1960 at the second international puppet festival held in Bucharest, Yang Sheng and Chen nantian, the masters of Zhangzhou puppet show, won the first-class performance gold medal, which won honor for the motherland and established the status of Zhangzhou puppet art in the international art world. Especially after the reform and opening up, the troupe has created and performed many excellent plays, the most representative of which are: 198 1 won the National Puppet Shadow Play Performance Award; 1984 The puppet TV series "Black Whirlwind Li Kui jy" won the first prize of the national TV program exhibition in the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the first TV work "Excellence Award" in Fujian Province. 1986 "Yue Fei" won the second TV Works Excellence Award in Fujian Province; 1990 The drama Marshal Zhong Kui won the Art Innovation Award, Excellent Script Award and Set Design Award in the 18th Fujian Drama Exhibition. 1992 "The Legend of Dog Legs" won the "Excellent Drama Award" and the awards of screenwriter, director, performance and modeling in the national puppet shadow play held in Beijing. 1994, the pantomime "ventriloquist" won the National Children's Drama "Golden Monkey Award", including seven awards for screenwriter, director, performance, sculpture, dance beauty, music and lighting; 1999 10 The children's drama "Young Yue Fei" won the ninth Wenhua Award of the Ministry of Culture, namely, the Wenhua Drama Award, the Wenhua Director Award and the Wenhua Dance (Sculpture) Award; In 2000, The Magic Flute and BMW won the Excellent Performance Award of Fujian Drama; 200 1 The TV puppet show The Story in the Woods won the "Five One Project Award" in Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China. In July, 2003, the traditional puppet show "Tie Niu Li Kui jy" won the silver prize in the second Golden Lion Puppet Shadow Play Competition. In June 2004, the puppet mime Two Hunters won the "Best Performance Award" and the Crystal Cup in the puppet competition held in Prague, Czech Republic. It is based on such heavy repertoires that new repertoires are constantly produced, which makes Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe one of the most representative professional puppet performance groups in China.
Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe has won many awards in national and international competitions. He went to Asia, Europe, the United States, Australia and other more than 40 countries and regions for cultural and artistic exchange performances, which were highly praised by foreign audiences, experts and scholars and news media. Known as "world-class art", its puppet head carving is known as "the treasure of oriental art"
As Mr. Guo Moruo wrote an inscription for Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe:
Create a puppet world with ten flexible fingers; Birds and beasts have expressions, not to mention ugliness; Since liberation, he has gone abroad and is now well-known in Europe and America. The gold medal has a definite evaluation and strives for perfection. According to the Records of Zhangzhou County, there was a puppet show in Zhangzhou in the Song Dynasty. After the mid-Qing Dynasty, puppet shows began to flourish. Up to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, almost every township in Longxi, Zhangpu, Haicheng and Changtai of Zhangzhou had professional or amateur theatrical troupes. Although the puppet show in Zhangzhou has a long history, it is almost difficult to pass on and gradually tends to decline after being destroyed in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
During the period of 1954, the Zhangzhou puppet show "Lei Wanchun Beats the Tiger" participated in the second Puppet Festival in Bucharest, and both won the first-class performance gold medal with "Daming House", which is the first outstanding play of Zhangzhou puppet show to win the grand prize in the world since the founding of New China.
According to Zhangzhou Opera Record (First Draft), Daming Fu was written on 1957. In May of that year, a delegation led by Yang Sheng and Chen Nantian, famous puppet artists in Zhangzhou, led by Chen Hong, director of Fujian Culture, went to France for a friendly visit to perform Daming House at the invitation of the Paris Literature Society, and visited Switzerland, the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Mongolia and other countries. Since then, the play has enjoyed a world-renowned reputation and lasted for 50 years. It has become a famous puppet classic at home and abroad, and it is a treasure of the world puppet art world.
After the founding of New China, Zhangzhou puppet show entered a new development period. 1959 In March, Zhangzhou Puppet Theatre merged with the Puppet Department of Zhangzhou Art School to form Longxi Puppet Troupe, which is today's Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe. The troupe concentrated a large number of puppet artists as the backbone, forming the embryonic form of folk art moving towards professional art, and Zhangzhou puppet show also began to spread to the whole country and the world during this period.
1960, at the 2nd International Puppet Show Festival held in Bucharest, Romania, Zhangzhou Puppet Show Daming Mansion and Lei Wanchun Tiger Beating won the first prize and two gold medals for their wonderful performances, which established Zhangzhou Puppet Show's position in the international art world and became a high-profile folk cultural treasure. At this year's Prague International Puppet Art Festival in Czech Republic, Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe, which represented China for the first time, conquered the judges, contestants and audience of Prague International Puppet Art Festival in Czech Republic with its wonderful performances such as Facebook and Puppet and Daming House, and won the best performance crystal cup in one fell swoop.
1at the end of 996, Zhangzhou puppet show went to Taiwan for the first time. Today, Hong, the secretary of the troupe, is still very excited when he recalls the scene at that time. There are more than 500 puppet troupes in Taiwan Province Province. However, the arrival of Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe caused a sensation. "Many pupils in Taiwan Province Province have puppets at home. They saw that we were fascinated and took them out to compete for auditions; Some puppet fans followed us all the way from Tainan to Taipei … "Hong thinks" they are like the first people who ate crabs ".
200 1 The twelve episodes of children's puppet show "The Story of the Forest" jointly produced by Zhangzhou Cable TV and Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe won the Five One Project Award, which made a good start for the development of children's puppet show in Zhangzhou and made people see its hope. In order to make the puppet show in Zhangzhou a success, in recent years, Zhangzhou City has been vigorously supporting the educational development of puppet schools, and has trained a group of young professionals in puppet show performance, dance design, puppet carving and music creation for Zhangzhou and even the whole country, laying a talent foundation for the development of Zhangzhou puppet show.
In 2004, Daming Prefecture won the "Best Performance Crystal Cup Award" at the Prague International Puppet Art Festival in Czech Republic.
June 2008 +2008 10, the troupe went abroad to perform in Japan, and took the band to Tokyo for the first time, which was unprecedentedly welcomed. At the request of the organizer and the audience, the band went to the front desk from the background and performed on the same stage with the puppet show, so that the audience could also watch the band's performance. With the progress of time and the development of social form, there will be a musical performance from the background to the front of Zhangzhou Bag Puppet Show, an intangible cultural heritage.
20 1 1, Zhangzhou puppet show made its debut in the Spring Festival Evening of the Ministry of Culture. The Spring Festival Gala of the Ministry of Culture, which was broadcast in the prime time of CCTV on New Year's Eve, is famous at home and abroad for gathering domestic classic works of art.
At the beginning of 20 13, the entertainment circle of Zhangzhou puppet show was jubilant and immersed in a festive atmosphere. The "Fujian Puppet Show Inheritor Training Plan" declared by Zhangzhou Bag Puppet Show was successfully selected into the UNESCO list of outstanding practices of human intangible cultural heritage, and became one of the global 10 list of outstanding practices, achieving zero breakthrough in this field in China. This means that the United Nations will promote the training program of Fujian puppet show inheritors around the world, and organize artists and lovers from other countries to learn and exchange, so that the world heritage can be enjoyed by people all over the world.
On the evenings of 20 14, 10 and 19, the third wave of Weiding Wenchuang's activities "Encounter" and the "Orange Salon" series of Zhangzhou Puppet Theme Wenchuang Salon were held on the second floor of Friendship Cafe of Amy Department Store in Zhangzhou. Relevant leaders of the Communist Youth League Committee, Zhangzhou Branch of China Merchants Bank and Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou puppet artists and puppet lovers were present. This activity is guided by Zhangzhou Wenguang New Bureau and Communist Youth League Committee, and sponsored by Zhangzhou Station of Southeast Network of Fujian Daily Newspaper Group and Zhangzhou Weiding Cultural and Creative Co., Ltd., which is part of the series of activities of "Love My Zhangzhou Cultural Tour".
20/kloc-in the first half of 0/5, at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the UNESCO office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the "China Fujian Puppet Show Cultural Exchange Activity" was hosted by the UNESCO International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region, and assisted by the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Xinzhi Chinese Bookstore (China Cultural House in Phnom Penh). Eight national and provincial inheritors of intangible cultural heritage from Quanzhou Puppet Troupe, Jinjiang Puppet Art Protection and Inheritance Center and Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe performed on the same stage, and presented three excellent puppet shows full of China traditional cultural charm to more than 500 Cambodian audiences, primary and secondary schools and college students, which were warmly welcomed. (1) Yang Sheng (1911-kloc-0/970)
A native of Dabaishi Village, Fotan Town, Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, was born into a puppet show family. Four generations engaged in puppet show art, followed his father Yang Xueyi at the age of seven, and was hired as the protagonist by the "Jin Fuchun" troupe at the age of fourteen, enjoying the reputation of "the head of the boy". Its art inherits the tradition of Yang, the top performer of Fuchun School, absorbs the essence of various puppet schools and other performing arts, and forms its own unique artistic style. It is the representative of puppet show art in northern Fujian. 1953, Yang Sheng established a light puppet troupe in Zhangpu County. 1August, 954, participated in the second Fujian Opera Exhibition and won the first-class actor award. In September, he went to Shanghai to attend the East China Opera Concert and won the Special Art Performance Award. 196o went to Bucharest with China Puppet Art Troupe to attend the 2nd International Puppet and Puppet Festival in September. He and Chen Nantian won the first prize of performance and the gold medal of performance. He has performed abroad for four times and visited more than ten countries, such as the Soviet Union, Czech Republic, Romania, France and Indonesia. He was warmly welcomed and highly praised and won honor for his motherland. In the former Soviet Union, he was hired as an honorary member of the Soviet Dramatists Association.
(2) Zhuang
A famous puppet performer, born in Nanjing, Zhangzhou, southern Fujian, 1944. Honorary President of China Puppet Shadow Play Society, national first-class actor and special allowance expert of the State Council. Former Deputy Head of Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe.
Generally speaking, successful performing artists have made outstanding contributions to their work and created with superb skills; Have performance skills that can surpass their predecessors; Standardize your own style and form your own genre with the system; Their representative plays can stand the long-term test of the audience, making them pleasing to the eye and full of praise. Zhuang achieved the above situation in the Ugliness of Puppet Show.
"Daming Mansion" shaped Zhuang, who played the role of gatekeeper. The traditional puppet show "Daming House" is based on the classic Water Margin. The story is simple and easy to understand, and it is performed in the form of pantomime. The makeup juggler who plays Liangshan hero asks the gatekeeper to sneak into Daming Mansion and rescue Lu Junyi. The protagonist gatekeeper is a clown with puppet characteristics. He runs through the whole play and performs with difficult manipulation. During Zhuang's 30-year stage career, more than 10,000 gatekeepers have performed this play. Daming House has been played from dozens of domestic provinces and cities to more than a dozen foreign countries, and has been welcomed by audiences at all levels. The "big names" of dramas and actors are also world-famous. Drama becomes an artistic treasure and actors become artists.
(3) Wu
The five-finger puppet show in Zhangzhou focuses on the word "live". To manipulate the puppet freely and easily requires the flexibility of the performer's fingers. Wu has been practicing the violin since primary school, and his fingers are naturally very flexible. Although he is a little boy, Wu is good at singing and dancing, and he is always indispensable in school plays.
/kloc-at the age of 0/8, Wu stood out among thousands of people with his own good conditions and successfully entered Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe. "Learning to love the first line", despite the difficult conditions, hangs his voice every day, reads the script, and points with a wrench, but Wu Le is in it. Just because he really likes it, these hardships of learning art are nothing to him.
After a long period of hard training, Wu Yu 1986 left the Puppet Troupe and went to teach at Zhangzhou Puppet Art School. He is already a well-known puppet performance artist.
(4) Hong
National first-class actor, winner of the highest award for drama directors in China "Wenhua Director Award". He has been engaged in puppet shows for more than 40 years. In recent years, he served as the head of Zhangzhou Puppet Troupe. During his tenure, he directed and starred in many plays and made outstanding achievements. The 12 TV puppet drama The Story in the Woods, which was directed by him, won the Eighth National "Five One Project Award" in Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China in 2006, and Young Yue Fei, which was directed by him, won the Ninth National "Wenhua Award" in 2000. BMW Magic Flute won the Outstanding Drama Award of Fujian Dramatists Association.
"One lion, one tiger and one dog, die a natural death" is a drama proverb that summarizes the role of drama stage. However, most of the famous actors play "life, beauty and ugliness" on the stage of drama that shows human society and animal world, while most of the actors who play "lion, tiger and dog" are unknown. However, the puppet performance art is different. Actors who play animals are as famous as actors who play characters. Hong is a performing artist who is good at playing animals.