I divide my more than 40 years of experience in the art into four stages. The first stage is the first 10 years, "bury your head in hard training and lay a solid foundation". I eagerly learned from the teachers and practiced desperately, in order to inherit more and better the traditional opera programming skills of "four skills and five methods, singing, chanting, doing and fighting", and I remembered what the teacher said: "One minute on stage and ten years of work off stage." ”
With 10 years of solid basic training, I entered the second stage of "stage practice". We have a jargon: "Drama leads to merit, merit promotes play", that is, the practice of what I have learned and practiced on the stage, during that time, I have rehearsed martial arts-based "Wukong Borrowed Fan", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Recruiting Relatives in the Battle", "Hanging Paintings", "Door Sage", "Double Down the Mountain" based on performance, "Three Sessions Trial", "Sanniang Godson" and "Zhao's Orphan" princess, Su Xujuan of "Fifteen Guan", Dang Fengying of "Butcher Champion", including Hua Dan, Xiao Dan, Zhengdan, Wu Dan, Boudoir Dan, no matter what kind of business, learn and act, and strive to change in quantity and refinement in more.
Through these 10 years on the stage, I have accumulated some experience and entered the third stage of my artistic career, "Acting with Thoughts", with some reflections. I put my thoughts and thoughts into practice, and I hope to create works that belong to this era. The times are changing, the aesthetic needs of each era are different, and innovation is the last word. The ancient river of opera, tradition is not the source, it is a surging river, flowing from the past to the present, from the present to the future, we will eventually become the tradition of the future, we are just a link in this tradition, is a stage in the spread of tradition, when this river passes through us, if we just carefully hold it through us to the future, and do not see the traces that have passed through us, then our generation has not existed? For a generation that has not done anything, we must let this ancient river, when it flows through us, carry the breath of this era, attach the imprint of this era, and let future people feel respect for our existence. "That's a good point, decades later, I still remember it vividly.
Adhering to the artistic concept of inheritance and development, integrity and innovation, over the years, I have accumulated an excerpt of the opera "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers", "Cabinet Edge", "Sifan", "Peony Pavilion Soap Luo Robe", "Broken Bridge" and "Madame Macbeth". None of these plays were achieved overnight, and each play went through a long germination, gestation, and growth period, and finally chrysalized into a butterfly with difficulty. Over the past few decades, I have played many characters with different professions and personalities, and I have acted in classical and modern dramas, and all the accumulation has been gathered to this day, and it seems that I am preparing for Hua Dan. At this time, my artistic career entered the fourth stage of "precise searching......
Excerpt from Zhang Bei's "Plum Blossom Award" is Encouragement and Encouragement".