February 19 is an ordinary day, and another special day. On this day of 10 years, a master left us.
If you like Yue opera, the repertoire you should remember is "Dream of the Red Chamber", if you are a fan of Yue opera, you will definitely remember a name - Yuan Xuefen. She is a leading figure in the Yue opera industry and Mei Lanfang in the Yue opera industry. From Hua Dan, the head and shoulders when she was popular, to the bearer of the Reform of Yue Opera, Yuan Xuefen brought Yue Opera not a few repertoire, not her original ruler tone, but a spirit.
Some time ago, the Shengzhou Yue Opera Troupe performed the Yue opera "Proud Snow Fragrance" with the theme of Yuan Xuefen's life, and the title of the play pointed out the wind bone of Yuan Lao- the proud snow fragrance. She went from Miss Yuan all the way to Yuan Lao, insisting on this kind of wind bone, the youngest son was just 18 days old, she was beaten into the current counter-revolutionary, pulled to prison, she remembered her mother's words "You can do anything, you just can't die!" ”。 For 7 years, she endured beatings and humiliations that ordinary people could not tolerate, and persisted until the day when the light came, when the 7-year-old son saw his mother for the first time, Yuan Xuefen's strength was best rewarded, and she waited strongly until the return of spring.
We opened Teacher Yuan's artistic journey and found that she had too many vigorous and warm moments, so let's relive those moments together and decipher a real master.
Teacher Yuan Xuefen
To learn art away from home is to earn money to support the family
Yuan Xuefen was born in Dushan Village, Puyi Township, Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, the third child in the family, due to the heavy snow at birth, her father named her "Xueyun". She had just learned something and found that her family was very poor, and her sister, who had just been born, was sent to the nursery because she could not afford to raise her. This incident deeply touched Yuan Xuefen, her father was an arrogant teacher, teaching thirty students a year, and each student handed over a piece of ocean. XueFen heard the little sisters say that the lead actor in the drama class could earn thirty yuan a month, so she made up her mind to sing and support her family, and the eleven-year-old child was very naïve, and she resolutely left home to enter the drama class despite her father's strong opposition, which was seven years. She said that my dad would one day agree to my singing!
Xue Fen's father must not have imagined later that the third daughter, who he had always taught to be self-reliant, later became a representative figure of the drama genre and became a people's artist, under the guidance of her father's idea of self-reliance, she did everything on her own, made a model for her children and students, and also injected the blood of self-reliance into the young drama genre of Yue opera, which has a century-old history.
Stills from "The Tale of the West Chamber"
"Innovation, let a drama genre walk ahead of the times."
In 1944, Yuan Xuefen picked a class to set up the Xuesheng Troupe, she insisted on getting rid of the outcrop, introducing screenwriters and directors, she wanted to make Yue opera appear cultured; she learned from drama, costumes, makeup and strived to be fashionable and real; she explored new cavities, created a ruler cavity, a sub-string cavity...
During that period, she boldly changed and created Lu Xun's novel "Blessing", and the colleagues in the troupe were worried about the box office, saying that this play had no dazzling costumes, no children's love plot, and what if the audience did not buy it? Elder Yuan recalled that our audience was almost full of seats in almost every scene, how supportive and loving we were, we always gave them fish and meat, this time "Xianglin Sister-in-law" as a green dish is not good?
Stills from "Xiang Lin Sister-in-law"
Surprisingly, this green vegetable was not only full of scenes, but also sensational throughout Shanghai, and various media rushed to report that Yuan Xuefen's name suddenly appeared on the hot search. Of course, the Kuomintang authorities were also bombarded, and they sent spies to throw feces on Yuan Xuefen when she returned home from the performance, in an attempt to block the performance of "Xianglin Sister-in-law", which is also the source of a storyline of Zhu Chunhua in the movie "Stage Sisters".
Yuan Xuefen did not cry, washed the dirt off her head and face, and continued to perform. The dung-spilled tunic is still preserved.
Yuan Xuefen's reform brought fashion to Yue opera and set the tone for this genre, until today, Yue opera can always keep up with fashion first, new TV series, new styles, can always be used by Yue opera to illusion, these are inseparable from the style brought by Yuan Lao to this genre.
In April 2006, Master Yuan Xuefen won the "Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performing Arts Lifetime Achievement Award" issued by the 16th Magnolia Drama Performance Award, and on October 11, 2009, he won the first China Drama Award - Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mentors and friends, blue out of blue is better than blue
Elder Yuan has served as the president of the Shanghai Yue Theatre for many years, and is also a deputy to many people's congresses, a typical celebrity. But in life, she is so kind, like the big sister next door.
Cui Warbler
Teacher Lu Ruiying, the founder of Lü Pai Art, is actually a fan of Yuan Lao's drama, she loves to watch Teacher Yuan's plays, she feels that there is truth, she loves to listen to Teacher Yuan's voice, and she feels that there is something new. With the admiration for Teacher Yuan, Lu Ruiying came to Teacher Yuan's side, played a little girl for Teacher Yuan, and dreamed of one day worshiping Teacher Yuan as a teacher. When Teacher Yuan learned of Ruiying's idea, Teacher Yuan did not agree, she said, don't limit your development because of learning from me, your voice conditions have their own characteristics, you should give play to your strengths, I can tell you about drama without worshiping teachers. From then on, Lü Ruiying cultivated assiduously while absorbing the characteristics of the Yuan School, and finally created another important genre of Yue opera Hua Dan, the Lü School.
Even today, Teacher Lu Ruiying still says that Yuan Lao is her mentor.
Elder Yuan was a dear friend to her three sons. They call their mother many kinds, sometimes call her Yuan Lao, sometimes call her dean, and the equality and intimacy between mother and child can be seen. Elder Yuan for her next generation of students, such as Fang Yafen, will call every New Year's Festival, Yafen, come to me to eat, no special preparation, what to eat Ha.
These small things have strung together the personality of Master Yuan, she has never been self-contemptuous and self-deprecating, her personality is high; she treats the people around her as equals, acts innocently, sings seriously, and she erects a monument for those who come after her.
Teacher Yuan, we miss you, and I wish you peace in heaven