Shenzhen business daily: Yu Qiuyu is destroying the opera

Yu Qiuyu, the Chencai famous writer and former dean of Shanghai Drama Academy, recently wrote that the elimination of some cultures is not a bad thing. "There are 172 existing operas in China. If all is preserved as intangible cultural heritage, I personally think too much and must do subtraction. The standard of subtraction is: very important, to inherit, today's audience is still enjoying, but also can rely on selling tickets to feed their own operas, to inherit. "As an expert in drama research, Yu Qiuyu's words are really chilling. As we all know, at present, many local operas or successors in our country, or the audience atrophy, the brink of extinction. According to the survey of the late 50, there were 368 national operas, but by 2005 years, according to the Chinese Academy of Arts, "the National Opera Troupe Status Survey" shows that only 267 of the drama, compared with the early years of the founding of New China, decreased by more than 100. In these 267 operas, there are more than 60 operas without audio-visual data preservation, many local operas are gradually disappearing.　　According to Yu Qiuyu, there are only 172 extant operas in China. In this case, some people hope that by means of protection, to slow down and prevent the demise of local operas, to be included in the "Intangible cultural heritage", that is one of the means. It is doubtful that Yu Qiuyu, who claims to be "very knowledgeable about Chinese operas", has proposed "subtraction" at this time, openly claiming that "there is a problem if all local dramas are preserved".　　Is Yu Qiuyu going to be the executioner of local opera? Yu Qiuyu's reason is: all cultural arts are in the metabolism. He cites the example of the yuan drama, saying, "When it feels like it should be dead and replaced, it falls as a hero, very magnificently." Instead of having no one to look at, but lie in bed, must rely on hit ' strong Heart needle ' maintain. "This is ignorance of the value of cultural diversity, but also a distortion of the law of art development." Cultural and artistic heritage and development, not entirely applicable to the "fittest" law, not to "catch big put small".　　In many cases, cultural diversity can be protected only through the protection and inheritance of disadvantaged cultures. In the view of many scholars, the protection of cultural diversity is as important as the conservation of biological diversity. American physicist Gherman A case in his book The Quark and Jaguar: More than 200 years ago, the German thinker, Hurd, believed that to protect linguistic diversity, it was necessary to save the Latvia and Lithuanian languages that were on the verge of extinction. In the efforts of the people of Insight, protection work has been successful.　　Later Latvia and Lithuania became independent States, and the language that was saved from the brink of extinction 200 years ago is now Mandarin. China has a variety of local opera, these dramas recorded the unique life of the Chinese nation and regional characteristics, while many rare operas have puzzlement special skills. such as Sichuan Opera face, Shanxi pu Shang work, Fujian Gaojia clown performance. Every local drama has its own unique historical and cultural values, are reserved for posterity's cultural wealth, we should seek ways to protect and inheritance, rather than let it disappearDead. Yu Qiuyu's view, only Kun opera, Beijing opera "because of the precipitation of too many things", only "we have to preserve the state power."　　But in fact, the drama is the predecessor, even some "local opera", in folk literature, folk music, folk culture, religious culture and other aspects also have a high academic value, in the protection and inheritance should not be biased. Ironically, Yu Qiuyu is also under the banner of innovation. "There is room for innovation, where does space come from?" After the elimination, the new space is created. "Is it in Yu Qiuyu's view that the existence of small operas should occupy the creative space of big operas?" This is clearly irrelevant. Moreover, Yu Qiuyu's so-called innovative approach-absorbing the elements of pop music and Western musicals-is actually destroying the drama, as Tianqing, deputy director of China's Intangible Cultural Heritage Conservation Center, said.