On the morning of January 12, 2022, the famous opera performance artist Bai Pai's third generation of outstanding inheritors Liu Ping received the outstanding actor Ms. Li Hong of Heilongjiang Provincial Opera Art Center at the ceremony of worshiping in Beijing. In the course of the development of the art of judging, the four major schools of Bai (Yushuang), Xin (Fengxia), Wei (Rongyuan) and Ma (Tai) created a brilliant era of drama criticism. Today, the outstanding descendants of the four major schools, Gu Wenyue of the new school, Li Weiquan of the Wei school, and Ma Huimin of the Ma school gathered together to witness the acceptance of Mr. Liu Ping of the White School, and jointly pass on the torch of the art of commentary, make new contributions to the prosperity and development of the art of opera, and become a good story in Pear Garden.
Liu Ping, a famous opera critic, accepted Li Hong
Liu Ping, a famous opera critic performance artist, is well versed in the fine dice and singing characteristics of Baipai art, combined with its own conditions, advancing with the times, on the basis of inheritance, constantly enriching innovation, bold practice and exploration, enhancing and enriching the artistic expression of Baipai art, forming a distinct singing and performance style, with its delicate and highly tense performance, unique singing voice and artistic appeal that highlights the bones of Baipai art, creating a new era that belongs to their generation of opera critics. It can be called the performing arts of today's white school of drama critics. In his artistic career of more than 60 years, he has made indelible contributions to the inheritance and development of White School art. She not only resumed the performance of many famous white dramas such as "Qin Xianglian", "Du Shiniang", "Zhu Trace", "Noisy Yan Mansion", "Yutang Spring" and so on, but also created and performed new plays such as "The Second Handshake", "Rice Wine Song", "Cheng Zhaocai", "Drama Queen", "Sister Queen", "Erzhu Ma" and other new dramas, creating new drama classics, which are deeply loved by the majority of opera fans and widely sung. In 1985, she won the second Plum Blossom Award for "The Queen of Drama". Teacher Liu Ping is low-key and introverted, humble and diligent, and does not show off, but for the development of the drama critics, in order to inherit the white artists, there has been no slackness or rest. After gradually coming out of the stage, Liu Ping focused her main energy on inheriting and cultivating students. Under the careful cultivation and teaching of Mr. Liu Ping, the fourth generation of outstanding heirs such as Wang Ping of the China Commentary Theater, Zhang Liting of the Tianjin Commentary Theatre, and Liu Yali of the Changchun Commentary Theatre have become the backbone of the art of judging, and have made their own efforts to inherit and enrich the development of the white art of appraisal.
Under the joint witness of the famous critics and special guests, Liu Ping was happy to accept Li Hong as an apprentice, and then passed on the torch, which made the industry insiders and audience fans who loved the art of judging drama feel very happy. Li Hong, from the Heijiang Provincial Drama Art Center, is already a national first-class actor and has created a number of distinct artistic images on the stage of drama criticism. He has starred in plays such as "The Legend of the White Snake and Broken Bridge", "Qin Xianglian Breaking into the Palace", "Qin Xianglian Killing Temple", "Song Jiang Killing Pity" and other plays, and has also starred in many plays such as "The Secret Biography of the Western Empress", "Half River Clear and Half Red" and so on. His starring role in "The Secret Biography of the Western Empress" won the Outstanding Comprehensive Repertoire Award at the 6th China Drama Art Festival, and "Half a Clear River and Half a River Red" was twice awarded the National Stage Art Project Funded Repertoire. Li Hong not only has an outstanding performance on the stage of drama criticism, becoming the best among his peers, with his solid skills and good singing table, he has won the love of the majority of theater fans and audiences, and also starred in the TV series "Nian Lun" as a young Zhang Meng. After the drama was broadcast, it aroused strong repercussions and resonated with the intellectuals and youth groups, and won one of the best feature-length series at the 1995 Golden Eagle Awards of popular television. Although he has made some achievements in his career and has been recognized and praised by industry experts and the general audience, li Hong has a higher artistic pursuit and ideal for himself because of his persistent love for opera art. At the worship ceremony, Li Hong said affectionately that it was his wish for many years to officially worship Mr. Liu Ping as a teacher today, and he was very grateful to Master for his teaching and cultivation. At the same time, we must also redouble our efforts to live up to Master's high expectations, devoutly study White School art, and be an excellent white school art inheritor. Teacher Liu Ping was very happy to receive gao disciple, and expressed her heartfelt wishes to Li Hong to inherit the good white school art, let the white school art bloom again in the black land, and make new contributions to the integrity and innovation of opera art and write a new chapter.
Mr. Ma Huimin, honorary president of the Heilongjiang Provincial Commentary Theater and a well-known opera critic and performance artist, said that as a party literary and art worker, we should not forget our original intention of following the art, have a sincere heart, persist in carrying forward the right path, unremittingly pursue the value of life of virtue and art, and support young people to inherit and promote the art of opera. Only by letting them pick the beams and become the protagonists can our opera career prosper and develop in the future.
Group photo of the guests
Famous opera critics Fu Jiaxiang, Zhuang Juezhen, Kong Qingyu and famous opera critics Liu Wentian, famous opera critics Zhao Jiashen and Liu Deshi, as well as Mr. Liu Ping's personal disciple, famous critic and vice chairman of the Beijing Dramatists Association Wang Ping and Yu Feng, deputy director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Heilongjiang Province, Lin Li, former director of the Joint Department of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Guan Bo, secretary of the party committee and director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Drama Art Center, Cai Changxu, deputy general manager of the China Commentary Theatre, and Li Gang, vice president and famous director of the Chinese National Culture Promotion Association, Luo Song, editor-in-chief of China Drama News, attended the ceremony together.