Chaoshan dialect, the well-known "bird language", is said to be more difficult than the special eight.
If you were given 4-5 years, would you be able to learn, or even master, the Chaoshan dialect?
Zhao Shuguang, a native of Hebei, did it.
Moreover, he combined Chaoshan dialect with art forms and became a well-known drama star of the Chaoshan people at home and abroad.
Recently, the Southern Metropolis Daily published an interview with Zhao Shuguang, who recalled the story of coming to Shantou from Hebei.
In front of the camera, this uncle who looks exactly like Xie Xian and looks like a gentleman is full of Chaoshan accent.
In fact, the name Zhao Shuguang is not as loud as his drama role "Summer Rain".
"The front door summer rain comes, the back door Xia Xiucai, the stone grinder punishes you to bear the burden back." Since the 1990s, the "Summer Rain" series of Teochew TV dramas has become a must-have for almost every Chaoshan people after tea and dinner.
Most of the parents of chaoshan 80s and 90s have watched "Summer Rain Comes", and "Summer Rain Comes" has even become popular in the Chaoshan Chinese circles in Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore and Malaysia.
The clever use of "Summer Rain" on the Chaoshan dialect makes the Chaoshan people clap their hands and applaud.
Few people know that Zhao Shuguang, the actor of "Summer Rain", is a person from Hengshui, Hebei.
Zhao Shuguang came to Shantou with his family since he was a child, listening to Chaoshan dialect since he was a child, but it was more limited to listening.
In the 1970s, Shantou was not friendly to outsiders, you could not speak Chaoshan dialect, and most of them would be called "provincial boys".
You will say it, but if you don't say it authentically, you will still be treated differently.
Zhao Shuguang's first job in Shantou was to dance in the Shantou Song and Dance Troupe, which was 8 years, but it was also at that time that he developed a strong interest in sketches and dramas, and often went to the song and dance troupe to rehearse the play to run the dragon set.
In 1978, when Shantou re-established the Drama Troupe, because there was a shortage of young actors, Zhao Shuguang felt that the opportunity had come.
Compared with dancing, the most difficult thing in drama is not performance, but Chaoshan dialect.
Why do you have to be a chaoshan dialect with a straight cavity?
To apply chaoshan dialect to the lines, if it is not authentic, it will definitely reveal the filling. For a foreigner, how can you make Chaoshan dialect without a foreign accent?
"For example, I always said that the 'moon' of the moon would always be a "stroke" of the analogy."
How hard is it to change? Chaoshan dialect has eight tones. What concept?
First of all, you have to be able to say the pronunciation of these eight tones of Chaoshan characters: namely: low, arrival, emperor, drop, pool, brother, earth, disk;
Or: points, powder, fen, sudden, cloud, mix, share, Buddha.
As long as you read the words in the above two columns from beginning to end and still read them according to the Chaoshan dialect, you will naturally form the Chaoshan eight tones, and if you are familiar with them, you can spell out the other words according to this eight-tone tone.
The premise is that you have to know the Chaoshan pronunciation of these eight characters, and any line of these two lines will be able to pronounce eight characters.
Zhao Shuguang was looking for local friends in Shantou every day to help correct the sound, and at the same time found a dictionary of Chaoshan dialect to correct it word by word.
"Usually, I practice tongue twisters to train my tongue flexibility, and I have to correct my pronunciation word by word when rehearsing. After three or four years of doing this, I was able to speak authentic Chaoshan dialect. ”
The "three or four years" that Come out of Zhao Shuguang's mouth now seems to be only a small part of his artistic life in the past 50 years.
However, it is precisely because of this "three or four years" that there is a later "summer rain". The popularity of "Xia Yulai" in Chaoshan is comparable to the rice circle culture stirred up by Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan today, and it was difficult for anyone to shake the status of "Xia Yulai" at that time.
According to Zhao Shuguang's recollection, a long time ago, in Chenghai, Shantou, there was a story of Xiucai Xia Yu coming.
As a legendary figure of Chaoshan Province, there is no correct history to prove that Xia Yulai has really existed, and from the media information, Xia Yulai is a talent in Chaozhou Longhu Village during the Qing Dynasty.
He taught in a nearby township after several failed scientific expeditions, and there is still a Xiacuo Lane in Longhu Ancient Village.
The "Chronicle of Longhu" only regards it as a folklore, and there are nine "Stories of Summer Rain".
Summer Rain comes to be smart, alive, and has tricks. However, there are also those who believe that what he does is often harmful to others and self-interest, and his behavior is debauched, and it is normal that he cannot get into the eyes of historians.
Because he was cunning, people gave the flower the name Xia Fox, so they later called it Xia Yulai.
At the door of his old mansion in Xiacuo Lane of Longhu Village today, there is also a hanging "Summer Rain To the Former Residence" for people to visit. Not only did the relevant departments of Longhu Village welcome visitors, but the descendants of the Xia family still live and calmly face the visitors to inquire.
It is precisely because it is not history, it is a folk culture, so everyone likes "summer rain to come".
Why does "summer rain come" have to be interpreted in Chaoshan dialect? This is closely related to the urban life atmosphere of Chaoshan and the lifestyle of Chaoshan people.
Chengjun's friends often complained to my parents, "Buy a dish to buy for a year, you have to find different people to chat, heaven and earth, from your puppy, to your family's yuan." ”
Also, many Chaoshan people get together with three or five friends at night to "drop tea", and after dinner, a chat is a whole night.
When The Chaoshan people meet together, the first greeting is "eating is not (eating or not)", and this really has little to do with Chaoshan cuisine.
Whether it is Shantou or Chaozhou or Jieyang, everyone says that the pace of life in Chaoshan city is slow, in fact, it is more about the lifestyle and living conditions of Chaoshan people.
To some extent, these are condensed in the "summer rain" created by Zhao Shuguang. So, the secret of the top stream is to be grounded.
In order to better restore the summer rain, Zhao Shuguang traveled all over the large and small villages of Chaoshan to chat with the villagers and listen to them talk about the summer rain.
Art comes from life, and this sentence has never been false.
It is really not easy for a foreigner to restore a figure in the history of Chaoshan Wilderness. Zhao Shuguang began to write and write a script, and in 1995, the first part of "Summer Rain Comes" came out, and then for 9 years, one a year, the entire "Summer Rain" series was a total of ten films.
"I thought 'Summer Rain' would be popular, but I didn't expect it to be so popular."
For a full decade, "Summer Rain" not only spread throughout eastern Guangdong, but also shook the entire overseas hipster circle.
Zhao Shuguang performed in Southeast Asian countries, and the audience shouted "Summer rain is coming".
In the hearts of many Chaoshan people, "Summer Rain" is a friend around him. He spoke Chaoshan dialect and played out the trivialities of life.
Almost every scene in "Summer Rain" has catchy chaoyu oil poems, that is, rhyming passages.
In the first part, Xia Yulai deliberately followed behind the lantern vendors to sell hanging melons after the lantern vendors in order to deceive the soft and hard lantern vendors, and the lantern vendors shouted a lantern, and he followed a hanging melon behind him, which together is "lantern hanging melon", and the harmonic sound also became "lantern hanging decline" (Chaoshan dialect means "hanging lantern unlucky luck").
Local drama represents the cultural atmosphere of a city, and it is easy to go up and down.
In the era when there was no social media and no video to brush, "Summer Rain" had almost no threshold, suitable for all ages, and there was no so-called cultural level, whether you were a dick or a cultural person, whether you were working in the countryside or in charge of urban construction.
Especially those Chaoshan grandparents, especially like "summer rain come", these old people have become loyal fans of this divine drama.
"In the film, scenes such as the red peach cantonese stall, shangshuzhai, pig raising, and chai he are all the most familiar to the Chaoshan people, which invisibly pulls into the distance between them and the audience." Zhao Shuguang said.
"Summer Rain" is not so much a local drama as it is a serial drama. And this seems to be one of the reasons why "Summer Rain" cannot be surpassed.
Later, Zhao Shuguang continued to cultivate in the field of Chaoshan drama, although there were also IP dramas such as "72 Tenants", but the golden age of Shantou drama finally stayed in the "summer rain".
Zhao Shuguang is still insisting, but in today's era of information explosion, it is too difficult to produce another "summer rain". We usually pick up the mobile phone, turn on the video streaming, and can brush the "summer rain" of countless cities.
They all have a lot of keywords in "Summer Rain", but it is difficult for people to really stop and seriously taste it, just like Zhao Shuguang does not like others to call him "laughing star".
"A comedy star is to put some non-nutritious strips in the sketch to entertain the public, and the audience will laugh and pass." An actor can't stop there, in addition to laughing, he should bring the audience to think. ”
From an actor's point of view, there's nothing wrong with that, but do we also have to ask ourselves, and now most people probably just have to laugh it off instead of getting a "why" answer.
This is paradoxical.
Zhao Shuguang's works in recent years, such as "Wind and Rain Overseas Chinese Batch", "Mother's Dream", "The Soul of the Great Tide Merchant", etc., are mostly performed in the form of government purchases and performances for the benefit of the people, but "Summer Rain" can never come back.
In the end, we don't need "summer rain to come", or is "summer rain coming" really impossible to come back?
Resources:
1. Dialogue "Summer Rain Comes": Northerners Perform Chaoyu Dramas, Which Become the Common Memory of Chaoshan People at Home and Abroad 《Southern Metropolis Daily》
2. That's the price behind the disrespect! See how Chaoshan legend Xia Yu came to teach others! Love life love old Wu
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