＂The live studio is my new stage＂ —— The ＂drama＂ of the ＂post-95＂ drama Xiaohua is full of vitality

    "Sweet Honey", "The Moon Represents My Heart", "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond" and "Painting the Heart" … When these familiar pop songs are sung in China traditional opera, what kind of flavor should they have? In Liu Shuhan’s vibrato video, this kind of "dream linkage" is accompanied by melodious melody, flying out of the screen and into the cochlea and heart of countless people.

    As a young opera actor, Liu Shuhan has been studying opera for 12 years. In recent years, her account @ Liu Shuhan Rose has gained nearly 384,000 fans on the Tik Tok platform, which has inserted the wings of the Internet into traditional opera and opened a new skylight for her own growth. In addition to releasing videos, she will also perform in the live broadcast room, and has been linked with anchors such as Kunqu Opera and Henan Opera. Liu Shuhan believes that live PK can not only show the audience the artistic characteristics of different opera categories, but also enable actors to better understand the audience’s needs and feedback, so as to improve their own skills.

    Interact with the anchor of Yue Opera in PK.

    Young viewers are the main force and fresh force in Liu Shuhan’s live broadcast room. The proportion of her fans under the age of 30 has reached 65%. For the reward income in the live broadcast room, she will use it to polish her skills and improve her service. As a rising opera star in Ran Ran, she will reap "new theater tickets" on the "new stage" in a new form, and wander around with the "new audience". In such a "new and new set each other off", China traditional opera is glowing with new atmosphere and new hope.

    "I was tricked into learning Peking Opera."

    Many senior opera performers said that nowadays, young opera actors have become a "rare species", and truly outstanding and dedicated ones are even more rare. Such a cold and cheerless, Liu Shu has a personal experience. "When I was in graduate school, there were only two people in our class." And the reason why she became attached to opera was that she was "cheated to learn Peking Opera" to a great extent.

    "When I was a child, I had a dream of singing and dancing as an idol. Later, my mother told me that there was a major that could sing, dance and perform, so she sent me there. " When Liu Shuhan walked into the school with eyes full of longing, he said, "Are you Liu Shuhan, a Peking Opera major?" Let the wheel of fate turn from now on. I don’t know whether Peking Opera broke into her life unexpectedly or whether she walked into the world of Peking Opera with an ignorant face.

    Liu Shuhan said frankly, "I really regretted it at first when I embarked on the road of Peking Opera, because it was too hard to practice." From hip pressing to somersault, it is a great challenge for young Liu Shuhan, and what left her the deepest memory was "hanging her legs". The so-called "hanging leg" is to find a long chair on which a person lies, and the leg attached to the back of the chair is tied to the chair with a rope to stretch the ligament to the limit. It may take 20 minutes to half an hour to tie it, with both legs hanging, and it hurts and numb after an hour. Liu Shuhan said that he should kick his leg in addition to hanging it. "You have to kick it hundreds of times a day, and it is hard to get up the next day, but in order to practice your leg strength, you must never be lazy."

    Rehearse "Rainbow Pass" with teachers in college.

    Training day after day is both hard and boring, but Liu Shuhan firmly believes that every drop of sweat shed will water the fragrance of flowers and fruits. Although she has already experienced countless performances, the scene of her first performance on stage is still vivid in her mind. "When the beautiful lights on the stage lit up, the applause and applause of the audience came from all directions like a flood, and I suddenly felt that everything was worth it." On that day, the carefully polished voice, the graceful posture and the beautiful and elegant lyrics seemed to be a little vague because of the tension at that time, but they were particularly clear and bright because of the special significance. Time will never wear away this memory, but only add a heavy filter and emerge in her mind from time to time.

    With a passion for Peking Opera, Liu Shuhan was admitted to the Peking Opera Performance major of Shenyang Normal University, and successfully studied the drama major of our school. When she was a graduate student, she began to learn Kunqu Opera, which was called "Hook your ear with one click, and four sentences swept the city". "Kunqu Opera is the ancestor of hundreds of operas, and its performance form is very different from that of Beijing Opera, and it is also difficult. I hope to give myself greater promotion through postgraduate study."

    Play the role of Du Liniang in the performance of Peony Pavilion.

    The singing and performance of Kunqu Opera are very different from those of Beijing Opera. For Liu Shuhan, many of them have to start learning again, and some changes are even subversive. "I mainly studied flowered shirts in Beijing Opera, and my performance style was out-of-the-box, but when I played Du Liniang, I had to keep my expression, eyes, words and movements, and I could only walk in small steps," Liu Shuhan said. "Many of the vocals in Beijing Opera are xipi and erhuang, but there are many euphemisms in Kunqu Opera, so I have to learn to sing again." The great difficulty in learning has not changed Liu Shuhan’s attitude of striving for perfection. She has been studying in Peony Pavilion for two years. Up to now, Peony Pavilion is one of her most frequently performed tracks, and Du Liniang is also her favorite character.

    "More and more young people fall in love with opera through my live broadcast."

    At the end of 2017, Liu Shuhan began to contact Tik Tok. She still remembers that the first video she sent was singing a opera song in the practice room. "The" Weak Water Three Thousand "sung at that time was fortunate to gain 8.2 million views and 540,000 likes, which gave me great encouragement." Liu Shuhan said that when he first sent videos in Tik Tok, his original intention was to record a better life, mainly to send some daily exercises, play with classmates and so on. Later, she found that many fans, especially young fans, were very interested in opera singing and opera culture, which made her more determined to show the charm and spread opera culture in Tik Tok, a "cloud stage".

    The singing opera songs in the practice room gained 8.2 million plays and 540,000 likes.

    "From the beginning, the fan base was very small, and later, a large number of fans were harvested. The number of views of a video can reach 11 million. I am more and more confident to update the video and open the live broadcast to interact with fans." Since last year, Liu Shuhan, who graduated from graduate school, has started his live broadcast career, broadcasting almost at eight o’clock every day on time, and singing for three hours. "Many fans will leave messages under my video, saying that they hope to sing their favorite opera songs live. I am very encouraged by their love and support. I also think this is a good opportunity to share opera culture."

    At first, Liu Shuhan’s live broadcast room often had only a few dozen people, but she didn’t feel lost. "Sometimes, although the audience in the live broadcast room is not particularly large, I can clearly feel that they really love opera very much, and some watch my live broadcast almost every day and see it from beginning to end." This resonance through the transmission of notes and signals has filled her with a sense of accomplishment and has become the spiritual support for her persistence. "I believe that as long as I persist in doing it, the beauty of opera will certainly infect more people."

    What moved Liu Shuhan most was a girl of the same age as her. This girl is a dentist, sometimes busy during the day, but she will appear in the live broadcast room on time after work every night, and later became the administrator of her live broadcast room. "On one occasion, she had to undergo general anesthesia surgery for physical reasons. I advised her not to come to the studio at night, but she just finished the operation in the afternoon, and the anesthetic strength was not completely over at night, so she set the alarm clock and was the first to enter my studio after I started broadcasting." Now telling this story, Liu Shuhan is still full of emotion.

    This girl didn’t know opera at first, but every time Liu Shuhan shared some knowledge of opera in the live broadcast room, she would always remember it carefully. Today, she has become a "drama expert". Sometimes fans order the aria of the old students in the comment area, and she can always accurately identify it, and then cleverly reply, "Our anchor is a Dan role, which may not be suitable for singing the old students." Nowadays, the two have become very good friends, and they will share their work and life with each other in private, accompany each other and grow together.

    In Liu Shuhan’s view, the promotion of opera can also achieve online and offline linkage. Limited by the scene, some wonderful catwalks, sword flowers, somersaults, etc. are often difficult to present in the live broadcast room, and there are great differences between online and offline in presentation methods and live atmosphere. Therefore, if Liu Shuhan performs offline, she will always tell fans in the live broadcast that many fans watched her live broadcast before going to see my live performance, and some even crossed cities and provinces. "Whether you send videos or do live broadcasts, you are actually creating more exposure for the opera culture, giving audiences who don’t know much about opera some opportunities to get in touch with and fall in love with opera, and they will naturally study or go to see live performances."

    Liu Shuhan has a cousin who has just entered junior high school. She has never been exposed to traditional Chinese opera at first. After watching her live broadcast and performance, she became interested in Beijing opera. "Last year, during the Chinese New Year, she sang a song in my house, which was really good. I am particularly happy. The group that likes opera is getting younger and stronger. How nice! "

    "Short video and live broadcast have created more space for opera innovation"

    For many years, Liu Shuhan has been thinking about the innovation of traditional opera. She once collaborated with her classmates to create a national popular song "In Pairs", which combined rap and opera, which not only attracted numerous fans on various music platforms, but also gained a very good response on and off the TV screen. "At that time, many classmates, friends and fans told me,’ The original opera can still be sung like this’ and’ It’s the first time that opera is so beautiful’." In her view, opera is a treasure house of music, and its beauty still has unlimited potential to be tapped and used.

Perform the national wind pop song "in pairs" with your partner.

    Perform with a partner

    The national wind pop song "in pairs"

    The operation of Tik Tok account for more than a year has made her feel more and more that the rise of short videos and live broadcasts has provided an excellent opportunity for this innovation. "Many innovations may not be convenient to be applied to live performances immediately, but the more free live broadcast room is pregnant with infinite possibilities." Liu Shuhan tries hard not to let his live broadcast be the same. He often wears different clothes, headdresses and fans in the live broadcast, which brings more freshness to the audience. "Many fans say that I am like KINOMOTO SAKURA, and I do this to let everyone know that opera culture is definitely not boring and monotonous." There is also a message from fans that it is possible to innovate and adapt the scripts or lyrics of traditional operas in combination with the characteristics of the present era, and perform in the live broadcast room, which will definitely be popular.

    In recent years, the increasingly vigorous "national wind" has made Liu Shuhan see a greater opportunity to promote opera culture, and she herself has become a warm and powerful ray of it. As a musician in Tik Tok, she has composed a series of national songs, such as My Lover and Thin Horse, One like You, Farewell My Concubine and so on, and skillfully integrated the tricks. In cooperation with some bands, she will also add opera cavity to some songs, and the effect is often surprisingly good.

    Besides spreading the opera itself, the live broadcast in Tik Tok has also given many young opera actors the motivation and ability to persist. Liu Shuhan introduced that many students and colleagues of their own age chose to change careers in previous years, and most of them were forced by life. "After all, the opera market has been sluggish in previous years, and the income of employees is not optimistic. Many people really can’t persist." With the rise of live reward, as the "successors" of traditional Chinese opera culture, young opera actors have a broader stage and a larger source of income, and they are sticking to the cause of traditional Chinese opera more and more, and many who have changed careers have begun to return to their old jobs.

    Experts interviewed believe that the audience rewarded the performance, which originated from the custom of "head-binding" in the Tang Dynasty. "Head-binding" includes not only the ticket price, but also the gifts given by the audience to the actors and troupes. The mode of "watching first and paying later" is the externalization of the audience’s empathy and appreciation psychology for opera performances. Paying for art has become an active choice for opera viewers, and it is also an affirmation and encouragement for the inheritors of traditional art. Liu Shuhan also said that his reward income from a live broadcast is likely to be much more than the appearance fee of an offline performance. Many colleagues around him also rely on the live broadcast to reward and have the confidence to persist.

    "We are delighted to see that in recent years, the drama anchor has developed from a few people to a popular one, from a handful to fierce competition, from a pool of still water to a surging wave. This is an important signal for the benign development of an art and an industry." Liu Shuhan believes that flow and reward should be incentives rather than hotbeds. Opera anchors should seize the opportunity to better understand art and improve their skills, and at the same time keep pace with the times and actively innovate, otherwise they will soon be abandoned by the increasingly competitive environment. Isn’t this the indirect promotion of live broadcast reward to the development of traditional Chinese opera culture?

    How can the canal be so clear? Because there is an inexhaustible source of constant flow of living water for it. Such "flowing water at the source" is being blown by the wind of the Internet, turning into layers of ripples and slowly pushing it away. (Author Li Na)