Text/Jinyang.com reporter Song Yi, correspondent Li Danhong
Photo/He Zhijian
“There are no good guests when people from Fenglou left, 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 Chen Baoying, as if she was crying and complaining, and the audience applause was thunderous. On the evening of September 8, nearly a thousand audiences were crowded with Cantonese Opera Cultural Plaza in Guangzhou Cultural Park. Everyone was deeply attracted by the teacher-student concert of Li Yueling, a teacher and student at the Cantonese Opera Singing at Komiks, who was being held here. Teacher Tan Peiyi, the master of Zishu, also visited to observe. Li Yueling and his disciples hope to promote the Cantonese Opera and Cantonese Opera culture with their own voices and carry forward Lingnan culture.
For this performance, Li Yueling and her disciples were preparing for half a year. Behind this performance is the cultural confidence flowing in the blood of a Cantonese opera singerKomiks and the totem of Guangdong rhyme. This performance is the spiritual agreement between a Cantonese opera singer and a group of ignorant college students who know nothing about Cantonese opera. 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 opened a Cantonese opera workshop for college students. Li Yueling and famous performer Chen Zhongyan served as instructors. The aim is to cultivate young students’ interest in Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera, and improve their perceptual understanding of the study of Cantonese culture. The workshop hopes that more young people can join the ranks of understanding Cantonese opera and understanding Chinese traditional culture.
As soon as the workshop started, it quickly attracted a large group of colleges and universities.Like-minded young people. Unlike students majoring in Cantonese opera, almost all college students have never been exposed to the Guangdong opera. They have never seen the music score, let alone pronunciation or rhyme. From voice lifting 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. The female teacher of Red Line not only listened to the students’ practice singing paragraphs such as “The Fen Ge’s Love and Revenge” and “The Flower Field’s Meet” and “The Fallen Meeting”. She gave suggestions on improving their words, singing style, and emotions. She 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 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 Cantonese opera or art majors, students in the seminar have left 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 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 parties and asked the students to start the game from time to time to practice. Later, in order to ensure that the students can start the game once a month, Li Yueling achieved oneThe purpose of direct practice. 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. 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 Hall has changed its opening time. Komiks is a daily routine for the closing and resting on weekends from Monday to Friday. It is specially arranged to bring accompaniment on Saturday afternoons to work overtime to start 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 Du Wang”, 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 Cinema to teach 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 encourages them to learn Cantonese music accompaniment instruments and play the pedal board, hoping that after they learn, they can form their own accompaniment band, which can integrate singing and accompaniment; for students with writing skills, she encourages them to write lyrics. Under her earnest teachings, Komiks 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 turn you into die-hard fans of Cantonese opera, 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 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 use Cantonese opera as class material in time to make children accept Cantonese opera subtly. Some have joined the bank and added Cantonese opera special performances 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 do not have the deeds of CinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinemaBoomCinema sow the seeds of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera into the hearts of more people.
Realize their dreams, they transform into the messengers of love
Li Yueling often says: “Along the way, we have received strong support from many groups and the help of enthusiastic 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 “One Belt One” charity performance in Guangdong Foyi inheritance. 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 condolence performances. In addition, they also gave nearly 20 free scenes to Foshan, Dongguan, Taishan and other places, so that Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera can be seen in people.In 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.