On the evening of January 5th, a Peking Opera "opened" with the meaning of everything going well, and played a new chapter of the Huguang Guild Hall of "There is a play in the guild". In the singing section of the famous characters of Peking Opera masters, the Huguang Guild Hall, which has been renovated for a year and a half, was reopened.
In the future, this hall will rely on the positioning of the Beijing Museum of Chinese Opera and integrate into the new format of Chinese opera, creating a new space for the art experience of Chinese opera with the theme of Peking Opera with global opera exhibitions, immersive performances, cultural catering and other contents, opening a new chapter in the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture.
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It integrates three major contexts.
Located on the southwest side of the Hufang Bridge intersection in Xicheng District, the Huguang Guild Hall was built in 1807, and its theater building was built in 1830, which is one of the few existing guild halls in Beijing with theater buildings. As a national key cultural relics protection unit, Huguang Guild Hall integrates three major cultural contexts: guild hall culture, opera culture and scholar culture. It has witnessed the times and preserved the memory of the city, Sun Yat-sen once held the founding meeting of the Kuomintang here, Mei Lanfang, Tan Xinpei, Chen Delin, Tian Guifeng, Shi Huibao, Wang Junzhi and other Peking Opera masters have performed here, which can be described as a place where famous and famous people gather.
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After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many units occupied this place, and then moved out one after another since 1992. In 1994, the Huguang Guild Hall began to be fully restored, and the Grand Theater was opened to the public in April 1996, and since then it has begun its function of continuing the cultural context and serving the public. The old box office of "Gengyangji", which has been opened since the late Qing Dynasty, was also restored with the reopening of the Huguang Hall in Beijing in 1996.
Continuation of the historical style of the building.
Before the reopening, the Huguang Guild Hall underwent a year and a half of closure for renovation and protection, and maintained the continuity of the historical features of the cultural relics building during the renovation, ensured the authenticity and integrity of the historical history of the cultural relics building, and achieved minimal intervention, realizing the "repair of the old as the old".
Walking into the theater, the plaque of "Ni Dress and Song" hangs in the center. Looking up, you can see that the Bogu color paintings on the four walls are still simple after removing the dust, and you can see the traditional fine floor that has been restored as before. In the courtyard, the floor and oil decorations of each hall have regained their glory, and the large wooden structures and pillars have also been waterproof and reinforced. In order to give full play to its use value, the drainage, electrical, HVAC and other supporting facilities of the entire courtyard have also been renovated.
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The Huguang Guild Hall has undergone many renovations throughout its history, the largest of which were in 1830, 1849 and 1892. The renovation in 1892 lasted four years and determined the scale and overall layout of the building that has survived to this day. Nowadays, the Xiangxian Ancestral Hall, Wenchang Pavilion, Chu Wan Hall, Fengyu Huairen Hall, Theater Building, Meridian Well, etc. are generally maintained in their original appearance, and thus form an important cultural activity space after the reopening.
Three stations and two courtyards "plastic new space."
The lights dimmed, the spotlights turned on, Li Hongtu, Qiu Zhi, Lu Jie, Zhu Hong, Suo Mingfang, Cui Xinyue, Wang Qian and other Peking Opera artists took the stage together, and the Beijing Fenglei Peking Opera Troupe also brought wonderful performances.
In addition to traditional stage performances, Tianqiao Shengshi Group digs deep into the historical context of the Huguang Guild Hall, vividly combines the quintessential Peking Opera art with the Huguang Guild Hall for more than 200 years, and creates a new performing arts space of "three stations and two courtyards", extending the stage to the backstage, the stage, the audience and two courtyards, integrating the opera into the scene, and polishing the golden business card of "the guild hall has opera".
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The immersive residency drama "Dream of the Lake" tailored for the Huguang Guild Hall has been invited to some audiences to try it out on New Year's Day Chinese New Year's Eve. In the tactful singing, the moving story of the **Peking Opera Old Opera Troupe unfolded around the audience. The Huguang Guild Hall is transformed into an open stage, where the audience follows the footsteps of the people in the play, travels through the ancient theater buildings, backstage and courtyards, and experiences the novelty of contemporary expression of traditional opera. This kind of immersive performance will also appear in the Huguang Hall from time to time in the future.
Create a new immersive experience.
After the reopening, relying on the Beijing Opera Museum, Beijing Huguang Hall has carefully planned and launched two special exhibitions. Among them, the "'Juhai Hongmeng' Peking Opera Birthplace Exhibition" presents precious opera documents, cultural relics, ** and audio-visual materials, leading the audience to experience the Peking Opera culture that originated in the fertile soil of Xicheng. The "'Majestic Architecture' Beijing Huguang Hall History and Culture Exhibition" presents the history of the Huguang Hall from multiple angles.
In the future, Huguang Guild Hall will inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture through exhibitions, research, food, tea and other business formats, create a new scene for the activation and utilization of cultural relics, and create a "core check-in place for the opera version of Peking Opera".
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