Mr. Song Shanghua, who was born in 1918 in Chang'an, Shaanxi Province, was admitted to the Yi Folk Society in 1929 and began to study art, and by 1937, when the Yi Folk Society performed in Beiping for the second time, he was still a "green leaf" who often performed for Wang Tianmin, and was not noticed by people. He was nearly 20 years old at the time, and some people ridiculed him as "not a real material" and "there will be no future in art". He was not pessimistic and depressed after hearing this, confident that hard work would change the conditions. He thought that others have good conditions, they can learn less and practice less, their own talent is stupid, the conditions are poor, they have to sweat a few more than others, others can learn twice, they can learn 20 times, they will always learn the hand. Anyway, acting is an ascetic, don't try to save effort and take advantage. This is not the ultimate goal, it must also be "exhausted and go to a higher level", and to achieve integration and penetration on the basis of the meeting, the key is a "pass" word. To turn what others teach into one's own, we must not stick to the rules, we must "think, create, be new, and live"; on the basis of learning, we must not think wildly, the new is produced in the old, we cannot leave the traditional foundation, but we must go beyond the tradition and make it move forward and develop, so there is a problem of "creation". The so-called "living" means that it cannot be copied to death, but must become its own way in order to go smoothly. It is he who takes hard study as the foundation, so in addition to rehearsing with everyone in the company, he also goes to bed late and gets up early to practice more. At that time, there was no electric light, just practiced in the moonlight, without a mirror to watch the moon shadow practice, with "incense" to practice the change of eyes, legs and wrists wrapped around the "sandbag" to practice running exercises.
Song Shanghua Yang Ling Custom "Longmen Temple"
Song Shanghua Yang Ling Custom "Kill the Dog and Persuade The Wife"
What is even more admirable is that in the years around 1940, due to the bombing of Xi'an by Japanese planes, the city could not stay, and the students of the whole society had to go to the Guanyin Temple Village in the south of the city during the day to do air defense evacuation, and returned to the city to perform at night. At that time, the life of the drama company was extremely difficult, and the monthly salary was often paid for half a month, and under such circumstances, he and Luo Binghua, Wu Shumin, Yang Lingwu, etc., carried 10 dry steamed buns on their backs (at that time, the drama club provided 10 steamed buns a day) to the Qin Cavity artist Feng Zhimo Dongguan Air Defense Residence to be taught, under the shade of trees, on the lawn, in the earthen cave, over and over again, ten times and hundreds of times to accept Mr. Feng's teachings. Because of his diligent study and hard work, he finally discharged the folding plays such as "Torture Red Lady", "Kill the Dog", "Longmen Temple", "Fisherman's Delight", etc. Before the performance, he also asked Chen Yunong, a famous old artist of Qin Cavity, to reprocess and rehearse, and as soon as he staged, he won the praise of the Xi'an audience: "A leap of glory, the art world won a new voice." The sweat did not flow in vain, and Shaanning passed on the stage name. ”
Song Shanghua "Kao Hong"
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