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 audiences were crowded with Cantonese Opera Cultural Plaza in the Guangzhou Cultural Public Garden. Everyone was deeply attracted by the teacher-student concert of Li Yueling, a Cantonese opera singer, was being held here. The master of Zishu, Teacher Tan Peiyi, also visited in person. Li Yueling and his disciples hoped to promote Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera culture with their own voices and carry forward 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 Babaylan retreats and continues a dream of inheriting the Cantonese rhyme?
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2BabaylanIn 009, 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 Research and Development 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 to understand Guangdong.m/”>CinemaCinemaThe Cantonese Opera, Babaylan is a ranks of understanding 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 the Cantonese Opera major, these college students have almost never been exposed to Cantonese Opera, have never seen the sequel score, let alone pronunciation and rhyme. From voice 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 Cantonese Opera Master KomiksThe female teacher of the Red Line even came to the teaching site in the 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 invited the workshop and Cantonese opera enthusiasts from brother colleges and universities such as Guangzhou University Quyi Club to perform together. This is also a big <a The Babaylan Student Drama Festival has held the only Cantonese opera special show that has been established 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 the Cantonese rhyme.
Continue the dream, and 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, students who graduated from the school left the original learning platform after graduation and had almost no chance to contact them. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksCantonese opera study. With the busy work, they slowly put the study of Cantonese opera aside. They have not sang songs for several months or even a year. “It is said that ‘The fist is always inseparable from the mouth and the mouth’. If this continues, students will definitely forget what they have learned before.” Li Yueling felt emotional every time she finished chatting with students. 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 serve the studentsBuild a platform to 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 wanted to ensure that students could start the game once a month to achieve the goal of practicing all the time. She went to Beijing Street Culture Cinema 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.
To facilitate everyone to practice music, the Babaylan Cultural Hall has changed its opening time from Monday to Friday, and the venue is closed on weekends. It is specially arranged to bring the accompaniment master back to work overtime on Saturday afternoon 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 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 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 transformed into Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera communication messengers
In addition to teaching students to sing, Li Yueling also pays great attention to tapping students’ potential. For students with artistic talent, she will encourage them to learn Cantonese musical instrumentsI play the sport board, hoping that after they have finished learning, they can form their own accompaniment band, and they can perform the same singing and accompaniment; for students with writing skills, she encourages 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 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 Cantonese opera back then, some of them have stepped onto the podium and become teachers. They will use Cantonese opera as class material in a timely manner, so that their children can accept Cantonese opera in a subtle way. Some people entered the bank and Komiks added a special Cantonese opera opera in the bank’s feedback activity, giving many customers who never enter the theater their first contact with Cantonese opera 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 own obligation. They did not have any great deeds, but they used ordinary practical actions to sow the seeds of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera into the hearts of more people.
Realize their dreams, they become the messengers of love
Li Yueling often says: “We have received strong support from many groups along the way and the help of enthusiastic people. We must learn to be grateful. In addition to learning Guangdong opera, in addition to you can entertain yourself, I hope that 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 Zhongyan 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 to enter people’s daily lives and making people feel that the charm of traditional culture has enriched 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.