Star Online January 24 news (correspondent Zhou Shihao) body like a dragon, skirt like a flying swallow, if the phoenix wing of the swift, like the rapid disease of the flying bird... The performance of "White Eel Viewing", the posture is enchanting and soft, and the hands and feet are raised, revealing a youthful aura, and also playing the happy situation of the white eel fairy girl coming to the human world and being attracted by the beauty of the mountains and rivers along the way. Chen Yuqing, a young actor from changsha flower drum opera protection and inheritance center, made a stunning appearance on the stage and instantly grabbed the audience's attention.
(Chen Yuqing is performing "Flower Drum Play White Eel Viewing Scene". )
In the "Popular Cuckoo" award selection for the three major tracks of Xiang Opera, Song and Dance Instrumental Music and Flower Drum Opera during the Changsha "Rhododendron Award" Youth Drama Competition, as a young actor participating in the Flower Drum Opera Circuit, Chen Yuqing's performance received a high evaluation of 331840 points from netizens, and won the best popularity of the Flower Drum Opera Group. In an interview, Chen Yuqing was very modest about winning the award. "To win this award, I need to thank my family and friends for their support, and it is inseparable from the help of leaders and colleagues, it is a beautiful encouragement and guidance for me, and in the future on the road of opera, we must continue to work hard and perform more good works."
(Chen Yuqing's award certificate.) )
A beautiful "accident", the 13-year opera road of the flower drum play elf
Without the influence of the ear and the allusion of the family origin, Chen Yuqing's opera road was quietly opened in the summer of 13 years ago, and she herself did not know that this skill would become the most important color in her life.
"It's really a coincidence that I got into this line. Generally speaking, if you are in this industry, people who enter the industry are either engaged in this line of work among their parents and elders, or they are often immersed in this art in their own lives and fall in love with this art. Chen Yuqing smiled and said that he was an accident, and entering this line was quite a bit of a "heartless willow" taste. "My hometown is in Zhuzhou YouXian County, and since I started playing a small note, I don't seem to have been in much contact with opera, and no one in our family has studied opera. It was because when I was in junior high school, I participated in the art school enrollment, and then I was admitted, came to the school to study, and took the first class to know that it was a flower drum drama class. ”
Chen Yuqing recalled that at that time, her parents did not support her to learn drama. "Because I came from the countryside and the conditions at home were not particularly good, my family still hoped that I would be able to enter the university in a serious way." Chen Yuqing also has a younger brother, when the younger brother was also in the study stage, the sensible Chen Yuqing heard that he could work after studying drama for two years, and immediately decided to learn drama. "Being able to work early and reduce the burden on my family was the first thing I thought of at the time, and my academic performance in school at that time was also very good, I could learn cultural knowledge while learning drama, and finally my family also agreed to my decision to learn drama."
But everything is as easy as I imagined, Chen Yuqing said bluntly, "Practicing in school is completely different from what I imagined, because I have never been exposed to opera, from singing, dancing, and even basic skills, I am like a great enemy." Because it is a comprehensive art creation, and when I was studying drama, I was already 13 years old, in fact, I was already older, but I was not afraid of this, others can do what I can do, I started from scratch. ”
After experiencing the tempering of the art school, Chen Yuqing soon became a skilled person in the group of classmates, after graduation, Chen Yuqing chose to come to Changsha, while practicing at the Hunan Provincial Academy of Arts, "from the small city of my hometown to Changsha, suddenly saw the outside world, only to find that the outside world is so vast, my vision was also opened, every day is to accept and learn new things." ”
(Stills from Chen Yuqing's performance.) )
The sunshine road encounters "haze", and the will is firm and never gives up
Step by step, Chen Yuqing's opera road also extended towards the sunny place, but the smooth road was always bumpy, because an accidental fall almost changed the trajectory of Chen Yuqing's life. "At that time, we were rehearsing in the rehearsal hall, because there were more people, the venue was relatively small, I accidentally fell down when practicing the skills of the basic skills, at that time because I was too young and did not care too much, I continued to practice, after practicing continuously for a week, I found that my hips were all swollen, and I went to the hospital for examination at this time."
Lying on the hospital bed, looking up at the gray ceiling, Chen Yuqing's mood fell to the bottom. "I was very uncomfortable during that time, the doctor said to have surgery, because the soft tissue in the leg has been deformed, so at that time I thought about giving up, normal people have problems walking, how can you perform a performance on stage?" 」
Chen Yuqing said that if the mood has color, she was filled with gray during that time. "At that time, I originally had a long hair, but also the mood was lost, I was frustrated, directly cut off this long hair that had been left for many years, cut it very short and very short, watching the hair fall to the ground inch by inch, at that moment I seemed to feel that my artistic career was going to be like hair, an inch fell." 」
The mood is in the darkest moment, but the companionship and encouragement of family and colleagues eventually let the haze dissipate. Chen Yuqing said, "In those days, my family, friends and colleagues have been accompanying me, and then my legs were slightly better, I returned to the unit again, and everyone came to comfort me, that is, it doesn't matter, even if you give up the difficulty of moving your legs, you can also practice running round field, water show and other physical training." Now, Chen Yuqing's legs are also slowly recovering, "I persevered, did not give up, I will continue to walk on this road, will not be a deserter." ”
Video masters, promoting opera culture in the form of new media
Applause and flowers are symbols of glory on the stage, and sweat and pain are the testimony of hard work under the stage. Although he is still a post-95s, Chen Yuqing's opera career, applause and flowers, sweat and pain, have not been absent.
In Chen Yuqing's view, it is precisely these complex and diverse elements that are interlaced and superimposed to create the colorful vision of art. "The times are changing, the dream of pursuing art will not change, the platform will change, and the expectations of promoting art will not change." With the advent of the new media era, short video platforms have become an important social tool for the current urban population, Chen Yuqing also saw this wind coming, she usually uses her short video account to spread flower drum drama, and her personal account currently has 360,000 fans.
In her short video account, Chen Yuqing often uses opera to express her love for her hometown, spread happiness at the same time, and let more people feel the charm of flower drum drama. "Xiqu is a treasure of traditional Chinese culture, although the history of flower drum opera is only more than 200 years, but the spirit of opera we inherit is the same, the sword blade is sharpened from the grinding, the plum blossom fragrance comes from the bitter cold, learning opera is the need to endure loneliness, the inheritance of opera is a persistence, a responsibility, but also an attitude."
Chen Yuqing said that many netizens learned about the flower drum opera through the video, and also understood that in the opera culture, every action, a look, and a singing voice contain rich Chinese culture, "This is a very positive cultural dissemination, which can make everyone pay attention to the opera and have a resonance with the spiritual world in the opera culture. ”
Looking back at the growth path of his own opera, Chen Yuqing could not help but sigh, "More than ten years of time is like a white colt crossing the gap, those pictures are clearly engraved in my mind, the road ahead is still very long, I will say to myself, be a good person, act well, and leave the rest to the future!"
Virtue and art are both sincere, and they feed their hometown with their own strength
On January 22, 2022, in the harsh winter, after some achievements, Chen Yuqing heard from her parents about some lonely widows and empty nesters in her hometown, orphans, children who were poor due to illness who could not afford to go to school, etc. On the occasion of returning home during the Spring Festival, she took the initiative to find the village to carry out love activities, and wanted to do her own meager efforts to help them. Chen Yuqing sent love and condolences to the villagers in need and later went to the nursing home to send condolence money to the elderly in the nursing home, and also performed the national traditional culture and art flower drum opera repertoire for everyone. This act of love and righteousness does not seek fame and fortune, does not want to return, but only wants to use his own actions to help the hometown where she was born and raised her, and the cold winter warms people's hearts, showing the excellent qualities of an actor with both virtue and art.
(During the love activity, Chen Yuqing visited the elderly in his hometown.) Courtesy of the correspondent)
【Biography】
Chen Yuqing is a native of Qunxin Village, Youxian County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province. Pen name Yidong, Douyin number: Flower Drum Opera Yidong, now working in Changsha Flower Drum Opera Protection and Inheritance Center. She innovatively combines her profession with Douyin live broadcast, and is deeply loved by everyone due to her crisp singing voice and creative song adaptation. Won the "Excellent Actor Award" in the "First Hunan Provincial Flower Drum Opera Spring Festival Gala"; He has won the "Outstanding Actor Award" in the Rhododendron Competition several times.