What is the significance of the state vigorously promoting "opera into the school"?

The Ministry of Education of the central government proposed in 2016 that it would vigorously promote the introduction of elegant art and traditional opera into schools. Under such a trend, the activity of "opera in schools" has been carried out all over the country.

But there are also many people and parents of students who question: although traditional opera is a cultural treasure, but after all, it has nothing to do with the students' current studies. Even from the point of view of cultivating the comprehensive quality of students, traditional opera seems to be difficult to produce any promotional effect. So what is the significance and value of "opera in school"?

As a member of the cultural industry development road, as "opera into the school" practitioners, Xiaoxin has some of their own ideas, said to share with you to explore.

First of all, it should be clear that "opera in the school" is not sure not to cultivate millions of fans, and even practitioners of opera performance. Rather, it is to give students the opportunity to appreciate the singing and reading, to experience the body, to interact with the performance, to convey and popularize the color connotations, the dress culture, the historical knowledge, and the moral education through the artistic carrier of the most national cultural characteristics. "Opera in school" must not be a long-winded theoretical indoctrination, but an in-depth and simple teaching for the interest of contemporary students. Like the popular interest classes, if the teaching form is not correct, it will have negative effects, so that students instead of resistance.

When it comes to specific values, Xiaoxin thinks there are three:

One, to improve the students' artistic aesthetic quality

Aesthetics, is a basic quality that a person should have. The aesthetic value of the art of opera is firstly reflected in its face art.

Opera face painting is a unique programmed way of performing facial make-up in opera art, and its design aesthetics is reflected in the color and pattern. In terms of coloring, most of the opera face painting is based on folk colors, which are not only brilliant and eye-catching, but also have special symbolic meanings to symbolize the characters' good and evil, good and bad, and character traits, etc. This kind of symbolic function puts the coloring of the characters into a new perspective. This refers to the function of color symbolism as a means to make people at a glance will be able to identify good and evil, beauty and ugliness, intelligence and stupidity.

In terms of pattern design, opera face painting is equally colorful. This feature is especially prominent in the jingjiao. Whether it is the face, forehead, eyebrows, etc. are applied to a variety of decorative patterns. These patterns also have a certain symbolism and description of the function. For example, Bao Zheng's face often uses the crescent moon to indicate that "the day breaks the sun and the night breaks the yin", symbolizing his iron face and selfless character traits. The design of the face pattern is the artists in the long-term labor of continuous improvement **** with the creation of the wisdom of the crystallization of the pattern contains a typical summary of the character image, character qualities, is printed in the depths of people's minds symbols.

Additionally, the costumes worn by opera performers can also reflect the aesthetic value of opera art. The patterns and motifs on the costumes are equally colorful and beautiful. They complement the face paint and bring the audience visual enjoyment while deepening their understanding and awareness of the opera.

Second, stimulate students' creative imagination

In the opera performance, some stage movements can not be understood by the majority of the student audience, which reflects one of the artistic characteristics of the opera virtual. Here are two examples: in the Peking Opera "The Legend of the White Snake? Lake" in the "paddle instead of the boat" of the figure, the actors are through the body swaying back and forth to show the bumps of the boat, the four people in step, cooperate with each other, so that the audience feels full of water but full of water, this is "space" of the virtual; another example is the Another example is the virtual "time": Peking Opera "Three Forks", bright lights on stage, the two actors on stage through the body movements and facial expressions, so that the audience feel that it is indeed in the dark in general, vivid and realistic.

On the traditional opera stage, a few dragons walking a few rounds would mean that thousands of horses and armies have traveled over thousands of miles of frontier. This kind of penetration of Taoist "nihilism" performance, breaking through the stage on the limitations of time and space, is the art of opera clever place. It embodies the characteristics of classical Chinese aesthetics of using emptiness as reality and the symbiosis of reality and emptiness, which enables contemporary students to cultivate a kind of creative thinking and has a positive influence on the cultivation of students' thinking habits.

Three, enhance students' literary cultivation, cultivate sentiment

"Cultivate sentiment" is a word we often say, but what is "sentiment", and how to "cultivate", may be in the hearts of many people. "may be many people do not have a concept in mind. Xiaoxin believes that today is a highly fragmented era, too much information is messy and complicated, all the people, especially young people, are more willing to accept all kinds of fast food culture that does not require brainpower and time. In this way, it also creates the general characteristics of the young people of today who are impatient.

Opera is a relatively dragged-out form of expression, and the lyrics are difficult to understand, which is completely contrary to today's fast-food culture. But because of this, if we can let the young people quietly enter the world of the art of opera, not only can enhance their understanding of traditional literature, but also cultivate their temperament. Let the current impetuous young students, more calm, more focused.

Said about the "opera into the school" a lot of significance, but really want to achieve such an effect, or to say back to the first point of view - it is necessary to optimize the content, innovative ways. Traditional culture to "inheritance", it must be in the form of content with the times.

In 2016, Yubei District, Chongqing City, "opera into the school" activities, the reason why it can become the city's model, and even get the attention of the Central Civilization Committee, the core lies in innovation! Under the advice of the leaders of the Yubei District Propaganda Department, and with the careful planning and choreography of the organizer, Chongqing New City Company, each performance of this "Opera in Schools" paid homage to and inherited the classics, but also combined current pop culture and highlighted participation and interactivity. In each performance, students followed the actors and actresses to walk on stage, make appearances, and show their orchid fingers ...... forming an interest in traditional opera while having fun.

Meanwhile, New City also believes that innovation is a continuous work.2017's "Opera in School" activities, in terms of content, New City initially plans to leave behind the performance of independent plays. Instead, it will discover some interesting stories that meet the interests of the student population, and then write a script that will weave the opera program through it, forming a stage show program that uses traditional opera expressions.

In fact, "opera in the campus" is only the beginning, it is more need to "out of the campus", for the inheritance of traditional opera culture to pave the way for a wider social base. This is a long need to constantly adhere to the cause, at the same time, is also a need to continue to innovate, keep pace with the times.