The land of Jingchu is dyed with forests, and the scenery is picturesque.
Looking back in this beautiful season, this is a year of gratifying achievements in Hubei's cultural undertakings: a number of key repertoire such as the new historical drama "Qu Yuan", the Peking Opera "Ma Chao", and the opera "Hanshui Danxin" have been launchedTang Kai, an actor from the Peking Opera Company of Hubei Province, won the 31st Plum Blossom Award for Chinese TheatreA series of "Village Evening" activities have been carried out impressively, of which 3 have participated in national demonstration performancesUndertake the "deep love of the earth" - the demonstration tour of the central region of the national outstanding mass literary and artistic works;Xuetang Liangzi site won the 2022 National Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries;73 intangible cultural heritage workshops were newly recognized, driving employment by more than 340,000 ......
Bravely undertake new cultural missions and show new atmosphere and new deeds. Since the beginning of this year, Hubei has made a number of important achievements in various fields of cultural undertakings, promoting the cultural construction of the province to a new height.
The scene of the 4th Jingchu Rural Cultural Tourism Festival.
Make a play and sway the romance
On October 30th, the performance of Hubei Yuetuo excerpt opera "Fa Zidu" at Hubei Opera Art Center won full applause, and the 5th Hubei Local Opera Art Festival came to a successful conclusion.
The 5th Hubei Local Opera Art Festival was hosted by the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, with the theme of "the grand event of opera art, the festival of the people", opened on October 16, 19 local opera types in 16 cities (prefectures) of the province, 27 opera troupes of 20 repertoire in Wuhan major theaters in turn, wonderful. In the repertoire exhibition, famous artists and newcomers of local opera art in Hubei Province will perform on stage, comprehensively displaying the latest achievements in the cultivation of local opera talents in Hubei Province. Among them, the Xiangyang Flower Drum Opera "Mr. Water Mirror", which is based on the story of the "Three Kingdoms" Water Mirror Recommendation, allows young actors to come to the stage**. In the repertoire "Fear of Youth" at the Shanerhuang Opera Protection and Inheritance Exhibition Center in Zhuxi County, the average age of all the actors is only 21 years old.
The 5th Hubei Local Opera Art Festival participated in the repertoire - Yangxin Tea Opera "Fuchuan Frost Leaf Red".
Since then, on November 15, the Hubei Province Young and Middle-aged Artistic Performing Talents New Artists New Works Exhibition and Performance Performance
A group of newcomers and new works have come to the fore, highlighting the new situation of the high-quality development of Hubei's literary and artistic undertakings in the new era.
Adhering to the praise of the people and the virtue of the times, Hubei has implemented the project of creating fine stage arts, and has launched a number of key repertoire this year.
The nine passionate songs sung by the gods awakened Qu Yuan, who was meditating. He stood tall and desolate, with infinite nostalgia for his homeland, pulling the audience's thoughts into the Warring States era of the heroic strife and into the tragic and great life ......The new historical drama "Qu Yuan" premiered on March 14 this year, with a heavy historical theme, a grand stage presentation, and a romantic emotional expression, achieving a stage repertoire with flesh and blood, love and soul. Since the start of the creation of the play, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's 2022 script support project and the 2023 new era stage art excellent repertoire exhibition project have been selected first.
In the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty, Ma Chao, the general of Xiliang, exercised the military formation, and suddenly heard that Ma Dai came to report that his father Ma Teng was assassinated by Cao Cao. After experiencing heavy physical and mental damage, Ma Chao finally had to defect to the Ming Lord. On the evening of May 21 this year, the winners of the 31st Chinese Theatre Plum Blossom Award were announced, and Tang Kai, an outstanding martial arts actor of the Peking Opera Company in Hubei Province, won the Plum Blossom Award for his superb performance skills and excellent professional level in the Peking Opera "Ma Chao", adding another "plum blossom" to Hubei. Focusing on the creative tenet of "renovating the old and renewing without losing the authenticity", the arrangement and adaptation of the traditional Peking Opera "Ma Chao" presents the interweaving of the fate and emotions of a typical drama character, which is a successful exploration of the traditional Peking Opera martial arts to shape the characters and plump flesh and blood.
Tang Kai, an actor from the Peking Opera Company in Hubei Province, won the 31st Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre for his wonderful performance in the Peking Opera "Ma Chao".
On the evening of November 7, the large-scale national opera "Hanshui Danxin" was staged, which artistically reproduced the magnificent picture scroll and touching story of the "South-to-North Water Diversion" project. As a national opera with realistic themes, "Hanshui Danxin" focuses on ecological protection and the revitalization of the reservoir area, highlights the theme of "for the sustainable delivery of clear water from the Yangtze River to the north", presents the magnificent pictures and touching stories of "strategic decision-making, relocation, ecological and environmental protection, reconstruction of homes, and gratitude and return" in the "South-to-North Water Diversion" project from an artistic point of view, and eulogizes the spirit of self-improvement of the sons and daughters of Jingchu in the construction of the "South-to-North Water Diversion Project", and the great love of the people in the reservoir area who give up their small families to care for everyone. The cadres in the reservoir area live up to their mission, loyalty, and responsibility, as well as the sentiment of the people in the water-receiving area of "the grace of a drop of water is reciprocated by a spring."
This year, Hubei has also successfully hosted a series of major festivals and events such as the Yangtze River Folk Song Festival "Landscape Friends, Meeting Hubei", and the National Grand Arena, among which the 3rd National Opera (Southern Film) performance hosted by the host has received rave reviewsThe 5th Hubei Local Opera Art Festival, the 8th Chu Opera Art Festival, the 4th Jingzhou Flower Drum Opera Art Festival, the 11th Huangmei Opera Art Festival and other activities have dedicated a cultural feast to the people of the province and continuously met the needs of the people's high-quality cultural life.
Exhibition and performance, culture benefits the people
The singing is loud, the country sound is strong, and the New Year's flavor is full, and the old and young watch the performances, catch up with the big set, write Spring Festival couplets, and paint New Year's pictures ......This is the Hubei Xiaochang branch of the "Set Sail for a New Journey, Happy China Year" - 2023 National "Village Evening" Demonstration and Exhibition Event, held in Moshan Village, Wangdian Town, Xiaochang County, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province on January 8 this year. In addition to Xiaochang, there are also Taibaohu Village, Lucheng Street, Yidu City, and Baifusi Town, Laifeng County, "Village Evening" activities in the national public culture cloud and the central ** small year relay live broadcast, sharing the big party with the people of the whole country through network interaction.
Hubei "Village Evening" demonstration and display activities.
Hubei has created a "3+N+100" Hubei "Village Evening" activity matrix in 2023 by holding 3 national relay exhibition and broadcasting activities, N demonstration activities, and 100 county-level "Village Evening" activities.
From this point on, from the mountain villages of western Hubei to the Jianghan Plain, on the land of Jingchu, the mass cultural activities of the whole province continue to be filed throughout the year.
The "Deep Love of the Earth" National Outstanding Mass Literary and Artistic Works Demonstration Tour in the Central Region is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, undertaken by the Public Service Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and undertaken by the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, co-organized by the National Public Culture Development Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and implemented by the Hubei Provincial Mass Art Museum. The tour program is mainly based on the award-winning or shortlisted works of the 18th and 19th Star Awards in Hubei, and also includes a number of outstanding group works launched by Hubei Province in recent years.
Let the outstanding literary and artistic works of the masses go to the public, serve the masses, and highlight the mass performances, performances, and the masses. This tour activity started from Jiangcheng Wuhan, from Qu Yuan's hometown to Fengyafang County, from Xiangcheng Quandu to the ancient city of Jingzhou, the vast number of literary and artistic workers walked into the Jiangtan Stage, Qu Yuan Square, Poetry Square, Park and other public cultural venues to perform, and were warmly welcomed by the local people everywhere they went, with an average of more than 5,000 offline audiences per session, and some even more than 10,000 people.
Love Hubei, "dance" and comparison. On the evening of September 8, at the Dongpo Square of Huanggang Yiaihu Park in Hubei Province, the stage was full of dancing and passion, and the audience was crowded with laughter and laughter, and the 2023 Hubei Provincial Mass Dance Exhibition of "Cultural Power and Folk Wonderful" kicked off here. That night, 20 outstanding square dance teams from all over the province took the stage to show their style and dance the happy life of the people.
Since the launch of this exhibition and performance in June this year, mass dance rehearsals and performances have been widely carried out in various places. According to incomplete statistics, the province has carried out more than 400 grassroots performances at all levels, with more than 1,000 participating teams, more than 100,000 participants, and more than 40 million online and offline audiences. On the evening of September 10, the first street dance performance of colleges and universities in the province became a new highlight of this exhibition.
Ou Jianping, an international dance critic and honorary director of the Dance Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts, who served as a judge for this exhibition and performance, said: "Jingchu culture has a long history, the scale of this competition is unexpected, the high level of the competition is surprising, the integration of culture and tourism is wonderful, and the night in Huanggang is unforgettable, which can be called one of the largest and most effective mass dance competitions in the country." ”
After four years of cultivation and development, the Jingchu Rural Cultural Tourism Festival has become an important starting point for polishing and disseminating the Hubei rural tourism brand, gathering the popularity of rural tourism, and helping the revitalization of Hubei countryside.
The 4th Jingchu Rural Cultural Tourism Festival held this year includes the opening ceremony, the "Song of the Earth" literary and artistic boutique parade and performance, the "Fragrance of the Earth" Provincial Peasant Painting Exhibition, the "Village Tour Catches up with the Big Collection" cultural tourism product exhibition and sales and the "Village Tour" promotion and other 8 main activities and a number of supporting activities, in-depth excavation of cultural and tourism resources, and actively explore the new model of "cultural tourism +", promote the cross-border integration of cultural tourism and agriculture, creativity, design, science and technology and other fields, and fully demonstrate the "Jingchu in the harvest and Hubei in the song".
Preserving history and enlightening wisdom and continuing the context
On November 29, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage held a working meeting on the important progress of the major project of "Archaeological China" to inform the important new discoveries of the Chenghe site: the newly discovered "dam" remains at the Chenghe site are about 5,000 years old, and are presumably used for water supply during drought and drainage during flooding. The Neolithic Chenghe site in Shayang, Hubei Province is a high-level prehistoric settlement and an important regional center in the western part of the Han River, and the relevant discoveries have witnessed the wisdom of the ancestors in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and provided important new materials for the study of prehistoric water control.
The results of archaeological excavations of cultural relics in Hubei are amazing. On March 28 this year, the 2022 National Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries Promotion Event held a press conference in Beijing, announcing the 10 selected archaeological projects, and the Liangzi site of the Hubei ** Xuetang where the No. 3 skull fossil of "Yunxian Man" was found was successfully listed. Previously, the major discovery of the "third Yunxian human skull fossil" had rushed to the top of the top ten international archaeological news in 2022.
The Liangzi site of Hubei ** Xuetang won the top ten new archaeological discoveries in the country in 2022.
As the province with the longest runoff along the Yangtze River, Hubei and the Yangtze River and the Han River converge here, forming a brilliant Yangtze River civilization and a unique Jingchu culture. Since the country launched the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park in early 2022, Hubei has seized the opportunity, coordinated the resources of the province, mobilized the forces of all parties, promoted the work with high standards and high quality, and strived to build Hubei into a demonstration area of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park. In July this year, the main building of the China South-to-North Water Diversion Museum, the largest water diversion museum in China, was topped out in Danjiangkou City, Hubei Province, and it is planned to open on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (December 12, 2024). The museum is also one of the core projects of the key project of the construction of the Hubei Yangtze River National Cultural Park - the middle line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
Hubei innovatively promotes the protection and utilization of cultural relics. New achievements have been made in the protection of Jingchu ruins, and six sites, including Qujialing Ruins, Shijiahe Ruins, Panlong City Ruins, Tonglushan Ancient Copper Mine Ruins, Chu Jinan Ancient City (including Longwan Ruins), and Drum Dun Ancient Tombs, have been included in the list of "14th Five-Year Plan" major ruins project database, ranking among the top in the country. The National Archaeological Site Park on-site work meeting was held in Hubei in April, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Hubei Province signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly promote the high-quality development of Hubei cultural relics.
The discovery of the earliest water conservancy system at the Qujialing site in Jingmen, Hubei Province, marks that the concept of water control of the prehistoric ancestors has changed from passive waterproofing and water control to active water control.
Fifty years of archaeological excavations, tracing the origin of civilization for 4,000 years. In June this year, the 50th anniversary of the archaeological discovery of the ancient copper mine site in Hubei Province was successfully held, and the cultural activities with the theme of "Bronze Chu Yun Millennium Echo" were carried out, the opening ceremony of the publicity and display of the protection of cultural relics in Hubei Province, and the academic seminar on the 50th anniversary of the archaeological discovery of the ancient copper mine site in Tonglu Mountain, etc., and the first batch of 6 outstanding cultural relics and buildings protection and utilization projects in Hubei Province were selected, and the new achievements and progress of the protection and utilization of Hubei cultural relics in the new era were publicized and displayed.
This year, Hubei has won nearly 2 special protection funds for national cultural relics900 million yuan, an increase of more than 6,000 yuan over last year, a new high in recent years. The Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has operated independently, the Wuhan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has been expanded and upgraded, and Hubei University has been approved as the leader of the archaeological excavation and archaeological team, and the professional strength of Hubei archaeology has been greatly improved.
In addition, the new museum of Daye Tonglushan Ancient Copper Mine Site was officially opened, and the construction projects of the Three Gorges Immigration Museum and the new Hubei Military Revolution Museum were steadily promotedThree exhibitions, including the Hubei Provincial Museum's "Seeing the Skyline of the Yangtze River - Archaeological China: Civilization in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River", were selected as the key promotion and theme promotion projects of the 2023 theme exhibition of "Promoting Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture and Cultivating Socialist Core Values" by the State Administration of Cultural HeritageWuhan Panlong City Ruins Museum's "Color Like Heaven, Passing on the Thousands of Autumns - Ancient Chinese Turquoise Culture Exhibition" won the Excellence Award for the Promotion of the Top Ten Exhibitions of National Museums. These achievements and honors demonstrate the continuous improvement of the exhibition level of Hubei Museum.
Intangible cultural heritage is renewed and "lived" in the present
Hubei has inherited the 3,000-year-old roots of Jingchu culture and nurtured a gorgeous and colorful intangible cultural heritage. According to statistics, at present, Hubei has 11 sub-projects included in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, with 145 national-level representative projects, 601 provincial-level representative projects, 1 national-level cultural and ecological protection experimental area, 13 provincial-level cultural and ecological protection experimental areas, 102 national-level representative inheritors, and 787 provincial-level representative inheritors.
In recent years, the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Party Committee have conscientiously implemented the spirit of a series of important instructions on intangible cultural heritage work, incorporated intangible cultural heritage work into the overall economic and social development plan, paid attention to top-level design, introduced policies and measures, increased investment guarantees, and took the initiative. In the process of inheritance and promotion, innovation and development in inheritance, the list system of intangible cultural heritage in Hubei has been continuously improved, the protection and inheritance of projects have been continuously implemented, the overall regional protection has been steadily promoted, the publicity and display have a wide impact, the grassroots legislative construction has been at the forefront, the team of inheritors has gradually grown, and the intangible cultural heritage has been increasingly integrated into the daily life of the people.
Welcome visitors from all over the world and share a feast of quyi. From June 9 to 15 this year, the 2023 National Intangible Cultural Heritage Quyi Week was held in Wuhan, bringing together 145 national intangible cultural heritage representative projects in the quyi category across the country, including 13 national intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Hubei. In the exhibition activities, representative projects of Hubei national intangible cultural heritage, such as Gupen Song, Hanchuan Shanshu, Enshi Yangqin, etc., showed their style, which effectively promoted the sharing of the fruits of intangible cultural heritage development among the people.
The 2023 National Intangible Cultural Heritage Art Week was held in Wuhan, Hubei Photo by He Xiaogang.
Hubei has spared no effort to promote the "going out" of intangible cultural heritage. From October 22nd to 25th, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Beijing Municipal People, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and other 18 cultural and tourism departments (bureaus) jointly organized the first Beijing International Intangible Cultural Heritage Week was held at the Beijing National Agricultural Exhibition Center. At the promotion meeting, Hubei also launched 5 intangible cultural heritage boutique tourism routes.
Intangible cultural heritage, carrying history, "living" in the present.
In February this year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the National Rural Revitalization Administration announced 66 "Typical Cases of Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshops" in 2022, among which Hubei Qichun Moxibustion ** Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop and Zhijiang Cloth Shoes Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop were selected.
Qichun moxibustion builds a platform for youth entrepreneurship and employment. According to statistics, there are 19 "Qichun moxibustion" training institutions in Qichun County, and more than 200 "Qichun moxibustion" chain training institutions nationwide, with a total of more than 60,000 "Qichun moxibustionists" trained. The national Qichun moxibustion direct or franchised stores reached 1More than 50,000 companies have driven more than 300,000 people to work and start businesses in the whole industry chain, helped more than 5,000 children from poor families in rural areas to find employment, and created an annual labor economic income of 9 billion yuan.
Thousands of needles and threads make a long road to riches. The Zhijiang Cloth Shoes Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop takes the Bubu Shengbu Shoes Cultural Village as the main position to create a living inheritance system, and through the Xi mode of "leisure employment at home, fixed employment in the factory, and employment in the processing of accessories" and "company + village training + factory master with one belt", so that villagers can choose their own training and employment mode according to their actual situation.
At present, the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism has identified 73 intangible cultural heritage workshops, driving employment by more than 340,000 ......At the same time, 20 excellent cases of "intangible cultural heritage + tourism" and "intangible cultural heritage + Internet" were evaluated, promoting the in-depth integration and development of intangible cultural heritage and tourism, and supporting the rational use of the Internet to broaden the promotion and sales channels of intangible cultural heritage products.
Li Shuyong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, said that the cultural and tourism system of Hubei Province will deeply study and implement the best cultural thoughts, earnestly undertake the cultural mission of the new era, and vigorously strengthen the creation Xi of fine art with the theme of "enhancing spiritual strength and showing the style of the times".With the goal of "satisfying cultural needs and protecting cultural rights and interests", we will vigorously strengthen the construction of a modern public cultural service systemBased on "keeping the cultural roots and continuing the spiritual lifeline", we will vigorously strengthen the protection and utilization of cultural heritageGuided by "cultural and plastic tourism, tourism and culture", we will vigorously promote the in-depth integration of culture and tourismBased on the principle of "exchange and mutual learning, win-win cooperation", we will tell the story of Jingchu culture to the world.
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China Culture Daily, December 12, 2023
A special report was published in the 4th edition.
The culture is full of fragrance, and the triumphant song has played a new journey
Editor-in-charge: Zhang Haining.