The Surging News reporter Pan Yu Jiang Yu
Wang Yueyang, a young writer and journalist, has a deep relationship with Wang Wenjuan, a Yue opera performance artist, and has had many in-depth dialogues with Wang Wenjuan in the past few years to write the book "A Thousand Miles of Harmony and Chanjuan - Wang Wenjuan's Art Commentary". In addition, his wife Li Xudan is a descendant of Wang Pai's art, and the two often visit Wang Wenjuan's home as guests to talk about heaven and art. Wang Wenjuan in life and young people have no generation gap, she loves to watch popular dramas, every day in the world map to study geography, study books and paintings, and young people tell jokes to learn Online language. On the day of Wang Wenjuan's death, Wang Yueyang was interviewed by The Paper, sharing what he saw as Wang Wenjuan: a cute grandmother who is "big in art" and has a very trendy and pure life.
Wang Wenjuan and Wang Yueyang took a group photo
The Paper: You are the author of Wang Wenjuan's biography, can you share with us what you think is particularly memorable in your interaction with Teacher Wang Wenjuan?
Wang Yueyang: I think the teacher made the deepest impression on me, she has a very deep love for the art of Yue opera. She only has the artistic belief of Yue opera in her life, all the things she has done in her life, she said that I am not a talented person, nor is I smart, I am willing to work a little hard, a little stupid kung fu, the next little bit of other people's kung fu, so I can have today.
I was deeply touched when I compiled her artistic biography. Because the teacher had written his autobiography before, "A Lin Sister Fell from the Sky" also won the biographical literature award, which was very difficult.
When I wrote this book "A Thousand Miles together Chan Juan - Wang Wenjuan Art Review Biography", the teacher's autobiography was written so well, all her experiences, Teacher Sun's story, her growth experience, her story of playing Lin Sister, etc., she wrote it all, I will write something for her? Later, after consulting with the teacher, I thought about it repeatedly, and felt that the part of talking about art was not enough, so I simply put it on the concept of "talking about art".
The teacher was very diligent, and sometimes she thought of a problem in the middle of the night, and she would get up and take paper and take notes, one two three four very detailed. Every time I went to interview and talk with her, when I interviewed her, in addition to dictation, she wrote me all the content of her thoughts and thoughts, and also compiled a large number of materials, including the previous media interviews with her, her script, music score, and vocal analysis. In addition, a large amount of information was compiled for me, and then analyzed the characteristics of the performance with me in detail. She has thoughts about how the Wang Pai art is established, how it grows and matures, and then how the young generation can learn and how to develop Yue opera. This was the first time she made a big impression on me. She takes things very seriously. I think it is love, it is diligence that contributes to the establishment of Wang Pai art, and can have so many fans, so many audiences to love.
The Paper: We have been saying that Teacher Wang Wenjuan is a character actor, how should the character of a character actor be interpreted?
Wang Yueyang: First of all, her own drama path is broad, her image is very diverse, one play and one grid, one character and one style are completely different. She was born to study Yue opera martial arts, and her master is called Tianzhi of Yue opera, which is different from the general Danjiao, so her kung fu is particularly good. Being able to write and be able to do martial arts, can play Xiaosheng Xingdang, and can also play Danjiao Xingdang, then it provides great convenience for her to shape the artistic image of Meng Lijun carp essence in men's clothing in the future, because the drama road is wide, its source is very many, and it has been summarized into this big river of Wang Pai art.
Her artistic treasure trove is very rich, and she wants to portray a talented woman, who can choose to use the artistic figure of Kunqu opera or some techniques, combined with her simple singing voice to express it. If she wants to act like a carp essence, she uses the martial arts skills that she has played very solidly since she was a child, and there are many ingredients in the fight. Then at the same time, when she creates a specific character, she will choose a specific way, such as Lin Daiyu's "burial flowers" and "burning manuscripts", but this behavior can only be Lin Daiyu.
She can play a talented woman or a martyr, from Lin Daiyu to Wu Zetian, from Meng Lijun to Yang Kaihui, from ancient times to the present, no matter wenwu, she can perform.
She combines singing, reading, doing, playing, and dancing into a character or a character, and this character must not repeat herself.
She has acted in more than 200 plays and so many roles in her life, enriching many plays and characters for the art of Yue opera, and laying a solid foundation and a broad road for the future young actors to take, we stand on her shoulders and go forward, we will see a different future.
Wang Wenjuan, Wang Zhiping, Li Xudan and Wang Yueyang at the receiving ceremony.
Wang Wenjuan instructed Li Xudan, a descendant of Wang' faction.
The Paper: Your wife Li Xudan is also a descendant of Wang Pai, and Teacher Wang Wenjuan has been guiding her artistically, what is Teacher Wang's attitude towards young people?
Wang Yueyang: Teacher Wang has a mantra: If I were 10 years younger, I would do whatever I wanted, and I would do whatever I wanted with you.
She is very willing to help young people to do some things, plan the script, study the characters, analyze the singing voice, hold special lectures, go down to the grassroots into the community to the school she is willing to participate in it, even if she herself is very old and inconvenient, she is still very willing to do it. Even if you can only come up with advice.
For example, when Li Xudan was preparing for the "Boudoir Show" special session, she said as soon as she heard it, you are bold, and you actually run a special session, I dare not. Then he began to help Li Xudan think about how to perform. Because of the singing voice of wang Pai, the plate cavity is not rich, and it is not possible to listen to all the singing in one night without watching the performance. As a special session, how do you enrich it?
In the end, Teacher Wang helped Dan Dan think of an idea, that is, disguise, from simple to complex, at first it was Li Xudan himself, and then added a cloak, became a role, took a pen, and became Lin Daiyu. Constantly doing addition, through live cross-dressing to complete her role change, very clever.
You see she is still in her 90s, thinking about how to enhance the influence of Yue opera art, how to keep pace with the times to attract young audiences, she is constantly thinking about these things.
She does not regard young people as personal property, she supports young actors to learn the strengths of Jingkun art, to learn the performance of drama and film, to learn a little recitation, to learn some film and television performance styles, and even the performance of Sichuan opera Liyuan opera. She very much advocates that students should turn to many teachers and learn from literature, and she also hopes that students will have more contact with writers, including Wang Anyi and Wang Xiaoying. She is cultivating for the future and tomorrow of the Yue opera cause, and this painstaking heart is very touching.
She also likes the art of calligraphy and painting, and hopes that young people will learn a little calligraphy and painting art, which is of great help in shaping characters and cultivating a girly temperament.
After she retired, she spent one day a week at her teacher's house to learn calligraphy and painting, and her own freehand peony lotus orchid bamboo was still well drawn.
She drew as carefully as her singing. If she wants to write you a word, even if it is to write a blessing word or sign a name, she will write it many times in the red book. She has the kind of elementary school student who draws red books and specializes in brush writing. Every day, she was prescribed to write two pieces of paper, and then she would write Wen Juan's daily class on a few months and months; Wen Juan's daily class had a few days in february, and she would write it down every day. Even 90-year-olds are still doing this.
The Paper: She and you have had many in-depth conversations, what did you all talk about?
Wang Yueyang: We talked a lot, from life experience to artistic point of view. But the most touching thing is that sentence, which we have been saying now, "Acting on stage is a little more complicated, offstage is a little simpler", this is a sentence she has always said, and she has indeed done so.
On stage she is constantly improving, tireless, how simple she is under the stage. Her food is very simple, life is very simple, her biggest hobby is to talk about opera with young people who love opera and Yue opera, including students, talk about art, and talk openly. That's probably the most enjoyable thing about her later years.
A few years ago, there were photos on the Internet, when she took the bus herself to the Vietnam Theater for a meeting, or went to shoot a scene for young actors.
Although the Wukang Building is two stops away from the Yue Theater, as a national treasure artist, it is normal to drive or fight, but she feels that the bus is the most convenient. At that time, someone took a photo of her riding the bus and posted it on the Internet, which caused everyone to feel a lot, such a national treasure-level old artist, the elderly year did not engage in specialization, very touching. She doesn't care about these things at all, she lives a very pure, very simple, but very demanding on the stage, very exquisite.
Wang Wenjuan's inscription to the young actor
The Paper: What is the image of Teacher Wang that you have come into contact with in your life?
Wang Yueyang: In addition to studying calligraphy and painting, she has a lot of fun in life. She watches popular TV dramas, such as "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" and "Langya List", which young people like to watch, and what anti-war dramas, spy films, including Korean dramas, she watches.
Another thing I admire about her, she loves to learn very much in her later years, she has a Kindle reader, she downloaded "The Great Qin Empire", and that "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty". Seriously, after reading each book, I will discuss with us how the Wanli Emperor is doing, and how Zhang Ju reformed it.
I admire her very much, such a large historical work, although it is a novel, but she can still read such a book at such an age, and after reading it, she still has to think and discuss with us, which is very touching.
She also likes to study world maps, and she says that when she was a child, she didn't have a good education in historiography and geography, and she had to make up for these two things. Her favorite thing to look at was hanging a map of the world hanging in her room, and then studying this is North America, that is South America, which country is this, which place is this, this place I have been to, that place I have not been. There are also chronology of Chinese historical dynasties, which she can memorize and recite to us in its entirety, which is some of the embodiments of her persistence in learning in her later years.
I think she's very interesting, very interesting in life. There is no generation gap in our contact with her, she is very good at learning, and for the meaning of some very popular Internet terms in society, she will also study, such as Mo Moda will also learn, is a very fashionable grandmother.
"Bright Moon Thousand Miles Together Chan Juan - Wang Wenjuan"
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