Yueyang Evening News (Reporter Qiu Yujiao).On January 4th, some Baling opera lovers, cultural scholars and citizens and friends in our city gathered at the New Lily Hotel in the city to review the drama creation process of the famous playwright Liu Xingming with the theme of "Iron Plate and Copper Pipa Singing Wind", and revisit the Baling opera classic "Blood Fertile Qinchuan".
Liu Xingming, 87 years old, is a member of the Chinese Dramatists Association, a senior screenwriter in Hunan Province, and has published and staged plays such as "Wind and Rain Baqiu", "Blood Fertile Qinchuan", "Evil Dream", "King Qin's Dispatch", "A Advice for the Ages" and other plays. His works "Seeking Scholars" and "Ai Duo Shi Sitting in the Hall" won the first prize of the script of the first Yingshanhong Folk Drama Festival, seven large-scale plays won the Tian Han Gold Award, and the large-scale new historical drama "Wordless Tablet" won the Tian Han Award and the Repertoire Gold Award of the 4th Hunan Art Festival. In 2023, the new historical drama "Zhida Yan Song" will be published in the national core journal of art and the excellent journal of the Tian Han Drama Award.
As a local opera in northern Hunan Province, Baling Opera is the spiritual hometown shared by Yueyang people. In 1982, Liu Xingming created the Baling drama "Blood Fertile Qinchuan" based on historical materials such as "Historical Records". In October 1985, "Blood Fertile Qinchuan" was performed by the Yueyang Baling Theater Troupe, and in November of the same year, it was filmed by Hunan TV as a color TV film and widely broadcast.
After many years, "Blood Fertile Qinchuan" was broadcast again in the New Lily Hotel, which touched the audience and the main creators of the show. Liu Xingming sighed: "39 years of time are like a white horse. The 39-year-old Baling opera complex is still the same. Xiong Yuegang, the star of "Blood Fertile Qinchuan", also delivered an excited speech and missed this drama very much.
Script, script, a play. The performing artists represented by Li Xiaofeng, Sun Yanhua, Zhou Yangsheng, He Qijian, etc., have laid the cornerstone of the perfection and beauty of Baling Opera. Playwrights like Mr. Liu Xingming, who are indifferent to fame and fortune and selfless dedication, are also the soul of Baling Opera. At the event site, An Liping, director of the Culture, Education, Health, Sports and Culture and History Committee of the CPPCC, was moved.
Wang Zhilong, an expert in literature and history, Yu Cunyuan, president of the Baling Opera Inheritance Research Institute, and Yan Xiaoping, the owner of the Baling Old Street group, also spoke one after another, and Fang Yuechuan, a poetry lover, read his new work "Man Jianghong" to cheer up the event. Yan Xiaoping said: "Revisiting the glory of Baling Opera in "Blood Fertile Qinchuan" has a special taste in my heart. Awakening Daddy (Liu Xingming) is an artist and elder whom I respect very much, I have read many of Awakening Daddy's scripts, and I feel Awakening's profound cultural heritage and full of chivalrous pride. ”