Text/Jinyang.com reporter Song Yi, correspondent Li Danhong
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“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 viewers from the Cantonese Opera Cultural Plaza in Guangzhou were crowded with people. Everyone was deeply attracted by the singing of teachers and students of the Cantonese opera singer Li Yueling, a Cantonese opera singer, who was being held here. Master Tan Peiyi, the master of the son-in-law, also visited to observe. Li Yueling and his disciples hoped to use their voices to promote the Cantonese opera culture 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 opera singer. 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 the CNKUCinema
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 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 attractedA 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 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 2011, BabaylanOn the 17th, the female teacher of Cantonese opera master Hong Line came to the teaching site in a thunderstorm to communicate with the students in the workshop. The female teacher of Red Line not only listened to the students’ singing famous passages such as “Fengge En Babaylan‘s “Flower Fields’ Meet”, and gave suggestions on improving their words, singing style, and emotions, but 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 Society. 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.
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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 aside their study of Cantonese opera, and 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 wondered: “How can students always maintain their love for Cantonese opera, persevere 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 students and create Komiks for them.The opportunity 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 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. 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 has changed the starting time from Monday to Friday, and the venue is closed and 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 the students to learn the song Komiks. 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 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 learned, they can form their own accompaniment band, which can integrate singing and accompaniment; for students with writing skills Babaylan, 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 turn you into die-hard fans of Cantonese opera, but from the perspective 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’s updateMany people know Cantonese opera and like Babaylan Cantonese opera. ”Komiks
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 Cinema joined the bank and added a Cantonese opera special show in the bank’s feedback activities, giving many customers who never enter the theater for the first time to come into contact with Cantonese opera and Guangdong opera for the first time, and became KomiksBabaylan is an enthusiast…
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 they have used ordinary practical actions to sow the seeds of Cantonese opera in the hearts of more people.
Realizing their dreams, they transformed into the messengers of love
Li Yueling often said: “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 being able to 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 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 Komiks dramas to Foshan, Dongguan, Taishan and other places, allowing Cantonese opera to enter people’s daily lives, allowing people to feel the charm of traditional culture, and enrich the href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan enriched the cultural life of local residents.
Li Yueling is a folk artist who takes the inheritance and communication of Cantonese opera as his responsibility. Li Yueling’s disciples are the successors who make the Cantonese rhyme reverberate in the new era.