From the third day of the Lunar New Year to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Cantonese opera masters take turns to stage classic plays!
During the Spring Festival, Yuexiu District launched the 2024 "Taste of Cantonese and Happy Year" Cantonese cultural series activities, and launched the "Twelve Years of Cantonese Flavor", with more than 300 cultural activities to benefit the people, offering citizens and tourists a high-quality cultural feast full of Cantonese style and full of happy New Year.
Yuexiu District has carried out in-depth cultural benefits to the people, issued 1,000 Cantonese opera tickets for free, and invited citizens and tourists to watch the big operas in the theater, including Guangdong Cantonese Opera "Dongting Liangyuan", "The Story of the Purple Hairpin", "Five Women's Birthday", "Liu Jinding Chops the Four Gates", "Baolian Lantern", "The Barbarian Princess and the Horse", Guangzhou Cantonese Opera "Frangipani Garland", etc.
The reporter learned that from the third day of the Lunar New Year to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, there were many good performances, and famous Cantonese opera artists such as Ding Fan, Zeng Xiaomin, Jiang Wenduan, Wen Ruqing, and Cen Haiyan took turns to stage classic plays.
Brother Ou, a sanitation worker from Guizhou, walked into the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Company and played the classic play "Dongting Liangyuan", he worked in the sanitation station of Jianshe Street in Yuexiu District for 30 years, and was diligent in his work, carrying forward the dedication of "I would rather be dirty in exchange for ten thousand clean homes", rooted in the ordinary post of sanitation, but writing an extraordinary perseverance.
In recent years, Jianshe Street Sanitation Station has built the first garbage transfer and compression station in Yuexiu that uses the overhead layer of a commercial complex to achieve indoor operation, which solves the "old and difficult" problems of garbage transfer such as noise and odor and road occupation operations, and has been widely praised by surrounding residents. "I am illiterate, and this year's stay in Guangzhou for the Chinese New Year is also the first time I have walked into a theater to watch Cantonese opera, and I have seen wonderful stories and performances, and admired the exquisite makeup and costumes, which made me feel the charm of Cantonese opera. Brother Ou said excitedly.
The workers were very happy after getting the tickets, it is rare to get in touch with such elegant performances on weekdays, and you can take your children to watch the performances during the festival, feel the artistic edification, and at the same time, you can also have more opportunities to accompany your family. The relevant person in charge of Yuexiu District said, "The rapid change of our urban appearance and the increasing improvement of the living environment condense the hard work and sweat of the working people." Sanitation workers still stick to the front line during the Spring Festival, creating a clean and tidy living environment for the people. Yuexiu District carefully held a series of activities for the Spring Festival, allowing citizens, tourists and city builders to share a cultural feast, and truly feel the taste of Cantonese and a happy year! ”
During the Spring Festival, the Cantonese opera special performance of "Cantonese New Year in the Pear Garden" Cantonese opera special performance on Beijing Road will be staged regularly every afternoon and evening, and the outstanding young actors of the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Company will take turns to sing, walk off the stage and interact closely with the citizens and tourists, and send the New Year opera feast, and tourists from all over the world will enjoy the opera of the pear garden.
Southern + reporter Ma Yitian.
Author] Ma Yitian.
*] Southern Press Media Group Nanfang + client.