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My first teacher was Tian Yulan, who was both an excellent young actor and a teacher who was proficient in opera theory, rich in teaching experience, and highly respected. Once, I washed his feet, and he said to me very carefully, according to your conditions, I will rehearse the play "Sacrifice Guan Zhang" for you. Soon after the official opening of the rehearsal, he invited Teacher Yan Guobin. Yan Lao and Tian Lao, like Liu Guanghua, president of Shangyou Society, are both students of the first phase of the Sanyi Society and enjoy a high reputation in the Qin cavity circle. The play "Sacrifice Guan Zhang" that Elder Yan taught me caused a good response after the performance, laying a solid foundation for me to play XuSheng. After that, Teacher Tian Yulan officially handed me over to Teacher Yan Guobin. At the meeting of receiving apprentices and worshiping teachers held by the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Culture, I officially worshiped Elder Yan as a teacher.
Speaking of Yan Lao, there is also an unforgettable memory. My cultural level is high and small, and I sometimes love to ponder the words and phrases of classical dramas, and I always want to make some changes to the places that I think are inappropriate. When Elder Yan gave me a play called "Sacrifice Guan Zhang", there was a singing line in it: "The old hero who has been released from Yan Yan", I think it is not appropriate, it is not up to the point of meticulousness and accurate portrayal of the character's personality, and the word "has" should be changed to the word "righteousness". When I talked about my opinion, it immediately caused controversy among my classmates, and many people said sarcastically: "Don't breed your arrogant and complacent bad temper!" I disagreed and insisted on my opinion. In addition, in the design of the singing voice, the traditional singing method is two slow plates, and the previous paragraph is slow, regardless of the content of thoughts and the emotions of the characters. The latter paragraph is slow, from the content to the emotion, it seems to be repetitive, specifically: First, The past of Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, Huang Zhong is fully aware; second, Zhang Bao and Guan Xing are also very clear about their father's past; third, all the audiences who watch classical dramas are not strangers to Zhang Fei and Guan Yu. Therefore, this slow singing section should be deleted, otherwise, instead of playing a good artistic effect, it will appear wordy and procrastinating, which will greatly weaken the artistic style of the "Sacrifice" drama. In a small talk, I told Elder Yan the above opinion on the "Sacrifice" drama. Unexpectedly, not only did he not get appreciation and praise, but he was self-defeating, which provoked Yan Laoda's liver fire and was severely reprimanded: "Those that the ancestors made, you are not pleasing to the eye, not satisfactory!" Have the ability, you learn it yourself, I will not teach you in the future! ”
In view of the exquisite skills and lofty prestige of Yan Lao at that time, I could not help but cause a strong shock in my soul: "Isn't losing Yan Lao equivalent to losing your own artistic life?!" Although I feel very remorseful, I feel that I am not wrong. Art should continue to develop, strive for excellence, and reach the realm of truth, goodness and beauty, so that the life of art is full of vitality and has higher value. Although there is no fault in my ideas and practices, the students are always students, the teachers are always teachers, and from the perspective of artistic morality, I must also respect the teacher. Since then, I have doubled my respect for Yan Lao. At this time, the society was rehearsing "Recognizing Mother in the Nunnery", and whenever I heard the touching singing section of Xu Yuanzai, a weak scholar: "The vast sea is shipwrecked to find a mother... The iron rod must also be sharpened into an embroidery needle", his strong will to travel all over the sea to find his mother deeply touched me. I was determined to be close to the teacher, apologized, and repeatedly said to Elder Yan: I was young and young, hoped that the teacher would forgive me, and for several years, I always held an open and sincere attitude and an urgent desire for art. Elder Yan saw that I was eager to learn art, and finally wrapped me tightly in his arms with a pair of enthusiastic arms, and said with infinite emotion: "You are really a good baby!" "Since then, the gap between us has been filled, and the relationship between teachers and students has improved again."
Learning. From Yan Lao's body, I learned the traditional performance skills of Qin Luxusheng, and the plays I have been taught successively include "Breaking Books", "Killing Yi", "Branding Bowl Meter", and "Release", which are relying on dramas, official clothes plays, Taoist robe plays, and declining old life plays. These four-fold plays enabled me to basically grasp the essentials of Qin Luxu's performing arts.
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Wang Junqiu & Zheng Butterfly "Killing the Temple" fragment
An excerpt from Wang Junqiu's "My Forty Years"
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