However, many people and parents will question that traditional opera is a cultural treasure, but after all, it has nothing to do with students' current studies. Even from the perspective of cultivating students' comprehensive quality, traditional Chinese opera seems to have not been greatly improved. So what is the significance and value of "drama entering the campus"?
As a member of the development of cultural industry and a practitioner of "drama entering the campus", Xiao Xin has some ideas of her own and wants to share them with you.
First of all, it should be made clear that "Opera enters the campus" does not mean that we should not train tens of millions of opera lovers in Qian Qian, even practitioners of opera performances. But through this artistic carrier with the most national cultural characteristics, we should give students the transmission and popularization of singing appreciation, physical experience, performance interaction, color connotation, costume culture, historical knowledge and moral education. "Opera into the campus" must not be a long-winded theoretical indoctrination, but a simple professor aimed at the interests of modern students. Like the popular interest class now, if the teaching form is wrong, it will have negative effects and make students resist.
When it comes to specific values, Xiao Xin thinks there are three:
First, improve students' artistic aesthetic quality
Aesthetics is a basic quality that a person should possess. The aesthetic value of traditional Chinese opera art is first embodied in its facial makeup art.
Opera facial makeup is a unique stylized facial makeup expression in opera art, and its aesthetic design is embodied in color setting, patterns and so on. As far as color setting is concerned, most opera masks are loved by the people. They are not only colorful, but also have special symbolic significance to symbolize good and evil, good and bad, personality characteristics and so on. This reference function, by means of color symbols, enables people to distinguish good from evil, beauty, ugliness, wisdom and stupidity at a glance.
In terms of pattern design, opera masks are also rich in color. This feature is particularly prominent in the corner of the screen. Whether it is face, forehead, eyebrows, etc. All kinds of decorative patterns have applications. These models also have certain moral and explanatory functions. For example, in Bao Zheng's Facebook, a crescent moon often indicates that "the day breaks and the night breaks", which symbolizes his selfless personality. The design of Facebook pattern is the wisdom crystallization of the artist's continuous improvement and creation in long-term labor. Patterns contain typical generalizations of characters' personalities and personality qualities, and are symbols printed in people's minds.
In addition, the costumes worn by opera actors can also reflect the aesthetic value of opera art, and the patterns and patterns on the clothes are equally colorful and beautiful. They complement each other with Facebook, which not only brings visual enjoyment to the audience, but also deepens the audience's understanding and understanding of opera.
Second, to stimulate students' creative imagination
In the performance of traditional Chinese opera, some stage movements are incomprehensible to most students and audiences, which embodies the virtuality of one of the artistic characteristics of traditional Chinese opera. Here are two examples: in the Peking Opera Legend of the White Snake? In "Swimming on the Lake", the characters and actors who "replace the boat with paddles" all show the turbulence of the boat by shaking their bodies back and forth. The four are in step, which makes the audience feel that there is no water but the whole table is full of water, which is the virtuality of "space"; Another example is the virtuality of "time": Sanchakou, a brightly lit Beijing opera on the stage, makes the audience feel really dark and vivid through the body movements and facial expressions of two actors on the stage.
On the stage of national drama, a few walk-on players can walk through the battlefield in Wan Li. This vivid performance, permeated with Taoist nihilism, broke through the limitation of time and space on the stage, which is the genius of China's traditional opera art and embodies the characteristics of China's classical aesthetics. It can help modern students to cultivate creative thinking and has a positive impact on the cultivation of students' thinking habits.
Third, improve students' literary accomplishment and cultivate their sentiment.
"Cultivate sentiment" is a word we often say, but what exactly is "sentiment" and how to "cultivate sentiment" may not be a concept in many people's minds. Xiao Xin believes that today is a highly fragmented era with too much information, and all people, especially young people, are more willing to accept all kinds of fast food cultures that don't consume brains and time. This has also created the general characteristics of young people now.
The expression of traditional Chinese opera is slow and the lyrics are difficult to understand, which completely violates today's fast food culture. But for this reason, if young people can calm down and enter the world of traditional Chinese opera art, they can not only enhance their understanding of traditional literature, but also cultivate their temperament. Let impetuous young students be more calm and focused.
I have said a lot about the significance of "drama entering the campus", but to really achieve this effect, we must go back to the first point-we must optimize the content and innovate the way. To "inherit" traditional culture, we must keep pace with the times in content and form.
In 20 16, the activity of "Opera Entering Campus" in Yubei District of Chongqing became a model of the whole city, and even attracted the attention of the Central Civilization Committee. Its core lies in innovation! Under the suggestion of the leaders of the Propaganda Department of Yubei District, after careful planning and arrangement by the organizer Chongqing Xincheng Company, each performance of "Opera into Campus" not only pays tribute to and inherits the classics, but also combines the current popular culture to highlight the sense of participation and interaction. In every performance, the students followed the actors on the catwalk, appeared on the stage, and showed off their orchid fingers ... They became interested in China traditional drama in entertainment.
At the same time, Xincheng also believes that innovation is a continuous work. In 20 17, Xincheng initially planned to abandon the performance mode of independent drama. Instead, it explores some interesting stories that meet students' interests, and then writes them into scripts, which run through traditional opera programs and form stage shows expressed by traditional operas.
In fact, "drama entering the campus" is only the beginning, and it needs to "go out of the campus" to lay a broader social foundation for the inheritance of traditional drama culture. This is a long career that needs constant persistence, and it is also a job that needs constant innovation and keeps pace with the times.