1On May 20th, 976, Yin Guifang lectured Shen Yue in Shanghai: "You should run a campus art training class in Changzhou, just like a doll listening to Yue Opera in the cradle." Shen Yue was deeply inspired by it. After returning to Changzhou, he changed his name to Shen Yue, resigned from his job, and began to organize training courses for Yue Opera. Since then, he has devoted all his energy to the "cradle" project of Yue Opera. As a result, he became one of the few successors in China who insisted on promoting Yue Opera for a long time.
Through Shen Yue's efforts, Changzhou Youth Shaoxing Opera Training Center was established in 1985, which is the first professional cultural household in Jiangsu Province, and it has been 23 years since then. Shen Yue said frankly that at the beginning of the training course, he also faced various difficulties. To run a training class, you must have "raw materials", that is, clothes, musical instruments, dancing lights and so on.
In the mid-1980s, it was an "impossible task" for individuals to put all these things together. At that time, Mr. Chen Shaochun, another Shaoxing opera actor in Shanghai, tried to find a way for Shen Yue, telling him that Lanyue Opera Troupe had a batch of "raw materials" and asked him to find a deputy head named Yang Yumei. At that time, Shen Yue only had 60 yuan's money, but in order to realize his dream of Yue Opera, he borrowed usury from a small shop owner and went to Lanzhou. Subsequently, he also actively sought the support of local governments and enterprises for the cradle project of Yue Opera.