Under the epidemic situation, the square inch "stage" of a female flower face

▲ Ren Siyuan plays Shan Xiongxin in "Lock Five Dragons". Courtesy of respondents

At 8:30 p.m., Ren Siyuan sat down at her desk on time to start the live broadcast. A pair of smart eyes, a round face, a cute ball head, a blue shirt, and a big black headset...

"Bao Longtu sat in Kaifeng Province..." With the accompaniment of Peking Opera, a rough and thick singing voice spewed out of Ren Siyuan's mouth. On this day, Ren Siyuan performed an excerpt from the Peking Opera "The Case of Beauty", and her loud and broad voice was transmitted through the live broadcast to the ears of nearly a thousand audiences who had been waiting for a long time to "watch the play", and many fans applauded her in the bullet screen. "Great little girl", "Siyuan hua face sings better than men", "This is the real national essence", "You are the first one to let me stay for Peking Opera"... Fans didn't skimp on compliments to her.

Ren Siyuan, 35, is a young flower-faced actor at the Dalian Peking Opera House. Since April 2020, ren Siyuan, while doing her job, has used the evening time to open the live broadcast of Peking Opera Douyin, becoming the only female flower face actor in the country who is currently broadcasting live on Douyin.

From the colorful stage to the square inch live broadcast room

Ren Siyuan, who is young and beautiful in life, focuses on the brass hammer flower face on the stage, playing not Qingyi and Hua Dan, but a clean line that contrasts greatly with her realistic image.

Ren Siyuan's live broadcast on Douyin was just an accident. At the beginning of 2020, affected by the epidemic, Dalian stopped offline performances and other gathering activities. "But our Peking Opera actors don't stop performing, and every day at one o'clock in the afternoon, we have to hang our throats with the violinist." Ren Siyuan said.

Some of the singing videos previously released on Douyin made Ren Siyuan have a lot of fans, and they suggested that Ren Siyuan open the live broadcast when practicing, "I didn't expect an accidental live broadcast, and there were many fans pouring into the live broadcast room." Ren Siyuan said, "So many people like to listen to my singing on Douyin, why is it not my stage in the live broadcast room?" ”

In April 2020, Ren Siyuan officially started her career as an anchor. "Whatever the fans order in the barrage, I sing." Ren Siyuan said, "Sing non-stop for three or four hours at a time. Slowly, she found the rhythm of the live broadcast.

As more and more people watched the livestream, she changed the next day to daily live broadcasting and fixed the time at 8:30 pm.

"I do vibrato live broadcast, that is, to sing to people who like to listen to the drama." At first, she only sang her own parts, but as the interaction with the audience in the live broadcast increased, she found that many people would order other plays.

Nowadays, in addition to "flower face", she often reverses other trades in the live broadcast. Sometimes in a live broadcast, she can play multiple trades and multiple roles, and in addition to singing, she also adds opera explanations and Knowledge related to Peking Opera. She will also often "Lianmai" with other anchors to attract more people to become fascinated by Peking Opera.

Some fans sorted out the catalog of singing segments in Ren Siyuan's live broadcast room, and in the past two years, she has performed shengdanjing ugly alone, from "The Case of Beauty" and "Bao Longtu Sitting in Kaifeng Province", to "Wen Zhaoguan", "A Round of Bright Moon In Front of the Window", and "Noble Concubine Drunk", "The First Turn of the Island Ice Wheel"... Counting down, there are more than 180 sections of traditional opera and modern Peking opera.

Today, Ren Siyuan's Douyin account has 200,000 fans, and the number of simultaneous online users during the live broadcast is stable at more than 800 every day, and the number of viewers per show exceeds 30,000, reaching a maximum of more than 100,000.

Most of the live broadcast rooms are middle-aged and elderly Peking Opera fans, aged 50 to 60 years old, and the oldest one is already 94 years old. They spontaneously recorded Ren Siyuan's live broadcast and made a short video to publish to various platforms. Ren Siyuan laughed and said, "This is a 'senior club'. ”

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! ”

"It really brings tears to your eyes when you see this." Ren Siyuan said, "This kind of need is the motivation for me to persevere. ”

Fans love Ren Siyuan's pure love for Peking Opera. They commented: "Every time she would sing enough opera, she always tried to promote the knowledge of Peking Opera. ”

Bald Girlhood

Ren Siyuan was born in October 1987 in Huludao City, Liaoning Province, to an ordinary worker family, the father of an out-and-out Peking Opera fan. In the long environment of Jingyun, Ren Siyuan was fascinated and gradually fell in love with Peking Opera. "When I was a child, my father would often take me to the ticket office, and he would accompany him, and I would sing along with it." Ren Siyuan said.

When other children sang "Under the bridge in front of the door, swim through a group of ducks", Ren Siyuan has begun to "train and raise her since the toddler's sister-in-law". Since then, she said, she has dreamed of becoming a professional opera actor.

At the age of 13, she participated in the Liaoning TV Fan Ring Competition and won three consecutive championships. Li Lintong, the program's art consultant, personally took her to the Liaoning Provincial Art School to meet the principal. A piece of "Chisang Town" let the principal take a picture of this "little drama bone" and reduced part of the tuition fee for her.

In the Liaoning Provincial Art School, many little girls will choose Danjiao to learn art, playing Du Liniang who visits the garden, Yu Ji who shaves her neck, and Yang Yuhuan who is drunk on the stage. And her father was ingenious, but let her choose a flower face.

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 a copper hammer flower face, and the representative figures were Bao Zheng, Xu Yanzhao and so on.

The role that Ren Siyuan portrayed the most on the stage was Bao Zheng. She said quickly, "The love of flower faces may stem from my direct, cheerful personality." ”

Studying in Shenyang was the first time she had left home alone. Every morning at six o'clock in the morning, I get up and practice, kicking, pressing, wrenching, lowering my waist..." Often in a posture, a slight movement, the master's stick will be beaten down. Ren Siyuan said.

Faced with the arduous road of learning drama, Ren Siyuan was also shaken and called her parents to go home. But her mother asked her, "You can't study Peking Opera after you go home, are you sure you can give up?" ”

Ren Siyuan knew that the opportunity to study was not easy to come by, and after half a year, she slowly adapted to the life of the school.

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 the school, and on the day she shaved her head, she cried sadly. Bishop teacher Yang Jisong saw Ren Siyuan with a shaved head in the school playground, gave a thumbs up and said: "The whole playground, Ren Siyuan is the most beautiful!" ”

This shaving, that is, 6 years, with a bald head, Ren Siyuan spent the most beautiful girlhood from the age of 13 to 19.

The bald head also brought her a lot of inconvenience: she wore a hat for many years, was recognized as a boy, once she went to the public bathroom and forgot to wear a hat, a pregnant woman was directly scared away; during the summer she practiced in the park in front of her house, and someone asked her mother, "What disease is your child suffering from?" Even walking with female classmates, being mistaken by parents for early love...

It was not until 2006 that Ren Siyuan came to Shenyang Normal University to study at the School of Drama Art for undergraduate studies and began to grow hair. Wrap her hair in a head cloth when she hooks her face, so that it will not affect the stage performance, and she can be a flower girl again in life.

Don't dwell on the size of the stage, as long as you can shake yourself, it is a good stage

As a professional actor of Dalian Peking Opera House, Ren Siyuan put a lot of pressure on live broadcasting. While the live broadcast brought her attention and praise, all kinds of doubts also came. Some people think that the national essence should not go off the big stage. But Ren Siyuan was not moved: "I don't bother with the size of the stage, whether it is on the big stage or in the small live broadcast room, as long as it can serve the audience who loves to listen to the drama, can shake out of themselves, shake out the Peking Opera, it is a good stage." ”

Efficient time management is a new topic for Ren Siyuan. After she did the live broadcast, she no longer chased the drama, reduced the number of meals and socializing, rarely shopped, and put the entertainment and leisure time on the live broadcast. "The stage is my foundation, live broadcasting is a means of publicity, and these two jobs revolve around the art of Peking Opera that I love, although it is hard, but it is fun." Ren Siyuan said.

"Although I am a professional Peking Opera actor, my popularity in the country is not high, through live broadcasting, let many people who did not know me know that there is a female flower face in Dalian Peking Opera House, named Ren Siyuan, which to some extent, enhances my own popularity." Ren Siyuan said that the live broadcast room has also become a window for everyone to understand the Dalian Peking Theater.

Ren Siyuan said that the Hongji Grand Stage of Dalian Peking Opera House will have Peking Opera performances every Saturday at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the theater can accommodate 600 or 700 people at the same time. "After two years of live Broadcasting of Peking Opera, there are already many fans in the live broadcast room, looking forward to the early end of the epidemic and going to Dalian to see a live performance of mine."

"This drama is absolutely amazing", "It is this taste", "After 00 came to report on time"... What surprised Ren Siyuan the most was that many young netizens accidentally crossed her live broadcast room and were attracted by Peking Opera. More young people learned about Peking Opera and fell in love with Peking Opera from her live broadcast room. Ren Siyuan believes that there is a fault in the audience of Peking Opera, and the new media platform just makes up for this shortcoming. "Peking opera actors are not only the medium of Peking opera art, but also the salesmen of Peking opera art."

Mr. Li Changchun, Ren Siyuan's master and descendant of Qiu Paihua's flower face, is 83 years old and has specifically watched the live broadcast of his disciple Ren Siyuan. He said, "I am old and do not know much about douyin live broadcasting, but with the influence of the Internet to promote the essence of the country, this is the right way." ”

In April 2022, Ren Siyuan's live broadcast has reached its second anniversary.　(Participating in the writing: Yu Langning, reporters Yu Li, Hong Kerun, Guo Xiang)

Source: Xinhua Daily Telegraph