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In 2006, Li Yugang, who had been trying to sing for many years, signed up for the "Walk of Fame", this time, he finally ushered in a turning point in his life, all the way through the barriers, and finally won the championship of the finals with a song "New Noble Concubine Drunk", from this day on, Li Yugang was completely red.
People come with fame and fortune, and people are red and right.
In the program, Li Yugang's fan support group spontaneously typed a slogan of "before there was Mei Lanfang, then there was Li Yugang", the program team did not perceive anything wrong with this slogan, but none of them expected that this sentence angered a person.
This person is Mei Lanfang's son and the only descendant of the Peking Opera Mei Sect, Mr. Mei Baojiu.
When Li Yugang was at his most famous, Mei Baojiu chose to openly bombard, and Mei Baojiu's spokesperson, Wu Ying, vice president of the China Mei Lanfang Culture and Art Research Association, directly opened his mouth, and sentenced to meat:
"We have opinions on some entertainment talent shows, and there is a program that makes a male Dan named Li ××, which is simply a distortion of Peking Opera. Male Dan is a very advanced art, not wearing a bra, wearing women's clothes and twisting your ass, which is completely contrary to our art. ”
Mei Baojiu's disciple Hu Wenge also stood up and criticized Li Yugang mercilessly:
"It is more appropriate to sing and dance and sing and dance, and call it a reverse string."
In the spring of 2007, Mei Baojiu, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, united 26 artists and submitted a proposal called "Standardized TELEVISION Draft", believing that standardizing the TV draft was imminent. Among them, the vague expression of the question of the "Li Yugang phenomenon".
Under the joint attack of the mainstream artists of Peking Opera, Li Yu has just become popular and is facing a huge career crisis.
So, as a descendant of a generation of masters, why bother to be so calculating, and can't get along with a poor boy who came up in the draft?
Besides, Li Yugang is not only so bad, why didn't Mei Baojiu absorb Li Yugang into the Peking Opera heritage? Why can't you tolerate him so much?
In fact, what caused Mei Baojiu and Li Yugang to turn against each other was not just a slogan problem.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, meipai inheritance is not easy</h1>
Mei Baojiu was born in 1934, which is a very special period, which coincides with the period when Mei Lanfang grew a beard and was determined not to perform for Japanese people.
On stage, Mei Lanfang has more personal time, and she paints at home on weekdays. Therefore, Mei Baojiu's childhood was not completely immersed in the environment of Peking Opera.
But the power of family atmosphere and cultural inheritance is too strong, although Mei Lanfang does not perform on stage, but Mei Baojiu still has an interest in Peking Opera, so Mei Lanfang asked him to ask Wang Youqing and others to cultivate his basic skills, so he studied for a few years, Mei Baojiu at the age of 13, you can perform Peking Opera in the school's literary and artistic performances.
Later, Mei Baojiu has been acting as her father's assistant and a small actor in the troupe, performing with her father at home and abroad.
However, Mei Lanfang did not require her children to inherit the art of Peking Opera, and basically adopted a respectful and laissez-faire attitude in education.
Mei Baojiu's two older brothers did not enter the opera industry, and although one sister entered the opera, she learned to be a martial artist.
And Mei Baojiu, after entering the youth period, became interested in more new things, such as radio and audio and other electronic equipment, and under the wide range of hobbies, she gradually distanced herself from Peking Opera.
Therefore, mei pai, which Mei Lanfang created by hand, almost had no successor.
In 1961, Mei Lanfang died, and it was only at this time that Mei Baojiu, who was already 27 years old, began to realize that his father's life's work was about to face the situation of no one to take over.
Responsibility and responsibility surged into Mei Baojiu's heart, and in the end, he chose to take over the family's baton and officially learned the art of learning from the teacher and stepped into the door of Peking Opera, and Mei Baojiu thus became the only descendant of Mei Pai.
Mei Lanfang's appearance is more feminine, as a man, on makeup is more like a woman than a woman. But Mei Baojiu's appearance is on the hard side, and he is not actually a particularly perfect successor. But Mei Baojiu was very careful.
The so-called talent is not enough, try to make it up. After years of continuous training, Mei Baojiu has gradually gained many old opera fans in her performance.
In 1982, Mei Baojiu returned to Shanghai to perform 8 cooperative performances with local celebrities, which was immediately warmly sought after by the Shanghai audience, and this performance was also considered to be the official return of Meipai art.
Soon after, the troupe went to Hong Kong for 16 performances, which received a huge response from Hong Kong and at home and abroad, and in order to feel the authentic Meipai art, many fans even came from the United States to watch.
With solid basic skills and a sweet and rounded singing voice, Mei Baojiu's influence once greatly exceeded that of his father, and even some viewers said that Mei Baojiu's songs sang more beautifully than Mei Lanfang.
This made Mei Baojiu's heart quite shaken, in order to expand the influence of Mei Pai again, he also worked hard to improve Peking Opera, and compiled new Peking Operas such as "Ode to Pear Blossom" and "Noble Concubine of the Tang Dynasty".
Under the leadership of Mei Baojiu, Meipai art finally regained its former peak after Mei Lanfang's death and broke the file for many years.
But in Mei Baojiu's heart, he always put his father first, and under the reputation, Mei Baojiu once said:
"I feel worthy of my father to be able to pass on my father's art."
In this new era, everything Mei Baojiu has done for Mei Pai is commendable, and he has not only boldly innovated, but also accepted more than 40 apprentices.
However, there was only one male Dan, he was Hu Wenge, and the others were all female apprentices. Mei Baojiu lived for more than 80 years, but there was no child or daughter under her knees.
For the next generation of Mei Pai's inheritance, Mei Baojiu also said with emotion:
"After me, there are no descendants of the Mei family who inherit the art of Meipai, which is a pity."
In fact, Mei Baojiu only did one thing in her life, that is, to inherit and carry forward her father's art. This is the only cause in his heart, he has struggled for it all his life, and in Mei Baojiu's view, inheriting Mei Pai art is a very important and serious thing.
Therefore, when Li Yugang appeared from the talent show and shook the drum and shouted under the banner of inheriting the Mei Pai, it was almost equivalent to insulting Mei Baojiu's lifelong struggle.
How could this be tolerated by him?
In addition, the art of Peking Opera is to rely on learning the art of learning from a teacher to inherit, a layman, but compared with his father Mei Lanfang, which is even more touching Mei Baojiu's reverse scales.
Therefore, from any point of view, Mei Baojiu had no reason to forgive Li Yugang. When this advertisement came out, Mei Baojiu and Li Yugang's liangzi was bound to end.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, two things that Li Yugang did wrong</h1>
If it is said that the advertising slogan that fans helped Li Yugang inadvertently touched Mei Baojiu's bottom line, but it was only a misunderstanding, then the two wrong things that Li Yugang did later further deepened this misunderstanding, and finally reached the point where it could not be adjusted.
1, not modest enough.
As we all know, Li Yugang's origin is not good, from the northeast, he grew up in a house and walls are all earthen embryo wall home, parents are authentic croppers, busy in the fields all year round, all year round can not make much money.
When he was a child, Li Yugang did not wear new cotton clothes in the winter, and the old cotton clothes were washed and dried many times, hard and thin, and the wind penetrated as soon as he hit, and his only hobby was singing.
The children of poor families know how to study hard to change their destiny, so Li Yugang has always had good academic performance, and was admitted to the Jilin Provincial Art College with excellent results in the college entrance examination.
However, his family really could not afford him to study, so even if it was a low-hanging fruit, he had to give up and chose to go out to work for a living.
Serving plates during the day, working as a handyman, and running the field and singing at night, Li Yugang has lived for many years in such a vacuum.
Once in a performance, the organizer originally arranged for him to sing "For Whom" with a female singer, which cheng thought that the female singer could not come temporarily, and seeing that it could not end, Li Yugang suddenly came up with an idea: Why can't I sing two together? Isn't it just an anti-string?
In this way, the male voice changed for the female voice, the female voice changed the male voice, and Li Yugang completed the whole performance alone, and unexpectedly achieved excellent results.
Li Yugang suddenly had an epiphany, this road, you can go!
Since then, Li Yugang has never returned on the road of anti-string, until 2006, a race became famous.
Looking at Li Yugang's road to fame, it can be said that he has experienced ups and downs and worked hard, and it is precisely because of this that when fame and profit suddenly arrived, Li Yugang, who had never felt this "happiness", was still a bit drifting.
When Mei Baojiu "shelled" Li Yugang, a large number of media interviewed Li Yugang to see how he responded and handled, but Li Yugang, who had his stubbornness, said that he respected Mr. Mei while turning the conversation around:
"Although some people don't recognize my art, few male actors are as popular as I am."
At this time, public opinion is more like being stabbed in the honeycomb, and Li Yugang is in the center of the nest, surrounded by swarms of bees, dangerous and unaware.
Soon after, Li Yugang was invited to the Spring Festival Gala, when the host introduced Li Yugang, Li Yugang knew that Mei Baojiu was on the spot, but said what he seemed to be a tribute, and others seemed to be provocative:
"On behalf of the profound Meipai art, I would like to express my heartfelt greetings to the audience across the country."
At that time, Mei Baojiu was watching the show offstage, originally he still said and laughed, and as soon as this sentence came out, Mei Baojiu instantly changed her face, and then got up angrily and brushed her sleeves away.
Originally, Mei Baojiu had a lot of criticism of Li Yugang's "touching porcelain" Mei Lanfang, and never waited for Li Yugang's apology, and now, he actually said on such an important occasion in front of the national audience that he represented Mei Pai.
Are you a Meipai person? Do you sing Meipai art? What qualifications do you Have li yugang to represent Mei Pai?
It is estimated that Mei Baojiu's heart was like this several times at that time.
Saying a thousand ways and ten thousand, this sentence Li Yugang is absolutely wrong and thorough, he did not even understand the rules of the industry, he dared to say that he represented Mei Pai, at this time, the contradiction between the two was completely irreconcilable.
2 Not sincere
Mei Baojiu is a person, a highly respected old artist, he said that he did not like Li Yugang, then Li Yugang's living space was in jeopardy.
After the Spring Festival Gala, Li Yugang's "resources" suddenly decreased, after all, the circle is so big, who can not give Mei Baojiu face.
At this time, Li Yugang realized that he might be really wrong.
Faced with the reality of his career damage, Li Yugang took a lot of thought and wanted to apologize to Mei Baojiu, but he didn't say anything.
Later, Li Yugang found another old artist, Wang Kun, hoping that Wang Kun could help him intercede, and Li Yugang wrote a letter of apology to Wang Kun, asking Wang Kun to hand it over to Mei Baojiu.
But Wang Kun didn't care, not because he didn't want to manage it, it was that he thought that "you still have to tie the bell to the ringer", and asked Li Yugang to personally go to Mei Baojiu himself.
But Li Yugang did not act for a long time, I don't know whether it was out of timidity, or out of stubbornness all along, in short, Li Yugang thought that no one helped him, and there was no hope of reconciliation with Mei Pai, fortunately, he did his best and let nature take its course.
At that time, he wrote a rather "backbone" text on the blog: "I bowed to history, but reality made me hold my head high, I can only do this, history gives me choices, I can only spell out a way to live." ”
Although it is a bold speech, between words, you can still read the slightest grievance.
Since then, Mei Baojiu and Li Yugang have never reconciled with each other.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, the enmity that can never be solved? </h1>
In 2016, Mr. Mei Laoxian passed away at the age of 82, he did not leave any children in his life, but he cultivated many outstanding opera artists and is a well-deserved master.
At that time, Li Yugang also published his remembrance of Mr. Mei Baojiu on the Internet, but in fact, until Mei Baojiu's death, Li Yugang did not formally apologize to him.
For Mei Baojiu, until he left, he did not feel that there was any problem in suppressing a young man, because he and his father spent two generations of painstaking efforts to maintain the current "Mei Pai" art, but let a drafted "anti-string" continue to hype and use, and without remorse, in order to maintain the reputation of "Mei Pai", he must do this.
A conflict that should not have occurred finally led to the decline of Li Yugang's stardom, and Mei Baojiu did not forgive him before he died.
In fact, Li Yugang would not have come to this step.
If when the incident first happened, he was willing to sincerely apologize and sincerely pay homage to the teacher, believing that with a master like Mei Baojiu, he would be happy to be happy to inherit Peking Opera for excellent people.
But Li Yugang did not seize the opportunity.
Now Li Yugang, although he will also appear at various parties every year, but he has long since lost the heat of that year, on August 10, Li Yugang and Tibetan Internet celebrity Ding Zhen filmed a group of national style blockbusters, but did not set off any splash.
This grudge has no chance to be solved now, and I don't know if Li Yugang will regret some of the decisions he made when he looked back.
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