The Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou is a comprehensive cultural venue built to commemorate Tang Xianzu, one of the world’s hundred great cultural figures and a master of Ming‑dynasty drama in China. It is also one of Jiangxi Province’s ten major memorial halls dedicated to historical luminaries.
Expert Interview from the Tang Xianzu Academic Symposium (VII) | Su Ziyu: Bringing Tang Xianzu’s Culture to “Stage in Fuzhou, Spread Across the World”
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2022-12-06
“For more than 20 years, I have visited Fuzhou numerous times, and its profound cultural heritage has always captivated me,” said Su Ziyu, former director and researcher at the Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Arts, in an interview with a reporter on November 11, on the sidelines of the 2022 China (Fuzhou) Tang Xianzu Academic Symposium.
Su Ziyu stated that in recent years, Fuzhou has leveraged the Tang Xianzu cultural brand to raise public awareness of and deepen understanding of Tang Xianzu, while an increasing number of people have taken up learning and performing his plays. This has played a vital role in promoting the dissemination of Tang Xianzu’s cultural legacy—a remarkable achievement.
“Cultivating the ‘Tang Xianzu’ cultural brand is of great significance for the development of regional culture.” As a scholar who has been engaged in and researched Tang Xianzu’s legacy for many years, Su Ziyu believes that Tang Xianzu was not only a great dramatist but also an outstanding literary figure. Tang Xianzu’s cultural heritage is remarkably broad, and it plays a vital role in preserving and passing on China’s fine traditional culture while bolstering cultural confidence.
“We must make good use of the advantages of modern new media to ensure that Tang Xianzu’s cultural legacy enjoys even wider dissemination,” Su Ziyu told reporters. Tang Xianzu penned a vast body of dramatic works, and his poetic compositions likewise constitute an invaluable treasure—both deserving more in-depth promotion and scholarly study. At the same time, we should attract talent from all walks of life and build a robust team dedicated to researching Tang Xianzu’s culture. Only then can his cultural heritage better align with contemporary realities, continue to expand and evolve, and, by paying homage to the classics, distill the essence of his thought—enabling Tang Xianzu’s cultural legacy to “take root in Fuzhou through drama and spread across the world through song.”
(Text by reporter Hong Bei, Photos by reporter Li Jiang)
Su Ziyu stated that in recent years, Fuzhou has leveraged the Tang Xianzu cultural brand to raise public awareness of and deepen understanding of Tang Xianzu, while an increasing number of people have taken up learning and performing his plays. This has played a vital role in promoting the dissemination of Tang Xianzu’s cultural legacy—a remarkable achievement.
“Cultivating the ‘Tang Xianzu’ cultural brand is of great significance for the development of regional culture.” As a scholar who has been engaged in and researched Tang Xianzu’s legacy for many years, Su Ziyu believes that Tang Xianzu was not only a great dramatist but also an outstanding literary figure. Tang Xianzu’s cultural heritage is remarkably broad, and it plays a vital role in preserving and passing on China’s fine traditional culture while bolstering cultural confidence.
“We must make good use of the advantages of modern new media to ensure that Tang Xianzu’s cultural legacy enjoys even wider dissemination,” Su Ziyu told reporters. Tang Xianzu penned a vast body of dramatic works, and his poetic compositions likewise constitute an invaluable treasure—both deserving more in-depth promotion and scholarly study. At the same time, we should attract talent from all walks of life and build a robust team dedicated to researching Tang Xianzu’s culture. Only then can his cultural heritage better align with contemporary realities, continue to expand and evolve, and, by paying homage to the classics, distill the essence of his thought—enabling Tang Xianzu’s cultural legacy to “take root in Fuzhou through drama and spread across the world through song.”
(Text by reporter Hong Bei, Photos by reporter Li Jiang)
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