Text/Jinyang.com reporter Song Yi Cinema Correspondent Li Danhong
Photo/He Zhijian
“The people from Fenglou left no good guests, and since then the rich people are lonely and cover the setting sun.” Chen Baoying, a female actor in the Cantonese opera “Purple Phoenix Tower”, sings the words of the correct and crying, and the audience applauses thunderously. On the evening of September 8, nearly a thousand audiences were crowded with people in the Cantonese Opera Cultural Plaza in Guangzhou Cultural Park. Everyone was deeply attracted by the teacher-student concert of Li Yueling, a Cantonese opera singer who is holding here. The master of Zishu, Mr. Tan Peiyi, also visited to observe. Li Yueling and his disciples hope to promote the Cantonese opera culture with their own voices and carry forward the Lingnan culture.
For this performance, Li Yueling and her disciples prepared for half a year. Behind this performance is the cultural confidence and totem of Guangdong rhyme flowing in the blood of a Cantonese singer. This performance is the spiritual agreement between a Cantonese music singer and a group of ignorant college students who know nothing about Cantonese music. What kind of story is behind this performance? Li Yueling retreated and continued to continue her dream of inheriting the Cantonese rhyme?
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In 2009, Guangdong musical Zixia singer Li Yueling retired from the Guangdong Music and Music Art Troupe. That year, the Cantonese Opera and Guangdong Opera Cultural Studio of the Center for Historical Anthropology Research at Sun Yat-sen University was established.
The following year, Cinema, the studio opened a Cantonese opera workshop for college students. Li Yueling and famous performer Chen Zhongyan served as instructors, aiming to cultivate young students’ interest in Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera and improve their perceptual understanding of Cantonese culture. The workshop hopes that more young people can join the ranks of understanding Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera and Chinese traditional culture.
As soon as the workshop started, it quickly attracted a large group of young people with similar aspirations from major universities. Unlike students majoring in Cantonese opera, almost all of these college students have never been exposed to Cantonese opera. Babaylan has never seen a tutoring score, let alone pronunciation and rhyme. From hopping voice to music theoryBabaylan, from demonstration to teaching one by one, the two teachers led this group of students to learn from scratch.
The workshop also attracted the attention and support of many famous Cantonese opera artists and enthusiasts. On April 17, 2011, the Cantonese opera master Red Line Female Teacher updated the Cantonese opera master Babaylan came to the teaching site in a thunderstorm and communicated with the students in the workshop. The female teacher of the Red Line not only listened to the students’ practice of singing “The Fenge and Revenge of the Phoenix Pavilion” and “The Fallen Flower Fields” and gave improvements to their lyrics, singing styles, emotions, etc., but also sang “Red Candle Tears” on the spot and put forward high expectations.
The 7th (Guangzhou) College Students’ Drama Festival opened a special session on Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera, and invited the workshop Cinema performed with Cantonese opera enthusiasts from brother colleges and universities such as Guangzhou University Quyi Club. This is also the only Cantonese opera special event held so far. This group of students used their superb performances to repay the concern of all walks of life and sang the dream of spreading and inheriting the tradition with Guangdong rhyme.
Continue the dream, continue the relationship between teachers and students outside the school. Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, students graduated and went to society and started working. Unlike students from Cantonese opera or art majors, studyCinema The love of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera, persevere and learn it, and even go to the next level? “After thinking about it, Li Yueling decided to use the resources around her to build a platform for the students and create opportunities for them to continue learning Cantonese opera.
She and Chen ZhongyanI first found a few private games for students to start the game from time to time. Later, Li Yueling wanted to ensure that the students could start the game once a month and achieve the goal of practicing all the time. She went to Beijing Street Cultural Station to find Webmaster Zhao Yuhua and talked to Webmaster Zhao that she was deeply worried about the loss of skills of this group of students. Webmaster Zhao Yuhua was very moved when he heard that there were such a group of young people who loved Cantonese opera. He immediately arranged for Li Yueling to meet with the Beijing Street Cantonese Culture Course Group Chen Jinglin to discuss the students’ practice music.
In order to facilitate everyone to practice music, the Cultural Association has changed the starting time from Monday to Friday and closed on weekends. It has specially arranged to bring the accompaniment master back to work overtime on Saturday afternoon to start the game for the students.
After Li Yueling implemented the venue for the start of each month, she assigned the task of each student to learn a song, hoping to use pressure to drive students to take the time to learn the song. Every time the student starts, no matter how busy Li Yueling will come to the scene, listen carefully to each student’s singing, and after listening to them, she will help them analyze and improve word by word.
In addition, Li Yueling also invited her master, “Zi Lao Wang” Teacher Tan Peiyi to participate in the students’ private affairs. Teacher Tan Peiyi not only shared the creation process of his first famous song “Cai Wenji Returns to Han” with the students, but also taught everyone to sing “Jinjiang Poetry Couple” word by word, which gave the students great encouragement.
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They became the messengers of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera communication
In addition to teaching students to sing, Li Yueling also paid great attention to tapping students’ potential. For students with artistic talent, she will encourage them to learn Cantonese music accompaniment instruments and playing the palm of the board, hoping that after they have finished learning, they can form their own accompaniment band, which can integrate singing and accompaniment; for students with writing skills, she will encourage them to write lyrics. Under her earnest teaching, many students have made breakthroughs, embarked on different art dances and gained recognition.
Li Yueling often said to her classmates: “I taught you to sing Cantonese opera and turned you into die-hard fans of Cantonese opera, but from the perspective of inheritance and communication, I hope you will one day be Cinema can take the initiative to shoulder the important task of spreading Cantonese opera culture. Let more people know Cantonese opera and like BabaylanGuangdong opera.”
Li Yueling’s Cantonese students, now some of them have stepped onto the podium and become teachers. They will combine their own class content to write Cantonese opera as timely materials, so that children can subtly accept Cantonese opera. Some people joined the bank and added a special Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera in the bank’s feedback activity. They gave them to many customers who never entered the theater for the first time and became enthusiasts…
Under the words and deeds of Teacher Li Yueling, the students consciously took the spread of Cantonese opera as their obligation. They did not have any great deeds, but they used their ordinary practical actions to sow the seeds of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera into the hearts of more people.
Realize their dreams, and they become the messengers of love
Li Yueling often says: “We have received strong support from many groups and the help of enthusiastic people along the way. We must learn to be grateful. In addition to you can entertain yourself, I hope you can use what you have learned to bring joy to more people.”
In recent years, Li Yueling has led students Wu Guanxian and Li Yingtong to participate in the “Belt and Road” charity exhibition on the inheritance of Guangdong folk art. Chen BabaylanZhongyan and Li Yueling personally led the students to more than a dozen nursing homes in Guangzhou, Foshan, Jiangmen and other places for condolence performances. In addition, they also gave nearly 20 scenes for free to Foshan, Dongguan, Taishan and other places, allowing Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera to become popularIn their daily lives, people can feel the charm of traditional culture and enrich the cultural life of local residents.
Li Yueling is a folk artist who regards the inheritance and communication of Cantonese opera as his responsibility. Li Yueling’s disciples are the batters who make the Guangdong rhyme reverberate in the new era.