A simple board flips the willow new sound, two pieces of sandalwood cast Zheng Zheng qu soul - the artistic life of Zhao Zheng, the founder of the "Zhao Pai" Henan pendant.
Step into the artistic life of Teacher Zhao Zheng
On December 1, 2006, Zhao Zheng, a famous music performance artist, music educator, national first-class actor, and founder of "Zhao Pai" Henan Pendant, left, leaving the audience who loved her and her obsessive art of Pendant. Her life is closely linked to the art of Henan pendants.
Zhao Zheng, whose ancestral home is Xiangcheng, Henan, was born on march 21, 1925 in Kaifeng, Henan Province, in a scholarly mendi. Influenced by his father and brother since childhood, he loves Peking Opera, song and dance, often listens to music and art, and has appeared on the stage to sing Peking Opera and song and dance dramas. At the age of 12, he joined the student exile troupe to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda in the Central Plains. In 1950, he was admitted to the Drama Department of Kaifeng Art School, where he designed his own singing voice, self-directed and self-performed Yu opera. After staying in school to teach, he taught local opera classes, began to grind records, drill book sheds, and learn folk operas such as Yu opera and Henan Pendant.
Zhao Zheng's hometown
In 1953, he composed and sang Henan Xiangzi 'Picking Cotton' and began to transform into a music artist. In August 1956, when he participated in the first National Music Week, Zhao Zheng caused a great sensation with "Picking Cotton", and was cordially received by Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and other party and state leaders of the older generation. Zhao Zheng also became famous because of this, and together with Guo Lanying and Huang Hong, he was known as the "three braids" of the music week. After that, Zhao Zheng actively participated in the creation and performance of music and art, composing and performing many outstanding songs of the popular population, and also began her career as a music educator.
Zhao Zheng performance photo
In 1957, in the provincial music, puppets, shadow puppet performances, she composed and sang the Henan pendant "Qingwen Tearing Fan" (Lyrics by Shen Pengnian) won the Outstanding Actor Award. In the same year, Li Xiaojuan, Zhou Xiaohui, Wu Shan, Zheng Lan, etc. were admitted to the provincial qu art group, and she served as the enlightenment teacher of these students, teaching them to sing, rehearsing for them, and accompanying them to perform on stage.
Zhao Zheng in his youth
At a time when her career was booming, in May 1958, she was classified as a rightist for criticizing some problems in Henan's quyi work and putting forward some suggestions for developing Henan's quyi cause, and was forced to leave the Henan Provincial Quyi Team and delegated to the rural areas in the northern suburbs of Zhengzhou to supervise labor reform. "Transformation" does not forget the pendant, life is getting stronger, she still creates after work, wrote "Skillful Hands Two Big Lady Coarse Grain Fine" and other praise for good people and good deeds, and brought her own simple board, singing all over the transformation of the north suburbs of Zhengzhou Laoya Chen Commune.
In 1960, Zhao Zheng was transferred to the Zhengzhou Rap Troupe, continued to engage in the professional singing and research of Henan Pendant, composed and sang "Sweet and Round", sorted out and sang the traditional pendant "Yutang Spring", "Daiyu Sorrowful Autumn", "Grass Boat Borrowing Arrows", from the text to the singing voice carried out great processing, modification and improvement, and achieved good performance results.
Zhao Zheng is teaching students
In 962, according to the novel "Red Rock", he composed, designed and sang the "Double Gun Old Lady Hijacking Car", "Sister Jiang Dangerous Crossing" (twice), "Little Radish Head" (twice), etc., which achieved great success and became a representative song that has been performed for a long time.
In 1966, she was forced to stop her artistic activities, and was raided, paraded through the streets, and criticized for four years.
Despite the hardships, Zhao Zheng was obsessed with Henan Andizi and insisted on creating until his old age. She is eclectic, eclectic, inherits the tradition, is keen on innovation, and founded the "Zhao Pai" pendant art, which greatly enriches the musical expression of Henan pendant, and her singing voice has both the boldness of "the great river goes east" and the elegance of "small bridge flowing water". In his lifetime, he composed more than 100 pieces of repertoire, and set up a milestone in the history of the development of Henan Pendant, inheriting the past and opening up the future.
Zhao Zheng taught by example
In 1981, at the age of 56, Zhao Zheng began preparations for the establishment of the Henan Provincial Opera School Quyi Class. She ran around, started from scratch, experienced hardships, founded the Henan Provincial Opera School Quyi Class, opened the precedent of the northern Quyi system education, and trained nearly 100 outstanding Quyi workers for our province in the three quyi classes, making outstanding contributions to the inheritance and development of the quyi cause, and winning the reputation of "Zhongzhou Qu Soul".
After entering his old age, Zhao Zheng still paid great attention to the development of Henan Quyi, pregnant peach and li, promoted future generations, not only for the first, second and third national Quyi Festival to create and guide a lot of repertoire, but also under the double blow of his own cancer and the loss of his son in old age, with extraordinary will and tenacious struggle, he sorted out the creative research results of half his life and left them for posterity, and compiled and published "Zhao Zheng Henan Pendant Art", "Zhao Zheng Memoirs" and "Zhao Pai Henan Pendant Selection" audio and video CD-ROM, leaving a precious material and wealth for Henan Quyi. In addition, she also proposed the establishment of the "Henan Poor Quyi Artists Foundation" to help poor quyi artists.
In his later years, Zhao Zhenggong still insisted on performing on stage after becoming famous
In June 2005, the Department of Culture of Henan Province and the Henan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature co-sponsored the "Zhao Zheng Engaged in Qu Art and 'Zhao Pai' Henan Falling Zi Art Seminar Concert". Jiang Kun, secretary of the party group of the China Ququ Association, personally congratulated and spoke: "Zhao Zheng is the pride of Henan and the pride of the Chinese music art community. The reason why Quyi continues to be a torch is because of the unremitting efforts of quyi masters like Zhao Zheng that quyi has maintained the status of quyi in the entire literary and art circles. Zhao Zheng is a nationally recognized famous music reformer, performing artist, and music art educator, and she can be as famous as Chang Xiangyu in her artistic achievements, and is a well-known Chinese music and art brand. ”
In August 2006, the China Ququ Association appointed Zhao Zheng as the honorary director of the Henan Xiangzi Art Committee of the China Ququ Association; in September, Zhao Zheng won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the China Quyi Peony Award, which represents the highest level of Chinese quyi.