In the history of Yue Opera, what unforgettable memories and events does Bi Chunfang have?

I loved to listen to Yue opera since I was a child, but at that time I listened to the radio from my neighbor's house, our family was relatively poor and couldn't afford it, so the radio often heard them singing "Shilin Sacrifice Pagoda" when Ma Zhanghua and Yuan Xuefen were playing, so I liked to listen to it very much. Since my family is relatively poor, I have thought since I was a child that it is best to let me go out to work early to reduce the burden on my parents. So in 1940, when I was only 12 years old, Shanghai Hongxing Stage Small Science Class recruited female students, so I told my parents that I was going to study drama. Of course, although their parents' family was poor, they felt that learning drama at that time was looked down upon, they did not agree, they cried, made trouble, and quarreled day and night, they couldn't help, so they sent themselves in. After he was admitted to the Hongxing stage, his master was called Li Guifang, he was an old boy at that time, and he was also a little famous, but he was the class leader, so he took himself in and changed his name, he was originally called Bi Yazhen, but he chose a name for himself Bi Chunfang, this is his stage name, Bi Chunfang is his stage name, entering the science class to learn drama, the small science class in the early forties of the last century was indeed hard, when we were admitted, there were more than thirty junior sisters, but because they couldn't stand all kinds of hardships, some dropped out of school halfway and went back, But I made up my will at that time, no matter how hard I had to learn, that is, I didn't want to go back, so the first enlightenment drama I learned by myself was that the master assigned my own small student profession, and I learned a piece of "Panfu" in the old drama "Panfusov", and later because of the death of my master, we junior sisters and the troupe were disbanded, after the class came out, I performed in some small and medium-sized theater troupes in Shanghai, and I was the top student at that time, because I was a top student in the science class in addition to the guest teacher, In Hongkou Grand Theater, Nanshi Chinese Grand Theater, folk music, Xinxin, Zhejiang East Theater and other theater troupes performed, in addition to some of their own science middle school "Agarwood Fan", "Jasper Hairpin", "Panfusov", "Embroidered Mandarin Duck" and "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and so on, after the old drama is performed, at that time to change the play every day, and then perform some curtain plays, road plays, so there are many opportunities for their practice, at that time there were already many relatively high-quality troupes in Shanghai, such as Sister Yuan's Snow Sound Troupe, Yin Guifang's eldest sister's Fanghua troupe, Fan Ruijuan's eldest sister, Fu Quanxiang, Xiao Dangui, Xu Yulan, this kind of troupe is scripted, not singing road plays, they envy them, and later in 1946, Xu Tianhong's eldest sister came out to form her own troupe, Tianhongyue Theater, in the Laozha Grand Theater, she called herself from the small theater, in her troupe she is also a top singer, Hua Dan is Yao Suzhen, Wang Wenjuan, in the Laozha Grand Theater. The first time he performed a scripted play, he felt that he had made progress and felt good, and then he entered the star theater, together with Fan Ruijuan's eldest sister, he sang the second card of the little student, and then Fan Ruijuan's eldest sister went to the Xuesheng Theater, and Yuan Xuefen cooperated into the big Shanghai cinema, I felt that it was really not easy, Yue Opera entered the big Shanghai cinema, the play performed at that time was "Coral Introduction" written by Mr. Tian Han, and then he cooperated with Sister Fan and Sister Fu, and performed a lot of plays in the stars and Lidu, and he was still a second-card student, In the Dongshan Yue Art Club, I have been thinking about it for three years, although I don't play much, I want to make easy progress in the new artistic environment at that time, I myself have few plays, the two eldest sisters can learn and watch on stage, and they can go on the radio in the big troupe, and the small theater has no opportunity to go on the radio.

Talking about how Bi school art took shape, mainly between the fifties and sixties of the last century, it was the rising period of their own art, which was tested through practice and among the audience, which is very important; But the road I have walked in art, I am thinking, is the three words "learning, transformation, and creation", first learning, then transformation, and then creation, three steps to come. When it comes to learning, you must first learn the traditional old-fashioned old drama, but if you want to learn it, you can't stick to the rules, because the times are progressing, so I gave some small examples, once rehearsed "Three Laughs. When Tang Bohu ordered autumn incense, he started Yan Lanzhen in the old Yue Opera language, "Official, official is like the moon in the sky", and he turned this sentence into his "Three Laughs. Tang Bohu points autumn fragrance", "Sister Qiuxiang", I turned it into a character I created myself, that is, a female male singer, which is how it was transformed. I also want to talk about when I rehearsed "Lin Chong", "Fengxue Mountain Temple" Lin Chong missed his hometown, and there was a singing sentence that he also transplanted the singing voice of "Shanbo Dying" in our Yue Opera old language. A sentence and sentence of "Shanbo's death" is sung "Four Nine Brings Yingtai Letter", Lin Chong misses his hometown, because Liang Shanbo and Lin Chong's characters are completely different, he sings a little more rigidly, "remember the day of the long pavilion farewell", give it out, the old language can also be borrowed, this situation is many, "Guangxu Emperor" "the treasury is empty, the people's livelihood is poor, and the government and the opposition are resentful", this is borrowed from Huangmei opera, but borrowing others can not copy all of it, in short, it must be turned into our Yue drama. Everyone knows that they are Xiang Yin, Fan and Xu, they are all good at it, so I learn from them, I feel that I can't be rigid, I have my own conditions, but I have to be subtle, learn from others, learn from their good places, turn into my own Yue opera, the opera I want to create, and I feel that an actor must relax a little on stage. In 1958, three comedies were rehearsed, such as "Wang Tiger Robs Relatives" and "Three Laughing Marriages. Light autumn fragrance", "Happy Encounter". In 1957, he also acted in a complete episode "Lin Chong", when he was on "Lin Chong", everyone was worried about themselves, how to play Lin Chong in Yue Opera, Lin Chong should be Beijing Opera, Kunqu Opera, with a deeper foundation. So because our choreographer is better, comprehensive art, then it was performed, and after the performance, the result was Mr. Gai Tingtian, when he was still in the world, he also specially came to see Yue Opera performance "Lin Chong", after watching it, he encouraged himself, and he said in the background, not bad, not bad, your whole play is round and round. I really want to develop the drama a little, this is the case, so I feel that the actor should relax on the stage, it is not good to be restrained, the more I worry, the more the drama on stage is gone, the more I worry about tightness, the audience sees that you are strenuous, you also sing hard, do hard, can not go deep into the characters, so as soon as you go on stage, you always try to relax a little, relaxation can go deep into the plot, go deep into the characters, sing and act, tightening is not beneficial, not that relaxation is not put at all, the play is gone, relaxation should also be measured; In addition, I always feel that there must be someone in my heart and no one in my eyes, so I can easily play the trick well.

Speaking of characteristics, after decades of practice, in the process of groping, for example, my own singing method is based on my own conditions, "because of the love cavity, because of the word cavity", and close cooperation with music, and I use more back of the head sound, so the voice is also more singing, but also thousands of hammers, often singing, often singing, I have felt a rule, my own voice is from the back of the brain, so that the voice is not easy to be dumb, but in the past there were also dumb, practice out of true knowledge, practice groped over. The characteristics of the singing cavity, we Yue opera in the throwing cavity, small cavity is very important, each person's singing style is different, small cavity is different, for example, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" in the "eighteen sends", when Liang Shanbo sent the virtuous brother back, Zhu Yingtai asked "why did he beat the firewood, which one do you send down the mountain", he continued to sing "He beat the firewood for his wife, I sent the virtuous brother down the mountain", this is a bit like myself, is me Bi Chunfang singing, the previous sentence "Congratulations to the virtuous brother for returning home safely", seems to be also his own basic voice, I always have a bit of a dragging tone, maybe it's my own characteristic, and over time, in short, I have to sing this tone according to my own conditions. There are six singing sentences in "Loutai Meeting" that are also their own characteristics, "That day Qiantang Road sent you home, you said that there was a little ninth sister at home, the matchmaker made on the long pavilion, the foolish brother came to the door to ask for relatives", and two sentences "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the marriage relationship in the previous life matched", plus the door is very smooth and chic, maybe these two sentences are also their own characteristics.