Old Shen Chat Drama: Zhao Yanxia's reflection and Tan Zhengyan's entanglement

Recently, there was news that Peking Opera actor Tan Zhengyan was fighting with some people on the Internet because of the problem of returning to the play. This involves the relationship between the actor and the audience, so it is worth learning from some of the past events of his old performance artist Zhao Yanxia when he was young.

When Zhao Yanxia debuted young, he went to the rivers and lakes with "the courage of the artist", and there was a way that "temper grows with ability", and later there was an accident with the audience. According to a person who knows the inside story, once she performed all of "Yutang Spring" in Tianjin, when the performance reached the "starting solution", because some audience members faced the "original board" in the "walking" and did not meet the requirements of the so-called "seven hatreds", so the audience shouted out words of dissatisfaction, and the good voice continued to affect the normal progress of the performance. If this had been replaced by an inexperienced actor, he would have been fired a long time ago. At this time, Zhao Yanxia suddenly stopped the performance, and proposed that since the audience did not want to listen, it would not be performed, and the ticket would be refunded on the spot. Zhao Yanxia calmly handled the accident, but the restlessness in the field quickly calmed down, and the performance continued.

This palm shows Zhao Yanxia's "domineering" on the stage, of course, this domineering is in quotation marks, because the audience is no longer right, and it is reasonable to be reasonable, but it is always inappropriate to compete with the audience on the stage, and even threaten to refund the ticket. This is exactly the stubborn side of Zhao Yanxia, who is bold in the art.

Of course, Zhao Yanxia later encountered greater trouble. It was 1955, Zhao Yanxia led the Yanming Peking Opera Troupe to Nanchang, Jiangxi To do a tour, the first four days of the performance reflected very well, to the fifth night she was putting on makeup backstage, the door of the theater suddenly put up a notice board, which read: "According to the instructions of the superiors, from today on, Zhao Yanxia is forbidden to perform in Nanchang." The audience who bought the ticket did not agree, and the troupe also asked the truth, and someone in the theater conveyed the words of the competent department that Zhao Yanxia's performance was yellow and unhealthy. Zhao Yanxia had nowhere to reason, and the next day, he left Nanchang with tuan. At this time, the major media across the country have set off a wave of criticism of Zhao Yanxia, accusing Zhao Yanxia's yellow performance of corrupting the audience. An article in China Youth Daily said that Zhao Yanxia was "using pornographic performances on stage to achieve the purpose of personal pursuit of profit." (The above content is excerpted from the book "Zhao Yanxia of his own faction")

The overwhelming criticism and accusations are unimaginable for a young actress in her 20s. Zhao Yanxia said, in the old society, I was also scolded by the newspapers, but you scolded you, I played mine, but today I can't stand it, some people want to beat me to death and cut off my way of life! However, although the wave of criticism is fierce, it does not weaken the enthusiasm of fans and friends for Zhao Yanxia's art, and the more people who criticize and listen to her plays, the more popular the performances of the Yanming Peking Opera Troupe are, which makes Zhao Yanxia feel greatly relieved. It can be said that it was the enthusiastic audience that helped her get through that difficult time.

Since then, Zhao Yanxia has accepted the lesson, she must act seriously, low-key people, but also learn to listen to different opinions, but also know that actors should pursue political progress, so later she is very active in acting in modern drama. After experiencing this setback, Zhao Yanxia was more artistically enterprising, and later joined the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe, becoming one of the five top cards with Ma Tan Zhang Qiu. Premier Zhou particularly appreciated her artistic characteristics and called her a self-contained faction, the "Zhao faction."

After more than half a century of tempering in acting life, Zhao Yanxia has a deep reflection on the relationship between actors and audiences in her later years. She said: "In my life, no one is afraid, no one dares to offend, but it is impossible to offend the audience, because the audience is our food and clothing parents!" In her opinion, it was the audience that gave her everything, it was the audience that gave her the motivation to create art, and without the audience, there was no Zhao Yanxia.

From Zhao Yanxia's experience of the relationship between actors and audiences, Tan Zhengyan's current situation is thought. It can be seen that Tan Zhengyan is very entangled, he has worked very hard over the years, overcome all kinds of difficulties, and should be understood by the audience, how can he always scold? Objectively speaking, Tan Zhengyan's conditions are not very ideal, and it is difficult to inherit the art of the Tan School. But at the same time, we should also see that Xiao Tan has made great efforts and made great progress, and it is also unobjective and unfair not to see this. Of course, whether his art meets a certain standard is a matter of opinion. Art is originally a radish cabbage has its own love, there is no certain rule. If Xiao Tan has not yet reached the high standards in the minds of fans, and hates iron is not steel, then it should be encouraged, and do not ridicule and insult.

Tan Zhengyan once revealed his heart that the reason why he insisted on the position of Peking Opera and practiced kung fu desperately was only one reason, that is, because his surname was Tan. Meaning, he is after Tammen. Adhering to Peking Opera and inheriting the Tan School is no longer a matter of tan zhengyan's personal hobbies or not, but his historical responsibility that he cannot escape. At the Beijing Opera House in Beijing, he had a colleague named Qiu Jirong, who was the grandson of Qiu Shengrong, the master of Qiu Shengrong, and although he had all the conditions to inherit the Qiu School, the troupe also had high hopes, but his own hobby was dance, and he achieved great results. Qiu Jirong can change his career, he can give up Peking Opera and Qiu Pai, but Tan Zhengyan can't give up, he doesn't have this right, in the final analysis, it is because his ancestor is Tan Xinpei, Tan Xinpei is the symbol of Peking Opera with a history of two hundred years.

I remember that a few years ago, Tan Xiaozeng and his wife had rumors of overseas settlement, but soon heard that they decided to stay in China. The details are unknown, but it is estimated that considering the background of the descendants of Tammen, if you leave the homeland, the impact will be too great. Today, Tan Xiao, who is 70 years old, has no longer thought of carrying the banner of the Tan Men Sect, so he pins his hopes on Tan Zhengyan. There is a rock character in Tan Zhengyan's name, that is, the rock of Yu Shuyan. It can be seen that the fathers have placed their inheritance of tan yu and the two arts on him. His burden is really not light.

In the face of a small number of people's incomprehension, or even outspoken, think about Zhao Yanxia's reflection on the relationship between actors and audiences may be able to get some inspiration from it.