"Xiao Cangwa I left Dengfeng XiaoXian, along the way, I suffered from hunger, the second solution is like that bull's head horse noodles, he and I, as soon as we talked, turned that face over..."
On the afternoon of the third day of the first lunar month, at the mouth of the village of Caomiao Village in Song County, Henan Province, the singing of the classic opera "Xiaocangwa" suddenly sounded, and many villagers who were preparing to cook at home went out of the house, stood in the courtyard and outside the gate to check around, only to see that on the road at the mouth of the village, two local opera fans took homemade shackles and sang the Yu opera "Xiaocangwa".
The old man who performed "Xiaocangwa" was named Zhang Xiaohei, who was a loyal fan of Maogou Village in Song County, and Uncle Zhang was originally an ordinary mountain village farmer, who went out to work for several years and saved tens of thousands of yuan, in order to learn opera, all used for opera investment, worshiping teachers, buying props and costumes needed for singing.
Uncle Zhang told the author: "This is my good big brother, he is 72 years old, I am 64 years old, and we both like to sing. Today is to go to Luoyang to participate in the performance back, in fact, it is not a performance, the two are going to learn. When I got here, I was happy, so I got off the car and sang a paragraph, hoping to get the guidance of my hometown fathers and elders, theater fans and friends. ”
Uncle Zhang claimed that he did not have a family, a person made money and spent alone, the first sixty years lived in a muddy nightmare, did not know the meaning of life, since contact with singing, get the support of opera fans and friends and the guidance of opera school teachers, and finally found the direction of his struggle, that is, to learn good drama, sing good drama, carry forward the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, even if you spend all your savings, you will not hesitate.
In order to be able to learn better, Uncle Zhang specially purchased an electric car, heard that where there is a play, the actors and teachers sang on the stage, Uncle Zhang whispered behind the stage, after the performance, buy cigarettes and tea to ask the teachers to pass on their experience.
In 2019, in order to get a chance to perform on stage, thousands of yuan were paid by himself to invite the troupe of the drama school to perform in his hometown.
Someone once advised him: "Xiao Hei, you said that you are also more than 60 people, it is not easy to earn two money, how good is it to keep spending yourself in the future, why do you still have to toss and turn to learn drama?" As the old saying goes, people don't learn art after thirty, you are both thirty, and it's too late to learn drama..."
Uncle Zhang believes that learning for the sake of learning is certainly difficult to make in-depth progress, and he is learning for interest, no matter what he learns in the future, spending money for interest, this money is worth spending.
In order to learn drama and sing opera anytime and anywhere, Zhang Xiaohei specially purchased a large-capacity battery stereo, more than a dozen U disks, sometimes into the city to rush home, halfway will also turn on the stereo, while walking while playing famous singers.
The Spring Festival in Caomiao Village in 2021 is a very quiet Spring Festival, most of the young people who went out to work responded to the call and did not go home for the Spring Festival, although it was the third day of the Chinese New Year, the bored villagers had already worked in the fields, plus the singing began in the afternoon cooking time, there were not many villagers to watch the scene, only one audience in the village and a pedestrian passing by.
The only audience member Dong Dajie used her mobile phone to take pictures of Uncle Zhang's singing, she said that she was also a fan of the opera, because the family was busy, liked to listen but did not dare to let go of singing, very much admired Uncle Zhang's mentality, is already 64 people, can also love opera so much, willing to pay for singing.
It is understood that two years ago, the local Spring Festival every year will invite the troupe to the village to perform, for the villagers to send a cultural feast, with the impact of the epidemic, in the past two years, there is no corresponding cultural activities in the countryside, Uncle Zhang and his companions such as two people's small "crew", sent the play to the village entrance, no matter whether there is anyone to watch, or very serious performance of their own opera fragments.
I hope that Uncle Zhang's road to quyi will get better and better, and I also hope that after the revitalization of the countryside, more local cultural talents will emerge.