090 Reflections and Planning on Peking Opera Art
"China...... In my mind is one of the four ancient civilizations on the earth, it is a very ancient and very magical country, since the Xia, Shang, Zhou, a total of 24 dynasties, the Tang Dynasty is a great unified dynasty after the Sui Dynasty, a total of 21 emperors, enjoy the country for 289 years, because the royal surname Li, so also known as Li Tang, is recognized as one of the strong dynasties in China by later generations. Li Longji, the ancestor of the Chinese pear orchard world, was the eighth emperor of the Li Tang Dynasty. In later generations, China, like the world we live in, also has airplanes, trains, and television networks, but Peking Opera, which was once prosperous, has fallen to the altar and withered to the point where it almost broke its inheritance. ”
Cheng Xiaolou carefully organized the language, and still focused on the history of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, the ancestor of the pear orchard.
"The reason why Peking Opera in China has rapidly withered is that it has been impacted by new entertainment methods such as TV dramas, movies, pop songs, online games, online live broadcasts, and online novels. ”
As soon as the conversation changed, he suddenly pulled the topic back to his thoughts and worries about the development and inheritance of Peking Opera art just now.
"In short, the China of the earth and the world we live in are a strikingly similar but completely different world, but the Peking Opera of that world has changed from the quintessence of the country to a cultural symbol that few people care about, and the Peking Opera of the world in which we live is on the way to gradually falling. ”
Cheng Xiaolou suddenly raised his voice by two points, and said these words categorically, as if he had seen the whole process of Huaguo Peking Opera falling from the altar with his own eyes.
"Shhh...... Is it really that serious, why don't I feel anything? ”
"In recent years, the development of movies and TV series seems to have been much faster, and many of my friends used to like to run to the theater, but now it seems that they are going to the cinema more and more. ”
"When I heard you say that, I remembered that I went to the cinema with my girlfriend last week to watch the new release of "Crazy Little Wolf Dog". ”
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Cheng Xiaolou repeatedly mentioned that Huaguo Peking Opera has begun to decline, and it may even be broken in time, and his views are extremely sharp, which also made some young candidates present who participated in the special recruitment examination begin to think and reflect.
After thinking about it carefully along his train of thought, many people were surprised to find that there have been more and more new movies released in recent years, the production of TV series has become more and more sophisticated, and more and more attentive, those singers will also hold concerts everywhere from time to time, and online live broadcasts and online novels have gradually received more and more attention.
In addition to other forms of entertainment other than Peking Opera, the servants present who ate the bowl of rice in Liyuan Xing also often tried it.
Especially some of the girls here, the people who started chasing TV series are not one or two.
Many people suddenly found that especially in the past two years, there seem to be fewer and fewer young people going to the theater to watch the theater, and most of the theater fans are over 25 years old.
It is estimated that 10% of theater fans between the ages of 20 and 25 are good, and as for theater fans under the age of 20, it is almost negligible.
The more they thought about it, the more solemn everyone's faces became.
Although the attendance rate of those theaters has not yet declined too significantly, the top big horns in Liyuan are still more well-known than those film and television stars.
But if we continue to develop like this, what will happen in three years, what will it be like in five years, what will it be like in ten years?
Some people who thought about it deeply suddenly shuddered, and didn't dare to continue thinking about it.
Even these candidates in the audience have realized this problem, and everyone in the pear orchard on the examiner's seat can naturally think of it.
This situation is usually not mentioned by anyone, maybe no one cares, let alone thinks deeply, but today Cheng Xiaolou has carefully put it forward many times, and also used the development process of Chinese Peking Opera in another world as evidence to shock, which has indeed shocked many people.
"Student Cheng, since you have mentioned many times that the art of Peking Opera is in danger, how can you save it?"
Xu Yizhou, who was sitting in the corner of the examiner's seat on the right side of the stage, suddenly looked at him with a solemn face and asked.
"It's coming!"
Cheng Xiaolou was overjoyed, and his whole spirit was shocked. He has been paving the way for so long, and he is waiting for this moment.
"In my opinion, Peking Opera, an art that has been inherited for nearly a thousand years, has now reached its peak. But in the opposite direction, it is not a good thing, as is the case with the so-called prosperity and decline. What's more, with the increasing progress of science and technology, there are more and more entertainment methods that can enrich people's lives, and almost every year there are new audio-visual art forms born, and film and television, songs, games and other entertainment methods that have developed and matured are more and more loved by the public. ”
"Therefore, I think that the only way to make Peking Opera art rejuvenate and go one step further is to innovate!"
Cheng Xiaolou straightened his waist, although he was wearing a splendid peony costume and looked graceful and luxurious, at this moment, he burst out with a sharp sword out of the sheath.
"How to innovate?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Yishu, the contemporary helmsman of the Shen faction Tsing Yi, immediately asked again.
"Peking Opera is a kind of opera art that is the best of many families, and it can be born on the basis of absorbing and integrating many operas, removing its dross and taking its essence, and now it can also radiate a second spring in the same way!"
Cheng Xiaolou immediately answered without the slightest pause, these thoughts had been pondered back and forth in his mind more than a hundred and ten times.
"How to fuse, how to get rid of its bad and take its essence?"
Another examiner, whom he couldn't name, also took a pen and asked.
"Integrating some techniques and ideas of films, live performances, and foreign operas, supplemented by the high-tech virtual scenery of the stage, Peking Opera is the core of secondary creation. You can also try to combine Peking Opera with pop songs to create Peking songs like "Ode to Pear Blossoms", and you can also shoot a film with the theme of Peking Opera, similar to the song and dance film "Youth Singing and Dancing in the United States of America......"
I can't say anything too fine in a sentence or two, and Cheng Xiaolou can only mention his general ideas.
But this short sentence made everyone present fall into contemplation and shock.
Whether it was the people in the pear orchard on the examiner's bench or the many young candidates in the audience, they were all seriously chewing and thinking about the possibility and operability of what he just said.
Although the three directions for the future innovation and development of Peking Opera proposed by Cheng Xiaolou sound simple, none of them thought of it, or did not think about it at all.