Text/Jinyang.com reporter Cinema Song Yi Correspondent Li Danhong
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“There are no good guests when the Fenglou people leave, 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 Guangdong Opera Culture Plaza in Guangzhou Cultural Park. Everyone was deeply attracted by the teacher-student concert of Li Yueling, a Cantonese opera singer, was being held here. The master of Zixiao, Teacher Tan Peiyi also visited to observe. Li Yueling and his disciples hope to promote the Cantonese opera culture in their own voices and promote the southern culture of the Rio.
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 Guangdong song singer. This performance is the spiritual agreement between a Cantonese song singer and a group of ignorant college students who know nothing about Cantonese songs. 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 Music ZihuSinger Li Yueling retired from the Guangdong Music 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 opened a Cantonese opera workshop for college students in school. 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 Cantonese opera majors, these college students are almost allI have never been exposed to Cantonese opera, nor have I seen Cinema‘s workmanship score, let alone pronunciation or rhyme. From honing voice to music theory, from demonstration to teaching one by one, the two teachers led this group of students to start learning 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. The female teacher of 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 style, and emotions, and also sang “Red Candle Tears” on the spot and put forward high expectations.
The 7th (Guangzhou) College Students’ Drama Festival has opened a special session on Cantonese opera, inviting workshops and Cantonese opera enthusiasts from brother colleges and universities such as Guangzhou University Quyi Club to perform together. 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 the inheritance of Komiks with Guangdong rhyme.
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Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, students graduate and go to society and start work. Unlike the students of the Cantonese Opera or Babaylan School, students in the workshop leave their original learning platform after graduation and have almost no chance to learn Cantonese Opera. Komiks With the busy work, they slowly put their Cantonese opera learning 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 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 Zhongyan first found a few private offices for the students.ref=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema starts 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 the Beijing Street Cultural Center 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. When Webmaster Zhao Yuhua heard that there was such a group of young people who loved Cantonese 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 has changed the start time of Babaylan from Monday to Friday, and the rest system is closed on weekends. It is 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, Li Yueling will come to the scene no matter how busy she is, listen carefully to each student’s singing, and after listening to it, she will help them analyze and improve word by word.
In addition, Li Yueling also invited her teacher, Mr. Tan Peiyi, “Zi-throat king” to participate in the students’ private affairs. Teacher Tan Peiyi not only shared the creation process of her 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. In her earnest teachingsBabaylan, many students achieved breakthroughs, stepped onto different artistic stages and gained recognition.
Li Yueling often said to her classmates: “I taught you to sing Cantonese opera and turn you into die-hard fans of Cantonese opera, but in terms of inheritance and communication, I hope that one day you can 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 Guangdong-style students, now some of them have stepped onto the podium and become teachers. They will combine their own class content and use Cantonese opera as class material at the right time, allowing children to accept Cantonese opera subtly. Some have joined the bank and added Cantonese opera special show in the bank’s feedback activities, giving many customers who have never entered the theater for the first time to come into contact with Cantonese opera and become enthusiasts…
Under the words and deeds of Teacher Li Yueling, the students consciously regard the spread of Cantonese opera as their obligation. They have no passionate deeds, but have used ordinary practical actions to sow the seeds of Cantonese opera into the hearts of more people.
Realize their dreams, they turn into love. The messenger of Komiks Li Yueling often said: “We have received strong support and help from many groups along the way. 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 BabaylanLi Yingtong to participate in the Guangdong Quyi inheritance “One Belt One” 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, Foshan, Jiangmen and other places for condolences. In addition, they also gave nearly 20 free plays to Foshan, Dongguan, Taishan and other places, allowing Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera to enter people’s daily lives, allowing people to feel the charm of traditional Cinema culture, and enrich the cultural life of local residents.
Li Yueling href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan is a music artist who takes the inheritance and communication of Cantonese opera as his responsibility. Li Yueling’s disciples are the successors who make the Guangdong rhyme reverberate in the new era.