Shanghai Cultural Plaza is 70 years old!

Author:Xinmin Evening News Time:2022.09.25

Under the witness of many famous artists and enthusiasts, Shanghai Cultural Plaza has recently ushered in a special event of the 70th anniversary of its establishment. All those who have produced memories with the cultural square will bloom the flowers of dreams in this nourishing cultural music.

Shanghai Cultural Plaza's 70th anniversary special event © Wang Kai

In April 1952, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government converted the running dog farm into the "Shanghai People's Cultural Plaza". In November of the same year, the "People's Cultural Plaza" was officially named "Cultural Square", which has been 70 years.

In April 1952, "Shanghai People's Culture Plaza" was completed

The violin solo "Golden Furnace" sounded again after 50 years. In 1972, Pan Yinlin, a violinist in the Cultural Plaza solo, posted a video from Sydney.

At that time, people looked for strength from the music as hungry. Chen Gang, composer of "Golden Furnace", remembers that the violin of the violin will build a violin in a year. Pan Yinlin is like "forest The tiger in China is full of cultural square with this golden color.

Composer Chen Gang, Zhang Jie, general manager of Shanghai Cultural Plaza, and other poured together with the "Tree of Art", which symbolizes the beautiful wishes, © Wang Kai

One year, Chen Gang and Pan Yinlin went to Sichuan to perform. When a audience drove a few hours of car, the roots of the signed by the other party's hand were performed by the cultural square in 1972. A few days ago, Chen Gang and Pan Yinlin's video connected, and said in surprise: "Why is your hair white?" ","

Sun Xuchun, who is now a famous Shanghai opera master, entered the cultural square for the first time at the age of 19 and watched the Shanghai opera. Ding Ding was the first performance "Flying to the Sky" by Eth's stage ten years after the stage. Students of the Shanghai Opera Academy are sitting in the 450th row, and even the teacher's face can't see clearly, but after watching it, I can't sleep all night. How can it be good?

In 2015, Sun Xuchun has been struggling in the field of performance agency for many years. The "Tomb Raider 3 Genting Tiangong" produced by his company entered the cultural square, setting a record of 22 consecutive performances.

"Tomb Raider 3 Genting Tiangong"

In October last year, he starred in the Shanghai opera "Chen Yi in Shanghai" in the Cultural Plaza. In the theater performance of Chen Yi, his identity also experienced the transformation from the audience and the actor to the producer. Essence

Chen Yi played by Sun Xuchun

After the completion, the largest stage of Shencheng, which can accommodate 15,000 people, and prosperity with Shanghai's urban culture. In the 1950s and 1960s, it witnessed many cultural exchanges.

From 1955 to 1966, a total of 849 performances were completed, and the number of audiences was more than 10 million.

Shanghai Cultural Plaza Night Scenery 新 Guo Xinyang

After experiencing a rare fire, in September 1970, Nirvana was reborn in the cultural square, ushered in the spring tide of art and art, using the largest screen in Shanghai to screen the films from various countries, and received various art groups at home and abroad - — The Peking opera "Wu Song playing Tiger" performed by Gai Tian, the Japanese Songshan Ballet "White Hair Girl", the Korean Pyongyang Opera House "Selling Flower Girls", the Shanghai Orchestra Piano "Yellow River" and the chorus "Long March Group Song", again Go to Yugoslav's movie "Bridge", "Walter Defend Sarajewo", Japanese movie "Hometown" and "Hunter" ... Cultural Square is always active in the cultural life of Shanghai citizens.

In the summer of 1992, the Cultural Square became a temporary and largest securities trading market in Shencheng, and issued the first stock after the founding of New China.

Five years later, the "Jingwen Flower Market" of the largest flower trading market in East China opened here, selling about 3.5 billion flowers annually, accounting for more than 70%of the flowers consumption of flowers in East China. In 2006, the reconstruction project of the Cultural Plaza was launched.

On September 23, 2011, the Shanghai Cultural Plaza, which is a modern theater, was officially completed. The opening big drama "Extreme Broadway" jointly produced with the British GWB Company appeared on a new stage and opened a new starting point for the cultural square as the benchmark theater of the musical industry. Essence

The opening drama "Extreme Broadway" © Guo Xinyang

Since then, classic dramas from all over the country and the world have been on the stage every year. In the 11 years after the renovation of Shanghai Cultural Plaza, it has attracted many overseas classic original dramas and attracted more than 1.1 million people to watch.

From the large classroom of ideological and political education to the large theaters reflected in the social style, to the large stage of artistic performances, the positioning of the cultural square has been changed several times, leaving countless struggle figures and touching stories; from temporary securities trading venues to arrive In Jingwen Flower City, and then to the first modern theater in the domestic performance, Shanghai Cultural Plaza has always standing in this cultural music, and he is pregnant with his dreams and the cultivation of the times.

Shanghai Cultural Plaza © Guo Xinyang

From September 23, the new historical wall was unveiled on the second floor of the Shanghai Cultural Plaza. The historical heritage based on the change of land in seventy years is the burden of the mission of the era of the "new life" power and the continuous follow -up of the rhythm of the city.

Brand new historical wall

The immersive game theater "Old Box", which is based on the 70 -year history of the Cultural Plaza, is a new attempt -the story begins with an old -fashioned box in the cultural square. The protagonist was born in the 1930s. He has lived in Baierden Apartment since he was a child and witnessed the change of the land. Immersive game theater "Old Box"

In the "Old Box" game, players will meet people of all ages in various areas of cultural squares to discover more historical traces in their narration. It is worth mentioning that all the non -player characters in the "Old Box" game are staff members from the Shanghai Cultural Plaza Service Management Department.

The newly opened C3 space this year also brought multi -business vitality into the theater; the new immersive sound theater "Voice of the World" opened outside the space, combining art experimental exploration with immersion drama sensory experience; B2 musical drama The Cultural Research Center is also under construction.

Sound Theater "Voice of the World"

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The 70 -year -old cultural music, 11 -year -old green onion theater, after more than half a century, is still a teenager who is starting at this moment. On the occasion of the 70th birthday, Shanghai Cultural Plaza combined with many primary and secondary schools and art institutions in the city to carry out painting activities with the theme of "new and new". The children were free to play from the three directions of "the theater in 30 years", "Square Activities in 30 Years later" and "performances after 30 years", and used brushes to draw infinite imagination about the future.