Luo Yushengtu, the creator of the "Luo Sect" Jingyun Big Drum
Luo Yusheng (August 31, 1914 – May 5, 2002), who used the stage names "Xiaocai Dance" and "Xiaocai Dance", was a famous Chinese contemporary music master, a master of drum music, the founder of the "Luo School" art of Jingyun big drum, and the "Golden Voice Drum King". Luo Yusheng began to learn Peking Opera at the age of 7, and at the age of 9, he worshiped Su Huanting as a teacher, performed on stage in 1926, changed to singing the Jingyun Drum in 1931, worshiped Han Yonglu as a teacher in 1934, and performed the Jingyun Drum for the first time in Beijing in 1939. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1979, was elected chairman of the China Qu Artists Association in 1985, was hired as the art director of the China Northern Qu Art School in 1986, and was appointed as a special researcher of the China Academy of Arts in 1994. His representative works include "Sword Pavilion Ringing Bells", "Yu Boya Wrestling", "Hongmei Pavilion", etc., and died of illness on May 5, 2002 at the age of 88.
With his tireless exploration and efforts, Mr. Luo Yusheng founded the "Luo School" Jingyun, which is characterized by its round characters, sweet voice, euphemistic lyricism and mellow charm, which opened up a new aspect of the Jingyun drum art and reached the peak of this art form; Its representative repertoire includes "Sword Pavilion WenLing Bell", "Ugly End YinChu", "Hongmei Pavilion", "Zi Period Listening to the Qin", "Heshi Bi" and the theme song of the TV series "Four Worlds Together" "Reorganizing the Rivers and Mountains for Future Life"; He was a member of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an honorary member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the chairman and honorary chairman of the China Qu Artists Association, and the vice chairman of the Tianjin Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Luo Yusheng in his youth
【Artistic features】 She sang "Sword Pavilion Smelling Bells", that low and gentle tone, such as crying, making people drunk, when singing "My concubine...", the sincere and deep feelings, suddenly burst out, making people sick.
【Artistic Heritage】Luo Yusheng is committed to the dissemination of the art of the Jingyun big drum, and Lu Yiqin (1934-) and Liu Chun'ai (1949-) are his two most influential disciples. In his later years, he also accepted the famous film performance artist Wang Tiecheng, Peking Opera actor Li Mengxiong, the opera critic Wang Guanli, and the Taiwanese student Li Hong as disciples, in an attempt to spread a broader space for the broader and profound art of music and art.
Since its recognition in the 1980s, the independent factional status of the Luo school jingyun big drum has become an important part of the art of jingjin drum music, and the Luo school has formed a three-legged situation with the Liu school and the White school. With the unremitting efforts of the disciples of the Luo Sect, there are many lovers, especially young people, who love the Luo Pai Jingyun Drum, which has built a beautiful tomorrow for the future of this form of music and art.
The strong lyrical color makes "Sword Pavilion Ringing Bells" obviously different from other genres, and it deserves to become the most famous song section of the Luo School. Before Luo Yusheng, the Beijing rhyme drum, especially Liu Pai's repertoire, was mostly based on the story of the performance, while "Sword Pavilion Wenling Bell" was mainly lyrical, with a mournful and desolate tune, trying to render the depression and loneliness of the palace in the autumn wind and autumn rain, Luo Yusheng based on the repeated taste of the lyrics, using skillful singing skills, delicately outlined the Tang Ming Emperor's complex mood of reminiscing about the past, regret, shame, resentment, and hatred. After listening to it, people are like drinking alcohol mash, and they don't feel drunk into it, which is a rare art masterpiece.