The beauty of Peking Opera, some people say that she is broad and profound, some people praise duanfang elegance, behind the overflowing beauty, some people accuse her of slowing down the rhythm and having a sense of separation.
There is a saying circulating in the Peking Opera circle: Today's Mei Pai descendants, there is Li Shengsu in the north and Shi Yihong in the south. Just a few words are the highest praise for the artistic achievements of the old artists.
Shi Yihong, whose original name was Shi Min, is the leader of the Meipai Da Qingyi heritage. She is mainly based on Zong "Mei", integrating Qingyi and Dao Ma Dan as a whole, good at Peking Opera, film and television, and contributing many popular screen images.
Cheng Xue'e in "The Phoenix Returns to the Nest", Bai Suzhen in "The Legend of the White Snake", Yang Yuhuan in "The Noble Concubine Drunk"... Under Shi Yihong's appearance, these characters are given life and come alive.
Knowledgeable people know that Peking Opera pays attention to "singing and doing fighting", and in Shi Yihong's teacher, "every song and a thought has a charm, and a dozen clubs are wonderful".
This skillful skill is inseparable from the love of opera art, because love is more diligent, because hard work can achieve something.
Born in Wu Nong's soft-spoken Shanghai, Shi Yihong grew up with her grandmother, who was also a rich lady with a Kochi education.
Quiet as a virgin, moving like a rabbit, used to describe Shi Yihong is the best.
Her limbs are slender, but she does not appear weak, a pair of brass bell-like eyes are shining, and there is a gentle temperament between her eyebrows, which makes people unable to take their eyes off it.
Because his grandmother herself loved Peking Opera, Shi Yihong was sent to the Children's Palace to learn Peking Opera at a very young age, but he did not expect to show a very high talent in this regard.
In 1982, at the age of 10, Shi Yihong was admitted to the Peking Opera class of the Shanghai Opera School, specializing in Wudan.
Wudan is different from Hua Dan, will not deliberately pursue the perfect singing voice, but the basic skills such as dance, playing, stilts and other basic skills are very demanding, due to Shi Yihong's excellent innate conditions, she has studied under Zhang Meijuan, who is known as "China's first female Wudan" since she started.
In 1986, the 14-year-old Shi Yihong won the second prize for his drama "Blocking horses" to defeat a number of adult actors at the Shanghai Opera Martial Arts Television Competition.
Originally only a little famous in school, she won the attention of many famous characters and experts through this competition, including Lu Wenqin, the founder of Chinese opera vocal music.
"Dao Ma Dan practiced his voice, wasted kung fu", this was the most ridiculed that Shi Yihong heard that year.
Wudan enlightened, under the guidance of teacher Zhang Meijuan, although she learned the exquisite "fighting hand" skill, but without a voice, she could not create more rich roles, in order to make up for the weakness of singing, when Teacher Zhang Meijuan proposed to ask her to worship Mr. Lu as a teacher, Shi Yihong did not hesitate for half a minute.
Mr. Mei Lanfang's recording tape, she listened to hundreds of bad, a Xipi complete set of singing guide board "Yutang Chun with sad tears busy moving forward", she practiced for half a semester, high notes, bass, open accent, closed accent... This teenage Xiao Wudan, followed by an old artist who was nearly seventy years old, finally grinded out the singing skills sentence by sentence.
Later, when Mr. Jiang Fengshan, the exclusive pianist of Master Mei Lanfang, heard a play by Shi Yihong, he could not help but sigh that he saw Mei Lanfang's shadow on her body, which was the highest evaluation for "Mei Pai Qingyi".
In 1990, at the age of 18, Shi Yihong was invited to join the Shanghai Peking Opera House and became a young actor who focused on training.
As a national key Peking Opera Troupe approved by the Ministry of Culture, Shanghai Peking Opera House has cultivated a large number of outstanding Peking Opera artistic performance talents since its establishment, and is an elderly theater that leads the integration and innovation of traditional chinese opera and modern culture in the mainland.
In 1991, Shi Yihong won the Excellence Award of the National Young and Middle-Aged Peking Opera Competition with the play "Fire Phoenix".
In 1996, the "Graduate School of Outstanding Young Actors of Chinese Peking Opera", led by the Central Propaganda Department, was established in Beijing, and among the first 26 outstanding young people selected, Shi Yihong was elected.
These three years of study life in Beijing naturally made Shi Yihong's performance skills and artistic qualities go to a higher level, but the biggest influence on her was that she met the most important person in her life.
Teacher Shi Yihong, who has a smooth career, is also an extremely transparent person in life. She can bravely fall in love, or she can bravely turn around and pursue a better self.
She and Li Chengru can have the sweetness of love, but also the warmth of affection, which is not the best arrangement? After all, no one stipulates that there can only be one form of life.
"Although the price of love is high, it is better to throw it for art", feelings can be the spice of life, but career is a necessity of life.
In 1999, 43-year-old Li Chengru met 25-year-old Shi Yihong, and the spark of love burst out.
Li Chengru is a complete fan of Peking Opera, and the occasional glimpse on the stage, Shi Yihong, who is as excellent as Kyaukyue, is deeply rooted in his mind.
In this way, Li Chengru began to pursue Shi Yihong madly.
Li Chengru is mature and steady, considerate, and Shi Yihong is dignified and gentle and elegant, and they both appreciate each other's excellent qualities. So, after 5 years of love run, they officially entered the palace of marriage.
In the face of the discordant voices of the outside world, Shi Yihong smiled and lived his small life with peace of mind, and they spent a very sweet time after marriage.
Shi Yihong and Li Chengru are both very enterprising people. Shi Yihong regards opera as life and is bent on making it better. At that time, Li Chengru, who was also in the ascendancy of her career, hoped that she could give up her career and return to her family. And so the contradiction broke out.
The contradiction is like a wordless chasm, which opens up the distance between the two and dilutes the feelings of the two.
After all, it is difficult to resist the long years of affection. Busy career, gathering less and leaving more, and then looking back, I find that the once intimate lover has become strange. After much deliberation, Shi Yihong filed for divorce.
In the face of his lover, Li Chengru worked very hard to keep this marriage, but the transparent Shi Yihong still chose to divorce. In 2007, the marriage between the two, which had lasted for 5 years, came to an end.
Unlike the tearing of ordinary resentful couples, the two still maintain communication after divorce, and they not only become very good friends, but also call each other brothers and sisters. When Li Chengru is free, he will go to see Shi Yihong's performance, and Shi Yihong will also take the initiative to send a performance ticket to Li Chengru.
Both shined in their respective careers. Li Chengru contributed more profound screen images, and Shi Yihong brought Peking Opera out of the country to let more people feel the charm of Chinese culture.
Today, Mr. Shi Yihong is still active on his favorite opera stage and continues to sing wonderful stories.
I have to say that Shi Yihong's opera road has gone very smoothly, and even she herself lamented that she had gone too smoothly.
But behind the glory of the flowers and applause along the way is her decades of perseverance, her love and specialization in opera. "Ten minutes on stage, ten years offstage" is more or less like this.
Shaohua does not live up to the flow of years, and the years are undefeated and beautiful. Beauty is never superficiality that stays on the skin, and the intellectual beauty that is carved in the bones from the inside out is the real beauty.
Beauty as an ability to both improve oneself and help others is more valuable.
Teacher Shi Yihong is such a beauty, she constantly improves the art of opera that she loves, and is a generalist who is "unblocked by wenwu kun". In addition, she continues to innovate on the basis of her predecessors, combining traditional Chinese art with Western stories to sing Chinese culture on the world stage.
For love, you can wait for the flowers to blossom, you can fall in love, you can leave in a dashing manner, but you don't want to be alone. If you can afford to put it down and listen to the voice of your heart, this is probably the person who is truly free in thought and soul.