Du Jinfang
Cover news reporter Xun Chao
Last night, the National Peking Opera of China issued an obituary: Du Jinfang, a famous Peking Opera performing artist, representative inheritor of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Project (Peking Opera), one of the founders of the artistic style of the National Peking Opera House, and adviser to the Artistic Guidance Committee of the National Peking Opera, died in Beijing at the age of 89 at 22:26 on April 17, 2021 due to ineffective medical treatment.
After this news came out, many fans posted tributes: "Shocked to hear bad news, grief-stricken." Mr. Du Jinfang has been through the ages! Good way. The famous host Cao Kefan recalled: "Ms. Du Jinfang was a disciple of Master Mei Lanfang. Remember the 'Oriental Yayun' Peking Opera Festival, Teacher Du was invited to Shanghai to perform "Phoenix Returns to the Nest". Due to weather conditions, flight delays, fatigue along the way, coupled with external wind chills, hoarse voice, after emergency treatment by doctors, still performed as scheduled. Although she was upset and worried about losing the Shanghai opera fans, the performance that night was an unprecedented success. May Teacher Du Jinfang rest in peace! ”
Du Jinfang and Wei Minglun
Wei Minglun, a famous playwright and Bashu ghost, was also very sad to learn the news of Du Jinfang's death. He told the cover reporter that on du Jinfang's 88th birthday, he also specially wrote a joint message to send blessings, and he wrote at the time:
Eighty-eight years old
Screen Lin Niangzi, Jupu White Niangzi, Erba Beauty Dengmi Shou;
Battlefield Mu Guiying, fishing boat Xiao Guiying, thousands of ticket friends to enjoy plum incense.
Earlier, Du Jinfang also wrote an inscription for Wei Minglun: "You love to hear me sing Peking Opera, and I love to hear you say Sichuan dialect." Du Jinfang, titled Ming Lundi".
Unexpectedly, more than half a year had passed, and he got the news of the death of his old friend, and Wei Minglun was sad. "The two of us began to intersect in 1988 and have been together for 33 years now." In Wei Minglun's heart, Du Jinfang is the most similar to Mei Lanfang, "She acted especially like Mei Lanfang, and was the first young actor in the Peking Opera Theater at that time." At the same time, she engaged in new dramas, first transplanted the Sichuan opera "Liu Yin Ji" into Peking Opera, and I think it was she who was the most successful in transplanting Sichuan opera. In addition, she acted in new plays, and she was the first to act in the Peking Opera "White Haired Girl". She is also a landmark figure in the history of Peking Opera. ”
Du Jinfang and Wei Minglun took a group photo
Du Jinfang in life also left a deep impression on Wei Minglun, "Every time she calls me: Xiucai, you are here." It is completely Peking Opera Daobai. On her 88th birthday last year, I wrote her a couplet: 'Twenty-eight lady Denmi Shou! She asked, 'How am I a twenty-eight lady?' I said, 'You're eighty-eight, two eights, two eights!' And she asked, 'What Denmishou?' I said, 'Rice folded open, two eights, one ten, eighty-eight years old.' You're dying! She suddenly realized and smiled very happily. Wei Minglun revealed that Du Jinfang originally wanted to publish a book, "At that time, after the book came out, he planned to give it to me, and it was written on it, 'You love to hear me sing Peking Opera, I love to listen to you say Sichuan dialect'. But unfortunately, before the book came out, she left, very sad, very sorry. ”
Du Jinfang plays Xiao Guiying
The reporter learned through public information that Du Jinfang studied Qingyi with the famous Peking Opera artist Lu Peifang at an early age, and sang on stage at the age of 10, and was instructed by Artists such as Chen Shiding and Liu Yufang. In 1945, he took Wang Yaoqing as his teacher, was carefully taught, and learned from Wang Yaoqing's nephew and Mei Lanfang's violinist Wang Shaoqing, such as "Cosmic Front", "Phoenix Returns to the Nest", "Overlord Farewell", "Qi Shuanghui", "Jinshan Temple", "Noble Concubine Drunk" and other Mei Pai dramas. In 1947, he took tan fuying and Yang Baosen's class hanging second card. Since 1949, he has organized his own classes to perform in Beijing, Jinan and other places.
Mei Lanfang and Du Jinfang took a group photo
At the end of 1949, Du Jinfang was recommended by Wang Yaoqing to worship Mei Lanfang as a teacher in Shanghai, and was carefully instructed by Mei Lanfang. He has also asked Xu Lanyuan, Zhou Changtai, Jiang Miaoxiang and other predecessors or violinists who have cooperated with Mei Lanfang.
In 1951, Du Jinfang joined the Peking Opera Experimental Working Group of the China Academy of Opera (the predecessor of the China Peking Opera House) and performed on the same stage with Li Shaochun, Yuan Shihai, Ye Shenglan and other artists for a long time. With her innate intelligence and persistent pursuit of Peking Opera art, Du Jinfang has created a large number of touching and profound stage art images.
Du Jinfang, The Lady of the Screen Lin
In the 1950s and 1960s, she starred in new or adapted plays such as "Liu Yin Ji", "The Legend of the White Snake", "The Tale of the Jade Hairpin", "Peach Blossom Fan", "White Haired Girl", "Xi Xiang Ji", "She Saihua", "Xie Yaohuan", "Keshan Red Sun" and other newly edited or adapted plays, which fully demonstrated her profound traditional drama skills and ability to create and perform new dramas. Du Jinfang's costume drama "Wild Boar Forest" (1962), co-starring Li Shaochun and Yuan Shihai, and the modern drama "Red Detachment of Women" (1972), starring, were both filmed as color Peking Opera films. After 1976, the Central News Documentary Film Studio successively produced its "Broken Bridge", "Lian Jinfeng Thorn Clam", "Xie Yaohuan Garden" and other drama films.
Du Jinfang plays Mu Guiying
Du Jinfang plays the white lady
Du Jinfang's artistic style is both Rongmei (Lanfang) and Wang (Yaoqing) and has his own creations, which have both graceful and delicate beauty, and have strong and solid strength, and are good at portraying a variety of different characters, whether it is Zhu Yingtai ("Liu Yinji"), Bai Suzhen ("White Snake"), Xie Yaohuan ("Xie Yaohuan"), Li Xiangjun ("Peach Blossom Fan"), or modern characters Xi'er ("White Haired Girl"), Xiaobai Pigeon ("Lin Hai Xueyuan"), Huang Ying ("Keshan Red Sun"), Wu Qinghua ("Red Lady Army") ), can be vivid on stage, leaving a deep impression on the audience.
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