In the history of Yang Opera, what kind of person is the real Yao Gonglin?

Teacher Yao Gonglin, a descendant of the Jin Pai, a famous Yang Opera performance artist, a national first-class actor, known as the "first student of the Golden Sect" of Yang Opera, a disciple of the Golden Sect, a famous Yang Opera artist, and a disciple of Mr. Jin Yungui.

"Even if there is only one audience in the audience, you must sing with your heart and soul, and you will remember this life." Yao Gonglin, the closed disciple of Mr. Jin Yungui, the founder of the Yang Opera Golden School, has fulfilled the essence of the Golden School, but also added to the charm. His singing voice is clear and rounded; His performance is elegant and unworldly, into the slightest, the same Xiaosheng performs different people's sadness and joy, and is known as "the first person of the Yang Opera Golden School".

Yang opera is one of the main local drama genres in Jiangsu Province, located in Wutou Chuwei, Zhenjiang at the confluence of rivers, is an important birthplace and circulation of Yang opera, founded by Jin Yungui, the Art of Yang Opera Jinpai has been enriched and developed here. Jin Enqu said: "The characteristics of the Golden Sect of Yang Opera are a total of three major characteristics, one is that its sound range is very narrow, it is controlled in a relatively comfortable position, about seven or eight degrees. The actor himself handles him more calmly; The second is that it piles up words, and if there are many words and many words, the content it expresses in this aspect is relatively rich; The third feature is to use as few song cards as possible, and increase the repetition of the song cards to help the audience strengthen their memory. There is such a saying in the Yang opera circle, the Development of the JinPai to today's "only son full of grandchildren", as the closed disciple of Mr. Jin Yungui, the founder of the Jinpai Singing, Yao Gonglin is undoubtedly the most colorful stroke of the Jinpai. His father was a fan of drama, and since he was a child, he took himself to the Xinhua Theater in Dashikou to see a play, and when he was four or five years old, he could sing by himself. When I was a child, I went to northern Jiangsu to play, and my third aunt was also a person who sang opera with joy, so at that time I taught myself what "one more child" Yangzhou minor key.

Some people are probably born for the play, as long as the story gives them the background, they will use all their strength to paint gold, lost their parents at the age of thirteen, were recruited into the Zhenjiang Yang Opera Training Class at the age of fourteen, and were accepted by Jin Yungui as a closed disciple, and Yao Gonglin's dramatic life that lasted for more than half a century began. Zhenjiang Yang Opera Training Class in 1960 recruitment, they were interested in themselves at that time, and later because of this training class they led Xu Ping, Jin Yungui teacher they all knew that they had no parents, because their ten-year-old father died, thirteen-year-old mother also died understand it, they know that they are equivalent to being orphans, so in the summer of 1960, the summer vacation, the preparation period will directly accept themselves. The strict teaching method of Master Jin Yungui in the training class laid a good foundation for Yao Gonglin's future artistic development. That time I remember to teach myself, understand, my own mouth is not clear, she suddenly took a lighter that she, she smoked a "snap" a whip, frightened herself, spit words like this, oh, oh, the spout rhyme, she said, called the spout rhyme, all under her strict requirements, so she performed, she stood next to it, she stood next to the stage as soon as she stood nervous. Acting is not good, obediently down that fire to understand. There are good things, the one who is trembling, right, where is wrong, where not, we have laid this foundation. At that time, I remembered most that Teacher Jin and Teacher Jin Yungui came out with her first masterpiece, that is, this "Loan", the borrowing of things, "Loan" a small play, there was a small student on it, and four small students were selected at that time, which was their group of students. I chose four better images and a better voice, one of them had a paragraph singing "Raining with an umbrella", understand, "the underground mud is difficult to walk", there is a "slippery", all slippery, all slippery, they secretly went to the big yard, it rained, and he took an umbrella to the big yard to slip, and when he got to the stage, he slipped, because the stage is opera, it also has to have a life, and finally he slipped well, and finally Mr. Jin decided that he was himself.

As a closed disciple of a generation of Grandmaster Jin Yungui, Yao Gonglin had a kind of obsession in his temperament, and his talent and hard work allowed him to develop a unique "Golden Sect Yao Cavity" in the already quite mature skills of his mentor. Lu Xiaojie said: "I put Jin Yungui's several singing, about ten of the most classic singing and his singing voice himself to give him a score to sort out together, Mr. Jin if you remember a tune, there are two hundred notes, Yao Gonglin probably has a thousand, his decorative tone has developed to three or four rotary decorative tones, his laryngeal tremors, pneumatic tremors, small cavities, Boeing, the specific application of the technique is extremely exquisite, why no one can achieve it at present." Male voice singing Xiaosheng, I want to sing Jinpai, I can't sing like Jin Yungui, Jin Yungui teacher, I want to sing Jinpai better, what do I do, I will absorb the small cavity of Teacher Xiao Ronggui. Jin Pai sang "three years ago" like this, and he himself "three years ago", "before" (very euphemistic), there are so many small cavities. Lu Xiaojie said: "Jin Pai it is very grounded, very high-end, then it is both ends, why, I always think about this problem, this has Yao Gonglin's credit, that "second degree plum" "only see her" right, that Mr. Jin "only see her", right yes, as a girl so beautiful, singing so, empty so long to give the band is not uncomfortable at all, as a one meter seven six Yao Gonglin if you sing like this, there is a little stay, if he "only sees her", His Boeing developed on the basis of Mr. Kim. "Zong Shou genre and seek change, and strive for perfect continuous development, looking back at history, the Jin Yungui self-style genre, thanks to her improvement and reform of the Yang opera singing voice, Yao Gonglin knows that in awe of tradition, but also need to conform to the aesthetic value of the times, a genre wants to go on in the long run, harvest the future, only to seek change in time. Just like this golden school [mainland pile characters] that he created, the audience likes the "mainland pile words", and the golden school [mainland pile words] that he sings is also very good, "My benefactor, after a hundred years, wearing ma dai (belt) filial piety, the spiritual hall is waiting, and during the Qingming season, I lead Jiao'er to your grave and kneel down to worship the wine, "At once, I will be strangled, not dragging, because my emotions are in this place." Learning to sound is dead, learning is born, although the stage is played in the mirror flower and water moon, but the portrayal is the true feelings of the world. Yao Gonglin carefully pondered the psychology of the characters, he used the program to make flesh and blood, to sing the voice as the soul, to melt into the drama, and to crush himself on the stage again and again. I have always felt it, singing a "love" right, this audience to see the play also see your "love", whether it is love, father and son love, husband and wife love, it is a "love" word.

To give you an example, it is the "return to the eighteenth" of this "Liang Zhu", that is, we call it "single down the mountain", that is, Zhu Yingtai went back, Liang Shanbo learned that she was a woman, you don't look at the nerd, once repented, he can go crazy. Sometimes we people are sometimes like this, and honest people are even more crazy than crazy people when they start to go crazy. I seem to have listened to the old artist also said, our jin yungui teacher stomped his feet on the stage, hurried to go fast, run faster, he just used the basic skills of his own circle field on the stage, to the final shout: four nine, your feet fast, then I will use my own traditional circle field on the stage to be a child, a child, a child, a few big round fields, around the big 8 characters, applause at the bottom, the audience's happiness are hung up, this is director Jin right, right, This was not a real sentiment or mood of Liang Shanbo at that time. "Iron Mask" himself played the Bao Gong understand it, play the Bao Gong, this is a Su Sheng, this Bao Gong how to play him, and is the lady to give birth to a son, and finally the lady helped her cousin commit a crime, this play is called "Iron Mask Love", is their old artist Cui Dongsheng wrote, when the lady, (Bao Gong) found that the lady left this suicide note, she herself knows not to drag on her own Bao Gong husband, and finally hanged, left a letter, a suicide note, she took this letter, how to sing, sing the love of the opera, how to reflect him ah, This must be mastered, that is the old-fashioned is to pass through the door, to be crunched, to be dangdang, no, can not express this complex emotion of Bao Gong at this time. Later, I told the composer, I said can I start singing, according to the normal [dresser] like a dream like drunkenness, limbs numb, eyes stunned, just look at this suicide note, like a dream like drunkenness, limbs numb eyes stunned, so singing can not be expressed, I said I can take it down and sing it, well, how do you dismantle it, like a dream, like drunkenness, like fainting, don't wind up, numb limbs, eyes are stunned, Dangdang, Taiwan's platform, Dangdang, Tai, so that Bao Gong's emotions are immediately expressed, The audience at the bottom will give you another lesson.

In Yao Gonglin's artistic career, he has performed many roles, character identities, personalities are different, he is good at starting from the truth of life, so that each character has an extremely obvious personality, such as "Three Trials of Prodigal Son", Yao Gonglin will be a hateful, hateful, pitiful, cute prodigal son to the fullest. Why do everyone like to watch Yao Gonglin's "(Three Attempts) Prodigal Son", not only to play him well, but also to be dashing, but also to bring a little hooliganism, but also can not be bad, he finally cried grave, he knows, with the help of his wife, the lady finally dressed as a man, took him over to pick up the burden, he begged for food, and finally the father, knowing that the father was angry with him, went to the grave, and finally confessed, so in the whole performance, in addition to singing, you must grasp this character. If you are not sure, then it is not credible, this is played down.

In Yao Gonglin's artistic career of more than 50 years, he has performed nearly 100 plays, such as "Fang Qing Shy Gu", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "Three Trials of Prodigal Son", "Erdu Mei", "Tanuki Cat for Prince", "Xi Xiang Ji", "Selling Oil Lang Monopoly Flower Girl", etc., and has won the Shanghai "Magnolia" Drama Performing Arts Award. In the 1980s and 1990s, some of Yao Gonglin's singing and audio-visual materials were not only popular in the north and south of the great river, but also exported to Hong Kong and Taiwan, which was the first time in the history of Yang opera.

Lu Xiaojie said: "Yao Gonglin's contribution to the sound cavity in the history of Yangzhou's development is actually a milestone figure." Yao Gonglin Shanghai opera fan Lang Qiming said: "That time of the Toad stage, it has three floors of the audience seats, three floors of the audience seats, this is rare in the whole of Shanghai, I want to be in the country is not very common, but the third floor is generally not open to the public, before I only heard that Mei Lanfang to Shanghai, open for a few days, and then after the liberation of the three floors basically do not open, and Yao Gonglin They actually opened the three floors this time, the three floors are opened, some audiences are queuing all night to buy theater tickets, This kind of scene is really incredible when I think about it now." Perhaps it is that he has lived too many fierce lives in the play, Yao Gonglin outside the play is particularly sober, the admonition of the teacher to "be a clean and innocent person" has never been forgotten, and the heart of a naked child who has not been contaminated by the world does not dare to lose it. Yao Gonglin's son Yao Wei said: "I remember when he took the bowl he wanted to eat and sang on the stage, there were many people below, the gold necklace and the gold ring were taken down and put in the bowl, and many fans directly put the gold necklace in the bowl, because he acted really, what he gave him was his liking, and then according to the traditional old society, this thing is for you, generally you can take it, but after the performance, he did not take off his makeup, after the curtain was finished, he ran down to find these people, one by one to return to them. He said no. He once said to himself: "There is nothing remarkable about yao gonglin himself, he often tells others, don't raise me too high, I am a singer."