On December 12th, under the guidance of the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, the Red Line Girl Art Center, the Guangdong Prosperity Cantonese Opera Association, and the China Minority Drama Society, the "Guangdong Gathering Strength and Drawing the Nation's 'Concentric Circles' - No. 20 Youai Road Salon Live Broadcast Activity" was held in the former residence of the Red Line Girl. Experts on ethnic minority culture will serve as guests, focusing on Guangzhou's innovative strength, further promoting ethnic harmony and exchanges, and drawing a "concentric circle" of ethnic unity.
Tell the story of Lingnan and the theme of national unity and progress
Culture is the soul of a nation, and cultural identity is the root of national unity. Since ancient times, the characteristics and spirit of various ethnic groups have been continuously injected into the characteristics and endowments of the Chinese nation, and the great national spirit with patriotism as the core has been fused. In the creation of Cantonese opera, generations of Cantonese opera innovators are good at grasping the pulse of the times and exploring the common cultural memory of the Chinese people, such as the artist Hongxian Nu who created three "Wang Zhaojun" with different personalities and character characteristics at different times, from the sad Wang Zhaojun to the active and friendly Wang Zhaojun, which further highlights Wang Zhaojun's important contribution to national unity, and leads the audience to find a history of the integration of various ethnic groups into a pluralistic and integrated Chinese nation.
The guests shared the concept of Cantonese opera.
After that, the creation of Cantonese opera art has always focused on telling the story of Lingnan and the theme of national unity and progress, the red line girl**, the national first-class actor, the winner of the Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre for the second time, and the national intangible cultural heritage inheritor Ou Kaiming shared, following "Zhaojun Out of the Plug", the Cantonese opera industry has entered a new era, "Nanyue Palace Ci", "Princess Wencheng" and other Cantonese opera masterpieces, which not only continue the protection of the national complex when the red-line girl created Wang Zhaojun, but also a new attempt by Cantonese opera art to tell the story of national unity. National first-class actor Li Jiayi won the 31st Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Drama with Cantonese opera "Princess Wencheng", Cantonese opera transplant Chen Jinrong and Li Jiayi shared the original intention of the creation of the play, Guangzhou to create such an epic and heavy work, under the grand narrative of the family and the country, delicately depict the historical responsibility, so that the story of Princess Wencheng not only stays in the story of Han and Tibet, but also highlights the spirit of the Chinese nation, and transmits this adherence to national unity to the hearts of the audience in the new era.
National first-class actor Li Jiayi sang the theme song of Cantonese opera "Princess Wencheng".
Zeng Dexiong, Doctor of Philosophy, Director of the Institute of Urban Culture of the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, and Deputy to the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress, Dong Bo, Doctor of Art Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Arts, and Director of the Institute of Art Anthropology of Guangzhou University, through the historical process and theoretical research, and the audience jointly condense the necessity of the great unity of all ethnic groups in China.
The guests shared the concept of Cantonese opera.
Xinjiang Cantonese opera performers perform classic excerpts
The invited guests included representatives from Uygur, Zhuang, Manchu and other ethnic minorities, all of whom were deeply aware of the great dream of helping each other to jointly promote national rejuvenation as siblings. Since 2010, Guangzhou has provided support to Shufu County in Xinjiang and thousands of miles to Xinjiang, jointly composing a prosperous picture of ethnic exchanges and integration. In 2019, young actors from Shufu County, Xinjiang came to Guangzhou to study and Xi exchanges, and Ge Hua, then chairman of the Liwan District Federation of Literary and Art Circles, actively implemented and promoted it, and invited 7 Cantonese opera expert tutors to teach the art of Cantonese opera in order to let them experience the charm of Cantonese opera in an all-round way, including teacher Ou Kaiming. The young actor Mamuti Maimaiti developed a strong interest in Cantonese opera, and later took Ou Kaiming as his teacher to further continue this national relationship. In this event, Mamuti and Medina were specially invited as representatives to "return" to the place of meeting thousands of miles away, and brought the Cantonese opera "Mu Guiying Recruits Relatives" to the teacher and the audience, showing the new achievements of national cultural exchange and integration.
Master Ou Kaiming and apprentice Mamuti talked about unforgettable memories of teaching.
Written by: Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen, Xi student, Zhu Xiaoyu, correspondent Yang Shengxin, Hu Jiaqi.