www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Culture
Home / Culture / Music and Theater

Opera troupe finds a winning story

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2025-03-20 14:34
Share
Share - WeChat
Wang Chenglong [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

At the Boxing County Lyuju Opera Troupe, in east China's Shandong province, Liu Ning, 41 and his apprentice Wang Chenglong, 24 were rehearsing Sisters' Marriage Switch, a classic from the Lyuju repertoire. Amid clanging gongs and resonating drums, Wang wears a winged traditional official's headdress bobbing above a gold-embroidered crimson robe. With a sharp snap of his folding fan, he performs the character's commanding stage presence.

As one of the major local operas, Lyuju Opera was inscribed on China's National Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2008.

"During festivals, villages in my hometown would stage operas. My grandmother always took me along, though I only watched for fun initially," Wang recalled. His artistic awakening came during a Maoqiang (another Shandong opera genre) performance by artist Sun Hongju. "Enthralled, I enrolled in Maoqiang training after junior high, unprepared for the rigors."

Boxing County Lyuju Opera Troupe [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The regimen proved grueling: predawn rehearsals, week-long drills for eight-character recitations requiring flawless articulation. "A short section of recitation, only eight words, needs to be practiced for a whole week until there is no deviation in posture, expression, or tone, and if there was a slight error in the position of the tongue it meant starting over." Faced with this grind, Wang quit. His subsequent factory work "taught me life's hardships". Matured through experience, he seized a second chance through enrollment in the local Lyuju Opera Class.

Confronting decreased physical flexibility, Wang persevered through intense pain during leg-stretching exercises. As graduation approached, Wang heard that Boxing County Lyuju Opera Troupe was recruiting young actors, so he chose to join and stay in the troupe, emerging as a rising talent.

Today, he has become a leading drama expert and scholar, and he is also actively promoting new media communication.

Boxing County Lyuju Opera Troupe [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

On Tiktok, he has nearly 30,000 fans, many of whom are local people, and a considerable number of young people are attracted to it. He shared the clips of his own performances and those of his daily life of training, which received a lot of attention and praise.

In fact, Lyuju Opera a still has a very stable elderly audience in many areas of Shandong, Liu said. "Today, the attraction of Lyuju Opera in Boxing county is still very strong. Performances may not need the top stage, or even a stage, they occur in the local communities, hidden in every corner of Boxing. In our town, local villagers organize their own performances of Lyuju Opera weekly."

Wang added that "seeing children in the audience today reminds me of my childhood experiences attending performances with my grandmother''.

The support local authorities is essential.

Official statistics indicate Lyuyi Town, Boxing county sustains over 10 local troupes with 150 performers, delivering 300 annual performances while attracting 20,000 cultural tourism participants yearly.

"In 2020, we premiered the large-scale original Lyuju Opera lianxinsuo (The Heart-linked Lock), chronicling a touching story of two generations of an ordinary family's sacrifices and their collective navigation of national hardships," stated Liu.

"The production toured from county theaters to Jinan's municipal stages, later representing Shandong in Qinghai province with resounding successful performances."

With the development of the times, many local operas are losing audiences.

"What we need to do is to impress young people with better and better stories, "said Wang.

Wang Zixian contributed to this story. 

Most Popular
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 日韩经典中文字幕 | 久久99久久99 | 欧美多人三级级视频播放 | 国产高清精品久久久久久久 | 欧美自拍另类 | a毛片免费视频 | 久草福利资源网站免费 | 日韩国产欧美一区二区三区 | 亚洲精品国产高清不卡在线 | 亚洲一区2区三区4区5区 | 国产播放| 日本一区二区三区不卡在线视频 | 精品视频在线视频 | 一级毛片在线播放 | 精品视频在线观看一区二区三区 | 黄网在线观看免费网站台湾swag | 亚洲精品手机在线观看 | 亚洲丝袜另类 | 大陆高清自拍 | 手机在线精品视频 | 国产成人爱片免费观看视频 | 久久精品国产在爱久久 | 亚洲自拍在线观看 | 亚洲一区网站 | 日本国产免费一区不卡在线 | 国产粉嫩高中生无套第一次 | 日本高清在线中文字幕网 | 中国美女一级片 | 成人免费一区二区三区视频软件 | 日本一级在线观看 | 日韩美三级 | 亚洲精品久久久久综合中文字幕 | 美女18一级毛片免费看 | 亚洲成人天堂 | 亚洲女视频 | 色综合久久加勒比高清88 | 亚洲欧美自拍视频 | 亚洲最大情网站在线观看 | a级毛片免费完整视频 | 日韩在线不卡一区在线观看 | 七七国产福利在线二区 |