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The Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum has successively launched an exhibition season of "Traditional Culture in the Contemporary Era", which includes visual interpretation of Go and artificial intelligence, integration of traditional culture such as kindness, propriety, elegance, and literary fashion with modern art, and new interpretation of works by middle-aged and young calligraphers. This is also a case worth studying that has been cultivated in the art ecology of Shanghai in the past two years. Among them, the exhibition of project achievements supported by the National Art Fund, "Accumulation, Flowing, Broadness, and Elegance - Chinese Traditional Culture and Contemporary Art Creation Exhibition," is the most worthy of promotion. The exhibition is hosted by the Central Academy of Fine Arts and is held in three cities: Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen. The interesting thing about this exhibition is that if you only look at the name of the exhibition or take a quick look around the exhibition hall, you will think it is a traditional "handicraft" exhibition. Only by further understanding the curatorial intention and art

"Telling a good story of Chinese path to modernization through science popularization -2023 big hand in small hand science popularization report collection", a series of important national activities, was recently launched in Minhang District's Big Zero Bay Library. During the summer vacation, this series of activities will be themed "China's Far Away Ship, Pursuing Dreams and Setting Sail", and will hold interesting knowledge popularization lectures on aircraft carriers, supply ships, hospital ships, nuclear submarines, mine warships, amphibious assault ships, cruise ships, research ships, liquefied gas ships, and many other ships, stimulating the curiosity, imagination, and exploration desire of young readers. A new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is reconstructing the world and reshaping life. Aircraft carriers, domestically produced large aircraft, Tianwen-1, China's Tianyan, quantum computers... each of these "national treasures" provides impetus for China's development. Taking ships as the main theme, "China Association for Science and Technology's Big Hand Pulls Small Hand Science Popularization Report"

Starting from June 30th, the play "Building 8 in Xiangyangli", jointly created by more than 20 outstanding teachers and students from the School of Performance of Beijing Film Academy, will be staged at YOUNG Theater. As the second work in the "Xiangyang Series" of Beijing Film Academy, "Xiangyangli Building 8" vividly presents the scene of Beijing's people's livelihood in the 1980s, with Xie Song and his family living in the Guanzi Building as the main characters. In "Building 8 in Xiangyangli", Xie Song, his family, and two other households live together in the unit room of Building 8 in Xiangyangli, each occupying only a dozen square meters and sharing a kitchen and toilet. One day, the news that the unit was going to split houses disrupted the original balance. The three families are secretly rubbing their hands and hoping to obtain this unique allocation indicator. In the same era, many things are common. In the early stages of reform and opening up, the material life of the whole country was at the same level.

On June 22nd, a group of white-collar workers and parent-child families who are interested in Yue Opera walked into the pop-up store at 812 Julu Road to participate in the SMG LIVE THEATRE x Youth Daily "Cheers! Yue Sheng Huo" pop-up event during the Dragon Boat Festival. While doing handicrafts, they enjoyed the screen playing clips of famous Yue Opera masters and experienced the charm of traditional Chinese opera art. Young guests use twisted sticks, beads, tassels and other raw materials to create their favorite opera helmets. Set up humanoid check-in points at the event site, where everyone can use twisted sticks to create classic makeup of Yue Opera. In addition, you can also try on twisted stick versions of Yue Opera hair accessories, take photos, and interact with friends on social media. Mr. Wang, a fan of Yue Opera, graduated from Fudan University and first met Yue Opera on campus. He, who is currently engaged in marketing, stated that he will integrate Chinese style, traditional culture, and modern promotion

In February 1950, the master of Yue Opera, Qi Yaxian, formed a cooperative Yue Opera Troupe in Jing'an, Shanghai. She was skilled in portraying kind, gentle, and passionate women, and developed and changed on the basis of the Yuan style singing style, forming a lingering, gentle, simple and profound "Qi School". In 1951, Bi Chunfang, who was one year older than Qi Yaxian, joined the cooperative Yue Opera Troupe. Bi Chunfang is skilled in comedy, performing gracefully and elegantly. Her singing style incorporates the tones of Yin Guifang and Fan Ruijuan, and her voice is clear and elastic, earning her the nickname "Bi School". The two individuals with complementary advantages worked together for 50 years until the death of Qi Yaxian. Qi Bi's representative works, such as "The Legend of the White Snake," "Blood Handprints," "Jade Hall Spring," "Jade Dragonfly," "King Tiger's Marriage," "Three Laughs," and "Selling Oil Man," have been talked about by theater fans to this day. In July, Shanghai Meiqi Grand Theater will hold a "Yue Sheng" Jing'an - Master of Yue Opera Qi Ya