Shang Fanghui, born in Huaijia Village, Liang Village, Qianxian County, Shaanxi Province, is an amateur Qin actor. In 2002, he won the February Weekly and Monthly Champion and year-end Excellence Award of Shaanxi Television Station's "Qin Voice Drama Fan Shouting Board". In 2004, he won the first prize of the Qin Cavity Competition in Shaanxi Province to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the 20th anniversary of the revitalization of the Qin Cavity. From 2003 to 2005, he successfully launched a singing album, one or two series.
In recent years, he has held many solo concerts in the five northwestern provinces, and in 2011, with the support of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture, he held a solo concert at the Xi'an People's Theater. Her voice is hoarse and thick, natural and natural, which complements the unique singing of Qin Cavity and has a special magnetic force for the majority of opera fans.
She is known as the "Qin Cavity Supergirl", and she can often be seen in the red and white celebrations in the countryside and the opening ceremonies in the city. She was once an amateur Qin actor in people's eyes, and now she has high performance costs, fans who have followed for many years, and star-like treatment, and has become a veritable public figure.
"Qin Cavity" made her a star
Shang Fanghui is a well-known figure in the Qin cavity circle, and some people call her the "super girl" in the eyes of Qin cavity enthusiasts in the northwest region, and the degree of attention of this ordinary farmer from Qianxian County, Shaanxi Province, is evident.
It is reported that at present, Shangfanghui has an average of more than 300 performances per year. The circulation of the two genuine discs launched has exceeded 100,000, and the number of pirated discs in circulation in the market may exceed 1 million. She is undoubtedly one of the hottest stars in the opera market.
Shang Fanghui's desolate and tragic bitter sound drama is unique in the Qin cavity circle, but Shang Fanghui, who sat in front of the reporter yesterday morning, is a thin figure, and it is difficult to imagine that those thick Qin cavity are "roaring" out of such a thin body. Kang Yanyong, whose husband is also an "agent", smiled and said, "Fortunately, you came early, otherwise, she would have gone to Yan Liang to perform in the afternoon." ”
Shangfanghui's performance has now been scheduled for the fifteenth day of the first month, "Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the first year invited her to perform in Wuhan, we resolutely refused, she should also have a good New Year, a year without stopping, sometimes several times a day." Speaking of the performance arrangement of the ShangfangHui, Kang Yanyong was "painful and happy", and he was very happy to see that his wife had someone liked, but his wife spent most of the year resting in the middle of the night, and he also felt sad to go to the performance early in the morning. "Others invited her to go, often let her perform the finale, usually until about 11 o'clock, come back in the middle of the night, especially hurt the body." So he tried to push off some performances, but people were indomitable, trying their best to entrust people and find relationships, Kang Yanyong said: "Some people can't find an acquaintance, just find another one, it is really impossible to push it off." "It is said that it is necessary to make an appointment for Shangfanghui now, and it needs to be half a month in advance.
But sometimes there are exceptions, some time ago, a filial "daughter" came to her, it turned out that her father loved to listen to the Qin dialect of the ShangFanghui before she was born, so she specially asked the Shangfanghui to sing for the last time for her father who had just died, when the performance of the Shangfanghui was full, she still rushed to the middle of the night, she said: "It is not easy to be liked, you should go." ”
Charming like Supergirl
Like "Supergirl", Shangfang will have a broad mass base, but more than 300 performances a year and 100,000 personal genuine DVDs are not a reason to be fully recognized by professionals.
In 2002, Shang Fang became a hit in the Qin Cavity Competition, and her bitter sound drama was desolate and tragic, and she interpreted the unique charm of the "tragic drama species" Qin Cavity. While swinging on the stage, it also made this woman who began to sing the Qin cavity with the loudspeakers in the village from the age of 12 to soar from a fan of the opera "ugly duckling" to a "white swan" that the fans of the Qin opera were holding.
However, her status as an amateur Qin actor has been criticized, and some people think that the difference between her and professional Qin actors is like the level of kindergarten children and the level of graduate students, there is no professionalism to speak of. Asking Shang Fang how she would feel, she smiled very bluntly: "I am not highly educated, I have not undergone special training, I used to care about others saying this, but now I don't care, even if I am just a farmer, as long as there is an audience like, I will continue to sing like this." ”
I can think of it this way because of an experience of Shang Fanghui. One year, she went to a small village in a county, and after singing, she went to a small temple in the village, and the news came out, and more than a dozen women in the village ran to the temple to find her, and someone sincerely told her that she would be satisfied to see her in this life. "You can't imagine how I felt at the time, they did this to me, what else can I ask for?"
Shangfanghui once set a precedent for amateur Qin actors in Shaanxi, and in 2003 launched its own selection of Qin cavity singing discs, on the day of release, the door of Xi'an Century-old Theater Yi Folk Society was crowded, and 2,000 DVDs were snapped up. Wang Junwu, director of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture's Revitalization of Qin Cavity Office, also said with emotion that it is unprecedented for Qin Cavity discs to sell such a fire. It is said that in some places in the countryside now, whether they sell onions or noodles in the market, they like to put a tape recorder in front of the stall or in front of the store, and put the Qin cavity singing section of the Shangfanghui to attract customers.
She wanted to set up the Qin Cavity Art Troupe
Her "Su Sheng" singing voice is unique, because it is unique, so it is difficult to replicate. She said that she wanted to set up an art troupe to introduce her singing voice and characteristics through the art troupe, so that more people would like and pay attention to Qin.
In addition to being hoarse, Shang Fanghui's original Qin vocal voice also has a bit of a thick male voice. It is reported that Fu Jin, director of the Research Institute of the China Academy of Opera, believes that she is a person who sings opera in the authentic traditional Qin cavity, which is precisely what is most needed in the Qin cavity circle at present.
Speaking of the future, Shang Fang will say: "Now there are so many people who want to listen to me sing, but there is no time, so I have always hoped to set up an art troupe named after myself, my eldest son is currently learning this, I want more people to pay attention to Qin Cavity." ”
Some professionals believe that the significance of the shangfanghui phenomenon is that it proves that local drama still has a broad market space in the folk, and the key is to conform to the aesthetic tastes of the people. Therefore, it also asked the industry whether only new plays can be loved by contemporary audiences. Perhaps, the organic combination of tradition and innovation can make Qin Lu go further, rather than just crazy for a "supergirl".
Sing a video
"Three Niangs And Godsons" is adapted from the "Silent Play" by the opera composer Li Yu in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. "Three Niang Godsons" Ma Lianliang as Xue Bao and Zhang Junqiu as Wang Chun'e. In the Ming Dynasty, Xue Guang, a Confucian student, went to Zhenjiang to open for business. There are wives of the Zhang clan and concubines of the Liu clan and the Wang clan. Liu Shi had a son, whose name was Yi Ge. There was also the old servant Xue Bao. Xue Guang was in Zhenjiang, and when he met his fellow villagers, he took home with five hundred taels of platinum. Let's enjoy the excerpt of the Three Niangs godson sung by Shang Fanghui.
Media commentary
Shang Fang will be on fire. In less than five years, Shang Fanghui has changed from a farmer to a well-known figure in the countryside and abroad, and she has contributed to the inheritance of the folk Qin cavity cause and provided a reference sample for the revitalization of folk art, which is a good thing. But in turn, we have to ask, where is the inheritance role of our professional Qin Cavity team?
According to a survey on the current situation of opera resources reported by media, since 1983, a professional theater troupe in Shaanxi has arranged a total of 17 new plays, but each drama has performed no more than 20 times; there is also a professional opera unit that has created more than 40 plays since 1983, but each drama has not performed more than 40 times, and the input and output are very disproportionate. At the same time, a considerable number of professional actors rely on various government awards to approach high-level urban audiences, while a large number of audiences are difficult to see Qin Cavity.
Why is the special role of folk opera actors like Shang Fanghui in protecting and inheriting local drama genres highlighted? I am afraid that it has something to do with the fact that the Grand Theatre abandoned its original style of drama on the road of "reform and innovation", as one opera fan said, "It is one of the responsibilities of Qin Cavity professionals to push the Qin Cavity to the growing new generation and to a wider range of regions and groups." But what is the basis for this promotion? In order to attract young audiences, the Qin Cavity Band continues to add Western instruments and musical elements, and also incorporates some modern dance elements into the performance. In order to attract foreign audiences, some of the recitations and singing segments have been popularized, and as far as possible, audiences who do not understand or are not accustomed to the Shaanxi dialect can reluctantly accept it, but for old opera fans, what is the effect of this? Not as personalised as a farmer player! "Maybe Shangfanghui's Qin cavity is not as skilled as professionals say, but her popularity may reflect the people's recognition of the innovation of the traditional Qin cavity singing method, because she comes from the folk and is more aware of the aesthetic standards and viewing needs of ordinary opera fans."
The reform of the Qin Cavity is not impossible, but the reformed Qin Cavity needs the approval of the people, and it is enough to invite the people to be the judges, rather than entering the aristocratic theater. Whether professional theaters and actors can also study the appreciation standards and tastes of old opera fans, and carry out reform and innovation on this basis, otherwise they may really fall into a situation that old theater fans do not like and outsiders do not accept, just like crappy foreign languages, Chinese cannot understand, foreigners cannot understand.