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Xiang Weidong knelt on his knees and bowed three times to Pei Yanling.
At 2 p.m. on December 14, Hangzhou, the ancient opera stage, the poster reads: Mr. Pei Yanling closed the door disciple and Xiang Weidong worship ceremony.
Teacher Pei Yanling. Even if you haven't seen her scene, you should have heard her name, her "Lin Chong Night Run", and Huang Shuqin's film "Man, Ghost, Love" based on her real experience. Singing and doing are good, Jing yi kun is chaotic, a woman who has played a man for a lifetime, living Wu Song, live Zhong Kui, live Lin Chong - said, are all big men she has played.
Student Xiang Weidong. The actors of Zhejiang Kun Opera Troupe, Gong Wusheng and part-time students, dressed as Junwu, are known as "golden voices" in the martial arts circle. Representative plays include "Night Running", "Centipede Ridge", "Picking Chinese Cars", "Little Shang River" and so on.
Previously, Pei Yanling had already accepted 24 apprentices. Although his name is Baishi, Xiang Weidong has been studying drama with his teacher for many years.
In 1991, Xiang Weidong saw Pei Yanling's "Lin Chong Night Run" on TV, "This is the play I want to learn!" In 1992, he wrote a letter of recommendation to Wang Shiyu, the head of the Zhejiang Kunqu Opera Troupe at the time, and the following year, he officially became an actor in Zhejiang Kun.
In July 2013, the eighth session of the "Xinsong Project" sponsored by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture was held, and Pei Yanling served as the "chief teacher" of the Wusheng class, teaching Xiang Weidong to learn opera, and also invited the drum master and flute master to his home to rehearse "Night Run" for him.
Three prayers, tea offerings, flowers, and gifts exchanged – I have seen the ceremony of worshipping the master on several pear garden walks, and today is no different from the past. Sitting in the audience were the recommenders of the two masters and apprentices, the famous Kunqu opera performance artist Wang Shiyu, and the baoren, the famous Peking Opera performance artist Li Yusheng. There are recommenders, there are guarantors, and it is also the rule of the pear garden to worship the teacher.
Xiang Weidong finished reading a long passage of wen and praying to the teacher, and the host invited Pei Yanling to speak on the stage.
Cloth clothes, shoes, Pei Yanling's consistent dress, arrogance, dashing.
Next, for a full 10 minutes, the applause sounded 4 times, and we in the audience were about to cry.
Yanling Pei:
I am a rough person, just now Wei Dong said the text, I am not used to, uncomfortable, I still speak vernacular, rough people speak rude.
Whenever the students kneel on the ground - the boy has gold under his knees, in addition to worshiping his parents, followed by worshiping the master, I become the master of others, and there are teachers Wang Shiyu and Li Yusheng among us, who are our recommenders and guarantors.
I value it in particular. The guarantor, the student, the study, and the self, and the teaching, so I myself am happy and burdened here, and I cannot be sorry for our introducers and guarantors.
Many people say that Pei Yanling is a national treasure, that does not count, I have to be a qualified artist.
Why did I offer to take the discipleship this time?
I said, Wei Dong, I've got you. That's because before that, in my consciousness, there was never a sickness or a concept of death. Then all of a sudden, someone told me how I would go.
I said, will people still go? What kind of world it was like, I don't know, it was very tense. Wu Song can't fight the tiger, I can't sing the play, and Xi pi Er Huang is gone, especially nostalgic. If you think about it, you're leaving anyway, so let's go.
As a result, God didn't want me and threw me back.
That week I thought, I want to pay my family's account and travel the world well. The next week I thought again, it is still good to sing, although the legs can not be lifted, people are trembling, but I still feel that it is my world. At this time, I changed my mind again. Since you don't take me, I'll spend the rest of my time on the stage, what can I do? I thought about it, seeing the person who can receive it, the person who likes art, the character can also be, and there are no regrets.
So I said to Wei Dong this year, Wei Dong, I accepted you, otherwise I will worry about this matter when I get to that world.
I am also an ordinary person, and I don't want to go to that day, I don't want to leave regrets, leave unfinished business.
In Hangzhou, there are many figures that I admire, my master Li Lanting is the representative of the northern faction, and the representative of the southern faction is Mr. Gai Mingtian. Once, after performing "Ringing nine xiaoxiao" in Hangzhou, I walked around mr. Gai Lao's cemetery three times and prostrated my head three times. There was also Mr. Chen Dahu, who went backstage to see me when he was in the Zituan.
Today, I am a role model for others, and I want to do a decent job. On the stage, I am not good, nor am I good, but in terms of being a person, I am a person who has died once, and the second life has been given to me, I must do it really, lively, I want to do a good job, you are all witnesses to our teachers and apprentices.
There are many decent masters and apprentices in Liyuanxing, and there are also many disrespectful masters and apprentices, and I choose to be a decent one, and I will also teach my disciples to be decent. Art can be high or low, you run the dragon set in the future, it doesn't matter, but people should be a tasteful person, not a low person.
Anyway, in my lifetime, this year is also 72, can there be another 72? It doesn't matter, 72 days, 72 hours, no matter how long or short, I will always be a qualified teacher in front of you, so that people can applaud and applaud in front of you.
I have also made a statement today, and I hope that my friends will witness it and will not disappoint you, so you can rest assured. Thank you.