works: "The Long Season" and "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department".
Jiang Qiming, who is already in his thirties, is not a rookie actor, but he is a "new face" in film and television who broke into the public eye with an absolutely vigorous attitude this year. Before 2023, he was a well-known good actor in the industry, but his reputation was still limited to the stage theater circle - the directors and actors he worked with, as well as the audience who had watched stage plays such as "Mix, Fold or Salad" and "I Am the Moon" were deeply impressed by his performances. In 2023, with the release of the movie "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department" and the broadcast of the drama "The Long Season", Jiang Qiming will make more film and television audiences remember his face and name with the two vivid characters in this film and drama.
The movie "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department" takes the story of Tang Zhijun, editor-in-chief of the editorial department of "Cosmic Exploration" magazine, as a clue to the story of his persistent pursuit of alien civilizations, and uses the form of pseudo-documentary to show the loneliness of human individuals and the reconciliation with themselves. Jiang Qiming plays Tang Zhijun's follower in the film, a real-life remote weather station staff member and spiritual alien civilization lover Na Risu. He has a stutter and loves to drink, and drinking always makes trouble;He has been difficult to integrate into the collective for a long time, but he sees himself in Tang Zhijun. Jiang Qiming studied Xi with Wang Yitong, the real amateur actor in the film, and found a way of acting between a professional actor and an amateur, which fits the pseudo-documentary style of the film without any traces, as if he was found by the crew at a weather station in Inner Mongolia.
Jiang Qiming played Fu Weijun in "The Long Season".
In the annual quality drama "The Long Season", he played Shen Mo's deaf brother Fu Weijun, who relied on a "ruthless" energy to mix the streets, not only to survive, but also to protect his bullied sister. In the end, in order to allow his sister to say goodbye to the past completely and have a new life, he took the initiative to invest in the net laid by **. After that, he turned around and smiled and said goodbye to his sister in the crowd, which also became the last of the two siblings. Fu Weijun doesn't have a single line in the whole play, but from fighting ruthlessly for survival to being tempted by Yin Hong, from kneeling on the ground to begging for mercy to save his brother, to the silent crying ...... when he learned of Yin Hong's deathJiang Qiming uses body language and expressions to convey the rich inner emotions of the characters. In the "long season" left behind by the rushing train of the great era, the life of Fu Weijun shaped by him is a strong but heart-wrenching footnote.
After graduating from Chinese opera, Jiang Qiming engaged in stage acting, because most of the actors he liked, such as Daniel Day Lewis and Christopher Waltz, came out of the stage. He has been in contact with film and television drama performances since 2020, and so far he has not had many works - he played a flashing communication soldier in the movie "King Kong River", played the idle but kind-hearted Xiao Xu in "Dear Child", and then "Space Exploration Editorial Department" and "The Long Season". Especially the latter made Jiang Qiming go from obscurity to wide known, there were more drama appointments, and the schedule became full. He didn't think about what would happen after he became "popular", but he seriously thought about what kind of actor he wanted to be. "I see a lot of good actors, they all have their own thinking, their own way of acting, and I feel like I have to be an actor like that. There is always no right or wrong in acting, and when one day people know me more, I hope it is because of my performance. ”
3, Sun Yang. 
Age: 34 years old.
2023 masterpieces: "All or Nothing" and "The Eighth Suspect".
Sun Yang may not have expected that he would be out of the circle in 2023 because of a villain, and in a month, the number of fans on social platforms has skyrocketed by more than 500,000, and various topics have frequently appeared on the hot search list. The movie that made him quickly out of the circle is "All or Nothing", an anti-fraud movie, which was released in August this year, and Sun Yang plays the assistant of the fraud boss A Cai in the film.
On the one hand, Ah Cai is a cruel and ruthless **, who likes to use violence and threats to control and punish his subordinates, but on the other hand, he sometimes shows compassion and opens up to the dealer Liang Anna played by Jin Chen, and even lets her go at a critical moment. When Sun Yang played this role, he walked in the gray area of human nature, neither playing "black" nor "white", but playing the part in the ambiguous area in the middle, which was somewhat ambiguous, but showed the darkness and complexity of human nature. Under the camera of the fraud group, he was violent to Liang Anna, hid in the corner, and showed tenderness, under Sun Yang's performance, this originally thin character was much plump and three-dimensional.
In All or Nothing, Sun Yang plays the role of Ah Cai, the assistant of the fraud leader.
A month after the release of "All or Nothing", another movie starring Sun Yang "The Eighth Suspect" was released, which was filmed 4 years ago, and was released at this time, which seemed to add another fire to Sun Yang's acting career. In the film, he plays his cousin Chen Xinnian, who was on the road of no return because of a taxi robbery in his early years, which was his only active choice, but he made up for it with a lifetime of passivity and upheaval, and he also became a victim of the whole case. Sun Yang has a large age span in the film, and in addition to the help of makeup and styling, he seems to have found a feeling that is closer to the state of the character - loneliness. In the end, his back in a wheelchair is all drama.
Before the release of these two ** films this year, Sun Yang did not receive too much attention. In 2018, Sun Yang had a chance to emerge in Bai Xue's ** work "Over the Spring", and got the first male protagonist in his life, Ahao, a sailor who wandered on the gray edge. Although the audience of this literary film is not wide, some viewers also met Sun Yang for the first time through this play, including director Li Zijun, who found him to star in "The Eighth Suspect" after watching this movie. Although since his debut, many of Sun Yang's roles have been supporting roles, but in his opinion, there are no small roles, only small actors. As a professional actor, if he pursues the positioning of "protagonist and supporting role" too much, he will compromise his performance, and he feels that "actors must have a pure creative spirit". It is with this patience and sincerity that Sun Yang was able to wait for his screen highlight moment after a long time.
4. Waina.
Members: Lu Nong, Lu Min, Eighteen.
2023 representative works: songs "Big Dream" and "Field Song".
In the Chinese music scene in 2023, we finally feel the life force rushing to our faces again. This was originally a mysterious band from the mountains: the lead singer is a farmer from Hechi County, Guangxi, the drummer Lu Min is a bricklayer from Guilin, Guangxi, and the guitar 18 is a farmer and wandering singer from Guilin. Before this summer, no one knew who they were, but in a competition variety show like "Summer of the Band 3", which attaches great importance to the band's popularity, they will become the band members who will be out of the circle in 2023 purely with their ** works. Among them, the song "Big Dream" sung by Wayina and Ren Suxi has become the "fairy single" that dominates the charts on major platforms this year - the original song is 10 minutes long, from a person's age of six to eighty-eight years old, telling the confusion and struggle of a short life in a plain, spiral repetitive melody - in the ** assembly line era, this is definitely not a song that meets popular standards.
In Vaina's view, "everyone is in the same world, empathizing and resonating, hoping to wake up from a dream and live a more relaxed life";But if you look at the Chinese music scene, "Big Dream" seems to have a deeper meaning: the public has really lost the ** that hits the long-lasting emotions in their hearts. In the short ** era, our emotional arc seems to have become very short, happy, sad, excited, and indignant are just a moment, listening to ** and watching dramas are just a matter of finger brushing, so that we forget that ** should have vitality, and the melody is that life should be written and stretched horizontally and vertically. And "Big Dream" in 2023 is like a warm embrace, ** ordinary us, but also let us believe in the power of ** again.
The song "Big Dream" sung by Vaina and Ren Suxi resonated with many people.
Jumping out of creation, Wayna's "out of the circle" also reflects the strong yearning of contemporary young people for a relaxed and spiritually self-sufficient life. Originally working as a designer in a big city, he resigned to farm and live a free life of farming with his head bowed and singing with his head upPassers-by work as masons on the construction site during the day, but at night they can look at the moonlight and write their lives and ideals into songsEighteen sells one crop of rice to save enough for a year's living expenses, but this is enough to support him to walk the streets of Binjiang Road with his guitar and stereo on his back at night, singing and ...... for his dreamsVaina, like each of us, is just an ordinary person who tries to live in life, but their spirit realizes freedom in **, as long as it is in **, no matter how miserable life is, it becomes a poem. When it comes to becoming a hot new star in the band market in 2023, Vaina doesn't seem to care so much about the "result". "Continue to feel life, ordinary singing, and share our stories with more people", this is the meaning of their departure, and it also supports them to continue walking.
5, Chen Lijun Li Yunxiao.
Age: 31 years old, 30 years old.
2023 masterpiece: Yue Opera "New Dragon Gate Inn".
After the classic martial arts movie "New Dragon Gate Inn" in 1992 was adapted into Yue Opera, it will become a hard-to-find opera performance in 2023. The actors Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao in the Yue Opera version of "New Dragon Gate Inn" have also become opera actors sought after by young people nowadays, and on August 6, 2023, the live broadcast of the two on social platforms attracted 9.25 million people**.
The movie version of "New Dragon Gate Inn" tells the story of the martial arts warrior and the master of Dongchang in the Longmen Inn in the hinterland of the desert, while the Yue Opera version highlights the love and hatred of Zhou Huai'an, Jia Ting, Jin Jiyu, Qiu Moyan and other characters, Chen Lijun plays Jia Ting, Li Yunxiao plays Jin Jiyu, and therefore, a new term called "old sister" is on the hot search. Regarding such a title, Chen Lijun once expressed her interpretation: "This is actually a recognition of the female students in Yue Opera, and 'Kun Sheng' is a major feature of our women's Yue Opera." When I first learned Xi Xiaoshengxing, I would observe masculine traits, but gradually I found that the men on the opera stage were different from the men in life, and more often, I Xi learned the hands, eyes, body, methods, and steps of the male characters on the opera stage. ”
In the Yue opera "New Dragon Gate Inn", we see the efforts and skills of the new generation of opera actors.
Yue opera is characterized by scarf students, and the image of Xiaosheng is often clean and refreshing, gentle and elegant, and he is good at grasping such a sense of proportion, which can also give a glimpse of the actor's skills. Chen Lijun, Li Yunxiao and other new generation actors of Yue Opera showed their efforts in this play in the style of "one minute on stage, ten years of work off the stage" - such as Chen Lijun went out at 5 o'clock in the morning and returned to the dormitory at 12 o'clock in the evening during her Xi at schoolHe Qingqing, who played the heroine Qiu Moyan in "New Dragon Gate Inn", once said in an interview that in order to make the performance with Chen Lijun real, the two discussed during rehearsals to put truth first, and it was common for arms, knees and even toenails to be bruised.
Speaking of the year 2023, Chen Lijun said, "Everything we do is for better inheritance and development, the future is always unknown, we can only keep trying, even if the front is dark and hitting a wall, year after year, each of us is taking action and thinking for the ideals in our hearts, being responsible for what we have learned and loved, and being responsible for ourselves." 2023 is coming to an end, this is a node and a new starting point, what you encounter can make people grow, the experience of success is experience, the experience of failure is experience, I just hope that every moment in the future will not forget the original intention". Through the popularity of the new generation of Yue Opera actors such as Chen Lijun and Li Yunxiao, more young audiences will focus on the traditional art of opera, and the audience was pleasantly surprised to find that the Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe where the two are located is an all-female team, and young audiences affectionately call them "China's own women's troupe".
Beijing News reporters Teng Chao, Yang Lianjie, Zhang He, Zhang Kunyu.
Edited by Tian Cheni.
Proofread by Yanjun Zhang.