Born in Chongqing, living in Chengdu, in the background of the growth and development of "Bashu Laughing Star", the colors and charm of the twin cities are intertwined. Whether in the countryside or on the international stage, Dingdong is deeply loved by the masses in Chengdu and Chongqing, and he has always firmly believed that literature and art come from the folk and must also go to their fathers and fellow villagers.
Bashu laughing star jingle
Deep ploughing
Bashu culture must take root in the land
Jingle Bell has loved singing and acting since childhood. Around 2000, Dingdang had the opportunity to get acquainted with the famous opera performance artist Shen Fa and the storytelling performance artist Li Boqing, and entered the two and began to systematically learn quyi performance.
In the past 21 years, Dingdang has traveled to almost every county (city, district) in various cities (prefectures) in Sichuan Province, and participated in nearly a thousand cultural performances for the benefit of the people. Theaters, squares, factories, communities, schools, construction sites, farmhouses and fields are all stages for his performances. Once he went to the military camp to offer condolences to the performance, and before he could set up the stage, he jumped directly into the tank and began to perform. Participating in the "Three Visits to the Countryside" performance all year round, before each performance, Dingdong will find opportunities to communicate with local farmers, understand local quips, learn local dialects, and then improvise into the performances of the day. This not only enhanced the feelings with the peasant masses, but also enriched the materials of his own artistic creation.
Stills from the comedy "Never End"
"As an actor, the applause and laughter of the grassroots people are the things that make me feel the most fulfilled and happy." Dingdang said that the improvement of the professional ability of literary and art workers needs to absorb a lot of artistic nutrition, "In addition to the teachers of art, we must also worship the people as teachers." ”
There was an art troupe outside Sichuan and Chongqing who invited Ding to work, but he politely refused. "The Bashu culture in this land, going to the field, is equivalent to stepping into the air, equivalent to passive water." Including I went to many schools to do some public welfare training, I told them that Bashu culture is first of all our dialect, it shows the unique character of Sichuan people, and dolls cannot even lose their mother tongue. Dingdang believes that if you want to carry forward the Culture of Bashu, you must take root in the land of Bashu and send it to the people.
Stills from the comedy "Mahjong Life"
In Dingdang's view, the reason why his master Li Boqing is now called "male god Li Beibei" and is liked by many young people is that he expresses his love for life in the Sichuan dialect, which is very grounded. "I think what he summed up was the true meaning of life. He did not have a high diploma, but he worshipped the people as a teacher and life as a teacher. ”
As a result, Dingdang also began to think about how to "deeply cultivate" the Bashu culture and brand his works with Bashu, while at the same time trying to find a way that the people in the non-Bashu areas liked to hear.
When cultural exchanges are carried out in other provinces, before performing Sichuan opera, Dingdong will first teach the audience to say a few words of Sichuanese, such as "Bashi" and "Whitewashing" in the play, and explain the meaning of these words. "When I say these words again during the performance, they can easily understand them, and the applause is thunderous at the end." Dingdang said, "This requires us to use our brains and minds to spread it skillfully, so that audiences from other provinces can feel our Sichuan culture." ”
Figure broken
Inheriting tradition while innovating boldly
Sichuan opera is a unique genre of music in Sichuan, "one person alone, one person alone" seems to be the "iron law" of harmonic drama, and there has been no breakthrough in the past eighty years. After taking over the master Shen Fa Daqi to become the third generation leader of Sichuan harmonic opera, Dingdang has been committed to carrying forward the harmonic drama and letting more people know and like the harmonic, so he has made a lot of innovations while inheriting the tradition.
Dingdang's comedies "Vulnerable Groups" and "Mahjong Life" have successfully broken through the artistic style presented by the harmonics, and are a great innovation and enrichment of the art of harmonics.
There is a time and space transition in "Mahjong Life", and Jingdong restores the different states of a mahjong lover in his youth and old age through realistic performances. During the performance, he came alive and vividly, portraying the character image in the play just right, and the character characteristics were vividly expressed. At the same time, Dingdong also won the Performance Award of the Peony Award, the highest award in the Chinese music industry, for "Mahjong Life".
"Vulnerable Groups" breaks through the "solo acting alone". The actor uses a screen to change costumes and plays four different roles. Each character is a purely humorous "virtual communication", and the four characters form a kind of "food chain" relationship between them, completing the theme of "when you treat others as prey, you are becoming someone else's prey". As a leading figure in Sichuan youth music art, Dingdang was the first person to extend the performance object of the contrivance to the last row of the audience, making the contrivance more expressive and the on-site effect better.
This year marks the 16th year that "Chongqing Cubs" Ding-Dong has worked and lived in Chengdu. He believes that the Bashu region has always been famous and excellent, although Chengdu and Chongqing are administratively divided into two regions, but the culture of the two cities is in the same vein. "Especially in the context of the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, culture is the first, because culture is more refreshing."
At present, Sichuan Quyi has penetrated into the people and continuously innovated in the performance of benefiting the people, such as organizing the "Sichuan Quyi Mobile Lecture Hall" to cultivate a large number of creative talents. At the same time, the "Sichuan Quyi Mobile Lecture Hall" also invited Chongqing quyi workers to come to exchange views and discuss together. Dingdang believes that with the close relationship between Chengdu and Chongqing, the music teams of the two places will become larger and larger, and the stage will inevitably be more and more.
"As a descendant, how to excavate and protect and develop Sichuan quyi and Bashu culture is a topic facing literary and art workers." DingDong said, "Whether our works are attractive enough to express our bashu voice and show our pictures of bashu, I feel that the responsibility on our shoulders is very heavy." ”
After being elected vice chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, Dingdang, in addition to his own personal practice, also has an extra burden of leadership and leadership on his shoulders, and he hopes that the future "Literary and Art Sichuan Army" will not only be loud nationwide, but also let everyone see. It is his goal to get the music art and culture of Bashu up, so that everyone can see more Bashu talents and Bashu works on the national platform.
Brief introduction
Dingdong, real name Zhang Xudong. He is the third generation leader of Sichuan Opera, vice chairman of the China Qu Artists Association, vice chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, chairman of the Provincial Ququ Association, and host of the top ten programs of Sichuan Radio and Television Group. The main works are: the comedy "Mahjong Life", "Vulnerable Groups", "Reluctant", "Super Boy Dream", "Jingle Encounter", "My Future Is Not a Dream", etc., among them, "Mahjong Life" won the 8th China Quyi Peony Award Performance Award, learn more about Bashu comedy stars, please pay attention to Bashu Comedy Star Network.