Recently, a special performance of the 60th anniversary of Shaoxing Tanchun and Song Xiaoqing was held in Shaoxing Cultural Center, which officially kicked off the theme activity of “Celebrating the 20 Great Quyi” 2022 Shaoxing Quyi Inheritance and Revitalization Series.
Wu Wenke, director of Quyi Institute of Chinese Academy of Art and vice chairman of Chinese Quyi Association, Weng Renkang, vice chairman of Chinese Quyi Association and chairman of provincial Quyi Association, Wu Yanfei, deputy director of provincial intangible cultural heritage protection center, Wei Zhenbai, executive deputy director of Quyi Committee of provincial intangible cultural heritage protection association and consultant of provincial Quyi Association, Shi Limeng, deputy director of Quyi Committee of provincial intangible cultural heritage protection association and consultant of provincial Quyi Association, He Junjie, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Shaoxing Municipal Committee, director of the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television Tourism, Ge Jianmin, Zhou Hongliang, Xie Wenquan, deputy directors and heads of relevant offices, leaders of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Keqiao District Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television Tourism and other related units, and Hu Zhaohai, the national representative inheritor of Shaoxing Lotus Falls, attended the event.
Xu Jinhui, director of Shaoxing Intangible Heritage Protection Center, presided over the opening ceremony. Deputy Director Ge Jianmin delivered a speech. Wu Wenke, a researcher, gave a congratulatory message, praising Zhong Ling, Shaoxing, which is a rich treasure with strong attraction and appeal for workers who are specialized in the excavation, protection and theoretical research of Quyi. And affirmed the protection of Shaoxing Quyi in recent years.
Finally, Wu Wenke, Weng Renkang, Wu Yanfei and Ge Jianmin jointly took the stage to launch the 2022 Shaoxing Quyi Heritage and Revitalization Series.
As the closing work of Shaoxing’s series of activities on the “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” in 2022, the theme activities of Shaoxing Quyi Inheritance and Revitalization Series in 2022 include three special exhibitions: Shaoxing Tanchun, Shaoxing Pinghu Tune and Shaoxing Lianhualuo, a comprehensive Huimin performance, an exhibition of protection achievements and a seminar on Quyi inheritance and development. While focusing on the protection achievements of Shaoxing local Quyi, it further promotes the protection, inheritance and dissemination of Shaoxing Quyi, and promotes the intangible connection with modern life.
In the special performance that night, Song Xiaoqing, the national intangible heritage inheritor of Shaoxing Tanchun, together with provincial representative inheritors Kong Lianzhi and Meng Jiaoli, specially invited national first-class actors, plum blossom prize winners Wu Suying and Zhang Lin, and national first-class actor Zhang Liping, etc., together with Shaoxing Xiaobaihua Experimental Quyi Troupe and Shaoxing Intangible Heritage Protection Center Tanchun Heritage Troupe, will sell green charcoal, Abida, Nine-Jin Girl and Ranjiao.
Looking back on the road of Shaoxing Quyi’s inheritance and development, 1961 is of great significance. This year, Shaoxing started the Quyi Training Class, which was divided into several professional groups, such as Pinghu Tune, Tanchun, Lianhualuo and Dashu (Pinghua), and carried out systematic professional teaching activities, and trained a number of Quyi professionals, such as Song Xiaoqing, Wang Yuying, Zheng Guanfu, Wang Jiabao, Zhang Xuezhang and Kong Lianzhi. It was the Quyi Training Class in this period that laid a solid foundation for the future development of Shaoxing Quyi. Years have passed, and time has passed. In a blink of an eye, Song Xiaoqing and other inheritors have been in the arts for 60 years. They have maintained their love and investment in Shaoxing local folk art for decades and spared no effort to promote the protection, inheritance and development of folk art.
In the interview and exchange session, Kong Lianzhi took everyone back to the basic situation of the Quyi training class at that time; Zhou Ruzhen, a performing artist of Shaoxing Lotus Falls and an important promoter of organizing Shaoxing Local Quyi School, introduced the efforts made by Shaoxing Local Quyi School at that time to cultivate the follow-up force of Shaoxing Quyi and promote Shaoxing Quyi from generation to generation. Luo Zhilin, a national first-class director and Shaoxing local quyi expert, talked about her love and sense of mission in directing Shaoxing Tanchun series discs and cooperating with Song Xiaoqing. Director Xu Jinhui introduced the protection of Shaoxing Cultural Center (Shaoxing Intangible Heritage Protection Center), as the protection unit of this genre, in terms of keeping records of project materials, cultivating people who have passed on, building a performance platform and promoting the creation and arrangement of new works for many years. Teacher Song Xiaoqing thanked the leaders, guests and the audience who loved the art of spreading the spring in plain words. She said that as a inheritor, she has the obligation and responsibility to inherit the excellent traditional culture of Shaoxing spreading the spring. As long as her energy, time and physical condition allow, she must persist in her work, continue to contribute to the inheritance and development of the art of spreading the spring, cherish the honor, carry forward the past and live up to the glorious mission entrusted by the party and the state.
Subsequently, the “relay ceremony” of Shaoxing spreading spring art officially began. Song Xiaoqing’s apprentices Meng Jiaoli and Shao Hongtao, as the backbone representatives of Shaoxing Tanchun, officially accepted their apprentices tonight to promote the continuation of Shaoxing Tanchun. Two students, Yang Guoyan and Gao Shengyang, paid homage to Meng Jiaoli and Shao Hongtao respectively, adding a new biography to Shaoxing’s spreading spring art.
The music altar will continue forever, and the new rhyme of the art garden will play the Chinese chapter. With the three generations of Shaoxing Tanchun “old, middle-aged and young” actors performing “Carry Forward the Past and Show Fanghua” in the same room, this special performance of Shaoxing Tanchun came to a successful conclusion. The performance was also broadcast live online, watched by nearly 3000 people, and the audience interacted enthusiastically, which achieved good response.
The 2022 Shaoxing Quyi Heritage and Revitalization Series will last until the 8th, followed by the special performances of Pinghu Tune, Lianhualuo and Quyi Comprehensive Huimin. The event was hosted by Shaoxing Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television Tourism, hosted by Shaoxing Cultural Center (the Municipal Intangible Heritage Protection Center) and Shaoxing Keqiao Cultural Center (the District Intangible Heritage Protection Center), and co-organized by Shaoxing Keqiao Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Art Learning Center (Shaoxing Xiaobaihua Experimental Quyi Troupe).