In the spring of Yuan Dynasty, everything began to flourish, and Vientiane started a new dynasty. During the New Year’s Day Festival in 2024, the museum presented an elegant feast for everyone. The reporter learned that the Opera Museum in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province has carried out a series of cultural activities with rich contents and various forms, providing high-quality cultural life for the broad masses of the people with high-quality cultural supply and creating a happy and peaceful holiday atmosphere.
Exhibition: Experience the beauty of blending ancient and modern.
During the festival, the two special exhibitions of the Museum of Traditional Chinese Opera and Hundred Drama brought a visual feast full of traditional cultural charm to the audience. With the help of the Palace Museum’s rich collection and profound academic research skills, the exhibition of the cultural relics of the Qing Dynasty’s palace dramas shows the profoundness of the opera culture, and details the development process of the Qing Dynasty’s palace dramas through more than 100 scripts, scores, costumes, props and other cultural relics related to operas collected in the Palace Museum.
Located in the public education department on the second floor, the theme exhibition "Who is like me in the spring-Congratulations on the 20-year tour of the Peony Pavilion" is based on the overall curatorial principle of "new collision", "more extension" and "fine and beautiful". Yu Jiulin, a performance artist of Kunqu Opera, and Xu Peihong, the exclusive photographer of the youth version of Peony Pavilion, have a new vision in the new space where Kunqu Opera originated, reappearing the love and beauty of the youth version of Peony Pavilion in a new way, bringing a new artistic collision to the audience.
Activity: "Fancy" inherits the art of traditional Chinese opera
Theme lectures, non-legacy works, opera performances, theme punching, interactive experience … A variety of activities allow the audience to experience the profound cultural heritage of Chinese opera art while feeling the traditional festival atmosphere.
During the New Year’s Day, Chen Yi, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, was invited to give a lecture "Kunshan, the geographical and cultural source of Kunqu Opera" in the museum’s open class (the third issue), telling the process of the germination and gradual formation of Kunqu Opera on the banks of Yangcheng Lake, the representative figures and interesting stories. This lecture attracted a large number of audience to come to the scene to experience this cultural feast, soak in the trickle of traditional Chinese opera culture, and appreciate the precipitation of history and beauty. At the same time, around the theme of New Year’s Day, the museum launched the activities of "non-legacy blooming, hand-made welcoming New Year" and "Qiyun New Year Kunshan has a play", which attracted many parents and children to participate and personally felt the unique charm of traditional culture.
The gongs and drums clanged and the sound was drunk. On the red flag, the drama continued, with three days and six performances. Opera actors from Suzhou Theatre School, Shanghai Shanghai Opera Troupe and Shanghai Yue Theatre bring you Kunqu Opera "The Peony Pavilion", Shanghai Opera "Holding a Wedding Ceremony", "Yan Yan as a Matchmaker", "Dong Meiqing", "Ask Uncle", "Give a Jade Rabbit", "The Grass is Green in February and March" and "Liang Zhu 18 Send" of the Yue Opera … The actors are leisurely.
The melodious music, melodious drama and various forms of cultural activities have made the ancient opera art more vivid and vivid.
Wenchuang: Traditional culture is booming.
Activities with different themes offer wonderful cultural feasts to the audience, and the cultural and creative products designed and produced by relying on the ip image of the Opera Museum have also attracted everyone’s attention and love. At the interactive scene of the theme punch-in, the audience lined up in a long line, and the relay was "lucky". A pair of cartoon refrigerator stickers of "Little Health, Little Hua Dan" were warmly welcomed by everyone.
Nowadays, stamping and punching cards has become a new form of tourism favored by young people. During the New Year’s Day, the Museum of Traditional Chinese Opera launched a limited edition seal. Full of creativity and exquisite eye-catching, many people took photos and shared them excitedly after stamping the chapter. Behind the small seal, it reflects the determination of the Traditional Opera Museum to make traditional operas "out of the circle" and traditional culture "broken" through new media and young power.
Festivals in museums have become a new fashion nowadays, and many viewers have chosen to go into museums with their families and friends, visit exhibitions and participate in activities. The Museum of Traditional Chinese Opera and Hundred Dramas endows traditional culture with new elements and more fashionable and younger expressions in an entertaining way, increases the interaction between traditional Chinese opera and the public, and shows the strong vitality and eternal charm of Chinese excellent traditional culture.
Yangzi Evening News/Zi Niu News reporter Zhang Nan
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