<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > father is my mother's second man</h1>
My father, Guan Zhengming, was an old actor in the Wuhan Peking Opera Troupe, and my mother, Li Qianghua, was a Peking Opera actor of the Cheng School. They are all people with high artistic talents, and they have become famous very early. When my mother was 14 years old, she chose to sing opera by herself and support a drama team. My father was a leader of the "orthographic generation", and at the age of 15, he made the movie "Song of Ancient China" with Gu Zhengqiu. In the early 1950s, my parents entered the Wuhan Peking Opera Troupe. But my father was not my mother's first man, my mother had three men in her life: Ding Cunkun, my father Guan Zhengming and Master Yu Zhenfei.
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Ding Cunkun was a ticket fan, a lover of Peking Opera, and also the so-called Shanghai Xiaokai at that time, with money in his family, he went to Hong Kong in 1949, and he was also quite prestigious in the Hong Kong ticket industry. According to my mother, after she was with Ding Cunkun, Ding Cunkun would not let her go out to sing anymore, because she did not worry about spending money. But my mother loves drama, she is a person who wants to sing opera, and she is not allowed to sing opera. Then they separated.
My father sang opera because his family was poor when he was a child, so he was sent to the Shanghai Opera School, and he was the best old student in that school so far. My father's previous name was Guan Baoyong, and later he entered the "Zheng" generation and changed his name to Guan Zhengming.
My dad was smart and stubborn, and I was more like his temper—a little more sleek than he was. In addition to singing traditional plays all his life, my father engaged in original plays, whether it was modern themes or historical themes, and it is estimated that he had more than thirty plays, which was rare in that era. He is a person who does not conform to the stereotypes, all the singing voices of the old plays, to his mouth singing out are different from others, he has an extremely strong personal color, very particular about the way to spit words, I have been greatly influenced by him in this regard.
My mother and Ding Cunkun have one child, that is, my eldest sister, and my father has two children: my second sister and me, and I am the only son of my mother. When I was a child, they didn't have time to take care of me, the performance task was heavy, of course, the income was also high, I remember that at that time, the two of them added up to more than two thousand yuan a month, and ordinary workers at that time also had dozens of dollars to support a big son. But my parents have never been accustomed to me, the tutor is very strict, there are many rules, in my impression never had a meal with adults, they are all at the side of the small table a few children eat together, after eating obediently to the side to write homework. When I was a child, I didn't wear new clothes, I always picked up my sister's clothes and put them on until I was in elementary school.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > because of the bitterness, my father taught me to sing</h1>
My parents were very righteous and charitable people, and some of the details I later heard others say, and some of them were my own impressions.
At that time, when riding a tricycle, every time the car money of two or three cents would always be given an extra dime and two cents, it was always like this. In the summer, it is hot, buy cantaloupe and take it to the backstage, there is a large wooden basin in the background, put a few pieces of ice in it, and put the melon on the ice. After the performance, I will leave, cut the melon in half, take half of it, and give half to a few masters who are engaged in costumes. The wuhan peking opera troupe and my parents' peers, except for the horns, have hardly received help from my parents, some of which are in life, some in art.
During the Cultural Revolution, my parents suffered greatly, both mentally and physically. Because my father had a personality to change his singing voice, during the Cultural Revolution, he changed the singing voice of "Carrying Baskets and Selling Cinders" in "Red Lantern" and other plays, and was said to be tampering with revolutionary model plays, eating ear scrapers every day is a common thing, and seven ribs were broken before and after.
My parents didn't think to teach me to sing, but I grew up in the background, and the children who grew up in the background knew the rules, the knives and guns were not random, and the lines were definitely not touched. Later, when I learned drama, it should be said that I did not intentionally insert willows, but it also had something to do with the Cultural Revolution.
In 1971, my parents came home from the cowshed, but it didn't mean they were politically liberated, so they couldn't go on stage and could only watch others go to the stage, which was very depressing for them. I remember one winter night, I was sitting on a small stool in the kitchen washing my feet, and my dad was sitting on the opposite side, and suddenly said, "I sing two sentences and you listen?" "I said okay. He sang "Shuo Wind Blowing" (at that time, he could not sing traditional plays, only model plays), sang twice, and asked me: "Is there any difference?" I said, "It's no different!" He said, "Then I'll sing it to you." Sing it twice more and ask: Is there any difference? I still don't know. He said: "Let me tell you, the first time I sang it with 'water', and the second time I sang it very intensively. ”
From that night on, my father taught me to sing little by little. He didn't expect me to be able to sing opera as a profession, in fact, he really had no place to sing, he was more depressed, and he took me as a small listener. At that time, the school was not in class, and I had nothing to do, who knew that the more I learned, the greater the interest, and my father also thought that this child was OK.
I am grateful from the bottom of my heart to my father, who laid a very good foundation for me. Later, people said that Guan Dongtian in the Peking Opera circle for more than 200 years was an outlier, never hanging his throat, picking it up and singing. But they didn't know how much effort I had used when I was a child, and how good a foundation my father had laid for me.
In 1974, I became a Zhiqing, in 1977 I returned to Wuhan as a worker, and later I was admitted to the Wuhan Peking Opera. In fact, the most primitive motivation for me to sing opera and be a professional actor is to prove to everyone that Guan Zhengming and Li Qihua's sons are good. wen
At the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1978, my father and my mother could not get by. Their divorce was accompanied by me, which was particularly painful, but I knew there was no way to get it back. At that time, my second sister sentenced it to my father, and I sentenced it to my mother. Later, my mother asked me, "I'm going to Shanghai, so who of you is going with me?" "I was 22 years old and I said I was still willing to be with my father from a singing point of view. My sister loves to dress up, loves to be pretty, and yearns for the metropolis, so let my sister go with her mother. After deciding I cried all night, for the separation of my family, for my own future.
Two years before my father's death, I talked to me about this passage with my mother, which was more euphemistic, in short, I felt that I was handled sloppily at that time, and I had something I couldn't do, and I was very touched to hear it.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > I'm much happier than actors of my generation</h1>
A lot of people in the stands of Guan Dongtian, ho, what a horn! I knew in my own heart that I was far from my father.
On November 25, 1981, I performed "Playing Gold Bricks" in Shanghai, which became a hit. I myself have no foundation in martial arts, and when I learned to play at the age of 15, my waist and legs were hard. But when I wanted to learn after watching the play "Playing gold bricks", my father went to talk to Teacher Tan Yuanshou, and Teacher Tan Yuanshou was full of promises and was willing to help. That's why I learned this play, and I was able to be red.
Although I was red, as long as my father watched my play, he would carry a small book while watching and remembering, and after the play, he told me that in his eyes I always had room to improve. I am much happier than the actors of the same generation, because in our group of actors, my parents are not doing this much, and my parents themselves are horns, deeply accomplished, and have their own views. So later, I cooperated with Zhou Libo, and I also talked to him like this every time, at first he listened to it and changed it, but then... I was wrong.
Then again. Once I was in Jiangsu to perform "Playing Gold Bricks", the last one had to be turned over and fell, the song was finished, the song was finished, and an upside-down tiger did not finish well, rubbing his eyebrows. At that time, we lived in the backstage of the performance, on a hot day, there were tears and sweat on my face after the performance, and I told my father that if I didn't sing, I was a little timid, after all, I didn't have such a good foundation. My father didn't say anything: "No, you have to sing!" "At that time, the wound hurt, and my heart was even more aggrieved." Performing in Yancheng in 1983, I didn't know what to eat, I ate badly, had diarrhea, and ran the toilet thirteen times a day. In the evening, I performed "Qun Borrow Hua", my "Hua Rong Dao", my father before Lu Su and after Kong Ming. When I played Guan Laoye, my legs stood on the table and trembled, shaking while standing, but I couldn't play back, I had to sing—my father's requirements for me were too strict.
In 1984, I was transferred from Wuhan Peking Opera House to Shanghai Peking Opera House. At that time, my mother was already married to the Kunqu master Yu Zhenfei. At that time, many people did not understand and even distorted the marriage between my mother and Elder Yu, that is, I did not understand my mother, my mother had seen the big world, had seen big money.
My mother took good care of Elder Yu. For the sake of Elder Yu, she was transferred to the Shanghai Drama School as a teacher, stopped singing, and devoted herself to serving the old man. The old man's eating and wearing is very exquisite, drinking chicken soup is to shelve ham, eating egg fried rice is to dip jam, eating meat dumplings to dip in sugar, and scalding feet with very hot water at night. Later, I also thought that if my mother treated my father with this attitude, why would the two people end up flying apart... But because of this, I have met many famous characters and seen a lot of good dramas.
Peking Opera used to be a popular art, but now it has become a niche art. In the past two years, young people have gradually become a fashion to listen to Kunqu opera, and there are still not many people listening to Peking Opera. In terms of artistic value, I personally believe that Peking Opera is more open, more inclusive and more absorbent than Kunqu Opera. Peking opera incorporates many of the strengths of other local operas, the previous Peking opera is different from the present, the traditional Peking opera - even in the 230s and 40s of the last century - is different from the present, the same repertoire in the stage, dress, dress, performance are very different.
Peking opera is an art that needs to be passed on, but now it faces great problems in inheritance. In the past, my parents used to tell me: If you want to improve, you must perform with good actors, and it will work with them to perform ten times than yourself. I have seen almost all the Peking Opera artists who are still alive after the Cultural Revolution, and I have performed on the same stage with many famous artists.
In fact, many of today's children have very good conditions of their own, waist and legs, looks, heads, voices, all good. What are they missing? If you have never seen a "good" corner, if you have not even seen what is "good", how do you know that it is "good" and where it is "good"? So how to pass it on? What to pass on? But I don't blame them! Although there are various materials, it is impossible to fully show the charm of the predecessors, not to mention that too many predecessors have not left information, which is a pity. It is time to significantly increase the working and living conditions of employees,
Let them have self-esteem, have self-confidence, learn more, practice more, and act more, while some teachers are still teaching, hurry up and inherit!
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