A few days ago, I chatted with a family member who didn't like Peking Opera at all, and I happened to talk about Peking Opera. I asked him, who do you know about the actors who sing Peking Opera? He thought about it and said: I know two people, one is Mei Lanfang and the other is Wang Peiyu.
I felt surprised after listening to it, is Wang Peiyu now so famous, has it been compared with Mei Lanfang?
Then I asked him: What are the characteristics of Mei Lanfang and Wang Peiyu? My family shook their heads: I really don't know. Mei Lanfang is an artist I have known since I was a child, but I only know the name, and I really can't say anything about the characteristics and advantages of his Peking Opera. Wang Peiyu I don't know, but on the Internet, many people mentioned that he once accused and criticized Guo Degang in an interview, so I only knew that there was such a number one person in the Peking Opera circle. I couldn't help but laugh when I listened.
Also out of curiosity, I found Wang Peiyu's homepage on the headline number, and she herself marked it as the fourth generation of Yu Pai infection. I personally don't know much about Peking Opera, so I searched the Internet for the main genres of Peking Opera, and I was surprised after watching it.
Because I saw that there were as many as twenty or thirty genres of Peking Opera, in addition to the names of Mei Lanfang, Qiu Shengrong, etc., which we are familiar with, there are other people's names, which I did not know at all.
Of course, it is normal that I don't know, because after all, I don't like this art, but I found a very serious problem, that is, I looked up the information, and everyone was saying that there were many genres of Peking Opera. Some of the likes are used to calling them which faction, and some are relatively recognized by everyone, but it is not excluded that some belong to the boastful and set up their favorite horns as a certain faction.
This reminds me of what Wang Peiyu said when he criticized Guo Degang. In an interview with Yang Lan, he said that Guo Degang's Peking Opera was not authentic, that is, the level of senior fans. As for the level of the voters, I will not judge them here. I was just thinking, there are so many genres of Peking Opera, there are so many, so which school is authentic?
We can examine from the law of the development of things: before the Huiban entered Beijing, then its genre or style and the Huiban after entering Beijing are actually very different, there are many regional factors, there are also many audience factors, of course, more is the actor's performance method changes. Because of these changes, it is wonderful, because the characteristics are different, so gradually formed many genres.
It is also very certain that many Peking Opera people are also constantly transforming Peking Opera in accordance with their own ideals and their own characteristics, so that we can see the spectacular scene of so many genres existing at the same time today.
From this point of view, Wang Peiyu, as a descendant of the Yu Sect, accused Guo Degang or others, and said that your singing was not authentic, which is really unbelievable.
The reason is very simple, before this genre appeared, then this genre must be unauthentic, and then this singing method was recognized by the audience, the support of the masses, and gradually formed such a genre. So are you saying that this genre is authentic during or before it is formed?
In this way, Guo Degang's singing is not authentic, and this statement is not rigorous, unscientific, and not generous.