China Kunqu Opera Museum

China Kunqu museum now has the largest collection of Kunqu transcripts and precious scripts, as well as thousands of Kunqu cultural relics, objects and materials. Kunqu Museum has a number of exhibition rooms and exhibition halls, such as the exquisite ancient stage of Qing Dynasty, the exhibition of Kunqu characters in the world, the exhibition of Kunqu cultural relics and historical materials with the ancients, and the Orchid Garden Book fragrance Kunqu writers and works. Now, Kunqu audio-visual center is under construction, and there is a special performance of Kunqu week every week. Before the Kunqu Museum, there were live performances, most of which were classic works such as "Peony Pavilion" and "Changsheng hall". Since January 15, Kunqu opera will be performed every Sunday at 14:00, and it will be stopped in summer.

China Kunqu Opera Museum

China Kunqu Opera Museum is located in Quanjin guild hall, zhangjiaxiang, Pingjiang Road, Gucheng District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Quanjin guild hall was announced as a national key cultural relic protection unit in 2006, with the most exquisite ancient stage in Suzhou. Approved by the Ministry of culture and the people's Government of Jiangsu Province, it was officially opened to the public free of charge in November 2003. With the aim of rescuing, protecting, inheriting and carrying forward the ancient Kunqu art, the Kunqu Museum of China takes performance, display, collection, research and inheritance as its main work content. There is a special performance of Kunqu week every week.

Historical evolution

China Kunqu Opera Museum is located in Suzhou, the birthplace of Kunqu Opera, on the Pingjiang historical protection block of Suzhou ancient city. In 1986, on the 2500 anniversary of the founding of Suzhou, the Quanjin guild hall, as a cultural relic protection unit of Jiangsu Province, was restored and the Suzhou Opera Museum was built. In order to better protect and carry forward the ancient Kunqu art, it is approved to build the China Kunqu Museum on the basis of Suzhou Opera Museum by using the ancient buildings of Quanjin guild hall. On November 22, 2003, the first phase of China Kunqu museum project was completed and officially opened to the outside world by the Ministry of culture.

Exhibition hall introduction

Main stage

The exquisite structure of the ancient stage has won the praise of I.M. Pei. It is a major cultural relic and main exhibition site of Kunbo. According to the records of Yangzhou Huafang Lu, the backstage of the ancient stage of Kunqu Opera is restored. It is of great research value and visibility for the stage art of Kunqu Opera. It is an extension of the performing art of Kunqu Opera.

The ancient stage is the best place to watch the performance of the ancient stage. There are Kunqu wood carvings and brick carvings on the walls of the two chambers, which are both display and decoration. The two chambers are divided into open boxes with bamboo tiles, where the audience and tourists can watch Kunqu performance and enjoy tea.

The classical stage is the essence of the ancient architectural complex in the stage area, especially the dome of a stage on the stage, the red background color, the black swimming gold, the top wall carving, and the 18 324 black sculptures and the shallow sculptures, with 18 306 golden yellow rims, spiraling up and up on the copper lens on the top of the vault. This not only reflects the classical architectural art, but also shows the wonderful idea of scientifically using the acoustic principle to produce the sound effect of lingering sound.

Inner Theatre

An indoor stage was built in the main hall of the former Quanjin guild hall, making the main hall an indoor theater. This theater is the main venue for Kunqu opera performance in Kunbo. The audience hall is restored with Ming style hall display, Ming style furniture, plaques, couplets, and red banners, forming the performance form of red banners in Ming Dynasty hall. This hall not only shows the traditional performance form of ancient Kunqu opera to the audience, but also serves as a place for friends to shoot and sing. On both sides of the indoor stage, Kunqu costumes (including costumes, helmets, beards, masks, facial makeup and various props) are displayed. The indoor theater is full of strong stage performance atmosphere.

KUNSHI Hall

This exhibition hall takes history as the vertical and figures, works and events as the horizontal to fully display the development history of Kunqu Opera. The precious treasures of the museum, the red sandalwood Tang Mingdan, which was named "Baohetang" in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, are also displayed here. Some old Tang names often perform here, making it a living fossil performance worthy of the name.

According to the historical records of Suzhou, there are dozens of ancient stages, halls and pavilions in this exhibition hall. Seven models of stages, halls and boats in different shapes are made, which have both historical research value and ornamental value.

Studio

A large number of Kunqu performance scripts collected by China Kunqu Museum, including woodcuts, stone prints, transcripts and hundreds of Kunqu artists' transcripts, rank the first in China. This exhibition hall displays precious scripts and introduces famous Kunqu artists through scripts. The exhibition hall is located in the northwest corner of Kunbo. The whole exhibition hall is arranged in the form of Ming Dynasty study.

Features of the Museum

Wood carving

There are corridors on both sides of the exhibition hall of wood carving and stone carving. The two corridors are called "Kunqu Art Exhibition", with some Kunqu story paintings hanging. On the east side are eight Kunqu Opera stories with different contents, which are performed by different Kunqu opera troupes across the country, such as peach blossom fan by Jiangsu Kunqu Opera Troupe, Pipa story by northern Kunqu Opera Troupe, Peony Pavilion by Shangkun Opera Troupe, Xiyuan story by zhekun Opera Troupe, Zhangxie champion by Yongkun Opera Troupe of Zhejiang Province, Changsheng Palace by Sukun opera troupe of Jiangsu Province, and even Xiashan by Taiwan Kunqu Opera Troupe This is because there are so few Kunqu opera troupes, which are known as the six major Kunqu opera troupes. In fact, few of them can perform frequently. The inheritance of Kunqu Opera depends on these Kunqu opera troupes. After a close look, all these paintings were painted by a man named pan Yuyu. There are few such people.

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Hanging on the west side is the same story of Kun Opera. Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion is also eight pictures, which are farce, garden tour, dream, dream seeking, photo, painting, marriage and reunion. In my generation's opinion, Peony Pavilion is more important to opera than a dream of Red Mansions to novel. I don't need to say much about it. I remember that many restaurants have seen different kinds of portraits of Peony Pavilion, such as porcelain bottles in Nanjing and Shanxi people's restaurants, wall comic strips in Sanpailou Shuyou restaurant. Again, the author of the story painting here is Zhang Xiaofei. Later, people in the museum said that pan and Zhang are both famous artists in Suzhou.

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On both sides of the corridor, there are antique tables and chairs, just like in a teahouse, separated by a screen. The corridor has two floors, the top and the bottom are similar. My writing is written on the table opposite to "marriage walk" and "Reunion" in the west corridor downstairs. Sitting here and looking out of the window on the left, there is a patio. There is a stage in the south. According to the staff, it is the former stage of Quanjin guild hall. People can sit in the corridor or patio and watch the opera while drinking tea. The stage is like a pavilion, with five strings of red lanterns hanging on both sides. We must write couplets on the edge of the stage. For the first time, on the left side, "who looks like who, who looks like who", on the right side, "look at me, not me, I am not me", and on the other side, "celebrate the whole world". There are railings on the edge of the stage, which look like the bow of a boat. No wonder many garden stages are built like the bow of a boat, such as the stage in Tongli tuisiyuan.

Flowers and plants

The patio is paved with green bricks on both sides and stone slabs in the middle. Walking in, it should be the largest exhibition hall in the museum. Before I stepped into the door, I smelled the fragrance of jasmine. Looking around, I found that jasmine flowers were placed on both sides of the large exhibition hall, installed in pots. Looking up, there is also a couplet here, which reads "Wu she juiya" (Note: this character is like she, but not she, which can't be found in the computer), left Liang "Shengdan Jingmo ugly sculpture on the treacherous, Xianzhen phase", right Liang "gongshangjiao Zhengyu sings through the joys and sorrows". The sign in front of the exhibition hall says "Kunqu opera characters show in the world". When you enter the hall, you can feel that it's the main hall in the temple. It's very spacious, but the two sides are not statues of Arhats. They are all costumes, such as the Yellow costumes of Emperor Tang Ming and Princess Yang Guifei. Of course, there are not three Buddhas in the middle of the hall, but a small indoor stage, which is written on the rolling curtains on both sides behind the stage It means "going out of the general" and "entering the prime minister".

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On the right side of the stage is the image of facial makeup, mainly the facial makeup of Jingjiao, the so-called "seven red, eight black, four hundred, three monks". In fact, there are a lot of costumes for traditional Chinese opera. They are on both sides of the small stage. Each kind of costumes on display are projected by light, which is very eye-catching. There are also many chairs in the center of the hall. That is to say, when performing on the stage, the audience can sit here and watch.

Collection in the Museum

1. The interpretation of four tones, written by Zheng Changgeng, is a complete collection of twelve volumes in the Qing Dynasty

It is written by Zheng Changgeng. The book is in Caotang collection. The title page contains the edition of the 25th year of Jiaqing, but it is suspected to be the revised edition of the 4th year of Daoguang. Twelve volumes of the book, in the order of dizhi, are important works of Chinese phonology. They are important works to explain the meaning of characters after the author's phonology. They are very helpful to the study of the pronunciation of ancient words and sentences.

2. "The complete picture of improvement decorated with white fur" Shanghai Dianshizhai, the fourth year of the Republic of China, 12 volumes

Zhui baiqiu is a collection of opera scripts published in Qing Dynasty, which includes Kunqu Opera and Huabu Luantan opera. The title of the book "Zhui Bai Qiu" means "take the armpit of a hundred foxes and gather them to form a fur". The book consists of 12 volumes and 48 volumes, which were added, deleted and revised by Qian de Cang according to the old edition of the master of flower playing.

Zhui baiqiu

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