Screenshot of the 11th page of "People's Daily" on August 15, 2022
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Jiangsu Second Normal University Exploring the protection and inheritance of opera
Singing in local opera classes
"Brothers Xiong Youlan and Xiong Youhui, scholars of Shanyang County in the Ming Dynasty , his parents died young and his family was poor. Brother Youlan and brother went out to make a living, while Youhui stayed at home to study..." Liu Rui is a Chinese teacher at the primary school affiliated with Xiaozhuang College in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Kunqu Opera "Fifteen Guan" is the children's favorite. One of my favorite tracks. After classes, Liu Rui often tells opera stories to students. "Nowadays, the implementation of new curriculum standards has increased the proportion of traditional cultural education. Children understand opera, fall in love with opera, and feel the charm of excellent traditional culture." Liu Rui said.
Liu Rui is a 2021 graduate of Jiangsu Second Normal University School of Liberal Arts. She loved listening to and singing operas since she was a child. As soon as she entered university, she took the course "Intensive Reading of Classical Opera Texts". At Jiangsu Second Normal University, opera has become a required course for music normal students and a required appreciation course for normal students in other majors. “With the introduction of opera into the teaching curriculum, many students have taken the initiative to become inheritors of local opera culture after graduating and becoming teachers.” Sun Ting, director of the College Student Art Education Center of Jiangsu Second Normal University, said, “What we train is not opera actors, but opera actors. A teacher with excellent traditional culture teaching ability. "
The protection and inheritance of local opera has always attracted much attention. Jiangsu Second Normal University's exploration of "operating in the classroom" not only alleviates the situation of "hard to find a teacher" for opera teaching in primary and secondary schools, but also explores new ways to solve the problem of the living inheritance of local opera.
"The college adheres to the concept of "double tradition" of normal school tradition and traditional culture, takes Grand Canal Jiangsu River Basin opera culture as the entry point, and focuses on the inheritance and innovation of Jiangsu local outstanding traditional culture. The school establishes a practice base in the birthplace of local opera "Wang Renlei, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jiangsu Second Normal University, said that it has now established the Kunqu Opera Practice Base of Dongfang Kindergarten in Kunshan City, Suqian City, the First Experimental Primary School of Shuyang County, and the Nanjing Baiju Practice Base of Nanjing Red Sun Primary School. Jiangsu has 70 local traditional culture and art education practice bases and 3 inheritance and study bases. It has trained 5 intangible cultural inheritors at the municipal and district levels, and guided the preparation of school-based courses such as "Taihu Yizhimei".
Source: People’s Daily He Cong
