Shanghai Opera And Modern Shanghai Urban Culture Perspective

Hu Ju is the orignal Shanghai opera, formerly konwn as "Ben Tan".In1920, ShaoWenbin and other famous artists renamed "Ben Tan" as "Shen Qu", to take themeaning of Shanghai’s song. After1920s, group of Wenming Xi performers changedejobs to apply for Shen Qu troupe, staged many large fashion show and costumepaly,making Hu Ju performances in the form of maturing. In1940s, a group ofdrama,film people engaged in Shen Qu troupe to do some director and choreographyjobs. From1940s, Shen Qu has changed the name to "Hu Ju".From the early days of"Hua Gu Xi" to entering the city of Shanghai,"Ben Tan","Shen Qu" for Beijing Operaand Kun Qu evenly divided to eventually named "Hu Ju", titles’ change reflects notonly the artists of Shanghai opera operas in the development processdifferent stateof mind, but also a reflection of the history of development of the Shanghai operaand the Shanghai social change are inseparable. However the development of Hu Juis far from being only the efforts of the artists, as the grassroots opera of Shanghaicity, Hu Ju in the development of continuous improvement and improve social groupsare not unrelated.The new play writters and directors participated in the Hu Jutroupe, adding a little new vitality to the development of Hu Ju. Their new directedplays not only made more wonderful plays, but also increased the income of thetroupe.With the increasing number of urban society changing and emerging media---newspapers, radio reports on the Hu Ju, this report was to a certain extent on thedevelopment of Hu Ju form a public opinion environment. Due to the rise of thenewspaper industry, the Shen Qu audience can through the press to more timelyinformation on the performance of Shen Qu, newspaper content was rich and varied,novel part to build a broad platform for the communication between the audienceand the artists.It is in such rich material basis, coupled with "813Incident" Shanghaibecome "islands", the Shanghai public mass entertainment consumer attitudes hadchanged, the Shanghai opera artists in order to seek improvement and furtherdevelopment of the operas, pushing Xizhuang Qipao Play a prosperous situation,and the prosperity of Hu Ju in Shanghai the social surrounding areas gradually appeared.