Peking Opera is an important expression of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and many artistic elements are used as symbols of traditional Chinese culture. The Peking Opera performance system named after Mei Lanfang is regarded as a representative of the oriental theater performance system and is one of the three major performance systems in the world. From ancient times to the present, thousands of Peking Opera artists have used their lives to follow the footsteps of the national essence, build dreams with ingenuity, and make the ancient rhyme flow. Hu Chunhua, secretary of the party committee and president of the Beijing Opera House in Yunnan Province, is a performance artist who cultivates dreams and inherits his ingenuity on the road of Peking Opera art. If it is said that the integration of Yunnan national folk culture into the national essence of Peking Opera and the formation of a unique style of Yunnan Peking Opera began with Guan Sushuang and other peking opera performance artists of the older generation, then Hu Chunhua, as the leader of Yunnan Peking opera art in the new era, the disciple of Mr. Mei Baojiu, and the first "plum blossom" of Yunnan Peking opera, can show the unremitting efforts and pursuit of national art as a new generation of artists and the watchmen of Yunnan Peking Opera.
Hu Chunhua, an outstanding expert of the Ministry of Culture, an expert enjoying special government allowances of the State Council, a national first-class actor, a second-level inspector of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Yunnan Province, and the secretary and president of the Party Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Peking Opera House, a national-level key academy. Born in 1965, she has a good face and a talented voice, and she can easily imitate large sections of singing and dancing movements in movies from an early age. At the age of 11, Hu Chunhua was admitted to the Peking Opera Department of the Yunnan Provincial Literary and Art School, a national key secondary school, and began his career in Peking Opera. At the edge of Dianchi Lake, under the weeping willows, facing the first rays of the morning sun, the figure of this little girl who practiced diligently in the past still remains in the memory of the old teachers of the school.
In 1982, at the age of 16, Hu Chunhua graduated with honors from the Peking Opera Department of the Yunnan Provincial School of Literature and Art and was assigned to the Second Troupe of the Yunnan Provincial Peking Opera House, which was president by the famous Peking Opera performance artist Guan Sushuang. Through observation and performance, Hu Chunhua fully appreciated and learned the stage artistic style and performance skills of Guan Sushuang, Liu Meijuan and other famous Peking Opera artists, and rehearsed plays such as "Noble Concubine Drunk", "Phoenix Returns to the Nest", "Wangjiang Pavilion", "Zhuangyuan Media", "The Legend of the White Snake", "Shilang Visits His Mother", "Bawang Bijie", "Yutang Chun", "Red-maned Horse", "Daino" and other plays. At that time, the traditional peking opera performances were soon restored, and the first and second troupes of the Beijing Opera House in Yunnan Province performed frequently. In 1985, Hu Chunhua won the first prize for the performance of young and middle-aged actors held by the Beijing Opera House in Yunnan Province for starring in "Three Churches Triage".
In 1992, Hu Chunhua entered the Performance Department of the China Academy of Performing Arts for further study, and was successively passed down by famous artists such as Yu Yuheng of the Wang Pai and Cai Yinglian of the Zhang Pai, on the basis of inheriting the performance characteristics of the Peking Opera genre, her artistic understanding was "blue out of the blue", and in shaping the role performance, she pursued the delicacy of performance, skill and creative intentions, and began to emerge in the Peking Opera art world. Kung Fu pays off, under the care and guidance of Yuheng, through diligent study and hard work, Hu Chunhua won the Best Performance Award of the Yunnan Provincial Young Actors Competition with a play "Holding the Seal".
In 1996, the Beijing Opera House of Yunnan Province launched the newly created play "Dream Breaking Monument Cold", which has sharp contradictions and conflicts, ups and downs in the storyline, and vivid character images. As an outstanding young actor who focuses on cultivating in the hospital, Hu Chunhua was selected as the heroine of the play, Ah Ji, with a sweet voice and strong comprehensive artistic ability. Hu Chunhua carefully studied the script, carefully pondered the inner world of the characters, regarded the plot as the logic of character development, regarded the shaping of the character image as the ultimate goal of creation, handled the relationship between the plot and the characters, mobilized all artistic means, and spared no effort to create a touching and profound image of the rich and full protagonist Ah Ji. Due to the profound ideological nature, distinct artistry and strong Ethnic Customs of Yunnan, the play won the 7th "Wenhua New Repertoire Award" of the Ministry of Culture, and Hu Chunhua won the "Wenhua Performance Award", becoming the first person in the Yunnan Peking Opera industry to receive this honor.
With the success of "Dream Breaking And Monument Cold", Hu Chunhua began to be satisfied not only with staying in the shaping of the stage character image, she diligently sought to explore continuously, find a new starting point for the vitality of ancient traditional opera art, realize the development of Yunnan Peking Opera integrity and innovation, and organically integrate Peking Opera, which originated from the ancient traditional opera art in the Central Plains, with the excellent ethnic folk culture of Yunnan, and realize the development mode of cross-border expansion. So far, Hu Chunhua's performance has stood out, praised one after another, and its reputation has risen, with a richer connotation, and has become a bright business card of the Beijing Opera house in Yunnan Province. In 2001, Hu Chunhua starred in the newly created play "Feng's Yilan", pushing his artistic standards to a new height. This masterpiece, which shows a strong national style and is full of profound philosophical thinking, became a dark horse at the 3rd China Peking Opera Arts Festival held by the Ministry of Culture that year, and won all the individual awards of the festival. Hu Chunhua also won the "Excellent Performance Award" of the China Peking Opera Festival with this play, which had an impact on the whole country and became famous.
In 2008, the newly created play "Bai Jie Shengfei" put the Yunnan National Epic on the peking opera stage, excavated the creative theme with a new dramatic perspective, introduced the fierce external conflict into the inner world of the characters within the framework of legends and epics, and focused on showing the collision and struggle of Bai Jie and Pi Luoge's own souls, reflecting the complex and painful process of kindness and evil, morality and hatred intertwined with each other from political obscurantism to political enlightenment experienced by the ancient and distant tribal people, and taking Lady Bai Jie as the embodiment of the ideal. It expresses the historical choice of the tribes of the Six Commandments to yearn for peace, end war and strife, and attach themselves to the territory of the Tang Dynasty. This play has a high degree of difficulty, Hu Chunhua successfully uses singing, reading, doing, and dancing to portray the characters, strengthening the dramatic conflict of the characters' inner world, not only completing the narrative of the event, but also providing a shocking stage viewing. The tearing lament, the tearing tears; The lifelike beauty and courage constitute the grand tragicomedy of the historical moments in the national epic, and add a rare artistic image to the character gallery of Chinese Peking Opera art. This artistic pursuit not only broadens the expressive space of opera art, but also creates a new artistic image based on the changes and development of national culture in Peking opera art, overcoming the tendency of single characters and conceptualization. It shows the organic combination of modern theater consciousness and ancient Peking Opera art. Mrs. Bai Jie, played by Hu Chunhua, sang fourteen complete segments in the play, with rich vocal cavity and complete plate style, reflecting the singing skills and talents of the performers. Hu Chunhua actively explored and appropriately used ethnic elements, enriching the ornamentation and interest of the play. For example, in the design of costumes, it not only absorbs Yunnan elements, but also belongs to the unification of Peking Opera costumes, forming a design style that is both in line with the style of Peking Opera and has national characteristics. In the design and conception of stage art, the scenery and the play are organically connected, realizing the combination of the real-life use of Cangshan Mountain, Erhai and Butterfly Spring and the virtual performance of opera, so that the stage presentation becomes transparent and beautiful, the thickness and light are suitable, the scenes are blended, creating a stage atmosphere consistent with the plot, and striving to explore the stage expression method of the national theme of Peking Opera. These active explorations have promoted the gradual formation of the personality characteristics and artistic characteristics of Yunnan National Opera, the art of Chinese Peking Opera. Hu Chunhua, who plays Mrs. Bai Jie, won the "Plum Blossom Performance Award", the highest award in Chinese theater performing arts, and Hu Chunhua became the first artist to win the "Plum Blossom Award" at the Beijing Opera House in Yunnan Province. So far, Yunnan Peking Opera art has won the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award for the first time, fulfilling the plum blossom dream of several generations of Peking Opera artists in Yunnan.
The shaping of the characters in the play depends on the pace of its crossing of space, and the transformation of life roles determines the greater responsibility. Because of his outstanding artistic achievements and noble personality, hu Chunhua became the fourth president of the Peking Opera House in Yunnan Province in 2008, transforming from a pure Peking Opera performance artist to a manager with a big shoulder. The transformation of duties and roles is far more colorful and complex than the role she plays in each row, and the management work is specific and responsible. Hu Chunhua has done a lot of fruitful work by grasping the unremitting artistic foundation, grasping the continuous introduction of plays, and grasping the cultivation of young talents; on the basis of inheriting traditions, the Yunnan Provincial Peking Opera House has always been in the forefront of local theaters and troupes, and maintaining the excellent business of the national key Peking Opera Theater. She grew up day by day, knowledgeable, gentle and generous, steady and generous to treat people and things, know cold and warm to love and care for the comrades around her, full of enthusiasm to find resources to find the script to ask the director to create a rehearsal play, to create opportunities for the growth of young actors, "please come in, send out", "worship famous teachers, learn famous dramas", she embodies a "big Green Coat" grace and generosity temperament, become a representative artist of Peking Opera, and take Chinese opera culture as her own value, soul return, and home , showing the mission and cultural self-confidence of an excellent artist.
Artists in the new era should strengthen cultural self-confidence, grasp the pulse of the times, and listen to the voice of the times. Hu Chunhua has a profound foundation and endless charm in inheriting China's excellent traditional culture; he also grasps the pulse of the times and never refuses to be complacent; adhering to the fundamentals of Peking Opera as the most inclusive genre, insisting on the courage and ability to continuously inherit and develop innovation, attaching importance to the strengths of all, and spending effort and effort on the selection of repertoire and performance work, so that the fashion charm of Yunnan Peking Opera will always exist. Innovate with a respectful heart, spread with a heart of love, and let the national art drama flow.
In 2018, Hu Chunhua became a second-level inspector of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Yunnan Province, in the face of new posts and new challenges, she studied hard to adapt to the knowledge literacy requirements of her new identity; she took the responsibility and responsibility of a communist, went deep into the grassroots research, participated in the performance of cultural caravans to benefit the people, grasped poverty alleviation, based on the development of the academy and troupe, and grasped the party building work; as a famous Peking Opera performance artist with both virtue and art, she always adhered to the people-centered creative concept, rooted in the land of Yunling, and inherited the national essence, Tell the story of China well.
Yunnan network correspondent Chen Ruiqi