Chapter 528 Where Is the Road Ahead? What Should Be Done with Opera?

Peking Opera has always been called the quintessence of China.

It’s just that this national quintessence is not very recognized by young people.

Is the unrecognized national quintessence still the national quintessence?

For a long time, netizens have been easily divided into two extremes when it comes to their views on Peking Opera: they cannot love it enough, or they have no feelings at all.

The majority of them are young people who have no feelings.

What's the reason?

Peking Opera is too far away from the times.

Art cannot be too far away from the times, it must learn to innovate with the times.

If it is separated from the masses and is not called art, it will sooner or later be submerged in the torrent of the times.

If young people do not understand Peking Opera, they naturally have no interest in learning about it.

On the TV, the singer gave the reasons for the decline of Peking Opera in the form of rap.

"To be honest, Peking Opera facial makeup is really pretty.

But the singers all spoke in dialect and I couldn’t understand it.

Teng Teng slowly hummed for a long time. "

The case is solved. Dialect is one of the reasons that hinders the progress of Peking Opera.

At that time, great people also suffered a cold reception in the Peking University Library because of their plastic dialect. Peking Opera also faced this dilemma.

An old man in Beijing was watching TV with a happy face.

He is the vice president of the Opera Association and a famous opera actor, Chen Xingchang.

What he was watching happened to be Shanghai TV.

But after hearing these two sentences, he suddenly became serious.

These two sentences sound a bit like a keyboard warrior, but in fact such problems do exist.

"Dad, don't listen to their nonsense. What's wrong with the dialect? Others can't understand the dialect, but the locals can understand it!"

The old man shook his head: "Can the local young people really understand it? They have been learning Mandarin since kindergarten. They study, live and work in Mandarin. It is a problem for them to understand the difficult dialect. ”

The son still wanted to refute, but the old man raised his hand and said, "Didn't you notice that there are no young people watching the theater anymore?"

The young man stopped talking. Of course he found out, but he just didn't want to disappoint his father.

Drama was his lifelong endeavor. Now someone told him that drama was no longer possible. He was afraid that his father would not be able to bear this blow.

"The accompaniment of the band is just a guy with gongs and drums,

Longrig's three major pieces,

How can we keep up with the times and keep up with the trend?

Attract contemporary young people. "

Hit the nail on the head.

The art form of Peking Opera was popular back then, but now it has obviously lagged behind popular music.

Other people's band accompaniment, piano, cello, violin, guitar, drums, suona and electronic keyboard, everything is available.

The gap is too big.

The more instruments there are, the more three-dimensional and richer the sound, and the stronger the layering of the performance.

And what about Peking Opera? It’s still the same old gongs and drums.

This is their characteristic, but pop music can also add this characteristic.

Chen Xingchang is not an old man, he also listens to pop music.

Last year's "Chi Ling" suddenly opened his eyes to the fact that opera can be played in this way.

But this does not meet his goals, because "Chi Ling" is essentially pop music, but it only absorbs and borrows opera vocals and elements.

In his view, this is putting the cart before the horse.

After listening to the song "Rap Face" today, he was deeply moved.

Peking Opera really needs to keep pace with the times.

Otherwise, the fate of Peking Opera is that after being borrowed and absorbed by popular music, Peking Opera will be submerged in the dust of history.

On the TV, after the rap ended, the drama began again.

The characters on the stage moved to the music.

However, in Chen Xingchang's eyes, it was so sad.

"Purple Heavenly King's Pagoda,

The green devil fights Yaksha,

The golden monkey king and the silver monster,

The gray elf laughed. "

As the horns sang, they surrounded the children, pointed at them, and screamed angrily.

It's like the groundless accusations made by Peking Opera masters who can't let go of their arrogance against pop music.

When "Chi Ling" came out, some people criticized it as a waste of traditional culture.

When other opera songs come out, there are always people who make sarcastic remarks about them.

They never thought about how much attention the songs they said were ruining Peking Opera would bring to Peking Opera.

It is a pity that when young people who were influenced by the song went to see the Peking Opera performance out of curiosity, they were directly persuaded to leave.

I can't understand, it's too noisy.

It's exactly the same as what's sung in "Rap Face".

Chen Xingchang felt that he needed to talk to Nuoyan about where the path of Peking Opera was.

After the drama, there is a rap, which is too rare.

Rap is regarded as a foreign culture and drama is the quintessence of the country. Why such a combination?

The older audience members stood still, and the young people were also attracted.

"My grandfather was angry and said that I was just making trouble.

What a beautiful and wonderful art Chinese treasure,

Even foreigners applauded,

Keep praising me. "

Many elderly people nodded in agreement. This is what they wanted to say.

Every time the opera is performed, many foreigners are fascinated by it. What a wonderful program it is and cannot be wasted.

"On the first day of her life, she sings, chants and performs beatings.

The hand, eye, body and kung fu are really not simple.

You don’t understand opera nonsense,

The angry grandfather's beard rolled straight up his face. "

Indeed, the requirements for singing are much higher than singing, and the effort required is far beyond what singing can.

There are strict requirements for singing, chanting, and playing. Even the movements have strict requirements. If you don't learn for a few years, you won't be able to get on stage.

What about singing? If you can make a sound, you can sing. It can be said that there are no requirements.

But the song is not over yet, everyone can hear it. One person is playing two roles, and the granddaughter and grandpa are arguing about the drama.

Then listen below.

"Grandpa, don't be angry and allow me to defend myself.

Even eating delicacies from mountains and seas will make you tired.

Art and the times cannot be too far apart,

We need to innovate and develop, blah blah blah,

Let everyone, young and old, male and female, enjoy watching it,

National heritage is passed down from generation to generation. "

Chen Xingchang nodded, he agreed with this statement.

In fact, Peking Opera has gone through many iterations over the years, but it has never found a way to break the circle.

Music is a circle, and so is Peking Opera. His old friend Su Xinghai was full of praise for this young man, and he also wanted to hear what Nuoyan had to say.

On the TV, the stage finally came alive, and the children interacted cordially with the opera actors.

The song comes to an end.

"The bright Yuanyang tiles,

Groups of vivid living Bodhisattvas,

A little bit of exaggeration, every stroke of outline,

Each facial makeup is beautiful. "

Open with pop music and end with opera.

Rap on Facebook is really rap on Facebook.

With Chen Xingchang's experience, he naturally wouldn't think that the singing in this opera was very good, it was just good.

But after combining it with rap, the song seemed to come alive all of a sudden.

The grandson next to him didn't know where he had thrown everything in his hand, and he was staring at the TV with bright eyes.

"Grandpa, this is fun!"

Chen Xingchang said with great interest: "You like this?"

The child nodded heavily.

Chen Xingchang was thoughtful.

Not to mention anything else, the audience of this song "Rap Mask" far exceeds that of ordinary Peking Opera programs.

It is a good program that even children are interested in.

On the stage, a group of actors came off the stage lively.

The audience gave them warm applause.

"It's nothing unusual to be able to point out their problems from the perspective of Peking Opera. There are many keyboard warriors, but the only person who can make Peking Opera come alive is Promise!"

On the Internet, some people lamented the difficulty of the development of Peking Opera.

"What kind of Peking Opera is this? It's just nonsense!"

"It is a waste of national quintessence and it is recommended that it be banned!"

Netizens support and oppose it, but it doesn't matter anymore.

New things are always vulnerable to criticism.

In terms of ratings at this time, Shanghai TV is already ahead of CCTV.

The first hot search item is "Modu TV's ratings surpassed CCTV's".

This hot search continuously brings new viewers, but the elderly viewers who are ready to go to bed are still unable to fall asleep.

This delay lasted for more than two hours. I couldn't bear to sleep. I haven't seen such a wonderful party in many years.

"This show is interesting. If all Peking operas were sung like this, more people would watch it."

"Didn't the whole band come backstage just now?"

"Yes, I heard a lot of musical instruments, and it obviously sounded much better."

"Rap Face" has given everyone a huge shock.

Rap and Peking Opera, has anyone thought of doing this?

Maybe, but no one would dare to do it because it would be too easy to get scolded.

There are a bunch of old men in the Peking Opera circle. They are not very famous, but they have a very bad temper. They are also singing opera students. They curse loudly and unpleasantly, but they don't use curse words. Not many people can stand it.

Many people were so happy that they finally seized the opportunity, and the sunspots started to get angry.

"Master, why don't you say a few words to your promise to ruin Peking Opera like this?"

"If it were me, I definitely wouldn't be able to bear it. I have to make him apologize."

"He is a waste of natural resources and fabricating nonsense. It is best to ban him."

Don't tell me, a so-called drama master actually jumped out and criticized Xu Nuo.

Xu Nuo was busy directing the program, so naturally he didn't have time to reply to them.

But there was no need for him to take action in this matter, Chen Xingchang did.

"This may not be a way to explore. Peking Opera is too old and needs fresh blood like "Rap Face". Thank you for your promise."

The "masters" who had been scolding him just now were dumbfounded.

Damn it, what's going on? Why did the vice president rebel?

The eldest brother has expressed his opinion, so the others should just go to sleep.

They quickly deleted the curse words. The Peking Opera circle is different from other circles.

The smaller the circle, the greater the power of these vice-presidents, who can make it difficult for them to survive in a matter of minutes.

The public opinion that had just been stirred up was extinguished quietly.

The ratings of Modu Satellite TV are still strong and have no intention of declining at all.

After "Rap Face", the host began to announce the curtain again. Every time the host announced the curtain, other stations were a little frightened, fearing that Magic City TV would do something else.

"Next, we invite Chen Jianshen and Zhou Anbang to perform "Flowers Along the Road" for us!"

Chen Jianshen became very popular some time ago, and his song "Nostalgia" brought him back to the top.

Zhou Anbang is also an old artist, and he is killing memories again.

On this night, the elderly audience could not bring themselves to sleep.

Okay, keep reading.