湖南省昆剧团（KUNJU TROUPE OF HUNAN PROVINCE)

昆剧，迄今已有七百余年历史。昆曲剧目丰富多彩，文辞华丽典雅，曲调清逸婉转，表演细腻优美、载歌载舞，武功技艺卓绝，富于诗的意蕴，画的风采，融诗、乐、歌、舞、戏于一爐，在中国文学史、戏曲史、音乐史、舞蹈史上都占有重要的地位。尤其对后来的京剧和众多的地方戏曲产生过深远而直接的影响，被称之为“百戏之祖”、“百戏之师”，具有很高的艺术价值和学术价值。昆曲在世界艺术之林中具有崇高的声誉，欧美许多学者将中国昆曲称之为最能体现东方艺术美的典型代表。2001年5月18日，中国昆曲艺术被联合国教科文组织宣布为首批“人类口头和非物质遗产代表作”。
新中国成立以来，党和国家十分重视昆剧的保护和发展，昆剧的艺术价值日益受到学术界、戏剧界的重视，先后成立了浙江昆剧团、江苏省昆剧院、江苏省苏州昆剧院、北方昆曲剧院、上海昆剧团、湖南省昆剧团（称为中国现存的六大昆剧院团）。1985年文化部颁发了《关于保护和振兴昆剧的通知》，1986年成立了文化部振兴昆剧指导委员会和中国昆剧艺术研究会，1987年文化部再次发出《关于对昆剧艺术采取特殊保护政策的通知》，近年来各昆剧院（团）先后赴欧洲、日本、美国、中国香港、澳门、台湾等地访问演出，引起世界各国对昆剧的关注与称赞。2001年6月8日，文化部在北京召开了保护和振兴昆曲艺术座谈会，发出《文化部办公厅关于印发文化部保护和振兴昆曲艺术座谈会纪要的通知》，确定昆曲为国家重点保护艺术。

A Brief Introduction to the Kunju Opera
The Kunju Opera has a history of over 700 years. The Kunju Opera enjoys a wonderful collection of colorful programs whose conversations are gallant and elegant. Tones sweet and agreeable, acting fine and elegant with the compant of dancing and singing as well as the unsurpassed Chinese Kungfu. The performance of the Kunju Opera is of poetic flavor, of pictorial beauty, and is a combination of the Kunju Opera is of poetic flavor, of pictorial beauty, and is a combination of poetry, music, singing, dancing and opera. The Kunju opera enjoys a significant fame and place in the history of Chinese literature, opera, music and dancing. It especially has had great influences on the Beijing Opera and other local operas in China, and has been named “father of all operas” and “master of all operas”, and is of very great artistic and academic value. The Kunju Opera also enjoys a good fame worldwide, in the eyes of many European and American scholars the Kunju Opera is the typical representative of the Oriental Beauty of Art. On May 18, 2001, China’s Kimki Opera was declared the fist group of “a Masterpiece of the Oral and intangible Humanity” by UNESCO.
Since the foundation of new China, our Party and Government have adequate attention to the development of the Kunju Opera, and the artistic value of the Kunju Ppera has been widely recognized by the academe and the artistic community, a lot of Kunju Opera troupes, such as Zhejiang Kunju Opera Troupe, Jiangsu Provincial Kuvju Opera Troupe, the North Kunju Opera Troupe, Shanghai Kunju Opera Troupe, Hunan Provencial Kunju Opera Troupe ( the so-called six big Kunju Opera troupes in existence ), have been established. In 1985, the Notice about Proecting and Revitalizing the Kunju Opera was issued by the Ministry of Culture. In 1986, the Ministry of Culture established the Guiding Committee of Vitalizing the Kunju Opera and the China Kunju Opera Art Study & Research Society. In 1987, the Ministry of Culture re-issued the Notice about Notice about Protecting and Revitalizing the Kunju Opera. In recent years, many Kunju Opera troupes went out to give performances in Europe, Japan, America, Hong Kong, Marco, and Taiwan, and have attracted extensive attention and compliments. On June 8 , the Ministry of Culture organized a panegyric on protecting and revitalizing the art of Kunju Opera in Beijing, and issued a Notice about Printong and Distributing the Minutes of the Meeting of Protecting and Revitalizing the Kunju Opera, and decided that the Kunju Opera should be and art that needs to be given significant protection.