The Data Shield team will cooperate with the Kun Opera Theaters of the Belt and Road in response to the national call, with the aim of carrying out the spirit of the instruction of “firming cultural confidence and promoting prosperity of socialist culture” put forward by the Central Government; telling the world about Chinese stories; showing the picture of China in an authentic and comprehensive way; truly enhancing cultural soft power; promoting international communication capabilities and integrating Chinese culture into the world.
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The Kun Opera Yiyue Drama Art Platform is hereby established to provide a chance for the DS Corporate to understand the Kun Opera and to have a glance at the brilliant Chinese culture. At the same time, it will also build a bridge between the DS Corporate and the essence of Chinese culture.
The Kun Opera platform will be an important supporter of DSCBank’s commercial empire. The platform will make all payments with the DSCB and will provide the strongest backing for DSCB’s deflation model.
Kun Opera, also known as Kunqu Opera, Kunqiang and Kunshan Qiang, is the oldest opera in China, and is also a treasure in Chinese traditional culture and art. Kun Opera originated in the 14th century at China’s Suzhou Taicang South Wharf. After the improvement of Wei Liangfu and some other people, it became well-known around the country and ever since the middle of the Ming Dynasty it has been the most remarkable one in the Chinese theaters for nearly 300 years. Kun Opera was listed by UNESCO as“a masterpiece of human oral and intangible heritage” in 2001.
With a long history, Chinese Kun Opera stands out in the world’s cultures.
Kun Opera, also known as Kunqu Opera, Kunqiang and Kunshan Qiang, is the oldest opera in China, and is also a treasure in Chinese traditional culture and art. Kun Opera originated in the 14th century at China’s Suzhou Taicang South Wharf. After the improvement of Wei Liangfu and some other people, it became well-known around the country and ever since the middle of the Ming Dynasty it has been the most remarkable one in the Chinese theaters for nearly 300 years. Kun Opera combines chanting, dancing, martial arts, etc. It is famous for its elegant libretto, refined melody, and exquisite performances. And it is known as the ancestor of 100 operas. Kun Opera uses drums and boards to control the rhythm. Qudi and Sanxian are the main accompaniment instruments. Its singing voice is “Zhongzhou rhyme.” Kun Opera was listed by UNESCO as “a masterpiece of human oral and intangible heritage” in 2001.
Judging from the development of Kun Opera in history, the 400 years before the 18th century was a time when Kun Opera gradually matured and became increasingly prosperous.
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As early as the end of the Yuan Dynasty (mid 14th century), Kun Opera was born in the area of Kunshan, Suzhou. Along with Haiyan Qiang, Yuyao Qiang which originated in Zhejiang Province, and Fuyang Qiang, which originated in Jiangxi Province, it is called one of the four major musical melodies of the Ming Dynasty. It belongs to the Nanxi system.
At first Kun Opera was only a folk song and only heard in the area of Suzhou. During the Wanli period, it expanded to areas on the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Qiantang River. At the end of Wanli period it was introduced to Beijing. In this way, the Kun Opera became the most influential type of musical melodies in the middle period of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
May 18th, 2001, UNESCO announced the first set of “masterpieces of human oral and intangible heritage”.
Here are the reasons: 1, extremely high skills. The dramatics of operas is a combination of singing, reading, performing, playing (dancing). 2 “living fossils”. Kun Opera has few changes, and it retains more traditional features of traditional operas. The repertoire is extremely rich. And it is called “living fossil.” 3, “endangered species.” Before 1949, no other occupational performance groups than the New National-style Su Opera and the semi-Fu Kunban, had been included in the intangible cultural heritage list.
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Due to Kunban’s extensive performance activities, in the last years of Wanli, Kun Opera was introduced into Beijing and Hunan via Yangzhou, and it took the lead in all the melodies and became the standard of the legendary play: “All Songs Must originate from Wu area”. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, Kun Opera spread to Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangdong, when it became a national drama.
Kun opera was originally written in Suzhou dialect, but after it was introduced into other areas, it was combined with local dialects and folk music to create a variety of schools amd became a national representative. During the Qian Long period of the Qing Dynasty, the development of Kun Opera entered its heyday. From then on, Kun Opera began to lead the opera area, which has lasted for six to seven hundred years. It has become the oldest traditional form of opera in China and the world at present.
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At first Kun Opera was only a folk song and only heard in the area of Suzhou. During the Wanli period, it expanded to areas on the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Qiantang River. At the end of Wanli period it was introduced to Beijing. In this way, the Kun Opera became the most influential type of musical melodies in the middle period of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
According to scholars’ research, “The aesthetic taste represented by Kun Opera obviously belongs to the South, especially in the Jiangnan region, but its cultural identity does not belong to one place and one time. It embodies the aesthetic pursuit and artistic creation of the literati in the vast regions of China. Because it is a model of literary elegance, it has a strong ability to cover, and has the potential to be widely spread. And in the process of dissemination, it basically maintains its inherent consistency in aesthetics.”
Cultural implication. The intangible heritage of the precedent of operas.
Kun Opera being included as a “masterpiece of human oral and intangible heritage”—it is a classic of ancient Chinese dramatics.
As a mature and perfect comprehensive art, Kun Opera has many constitutional factors, including literature, music, dance, performance, makeup, costumes and scenery. Its heritage value is also reflected in an extremely wide range of cultural areas. The first is the art of Shuimo Melody, which is the fundamental feature of Kun Opera being different from other opera dramas.
In other words, in essence, the Kun Opera is firstly a kind of drama melody, and it is the language art of music. Its manifestations are based on more than 2,000tune cards based on the rich sources of Tang and Song poetry, Jin Yuan Zhu Gong, Song and Yuan Nan Xi, Yuan Zaju, Yuan Ming Sanqu, music of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and religious music, folk songs, songs of ethnic minority groups , and even cries of hawkers. The tune cards are arranged according to the timbre of the tube, the tone of the tune, and the combination of the tunes into a complete set. The internal basis for merging the specifications of music materials of different eras, regions, and styles is the Chinese phonological system.
Another valuable legacy of Kun Opera is its literary script. The legends and operas created by the dramatists of the Ming and Qing Dynasties have no less than 4,400 species and more than 2,700 species have been handed down by the dramatists. The vast majority of these plays are written and sung according to Kunshan Qiang. In addition, the Kun opera stage once presented with a scene of colorful and beautiful scenes with some scripts of the Song and Yuan Dynasties operas, the Yuan Zaju operas and the later Flower Luantan. The ideological content of the Kun Opera script covers every period of the 5,000-year history of civilization in China, and it profoundly reflects the anti-religious and humanistic ideological trends that engulfed Chinese society from the 16th to the 17th century. At that time it was the capitalist economy. The rapid growth of budding, especially the rapid development of the urban commodity economy in the south of the Yangtze River and the transformation of Chinese society, has historical background and has significant social recognition value.
In addition, the heritage of Kun opera should also include its performance system of “singing and dancing combining; singing and performing being equal.” Kun Opera does not have the exactness of realistic realism like western drama. It is a freehand brushwork that reflects the reality. Here, the natural form of the language of life has been broken through and turned into a freehand poetic art; the natural form of life’s behavior and expression has been broken, turning into a freehand dance and performing arts; the natural form of the living environment has been broken, turning into Freehand set and prop arts; the natural form of the human body in life has also been broken, turning into freehand facial makeup and costume art. The freehand brushwork of Kun Opera art focuses on the stylization of performances, the liberalization of space-time, the virtualization of the endgames, and the personalization of characters. It also expands the arts shared by the North and South Opera groups in the long historical process.
With the aim of carrying out the spirit of the instruction of “firming cultural confidence and promoting prosperity of socialist culture” put forward by the Central Government; telling the world about Chinese stories; showing the picture of China in an authentic and comprehensive way; truly enhancing cultural soft power; promoting international communication capabilities and integrating Chinese culture into the world.
The prosperity of a country and a nation is always supported by cultural prosperity. Without the inheritance and development of civilizations and without the promotion and prosperity of culture, there will be no realization of the Chinese dream. The fate of culture and the fate of the country intimately relate to each other. In order to protect and spread this intangible cultural heritage of humanity, Ms. Hao Meng, with her love for traditional Chinese culture, established the One Belt One Road Kun Opera Theatre together with related departments to further study and implement the socialist ideology of Chinese characteristics in the new era of Xi Jinping and to strengthen communication and cooperation with countries along the Belt and Road; to develop foreign cultural trade, and to publicize and promote Chinese traditional culture and art represented by Kun Opera.
On the 9th China Foreign Investment and Cooperation Conference—the Belt and Road Cultural Industry Construction and Development and the World Intangible Cultural Heritage Kun Opera Forum hosted by the Kun Opera Theater of the Belt and Road, Ms. Hao Meng described her goal and mission of spreading and inheriting the Kun Opera heritage. And through the Kun Opera Forum she also announced that the Kun Opera Theatre of the Belt and Road officially takes its start. She said,“The Belt and Road Kun Opera Theatre will spread Kun Opera as a diplomatic present from the countries along the Silk Road according to the national strategy. And we will arrange special performances for countries along the Belt and Road.”
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Mr. Li Kaiwen, chairman of the US-China Cultural Communication Committee, awarded Hao Meng with a special award for intangible-heritage, and complimented her contribution on promoting and protecting Kun Opera. And he formally invited the Kun Opera Theatre to perform at the Lincoln Center in the United States in 2018.
Yang Feng, deputy chairman of the China Dramatists Association and dean of the Northern Kun Opera Theatre pointed out that,“In the dissemination of operas, we must adhere to the Chinese cultural stance, and not compromise too much to other cultures. We must combine the conditions of present times to achieve Knowledge dissemination, repertoire guided-appreciation and accurate positioning of operas; to attach great importance to stage performances; to make full use of new media platforms and to spread it combining some creative ideas such as drama anime, drama mobile games, and cultural creative products, etc.
The ambassador of China to Sierra Leone, Momoh, proposed to introduce beautiful Kun Opera art to her own country. She hopes that the two countries will have more cultural and artistic communications in the future. The Chief Consultant of the Kun Opera Theater of the Belt and Road and Commercial Counselor of the Embassy of Sierra Leone Zhou Yi also said that “We should use Kun Opera as a diplomatic present and give tour performances in the countries along the Belt and Road.”
The essence of the country; the intangible heritage of the world; the long history and the livelihood at the present time—Kun Opera is one of the essences of Chinese traditional culture. The Data Shield team keeps making progress and developing the global market. The two are strong and united. Through the power of the blockchain, the “Kun Opera” and even “Chinese culture” are carried forward. We spread the beauty of the Kun Opera and promote the traditional culture, and let Chinese culture stand out in the world.
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