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He is the "No. 1 veteran of Peking Opera" who is deeply loved by the audience.
He is also a good husband who is responsible for the family.
He not only gives wonderful performances to the audience on stage.
He also teaches and educates people in the classroom to promote traditional Chinese arts.
He is the famous Peking Opera performance artist Yu Kuizhi.
On the stage, Yu Kuizhi has created many classic opera characters.
As early as 1989, he won the "Plum Blossom Award", the highest honor of the theater festival.
However, he is such an old artist who is both virtuous and artistic, and the controversies surrounding him are endless.
The outside world has been rumored about his affair with Lee Seung-su.
Many bigwigs in the theater industry also refuse to admit his title as "the first veteran of Peking Opera".
Some viewers were even more point-blank about his singing skills, and they were not very satisfied.
What is the story between Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu?
Why does the Peking Opera circle refuse to recognize his status as the "first old student"?
The scandal with Lee Seung-su had to say
As the "golden partner" on the stage of Peking Opera, Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu have brought many wonderful performances to the audience together.
The two tacitly cooperated, just like the "Phoenix Legend" in the Peking Opera circle.
The talented and beautiful two often play talented and beautiful women on stage.
In addition, they have been working together for a long time and have formed a deep friendship in private.
Sometimes they are very intimate when they are interviewed together.
The more the audience who likes them, the more pleasing they become, and they feel that the two of them are simply a match made in heaven.
After a long time, the scandal between the two began to circulate on the Internet.
Some netizens even went viral and rumored that the two of them had actually married secretly a long time ago.
In fact, this is completely wishful thinking on the part of the audience.
According to public information, Li Shengsu knows that he is now single and is not married.
Over the years, the news of Li Shengsu's marriage has been spread on the Internet one after another.
From Bai Yansheng to Martin to Yu Kuizhi, there are three or four husbands on the Internet, but none of them are true.
Many people feel that Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu are on par with each other in the Peking Opera industry.
This argument may have some truth in today's circumstances.
But when the two first started working together, it was not the same at all.
The two began to work together on stage in 1998, when Yu Kuizhi's achievements in the Peking Opera circle were already very high.
Ten years ago, he was already a famous Plum Blossom Award winner.
He has studied Peking Opera since he was a child, and his basic skills are very solid, and he has a wide fan base of all ages.
However, at that time, Lee was not as well-known as he is now.
She can have her current status, thanks to a certain extent, Yu Kuizhi, a good partner.
At that time, as soon as fans heard that Yu Kuizhi was in the performance, they would immediately rush to grab tickets.
Because he often performs with Yu Kuizhi, Li Shengsu has gradually entered the public eye.
coupled with her own outstanding strength, she soon became alive among fans.
Of course, being able to meet such an excellent partner as Lee Seung Su is also a blessing for Kuizhi.
However, although the two have worked together on stage for many years, they have never rubbed a spark of love.
Most fans hope they can be together, but that wish never seems to come true.
Because long before the two met, Yu Kuizhi had already tied the knot with a Hong Kong girl.
was chased by his wife in Hong Kong
In 1992, Yu Kuizhi married a woman named Hong Kong.
Yu Kuizhi was born in Northeast China and works mainly in Beijing.
Why did you marry a Hong Kong girl coldly?
To answer this question, we have to start from 1990.
In 1990, Yu Kuizhi, who had already achieved a small success, went to Hong Kong with the troupe to perform.
It was also this opportunity that allowed her to gain a fan named Liang Yiwei.
Liang Yiwei has a wealthy background and excellent academic qualifications.
She graduated from the prestigious University of Montreal and can be called the white rich beauty of that era.
In addition to her busy work, her greatest interest is listening to Peking Opera.
She has long heard of Yu Kuizhi's name in Hong Kong, but she has never had the opportunity to watch his performance.
After hearing that the other party was coming to Hong Kong to perform, she immediately rushed to the scene to cheer.
In the theater, Yu Kuizhi's wonderful performance completely conquered Liang Yiwei.
After the performance, in order to express her admiration, she rushed backstage to present flowers to Yu Kuizhi.
Unexpectedly, Yu Kuizhi, who took off his makeup, suddenly amazed Liang Yiwei.
The old student who is dying on the stage is so handsome and handsome in real life.
It was love at first sight, and she immediately tried her best to get Yu Kuizhi's contact information.
In the time that followed, the two kept in touch by letter.
In order to pursue love, Liang Yiwei turned on the reverse pursuit mode.
In order to meet Yu Kuizhi, she rushed to Beijing to meet Yu Kuizhi in person more than once as far away as Hong Kong.
At that time, the transportation was far less developed than it is now, and every time she rushed to Beijing, she had to make a lot of effort.
In the face of the other party's pursuit, Yu Kuizhi actually had some inferiority complex at first.
At that time, although he was already well-known in the circle, the economic development of the mainland at that time was far inferior to that of Hong Kong.
And at that time, traditional operas such as Peking Opera had always been very niche.
Yu Kuizhi has been performing for many years, but he has not been able to make much money, and he has been living in a dilapidated small house.
Faced with the huge economic gap between the two sides, Liang Yiwei didn't care.
Finally, one day, she proposed to her parents the idea of marrying Yu Kuizhi.
Liang Yiwei's parents were very open-minded and did not immediately object.
After meeting Yu Kuizhi, the two old men felt that this young man was very good.
In this way, with the blessing of relatives and friends, the two officially got married in 1992.
Facts have proved that Liang Yiwei did not look at the wrong person, and Yu Kuizhi after marriage is simply a model husband.
Not only is he loyal to his wife, but he is also extremely filial to his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
When his mother-in-law was suffering from cancer, Yu Kuizhi performed desperately to pay for her mother-in-law's medical bills.
It looks even more filial than his own son.
However, Yu Kuizhi, who is such an excellent character and strength, often encounters criticism in the Peking Opera circle.
Why is that?
Aesthetic differences in the audience
The reason why Yu Kuizhi is often criticized so much is related to the genre culture in the Peking Opera circle.
For a long time, there have been four genres popular among Peking Opera veterans.
They are the four old student performance genres of Ma, Tan, Yang, and Xi.
In the Peking Opera world, almost all the veteran Peking Opera performers are from these four major genres.
However, Yu Kuizhi, known as the "first veteran of Peking Opera", does not belong to any of them.
Because of this, many professionals do not recognize this title of "first old student".
Perhaps because of respect for his predecessors, Yu Kuizhi himself has repeatedly said that he is not the "first old student of Peking Opera".
Moreover, after becoming famous, many Peking Opera fans always like to compare Yu Kuizhi with masters such as Mei Lanfang and Dong Qichang.
There are many hardcore opera fans who said that after listening to Dong Qichang's Peking Opera, they felt that Yu Kuizhi couldn't listen to it at all.
The singing voice has no taste at all, and it feels dull and tasteless after listening to it.
Moreover, Yu Kuizhi's singing voice borrowed from vocal music also made some elderly fans feel disliked.
I don't think this kind of Peking Opera is authentic at all.
However, everyone's criticism of Yu Kuizhi is actually biased.
Since the birth of Peking Opera, no one has stipulated that only actors from the four major schools can play old students.
Being able to bring forth the new and stand on its own is also a good thing for the development of Peking Opera.
Moreover, Yu Kuizhi's opera vocal music can attract more young audiences to the theater.
Only when young people are willing to watch opera, can Peking Opera have a future for development.
Fortunately, despite the continuous criticism, Yu Kuizhi is still making his own efforts for the development of Peking Opera.
Fans who like him have also been silently supporting him.
On April 11 this year, Yu Kuizhi and Han Zaifen and other opera masters attended the ancestor worship ceremony held in Zhengzhou.
At the scene, Yu Kuizhi brought a wonderful Peking Opera performance to everyone.
After watching his performance, the audience was full of praise.
epilogue
If traditional art wants to continue to develop, it must continue to innovate.
Although some of Yu Kuizhi's innovations are disagreed with by many people, his efforts to spread the art of Beijing are worthy of recognition.
I hope that in the future, he will be able to make greater contributions to the development of Peking Opera.
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Resources:
[1] "Futian Introduces Peking Opera Masters Yu Kuizhi and Li Shengsu"
[2] "In the play and outside the play in Kuizhi"