In recent years, there is a well-known saying in Tianjin - Tianjin Haihe River does not raise "idle bridges". When you arrive at the Haihe River, there are many "talent troupes" on both sides of each "bridge", who sing, play musical instruments, and dance on the streets, adding a lot of romance to the city. In the past six months, every weekend afternoon, there will be a crowd of people next to the Lion Forest Bridge, with three layers inside and three layers outside. Looking inside, Peking Opera lover Chen Kangjian was holding a Peking Opera concert for opera fans.
Chen Kangjian, 29 years old this year, is a young man who loves the art of opera. She was born in an artistic family and has had a strong interest in Peking Opera since she was a child, but because the voice change period was too long, Chen Kangjian did not choose to enter the professional opera academy in the end. However, for a person who loves opera, the charm of opera cannot be suppressed. She won the "Best Singing (Youth Group, Folk Voice) Gold Medal Singer in China's Music Circle" in the "Singing China - 2016 First Large-scale Music Exhibition and Performance Ceremony", and also won the honorary title of "Top Ten Tickets" in the 7th Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Bangzi Ticket Friends Invitational Competition.
Chen Kangjian's stage stills
"On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month this year, I accompanied my grandfather to walk by the Haihe River, and when I saw someone singing popular songs with a small stereo, I stopped. Chen Kangjian recalled that he happened to be recognized in the process of listening to the song, "At that time, someone asked me, are you the little girl who sang on the TV station? You can also have a song!" She laughed and said that she was completely "arched" to the stage, and after singing the two representative songs of the Cheng faction "Suo Lin Bag" and "Spring Boudoir Dream", someone began to ask, "Will you come again next week?" At this point, Chen Kangjian had the idea of taking the stage to the street. "A week later, we will go to sing, sing and have fun, and we should accompany my grandfather to relieve his boredom. "A small stereo and a microphone are all Chen Kangjian's equipment when he sings Peking Opera on the street. At first, it was just about 20 people passing by who stopped to listen to the play, but as more and more young people came to Tianjin to travel, her video was posted on social platforms.
Chen Kangjian didn't know about the fact that he was "popular" on the Internet. Until one day she brushed herself in a short video, she began to contact the original author to ask for some original videos and edited them herself, "I posted it myself, and it has never been as high as the views posted by others, because I don't have a first-hand video!" Chen Kangjian said with a smile, he couldn't care about anything else when he sang, "All the videos you can see are from passers-by, and some people have more than 600,000 views after they are posted on the Internet." At the same time, there are also many people who leave messages on Chen Kangjian's social platform, IP addresses all over Beijing, Shanghai, Shaanxi, Liaoning, Jiangxi and other places, and even netizens in Singapore said, "Pure and stable, the master is in the folk", "This is the real Tianjin people, the opera wharf, the hometown of quyi", "Peking Opera should develop like this, someone must sing the big opera", and many young people said, "Although I don't understand, I am shocked."
"Tired is definitely tired. Chen Kangjian said that every time he went home after singing, the soles of his feet hurt, "Because the whole body has to be tense, and the pressure is all on the soles of the feet, so I have developed the habit of soaking my feet every day for half a year." Even so, she is still happy, "The excellent traditional Chinese culture needs the younger generation to inherit and spread, and I also hope that more foreign tourists can feel the enthusiasm and charm of Tianjin!" Chen Kangjian enjoys the feeling of performing on the streets, where there are real and simple, there are no rules, some audiences will stop because of the singing, and some audiences will leave after a quick glance, "We have to buy tickets to listen to the play in the theater, which is a little 'cold' for young people, but the open-air performance is very down-to-earth." Although there is no stage and magnesium lights, it is more interactive, some older people hum softly together, and some young people listen while filming this video, "This is the promotion and transmission of traditional culture, and more importantly, let people re-understand and love the important cultural heritage of Peking Opera." She said.
The two-hour performance can attract one or two hundred onlookers at its peak, and Chen Kangjian hopes that more lovers of traditional culture and art will join in, "It is always a joy to pass on the art you like to passers-by." When the song floated on the Haihe River where the cruise ships shuttled, Chen Kangjian said, "This is how life should be." ”
(Jinyun News reporter Wang Jingyi)