It was a Xinmin Evening News from 65 years ago
Completely changed my destiny,
I have tied my life to ballet.
Xue Jinghua, the second generation of "Qionghua", came to Shanghai with the "Red Detachment of Women" of China Ba.
Xue Jinghua Photo/Guo Xinyang
At the audience meeting held at the Majestic Theater the day before yesterday, Xue Jinghua, who had an outstanding temperament and elegant posture, was surrounded by many dance fans who specially came to the scene and lined up to sign a group photo.
She chatted with them in an old-school Shanghainese dialect, as if she hadn't seen an old friend for decades, and in her hometown, those memories were also frozen, like old photos printed in her mind.
The stills are the audience's memories
It also carries Xue Jinghua's youth
Photo: Guo Xinyang
My mother took me by name
"If my mother hadn't seen the admissions news on the night newspaper and taken me to register at the moment, I would have probably rubbed shoulders with ballet." After all, I was only 11 years old at the time and dreamed of becoming a doctor. ”
Stills of Xue Jinghua's "Red Detachment of Women"
Xue Jinghua's mother went to college and loves art.
One day in July 1956, she saw the Beijing Dance School coming to Shanghai to enroll in xinmin evening newspaper, and wrote that she would invite Soviet ballet experts to teach, and intuitively felt that this was a good opportunity for her long daughter, and immediately took her to register.
Xue Jinghua in a previous interview
Mention how you got down the path of ballet
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At that time, Xue Jinghua, who had just finished the exam and had been admitted to the junior high school of his choice, knew nothing about ballet: "I saw a clip of one or two minutes in the movie "Lenin in 1918", and I remembered that it was a "Swan Lake", and I only knew that ballet was a dance to tiptoe up. ”
Young Xue Jinghua
Xue Jinghua still remembers the scene of the exam vividly: "The temporary test center for admissions is located in the Hongqi Song and Dance Troupe, just at the junction of Shimen 1st Road Nanjing West Road, and now next door to Wang Jiasha - an old bungalow. There were thousands of children who came to the exam, and in the end, 30 were selected, all of whom were Shanghainese, and I was lucky to be one of them. ”
Xue Jinghua's admission to the Beijing Dance School is one of the best
It wasn't until the acceptance letter was sent home that the mother realized that she was going to send her daughter away, and she was reluctant to do so.
I remember my mother sending me on the train, and the carriages were full of children the same age as me, and when the train started, a carriage of children cried loudly." The accompanying counselor calmly took out a large watermelon and divided it among us, saying, 'Well, don't cry, come and eat watermelon!' Everybody stopped crying. ”
Xue Jinghua's dancing shoes
It was a "slow car" era, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was not built, and it still needed a ferry, and it took three days to drive to Beijing.
The climate and eating habits of the north and south are huge, and when I first arrived, Xiao Xue Jinghua could not adapt: "The north rarely eats rice, there is often wind and sand, the climate is dry, I am very homesick, and when I am particularly sad, I write to my mother." ”
Helpless, a letter stopped and went to Shanghai to send for a week, and when her mother replied to the letter, the little girl had forgotten the previous discomfort and sadness.
Xue Jinghua practiced photos
Now he is stationed in Shenzhen
The days of learning ballet are bitter and sweet.
"At that time, the children were simply obedient, and it was always the teacher who said what we did, but it seemed that everything was wrong. Either the stomach is not tightened, or the ass is not tightened, or the knees are not straight, in short, it is repeated and practiced day and night. ”
Xue Jinghua talked about the days when she learned to dance and practiced dance
Xue Jinghua remembers that the first time she was able to return to Shanghai to dance on the stage to show her mother was in 1965, and she came to Shanghai with the group to perform in the municipal government auditorium on Fuzhou Road, performing "Red Detachment of Women".
Some old dance fans asked Xue Jinghua, since he has also retired now, is it time to return to Shanghai?
She was a little sentimental: "Shanghai is the hometown, of course, the soul is haunting, but the parents are gone, and the family is scattered." ”
Now "Qionghua" has become a seed for spreading ballet, and has been teaching for many years.
Invited by the older generation of ballet master Shu Qiao, Xue Jinghua now helps train actors in the Hong Kong Dance Troupe, and is usually stationed in Shenzhen for the convenience of work.
Xue Jinghua said——
I've done one thing in my life
Dance ballet, teach ballet
But for Shanghai, she misses it very much.
Sitting in the quaint hall of Maggie, she got up leisurely and said, "Before, my family lived on Taixing Road, and it was not far from the Maggie Grand Theater. This time to Shanghai to stay in the city hotel, push open the window is still a familiar scenery, you can also see the 'Xinmin Evening News' old building of the golden signboard, it is really fate. ”
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As the highlight of the "Red Jing'an Centennial Classic" theme series, the classic reserved play "Red Detachment of Women" of the National Ballet of China will be staged at the Majestic Theater from tonight to the 27th.
The theme exhibition of "The Red Detachment of Women" was also exhibited at the Majestic Theater.
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Photo: Photo by Guo Xinyang, courtesy of the organizer, partly from the Internet
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