Beijing non -heritage said ｜ Visit the Beijing Opera Revitalization Line

Recently, Xicheng District launched the two lines of the "Peking Opera Born" north and south. Among them, the "Peking Opera Revitalization Line" in the north includes the Meilan Fangjing Theater, the National Peking Theater, the Beijing People's Theater, and the Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall. These landmarks record the development of Peking Opera after the founding of New China. Under the guidance of the party's literary and art policy, the national art art has been new and entered a new era of revitalization.

Mei Lanfang Grand Theater Culture benefits the people

藏 Beijing People's The Theater has a large number of historical graphic materials of Peking Opera

The Mei Lanfang Grand Theater was built in November 2007 and is located in the southeast corner of Guanyuanqiao, Second Ring Road, Beijing. The shape of the entire building is curved, and the main color is red. It is made of FRP, which is transparent and bright full of modernity. Under the night, the shining large theater of the lights like a huge red crystal Xu Xu Shenghui.

Entering the Grand Theater, a golden relief on the door of the four floors in the hall is inlaid on the door of the tall paint. From a distance, it is like a red lacquer door for the Forbidden City. Recently, each door nail was cut out of the golden relief, and each relief was a Peking opera. The relief is lifelike, and many viewers pull the camera to take pictures after finding the "treasure".

Mr. Mei Lanfang bronze statue

Guan Gong statue created by Mr. Fan Zeng

The Mei Lanfang Grand Theater has the "Three Treasures". One is that the copper statue of Mr. Mei Lanfang stands in the middle of the hall. The statue is about 2 meters tall and 1.5 meters wide. Mr. Mei sitting in the sofa is dressed in Zhongshan outfit, with a smile on the front, and the orchid fingers finger folded. The statue was made based on the photos of Mei Lanfang's life, which not only showed his artistic style, but also showed his personality charm. The second is that there are huge Guan Gong paint paintings inlaid on the east wall of the theater lobby. The entire frame is 8 meters high and 5 meters wide. The portrait is a horse -carrying knife. This is drawn by the famous Chinese painter Fan Zeng, with a strong sense of momentum and a sense of heavyness. Guan Yu has always been the object of respect for the Chinese people. It is considered to be the incarnation of benevolence, righteousness, courage, wisdom, faith, loyalty, and filial piety, which is inherited from the traditional virtues promoted by Chinese opera.

”Cultural relic" Lao Lang God "

Where is the third treasure? It turned out to be in the background of the Grand Theater. Here is a century -old cultural relic- "Lao Lang God". In the old days, there were customs dedicated to the ancestors, which were generally called "Lao Lang God". The "Lao Lang God" worshiped by the types of opera is different, the most famous of which is Tang Ming emperor Li Longji. The image of Tang Ming emperor worshiped here is an image without a beard, and he is wearing a hand -made red python robe. On both sides of the idol, there is a small driver, placing golden melon, ax, and chairing.

The Mei Lanfang Grand Theater has a total of four floors and 2 theaters in size. The Grand Theater can accommodate 993 audiences, divided into three floors on the upper and lower, and the best position is in the VIP box on the second floor. Sitting in the box can clearly see the actor's every move and smile, it is an excellent place to enjoy the Peking opera at close range. The lounges in each box are hung by a famous stills, and when you enter the box, you can smell the charm of Peking Opera. The small theater is on the four floors, with 154 seats, and uses "peony flowers" as the background pattern, indicating "flowers and wealth". Most of the repertoires on the early Peking Opera stage mean the meaning of auspiciousness, wishfulness, and festiveness.

The Mei Lanfang Grand Theater is affiliated with the National Peking Theater. Since participating in the municipal government's Huimin low -fare subsidy measures, it has always adhered to the policy of "equivalent economic and social benefits, and social benefits priority", increasing the performance of benefiting the low fares of Huimin Session and setting ratio. Most of the attention and watching opera are middle -aged and elderly audiences. After implementing cultural benefits from low -cost votes, more and more audiences spend less than 100 yuan to enjoy national high -level Beijing opera performances.

"More and more audiences walked into the theater with a smile to enjoy the national art of Peking Opera." The relevant person in charge said that the policy of benefiting the low fare subsidy not only prosper the literary market, but also cultivate the cultural and artistic cultivation of the audience. Treatment of love has improved personal cultural connotation and more people enter the theater. The good attendance rate also stimulates the potential of the actors, and is dedicated to the audience on the stage with a fuller performance state.

Beijing People's The Theater has a deep history

Following Ping An Lixi Street all the way to the east, turning into the noisy Luguo Temple Street, a theater full of age in the streets is linger. Unlike the Mei Lanfang Grand Theater, it stands quietly on the street. This is the Beijing People's Theater.

The Beijing People's Theater was founded in 1953 and was officially completed and opened in January 1955. It was a modern theater based on opera performances that was mainly built by the leadership of the Party Central Committee after the founding of the New China. Unlike the Capital Theater and the Tianqiao Theater built at the same time, the Beijing People's Theater belongs to Chinese -style buildings.

Since falling, art masters and drama masters such as Mei Lanfang have been on stage here, leaving the footprints of several generations of artists. The party and state leaders have come here to watch the performance. On May 25, 1959, Mr. Mei Lanfang's last new drama "Mu Guiying Hanging" was also premiered here. It can be said that the Beijing People's Theater is an irreplaceable cultural milestone in the history of the development of New Chinese opera, with deep historical and cultural value. At the end of 2007, the Beijing People's Theater was included in Beijing's first batch of Beijing Excellent Modern Architecture Protection List, and in 2018 it was listed as the third batch of architectural heritage in China in 2018.

However, after more than half a century of ups and downs, the Beijing People's Theater suspended in 2003 due to safety hazards. In 2011, it appeared again on Hu Guo Temple Street. After the reconstruction, the original historical style was still maintained, but all the audience areas from the theater to the stage were demolished and rebuilt. In terms of function, the Beijing People's Theater also has a different approach, turned to Beijing opera cultural products, transformed into a digital photography base, and entered a new field. In 2016, the Beijing People's Theater was identified as the "China Peking Opera Audiovisual Engineering Beijing shooting base" by the Central Propaganda Department. In order to increase the theater utilization rate, in 2019, the theater transformed the northern part of the People's Theater into the Chen Museum of the Peking Opera Art Exhibition of the National Peking Opera, as an important open place for the research practice base of the Ministry of Education.

The exhibition hall reviews the development process of the National Peking Theater. There are not only exhibition boards with graphic and text, but also the Peking opera clothing, props, and makeup physical objects that art masters such as Mei Lanfang have used to create an immersive experience atmosphere. One of the cultural relics is particularly special: the wooden main gate of the People's Theater. At that time, the party and the state leader and the batch of Peking opera arts were pushing this wooden door into the people's theater. Now pushing away again, as if crossing the glory past. In 2020, in order to respond to the development of the "Shuxiang Xicheng" and comprehensively enhance the cultural atmosphere of theater, Hu Guo Temple Street along the street house as the "Liyuan Book Club" and opened to the public.

Today, the Beijing People's The Theater theater is being transformed. The west cultural wall, supporting building, outer facade outside the building, and part of the main body of the theater main body are carried out in an orderly manner. The internal seat is planned to be increased from 280 to about 550. According to the relevant person in charge, the function of the renovation is mainly the theater, and as a multi -functional theater that is integrated as a repertoire on performances, digital film shooting, exhibition exhibitions, art training, and cultural and creative display, it is expected to open in 2023.

Meet Mei Lanfang in Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall

好 The "Spring Tour Season" event was held at the Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall

Walking east along the Guo Temple Street, stopped on the 9th, and went to Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall. This is Mei Lanfang's apartment in Beijing, and he has spent more than ten years in his life here. This is an ordinary courtyard, a total of two courtyards. There are only a row of southern houses (pouring rooms) in the field. The north houses (main houses) of the courtyard are connected to the east and west compartments. In the courtyard, you can feel the beauty of the Confucian "politeness as the law".

There is a vast history behind each piece of antiques. The plaque "Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall" hanging on the door of Zhu Qi has a considerable history. Professor Mu Lanfang's second daughter -in -law Tu Zhen wanted to ask Comrade Deng Xiaoping to write a plaque for the memorial hall, so he asked Mrs. Deng Zhuo Lin to convey this intention. The furnishings in the living room, study, bedroom, and living room in the main room of Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall basically followed the original arrangement of Mei Lanfang during his lifetime. There is a copper chest statue on a few wood next to the long sofa. This bronze statue was produced by the sculptor, which was known as "Rodin, Japan" when Mei Lanfang's first visit to Japan in 1919. This bronze statue retains the charm of Mei Lanfang's youth- "Yajie Mingjing, to be fresh."

内The real object in the Beijing People's Theater Exhibition Hall

There is a large dressing mirror in front of the partition fan in the living room. The frame is surrounded by the "Eight Immortals" pattern embedded in the snail. In his later years, Mei Lanfang still walked in this mirror, and strived to be perfect. In the spare lens, he can always review his shortcomings and always find out and innovate. The western side of the main room is Mei Lanfang's study, and a large desk is placed on the window. Standing outside the window, as if Mei Lanfang was in the desk and calligraphy.

On the 92nd anniversary of Mei Lanfang's birthday in 1986, Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall officially opened. Comrade Xi Zhongxun personally unveiled the memorial hall. Why is Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall so valued so much? In fact, the leaders of the party and the country have always respected Mei Lanfang and gave him a high courtesy. On October 1, 1949, Mei Lanfang was invited to participate in the founding ceremony and boarded the Tiananmen Tower. On August 8, 1961, Mei Lanfang died of illness. On the morning of the 10th, more than 2,000 people in the capital held a public sacrifice in the Capital Theater. Vice Premier Chen Yi, the main sacrifice, expressed his condolences on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. These high -standard courtesy is not only the party and the people's affirmation of Mei Lanfang, but also the great importance to traditional Chinese art represented by Mei Lanfang.

Today, in addition to feeling history at the Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall, it can also have an immersive national experience. On April 10 this year, the first season of "Meet Mei Lanfang" in 2022- "Spring Tour Seasons" event was held at the Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall to perform Mei Pai classic "Sky Girl Sanhua". In a small courtyard, the actor's expression and raising their hands were "enlarged" in front of the audience, pulling the distance between the opera and the audience. The actor brought the audience back to the time of Mei Lanfang's practice in the hospital. The audience became "in the play". The actors' tricks and a smile made the audience deeply intoxicated. At the same time, the explanation of Xu Beihong's famous masterpiece "Sky Girl Sanhua" and professional actors let everyone come outside the show, and understand Mei Lanfang's peaceful deeds and artistic achievements, and experience the infinite charm of Peking Opera from a new perspective.

The National Peking Theater was introduced to the New China National Peking Theater, located at 22 Ping An Lixi Street. The huge Guan Gong painting painting on the first floor and the Guan Gong lacquer paintings of Mei Lanfang Grand Theater echoed each other.

The history of the National Peking Theater of China can be traveled back to the Yan'an Ping Opera Research Institute, which was founded in 1942. At that time, Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed the inscription of the Yan'an Ping Opera Research Institute. By 1955, the China Peking Theater was officially established. Rename the National Peking Theater. If the Yan'an Ping Opera Research Institute has been calculated, the history of the National Peking Theater is the full 80th anniversary this year. If Mr. Mei Lanfang started as the first dean in 1955, it has been calculated, and it has been 67 years.

For decades, the National Peking Theater has continuously absorbed artistic talents, formed a strong Peking opera art performance group, created and compatible with various art schools, laid the far -reaching art of opera art, and promoted the establishment and development of Chinese acting schools. Under the guidance of the party's literary and art policy, a large number of outstanding performance artists have emerged. Among them, well -known performing artists Li Shaochun, Yuan Shihai, Ye Shenglan, Du Jinfang, etc., well -known director Ajia, well -known drama writers Weng Qihong, Fan Junhong, etc., all enjoyed at home and abroad.

The National Peking Theater has always adhered to the "three combinations" drama policy, inherited, edited, and staged more than 500 works. Many works in the theater, such as "Biography of White Snake", "Spring Cao Chuang Hall", "White Hair Girl", "Three Batters of Zhujiazhuang", etc., whether it is new historical dramas, modern dramas, or organizing adaptation of excellent traditional repertoires, they are deeply loved by the audience. Essence

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