Chapter 528 Where is the road? What to do with opera
Peking opera has always been called the quintessence of the nation.
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: those who cannot love it, or those who have no feelings at all.
The majority of them are young people who have no feelings.
What is 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 divorced from mass art 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, the facial makeup of Peking Opera is really pretty.
The singing and singing are all in dialect and I can’t understand them.
I hum slowly for a long time. .”
The case has been solved. Dialect is one of the reasons that hinders the progress of Peking Opera.
Back then, great men also suffered 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: "The local young people are really Can they 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. "
My son also thought. In retort, the old man raised his hand, "Didn't you realize that there are no young people watching the show?"
The young man stopped talking. Of course he found out, but he just didn't want to disappoint his father.
Drama is his lifelong endeavor. Now someone tells him that drama is no longer possible. He is afraid that his father will 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 this keep up with the times and keep up with the trend,
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Attract contemporary young people. ”
To hit the nail on the head.
The art form of Peking Opera was popular at that time, but now, it has obviously lagged behind popular music.
Other people’s band accompaniment, piano, cello and violin , guitar, drums, suona, electronic keyboard, everything.
The gap is huge
The more instruments there are, the more three-dimensional and rich the sound will be, and the stronger the layering of the performance will be.
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 antique, he also listens to pop music.
Last year's "Chi Ling" 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, which only absorbs and borrows opera singing and elements.
In his opinion, this is putting the cart before the horse.
After listening to the song "Rap Face" today, he was deeply moved.
Beijing 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.
"The purple pagoda of the King of Heaven,
The green devil Dou Yaksha,
The golden monkey king, the silver monster,
the gray elf laugh haha. ”
While singing, the actors surrounded the children, pointed at them, and screamed angrily.
It was like the Peking Opera masters who couldn’t let go of their airs. Groundless accusations against popular 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 watch 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 the song 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 another rap. This form 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 wonderful Chinese treasure of art,
Even foreigners clapped and applauded,
and kept praising it. ”
Many old people nodded in agreement, this is what they want to say.
Every time a big opera is sung, many foreigners listen in rapt attention. What a great program, it can’t be wasted.
"Shengdan Jingmo sings, chants, and fights,
hands, eyes, body, and kung fu are really not simple,
you don't understand opera and are talking nonsense,
the angry grandfather has a beard straight on his face Turn up. ”
Indeed, the requirements for opera are much higher than singing, and the effort required is far beyond that of singing.
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. This is one person playing two roles. The granddaughter and the grandfather are arguing about the drama.
Read on. "Grandpa, don't be angry and allow me to defend myself,
Even if you eat delicacies all the time, you will get bored.
Art cannot be too far away from the times.
Innovation and development are necessary.
Let the old and the young Everyone, both men and women, likes to watch it.
The 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. 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.
"One after another, there are bright mandarin duck tiles,
groups of vivid living Bodhisattvas,
one stroke at a time, a little bit exaggerated,
each facial makeup is beautiful. ”
Open with pop music and end with opera.
Rap on Facebook is really rap on Facebook.
Based on 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: "Do you like this?"
The child nodded heavily and said yes.
Chen Xingchang was thoughtful.
If nothing else, the audience of this song "Rap Face" 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 there is only one person who can make Peking Opera come alive!”
< br>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 ruining the essence of the country, and it is recommended to ban it!"
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 in 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 Peking operas were sung like this, there would definitely be a lot of people watching.”
“The whole band was onstage just now, right?”
“Yes. , I listened to a lot of instruments, and it 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 dares to do it because it is 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, your promise is such a waste of Peking Opera, why don't you say a few words?"
"If it were me, I definitely wouldn't be able to bear it. I must make him apologize."
"A waste of natural resources, random fabrication, and finally So that he can be banned.”
Don’t tell me, a so-called drama master really 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."
I just scolded the rise of " The masters were immediately dumbfounded.
Damn it, what’s going on? Why did the vice president rebel?
The eldest brother has expressed his opinion, 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, and they can be made unable to survive in a matter of minutes.
The public opinion that had just been stirred up was extinguished quietly.
Modu Satellite TV’s ratings 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, for fear that Shanghai TV would do something wrong again.
"Next, please 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, that 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.
(End of this chapter)