Research On Tian Jiyun And His Opera Activities

Tian Jiyun,he was born in 1865 and died in 1925.He was from of Baoding,Hebei province.He was a famous Bangzi opera and Peking opera performance artist in the history of Chinese drama.He is also an opera activist.His opera activities were mainly concentrated in the period of Tongzhi,Guangxu,Xuantong and the early Period of the Republic of China.And he is very famous.It has made great achievements in performance,drama writing,education and drama reform.He enjoys a great reputation and occupies an important position in the history of opera development.In art,Tian Jiyun is not only a court honor artist,but also an advanced artistic innovator.He has a wonderful performance,and he is extremely popular and recognized by the audience.On the basis of stylization,he pays attention to the integration of and emotion,which makes the performance stage full of beauty.Tian Jiyun have wide opera road and good at a number of plays.And he was good at Bangzi opera and Peking opera.He is good at many plays.In addition,he also made innovative attempts on stage props and scenery,open the pattern of simultaneous existence of Bangzi opera and Peking Opera,breaking the clear distinction between Peking opera and Bangzi opera tone,and he has made a great contribution to the development of Bangzi art,with an obvious progressive tendency.In the opera reform activities,Tian Jiyun has a high degree of enthusiasm and responsibility for the drama.Under the background of calling for opera reform,he was combined with social hot spots and current events,rehearsed new plays with practical significance,and he has promoted new plays with drama characteristics.He has enriched the genre of the opera and broken the shackles of the old model opera,and he has added new vitality to the ideological connotation of the opera and conveyed the content and spirit of the time.At the same time,Tian Jiyun in view of the bad phenomenon existing in the acting circle at that time,he reformed the atmosphere of the opera industry.Whether the private house was criticized,or the actress was excluded,he led the opera industry to rectify,with the help of modern civilized discourse,he has improved the actors’ sense of responsibility and social status,so that opera artists including actress have won social respect and identity.He has promoted the evolution of the whole opera industry,and with the help of his own field,became a trailblazer of the reform movement.At the same time,Tian Jiyun led and organized the Association of ZHENG YUE YU HUA,which added luster to the opera world.This organization defined the stage of opera and restricted the behavior of artists with definite rules and regulations,which played a great role in changing the social status of opera practitioners.At the same time,Tian Jiyun led the Association of ZHENG YUE YU HUA to serve current affairs and society,focusing on the harmonization and adaptation of literary and social resources,He has set up a school for artists.He has invited politicians and literati to speak.He has organized voluntary performances to raise money for social events.On the one hand,these measures have expressed the demands of opera artists for social recognition.On the other hand,they have also reflected the improvement of the ideological realm of opera artists.In short,as the leader of Beijing Opera industry in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China,Tian Jiyun should be paid attention to by the academic circle.And put him in the background of the times to evaluate him reasonably and fairly.At the same time,we should use historical records to investigate Tian Jiyun’s opera activities,so as to explore all levels of fresh history,explore the limitations of opera improvement,and obtain reference and enlightenment significance for the development of modern opera.