In recent years, traditional culture has become more and more popular in China, more and more people have joined the inheritance and innovation of traditional culture, such as Hanfu, ancient style songs, and some operas, etc. Traditional culture has a hundred flowers blooming in modern times, in order to make modern people better accept and understand traditional culture, on the basis of inheritance, many people have innovated traditional culture to varying degrees.
The starting point of this kind of innovation is good, in order to let people better spy on the inheritance, but there are some innovations that have not been recognized by people, such as Mei Baojiu, the son of Mei Lanfang, why he did not forgive Li Yugang until death.
First, the Meipai performance system
It is said that there are three major performance systems in the world, namely stanislavsky performance system, Brecht performance system, and the Peking Opera performance system represented by Mei Lanfang.
It can be seen that China's Peking Opera national essence is also highly recognized in the world, and the most representative figure is Mei Lanfang, even those who do not understand Peking Opera must have heard mei Lanfang's name.
Mei Lanfang's achievements in Peking Opera can be seen from the fact that he founded Mei Pai and Mei Lanfang was also the first person in China's Danjiao Creative Arts School. Everyone knows that DanJiao generally refers to female characters, that is, heroines, but Mei Lanfang is a man, so when Mei Lanfang played Danjiao, she did give people a refreshing feeling.
Not only is Mei Lanfang at the forefront of the times in the anti-string performance, but mei Lanfang has also been seeking new changes in various other aspects, because at that time Peking Opera has shown signs of decline in China, mei Lanfang also knows that if it is not innovated, Peking Opera may be difficult to be accepted by the audience, let alone let Peking Opera return to its previous prosperity, even inheritance has become a problem, so Mei Lanfang began to innovate the road.
First of all, not only in the singing method and singing voice, even the costumes, props, makeup, performances, etc., everything is paid attention to, the original Peking Opera is a stage, a table, two chairs on the line.
However, when it comes to Mei Lanfang, it is necessary to elaborately design the stage, so that the whole performance is like enjoying an ink painting, not only the ears are happy but also the eyes must be taken care of.
In order to be able to better combine opera and Chinese landscape painting, Teacher Mei Lanfang studied the paintings and explained Mr. Qi Baishi, and the two became confidants of the teacher and friend.
Mei Lanfang's life is constantly innovating Peking Opera, striving for excellence in every link, and finally achieving the Mei Pai performance style, which not only finds the vitality of Peking Opera, but also develops Danjiao to an unprecedented level.
Later, Mei Lanfang's innovation of combining art and opera was not only loved by people from all walks of life in China, but also spread overseas, and was also greatly welcomed, so Mei Pai became a milestone in the history of Peking Opera and was incorporated into one of the three major performance systems in the world.
Second, conservative and innovative
Mei Lanfang is the spokesperson of the national essence, and the creation of countless national essence works such as "Overlord Farewell", "Noble Concubine Drunk" and other business cards is even more famous, but even if Mei Lanfang's achievements are great, they also need to consider a problem, that is, the inheritance problem, how to pass on these artistic achievements and Peking Opera performances has become a problem that plagues Mei Lanfang.
In fact, Mei Lanfang has a lot of children, according to the theory, there should be no worry about the loss of ah, but the reality is that many of his children are engaged in work that has nothing to do with Peking Opera, only two children have formed a fate with Peking Opera, one is Mei Lanfang's daughter Mei Baoyue, but Mei Baoyue is committed to the business of the old students, and then there is Mei Baojiu.
Mei Baojiu is the inheritor of Mei Lanfang, but Mei Baojiu's achievements in peking opera art are far less than Mei Lanfang's, and Mei Baojiu has also responded to this, saying that his father's achievements in Peking opera are too superb, so he is also very hard.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't achieve the kind of achievements of his father, so in the early years, Mei Baojiu was also very concerned about this, but later he figured it out, since he couldn't bring Peking Opera to a higher level like his father, then he had to work hard to maintain the current achievements of Peking Opera and not let it show signs of retreat.
In fact, the reason why Mei Baojiu failed to surpass Mei Lanfang is not only because of the problem of talent, but also some historical factors, that is, Mei Baojiu did not start learning from a young age, but only began to study formally after graduating from college, but Mei Baojiu encountered ten years of turmoil shortly after contacting Peking Opera, so this decade delayed not only Mei Baojiu's ten years, but also the golden decade of Peking Opera inheritance.
It is said that learning art this thing, a day without practicing will be strange, not to mention Mei Baojiu this is ten years, plus Mei Baojiu is not as brave as his father, dare to innovate, dare to change, Mei Baojiu is still conservative a lot, so in terms of artistic achievements, it is naturally inferior to Mei Lanfang, but Mei Baojiu is also very successful in keeping mei Pai.
Although Mei Baojiu did not dare to change, it did not mean that others did not dare, so at this time, a song "New Noble Concubine Drunk" began to sweep the country, and the original song of this song was Li Yugang.
Of course, Li Yugang is not an orthodox Peking Opera background, he is studying popular music, but he may be more interested in Peking Opera, so he found this innovative game that no one tried, and what he did not expect was that this kind of play was warmly sought after by the public.
It is also because of this song "New Noble Concubine Drunk", which combines the popular music of Peking Opera songs, Li Yugang has transformed from a vegetarian into a popular figure that major performances are vying to invite, not only at home and abroad, so Li Yugang can be described as a top figure in the limelight, and even appeared "before there is Mei Lanfang, after there is Li Yugang" saying.
In fact, Li Yugang's adaptation of Mei Lanfang's "Noble Concubine Drunk" is not the reason why Mei Baojiu is angry, because Mei Baojiu also knows that this innovation will also bring more vitality to Peking Opera, and Mei Baojiu also thought about whether to teach Li Yugang the real Meipai singing voice.
It was only because once When Li Yugang performed, he hung up "Mei Lanfang in the front and Li Yugang in the back", which angered Mei Baojiu, not only out of the maintenance of his father, but also because of Mei Baojiu's worship of Peking Opera.
In Mei Baojiu's view, Peking Opera is very sacred, and Li Yugang is just popular art, so how dare he say that he can sit on an equal footing with Mei Lanfang?
In addition to this, Mei Baojiu also has a worry that this slogan is very misleading, which will make people think that Li Yugang is the inheritor of mei pai, so that for Mei Baojiu, the Mei pai he has painstakingly guarded has been stolen, so in Mei Baojiu's view, this is an insult to Mei Pai and a humiliation to himself.
Although Li Yugang did not necessarily think of so much, but another thing happened, but Mei Baojiu will never forgive Li Yugang again, that is, at a party, Li Yugang originally wanted to apologize to Mei Baojiu, but his wording was "I represent the profound Mei Pai art to the national audience..." As soon as this sentence came out, Mei Baojiu left the table in anger.
Therefore, Li Yugang in Mei Baojiu's view is to use the name of Mei Pai to praise himself, which is not a inheritance of Mei Pai art but a shameful act, so Mei Baojiu will not forgive Li Yugang until death.