Chapter 376: The Entertainment Industry Flourishes

More than eight years of development, so that the empire's national income increased rapidly, before the establishment of the Chinese Empire, food and clothing was only the fantasy in the hearts of the people at the bottom, and now, the era of food and clothing has long passed, and ordinary people are moving towards a good era of good food, clothing, and housing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When the people's material life is satisfied, it is the beginning of people's pursuit of spiritual life, and "spiritual life" is "entertainment" in another word.

In addition to eating, sleeping, and working, a person has a lot of time left every day, and some people will use this part of the time for studying, falling in love, etc., but there are also many people who don't know how to use this part of the time, so there are various entertainment activities to pass this blank time.

There are many ways to entertain people, watching plays and listening to music, watching movies, listening to "storytelling", reading books and newspapers, etc., spending some money to pass the boring time, which is something that the middle and upper income groups can accept, even the people at the bottom with less income, will also take out a little money to enrich their entertainment life, and can also increase some knowledge, after all, it is not the period of the Manchu Dynasty, when the people at the bottom were busy from morning to night every day, the family could not necessarily eat enough, and now, people are not only full of food and clothing, Free time has also increased considerably.

Watching opera and listening to opera can be said to be the entertainment life that the Chinese nation has been preserving, the opera that people watch and listen to is opera, opera is a traditional Chinese art that includes literature, music, dance, art, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts.

From the "Haiyou" of the pre-Qin Dynasty, the "Hundred Operas" of the Han Dynasty, the "Joining the Army Opera" of the Tang Dynasty, the Miscellaneous Operas of the Song Dynasty, the Southern Opera of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Miscellaneous Operas of the Yuan Dynasty, until the unprecedented prosperity of local opera and the formation of Peking Opera in the Qing Dynasty.

Prior to this, the status of those engaged in the opera industry was very low, almost equal to that of farmers and hawkers, but in the era of lack of entertainment, opera was something accepted by all classes, which also led to the rapid development of the opera industry in peacetime.

However, in ancient times, how much money could ordinary people have, and the common people would spend money to watch operas? No matter how opera develops, the speed of development is far from the current development speed, because under the rule of the Chinese Empire, the income of the common people has greatly increased, and the income has increased, and the common people will come up with money for various entertainment activities.

In just a few years, the opera industry in the Chinese Empire has exploded, on the one hand, because the status of the personnel engaged in the opera industry has been slightly improved, getting rid of the status of "untouchables", people will no longer look at them with colored eyes, and on the other hand, they make more money in the opera industry, so it has attracted many people to join this industry.

Some restaurants will invite a little famous troupe to reside, to attract popularity for the restaurant, the rich do red and white things at home, and will also invite the troupe to sing, some of the famous troupes even build their own theatres, and the less famous or newly created troupes will leave the city to go to the towns or villages, although the income of people there cannot catch up with the city, but the entertainment life in the countryside is very little, if the troupe comes, many people will take out the money to watch the drama with their families, and the income is enough to keep the troupe alive, maybe one day it will become famous, Abundant financial resources.

Similar to opera, the history of storytelling is also relatively long, storytelling is actually storytelling, and the range of stories is also very wide, from mythological stories to rural anecdotes, often what people like to hear, what kind of stories will be told by storytellers.

Opera enters the restaurant, and storytelling enters the teahouse.

The services provided by restaurants and teahouses are different, so that the income is also very different, and this pattern has been maintained, people with more income invite guests to eat and watch operas in restaurants, and people who pass the time go to teahouses to drink tea and listen to stories.

As people's incomes increased, it became common to invite three or five friends to the teahouse after dinner and ask for a pot of tea to hear stories told by storytellers.

Now people like to listen to the most popular stories in the teahouse are mainly divided into two kinds, one is the story related to Yan Xueyi and Yan Xueyi's courtiers, after all, the empire was established less than ten years, and the stories in it will be passed on for a long time, for example, Yan Xueyi is considered by the people to be the emperor Ziwei the Emperor, the main reason is Mr. Storyteller.

There is also a kind of story that is more peculiar, the storyteller does not talk about history or celebrities, but takes out a copy of the latest newspaper, and gives the guests the news on the newspaper, the storyteller is also able to speak, when telling the news, he will also say his thoughts, so that the guests can better understand the content of the news, although some people subscribe to the newspaper themselves, but they like to come to the teahouse to listen to the storyteller talk about the news, there is no fun.

The storyteller and the teahouse have become a good partner, people have spare money to enter the teahouse to drink tea and listen to stories, there are more and more teahouses, and there are more and more storytellers, complementing each other.

Compared with opera storytelling, movies are relatively novel entertainment, Xinghua four years, the Chinese Empire's film industry emerged, the royal and imperial many nobles jointly established the Years Film Group, began to establish a large number of cinemas in cities and counties, and set up a large number of film projection teams to go to towns and villages to screen films.

In the countryside and towns, open-air movies only cost 1 cent per person, in the cinema, ordinary seats only cost 1 dime, VIP areas are only 1 yuan, and even some wealthy people buy their own movie projectors and films to build a private cinema in their own homes.

The novelty of the movie attracts everyone's attention, especially those who live in the countryside, they can learn about the time outside through the film (documentary), it only costs 1 penny, and the rural people wish that the screening team would come to the countryside a few more times, and under normal circumstances, the screening team is good for a month.

Last year, the revenue of the Years Film Group exceeded 100 million, which shows the speed of development of the imperial film industry, and some other private film companies appeared, they shot various films and sent them to the theaters of the Years Film Group for broadcasting, and even some people joined forces to establish movie theaters.

The film industry in the Chinese Empire was much more prosperous than in other countries, and countries from all over the world went to China to buy film equipment.

Whether it is traditional opera storytelling or movies that have only appeared for a few years, there is no newspaper industry that is thriving.

Beginning with the first "China Daily" in the Chinese Empire, the number of newspapers in the country continued to increase.

"China Daily" is for the whole country, and needs to be issued simultaneously throughout the country, because of the relationship of the road, basically "China Daily" is issued once every ten years, even so, "China Daily" as the official newspaper of the empire, its importance and influence is the greatest, all kinds of normal and domestic and foreign events of the empire will appear in the newspaper, basically the middle level and above, will subscribe to a copy of "China Daily".

In addition to the "China Daily", there are also privately circulated newspapers in various places, this kind of regional newspaper, because the circulation scope is relatively small, can even be "daily", but the content of the newspaper is limited to this region, people want to know about domestic and foreign events, they have to go through the "China Daily".

There are fewer recreational activities in rural areas, and as illiteracy decreases, people can basically read the content of the newspaper, and the newspaper has become the most important activity in rural areas.

In the teahouse, the storyteller looks at the newspaper to explain the news, and the middle and upper class groups take a certain amount of time to read the newspaper every day to learn about the things around them, and maybe they can find some opportunities.

The most interesting thing is to advertise in the newspapers, the royal subordinate enterprises advertise in the "China Daily", so that the people can see, and some other businessmen also follow the example of advertising, although they can not advertise in the "China Daily", but regional private newspapers can advertise, on the one hand, to increase the income of private newspapers, on the other hand, to enhance the popularity of merchants' goods.

Opera, storytelling, movies, newspapers, etc. can all be considered part of the entertainment industry.

The entertainment industry is closely related to all aspects of the country, only when a country prospers, the country's entertainment industry will prosper, and it is time to show its fangs when the Chinese empire grows.