Jin opera queen Charm lives on
——Remembering the Jin opera performance artist Wang Ai'ai
Wang Yue
People from other provinces who have heard of Jin opera know that there is a Wang Ai'ai in Shanxi; the fathers and elders of the three Jin dynasties who love Jin opera all love to listen to Wang Ai'ai's singing. Indeed, Wang Ai'ai's performance is simple and dignified, sincere and sincere; her singing voice quality is crisp, the timbre is sweet, the vocal range is wide, the words are clear, the rhyme is pure and thick, the dexterity is changeable, the musical sense is agile, the height is free, and it is unique in the Qingyi line of Jin Opera. Listening to Wang Ai'ai's sweet and moving singing voice brings people an extremely comfortable spiritual enjoyment.
In her artistic career of more than 50 years, Wang Ai'ai has successfully shaped many artistic images of different ages, different personalities and different identities, such as Wang Baojun in "Counting Grain", Princess Yinping in "Jinshui Bridge", Qin Xianglian in "Ming Gongjuan", Shen Hou in "Fighting Golden Branches", Wang Chun'e in "Godson", Wang Guiying in "Izumi Qinglian", Qinglan in "Three Upper Peach Peaks", Jiang Shuiying in "Song of Longjiang", etc., whether it is the graceful and dignified Shen Hou and Princess, or the versatile everyone Yan Xiu Whether it is a hard-working and kind peasant woman or a glorious Communist Party member, she is vividly portrayed. Today, the 78-year-old Wang Ai'ai is still evergreen in the tree of art, and still has a sweet singing voice as crisp and round as a silver bell. People can't help but wonder, why does Wang Ai'ai sing so well? What are the artistic characteristics of the "love cavity" she created? What kind of artistic life does she have?
Sweet since ancient melons are bitter
Wang Ai'ai was born in a large family in Yuci, Shanxi, and her grandfather Wang Jinkui, who loved opera, married three wives in his lifetime, two of whom were singers, and her grandmother Xiao Guihua was a famous Danjiao in Jinzhong at that time, and her grandfather himself also undertook the troupe and became the head of the class, called the Xinsheng Jin Opera Troupe (after the public-private partnership, it was changed to yuci County People's Theater Troupe, which is the predecessor of the current Jinzhong Jin Opera Troupe). In June 1940, Wang Ai'ai was born in Nanguan Village, Yuci County, a big family with a strong opera atmosphere. She was the eldest of the six children, and they all had a jade character in between their names, and Wang Ai'ai's original name was Wang Yu'ai. Later, the masses loved her, and it was more cordial to call her Diezi in the dialect of Jinzhong, which was called Wang Ai'ai.
When she was a child, Wang Ai'ai often saw many opera stars at home, and at that time, after the troupes sealed the boxes at the end of the year, her grandfather invited these famous characters from the provincial city to eat, live, sing, and talk about art and life together, such as the famous performance artists Qiao Yuxian, Liu Junying, Liang Xiaoyun, etc., all of whom she had seen when she was a child. Living in such an environment, Wang Ai'ai, who is young, will naturally be influenced by art. When she was about seven years old, her grandparents found that she had a good voice and began to let her learn to sing, and Grandma Xiao Guihua naturally became an enlightened teacher in art. Grandma was very strict with her, and when it was not dawn, she was told to get up and go out to practice, shouting her throat, and practicing for several hours. Every day, under the roots of the city wall, I shouted and practiced, and the songs I practiced were the singing sections taught by my grandmother. At that time, Grandma didn't know any scientific singing methods such as dantian and head cavity resonance, but told her to suck her stomach and sing until she couldn't sing. In addition, Grandma also asked the organist to sing every day, laying an important foundation for her golden voice that could not be sung no matter how many plays she sang in the future. Some people think that Wang Ai'ai's voice is still so clear in his 70s, that is, the congenital conditions are good. Wang Ai'ai said: "A good voice is a factor, and the most important thing is that I practiced it when I was a child. "It seems that Tong Zi Gong is indeed important to those who are engaged in the art of singing.
There is a proverb that says, "One minute on stage, ten years off stage." "The success of any artist is more hard work than ordinary people. Wang Ai'ai has experienced arduous training in learning to sing opera, and practicing for several hours a day. In addition to practicing singing, you also need to practice the basic skills. When the top is taken, Grandma lights a pillar of incense and waits for the incense to burn out before it comes down. Grandma has kung fu on her body, her hands are very strong, if she sees where she is practicing wrong, picking up her small arm can throw her to three or four meters away, at that time it was all brick floor, throwing her raw pain, tears do not know how much. When practicing running round field, Grandma tied her legs together with a belt, she ran in front, Grandma followed behind, and when the steps were slow, Grandma would step on her feet; if she ran big, she would fall. When she went to sleep at night, she did not dare to relax, she had to put her feet like pillows, rotate the cushion under her head to sleep, and practice waist and leg skills. When practicing singing and playing rhythms, Grandma slapped her shoulders from behind to beat the rhythm, and when the singing was wrong, she hit it hard, and she often had tears. Grandma made her face forward, and the intention of her sitting on the back to beat beats was that she couldn't bear to see her cry. Such strict training made little Wang Ai'ai full of hardships of learning art. Someone once said to her grandmother: "It is mean to see you practicing with your beloved son." Grandma said, "I have a bad voice, I'm going to call my family's beloved son to argue in this regard!" ”
Since grandpa runs the Xinsheng Jin Theater Troupe himself, 9-year-old Wang Ai'ai naturally has the opportunity to act on stage. Her first play was "Fengyi Ting Baiyue", playing mink Chan. Grandma specially made a costume for her, red jacket and red pants, embroidered with beautiful and delicate flower color patterns, wrapped on the head, pasted on the sideburns, inserted flowers, as soon as the little mink Chan appeared, the audience gave a bumper! He cried out lovingly, "This is the granddaughter of Shinobu Guihua, this doll is so big!" ”
At that time, Wang Ai'ai's two aunts and an apprentice her grandmother took in, and the four girls added up to exactly four xiaodan, qingyi, Xusheng, and Xiaosheng, and their doll class could perform a lot of folding plays. At the age of 13, her grandmother unfortunately fell terminally ill and died just a month after returning home from Peking Union Medical College Hospital. At the age of 14, Wang Ai'ai entered the Yuci Xinsheng Troupe and performed plays such as "The Tale of the Bottle", "The Biography of the Snail Girl", "You West Lake", "Fan Lihua" and so on. At that time, she was already famous, and she sang a sentence of "Little Girl Ring Greeting the Three Girls" and also had to be called. In 1956, she transferred to the Jin Opera Troupe of Yuci Special District, studied under the famous Jin opera performance artist Cheng Yuying, inherited the charm of the "cough cavity" created by Cheng Yuying, and successively performed many traditional plays such as "Godson", "Ming Gongjue", "Fan Lihua", "Huilongge" and so on, and her silver bell-like voice won the applause of the audience. In 1957, she performed the modern drama "Chaoyang Fire", she played the secretary of the regiment, Cheng Yuying played the secretary of the party branch, and her singing voice was loved by the audience. Played XiaoQin in "Little Erhei Married", singing beautifully, unfortunately, it can't be performed without a few performances, because the actor who plays Xiao Erhei is too shy to act, and he can't act, and this story has become people's intimate memories.
On February 11, 1960, the Shanxi Jin Theater established the "Shanxi Provincial Middle Road Zizi Youth Performance Troupe", in addition to drawing some outstanding young actors from the general troupe, it also selected a group of outstanding young artistic talents from 26 county and city theater troupes in the province, including Wang Ai'ai and Liu Huisheng (later became husband and wife) transferred from Yuci. At that time, Wang Ai'ai was 20 years old, and after being transferred to the youth league, the leader arranged for all the young actors who sang Qingyi to worship the famous Jin opera performance artist Niu Guiying. After wang Ai'ai studied with Niu Guiying, in the run cavity and the Confession, in the integration of the accurate bite and the emotion of the singing voice, the voice was full of emotion, and the qualitative leap was obtained. She originally had a Jinzhong accent, and Niu Guiying corrected it word by word, such as the "huang" (yellow) in "Han Yan", "The south wind blows the wheat shoot yellow in April", and she began to sing "hua" in total. Niu Guiying made a certain contribution to the reform of jin opera Daobai, and Wang Ai'ai met a good teacher at a good time. In August 1961, the youth league went to Beijing to report on the performance, "Han Yan", "Small Feast", "Killing the Palace", "Counting Grain" was a hit, nine into Zhongnanhai, and was cordially received by Premier Zhou Enlai and other central leaders.
Wang Ai'ai absorbed the "softness" of Niu Guiying's singing voice and the "rigid" characteristics of Cheng Yuying's singing voice, and combined with the characteristics of his own voice, he gradually created a unique artistic singing style "Love Love Cavity". In the 1960s movie "Fenshui Long Stream", she sang the theme song "Fenhe River Rushing", which suddenly made her almost a household name; the Provincial Jin Theater adapted the film into Jin Opera, which made the songs in this modern drama even more popular. "In April, the south wind blows the wheat shoot yellow" has become her famous work, and it is also an important symbol of the formation of "love cavity". In 1964, she went to the China Conservatory of Music for a year of further study, and accepted the vocal method of Western vocal music, which made her singing skills scientific.
At the end of the Cultural Revolution, she performed the modern Jin opera "Three Upper Peach Peaks" and played Qinglan. It was a time she could never forget. "Three Upper Peach Peaks" was designated as a "big poisonous weed" and was criticized when he went to Beijing to perform. At that time, the actors cried on the stage, and the performance was forced to stop in the middle of the performance. On the train from Beijing to Taiyuan, the troupe leaders held an emergency meeting, fearing that Wang Ai'ai would have an accident when she arrived in Taiyuan, and wanted her to get off the train in Yuci ahead of schedule. Wang Ai'ai said that if he does not get off the bus, he will be with everyone. When she got off the train, the whole group of young descendants surrounded her tightly and protected her, and there was no accident. At that time, the cast and crew of the Provincial Jin Theater all returned to Taiyuan under tremendous pressure. Immediately after, the central government notified the Provincial Jin Theater to go to Beijing to perform the transplanted "revolutionary model play" Jin opera "Ode to Longjiang", and Wang Ai'ai played Jiang Shuiying, which was well received by the central leadership.
After the reform and opening up, her artistic life to glory, the recovery of traditional drama, she performed a large number of plays such as "The Flying Phoenix", "Yangmen Female General", "Izumi Qinglian", "Spring River Moon" and so on, the "Love Cavity" she founded was widely circulated, there were more professional actors and theater fans competing to imitate and learn, she also won the "National Golden Disc Award", and peach and plum all over the world. He was also elected as the national "March 8" red flag bearer, the eighth and ninth CPPCC members of the country, and was known as the contemporary "Queen of Jin Opera".
Any achievement comes from countless hard struggles, and any aura of illumination has countless bitterness behind it. Audience fans like Wang Ai'ai and like to watch her plays, but I don't know, Wang Ai'ai's mother can't watch her act. From wang ai'ai's 7-year-old study of drama to her mother's death in 2010, for so many years, the old man had only seen three plays she performed, namely "Ode to Longjiang", "The Flying Phoenix" and "Ming Gongjue", and it was a serious illness once. Her mother said: "My mother can't watch my baby acting, and when she looks at it, she remembers that my baby practiced when she was a child, and she was pitiful, so sad that my mother still trembled." In fact, her mother did not agree with her to learn to sing, how bitter it was to sing! But her mother is a child bridesmaid, how much voice can she have? Fortunately, Wang Ai'ai has been tempered through countless hardships and tribulations, and she has succeeded. There is a saying that "good things are born frugal, and sweet after the bitterness of ancient melons". I believe that no matter when I recall the pain I have experienced in my life and the glory I have today, Wang Ai'ai should be pleased.
Unique "Love Cavity"
After being transferred to the Provincial Jin Theater Youth League, Wang Ai'ai began a new artistic life. The whole regiment lived, ate, lived and studied in the Taiyuan Workers' Cultural Palace (Nangong) and lived a communist collective life. One or twenty young women singing Xiao Dan and Qingyi lived in a room on the second floor, often laughing and laughing, full of vitality and infinite youthful vitality. The pure and beautiful life still remains deeply in the memory of Wang Ai'ai.
Taiyuan is the provincial capital, is the province's political, economic and cultural and artistic center, the provincial Jin Theater is the most representative of the province's highest performing arts group of Jin opera, here, concentrated Ding Guoxian, Niu Guiying, Guo Fengying, Ji Meilian and a large number of performance artists of the older generation with deep artistic attainments, but also concentrated Zhang Yiran, Fang Bing, Zhao Buyan, Wang Xinlu, Liu Yuantong and a large number of screenwriters, directors, composers, stage artists, performances and management talents, coupled with the attention and care of leaders at all levels such as Wang Qian, secretary of the provincial party committee at that time, governor Wang Daren and other leaders. The Youth League quickly grew up with a large number of outstanding young artistic talents. These young artists did not fail to live up to the trust of the leaders and the love of the fathers and fellow villagers of the Three Jins, performed for the central leaders of the Central Committee in Jiujin Zhongnanhai, toured the province and performed a series of activities, so that this excellent and energetic artistic team has written a glorious page in the history of Shanxi drama. Wang Ai'ai is in such an environment, which naturally provides more superior conditions for her artistic development.
During this period, she received the true biography of the famous Jin opera performance artist Niu Guiying, and made great progress in the art of singing. Niu Guiying is the founder of the Jin opera Niu Pai, euphemisms, pay attention to words and charm, Wang Aiai carefully absorbed Niu Guiying's years of accumulated artistic experience, deeply experienced and understood the mysteries therein, the characteristics of the Cheng Pai and The Niu Pai art were carefully analyzed, according to their own voice conditions, skillfully integrated the artistic essence of the Niu Pai and the Cheng Pai, and innovated, not only maintaining the characteristics of the Cheng Pai enthusiastic and vigorous, but also absorbing the steady and generous and euphemistic style of the Niu Pai, and also absorbing the singing method of folk songs. Gradually formed its own genre characteristics, is affectionately known as "love love cavity".
"Love and Love" has been widely circulated in the folk, and has been innovating, developing and growing for decades, and has become one of the most important art genres in the field of Jin opera. This artistic phenomenon has attracted the attention of relevant experts, the famous drama theorist Guo Shixing has conducted in-depth research on Wang Ai'ai's singing voice, he believes that Wang Ai'ai is artistically original, and his summary of the theory of "love and love cavity" has also been recognized and praised by Wang Ai'ai himself. He believes that the "love cavity" was formed in the 60s and matured in the 70s and 80s. There are four main features:
First, the timbre is pure and the words are clear. No matter what singing segments and repertoire, her voice is always transparent and sweet, with endless charm, and every word can make the audience hear clearly. Her spout is powerful, the sound and rhyme are very strict, strictly do the cavity with the word, the drag cavity is always according to the rhyme of the word, although ten turns and a hundred turns, the mouth shape is unchanged, the sound is always a line, between the words and the word, always the end of the word is enough, and then out of the next word, and naturally scratched at the junction of the two words, this kind of skill table is not only manifested in the slow singing rhythm of the flat, splint, slow amphoteric, slow stacking board, but also in the fast rhythm of the flowing water, tight stacking board. For example, in "See the Imperial Aunt", there is a set of 38-sentence singing voices, she will sing the slow board out of the word like a stream, in one breath; the allegro sings tightly but not chaotically, and the words are fast and not turbid. Without deep singing skills and skilled skills in luck and ventilation, it is difficult to achieve such a high level of singing.
The second is that the cavity is dexterous, rigid and flexible. Her artistic understanding is extremely high, especially the running voice of the singing voice, which is dexterous and changeable, and is good at expressing a variety of complex thoughts and feelings of the characters. Special attention is paid to the use of ornamental tones, vibrato, portamentos, etc., the same singing voice, some people sing blandly, while she sings pleasantly and touchingly, into the wood three points.
The third is elegant and simple, steady and generous. Her singing and performance, calm and sophisticated, not impetuous, not tepid, just right, showing a steady and generous demeanor. For example, "Fighting The Golden Branch" "Persuasion Palace" is sung, more than 30 sentences, although it has always been the upper and lower sentences, but it is sung with affection, reasonable sentences, meticulous and beautiful, which not only shows the gentle and severe character of Shen Hou and the love for her daughter and son-in-law, but also reflects the steady and simple artistic characteristics of Wang Ai'ai's genre art.
Fourth, the feelings are delicate and close to life. Her artistic accomplishment is very high, especially good at through delicate performances and delicate singing, the life experience into the play, deep understanding of the characters, careful portrayal of the characters, while with skilled skills to reflect, accurate and true expression of the complex thoughts and feelings of the characters, so that the voice and emotions are rich, moving with emotion. For example, the realistic singing method in "Counting Grain" is an important feature of Wang Ai'ai's performing arts; for example, the chanting without band accompaniment in "Ode to longjiang", if the actor lacks solid basic skills and skilled singing skills, it is easy to go out of tune or sing plainly.
The formation of "love and love cavity", in addition to giving her a natural good voice by her parents, has three benefits: First, thanks to the later training, she went to the China Conservatory of Music in 1964 for a year of further study, learned the simple score, and did not know the score before. He learned the vocal method of Western vocal music, and gradually integrated the scientific vocalization of vocal music with the opera singing cavity, and the movement cavity was softer and more delicate. Second, thanks to the help of the Jin opera musician Liu Heren, he asked her to sing every small place such as rest notes, triplets, and symbol points, which must be sung in place, especially where there are connecting lines, and asked to sing down in one breath without ventilation, if the ventilation will destroy the roundness of the singing cavity. Wang Ai'ai very much respects the requirements of music creators, and under the premise of the immovable music theme, consciously adds dot ornamental sounds, portamentos according to the sound, rhymes according to the sound, and the sound contains emotion. She believes that as the actor grows older, the practice of the stage, the communication with the actors on the same stage, and the careful thinking, he will sing differently from year to year. Therefore, Wang Ai'ai's singing voice is good, which has a lot to do with her paying attention to singing every ornament. The third is to benefit from opportunities. She lives in the era when Jin opera is most valued, the Provincial Jin Theater is the most outstanding artistic team, of which the famous director Liu Yuantong has great help to Wang Ai'ai, Liu Yuantong is born in the "Fu Liancheng" class, is Mei Lanfang's disciple, the art is extremely exquisite, the body is beautiful, for her to direct the play personally demonstrated, so that Wang Ai'ai has a deep understanding and great improvement of the understanding and shaping of the character.
Summarizing the characteristics of "love cavity", there are three innovations:
First, the sound range is wide, innovating the tone of the traditional singing voice of Jin opera. In the past, the tone of Jin opera was generally F key, from Ding Guoxian began to appear Kun jiao, began to use the rising F key, after the founding of the Country from the rising F key to G key, Wang Ai Ai sang to the rising G key. In the Jin opera "Han Yan" "In April, the south wind blows wheat shoot yellow" singing section, there are many high notes "i" as a slippery cavity, in the past Jin opera did not have a high note "i", higher than the general Jin opera actress voice, many people can not sing this pitch.
Second, there are many decorative sounds, absorbing folk singing methods. For example, on the basis of the musical composition Duan Chengming in the Jin opera "Thirteen Coughs", "Climbing the Mo Shang Sang with Both Hands" adopted the musical elements of Qi Tai Yang's song "Han Xiangzi Du Wife". "Silkworms are born like ants, silkworms become two inches long, morning and evening often guard" These three sentences have been shortened and concentrated on the basis of the traditional melody plate of jin opera "thirteen coughs", combined with the musical elements of Qi Taiyang's song "selling burned soil", "moving foil to avoid heat and avoiding coolness" and "avoiding" The words "avoid" are transferred from "splint" to "two sexes", such a music plate innovation is also the difference of "love and love cavity".
Third, the breath is full, and the drag cavity is gorgeous. Wang Ai'ai has a longer breath control time than the average actor. She has experienced the strict training of the singing cavity, paying great attention to the breath, the breath is uniform, the ventilation is scientific, and when the breath should not be breathed, the drag cavity will be sung in one breath, and the integrity of the singing section is very important, such as the "Yan" character of "Seven Laws • Long March" "After the Three Armies", the drag cavity 16 beats, the momentum will be brought to the climax.
Wang Ai'ai's wonderful singing segments of each historical stage were intensively displayed on October 18, 2001. On this day, she held the "Wang Ai'ai Stage Life 50th Anniversary Large-scale Concert", condensed her artistic life in the past 50 years on the small drama stage, and sang 15 representative singing segments of different periods, which greatly met the aesthetic needs of the audience and friends who loved her fans. She said: "The main reason for holding this large-scale concert is to think about the wish of Wisho Sheng before. ”
Wang Ai'ai's husband, Liu Huisheng, died of a sudden heart attack in 2000. Extremely painful, Wang Ai'ai, at the insistence of her children, endured the pain of planning and planning. At the concert, when she sang "Shoes bow and narrow people squeeze", a "Husband! The crying white immediately burst out of the tears of the audience, especially when she sang "The bookstore night talk love calendar, wearing liver and guts to say Yiyi, the original said is that he will be reunited in the year, who expected that the reunion is already a time of life and death." Hate the sun and the moon, too forced, my feet, too weak, forced me to go to the execution ground, to find my husband. At this time there was a drag cavity, as if she was looking for a husband everywhere. Suddenly, "Look up, you open your eyes, how do you not say a word, as if obsessed." Do you have any words to tell me a few words quickly, do you mean to die and leave like this?" Like crying, like the words in Wang's love and love, the audience listened to tears.
Wang Ai'ai is a landmark figure in The Jin opera Tsing Yi. Because of her special voice, the folk people have various legends, for example, saying that she never drank water from the countryside, but drank water brought from Taiyuan. The people loved her and admired her. When performing in Inner Mongolia, the people did not leave after the performance, they had to see her, she was helped to the roof of the car, in front of thousands of ordinary people to thank, the scene was touching.
Wang Ai'ai's pursuit of art has never stopped, and until now, she often listens to her own recordings and constantly improves her singing voice. She said that any art has regrets, otherwise art would not have developed.
Tao Li is self-contained
Wang Ai'ai is an accomplished artist, after the reform and opening up, she served as the head of the troupe, sang for her father and fellow villagers who loved her, and traveled all over the yellow river, north and south of the great river, and stepped onto the international stage. But she is also a hard-working art gardener. After retiring from the Provincial Jin Theater in 2002, he was hired as the honorary dean of The Shanxi Drama Vocational College in 2004. Although the position is virtual, the work is real. For nearly 8 years, she has had to go to the college every day to work, check posts, adjust curriculum arrangements, guide students to practice, attend various activities, etc., and she regards the cultivation of new talents as her unshirkable responsibility.
She instructed the students to practice singing, emphasizing the opening of the mouth, she said, without opening the mouth, how can you find resonance? Scientific vocal practice is very important. She also asked the students to practice the basic skills diligently, even if they are singing in the qingyi industry, they cannot just practice singing, but they must sing and do the "four skills and five methods" to develop comprehensively. She said, "Where can you be like our old entertainers, who will hold their stomachs and sing?" Some students are afraid of "taking the top" and ruining their throats. She said: "When Teacher Wang was a child, he took the top for 30 or 40 minutes a day, and he didn't break his throat. "Wang Ai'ai practiced the body skills, the zi gong, the blanket gong, which basic skills, the small five sets of zi gong, the big fast gun, the small fast gun, the small flower gun, etc., the heel of the blanket gong, the five dragon stirring pillars, the front bridge and so on. She said: "Opera is not as easy as you think, singing and doing chanting, which point can not come up." If you don't practice the basic skills, in the future, the director will give you a rehearsal, you can't come (perform), you can't come, how can you act? "Now the students who sing green clothes in the college can also walk the front bridge, the back bridge, the bungee, the back grab, etc., and any basic skills can be performed."
Wang Ai'ai received 33 apprentices, and the original eight disciples: Shi Jiahua, Geng Yuzhen, Yang Zhiai, Chen Zhuanying, Liu Jianping, Miao Jie, Dang Yueping, wei Qingmei, and in 2007, he received 12 more disciples: Yang Lili, Wei Jianqin, Li Yueping, Guo Quanxiu, Lei Gaiqin, Wang Zhongbi, Chen Hong, Liu Huanlian, Guo Ai'ai, Li Lihua, Liu Shuqin, and Guo Sumei. After that, Wang Chenglan was accepted. In 2013, he accepted 10 disciples: Li Shuosheng (male), Lu Huating (male), Xie Dongmei, Zhang Wenping, Chen Huijuan, Liu Peihua, Li Suhua, Zhao Hongyan, Shi Yeqing, and Wang Yanmei. In 2014, Wang Jinghua and Geng Zhongcui worshipped under Teacher Wang, who is now a peach and plum all over the world, and most of them are the backbone of art in Shanxi Province. For example, Shi Jiahua, winner of the National "Plum Blossom Award" and "Second Degree Plum" Award, Miao Jie, an actor of the "Plum Blossom Award", and Chen Zhuanying, Liu Jianping, Yang Zhi'ai, and so on. Although the disciples have made certain achievements, Wang Ai'ai still often advises them to be humble and constantly improve their cultural accomplishment.
She said: "When I was in the youth league, Wang Qian, the secretary of the provincial party committee, once told me, 'Child, don't worry about your name in the troupe, his name sits, don't fight with them.' Dealing with friends, dealing with a few cultured people, you slowly and slowly follow people, you will also improve. Every day, no matter what kind of book, you have to read one or two hours a day. Wang Ai'ai benefited a lot from the teachings of the leadership, she is a person with a heart in life, and she has done it for many years. Every day, I read books for one or two hours, and I have read Shakespeare's books, "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Golden Plum Bottle", and Ba Jin's books. Especially "Dream of the Red Chamber", which has been read three times before and after, portrays the character of the characters in the book, so that she has a lot of inspiration when shaping characters on the stage. She especially liked Xue Baochao, liked her generosity, even if Dai Yu gave her nails to touch her, she did not care, according to Wang Ai'ai's words: "This can be harmonious, happy, and happy." ”
Some students asked why the audience who sang "Ming GongJue" also had no reaction, but Teacher Wang sang it to make the audience shed tears? Wang Ai'ai said: "First of all, we must start from the character, and secondly, we must start from the plot, you have to wonder, is my singing voice in line with this character?" You just stand there and sing, an actor stands there and sings, and you don't turn the actor into a person in the play. If you turn the actor into a person in the play, do you see that he can't impress the audience? Indeed, feelings are the soul of the singing voice, and sincerity of emotions can obtain great artistic effects. The feelings expressed by Wang Ai'ai are all flowing from the heart, so it is easy to resonate with the audience and produce moving artistic power.
Wang Ai'ai believes that the reason why people love to listen to her singing voice is mainly because they like to listen to her sing with charm. Therefore, she asked her disciples that whenever they got the score, they must look at it carefully, and they could not take the score and just look at it and think that they could sing. Some musical scores have a lot of musical prompts in small places, some actors know how to sing in the singing voice, some actors will not, just dryly sing according to the singing voice on the score, no ups and downs, no depression, not beautiful. In fact, singing is also the same as people's cultivation, often read books, talk to learned people, can be improved.
What moved Wang Ai'ai the most was the professionalism of the teachers in the college. The opera teacher gives a lecture, and the teaching fee is only a dozen yuan, but the teachers are still so dedicated. Now, the opera is sluggish, the source of students is poor, and some students have a guide board in "Three High-Fives", the teacher can teach for a week, and the students can't remember. In this regard, the teacher still teaches seriously. Some students do not study hard, just to get a diploma, after graduation do not plan to engage in opera career, study without care, but the teacher still has to teach seriously. So, hard!
For the current problems in opera, Wang Ai'ai hopes to be solved while he is anxious, but more importantly, he is still full of confidence in the future. She said: "I am old, and I want to teach the art that the party has cultivated me to all the students. Now, it is very gratifying to become the inheritor of the state-level Jin opera, which is the care of the party and the love of the masses, and he must live up to this reputation, live to learn from the old, actively keep up with the times, and call the Jin opera to keep up with the times. Especially in the current situation of opera, I am not discouraged, I believe that opera still has a brilliant day. To live one day, we must love and care for the cause of Jinju opera for a day, be responsible for the future generation for a day, and look forward to the future for a day. ”
It is gratifying that on June 12, 2008, she was also awarded the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of Shanxi Province, and was able to pass on the name of this art.
Wang Ai'ai said this and did the same. She taught for the children of the college, set up the "Wang Ai Ai Xi Opera Studio", held the "Ai Ai Lu" training class, tutored the "Ding Niu Guo Ji" genre training class to sing, went to Hong Kong to give lectures, sent opera to the campus, and worked all day long, sparing no effort for the inheritance of the Jin opera cause.
Temperament dignified, voice crisp, singing is still so sweet and bright Wang Ai'ai, although she suffered many hardships when she was young, and now she has entered her old age and enjoyed a happy old age. She lives comfortably, constantly learning, keeping up with the times and keeping pace with the times. Still calm, more dignified. Wang Ai'ai, who came out of the deep cultural heritage of Jinzhong, has not changed her living habits for many years, and when she was young, she loved to eat a mooncake in the bed before sleeping. Now still like to eat sweets, many people are curious, not afraid of high blood sugar? Wang Ai'ai smiled, she didn't have to worry about how much sugar she ate, her small bag always had a variety of delicious snacks and sweets. This is the love of the king, and life is always sweet.