Wang Xiaomao fortune-telling
Shaoxing Lotus Falls originated in the early 20th century and is one of the main forms of Quyi performances in Zhejiang Province. Its language is lively and its singing is smooth and simple. Lotus fell once lost. In the early 1980s, Hu Zhaohai, a performer of Shaoxing Lotus Falls, won a national prize for his song "Going Back to My Mother's Home" and participated in a national tour organized by the Ministry of Culture, which revived this folk art. Later, Back to Mother's Home was adapted into a TV series and movie "Sister Cui Go Home". Weng Renkang, a famous actor of Shaoxing Lotus Fall, has won the National Quyi Award for many times, and is also the winner of the first National Quyi Creation and Performance "Peony Award".
Shaoxing Lotus Fall does not have its own troupe now, but because the actors live in the folk, they have strong vitality. This concert brought together many "big names" who performed lotus drops, and their wonderful performances made the once deserted Quyi ticket market hot. Therefore, experts are optimistic about the future of Shaoxing lotus in autumn. Ma Laifa, chairman of Zhejiang Music Association, first put forward the key word "Daqu Art": "In Shaoxing Lotus Fall, you can get the expertise of sister art and even absorb elements of Yue Opera and Peking Opera." Ma Laifa proposed, "In the past, it was a good innovation to accompany Weng Renkang with a symphony; If the Lotus Waterfall has a dance, it will look good on the stage. "
Recently, the lotus flowers in Shaoxing are very popular in Hangzhou, such as the news "I Tell You" about the way of "playing", the TV series "Little Parents" about lotus flowers, which was hit hard on the screen, and the performance of the Spring Festival. Lotus has become a popular literary style. According to Zhejiang Audio-Visual Publishing House, their CD Lotus Collection is very popular in the audio-visual market in Shanghai, Nanjing and Zhejiang.
At present, Shaoxing Lotus Fall has been included in the list of the first batch of folk custom protection projects in Zhejiang Province.
On the evening of March 5, 2005, the "First Zhejiang Shaoxing Lotus' Golden Lotus' Awards Concert" jointly sponsored by Zhejiang Quyi Artists Association was held. Yu Deqi's Wang Xiaomao Fortune-telling, He Pan's Borrowing a Big Shirt, His Going Back to My Parents and Pan Jiafu's Little Head won the Golden Lotus Award. , Ni Quanqi, Weng Renkang and Zheng won the "Shaoxing Lotus Fall Outstanding Achievement Award". Experts from our province's national drama gathered together to offer suggestions and suggestions for the present situation and development of the performing arts of Lotus Fall.
In August, 2005, Shaoxing county proposed to make the cultural industry bigger and stronger, and prepared to introduce a series of incentive policies. In this reform, Ni Quan and other performing artists of Lotus Fall tried to introduce the form of stage play to explain the story. The main change is to imitate the requirements of stage play and unify the time, place and role in the same scene. Actors no longer jump out of the role and explain the changes of scene and time to the audience as a third party. In addition, on the basis of singing and speaking plain English, dramatic actions such as doing and playing should be added.
It is understood that "A Red Wooden Box" tells the story of three children vying for inheritance, teaching everyone to remember their parents' kindness and cherish brotherhood. The characters are old uncle, big nephew, niece and little nephew. It is reported that this is the first program launched in a new form of small play, and it is also the first stage play attempt of Lotus Fall since its birth in the late Qing Dynasty.