Sichuan online reporter Li Ting
The 79-year-old Bashu ghost Wei Minglun, a famous Sichuan opera artist in the eyes of the audience, is a "nine-year-old child" around friends, and everyone jokes that they welcome him to join the "post-80s club" - unconsciously, Wei Minglun, who was 9 years old at the age of 9, has now wandered in the art ocean for 70 years. "I really want to do another performance for Sichuan opera!" On the morning of December 22, Wei Minglun spoke a pure Sichuan dialect, a deep voice, a word-by-word sound, and the enthusiasm and humor of creation attracted the guests to laugh. On the same day, the launching ceremony of the "Series of Activities for the 70th Anniversary of Wei Minglun's Artistic Career" sponsored by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and undertaken by the Sichuan Provincial Art Research Institute was held in Chengdu.
"Since the age of 9, this is a rare cultural phenomenon in itself." Writer Zhang Kangkang said. At the launching ceremony, leaders of the Sichuan Department of Culture, Sichuan art experts, Chen Zhilin, Chen Qiaoru, Wang Yulan, Xiao Demei, Cui Guangli and many other winners of the Sichuan Opera Plum Blossom Award, representatives of sichuan opera local theaters gathered together, former minister of culture and writer Wang Meng, who won the title of "people's artist", Pu Cunxin, chairman of the Chinese Drama Association, performance artist Jiang Kun, writer Feng Jicai, Yan Geling, actor Liu Xiaoqing and other air blessings, jointly wish Wei Minglun an evergreen artistic career, but for Wei Minglun, what he wants to thank most is Sichuan opera.
Ghost talent gene, inherited is the "Sichuan opera mother"
Wei Minglun's works are like a big stage full of lights. The plays include "Yi Bold", "Four Girls", "Bashan Xiucai", "Pan Jinlian", "Xizhao Qishan", essays include "Fault Yin", "Theory of Hermaphrodites", "Gaishi Golden Bull Endowment", "Synagogue Endowment", etc., childhood out of school acting to earn a living, not high education but achieved many achievements, but also brought the Zigongchuan Theater into Beijing to perform "Chinese Princess Durandot", and later the works were brought to Italy by the Beijing Peking Theater for performance, and were called "Bashu Ghost Talents" at home and abroad. Wang Meng commented: "His works have a very great influence, not only have a strong tradition and accumulation of national and local opera, but also have a modern consciousness, new ideas and views in the new era. ”
Chen Qiaoru and Cui Guangli presented flowers to Wei Minglun and his wife.
"Sichuan opera is to feed my milk, moisten my classroom, she and I have been influenced for 70 years, she stayed up late for me, and it will be a heavy book to write." Wei Minglun recounted the inextricable "cultural blood relationship" he had formed with Sichuan opera, and expressed his deep affection for this "mother" with gorgeous comparative sentences. "Sichuan opera is the beauty of Emei, the male toe of taking the sword gate, borrowing the green shadow of the early morning, stealing the three points of danger from wuxia, Sichuan opera daring to steal the clouds and rain of the goddess peak, only to form the artistic peak of her daring to compare beauty with the gods, her wonderfulness, her richness, her thousand-year-old bashu authentic Sichuan taste, has long been divided into my subconscious, even my absurd way of thinking, this bit of humor in my pen, are all inherited genes from Sichuan opera." The old man appeared respectful and humble in front of this mother.
Wei Minglun thanked everyone.
Wei Minglun frankly said that the essays, inscriptions, texts, and endowments he wrote were all "raised" by the mother of Sichuan opera, and this kind of cultivation is not hard to move, this kind of Sichuan flavor attainment, strange taste of achievement, has long been blended with Sichuan opera culture, and this mother's nourishment has caught up with the tide of reform and opening up, and only then has it created its current self. "I am also a product of reform and opening up, without which there would be no Wei Minglun."
Pure childlike heart, I want to do another "performance"
"My body is old, but my mind is not!" Wei Minglun is an inextricable representative symbol in contemporary opera, but he ridicules himself, although his body is "mutilated" in recent years, he still can't control his desire to write drama and couplets.
Chen Zhilin
But at the same time, the old man cherishes his creations. "Lately I've been hovering between ' taking it when it's good and doing it again." Wei Minglun said with a smile that he understood Very well that Jin Yong announced in 1972 after "Deer Ding Ji" that his works since 70 years of art were like a past frame of reference, and in the future he very much wanted to write a work for Sichuan opera that could be "taken out", and he did not want to take it out casually. "To get close to those levels, I only take them out, otherwise it will be said that it is not good to be good enough to continue to sable hahaha." Wei Minglun said, but he was like a martial arts actor on the stage who liked to play with a big knife, and he had to play until the big knife fell to the ground to be fun. Many guests at the scene were amused by the creative enthusiasm and humor of the elderly.
It is understood that from December 21 to 23, in addition to the Sichuan opera "Good Woman..." which was performed last night, In addition to "Bad Woman", the "70th Anniversary of Wei Minglun's Artistic Career" series of activities also includes the Sichuan opera film "Bashan Qi wrong", the Sichuan opera "Changing Face" performance, Wei Minglun's artistic career and modern drama development seminar, etc.