At 12:18 on October 24, Fu Quanxiang, a Yue opera performance artist and founder of "Fu Pai", died of illness at the age of 94 at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai. The last of the "Ten Sisters of Yue Opera" also left this world.
Fu Quanxiang had been bedridden for more than ten years. In 2007, Fu Quanxiang suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage without warning, and never recovered completely, nor did he leave his hospital bed at Huadong Hospital. In the past ten years, the hospital has issued several critical illness notices, but Fu Quanxiang has survived. Last month, Fu Quanxiang's condition was unstable again, repeated many times in a month, and finally failed to survive this time.
Wang Hao, artistic director of Oriental Satellite TV Public Welfare Media Group, and Fu Quanxiang have known each other for decades, and have also directed special scenes for Teacher Fu many times, and emotionally they are like mother and son. In the past ten years, Wang Hao often visited Teacher Fu in the hospital.
Wang Hao told the surging news reporter that Teacher Fu actually had a life-threatening illness since the 1970s, and she has been fighting the disease tirelessly for decades, but she has never been able to restore her normal mobility and return to the stage. "But in the last ten years of Teacher Fu, the optimism, cheerfulness and humor in her personality have never changed, but she has also had a lot of pain in this decade, because her mind is always sober, she has always had her own anxiety and worry, anxiety about her own illness, anxiety about her students, and anxiety about Fu Pai art and Yue opera art."
Wang Hao said that in the past ten years, the old artists who visited Teacher Fu in the hospital and the old artists who have been admitted to Huadong Hospital one after another have also left. The death of Fu Quanxiang drew a satisfactory end to the ten sisters of Yue opera and the era of Yue opera, which was a star-studded era. It can be said that the merit is perfect.
"Detective" Fu Quanxiang as Guiying 1958
The last ten years of his sickbed career
In 2007, Fu Quanxiang was hospitalized with a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and was in a deep coma for more than 40 days. In the case that many outsiders feel extremely unoptimistic, Fu Quanxiang suddenly woke up on his birthday. After that, he began a ten-year hospital bed career.
In the first three or five years, Fu Quanxiang was very persistent and cooperated with the doctor's rehabilitation treatment, and she also maintained her cheerful and optimistic spirit, hoping to return to the stage again. Wang Hao said that by September last year, her condition was very serious and she could not move at all, but her thinking was still very clear, "Every time I finished the show late at night to see her, if she was awake, she would make eye contact with you." ”
"For the first few years, she would be talking to me about her artistic ideas and talking to me about the students she wanted to help. Even in the last few years, her mind was still very clear, she was more and more aware of her physical condition, and she was always thinking about various artistic problems. Wang Hao recalled that he and Fu Quanxiang had known each other for many years, and he said that Teacher Fu spared no effort in promoting the growth of young people, and he was a very young TV director at that time, and he had a dispute with Teacher Fu on the issue of art, but she said to the whole crew afterwards: I have not thought clearly about this problem now, but we have a tradition of director-centered system in Shanghai Yue Theater, and when there is no opinion, we follow the director's ideas. Shortly after, she said in public that the director was right.
"Their generation of artists will never suppress the weak, and what they pursue will always be artistic truth." Even at the age of 70, she also planned to shoot the Yue opera TV series "People Are Thinner Than Yellow Flowers", from Shandong to Jinhua, Zhejiang, and re-walked the "Qingzhao Road", such an artistic spirit, which can rarely be seen today.
In Wang Hao's view, the reason why Yue opera art can overcome the barrier of dialects is that it has become the second largest drama genre in the country. It is precisely because of the generation of artists of the "Ten Sisters of Yue Opera", including Fu Quanxiang, that they have provided a group portrait for the entire era, and no matter what the problems are, they always walk hand in hand through yesterday and tomorrow. And Fu Quanxiang's departure has put an end to this era. The art of Yue opera must also open a new chapter.
The Legend of the White Snake, Fu Quanxiang as Xiaoqing in 1951
The most worrying thing is how to pass on the art of Fu Pai
Fu Quanxiang created fu pai art that is unique in the history of Yue opera. There are numerous students.
Qiu Danli, a descendant of Fu Pai of the Shanghai Yue Theatre, is a younger generation. However, he was personally taught by Fu Quanxiang and was deeply loved by Fu Quanxiang.
In 2006, the 85-year-old Fu Quanxiang proposed that Qiu Danli put her masterpiece "Detective" back on the stage. Taught the play hand in hand. She also often let JoDaly go to her house for dinner and instruct her artistically.
Qiu Danli said that in the years when she was just sick, the teacher had been watching various performance videos in her hospital bed and paying attention to the students' performances. And has been playing with her in the hospital bed, "In her last few years, she was always worried about how to pass on the fu pai art." ”
Fu Quanxiang and Fan Ruijuan, another performing artist of Yue opera, collaborated on the stage for most of their lives, forming the famous "Fan Fu Combination" in the Yue opera industry. Han Tingting, a disciple of the Fan Sect, recalled that in 1985, Teacher Fei and Teacher Fu tutored them in the drama "Peacock Flying Southeast". Teacher Fu's deepest impression on her is that she loves beauty and has to dress herself up as particularly beautiful every time she is on stage.
"Teacher Fu has no view of the portal at all, and every time he watches my performance, he will take the initiative to give advice." When she rehearsed, she would tell me that it was important to learn the genre well, but it was more important to think about the character's heart, the character's emotions, and sing with emotion. ”