"Exploring Qingshui River" can be said to be sung by Zhang Yunlei on fire, although the Beijing ditty was brought to the stage as early as 2010, but it did not leave a deep impact on the audience, which shows that a good opera still needs the right people to sing the flavor.
"Exploring the Qingshui River" tells a folk tale that takes place in Beijing, similar to the modern version of the poignant love story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Zhang Yunlei's vocals were greatly altered from the original version, and he combined the tune with folk guitar to create the version that is now being sung by everyone.
Zhang Yunlei's comic style is based on singing, especially good at the lyrics, known as the "living old artist of the lyrics". Due to his talent and solid basic skills, in addition to Taiping lyrics and Lotus Flower Drops, Braid sings Beijing Opera, opera, Beijing Rhythmic Drums, Beijing Xiao Qu and pop songs, which are all very popular with the audience.
As a traditional Chinese art, Chinese opera is not favored by the younger generation. On the one hand, it is not easy to be understood because it is conservative and obscure; on the other hand, it is also because its expression has not kept up with the trend of the society, and it is not popular in today's world where ancient culture is missing.
The performance of "Exploring Qingshui River" by Zhang Yunlei is more modern and simpler, and is more likely to be enjoyed by young audiences. In addition to Tan Qingshuihe, he also sang: Tai Gong sells noodles, Blocking understanding, Snipe and clams fight, Luocheng counts trigrams, Splitting mountains to save mothers and so on, but did not have a big fire like the former one.
It would be an exaggeration to say that Zhang Yunlei can inherit and promote traditional Chinese opera on his own, and he is far from capable of doing so. It's true that some changes can make a very small number of songs easy to accept, but changing the tunes and lyrics of the songs to make them completely different just to make them acceptable to the audience is not necessary, because it's no longer a "refined" traditional song.