In the early morning of August 6, Wang Wenjuan, a famous Yue opera performance artist and founder of "Wang Pai Art", died at the age of 95 in Huadong Hospital in Shanghai.
In the early morning of August 5, when Mao Weitao, a famous Yue opera artist, participated in the special recording of the 115th anniversary of CCTV's "The Horns Are Coming" in Shengzhou, he also talked with the participating artists about Wang Wenjuan and Xu Yulan's "Dream of the Red Chamber", as well as their stories in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. "As a result, the news of the death of teacher Wang Wenjuan came in the early morning of this morning, which is really very emotional." Our generation of actors can be said to have watched the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber" 'into the pit', and teacher Wang Wenjuan is really the eternal Lin sister in our hearts, and is a goddess-like existence. Mao Weitao told the Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter.
Mao Weitao also recalled, "In the early years, every time I went to Shengzhou to participate in an activity, I would stay in Shengzhou Hotel. At that time, the artists of the previous generations were still alive. I rarely stayed here in all these years, but this time I returned to this hotel, only to find that the predecessors were no longer there, and our generation had become 'predecessors'. I am particularly touched by the cycle of life. ”
In 2010, at the inauguration ceremony of the Shengzhou Yue Opera School, Mao Weitao and Wang Wenjuan made speeches as representatives of different generations, "Although she was 84 years old at that time, her health was very strong. Last year, there were also very witty passages circulating on the Internet by Teacher Wang Wenjuan, such as she instructed the people around her not to send out their own life charts, and meitu Xiuxiu would send them out again; usually she would play with her daughter, saying that you would not let you eat that, and mahjong would not let me rub, so I would be able to live a hundred years! Teacher Wang Wenjuan's personality is actually very open-minded and humorous, not at all like Lin Daiyu. She and Teacher Sun Daolin are one middle school and one West, and I sometimes learn to talk to the two of them, and once Teacher Sun also said, Xiao Mao, I heard that you are learning from us again. Teacher Sun Daolin also invited me to play Song Qingling when I was young in his play. However, due to the performance task in the troupe, he did not have the opportunity to act with Teacher Sun. ”
Many years ago, Wang Wenjuan and Xu Yulan had contracted the Red Chamber Theater Troupe, which was independent of the system and needed to be self-financing. Later, Mao Weitao became the head of the Zhejiang Xiaobaihua regiment, and Wang Wenjuan once told her, "The regiment leader is not good, but you are doing a good job." And one of her sentences that benefits Mao Weitao the most is "acting is a little more complicated, being a little simpler", "I have personally heard Teacher Wang Wenjuan say this to us, she is a character actor in the Yue opera industry, very good at shaping characters, whether it is Lin Daiyu, Chunxiang, Wu Zetian, or Meng Lijun, especially in a play to play a lady and carp essence, the performance is very expressive." Later, I was also like this, acting is considered to be clean, but it is very big. ”
Another detail is that Zhejiang Xiaobaihua has two disciples of Teacher Wang Wenjuan, "At the worship ceremony of Hong Ying, who was my contemporary, I was the leader of the regiment, and I was going to give a speech, but before I could speak, I was already crying. Teacher Wang said, it is not you who worships the teacher, what are you crying? I was really touched by the reverence and respect for tradition in the pear garden shop. As soon as I kowtowed, there was DNA and genes, and that moment was particularly touching. ”
Mao Weitao's biggest regret is that due to physical reasons, Wang Wenjuan was unable to come to the Butterfly Theater, the exclusive theater of Yue opera in Hangzhou, "When she was 90 years old, she was still thinking, articulate and healthy, but after the theater was completed the year before, she never had the opportunity to come and see." But what makes me feel relieved is that their generation of artists can sing Yue opera in the sky. ”
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Guo Jia