This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jiang Yuequan, the grandmaster of the Pingtan generation, and a series of commemorative activities have been launched. 10 days ago, the large-scale commemorative performance of "Looking for Jiang Yuequan" was staged at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, and the 3-hour performance was unprecedented and the scene was warm. On November 24, a symposium jointly held by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the China Ququ Association, and the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Jiang Yuequan's birth was held at the Shanghai Municipal Literary and Art Hall, and more than 100 people from all walks of life attended the forum.
At the forum, Wu Zongxi and Wang Rugang, advisers to the China Ququ Association, as well as Ma Laifa, adviser to the Zhejiang Provincial Ququ Association, Yin Dequan, editor and director of Jiangsu Suzhou Television Station, Qin Jianguo, vice chairman of the Shanghai Ququ Association, Gao Bowen, head of the Shanghai Municipal Bomb Critics Troupe, and Wu Xiaoming, artistic director of the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film and Television, all spoke at the forum.
Wang Rugang, chairman of the Shanghai Qu Artists Association, said that Mr. Jiang Yuequan is a milestone figure in our qu art circle and a representative figure of our Chinese national culture. Today's symposium is a major event in the entire Cultural Circles of Shanghai and the Chinese Cultural Circles.
Jiang Kun, chairman of the China Ququ Association, commissioned others to make a written speech, in which he reviewed and summarized Jiang Yuequan's artistic achievements and said, "Jiang Yuequan is a well-known representative figure in the history of Suzhou Pingtan, and the Jiang tune he founded is a far-reaching, widely circulated, and the most important Suzhou Pingtan genre of singing, so that there is a saying that 'no singing is not Jiang, no votes are not Jiang'. ”
Jiang Kun also summed up his five-point experience in detail, about Jiang Yuequan's enlightenment to the development of qu art, and said, "As early as 1984, the China Ququ Association and the Shanghai Ququ Association held a commemorative performance for the 50th anniversary of Jiang Yuequan's book career, which was mainly to show Jiang Yuequan's artistic style. More than thirty years have passed, experience has been accumulated, and ideas have been precipitated for a long time. Coinciding with the important node of the centenary of Jiang Yuequan's birth, it is necessary to comprehensively and deeply commemorate and discuss the style of Jiang Yuequan and the current Suzhou Pingtan, but also to excavate the development law of the development of Suzhou Pingtan art, and to carry forward the excellent personality spirit and moral customs of the qu art industry, so as to promote the sustained and healthy development of the entire qu art industry. ”
Yang Chengzhi, vice chairman of the Ninth China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, said that Jiang Yuequan is an important leader in the cause of new Chinese music and art and the main founder of the contemporary Suzhou pingtan cause. The Jiang tune he pioneered played a pivotal role in the development of Suzhou's pingtan art and carried forward the past and the future. We commemorate Mr. Jiang Yuequan to learn from his attitude and spirit of excellence and perseverance in art, and to inherit his character, artistic style and rich wealth of stage practice.
You You, secretary of the party leading group and vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, who presided over the forum, emotionally concluded that such a meeting was held today to commemorate and remember a great man and an artist. This symposium is an artistic edification, a moral education. "Just listened to a lot of experts, the whole venue resonated, a genre in an era left a brilliant stroke, first of all, innovation, eclectic, which is consistent with our Shanghai city spirit - the pursuit of excellence, open-mindedness, humility and humility." It can be said that Mr. Jiang Yuequan's artistic attainment itself is the most vivid interpretation of the spirit of Shanghai city. ”
On the night of the symposium, a special performance to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Jiang Yuequan's birth was held in the Xiangyin Book Garden of the Shanghai Pingtan Troupe. The performances are full of stars, including Zhu Liangxin, Zhou Jianying, Xing Yanchun, Xing Yanzhi, Qin Jianguo and other famous artists in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, as well as many new stars.
It is worth mentioning that Zhao Yuming, a single-string performance artist who is already in his old age, has not traveled thousands of miles to Shanghai to take the stage. Through the video, she relived the deep friendship with Jiang Yuequan and her teacher and friend, and cooperated with her granddaughter Zhai Jingwan in a single-string "Beijing Snack", which reproduced the picture of the exchange of music and art between the north and the south, and expressed her heartfelt nostalgia and tribute to Mr. Jiang Yuequan.
Excerpts from the symposium statements
Wu Zongxi (Consultant of China Ququ Association, Commentator, 93 years old)
Jiang Yuequan's founding genre of singing, Jiang Tone, was popular in the book fields and radio stations in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. After the founding of New China, combined with the innovation and rectification of the bibliography, Jiang's tune has been greatly improved and developed, and it is still the most widely sung and the most popular in the singing voice of the Pingtan genre.
The success and development of Jiang Tuning has promoted the epoch-making leap in the art of pingtan singing, and he has transformed the pingping singing voice into focusing on expression into focusing on lyricism, and at the same time widely adopting and absorbing a variety of musical elements, enriching and improving its singing techniques such as biting words and transporting cavities. His contribution to the history of the development of the opera singing voice can be compared with Tan Xinpei's development of the peking opera old student singing voice.
After the founding of New China, under the leadership of the party, Jiang Yuequan continuously improved his ideological consciousness and became an artist who made outstanding contributions to the inheritance, development and innovation of art.
Yin Dequan (Director of Suzhou Television Station, who had 5 contacts and exchanges with Jiang Yuequan before his death)
The creation of a genre is not easy, from the initial beautiful sound to the final establishment of the core style of love, the continuous pursuit of perfection is the most valuable point of art. Jiang Tuo is only an integral part of jiang pai art, and Jiang pai art is a complete art system of appraisal, which gives full play to the charm of judging bullets and singing, and the admirers fully enjoy their beauty, all of which are extremely praised. The artistic charm of Jiang Yuequan lies in the fact that he constantly innovates and grasps the aesthetic judgment, steps on the notes of the times to keep pace with the times, integrates affinity and cohesion, and most of the fans have become Jiang fans, and everyone expects it.
The charm of Jiang Pai's art of playing words has influenced generations, and people can't forget the scene of queuing up all night and getting a ticket, and can't forget the momentum of the tens of thousands of people in the Cultural Square listening to and indulging in "Yingying Playing the Piano". He sang the land of Jiangnan, sang the north and south of the great river, flew hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan reverberated at home and abroad, and there were fans of Jiang Pai art in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada and the United States. The art of the Jiang school has been widely and enduring, and the art that can be popular will be passed on from generation to generation, and now it has sung for the fourth generation. This is perhaps Jiang Yuequan's greatest wish, and it is also the hope of all people who love to comment on bombs.
A famous artist said: "In two hundred years, it will be difficult to produce a Jiang Yuequan", which expresses the sorrow in the hearts of all people who worship and love Jiang Yuequan and Jiang Pai's artists.
Qin Jianguo (Pingtan Artist, Head of Jiang Tuo Art)
This high-profile commemoration is of extraordinary significance, as it has a considerable exemplary effect and highlights the important connotation of inheritance. Jiang Yuequan is indeed a great figure for pingtan art, like the founders of this wave of genres are pingtan art masters, they have pushed pingtan art from the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s of the last century to a peak state. Leaving an extremely rich and valuable wealth for our descendants, such a series of commemorative activities goes far beyond individual behavior, and it has several levels of significance.
We say that the breadth and profundity of Jiang Pai's art lies in the process of Mr. Jiang's creation and formation of culture, relying on his own rich artistic skills, while constantly absorbing a large number of essences of other artistic types into it, such as Peking Opera, including local operas from all over the country, etc., which have become the artistic nutrition repository of Teacher Jiang, and the wisdom of all is used by me.
Carry forward the art of the Jiang Pai, the inheritance of the professional team, the traditional culture brand art is to rely on people to inherit, so our professional team must spend time on the cultivation of talents to do their homework, if there is no good inheritance team then all the things are empty, the good news is that we now have a large number of young generations in the industry to take over, what is more gratifying is that there are more jiang pai art disciples and grandchildren, some have already made achievements and have a small reputation, which is very beneficial to the inheritance of Jiang Pai art, but also a must.
In addition to the need for professional groups to play the role of the main force in this regard, we also need to have a better mass foundation, we have always said that the art of the Chiang School is a monument in the vast audience, the degree of popularity is second to none, and today there is no singing and no Jiang, no ticket and no Chiang. At the moment, I sincerely hope that our evaluation team, the evaluation team, the salon team will continue to be in full swing, which is a very good supplement and support for our profession. With the development of their various very hot activities and their criticism of the actors in our professional group, it will enable us to evaluate the art of the whole bomb and enable the entire Jiang School to be well inherited and developed.
Gao Bowen (Leader of Shanghai Bomb Critics)
The title of my speech is from the red artists of the old era to the people's artists of the new society, in memory of Mr. Jiang Yuequan, the main founder of the bomb evaluation group.
The Shanghai Pingtan Troupe is the first national theater troupe in the appraisal industry, with a history of 66 years. In November 1951, 18 well-known actors in the bomb critics at that time gave up their high incomes and created the first national theater troupe in the bomb critics with a sense of pride and glory in the revolution. The day after the founding of the regiment, they carried their bags and rushed to the Huai Construction Site, and a few months later they presented the people of Shanghai with the novella "We Must Cure the Huai River" with new situation and new content, which was performed for three months. The establishment and successful artistic practice of the Shanghai Pingtan Troupe have set an example in the appraisal circle and even the qu art circle, leaving an indelible chapter in the history of the development of socialist literature and art. Back in those days, Mr. Jiang Yuequan was the main founder of the Shanghai Bomb Critics Troupe, then known as the Shanghai People's Bomb Critics Working Group.
Today's batch of actors who have long been famous in the book world recall that when Teacher Jiang was teaching, they all exuded words of gratitude and emotion. It is worth mentioning that Jiang Yuequan is not only an outstanding performance artist, but also an outstanding commentator educator. His exposition of the theory of the creation of the bomb, the analysis and teaching of the performance skills of the gimmick playing and singing all reflect his superb artistic standards and rich experience. Today, even if we watch the video of his teaching in that year, we are deeply impressed by his in-depth and simple, combination of theory and practice, and vivid and rich teaching style.
Wu Xiaoming (Artistic Director of Shanghai Bureau of Culture and Broadcasting)
Today's symposium here is to commemorate the influence of Chiang Kai-shek's art on our city and make us better admire and remember.
The older generation of artists represented by Jiang Yuequan, the success of Jiang Pai's art is the gospel of the city, and Mr. Jiang sings Suzhou dialect and represents the voice of Shanghai. Representing the voice of the city, the Shanghai Critics Troupe inherits and carries forward the spirit of this urban culture, making Jiang Tuo culture and Jiang Pai art the public lover of our city.
The Jiang School has been passed down from the last century to today, so high, so far, so deep and so thick, so we think that today's symposium is to let us discover and discover the essence of the art of the Jiang School. Discover this kind of responsibility and responsibility of our current literary and artistic workers.
Jiang Pai art was born in this city, which conformed to the aesthetic art and aesthetic taste of shanghai at that time. It has laid a very important foundation for the development of our city's evaluation bomb and the development of genres. We find the beauty of Mr. Jiang in his continuous inheritance and continuous innovation, bringing us new surprises and new discoveries.