At 8:30 p.m., Ren Siyuan started broadcasting on time, and she tied a pill head and wore headphones. This night, she sang the Peking Opera "Strong Order", telling the story of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Luoyang County ordered Dong Xuan not to fear power, stop the driver, arrest the princess to escort Zhao Biao and correct the law, in this play, Ren Siyuan played Dong Xuan on the stage, and in the live broadcast room, she wanted to take care of all the roles, she sang for a while, will stop to supplement and explain the plot of the story, to ensure that people who do not understand the play can also understand.
"Pay attention to Ren Siyuan, the essence of the country is passed down from generation to generation!" Fan comments.
Ren Siyuan is a 35-year-old flower-faced actor at dalian Peking Theatre. In the Peking Opera circle, she is a well-known young actress, who studied under Mr. Li Changchun, a descendant of the Qiu Sect. In May 2020, Ren Siyuan began to broadcast live on Douyin, and so far, she has sung more than 170 songs in the live broadcast room. She will also combine explanation and performance, one person plays multiple roles in multiple trades, to interpret a whole play, so that people who do not understand Peking Opera can also be interested and like Peking Opera.
Now, she not only inherits the essence of the country through Douyin, but also improves her life by relying on live broadcast income.
Ren Siyuan live on Douyin
A Peking Opera actor decided to broadcast live
After the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, Dalian stopped performing and other gathering activities, Peking Opera actors stopped performing without stopping, Ren Siyuan had to hang her throat with the violinist at one o'clock every afternoon, and the fans said, Si Yuanjie, can you open the live broadcast in Douyin, hanging your throat We want to see. I didn't expect to open the live broadcast, and I actually came in a lot of fans.
With this experience, Ren Siyuan thought, "As a professional Peking Opera actor, why not integrate traditional Peking Opera with new media, and use the platform of live broadcasting to bring Peking Opera and the vast number of opera fans closer?" ”
Subsequently, she decided to officially do live broadcasting on Douyin. At first, she began to broadcast every other day, occasionally sending some clips of her own performances, which lasted for more than a month, and more and more people watched the live broadcast, so she changed to broadcasting every day and fixed the time at 8:30 pm.
At the beginning, fans ordered songs in the comment area, ordered what she sang, and sang for three or four hours without interruption for each live broadcast. The time is long, and the throat can't eat. Slowly, she found her own rhythm. Now on the air, she first chats with the fans, and then sings, interspersed with Lian Mai, which is even if it is a break, and then continues to sing, one night to ensure that she sings more than ten paragraphs, or tell a full play.
As a professional actor of Dalian Peking Opera House, Ren Siyuan put a lot of pressure on live broadcasting. Inside and outside the circle know that after her live broadcast, good and bad questions of affirmation of the various voices came pouring in. Ren Siyuan will also fight with herself, "Do I really want to shake myself out and let so many people comment?" She thought and thought, "After studying Peking Opera for so many years, good or bad, no one knows in your own home, it is useless, only by finding a way to show yourself can more people know you." ”
Ren Siyuan feels that vibrato is the trend of the times. In addition to her own live broadcast, she also wrote a "proposal for Dalian Peking Theater to enter Douyin" to the dean.
She wrote, "I posted a performance trailer on my Douyin personal account on November 30, with 13,000 views and more than 500 likes and comments; if it is operated correctly, I believe it will play a good publicity role and let more people know about our Dalian Peking Opera." ”
The director of dalian Peking Opera House is named Yang Chi, a famous Peking Opera performance artist and an enlightened predecessor who is willing to promote young actors. Yang Chi agreed to Ren Siyuan's proposal and said that this matter should be left to you. She registered a Douyin account for the Dalian Peking Opera House and regularly published videos of the Peking Opera House's performances.
Yang Chi watched Ren Siyuan's live broadcast and determined that the live broadcast content was all related to Peking Opera, promoting traditional culture and publicizing Peking Opera. Yang Chi said, "You do it, I support you!" ”
Now, Ren Siyuan's Douyin account has 160,000 fans, and the number of online people in the live broadcast room is stable at more than 800 every day, and the number of viewers of each show exceeds 30,000, reaching more than 100,000 at most. Ren Siyuan said that the Hongji Grand Stage of Dalian Peking Opera House, the theater seats are only six or seven hundred, and the online way of live broadcasting is very strong for the promotion of Peking Opera, of course, online is also to better promote offline. "There are already many fans in the live broadcast room who are looking forward to the early end of the epidemic and coming to Dalian to watch a live performance of mine."
Peking Opera actors generally have lower incomes. Ren Siyuan's monthly salary is less than 5,000 yuan, and she has starred in one or two plays every month, a few hundred yuan, and the dragon set is even lower, even in Beijing and Shanghai, the performance fee of Peking Opera actors is not high. But with live broadcasting, now her income in the live broadcast room has far exceeded her salary income.
"The live broadcast platform has opened up the market for Peking Opera, on the one hand, it has satisfied the hobbies of the majority of opera fans and audiences, and on the other hand, it has increased the income of Peking Opera actors and achieved a win-win situation." Ren Siyuan said.
Flower-faced girl with shaved head
Ren Siyuan's father was a Fan of Peking Opera. Influenced by her father, Ren Siyuan could sing Peking Opera at the age of 6. Girls who learn Peking Opera will generally choose beautiful roles, such as playing a little girl singing Hua Dan, playing a big girl singing Qingyi, playing a heroic female general, to play Dao Ma Dan, Wu Dan and so on. But the father has a unique ingenuity, the little girl learned danjiao to grab a big hand, not rare, learn how much contrast the flower face is, so let Siyuan sing the big flower face that boys can sing.
Hua Face, also known as Jing Xing, represents a rough and mighty male character type in Peking Opera, and it is necessary to outline the face. Ren Siyuan sang about the brass hammer flower face, and the representative characters were Bao Zheng, Xu Yanzhao and so on.
Ren Siyuan also likes to spend her face, and her personality is also suitable, straightforward and generous, without the twisting of a little girl. At the age of 13, she participated in the Liaoning TV Fan Ring Competition, won three consecutive times, the program art consultant Teacher Li Lintong felt that she had talent, asked her, do you want to be a professional Peking Opera actor? Ren Siyuan said she was willing, but her family was poor and could not afford the tuition. Teacher Li Aicai personally led her to the Liaoning Provincial Art School to meet the principal, and the principal listened to Siyuan sing a piece of Chisang Town, and he met her and waived part of the tuition fee.
Ren Siyuan is a native of Huludao and has school in Shenyang, which is the first time she has left home. In school, every morning at six o'clock to get up to practice, the practice is very hard and boring, kicking, pressing legs, wrenching legs, lower waist, a posture for a long time to keep moving, the arm has to be lifted, if you fall down the teacher's stick will hit.
She missed home, learning Peking Opera was too bitter, and called home every day to cry. Mother said, no, let's not read it, come back. She thought that the conditions at home were not good, all the hopes were in her, if she gave up halfway, her life would be over, and she persevered.
In "The Case of Zhenmei", Ren Siyuan played Bao Zheng
In order to make it easier to hook the face, the flower face actor will shave all his hair. Ren Siyuan shaved her head in the first rehearsal report of entering the school, and on the day she shaved her head, she cried very sadly. From the age of 13 to 19, her teenage years were spent with a bald head.
This had a big impact on her. She wears hats all year round, is recognized as a boy, walks with female classmates, is misunderstood by parents and early love, classmates explain that this is a girl, sacrificing the image of her life for the characters created on the stage; once she went to the public bathroom and forgot to wear a hat, a pregnant woman came in and saw her with a bald head, thinking she was a man, and was scared away; going home on vacation, practicing in the park, there will be people who come to ask, what is the disease of your child? The mother said, my child is healthy, this is for the needs of learning...
It was not until 2006, when Ren Siyuan went to college, that she began to grow her hair, and learned to wrap her hair in a head cloth when she hooked her face, so that it did not affect the stage, and finally looked no different from ordinary girls in life.
Ren Siyuan studied at the School of Drama of Shenyang Normal University. After graduation, Mr. Li Changchun, an 83-year-old man who is an old man who keeps pace with the times, also has the personality of the older generation of artists who regard drama as their destiny.
He went to Ren Siyuan's live broadcast room, watched the dedicated disciples perform seriously, and expressed his affirmation to Siyuan. He said, I don't understand the things of you young people, but it is the right way to use the Internet to promote the influence of the national essence.
Club for the elderly
Since the epidemic, opera actors have become a trend in Douyin live broadcasting, with mostly Yue opera and Huangmei opera, and fewer Peking opera anchors. Although there are famous characters such as Wang Peiyu and Ling Ke, they rarely perform in the live broadcast room. Ren Siyuan did live broadcasting, and also encountered doubts, but she gave herself a clear positioning: "I am a Peking Opera actor, doing live broadcasting, saying that noble is to promote the art of Peking Opera, saying that it is simple, that is, to serve the majority of opera fans and audiences." What's wrong with singing to someone you like? I took advantage of this platform to publicize myself, and also publicized the work unit that vigorously supported me, increased my own income, and enriched the amateur life of hundreds of people.
Ren Siyuan's live broadcast room is mostly middle-aged and elderly Peking Opera fans over the age of 50. There are many fans who make Ren Siyuan's live screen recording plus subtitles into video files and publish them to various platforms. An old man left a message for her, "It is really good to grab the tail of my limited life and appreciate the singing skills of young actors!" Thank you! I have spent 88 spring and autumn in the coordinates of my life, and I strive to be blessed by God to listen to me for a few more years! Ren Siyuan saw this comment and was moved to tears.
In Douyin, Ren Siyuan's fan base exceeds 2,000 people, and Ren Siyuan will dedicate an hour to interact with fans in the fan base every day to express her gratitude and listen to the opinions and suggestions of fans to improve. Sometimes small gifts are also mailed to fans. Ren Siyuan called her fans "family members in the live broadcast room" and "they all regard me as their own girlfriends."
Ren Siyuan prepared for the performance
Ren Siyuan said: "Fans jokingly call our live broadcast room a club for the elderly, and indeed the elderly in our live broadcast room account for a relatively large proportion." She said to the elderly, I hope that I can open a nursing home after retirement, so that your life can be colorful! The old people laughed and said, "Boy, when you retire, we'll be in the ground early."
Fans like Ren Siyuan because Ren Siyuan is pure, and she is really singing to others. She will sing each play enough, and other anchors PK, she said: "Whether we win or lose, we each sing a play, if I win, the anchor on the other side and I learn to sing a piece of Peking Opera, I will show you a demonstration you learn from me, if I lose, I will show the opposite side a piece of Peking Opera." Whether it is Lian Mai or live broadcasting, she always tries to spread Peking Opera by all means, "If there is a person who never listens to Peking Opera and likes Peking Opera through my way, then I have done a very meaningful thing." ”
Some fans sorted out the catalog of singing segments in Ren Siyuan's live broadcast room, and over the past year, Ren Siyuan's performance of Sheng Dan jing was ugly, from "The Case of The Beauty of The Beauty" "Bao Longtu Sat in Kaifeng Province", to "Wen Zhaoguan" "A Round of Bright Moon In Front of the Window", as well as "Noble Concubine Drunk" "The First Turn of the Island Ice Wheel"... A total of more than 170 performances of traditional opera and modern Peking opera were performed.
Fans are always looking forward to seeing Ren Siyuan. Once Siyuan stopped broadcasting one day, the fans were very disappointed, and even directly started training: Yatou, where did the wave go tonight? The message with the most fans was: "I hope Siyuan can continue to live broadcast." She replied, "I'm definitely with you." ”
"Next, I strive to stabilize the number of fans online in the live broadcast room at 1200 before the Spring Festival, and I will insist on live broadcasting and sing to everyone." Because Peking Opera is indeed a good thing left by the old ancestors. Ren Siyuan said, "I also have a dream, in the future to write the history of the spread of Peking Opera on the Internet, I hope I can have a stroke." (Text/Yang Guang)
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