"I hope that the moon will fall and the rebirth lamp will be red again..." This is the chant of Du Liniang's sentence on the occasion of leaving the soul in "Peony Pavilion And Haunting". On January 6, 2022, Zhang Jiqing, the most beautiful "Du Liniang" and famous Kunqu performance artist in the world, died of illness in Nanjing at the age of 83.
The best actor of "Du Li Niang"
Zhang Jiqing was born in the sutan artist family, the age of hair is to learn art with his mother and take the stage, in 1952 to join the Minfeng Su Opera Troupe (later changed to Jiangsu Su Kun Opera Troupe), to learn Su opera and Kun opera, the Kunqu opera predecessor Quanfu class old artist You Caiyun, Zeng Changsheng's professor, laid a good foundation in traditional skills, after 1956 and yu Zhenfei, Shen Chuanzhi, Yao Chuanqian, Yu Xihou and other famous masters, can be described as the strength of everyone.
In 1956, in order to promote her descendants and Zhang Jiqing to co-perform "The Legend of the White Snake and broken bridge", the 18-year-old yu Zhenfei did not shy away from the stage. After reading it, the famous Northern Kun masters Han Shichang and Bai Yunsheng praised zhang Jiqing and said that Zhang Jiqing was likely to become the future "Kunqu opera Mei Lanfang".
Zhang Jiqing's voice is round and thick, the words are clear, the line cavity is gentle, the charm is timeless, and the characteristics of each family are absorbed, forming their own unique singing method. Inheriting and carrying forward the authentic and orthodox Kunqu style inherited by the old man of the "Chuan" generation, he has also developed his own innovation, and has played a well-deserved "top card" position in kunqu danjiao. In 1984, as an outstanding representative of the Kun Opera House in Jiangsu Province, Zhang Jiqing won the "Plum Blossom Award", the highest award of Chinese opera, and won the top spot.
Zhang Jiqing has created many artistic images with distinct personalities in her long artistic career, the most famous of which are "Peony Pavilion Dream", "Peony Pavilion Dream", "Rotten Keshan Dream", because of the superb performance in this "Three Dreams", she is also respected as "Zhang Sanmeng".
"Peony Pavilion" has been praised as "the national color of heavenly fragrance, after the flowers" in classical Chinese opera. The play tells the story of the young girl Du Liniang who was born of love because of dreams, who was obsessed with love, who died of infatuation, and finally resurrected because of love, full of romanticism and exquisite words. "If you don't go to the garden, how do you know that spring is as promised?" Du Liniang, played by Zhang Jiqing, is a warbler with gentle cries and water sleeves fluttering, "like a clear cloud out of the meadow, like a stream back to a curved stream", the afterglow is around the beam and the meaning is endless, and the aesthetic, delicate, flexible and elegant, dignified and beautiful of Kunqu opera and the elegance, dignity and beauty of the ancient everyone are vividly expressed. Many viewers sighed, "After watching her performance, I know the beauty of Kunqu opera" and "after listening to her singing, I can't hear anyone else's." ”
Du Liniang, played by Zhang Jiqing.
He served as the artistic director of the youth version of "Peony Pavilion" and was committed to the inheritance and development of Kunqu opera
For the title of "Zhang Sanmeng", when interviewed, Zhang Jiqing always stressed the importance of Professor Shi Cheng. "I always feel that this is not because I have any special talent, but because Kunqu opera has too deep accumulation, and I have been fortunate to meet many excellent and tireless teachers." Without the unreserved teaching of the teachers and predecessors, there would be no 'Zhang Sanmeng'. Therefore, over the years, Zhang Jiqing has also paid special attention to the development and inheritance of Kunqu opera.
In 2003, at the sincere invitation of Mr. Bai Xianyong of Taiwan, Zhang Jiqing agreed to serve as the artistic director of the youth version of "Peony Pavilion".
The youth version of "Peony Pavilion" is not only a play performed by young people to young people, but also needs the authentic, orthodox and decent style in the Kunqu performing arts, which is the guiding ideology of Bai Xianyong when planning the youth version of "Peony Pavilion", so Mr. Bai Xianyong insisted that Su Kun's students must worship the old rules of the pear garden, so the main Danjiao actors selected by the play, Shen Fengying, Tao Hongzhen, Gu Weiying, and other three people worship Zhang Jiqing as a teacher and perform the worship ceremony according to the traditional custom of "three prostrations and nine worships".
Zhang Jiqing sorted out the makeup for his beloved disciple.
When the "youth version" "Peony Pavilion" was performed, Zhang Jiqing almost went to the scene and once he found a problem, he promptly raised it to the apprentice. In May 2005, Zhang Jiqing fell in the air while directing rehearsals at the Great Hall of the People in Nanjing, resulting in a fracture of the femur neck. But under such circumstances, she still insisted on participating in the activities of the "youth version" "Peony Pavilion". She said, "Since I have become a master, of course I will be responsible for them to the end." ”
Zhang Jiqing's original name was Yiqing, a one-word change, which has a deep meaning. The word "ji" was changed by her classmates after she specialized in Kunqu opera, which means that the cause of Kunqu opera will be inherited, innovated and developed, and passed on forever.
Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen intern Chen Yue