Taiwanese musicians join hands with mainland theater troupes to resonate with cross-strait drama
In front of them, four Taiwanese musicians and actors from Zhangzhou's local folk Xiang troupe were rehearsing a new play on the same stage. The passion and inspiration of the cross-strait "Xiang" sound frequently burst out from the scene. This is what reporters saw at the Cross-Strait Youth Exchange Base in the Taiwanese Investment Zone in Zhangzhou, Fujian. Xiang Opera, also known as Gezi Opera, is a local opera sung in the Hokkien language. It has the same origin and inheritance as Taiwan Gezi Opera, and has been included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. At the beginning of this year, Zeng Xiaozhenxiang Opera Troupe in Longhai District, Zhangzhou City hired four "post-80s" and "post-90s" Taiwanese opera musicians to perform innovative performances of Xiang Opera, which became a local legend. Reporters also visited the site.
Lin Weiqin, a Taiwanese youth born in the 1980s, is one of the four Taiwanese musicians in the troupe. He is good at dongxiao, Taiwanese flute and other musical instruments. In 2018, Lin Weiqin, who majored in Gezixi opera arrangement, was invited to Xiamen to participate in the Gezixi cultural exchange as soon as he graduated.
During the exchange, Lin Weiqin discovered that Xiang Opera was "similar in approach but similar in effect" to the Gezi Opera he had learned. The rich instrumental accompaniment of the tunes and the strong and simple local atmosphere made her fall in love with Xiang Opera very quickly.
Talking about the cooperation with Zeng Xiaozhenxiang Theater Company, Lin Weiqin hopes that the dramas from both sides of the Taiwan Strait can have the greatest integration, and he also looks forward to bringing the essence of mainland drama back to Taiwan.
Wu Shengwei, Wang Bihai and Lin Jiale reported from Zhangzhou, Fujian
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