Showself Entertainment Take You to Enjoy The Beauty of The Opera

On September 26th, a large series of live streams called “Hello, New China, Pick Me” held by the China Mobile Network Administration, Showself Entertainment, and Guangming.com was launched in Shandong Binzhou. It lets the audience have a deeper understanding of the fishing drum drama “Mr. Xie take up a post”.

Good play go off with a bang

"Mr. Xie takes up a post" is a modern fishing drum drama arranged by first-level screenwriter Wang Xinsheng and first-level director Sun Honglin. As an outstanding work of the "National Excellent Sketch" (the original "Chinese Drama Award), it has won the first prize consecutively for six years.

The play focuses on ecological and environmental protection issues in the rural area. The play mainly tells the story of Mr Wang, a leader of the village. He managed the village seriously and would rather demolish his own house, but reject to stamp to the head of a brick factory. The story is vivid, full of twists, and illustrates an urgent demand by the villagers. The demand simply covers the statement of  "we prefer a good environment rather than mountains of gold and silver". The show is really popular because of the performance and the quality of the story.

Do not forget innovation for the heritage

National first-level actor, Wang Zengxu stated that the most attractive thing of fishing drum drama is transforming those local dialects into elegant ones in the play. It is a special form of art to increase relevance.

Although the fishing drum drama is thriving now, it was almost extinct a few years ago. In order to protect and inherit the ancient plays, Wang Chunzhen; head of the fishing drum drama troupe in Zhanhua, led the troupe to rehearse several modern plays, such as “The night melody of jujube” and “Under the winter jujube”. Wang Chunzhen said, “Singing about people and things around us in Zhanhua is a great idea. It helps us connect with our surroundings.”

In addition to the innovation, the troupe also reduces the limitation of traditional drama. They absorbed the essence of other plays and modern dance, and created new modernized forms of the performance; such as fishing drum dance and fishing drum rap. At the same time, the inheritance of fishing drum drama has been considered as a significant issue in the troupe. At present, fishing drum play has become an optional course for local primary and secondary school. Wang Chunzhen said, "putting the fishing drum drama in the classroom will be a good opportunity for children to understand it. It also spread the awareness of its existence and beauty. This is where the vigor and vitality of this industry lies”

Participant in the live stream to show a wonderful life

As a traditional comprehensive art, opera integrates many other art forms within it. However, with the development of the society, opera is confronted with challenges coming from a newer and modern art forms. Showself Entertainment never stops fulfilling its corporate social responsibility and spreading positive content to their audience. It focuses on integrating traditional culture into its live stream. The series of live stream program - "Hello, New China-Chinese Opera, Pick Me" is a crucial program of Scienjoy’s “live stream + culture” strategy. Audiences can enjoy the excellent drama on live stream, understand the inheritance and innovation of traditional opera, narrow the distance between the opera and the audiences, and increase the awareness among the. During the duration of the live stream, many audience “I thought it was not that wonderful before”, “The teacher’s performance is really funny” “Brilliant! Thumbs up!”

"Hello, New China-Chinese Opera, Pick Me" will also go to Jiangsu province and other areas to show Lyu drama, farce, Pingtan opera to the audiences. It is hopeful that it can attract more people to feel the charm of them.