Current situation

Sichuan Opera has the research and cognition of Bashu culture, art, history, folklore and other aspects of the value, plays a unique role in the Chinese opera history and the history of the development of Ba Shu culture. Over the years, the Sichuan Opera and other types of local opera have the crisis of survival, the audience is reduced, the performance market is shrinking, lack of funds, succession and development is difficult, the protection of Sichuan Opera is seriously.

The government attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and on May 20th, 2006, it was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. In June 8, 2007, Sichuan opera school got “Culture Heritage Day” award given by State Ministry of Culture.

Today, Sichuan Opera is once again active in the daily life of the people. In this era of tweeting, the ancient Sichuan Opera is also unwilling to lag behind, appears in the micro-blog with various forms, there are more than 500 results about "Chuanju" as keywords in Sina micro-blog. Combination of Sichuan Opera and micro-blog created the special Sichuan Opera micro-blog in addition to official micro-blog. To micro-blog "opera fancier" as an example, in this micro-blog, from the goods about Sichuan Opera to the live Sichuan Opera shows, information about it is various. "Webcast" is to broadcast through sending pictures, text and expeditious manner in micro-blog, applied to the Sichuan Opera, is taken from the show pictures and commentary words, let the people feel the show from micro-blog. This not only enriches people's daily life, but also promoting the prosperity and development of Sichuan opera.