Just after the performance of "Shilang Visiting Mother", Shi Yihong and Li Jun, two famous actors, joined hands to transform from Princess Tiejing and Yang Shilang to Yang Yuhuan and Tang Minghuang - from February 17 to 19, the Peking opera "Tang Guifei" will be performed three times in a row at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
In the rehearsal hall, Shi Yihong's key bag was replaced with a new pendant of cartoon Yang Guifei, which was hand-painted by the post-95 opera fan Yin Yin Yin in Dongguan, Guangdong. After watching "Shilang Visiting Mother" last Sunday, Yinyin waited for Shi Yihong's appearance at the back door of the Tian Toad Yifu stage, and sent a package of cultural and creative products made by himself, not only Yang Guifei's appearance, but also the gold-encrusted jade and Xi Shi cartoon versions played by Shi Yihong in "New Dragon Gate Inn" and "Xi Shi", as well as canvas bags with handwritten plays.
Together with Yinyin, looking forward to meeting Shi Yihong, there are dozens of opera fans from Tiannanhaibei, most of them post-90s and post-95s, handwritten letters telling Shi Yihong about their love for traditional culture and obsession with idols.
If the back door of the Shaw stage is just a small scene, Shi Yihong was a grand occasion when he went to Changsha to perform last November, "the backstage was crowded and even the corridors were full of people." In the second night of the "New Dragon Gate Inn" performance, Shi Yihong used beautiful singing to fight, with pure true love for art, and vividly performed the tenderness and chivalry of gold and jade. Although she didn't see much of the sound scene, she could see Shi Yihong's awe and humility for the stage every time, "The sister on the stage is really glowing, so you can't ignore it, and you will always be moved by such a sister." ”
"The fact that Peking Opera can have young opera fans today is not just an individual voice, but a phenomenon on a large scale." Shi Yihong said. Although she does not deliberately manage fans in life, there are a group of fans who subtly chase her and regard her as her role model.
In terms of the current star-chasing language, the post-90s A number can be said to be one of Shi Yihong's earliest "station sisters", and the 500-person WeChat group "Yi family who likes Sister Shi" was created by her. Ah Hao laughs at himself as a very lazy person, but because of his sister, he will work hard to improve himself, make himself better, and be a high-quality "fan sister".
Now often followed by fans, but also reminds Shi Yihong of more than 20 years ago, when she appeared in Japanese theaters large and small under Shi Min's name, and was sought after by Japanese theater fans, bouquets, letters received a lot, and there were many cartoon derivatives, such as her role as Sanniang was drawn by Japanese theater fans. In 2019, on the occasion of the centenary of Mei Lanfang's performance in Japan, Shi Yihong performed in Japan, attracting opera fans from all over Japan to come to the scene to watch.
Shi Yihong said frankly that when going to Japan to perform in the 90s was very popular, China was at the trough of opera, and not many young people were willing to watch Peking Opera, and now at least 70% of the audience is young faces. How did Peking Opera audiences become younger? Large-scale nationwide tours, as well as the perennial and silent entry into the campus, have made important contributions to the cultivation of young opera fans.
After 95, Tang Yuqi fell in love with Shi Yihong because of a Peking Opera activity on campus when she was studying at Shanghai University, and watched seven "Lock Linsac" in three years, and each time she could see Shi Yihong performing better than the last time, "My sister seems to be always going uphill." If someone asks me which is Shi Yihong's best performance, I will say the next one. ”
Today, Tang Yuqi has gone to New York to work, and there are always many metal badges printed with Shi Yihong's stills on her bag. Whenever foreign friends asked her what it was, it was very beautiful, Tang Yuqi would give them popular science about Peking Opera. She also likes to watch a lot of interesting Peking Opera videos on the Bilibili website, such as the Peking Opera dubbing "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and writing a Peking Opera drum program in Python. Recently, she also chatted with the particularly popular artificial intelligence ChatGPT about "The Great Tang Concubine", ChatGPT not only knows the well-known Cuipan Dance, but also gives a poem - "Peking Opera is spread all over the world, relying on the fame of Hongmiao Dance". (Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhao Yue)