The "Shangju 416 Women's Group" performed together on the stage again, performing their famous song "Exploring the Window".
Two years ago, Shanghai Theater Academy graduates Yang Xi, Bian Jingting, Crested Ibis, Cheng Xiaochen, and Zhu Jiayin became popular on the Internet with Peking Opera songs, and the cumulative number of likes for related short ** exceeded 20 million. In the name of the dormitory, the five members formed the "Shangju 416 Girl Group" to continue to spread traditional culture.
Two years after graduation, no one in this dormitory has changed careers. Many post-00s fans also fell in love with Peking Opera because of this special "girl group".
Wang Ning, born in the 90s, is an old student of the Yan School of the Beijing Peking Opera Company, and when the performance was interrupted two or three years ago, he and his colleagues in the troupe "used the live broadcast room as a practice room" to play and sing, and as a result, they unexpectedly opened up a new way to inherit the Yan School. Today, in addition to online and Yu Opera Kunqu and other peers to connect with the microphone PK and perform Peking Opera performances, he also takes live classes every week, and even fans who want to learn Xi teach Peking Opera singing section by word, and now more than 100 fans have learned to sing "Dingjun Mountain".
Cao Zuyu, the "Brother Zuyu" who graduated from the China Academy of Drama, studied under Wang Zhiyi, the successor of the Mei School. She has been committed to the promotion and popularization of Peking Opera among contemporary young people, combining Peking Opera with current popular elements for innovation, and becoming popular on the Internet for her interpretation of pop songs.
In 2023, opera will become a "pop song", the drama will be out of the circle, and netizens will become ticket holders.
Liu Shuhan, who broadcasts live almost every day. (*From China Youth Network).
The drama songs are out of the circle, and the drama is sung in the live broadcast room.
Cao Zuyu noticed the breakthrough of opera very early.
The first song she uploaded on the ** platform was to sing "Red Dust Inn" in a dramatic voice. "A Peking Opera student uses his usual major to perform pop songs and is loved by everyone. Cao Zuyu said.
Cao Zuyu recently cosplayed the French song "Light Ripple" in Chinese, and netizens were amazed that the original drama can also interpret such a French song with a partial song style.
In addition to singing, Cao Zuyu himself has also produced some songs, such as "Forgiveness Song", which combines folk songs and drama, "Twenty-four Bridges" by Guofeng Electronics, and "Mei" in the style of "drama + rap + R&b".
In Cao Zuyu's view, the opera culture and opera songs are out of the circle because everyone is becoming more inclusive, and the cultural self-confidence of the young generation in China is increasing, "I hope that our young generation can learn more about intangible cultural heritage and try it and bring it to the world."
According to reports, more than half of the Douyin fans of the "Shangju 416 Women's Group" are people under the age of 30, and nearly 25% are younger than 23 years old - in the past public's impression, this is a group that is difficult to cover by the art of opera.
In the live broadcast room, you will see the girls of the "Shangju 416 Women's Group" patiently explaining the respective doorways of Xunpai Huadan, Xiaopai Huadan, and Cheng Pai Qingyi. They answered questions over and over again, such as "Lao Sheng" is a male role, "Lao Dan" is a middle-aged and elderly female character, "Even if you are only 22 years old, you can play an old man".
Liu Shuhan has been studying Xi opera for 12 years. During her undergraduate studies, she majored in Peking Opera performance, majoring in the flower shirt industry. The flower shirt line is a new Dan corner line developed by integrating the artistic characteristics of Tsing Yi, Hua Dan and Dao Ma Dan.
During his graduate studies, Liu Shu had the opportunity to learn Xi Kunqu opera "The Peony Pavilion" and played the role of Du Liniang. "Du Liniang is a very typical boudoir, most of these characters are introverted and shy, and they play an unmarried boudoir girl. ”
Because of curiosity, Liu Shuhan began to post on Douyin that he usually practiced and sang with his classmates in the practice room. At first, she was a little nervous and uncomfortable, but as time went on, she gradually discovered the charm of the live broadcast platform.
From a small fan base, to a large number of fans later, the number of views of a ** can reach 11 million, and the likes have also reached 560,000, Liu Shuhan is more confident to update** and open the live broadcast to interact with fans. "I now broadcast almost every day, with performances during the day and time to interact with fans in the evenings. The content of the live broadcast is mainly singing and singing opera songs. ”
Cao Zuyu, the successor of the Peking Opera Mei School. (*From China Youth Network).
Opera is no longer just a work, but a medium to maintain relationships.
Zheng Chuanyin, a professor at Wuhan University and a consultant to the Chinese Opera Society, believes that the live broadcast of opera provides ideas and inspiration for two major problems that we want to solve but have not solved for a long time: one is how to attract audiences with operaEspecially young audiences;The other is how can opera improve the box office?These are two major issues related to the future and destiny of opera.
Zheng Chuanyin said that the live broadcast of the opera "handed over the right of comment to the audience" and shortened the distance with the audience. "The live broadcast of opera is not to complain about the audience, but to know and understand the audience, and to create and perform according to the needs of the audience."
Focusing on singing in the recording studio is the daily state of Cao Zuyu's station B account "Brother Zuyu" page**.
Someone asked curiously before: "Isn't it very simple to record **?"Set up a mobile phone and sing it once and record it. Cao Zuyu said that in fact, the recording process is still relatively cumbersome, she will first go to the recording studio to record, record ** after the audio is produced, and then combine the audio with ** for post-editing. In order to ensure better sound quality, she tries to go to the studio to record each song, constantly adjusting and polishing.
Wang Ning and his fan Lianmai taught Peking Opera, and previously taught more than a dozen singing segments with difficulty from shallow to deep, such as "Dingjun Mountain", "Let Xuzhou" and "Second Enter the Palace". "The enthusiasm of fans for learning Xi Peking Opera is also beyond my expectations, and some fans bring their children to listen to my live classes, and the children will also actively learn Xi microphone."
Every time I performed during the live broadcast, some viewers would comment that 'I owe a ticket to Peking Opera', 'I want to go into the theater to watch a play after listening to your play', I didn't expect that there would really be an audience walking from the live broadcast room to the theater to watch a Peking Opera performance. Wang Ning once performed "Fishing and Killing Home" at the Jixiang Grand Theater, and learned that there were seventy or eighty fans in his live broadcast room, and some of them entered the theater for the first time to listen to Peking Opera.
As the inheritor of Peking Opera, I have always had a sense of crisis, always afraid that such a good art will disappear one day. But through new channels such as live streaming, he sees that he is not alone in the output. "Learning to sing together and going into the theater to watch the play together is the best interaction. ”
During the live broadcast, Liu Shuhan also often received questions from netizens, such as: "What is the difference between opera songs and traditional operas?".”
Liu Shuhan will explain that opera songs are a type of song that integrates opera elements and popular elements, mainly singing;Traditional opera is a comprehensive art that combines singing, reading, doing, fighting, hand, eye, body, method, and step.
Shan Bo, director of the ** Development Research Center of Wuhan University, a key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, believes that opera itself is no longer just a work, but a medium to maintain relationships.
Compared with the real space, opera has gained more cultural reproduction in the virtual space, and the opportunity for cultural expression has created a fan culture outside the professional norms of opera. In this process, they communicate with each other, establish an emotional connection and a sense of identity and a sense of belonging to the identity of the theater fan. Shan Bo said.
To renew the "opera culture", the inheritance requires more people's efforts.
The charm of opera is infecting young people, and young practitioners are also trying to "renew" the ancient opera culture.
Liu Shuhan mentioned that in the section of her live broadcast, there is a link of PK interaction with other anchors, mainly to increase the interaction and active atmosphere in the live broadcast room.
Wang Ning, the old student of the Beijing Peking Opera Company. (*From China Youth Network).
The opera anchors who have PK with me come from various opera genres and professions, including Kunqu Opera, Yue Opera, Sichuan Opera, Henan Opera, Huangmei Opera, etc. Their wonderful performances have brought me a lot of inspiration, and some of the anchors have painted their makeup, dressed up their heads, and performed for their fans and audiences in the best condition in order to better present their performances. Liu Shuhan said.
Wang Ning has also tried to connect with other opera actors, generally choosing familiar Peking Opera singing segments such as "Dingjun Mountain" and "Shajiabang", hoping to let those netizens who don't know have a preliminary understanding of Peking Opera. In the live broadcast room of an event, the four performers of Peking Opera, Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou took turns to sing their own singing segments without interruption, causing a large number of audiences to come to the live broadcast room to watch and cheer, and everyone shouted "enjoyable" and "not enough to hear".
When Cao Zuyu participated in an opera TV show, in order to complete the creation of a costume show, he went to Suzhou to visit Li Rongsen, the representative inheritor of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects, and visited the Suzhou Costume Factory, which has a deep history.
Cao Zuyu said that when he went to the Suzhou Drama Costume Factory, he saw that the youngest of those embroiderers was 50 years old. This means that this culture is facing a stage of discontinuity, and the inheritance of many intangible cultural heritage is facing this problem. I hope that more people will pay attention to it and make a modest contribution to the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. ”
In Cao Zuyu's view, although many young people are now interested in opera, more people are still needed to invest in inheritance. "It's too hard to learn opera, and if fewer and fewer people learn it, inheritance is a big problem. ”
Cao Zuyu believes that there are many ways to spread opera culture, and in addition to songs, many aspects of daily life can be integrated with opera, such as clothing and makeup. "Opera culture is an all-encompassing culture: singing, chanting, doing, fighting, hands, eyes, body steps, and costumes are very particular. I hope to have more discussions with netizens and have more ways to spread the word about opera. (ENDS).