A square and loyal face, a pair of glowing eyes, and a whisper in the exit with an unquestionable firmness. Du Zhenjie, who was not confused in his old age, had worked as a farmer and a businessman, and everything had done a good job, but what made it most difficult for him to give up was the love affair of powder and ink that had been cut and messed up for more than twenty years...
Xidujia Village, Shahe Town, Laizhou (formerly Ye County), Shandong Province, is Du Zhenjie's hometown, where his parents and siblings still live today. Before the age of 18, Du Zhenjie had been doing farm work in the field, and the vast Jiaodong land had cultivated his thick and loud voice. In 1979, by chance, he was admitted to the Highest School of Chinese Opera--- the Chinese Opera Academy, and became a well-known news figure in the commune that year.
From a rural boy with a strong local accent to a young representative who led the way on the Peking Opera stage in the early 1980s, his efforts and hardships can be imagined. He still clearly remembers that the eldest sister sold money with wheat stalk braids, 20 one-and-a-half-foot-high circles sold for one dime and a half, and the eldest sister took out two dollars a month, removing stamps and envelopes, and the rest was his living expenses.
The diligent and studious Xiao Du attracted the attention of a teacher, who introduced him to an object, but he did not expect that it was the daughter of the famous Ma Changli.
In the Qingming Dynasty last year, Du Zhenjie recalled his father-in-law, Mr. Ma Changli, who had the following content:
Mr. Ma Changli
On November 22, 2016, Du Zhenjie, a famous veteran actor at the Beijing Opera House, posted a photo of his old father-in-law, the famous performance artist Ma Changli, in the circle of friends, with the caption: "For more than 30 years, under your teachings, you have gone all the way!" ”
An hour later, this news was confirmed by the Beijing Opera House and obituary issued: "The famous Peking Opera performance artist, a deputy to the Third and Fourth National People's Congress, a disciple of Mr. Tan Fuying, the fourth generation leader of the Tan Pai, the founder of the Ma Pai, Mr. Ma Lianliang, a national first-class actor and a veteran actor of the Beijing Opera House, Comrade Ma Changli, died at the age of 86 at beijing Friendship Hospital at 16:10 on November 22, 2016 due to ineffective medical treatment. ”
Du Zhenjie recalled: "My father-in-law Ma Changli grew up in Beijing, is an authentic old Beijing, is a poor child, the family is not a pear garden, his experience can write a book. This way to learn drama, he suffered a lot, experienced a lot of setbacks, at first was to learn Lao Dan, and then changed to old students, he joked that because of his bad looks, he did not sing Dan Jiao and Xiao Sheng, in addition to he learned everything. When he was young, he entered the 'Rongchun Society' to learn the art, he was enlightened by Kunqu Opera, and later he did not learn to change the clock, and the second time he entered the 'Rongchun Society' was to learn erhu. My father-in-law told me that he was very obsessed with learning drama at that time, to what extent was he obsessed? In order to learn drama from Mr. Yang Baosen and listen to him sing, he asked where Mr. Yang Baosen lived, and then rented a house next to Mr. Yang. ”
Du Zhenjie said: "Although my father-in-law has received a formal education in the Peking Opera tradition all his life, he is not conservative at all, he has his own set of ideas. For example, now that he is mentioned, everyone can think of the role of Diao Deyi, when he created this character, he also deliberately asked his good friend Anderson, a famous actor in the art, Dong Xingyi, for advice on how to read the lines in the drama, so those lines in his play were carefully listened to, and the words were really very good.
When we were in the Beijing Opera House in 2000, we wanted to rehearse "Sha Jiabang", and at that time, the head of the troupe consulted with me and wanted me to play the role of Diao Deyi, and I told my father-in-law that he advised me not to take this role, he said that because I had not seen the prototype of this kind of high-level agent, many actors now treat Diao Deyi as a rogue. At that time, in order to experience this role, in the forties, he saw many students who had returned from their days in the qianmen area, wearing gold wire glasses, crepe crepe, and acting as rogues who were completely out of shape. ”
In life, people familiar with Ma Changli know that this artist is very low-key, in recent years he has been living in Beijing, but rarely appeared in public, Du Zhenjie said: "He also does not attend those important occasions, he plays with some Peking Opera lovers all day, he is also a very fashionable old man, like cameras, three-gun bicycles, and clocks, sometimes buy back a particularly good clock to disassemble, and then install." The old man's brain is particularly smart, once watched my performance of "Su Wu Shepherd", but also said that the back to use multimedia to a little wind, that should be more intentional! ”
"My father-in-law has diabetes, but he doesn't care much, when he was young, when he studied drama with Mr. Shang Xiaoyun, he developed a hobby - drinking cold beer, which he kept until he was old, even in winter, he liked to drink cold beer after the play, and sometimes add some ice cubes." Their generation's attitude towards life is particularly open-minded and optimistic, a lifetime of dashing, ordinary people are really incomparable. ”
Although the Taiyuan Erya of the "Little Horse Changli" has been circulating among opera fans for nearly twenty years, Du Zhenjie has never been willing to mention this "special relationship", and he feels that he has made a name for himself on the Peking Opera stage, relying on personal hard work and talent. The respect and admiration for Mr. Ma Changli's stage style was the beginning of his understanding of gao mi in the peking opera art hall when he first entered the Tao, and once he was identified, he indulged in it and never wavered.