The 2022 Opera Entering Campus Activity in Yuzhong District, Chongqing City was held a few days ago, aiming to improve the aesthetic quality of the majority of young people, and to promote and inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture. At the event site, the wonderful performances and interactions won applause from the students and sowed the seeds of opera culture to the children.

In recent years, Yuzhong District, guided by the core socialist values, has continued to carry out the activities of bringing opera into the campus, and organized the Beijing opera, folk music, drama, etc. of Chongqing municipal-level professional art troupe to enter the primary and secondary schools, vocational schools and special education schools in Yuzhong District. . Through the combination of teaching and performance, the combination of on-site viewing and observation experience, etc., cultivate students' interest in traditional opera, promote the protection, inheritance, innovation and development of opera culture, and better inherit and carry forward opera culture.

Diverse and wide coverage of art

Since Yuzhong District launched the activity of bringing opera into campus in 2017, the selection of opera art repertoire is based on the needs and characteristics of young people's growth, selects classic opera songs that are suitable for students of different ages to appreciate and are easy to learn to sing, and fully integrates the seven major Chongqing municipal-level majors in the district. The advantages of the literary and art troupe, from the initial focus on Peking Opera, Sichuan Opera, and folk art, have developed to cover folk music, drama, ballet, etc., which are more in line with the preferences and needs of young people, realize the precision of opera entering the campus, and broaden the scope of opera culture and art entering the campus. breadth.

Among them, focusing on artistic edification for primary school students, children's dramas with vivid performances such as "The Three Little Pigs", and folk music ensembles of cartoon theme songs such as "Doraemon" and "Big Fish" were selected. For middle school students, it focuses on shaping their core values. For example, the introduction of patriotic repertoires such as "The Edge in the Cabinet" into the campus, while guiding students to love the excellent traditional Chinese culture and art, while creating a good educational atmosphere.

At the same time, Yuzhong District strives to make opera into campus activities as an effective carrier for popularizing opera culture and promoting quality education. Five primary and secondary schools, including Chongqing Qiujing Middle School, which were initially established in 2017, are the pilot units for the activities, and now they have been extended to the area under their jurisdiction. Elementary schools, as well as special schools and vocational schools such as schools for the deaf, have continuously expanded the radiation effect of activities. The relevant person in charge of the Yuzhong District Culture and Tourism Committee said that a total of 11 wonderful performances brought by Chongqing Municipal Theatre, Chongqing National Orchestra and other Chongqing municipal professional cultural and art troupes have been purchased for the 2022 Opera Entering Campus Activities in Yuzhong District, which will enter Yuzhong District. There are Chongqing No. 42 Middle School, Chongqing Datong Experimental School, Renmin Road Primary School in Yuzhong District, Youyou Road Primary School in Yuzhong District, and Vocational Education Center in Yuzhong District.

▲ The Chongqing Chinese Orchestra carried out the activity of bringing opera into the campus at Chongqing No. 66 Middle School

Rich and comprehensive activities

In recent years, Yuzhong District has adhered to the combination of "sending in" and "going out" in the activities of "sending in" and "going out". It not only organizes performance implementation units to carry out special performances on campus, but also purchases outstanding opera performance tickets and distributes them to schools. Teachers, students and parents are invited to come. Entering the theater to watch performances has developed from a one-way "entering the campus" to a two-way linkage between "entering the campus" and "leaving the campus". Through the combination of lectures and performances, the linkage between "podium and stage" is realized, opera "entering the campus" becomes "close to students", and students are guided to simply play, experience musical instruments, learn sound stage and table, etc., and cultivate their understanding of traditional opera. hobbies, so that students can better feel, nurture and inherit the culture of opera.

This year, Yuzhong District has purchased excellent programs from Chongqing municipal art troupes into the campus, so that the performing troupes, famous artists, schools and students can be closely connected. Purchasing high-quality repertoires of the Chongqing Chinese Orchestra, He Jianguo, the head and chief conductor of the Chongqing Chinese Orchestra, and professional performers of the Chongqing Chinese Orchestra were invited to bring to the students a number of songs featuring ethnic groups, such as "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", "Youth" and "Wanjiang". Works performed in orchestral form. In the activity, a musical instrument experience session was specially designed. The performer led the students to experience the performance of musical instruments on the stage, interacted with the students face-to-face, explained knowledge, etc., so that the students could have zero-distance contact with ethnic musical instruments, and let the professional art be delivered to the student group. Comprehensively cultivate students' comprehensive literacy of opera.

Up to now, more than 120 opera performances have been carried out in Yuzhong District, and the work of opera on campus has been normalized, institutionalized and popularized. The relevant person in charge of the Chongqing National Orchestra said: "Promoting folk music, sharing knowledge of folk music, and disseminating Chinese folk music through sharing will help students understand multiculturalism and cultivate students' attitude towards life that cares about life and loves life."

▲ The Chongqing Chinese Orchestra carried out the activity of bringing opera into the campus at the Vocational Education Center of Yuzhong District

Strong local characteristics and good inheritance effect

In recent years, Yuzhong District has closely integrated local cultural characteristics, and successively organized classic Peking operas such as "The Long Song of a Dream", "Ode to Pear Blossoms", "The Drunken Concubine", "Chisang Town", "Giving Pearls from Hongqiao", classic Huangmei operas such as "The Concubine", Excerpts from traditional Sichuan operas such as Sanchakou and Rolling Lanterns, intangible cultural heritage such as Sichuan Qingyin, plate, dulcimer in Quyi, and folk music performances such as national orchestra, erhu, pipa, and sheng are included in campus activities and performances. Promote and popularize the excellent traditional Chinese culture on the basis of education.

At the same time, the new version of Sichuan Opera "Jiang Sister" by Chongqing Sichuan Opera House and the ballet "Ode to a Century of Red Plum" by Chongqing Ballet were selected to vigorously promote the spirit of Hongyan. Organize teachers and students to watch the Peking Opera "Qin Liangyu" and "The Long Song of Big Dreams" performed by the Chongqing Peking Opera Troupe, and the plays "Mist Chongqing" and "Red Rock Soul" performed by the Chongqing Drama Theater. While disseminating opera culture, it promotes youth to form an identity with their hometown culture. sense. Organize students to visit the Chongqing Sichuan Opera Museum to learn about and pursue the history of Sichuan Opera, a unique traditional opera culture. "Sichuan Opera has a long history, inheriting the rich traditions of Song and Yuan Zaju, Ming and Qing legends and Bashu culture." The instructor explained to the students the influence of Bayu singing, dancing and acrobatics on Sichuan Opera, as well as the various genres and Sichuan Opera formed in the history of Sichuan Opera. historical origins.

"Yuzhong District will further increase the efforts to bring opera into the campus, vigorously promote traditional culture and art, promote the inheritance of national classic culture, expand the space for students to learn art, create characteristic campus cultural education, and let traditional cultural classics be carried forward in primary and secondary schools." Yuzhong District The relevant person in charge of the Culture and Tourism Development Committee said.