Inheritance and Development of Hubei Ancient Paintings and Dramas

Hubei ancient painting drama originated in the middle of Qing Dynasty and spread in Jianghan Plain. With its lyrical melody and euphemistic singing, it is deeply loved by local people.

However, with the acceleration of urban modernization and rural urbanization, Hubei traditional drama, represented by ancient painting drama, has been greatly impacted, and some rural drama groups have gradually shrunk and professional talents have been lost. In view of this situation, Jingmen supported the ancient painting drama as an important folk inheritance drama, and gave preferential policies and funds as an intangible folk cultural heritage. Since 1990s, Jingmen has adjusted the development ideas of ancient painting dramas, and adjusted the focus of creation and performance to the editing and performance of modern dramas, so as to develop folk audience resources through drama development. For more than ten years, Jingmen has successively created and performed a number of modern ancient painting dramas that are influential in Hubei and even the whole country, such as Deep in the Peach Forest, Songzhuang on September 26th, Lotus Zhoutou and Dragon Boat.

In order to break the traditional artistic mode, in 2002, Jingmen put forward the idea of creating a new style of ancient painting drama. Waiting for Lang in December, an adaptation of Huang Faqing, a young writer in Jingmen, came into being. In order to make this opera sound good, the creator not only strengthened the rich charm of ancient painting opera, but also added many musical elements of western opera. In order to make the play look good, the stage designers painted a picture of life in the rural areas of Jianghan Plain in a limited stage space, which was poetic and picturesque, and the use of surround sound gave people an immersive feeling. In order to make this drama fresh and different from the traditional Flower Drum Opera, the director found another way, and abandoned the stable sentence pattern in the past in language format, and replaced it with a sentence pattern that conforms to the musicalization of Daobai in Jianghan Plain. In order to make this drama touching, the creator draws on real life, tells the most common and representative stories in the vast rural areas, and tells the real living conditions of left-behind women in the vast rural areas. Once the play was released, it was well received by experts.

Open up the traditional Chinese opera market through interaction.

From the masses, to the masses, this is an important principle followed by Jingmen stage art production. Since its premiere on June 5438+ 10, 2005, the play has been performed in Jingmen city and countryside for nearly 200 performances, with an audience of more than 200,000 people, and the public responded enthusiastically. The interaction between professional actors and popular actors not only builds a social stage for artistic production, but also forms a benign mechanism for artistic production.

In order to ensure the spread and inheritance of local art, Jingmen widely listened to the opinions of ordinary audiences, organized many activities of watching, speaking and commenting on plays by the masses, and collected more than 200 opinions and suggestions from the masses and gave them back to the director. And in the whole city, the original ecological folk songs with the characteristics of Jianghan Plain are publicly collected as the material for music creation; Open selection of 50 erhu performers and several chorus actors to participate in the production, rehearsal and performance of the repertoire; More than 1000 appreciation and teaching CDs of Waiting for Lang in December were produced and distributed to the public free of charge. Organized and carried out the "Waiting for Lang in December" excellent song singing competition, and hundreds of units and nearly 10,000 cadres and masses in the city enthusiastically signed up for the competition. At that time, the streets were full of Hua Gutiao.

In order to get out of the art production cycle of "investment is the government, leaders are the audience, the goal is to win prizes, and ownership is the warehouse" and give full play to the significance of fine works, Jingmen formulated policies to create conditions for waiting for Lang to enter the society, serve the masses and spread advanced culture in December, and began to enter rural areas, communities, enterprises, military camps and campuses.

Waiting for Lang in December moves from a gorgeous stage to a broad society. In the simple theater of villages and towns, in the yard of factories, in the open space of residential buildings, in the playground of the army and in the parking lot of shopping malls, the crew set up a simple stage and staged one wonderful performance after another, which was warmly welcomed by the masses. During the performance in stonebridge, Shayang County, it rained cats and dogs, but it didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the audience. The crowd continued to watch the performance in the rain.