Development Footprint of Guangdong Puppet Troupe

Guangdong Puppet Troupe was founded in June 1 April 9561. In the past 50 years, it has created and rehearsed more than 300 puppet shows, such as Xian Yi, old and young, famous mythical puppet shows, traditional Cantonese puppet shows, modern puppet shows, children's puppet shows, idiom story puppet shows, fable story puppet shows and puppet shows.

In the past 50 years, Guangdong Puppet Troupe has won numerous awards, such as 1960' s "the Monkey King Sanyin Banana Fan", which went to Romania to attend the second international puppet festival and won the highest prize of the year (there was no gold medal at that time); 198 1 year, "things change" participated in the national puppet shadow play and won the excellent performance award; "Filament Dance" participated in 1992 national puppet shadow play and won the excellent performance award; Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon (condensed version) won the Golden Monkey Award for Best Performance, Best Director and Best Performance in the National Children's Puppet Show from 65438 to 0994, and Wolf Comes won the Best Screenplay Award and Best Performance Award. China Lingnan Puppet Art Boutique 1997 visited Eastern Europe to attend the 8th International Puppet Art Festival in Bor, Slovenia, and won the "Golden Star Award"; 1998 "China Lingnan Puppet Art Boutique" won the Best Art Special Award and Best Actor Award in the 2nd Czech International Puppet Art Festival; In 2003, "The Legend of Wuyang" won the gold medal in the Second National Puppet Shadow Play Golden Lion Competition and the performance, composition and puppet modeling awards. ...

Guangdong Puppet Troupe 1957 Myth Puppet Show "Lotus Fairy" was co-produced with Hong Kong Great Wall Film Production Co., Ltd. as the first color film of puppet art in China. Recalling this period of history, Xian, a member of the Guangdong Puppet Troupe, said: "During that period, the troupe performed mostly mythical puppet shows, including the Monkey King's three-tone banana fan, Changyu's cooking in the sea, and what made the sea noisy. But the most famous is the Lotus Fairy, which made the troupe an instant hit. I remember that people from Hong Kong Great Wall Film Company came to make this play into a movie. Directed by Huang Yu, starring Hua Meng, the head of the Great Wall Film Company, which was very popular in Xiangjiang at that time. The puppet actors who participated in the film performance are all members of our troupe, including Xin Li, Zheng Qingshan, Li Hong, Li Congkun and Pang. "

The troupe started from the mythical puppet show, and experienced puppet Cantonese opera (such as the Emperor Flower), puppet emotional dance (such as the puppet Dunhuang dance "Dragon and Phoenix"), traditional large-scale puppet show (such as birds returning to their nests), frog series drama (such as watching the sky from the well), puppet fable drama (such as wolves) and modern dance puppet show.

Besides performing on the stage, Guangdong Puppet Troupe has also made cartoon mascots for CCTV and Guangdong TV for many years. As the image representative of the channel column, he co-produced 104 episodes of the children's puppet show Full-time Kindergarten, 30 episodes of the puppet show Sunflower Town, and 208 episodes of the English teaching puppet show A Day of Bobo Fight. Mr. Xian and his wife Ms. Yuan Zhan of Guangdong Puppet Troupe are affectionately called "Xian Bo" and "Zhan Yi" by the troupe. Aunt Zhan is almost 80 years old. She worked in 1956 Puppet Troupe when it was founded. She once appeared in the mythical puppet shows of the troupe at that time, such as Fairy Furong, the Monkey King's Three Dozens of Banana Fans, Zhang Yu's Cooking the Sea, How the Sea Makes Shengxiao Mo, etc. Xianbo also joined the league on 1956, and later transferred to the Beijing Opera Troupe. He told reporters about the hardships of forming a troupe. Xianbo said: "At that time, puppet shows were popular in western Guangdong, and the level of performers was not high. Most of them are farmers, and puppet shows are a form of entertainment for them. At that time, Mr. Lin Kun, the first head of the Guangdong Puppet Troupe, formed our puppet troupe after several twists and turns. "

Nowadays, under the leadership of Li and other new generation leaders, Guangdong Puppet Troupe insists on the innovation and development of modern puppet art, constantly cultivates young puppets, and strives to present another flourishing age of puppet art.

In the past ten years, Guangdong Puppet Troupe has continuously reformed and innovated the puppet art, making the Guangdong puppet show with Lingnan style more distinctive. He has rehearsed nearly 30 different kinds of repertoires, such as puppet show, marionette, bag puppet, western big mouth puppet, soft iron puppet and doll, and won awards not only in national, provincial and municipal cultural performances, but also in the International Puppet Art Festival.

When talking about the highlights and characteristics of the puppet show of Guangdong Puppet Troupe and the new demands of the audience, the old member Xian Bo said happily: "There are many more kinds of operas now than before, such as palm play, finger play and modern puppet show like Waltz in Spring, which is particularly fresh and particularly attractive to us." Aunt Zhan said: "In the past, the audience liked to watch puppets dangling, but now many fresh and flexible puppet performances are based on the audience's tastes, and they are also a combination of Chinese and Western. I think this is a great development direction. "

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Guangdong Puppet Troupe, artist Liao wrote "Puppet World", which coincides with the development belief of the troupe for 50 years. Pan Daqing, deputy head of the troupe, said: "Puppets are the world. We always have a bright belief in the glorious past and broad prospects of puppet art. Summarizing the development of provincial puppet theaters in the past 50 years is a process of contact, not a breakthrough. Traditional puppet shows are still well inherited and developed today, rather than being completely abandoned. As far as the performance space of puppet art is concerned, today's actors can sing and dance well, based on puppets and taking performances as lines, and their comprehensive quality has become quite comprehensive, which is a qualitative leap compared with the era when puppets were only performed with wooden sticks. "

Talking about the popular taste of puppet shows, Pan Daqing said: "The biggest audience of puppet shows-children have a natural love for puppets. They like to watch traditional dramas such as shady dramas, as well as pantomime, environmental dramas and idiom story dramas. And the foreign-style drama also makes them excited. This guides our future development direction, and it is necessary to innovate and improve on the basis of retaining tradition. While gradually broadening the artistic performance forms of puppet shows, we should also strengthen the interaction with children, such as letting children walk into or participate in a specific program to stimulate their enthusiasm for watching and learning. However, we must grasp a degree here, and we can't completely change the function of the traditional puppet show, so that it can completely become a children's play. Only at present, children will still be a theme in the puppet show market. Parents bring their children into the puppet theater for edification and education, which is our support and conducive to our development. "

Mr. Pan Daqing mentioned the recent performance of Guangdong Puppet Troupe. He said: "In September, Guangdong Puppet Troupe will report and perform some good plays selected from the world in the past 50 years around the theme of the troupe's 50th anniversary."