In the 1970s, Chen Shaoyun, a famous Peking Opera performing artist, a national first-class actor and an old student of the Qipai school of the Shanghai Peking Opera Theater, who went from Hongjiang District of Huaihua City to the chinese art stage, was honored on the "Spring Festival Gala" stage for the second time during the Spring Festival this year, and performed wonderfully on the CCTV Opera Channel more than 10 times, was cordially received by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and was praised by the vast number of TV audiences.
Over the past few decades, Chen Shaoyun has worked hard in the art world, strived for excellence, and displayed his talents, and won many honors such as "Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award", "Shanghai Literature and Art Lifetime Achievement Award", "National Representative Inheritor of Peking Opera National Representative Project of National Intangible Cultural Heritage", "Wenhua Performance Award" of the Ministry of Culture and "China Intangible Cultural Heritage Person of the Year" in 2021.
Today, Chen Shaoyun's testimonials on "Passing on the Torch to the Pear Garden" and reprinting the special report articles of "Wenhui Network" are published today, showing Chen Shaoyun's inheritance of Peking Opera art, dissemination of Peking Opera culture, and carrying forward the excellent cultural style of traditional Chinese for the benefit of readers.
Chen Shaoyun: Passing on the love of pear garden from generation to generation
Chen Shaoyun recent photo (file photo)
Xiqu is a program that CCTV Has never been absent in the past 40 years. The Spring Festival Gala stage has unique significance and value for the dissemination of opera culture. I am very excited to participate in this year's Spring Festival Gala performance of the Central Radio and Television Corporation. The opera program I participated in, "Endless Pear Garden Love", which integrates the wonderful performances of multiple dramas, a hundred flowers blooming, famous artists gathering, and famous segments are repeated, highlighting the characteristics and artistic height of this evening.
This show is performed by three generations of actors, including old, middle-aged and young people. There are old artists over eighty years old on the top, and there are little dolls of seven or eight years old. The stage atmosphere is very warm, which fully embodies a "transmission" word, that is, passing on the torch, keeping the integrity and innovation, showing the vitality and vitality of opera art, and fully embodying the prosperity of literary and artistic development.
I performed a fold in "Xu Ce Running City", which is the masterpiece of Zhou Xinfang, the master of the Qi school of Peking Opera. This fold mainly shows the character's overjoyed mood, Xu Ce disregards his old age, does not ride a horse, does not ride a car, walks like the wind, and rushes into the DPRK. The actors sing and dance through movements and dances, such as shaking their hair, grabbing sleeves, kicking robes, staggering steps, and walking faster and stronger paces, etc., to advance the plot to a climax. This is a fold that the audience can't get tired of watching, and it is also a fold that tests the skills of the actors, and a good performance can add color to the party.
I deeply feel that the inheritance of opera art is orderly and vibrant, and I have seen the rapid growth of the younger generation. In the future, I hope that we can be down-to-earth, create more works, let more young people like opera art, and make our art garden more vigorous and vigorous.
From "Xu Ce Running City" to the inheritance of national essence
——See how Chen Shaoyun practices drama
Chen Shaoyun"Beijing costume" stills (file photo)
From "Xu Ce Running City" to the inheritance of national essence, 74-year-old Chen Shaoyun takes you into the city living room of Haipai Peking Opera and ponders the drama together!
"I started to act in "Xu Ce Running City" when I was less than 10 years old, and I have been 'running' for more than 60 years, and now when I perform it again, I still have to constantly ponder the play, constantly improve, and strive for excellence, because the play is bigger than the sky."
The Year of the Tiger Chinese New Year's Eve CCTV Spring Festival Gala, 74-year-old Shanghai Peking Opera Qipai performance artist Chen Shaoyun, performed the first president of Beijing Zhou Xinfang's representative work "Xu Ce Running City" excerpt, "in the past walking can not move, today walking fast as the wind, three steps as two steps, two steps as a walk, hurriedly rushing forward ..." Only to see "Xu Ce" silver whiskers flying, sleeves churning, footsteps like flying, 3 minutes of wonderful performance, live cheers continuously, netizens even exhaled, yyds!
Shanghai is the birthplace of Qipai art, Chen Shaoyun said, 26 years ago had the honor to come to Shanghai to join the Shanghai Peking Opera, "I like Shanghai very much, there is a vast stage here, can make my theatrical life bloom." He hopes to pass on the Qipai art forever, so that more people can feel the charm and charm of the national essence.
The Information Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and Wen Wei Po jointly launched the "Urban Soft Power Telling Series" 100-episode micro-film to tell the beautiful life of Shanghai, a charming city. The first season of "Reasons to Love Shanghai", episode 8 of "The Transmission of the Essence of the Nation", invites Chen Shaoyun, a qipai old student of the Shanghai Peking Opera Theater and a Peking Opera performance artist, to take you into the city living room of Haipai Peking Opera and ponder the opera together!
As a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage Peking Opera project, Chen Shaoyun has handed over his whole life to the stage, and for more than 60 years, he has created hundreds of drama stage images with different personalities and vivid characters in nearly 100 traditional plays, newly written historical dramas and modern plays, and won the seventh "Shanghai Literature and Art Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2019. On January 2 this year, just before going to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala to participate in the performance, in the backstage of the "Jingkun Old Artist" special session of the Tiantou Yifu Stage, we met Chen Shaoyun, who was meticulously wearing makeup, and he played Lu Su in "Grass Boat Borrowing Arrows".
A few days after the performance, he put into rehearsal work again, guiding the young actors in the rehearsal hall of the Shanghai Peking Opera House, preparing for a "Sea Beijing Rhyme" drama on the Shanghai Theater stage during the Spring Festival. Then, he rushed to Beijing to participate in the intense rehearsal of "Xu Ce Running City". After the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, he will return to Shanghai and continue to appear on stage during the Spring Festival.
In this busy New Year, this guardian of traditional opera art infects the people around him with his essence, qi and spirit. He regards performing for the audience as the happiest thing, and also regards the inheritance of the national essence as his mission and responsibility.
Following in Chen Shaoyun's footsteps, we walked into the Shanghai Peking Opera Transmission Hall on Yueyang Road, which was once the location of the Shanghai Peking Opera House, and is now renovated to become a city living room of Haipai Peking Opera, allowing more people to enter traditional culture.
Since the 1980s, generations of Shanghai Peking Opera people have sweated and created miracles here, witnessing the development of Peking Opera in Shanghai for nearly 40 years. Mr. Zhou Xinfang, a master of Peking Opera, was the first director of the Shanghai Peking Opera House, and he created more than 600 plays and performed more than 11,000 times in his lifetime. The Qipai art created by him is a banner of Haipai Peking Opera.
Building 1 of the Peking Opera Chuanxi Hall has a history of more than 100 years, the huge "chuan" character, expressing the mission and original intention of inheriting the national essence, the old house in the "repair as old" at the same time, endowed with new functions of space, each room is named after the word plate, song card. From "transmission" to "xi", the teaching, exhibition, and performance spaces here also allow people who walk in to have more interaction and experience.
Such an artistic public space for Peking Opera has created a new base for the city to learn Peking Opera skills, inherit Peking Opera art, and spread Peking Opera culture, and has also added a refined, elegant and fashionable atmosphere to the city.
Chen Shaoyun said that integrating the spirit of Haipai, which is full of rivers and inclusiveness, into artistic creation, constantly innovating, and activating the vitality of Chinese culture is exactly the characteristic of Haipai Peking Opera, and it is also in line with Shanghai's urban spirit and urban character. He hoped that in this city, more and more people will understand Peking Opera, love Peking Opera, and because of the nourishment of Opera art, they will prefer this great city.
Editor/Li Lejun Editor/Shen Shaofeng Zeng Liang Liao Keyu