On December 22nd, on the occasion of the Winter Solstice Festival, Jiang Wenduan, a national first-class actor, winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, artistic director of Guangdong Cantonese Opera Theatre and famous Cantonese opera performance artist, was a guest of the Cantonese Opera Art Museum, and at the series of activities sponsored by the Guangdong Provincial Art Research Institute, with the theme of "My Artistic Life - Jiang Wenduan's Personal Sharing Meeting", he reviewed his Cantonese opera career for more than 30 years with deep feelings, and shared his life stories and experiences with the audience.
These sharing allowed the audience to see the acting life behind jiang Wenduan's actor's aura, and the audience was also touched and inspired by her story, and was deeply intoxicated by the beauty of Cantonese opera. Jiang Wenduan also sang a pleasant and heart-warming Cantonese opera clip for the fans, so that the old and young opera fans could celebrate the winter solstice with music.
Jiang Wenduan was born in Guangzhou in a "Cantonese opera family" with a strong opera atmosphere, his parents are also famous musicians in Guangdong Cantonese Theater, his father Jiang Huashen is the "head frame" master of the shed, his mother Cui Dekun is a yangqin expert, and his uncle is a famous Cantonese opera music singing voice design master Cui Deluan.
In 1984, Jiang Wenduan was 15 years old, "overaged" admitted to the Guangdong Cantonese Opera School, the number of candidates that year was more than 7,000, the number of recruits was more than 40, the admission ratio was "one in a hundred miles", Jiang Wenduan began her road to learning art.
When talking about the most impressive things in those years of studying art, what Jiang Wenduan has always remembered to this day is that what he learned from his teacher is the basic qualities that a good actor must have. "In any case, you have to be fully prepared before the audience sees your play, which is the most basic quality of being an actor." You don't practice well and come out to perform, which is disrespectful to the audience and disrespectful to yourself. Jiang Wenduan said.
In 1990, after graduating from the Cantonese Opera School, Jiang Wenduan entered the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Theatre. When Jiang Wenduan had more and more opportunities to "take charge" (playing the female lead), Jiang Wenduan made an unexpected decision——— went to Hong Kong to participate in the artist training class sponsored by TVB, and cooperated with Li Ming, Gu Tianle, Zhang Zhilin, Li Yaoxiang, Zhu Yin, Xuan Xuan and other stars to perform nearly 20 TV dramas such as "Criminal Investigation Archives", "Ah Sir Morning", "Evil Kiss", "Love Thick Earth", "Fax of Serious Cases", "Legend of the Archery Hero", "Iron Courage Liang Kuan" and other stars. Many people think that Jiang Wenduan can't stand the loneliness and wants to change careers to become a star.
However, she came back 2 years later. This rare film and television experience made Jiang Wenduan understand that Cantonese opera has a rich expressiveness. She confessed her original intention of going to TVB, "I hope to learn different types of art to serve Cantonese opera, and I know that I belong to Cantonese opera." ”
Today, as a Cantonese opera person, Jiang Wenduan reflects his responsibility and responsibility in the inheritance of Cantonese opera. It is reported that in order to cultivate the inheritors of Cantonese opera, she enthusiastically supports the younger generations and spares no effort to use her personal free time to receive apprentices to teach art, and the age of apprentices spans from 3 years old to more than 30 years old.
Two young apprentices of Jiang Wenduan also came to the scene to communicate with the audience. The apprentices shared that they were willing to take the master as an example and contribute to Cantonese opera. "Cantonese opera is very sacred in the heart of Teacher Jiang Wenduan, who is not only very dedicated to stage art, but also often teaches us to have a reverence for Cantonese opera."
During the banquet, Jiang Wenduan constantly appealed: "I hope that more new audiences will understand, try, and contact Cantonese opera." ”
[Reporter] Xu Ziming
[Correspondent] Northern Xia
【Image】Courtesy of the organizer
【Author】 Xu Ziming
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client