Text/JinyangBabaylan Reporter Song Yi, Correspondent Li Danhong
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“There are no good guests when the Fenglou people go, and the rich people are lonely and cover the setting sun.” The Cantonese opera “KomiksZifenglou” Chen Baoying’s singing and writing is just like crying and complaining, and the audience applauses thunderously. On the evening of September 8, nearly a thousand audiences were crowded with people 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. The master of Zishu, Teacher Tan Peiyi, also visited in person. Li Yueling and his disciples hope to promote the Cantonese Opera and Cantonese Opera Culture with 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 flowing in the blood of a Cantonese opera singer 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 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 the Cantonese opera major, this group of college students is almostThey have never been exposed to Cantonese opera or even seen the craftsmanship score, let alone the sound and rhyme of Cinema. 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’ 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, 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 to perform with Cantonese opera enthusiasts from sister colleges and other universities 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 the Babaylan students from Cantonese opera or art majors, after graduation, students in the workshop left the original learning platform and had 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 Komiks 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 sure that the students could start the game once a month and achieved the purpose of practicing all the time. She went to NorthJingjie Cultural Station found Webmaster Zhao YuBabaylanWebsite Manager Zhao 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 starting time from Monday to Friday, and closed the room on weekends. It specially arranged to bring the accompaniment master Cinema to work overtime on Saturday afternoon to start the game for the Komiks 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 is, she will come to the scene and listen carefully to each student’s singing. After listening to it, Babaylan 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 famous song “Cai Wenji Return to Han” with the students, but also Komiks to teach 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 perform Cinema, Li Yueling also pays 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, 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 about Guangdong dramas and like Guangdong operas. ”
The Guangdong-rhyme students of Li Yueling, who were now on the podium and became teachers. They would use Cantonese opera as class material in time to accept Cantonese opera in a subtle way. Some of them joined the bank and added Cantonese opera special performances in the bank’s feedback activities, which gave many customers who never entered the theater to get in touch 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 href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema‘s vigorous deeds, but with ordinary practical actions, we sow the seeds of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera into the hearts of more people.
Realizing their dreams, they turned 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. KomiksWe 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 Guangdong Quyi inheritance “One Belt One” charity exhibition. 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 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 culture, enriching the cultural life of local residents. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks
Li Yueling is a music artist who regards 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.