Today, we asked my father's good friend, Mr Xie Xiansheng, a famous actor, and the young actors of his Yu Opera troupe for their views on the difficulties in the development of the Yu Opera, and then we analysed and came up with a few solutions to these difficulties, so let's have a look together!
Xie Xiansheng
National second-grade actor
Henan Yu opera troupe leader
Famous young singer
Q: What do you think is the reason for the low popularity of Yu opera among young people?
A: I think the reason is that young people are chasing after stars and films, and they have diluted the essence of Chinese culture.
Q: What changes do you think we should make in order to better inherit the Yu opera?
A: I suggest that Yu Opera should combine with the new era, new ideas, new thinking, new characters, new deeds, and compile some new works. Diversify the forms of expression such as Tik-tok, small video, and so on.
Q: What do you think about talents?
A: In terms of talent, I suggest that we go to the general public to select, focus on those who love Yu Opera in particular, and provide training.
Q: Nowadays we have very little exposure to Yu Opera, what do you think is the reason?
A: There is not enough education, and even if there is education, the most emphasis is on Peking Opera. I basically didn't learn anything about Yu Opera in school.
Q: There is indeed a problem with this, so shouldn't we promote more Yu Opera in art classes?
A: It depends on the location, Henan schools should learn about Yu Opera.
Q: So what do you feel is the best way to get young people to accept Yu Opera?
A: You can't show that kind of simple Yu Opera, you should have that kind of drama film. Because I feel that if you don't understand the background of the story, you are purely listening to the sound ...... The key is how to find old Yu opera films and how to make new Yu opera films.
Q：Do you feel that if we Auto-tune remix-themed content of Yu Opera it will be effective?
A: No, the people who watch it are just trying to be fresh.
Q: If we use new media, is it better to have a science fiction or to put a whole section of Yu opera?
A: I think we can have a uploader who knows about Yu Opera, let him introduce different Yu Operas, and then play the clips, with the web address in the comment section, so that we can continue to attract others. For popular science, a few videos are gone. Playing pure Yu Opera is still a bit boring.
Q: In fact, there are many famous songs, genres and famous artists of Yu Opera, just that these famous artists can't play an effective role in publicity, what do you think?
A: You can help them record videos and send them to B station, and after they have a certain fame, you can engage in B station live broadcast.
P1How to solve the problem of economic benefits: Yu Opera only rely on the original tickets, performance income to obtain low economic benefits, along with other media culture of fierce competition audience gradually decreased. On the one hand, we can insist on performances, performances into the campus or other units to expand the audience; at the same time, we can carry out joint cultural creation with other industry brands, and other industries to enhance the competitiveness of the product at the same time the Yu Opera industry can also obtain greater economic benefits. In this regard, we can refer to the cultural and creative products of the Palace, the daily necessities for cultural and creative, improve product efficiency at the same time for the culture to bring economic benefits.
P2How to solve the problem of declining artistic level: Practitioners of Yu Opera should cultivate their own cultural and life heritage. Art originates from life and is higher than life. Practitioners' perception of life is the basis for improving their ability. At the same time, the practitioners should sink their hearts, not to be confused by the outside world's fickleness and clamour, study intensely, and seriously improve their own artistic level and enhance their artistic performance ability. Moreover, the performers should improve their cultural qualities. Yu opera has high requirements for the cultural qualities of the actors, and the charm of its artistic performance is also based on the performers' deep understanding and presentation of the lyrics and movements. In addition, a high cultural and life background is also conducive to the creation and innovation of practitioners.
Practitioners of Yu Opera are more likely to make a breakthrough. They should stick to their own performance principles, not be casual, and treat every performance seriously, so that the audience can feel the performers' sincerity. Being a stickler and innovator of traditional culture is an important way for us to bring Yu opera back to life.
P3On the inheritance of Yu opera:First of all, the government should make statistics and organise the inheritors of Yu Opera and set up relevant databases. It should be noted that the statistics and organisation of the inheritors should not only count the inheritors' artistic characteristics and artistic style, but also record these data in various ways such as text records, video records, audio records, etc., so as to make the information more scientific and reasonable.
Secondly, the inheritors of Yu opera should be given appropriate subsidies and relevant policy protection. In terms of the current social situation, the lack of economic aspects is the biggest problem faced by many inheritors. If there is no corresponding economic support, the inheritors will choose to give up the Yu Opera and turn to other professions if their livelihood is not guaranteed, which will lead to the severance of the inheritance.
In addition, on the basis of subsidies, it is also necessary to protect the living space of Yu opera, so that the inheritors can use their own Yu opera ability to get a certain economic income.
In this way, the inheritors are satisfied both materially and spiritually, thus promoting the inheritance and development of Yu opera.
P4The artistic characteristics of Yu Opera are divided into so many parts: Singing style, roles, make-up, costumes, musical instruments and so on. One of them is the singing style, we can use the local dialect or Mandarin to sing according to the local conditions. For the roles and make-up in Yu Opera, we can reorganise the conception. Although Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou are traditional, but they make the audience to see the bottom at a glance, which is nothing new and lacks some fun, and the make-up can also be changed. Costumes and musical instruments can also add some new elements, making it closer to life and more comfortable.
The content of Yu Opera should also be constantly updated to coincide with the times. In line with the times, with today's modern life, the creative perspective of Yu Opera is aimed at the essential laws of modern life, reflecting the cultural connotations of today's social life, and integrating the Yu Opera into the audience's spiritual life, triggering people's thinking and concern, and generating a spiritual resonance with the audience in terms of feelings and situations.
The writers and creators of Yu Opera can go deep into the folk and public life, select the storylines and characters that are relevant to the people's life, shape a rich artistic image, and express the life, show the life, and explore the life from these artistic plots and characters.
Afterwards, we will feedback this issue to the Yu Opera Troupe as well as the local cultural propaganda centre, and conduct up master solicitation to do our part for the development and revitalisation of Yu Opera!
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