Text/Jinyang.com reporter Babaylan Song Yi, correspondent Li Danhong
Photo/He Zhijian
“There are no good guests when the Fenglou people leave, and since then the rich people are lonely to 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 September 8, Komiks evening, there were nearly a thousand viewers from 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 was being held here. Teacher Tan Peiyi, the master of Zishu, also visited him in person. Li Yueling and his disciples hope to promote the Cantonese opera culture in 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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Seeking dreams, and the origin of CUHK
In 2009, Guangdong musical song 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, the studio held a Cantonese opera and 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, Komiks 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, nor have they seen the sequel score, let alone pronunciation or rhyme. From voice sucking to music theory, 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 female teacher of Cantonese opera master Hong Line came to the teaching site in thunderstorm to communicate with the students in the workshop. BabaylanThe female teacher of the Red Line not only listened to the students’ famous sings such as “The Feast of the Phoenix Pavilion” and “The Fallen Fellowship in Flower Field”, but also gave suggestions on improving their lyrics, singing Cinema, and emotions, but also sang “Red Candle Tears” on the spot and put forward high expectations.
KomiksCinema The 7th (Guangzhou) College Students’ Drama Festival has opened a special session on Cantonese opera, inviting workshops and Cantonese opera enthusiasts from brother colleges 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 sectors of society and sang the dream of spreading and inheritance with Cantonese rhyme.
Continue your dreams, continue your relationship with teachers and students outside the school.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, students graduate and go to society and start work. Unlike students from BabaylanCannual opera or art major, students in the workshop leave the original learning platform after graduation and have almost no chance to learn Cantonese opera. With the busy work, they slowly put their Cantonese Opera aside, and they had not sang a song for several months or even a year.
“It is said that ‘The fist is always inseparable from the hand and the mouth’. If this continues, the students will definitely forget what they have learned before.” Every time Li Yueling chats with students, she feels moved. She often thought: “How can students always maintain their love for Cantonese opera, persist in learning, and even go to a higher 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 Zhongyan first found a few private games to let the students start the game from time to time to practice. Later, Li Yueling made a goal to ensure that the students could start the game once a month to achieve the goal of practicing directly. She went to Beijing StreetThe Cultural Station found Webmaster Zhao Yuhua and talked to Webmaster Zhao that he was deeply worried about the loss of skills of this group of students. When the webmaster Zhao Yuhua heard that there were such a group of young people who loved Guangdong opera, he was very moved. He immediately arranged for Li Yueling to meet with Chen Jinglin, the head of the Folk Art Troupe of the Guangzhou Cultural Hall of Beijing Street to discuss the students’ practice music.
In order to facilitate everyone to practice music, the Cultural Association changed the work and rest system for the opening hours from Monday to Friday, and closed on weekends. It specially arranged to bring the accompaniment master back to join the Komiks class 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, Babaylan hoped to use pressure to drive students to take the time to learn songs. Every time the student starts, no matter how busy Li Yueling is, she will come to the scene and listen carefully to each student’s singing. After listening, she will help them analyze and improve word by word.
In addition, Li Yueling also invited her master, “Zi Lao Wang” Teacher Tan PeiCinema to participate in the students’ private bureau. Teacher Tan Peiyi not only shared the creative 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, stepped onto different art stages and gained recognition.
Li Yueling often said to her classmates: “I taught you to sing Cantonese opera, and turned you into the hardcore of Cantonese opera.Fans Babaylan, but in terms of inheritance and communication, I hope you can one day take the initiative to shoulder the important task of spreading Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera culture. Let more people know Cantonese opera and like Cantonese opera. “
Li Yueling’s Cantonese students, now some of them have stepped onto the podium and become teachers. They will use Cantonese opera as class material in time to allow children to accept Cantonese opera subtly. Some of them have joined the bank and added the Cantonese opera special session in the bank’s feedback activities to the bank’s customer feedback activities. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan gave it to many customers who never entered the theater to come into contact with Cantonese opera 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 a grand deed, but used ordinary practical actions to sow the seeds of Cantonese opera in the hearts of more people.
Realize their dreams, they turned into the messengers of love
LiCinema Yueling often said: “We have received strong support and enthusiasm from many groups along the way. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>BabaylanHelp of people. We must learn to be grateful. In addition to being able to entertain yourself, I hope you can bring joy to more people with what you have learned. ”
In recent years, Li Yueling has led students Wu Guanxian and Li Yingtong to participate in the “Belt and Road” charity exhibition on the same stage. Chen Zhongyan and Li Yueling have personally led the students to more than a dozen nursing homes in Guangzhou, Komiks Mountain, Jiangmen and other places for condolences. In addition, they also gave nearly 20 free scenes to Foshan, Dongguan, Taishan and other places, allowing Cantonese opera Cantonese opera to enter people’s daily lives, allowing people to feel the charm of traditional culture, and enrich the cultural life of local residents.
Li Yueling is a folk artist who takes the inheritance and communication of Cantonese opera as his responsibility. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksLi Yueling’s disciples are the successors who make the Guangdong rhyme revive the new era.