My opinion on the introduction of Peking Opera into the classroom

From March to July this year, the Ministry of Education decided to launch a pilot project of Peking Opera into the classroom in 200 primary and secondary schools in 10 provinces and cities across the country. This move has received mixed reviews. I think this move is a major reform of the education curriculum and should cause us to think deeply about how to better protect and promote China's excellent traditional culture.

Peking Opera is the quintessence of the Chinese nation. It is a multi-faceted art that combines "singing, reciting, acting and fighting". It contains rich knowledge in literature, music, dance, art, history and sociology. Incorporating Peking Opera as part of music education into the national curriculum system shows that the country attaches great importance to traditional culture and promotes curriculum reform from the perspective of improving soft power, which is more beneficial to the spread of traditional culture. For many years, we have been emphasizing quality education, but in practice, we often understand quality education in a narrow way, thinking that it means adding some music, beauty, and dance content to the children, and leading them to dance, sing songs, and draw pictures. Painting is quality education. This is just part of quality education. At present, people's understanding of art has led to a bigger misunderstanding - the art examinations held successively by colleges and universities every spring seem to be a shortcut for some parents to send their children to college. As a result, children are deprived of the right to develop and play freely at a young age. Piano, practicing martial arts, and sketching have become compulsory courses for children every day. When we are about to enter the college entrance examination, we can see that all kinds of pre-examination tutoring classes, surprise training classes, and classes for taking the unified examination are surging, and it is said that business is really good. And all these children think about is "Huan Zhuge Ge", super girls, and fast boys. This fast-food art training has led to their indifference to elegant art and a serious lack of traditional culture. The introduction of Peking Opera into the classroom is to allow children to be exposed to classic works, understand the common sense of Peking Opera, guide students to be interested in appreciating opera, experience the charm of opera art, feel the charm of Peking Opera performances, guide students to further love, inherit and develop the national art culture, and establish national spirit. Children should not only know about Jay Chou, but also know about Mei Lanfang and the four famous actors in Peking Opera.

The significance of bringing Peking Opera into the classroom is not only to allow children to appreciate the beauty of Peking Opera, but also a kind of training, a kind of cognition, and an experiment in transforming a single aesthetic education into an all-round quality education.

For a long time, there has been a certain degree of "alienation" in art education in our country. On the one hand, art education in ordinary schools lacks the characteristics of art, and art education is not artistic; on the other hand, some parents use the banner of "quality education" to let their children study art for the sake of grade examinations and extra points for college entrance examinations. The essence of art is aesthetics. Similarly, art education is essentially aesthetic education, and its most important function is to improve students' aesthetic accomplishment. Only when art education carries humanistic connotations, makes people feel the beauty of life, and inspires people to pursue a more meaningful and valuable life, can this be true "art education."

As an important part of the music curriculum, Peking Opera has entered the classrooms of primary and secondary students. It is carried out under the background of the education sector carrying out new curriculum reforms and promoting quality education, which has greatly enriched the content of art courses in primary and secondary schools. The new curriculum reform advocates that students' learning should transition from a single subject to a comprehensive subject. As a comprehensive art form, Peking Opera contains multi-disciplinary content in its singing, reciting, acting, and stage costumes, and it also belongs to art classes. content. Children can receive moral education and experience the beauty of art by learning Peking Opera. The entire teaching process embodies education and entertainment. Introducing Peking Opera into the classroom is not a decision made on a whim and with a slap on the head. In terms of its realistic background, this is an echo of the return of traditional culture and a measure taken in response to the current reality that Peking Opera, as the "quintessence of the country", is "drifting away" from young people. Its symbolic role and practical significance should be Get affirmation.

The more people in a nation who study art, the more energetic the nation will be; the more people in a country who voluntarily engage in art, the more creative the country will be. It is said that in Russia, every family has a collection of Pushkin's poems. In Europe and America, opera is very popular. Poems and operas are their "national arts". Similarly, Peking Opera's status in China is equivalent to Western opera. It is both elegant and vulgar. The introduction of Peking Opera into campuses should trigger a series of positive responses regarding artistic quality education, rather than hastily "applauding" or denying it.