Li Linxiao, an outstanding young actor of the Beijing Peking Opera House, was scheduled to hold a special performance at the Chang'an Grand Theater on May 7 and 8, but had to be temporarily cancelled due to the epidemic. But she wasn't in a hurry, just when she had more time to practice and could be on stage in a better state. In her more than twenty years of art, there have been many such waits, but she firmly believes that after waiting and dormant, there will be more wonderful blooms.
This special performance is the third special performance held by Li Linxiao after learning from the famous Artist Zhang Huoding of the Peking Opera Cheng Sect, and after several special performances, she gradually gained popularity among the fans, and only then did she have this special performance that adopted market-oriented operation and was responsible for her own profits and losses. In fact, among the dozen or so disciples recruited by Zhang Huoding, Li Linxiao is not the most talented and intelligent, and the teacher often says that she is a bit "stupid", but she does not think so, "I think it is a good thing that the teacher says that I am stupid, and in this life, even if I climb slowly like a small turtle, I can climb to the end." ”
Born in Tianjin, Li Linxiao's family had no one to engage in art, and it was purely accidental that he embarked on the road of Peking Opera. When he was 7 years old, Li Linxiao mistakenly entered the Tianjin Art School and embarked on a long and arduous journey. At first, she was the weakest student in the class, and she was persuaded by the teacher to quit several times, but she never wanted to give up as a Virgo. The teacher tore the legs of the students, and she was the only child who could hold back the severe pain without shedding a tear; other children could go home on weekends to watch TV, but she insisted on practicing in her mother's office. Under the meticulous training of Teacher Meng Xianyao, who is known as the "Mother of Tianjin Danjiao", she quickly stood out from many students with her talent and hard work day after day, and won many awards of all sizes. At the age of 18, she was admitted to the China Academy of Performing Arts, and in 2012, while working at the Beijing Opera House in Beijing, she was admitted to the graduate school of the China Academy of Performing Arts.
In the choice of genre, Li Linxiao once again showed the stubbornness of Virgo. She learned the Mei Sect since she was a child, but privately she was obsessed with the Cheng Sect, and when she went to college, she finally got what she wanted to turn to the Cheng Sect. In fact, this is a very dangerous move, has been learning art for more than ten years, hard to change from "mei" to "cheng", success is naturally a big joy, but if it fails, there is no way back, at this time Virgo's strength to not accept defeat has come again. She soaked in the rehearsal hall day by day, constantly "competing" with herself, and constantly groping forward in difficulties. Fortunately, during her undergraduate studies, she successively studied under Chen Qi, Zhang Manling and other famous masters of the Cheng School, and at the same time received the guidance of Mr. Wan Ruixing, a famous Peking Opera composer and Jinghu player. In 2008, as Cheng Pai Qingyi, she won the "Screen Award" in the 6th National Young Peking Opera Actors Television Competition of CCTV.
When Li Linxiao first joined the work, he had very few opportunities to perform and limited opportunities to learn. In order to make a living, she even went abroad to perform musicals, and also had the opportunity to stay on that stage, but in the end, she could not give up the Stage of Peking Opera and chose to return.
Li Linxiao and teacher Zhang Huoding
The teacher-student relationship with Zhang Huoding is a very important turning point in Li Linxiao's stage career. When Li Linxiao studied with Teacher Meng Xianyao when she was a child, she often heard Teacher Meng say that the most diligent person among her students was Zhang Huoding. When she was a graduate student at the China Academy of Performing Arts, Ms. Meng introduced her to Zhang Huoding and set her on a new path of learning art.
The China Academy of Performing Arts opened the "Zhang Huoding Peking Opera Chengpai Artistic Talent Workshop", facing the national selection and recruitment of ten Chengpai students, accepting Zhang Huoding's "one-on-one" teaching and passing on the art, Li Linxiao ranked among the students with excellent strength, "Being able to learn drama with Teacher Huoding is the happiest thing in my life, even if I just quietly watch the teacher's back play, I feel very satisfied." Li Linxiao said: "The teacher on the stage is recognized by everyone as a famous person, and the teacher's teaching under the stage also has its own unique method. She uses different teaching methods for different students, and tells you her experience in a way that you can understand." Zhang Huoding often stressed in his teaching that "we must be calm and calm, and tranquility can go far", which has benefited Li Linxiao a lot. She believes that learning from a teacher is cultivation, and you must be able to calm down and think, "No matter how good the teacher is around you, if you don't know how to think, you don't have to think about it, it will be difficult to learn deeply." ”
In the nine years since he studied with Teacher Huo Ding, Li Linxiao has almost been in a "zero social" state, abandoning everything that has nothing to do with Peking Opera and concentrating on his own skills. Almost every morning, she would appear early in the theater's practice room, running round, walking, and practicing her skills over and over again like a teacher. Whether it is cold or hot, every day she is soaked in three exercise clothes, she is often the last person to leave the practice room in the theater. At the moment of normalization of the epidemic, Li Linxiao uses her colleagues to go to the canteen every day to eat, grasp the running round field to practice skills in the large rehearsal hall, wait for colleagues to rehearse, and then she goes to the small rehearsal hall to polish the performance alone.
In this special performance, Li Linxiao chose two plays, "Suolin Capsule" and "The Legend of the White Snake". "Suolin Capsule" is a masterpiece of the Cheng School, a classic century-old drama that has been sung for thousands of years, and "The Legend of the White Snake" is a Cheng Pai drama adapted and arranged by Zhang Huoding on the basis of the previous artists. Li Linxiao hopes that he can do a good job in the inheritance of the art of the Peking Opera Cheng School, but also inherit the innovative spirit of the teacher, "Shouzheng is not only an artistic inheritance, but more importantly, it shows the artistic mission and responsibility of young people in our time." ”
【Biography】
Li Linxiao studied Peking Opera at Tianjin Art School since childhood, and has won the Gold Medal of the Chinese Opera Little Plum Blossom Competition and the Screen Award of the CCTV Young Peking Opera Actors Television Competition. At the age of 18, he was admitted to the China Academy of Performing Arts, turned from Meipai to Engineering School, and won the "Screen Award" in the Sixth National Young Peking Opera Actors Television Competition of CCTV. In 2012, Li Linxiao was admitted to the Graduate School of China Drama while working at the Beijing Opera House, and was later admitted to the "Zhang Huoding Peking Opera Chengpai Artistic Talents Workshop" and studied Chengpai art with Zhang Huoding.