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May 12 is the old calendar birthday of Hong Kong Cantonese opera master Bai Xuexian, and Xian Jie's home is lively again, crowded with juniors who come to visit and celebrate their birthdays.
Son of Chen Shufen
Not only birthdays, new year festivals, or the death day of Sister Xian's good partner Ren Jianhui, the family is full of high-level friends. Before Yuan Yongyi and Zhang Zhilin went to Xian Jie's house as a guest, ate and played cards, Liang Liang became a small fan, posted a photo on Instagram and said: "It's really something I never dreamed of... We are so happy! ”
Guan Yonghe married Zhang Jiahui and retired to the circle, living in simplicity, but every New Year, I can see the group photo of their family of three giving Xian Jie a New Year's greeting on the entertainment board.
In the group photo of Sister Xian, I watched Sister E's daughter grow up
Zhang Guorong is also a super fan of Ren Bai, and when he was a child, he often followed the servants at home to listen to the play, and at that time he was already fascinated by the style of Ren Bai and the two on the stage.
When he was alive, he often visited Bai Xuexian with Tang Hede, and Bai Xuexian also loved these two descendants, the three of them often drank tea and traveled together, and Sister Xian loved to call Leslie as the heart and liver, and Tang Hede as a baby.
After retirement, the immortal sister who is recuperating in retirement has a rule of not receiving any visitors before three o'clock in the afternoon, except for Zhang Guorong. After the death of his brother, Tang Hede has also been visiting the old man's home
In Hong Kong, even if you are not a fan of Cantonese opera and have not heard of Cantonese opera, there are no People in Hong Kong who do not know "Ren Bai".
"Ren Bai" is a combination of two women's names: Ren is Ren Jianhui and Bai is Bai Xuexian. Both are famous Cantonese opera masters in Hong Kong, dressed as Wusheng and Bai as Hua Dan, the two partners seamlessly, across the art world, in the Hong Kong cultural circle is a temple-level superstar, but also an indispensable cultural symbol of Hong Kong.
Ren Baichu met - golden wind and jade dew met
Bai Xuexian, whose real name is Chen Shuliang, was born in Guangzhou on May 19, 1928, and is also the daughter of Bai Jurong, a famous Cantonese opera singer in Guangzhou, "Xiaosheng Wang", and Bai Xuexian ranks ninth in the family.
From left, Mei Lanfang, Bai Jurong, and Xue Juexian. Nan Yin's "Ketu Autumn Hate" is Bai Jurong's first famous song
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Bai Jurong moved to Hong Kong with his family, and Bai Xuexian also began his study career in Hong Kong.
Under the influence of her father, the 13-year-old Bai Xuexian also aspired to learn drama, and her parents could not help her, so they let her worship Cantonese opera master Xue Juexian and his wife Tang Xueqing as a teacher, and the master gave her the stage name "Bai Xuexian".
With both a family background and a worldly appearance, coupled with a gentle and impeccable voice, Bai Xuexian soon became the pearl of cantonese opera. When Bai Xuexian entered the industry, Ren Jianhui was already very red. Ren Jianhui was born in 1913, fifteen years older than Bai Xuexian, her birth is not as good as Bai Xuexian, when she was fourteen years old, she sang in society to support her family, on the eve of the stage, she did not even have the money to make a costume, the mother and daughter cried urgently, and finally sold all the gold jewelry in the family, and then relatives and friends pieced together to have a few costumes on stage. After becoming famous, Ren Jianhui also provided for a bunch of relatives in the family.
Ren Jianhui looks like a sword eyebrow star, the figure is handsome and thin, on the stage she raised her hands and feet fresh and elegant, elegant and handsome, the opening is clear and not turbid, self-contained, so Ren Jianhui has long been a woman dressed as a man as a martial artist, playing a crepe crepe scholar, a down-and-out literati or a delicate horse...
In the art world for many years, in addition to Bai Xuexian, Ren Jianhui has also cooperated with famous people such as Fang Yanfen, Red Line Girl, and Yu Lizhen, and is known as "lover of drama fans". In 1943, when the 15-year-old Bai Xuexian first met Ren Jianhui, Ren Jianhui was already a top red star. In her autobiography, Bai Xuexian recalled: "At that time, I was acting with my father in Macau, and Chen Yannong took me backstage. Ren Jianhui was already very popular at that time, I had heard her name for a long time, and I thought that she must be very old. It turns out that she is already very fashionable, she is a new voice of Wen Wusheng, the fame is too big, the fans to send bird's nest to the back stage, there are shark fins... At first, the impression was like this, and then she booked me to act, and it is difficult to say that there is any special feeling, only that it is a chance encounter. ”
Bai Xuexian said that the encounter and cooperation between the two was "fate", and Tang Disheng, a famous screenwriter of Cantonese opera, saw the pair this way: "When Hua Dan is, there must be a 'pity', which makes people pity and pity, and it is impossible without the pity of the audience." When a small student, there must be two words 'dashing', you see Sister Ren, she is beautiful, she is really natural, very dashing, born to eat drama, she has never had a fixed set of acting, each performance is different. "One is loving, one is personable, from appearance to temperament, Ren Bai is a match made in heaven."
"Xian Fengming" and "Young Fengming"
After the first encounter, Bai Xuexian joined Ren Jianhui's new voice troupe and began to play the second gang of Hua Dan, and later did the positive printing Dan. The cooperation between the two partners has become more and more tacit, and they have performed a set of classic Cantonese operas.
In 1956, Bai Xuexian was 28 years old, Ren Jianhui was 43 years old, and Ren Bai and the two jointly established the new Cantonese opera troupe "Xian Fengming" troupe to promote the reform of Cantonese opera.
Before them, many Cantonese opera performances were popular dramas that played some laughter and crying in the countryside, just to cause the audience to laugh or cry, and some plays themselves did not have a high artistic and aesthetic level.
Bai Xuexian and Ren Jianhui had their own ideas.
They want to improve the artistic level of Cantonese opera, and feel that as entertainers, they have the responsibility to make high-quality Cantonese opera to lead the audience's aesthetics.
The script is the basis of a drama, and if you want to produce a delicate Cantonese opera, you must first improve the quality of the script. Ren Bai then invited the genius screenwriter Tang Disheng to be a screenwriter.
Tang Disheng took materials from literary works such as Ming and Qing legends, yuanqu, and miscellaneous dramas, and constantly wrote "Peony Pavilion Frightening Dream", "Emperor Girl Flower", "Zi Chao Ji", "Rebirth of Red Plum", "Butterfly Shadow Red Pear Record" and other excellent Cantonese opera scripts that were widely circulated later, these plays are beautiful in words, exquisite in plot, and extremely rich in literary and artistic level.
Ren Jianhui, Bai Xuexian and Tang Disheng carefully studied the excellent script of the script, coupled with the wonderful interpretation of Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian, Ren Jianhui, Bai Xuexian and Tang Disheng became the Iron Triangle, box office guarantee, they cooperated seamlessly, greatly improved the artistic level of Cantonese opera, but also improved the aesthetics of Cantonese opera audiences at that time, leaving behind many classic Cantonese opera.
Ren Bai also made many famous Cantonese operas in the troupe into opera films and put them on the movie screen. Ren Jianhui starred in nearly 290 opera films in his lifetime, and Bai Xuexian starred in more than 110. In the 1960s, when it cost only 70,000 or 80,000 yuan to make a Cantonese film, Bai Xuexian shot a color film "Li Hou Lord" at any cost, telling the story of Li Yu and Xiao Zhouhou. Definitely a big production in Cantonese films at the time.
Ren Jianhui takes it as his mission to improve the artistic level of Cantonese opera, and Bai Xuexian is also extremely particular when he is the supervising producer of "Li Hou Lord". Costumes, props, sets, scripts, and characters must all be standard enough, and Ren Jianhui, who plays Li Hou lord in the film, wears a real silk satin, and the jewelry such as phoenixes that appear in some important scenes is also specially customized, and the number of extras is unprecedented.
It lasted four years and ended up costing 1.3 million, which was definitely a big production at that time. In 1968, when "Li Hou Lord" was released, it created a record for the longest screening period and the highest income, although the box office broke the record, but because of the huge production cost of the early investment, Bai Xuexian and Ren Jianhui still lost money, but Xian Jie said that she did not regret it.
In addition to their achievements in Cantonese opera, Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian spared no effort to train new talents and taught many Cantonese opera successors hand in hand.
In 1960, the "Xian Fengming" troupe openly recruited young actresses, and of the 1,200 girls who applied for the examination, 22 were selected first.
Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian personally taught them to take a step, sang dialogue, asked Liang Shaosong, a dragon and tiger martial artist known as the "King of Rib Fighting", to teach martial arts, and the dance was taught by Master Wu Shixun.
Under such a top teacher configuration, Ren Bai selected the best of the best, selected 12 students for training, and four years later, set up the "Young Fengming Troupe" for them.
Most of these 12 people later became Cantonese opera masters, which was very appealing at the box office in the Hong Kong Cantonese Theatre.
Ma Jiahui, a talented man in Hong Kong, once recalled that when he was a child, he followed his mother and sister to watch Ren Bai's apprentices Mei Xueshi and Long Jiansheng perform "Imperial Girl Flower" on the Lee Stage, crowding at the door of the crowded lobby and seeing those expectant and mesmerizing eyes, no different from the current Hanxing fans. It can be seen that Cantonese opera was popular at that time.
Ren Bai's apprentices, Mei Xueshi and Long Jiansheng Ren Jie and Xian Jie are just the same on the stage, but the teaching style is just the opposite. "Sister Xian is so severe, Sister Ren has a good temper", their apprentice Long Jiansheng still remembers that when the apprentice was an apprentice at night, he lived in the master's house at night, Sister Ren went to sleep early, and she pretended to sleep, she heard Sister Xian come in one by one to check whether the apprentices had covered the quilt.
In addition to these 12 openly selected students, Ren Bai also received many extremely talented closed disciples, such as Chen Baozhu, who became Ren Jianhui's closed disciple as early as 1960.
Maiden Orb visits Ren Bai
TVB "Difficult Brothers and Difficult Brothers" also cosified baozhu to ren bai family to learn the plot of drama, Ren Bai not only taught her to sing, but also loved her as a dry daughter, and even worried about love and marriage for her...
However, in reality, Chen Baozhu and Sister Ren Xianjie had unpleasant rumors. Chen Baozhu had already joined the electric mao when he joined the troupe, started the film business, and became famous very quickly, and by the time the troupe was established in 1964, the film business was already very busy, and there was no leisure to take care of the performance of "Daisy Fengming", so Xian Jie was very dissatisfied.
Source: Hong Kong Media
In the past few years, when the master and apprentice were interviewed in the same frame, Baozhu would still say: "I respect and love and fear Sister Xian. ”
There is another apprentice that we are more familiar with, that is, TVB's licorice actor Xie Xuexin.
At the age of 11, sister Xin became Ren Bai's proud protégé, the most sought-after divine drama hua dan in the 1990s, and at the age of 57, she also mentioned TVB's "Best Supporting Actress" with "Towel Gangster".
It can be seen that the apprentices taught by Ren Bai can be excellent in any field at any time.
Bai does not leave office, Ren does not leave the white stage Ren Jie is a "drama fan lover", and Xian Jie plays the story of the idiot man and the woman. Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian are also in and out of pairs, living together, "Ren" must see "white", like a shadow.
Ren Jianhui actually had a husband earlier, named Huang Su, a businessman, he had a main room, and Ren Sister was Huang Su's second wife without an official name. Sister Ren has never released Mr. Huang's photo, and she has a high degree of protection for this emotional privacy, and posterity knows more about this relationship from the autobiography of Ren Sister's cousin Ren Bing'er. According to Ren Bing'er, in the era of wars and even insufficient food, Huang Su had a great favor for Ren Jie's whole family, not only saving the family from hunger, but also solving the trouble of the drama class... Therefore, Sister Ren is indebted to Huang Su, and this relationship is somewhat "promised by body".
However, in the 1950s, after Ren Bai knew each other for 10 years, looking at the two people of "QinSer and Ming", Huang Su, who had always respected his heavy sister, offered to dissolve his marriage with Ren Jianhui and let Ren Jianhui live with Bai Xuexian. Ren Bai's intoxication and devotion to Cantonese opera are confidants and fellow travelers, but their personalities are opposite.
Bai Xuexian's personality is resolute and serious, different customs, perfectionism, stubbornness in the choice of ideals, and is also a reformer in Cantonese opera art. Ren Jianhui's personality is gentle and easy-going, good-hearted, moralistic, popular, is a good gentleman who does not care about everything, and at the same time has the pursuit of his own performance, meticulous, is a genius in Cantonese opera art. When the two lived together, it was more often Bai Xuexian who took care of and protected Ren Jianhui.
Going out to perform or travel, Ren Sister did not even take a handbag, whether it was a plane or a boat on the train, Bai Xuexian was with a large bag, and even the pillow was held. The eating aspect is also taken very carefully, and even the black seeds in the kiwi fruit are picked out! Only because Ren Jianhui did not like the seeds in the kiwi fruit.
Bai Xuexian told Lin Yanni: "Sister Ren is ignoring everything. Ask her how much a pound of abalone cost, and she can say that it is five hundred yuan a pound. Sometimes she likes to eat the small dishes of her hometown of Xiqiao. One is tempeh with pork slices, with some shredded taro next to it; one is "fried shrimp with tender beans", which removes the shell of the fresh dutch beans and only uses the beans inside to fry the shrimp, but the shrimp are not eaten, only beans. But have you ever heard of eating ice cream spit? Asked her why the ice cream was spitting out, she said, "That cup of ice cream is mine, and I like to eat as much as I want." She has a lot of appetite for supper, and one person can eat a tail of fish. She can eat nine of them in the season, or she will eat a whole bowl of noodles. "Snow White's autobiography
In life, Ren Jianhui never cares, upholds that suffering losses is a blessing, it is difficult to refuse others, even if she is sick, she allows all kinds of people to visit, and all kinds of socializing simply exhaust herself. Fortunately, there is a decisive, love-hate Bai Xuexian who quickly helps her deal with it clearly, should refuse to refuse, should refuse to refuse, and maintain Ren Jianhui's happy living space.
When encountering any major events, The White Snow Fairy is also the calmer one. Bai Xuexian is more bold, she recalled that when filming "Li Hou Lord" lost money, after filming her purse was only fifty yuan, the two went to the United States to act on stage to make money... For various background reasons, the two caused a lot of harassment and intimidation when they took the stage in San Francisco. The frightened Ren Sister frequently asked, "Ah Xian, what should I do?" Sister Xian said, "If there is something wrong with going on stage, I will block you with my body!" ”
Ren Jianhui was also very kind to Bai Xuexian. Ren and Bai worked together for 47 years, and there was almost no separation in between. Bai Xuexian occasionally played with temper, no matter how to make trouble, Ren Jianhui was willing to coax her. Even if Bai Xuexian reprimanded Ren Jianhui, Ren Jianhui was as willing as he was. Once Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian left Hong Kong to shoot a scene, it happened that Bai Xuexian was just recovering from a serious illness, and Ren Jianhui recorded in detail The medication status, reaction and time of Bai Xuexian during the trip, and returned to Hong Kong to show the doctor to help the doctor judge. In 1959, Tang Disheng, a genius screenwriter known as "Shakespeare in Cantonese opera", unfortunately suddenly fell ill and died at the age of forty-two. After Tang Disheng's death, Bai Xuexian sighed: "I can no longer find a Cantonese opera script as good as Tang Disheng's." ”
As Ren Jianhui grew older and her health deteriorated, she also decided to quit the theater world after recovering more from illness than singing. At that time, Bai Xuexian was only more than forty years old, in the prime of his life, not only did he not look old, but his singing skills were becoming more and more precipitated and pure, but he did not leave the white, the white did not leave his post, and the white snow immortal resolutely decided to accompany Ren Jianhui to retire from the theater, and the two of them lived a happy retirement life.
Ren Bai's performance was in 1972 for the "June 18" rain disaster in Hong Kong. In the charity performance, Bruce Lee performed Kung Fu for HK$10,000, while Ren Bai group sang "The Fragrant Dream of the Imperial Daughter", which cost as much as HK$100,000.
At that time, the 44-year-old Bai Xuexian was sick before going on stage, her physical condition was very poor, she still insisted on singing with illness for charity fundraising, her makeup was light, her hands were on her chest, full of Yingying tears, full of feelings, as soon as she opened her mouth, she still had her golden voice, and her voice was really gentle and impeccable.
"Falling flowers are full of moonlight..." These few singing sections of "Emperor Girl Flower" are familiar to old Hong Kong and old Guangdong, and basically everyone will hum these few words. "Imperial Girl Flower" tells the tragic love story between Princess Changping and Zhou Shixian in the sixth year of Chongzhen at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In 2002, TVB made this story into a costume drama, with She Siman playing Princess Changping and Ma Junwei playing Zhou Shixian.
The theme song "Emperor Girl's Soul" is also adapted from "Emperor Girl Flower"
Another classic choral version of "Xiang Yao" comes from the choral version of Zhang Guorong and Wang Mingquan in 1999. This is a rare moment in my brother's life to sing Cantonese opera on stage, and he will win the hall full of color when he opens his mouth. At that time, it also coincided with the tenth anniversary of Ren Jianhui's death. The white snow fairy under the stage was tearful in her eyes, and the jade-crowned brother on the stage may remind her of Ren Jie's style.
"If it is redeemable, a man will be a hundred"
At 3:50 a.m. on November 29, 1989, due to the deterioration of lung cancer, Ren Jianhui died at the age of 77 at the age of 77 at the age of 77 in his Happy Valley Yilu apartment.
Bai Xuexian wrote the link "If it can be redeemed, people are hundreds of bodies", expressing his extremely sad feelings, which means "If I can change the life of Jianhui, I BaiXuexian will die a hundred times at all costs".
Snow White said: "All along, I thought she needed me more than I needed her, and now that she is gone, I realize that I need her more than she needs me, I have no one to wait for, and it is a pleasure to take care of her wholeheartedly." After Ren Jianhui's death, when everyone invited her to come out of the mountain and return to the stage, Bai said: "Without Ren Jianhui, the stage has no color." Sister Ren passed away, I suddenly lost my dependence on Yu Yi, and I had no hope in Yu Yi. In 2001, the 20th Hong Kong Film Awards awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award to Bai Xuexian, who was still full of nostalgia for Ren Jianhui when she came to the stage to receive the award: "Tonight, half of this award belongs to me, half of it is collected by my generation, and because I can receive this half of the award on her behalf, I feel that I am so honored, and I will always remember it in my heart." ”
According to apprentice Xie Xuexin, Ren Bai was very good at investing in financial management when he was young, and whenever he received a salary, he would buy a property to preserve the value, and in the 60s he owned a property in Nathan Road, so Ren Bai's later life was also comfortable and comfortable.
After Ren Jianhui passed away, Bai Xuexian was recuperating in the mansion of Happy Valley Yilu, and Ren Jianhui's photo was hung in the lobby and was carefully enshrined.
During the New Year's Festival, Ren Sister's death, birthday, and Xian Jie's birthday, many of Ren Bai's apprentices, descendants of the show business circle, and friends will visit Xian Jie's house. There is a great deal of laughter and laughter, and there is no white ding. Especially on the day of Sister Ren's death, Sister Xian's home was like a sea of flowers, and the disciples knelt down to pour tea, thanking Master for his love and careful teaching.
The "Ren Bai Charity Foundation" established by Xian Jie after the death of Sister Ren often gathered apprentices to perform Cantonese opera, and in this impetuous era, a delicate and beautiful play was staged.
Sister E Conclusion:
Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian, a legendary figure of Cantonese opera, have been both partners, confidants and companions all their lives, and they have staged a life-and-death love affair on stage, and they are the same as each other on the stage, never separated.
Two popular female stars have lived together all their lives, but they have hardly encountered any public opinion resistance, accepted and understood by the public, and even gossip newspapers dare not write indiscriminately, lest they blaspheme them, which shows the love and admiration of Hong Kong people for Ren Bai.
And the forty years of love on the stage, even if the fake play offstage is really done, perhaps the audience has long had psychological expectations for such a "entering the play".
In this world, it is often easy to get life partners, the soul is difficult to find, and art is more of a loneliness to some extent, they meet each other, keep each other firmly, have long been beyond gender and identity, and win over countless people.
As Liu Peiji said, "If I meet sister Ren again, such a good partner, good friend and art partner, I am willing to be a white snow fairy for the rest of my life." ”
They are the zhong zi period and Yu Boya in the present world, and their dramas and feelings have become classics, and who dares to desecrate such a legend?
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