Gao Yuqian, who is both virtuous and artistic

As a disciple of the Mei Sect, Gao Yuqian never became famous and became a household name because of the Red Lantern

Xu Chun

Beijing Evening News TF021

In the old days, meimen disciples were mostly Xumen disciples. Yan Huizhu once called my great-grandfather Xu Lanyuan "Mei Lanfang who did not appear on stage", all because my great-grandfather was Mei Lanfang's violinist, and the two worked together for 28 years. Therefore, many of Mr. Mei's disciples have visited my house to ask my great-grandfather for advice. Yan Huizhu, Xin Yanqiu, Wu Suqiu, Du Jinfang, Lu Sujuan, Ding Zhiyun, Gao Yuqian, Li Yufu and other Meipai disciples often came to my house, and they all received guidance from my great-grandfather.

At the end of 2018, Grandma Li in the Peking Opera "Red Lantern" left, taking away the memory of an era wang Jinhui

At the end of 2018, Grandma Li in the Peking Opera "Red Lantern" left, taking away the memories of an era; the grandmother in life was gone, which triggered many related memories for me. When my grandparents got married, Grandma Gao also went to the cave house.

When I met Grandma Gao, she came to the house not to learn drama but to play cards.

After Grandpa's death, Grandma often invited several card friends to play cards at home, and Grandma Gao was one of the regulars. By then she had long since left the stage.

Grandma Gao and my grandmother are the same age, but because from Mr. Mei, she has always called my grandmother the second aunt. She is never confused because she is a horn.

The drama class pays attention to generations. Grandma Gao called out to my grandmother one by one, never ambiguously, and exuded such a kiss.

The scene where I first met Grandma Gao, as in yesterday.

At noon that day, I happened to go to my grandmother's house for dinner, and the card friends had arrived as promised. As soon as I walked in the door, Grandma pointed to a tall, gray-haired grandma and said, "This is Grandma Li." I quickly and politely stepped forward to say hello. Grandma pulled me in front of Grandma Gao again and said, "This is called, uh..." Grandma seemed to suddenly get stuck, and Grandma Gao quickly smiled and said, "This is also called Grandma Li." Grandma smiled: "Right, right, this is also called Grandma Li." Everyone present laughed, only I was confused, and they laughed, and hurried forward to call Grandma Li. Grandma Gao saw me with a serious face and hurriedly said, "Let's just talk and laugh, and confuse the children." Grandma explained to me, "This is Grandma Gao Yuqian, you haven't seen "Red Lantern"?" She is the actor of Grandma Li! "I realized that Grandma Gao was joking. I was in middle school. I don't know much about the model play, I just think this grandma is a bit familiar. I seem to have seen it in the TV series "Journey to the West". I grew up watching Journey to the West. I hurriedly called out to Grandma Gao again. Grandma Gao smiled and said, "Our life is all messed up, I have to call your grandmother the second aunt, but you call me grandma." "Everyone laughed together, and the laughter was particularly hearty, like the autumn sunshine."

Looking back on it today, I think Grandma Gao is really wise, and she is afraid that Grandma will be embarrassed in the generations, so she uses the role she plays to resolve the embarrassment - Grandma Li has no generation, just a role. The speed with which the old man reacted was amazing to me.

Chinese pay attention to generations, especially in pear orchards, but what is really admirable is not your high generation, but your good people.

Grandma Gao's joke is intriguing. Grandma Gao is indeed "Grandma Li", because the stage image she created is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, well-known to everyone, and has long become the symbol of that era. Grandma Gao is, of course, "Grandma Li"!

Grandma Gao is a disciple of Mei Lanfang, originally sang Qingyi, why did she sing Lao Dan in "Red Lantern", and once she became famous, she became popular all over the country, and even many people forgot that she originally sang Qingyi?

What makes Grandma Tall?

Man is a product of the times and cannot exist apart from the times. Thanks to the times, it is also limited by the times. Some people say that Grandma Gao was lucky, and the god of luck took care of her, and a play changed her fate. Can luck alone change fate?

What makes Grandma Tall? "Red Light"! Some people say that she is just a play, a role. In fact, she has played many roles, but her "Grandma Li" has played the most successful. A good script, a good play can make an actor. This is the so-called drama protector. Therefore, we should pay attention to opera screenwriters, such as Lu Jingyan and Yuan Yunyi's "Mu Guiying Hangs Up", Weng Yihong's "Suolin Capsule", Fan Junhong and Lu Ruiming's "Yangmen Female General", Chen Yaxian's "Cao Cao and Yang Xiu", these plays have achieved a group of good actors. In the current opera world, what is more scarce than good actors is good screenwriters.

What makes Grandma Tall? It is the true ability of Yiduo not to press the body.

Grandma Gao had studied Hua Dan and Qing Yi, but she had never learned Lao Dan. How can I act well without learning? What did she learn from Mr. May? It is the "Tao" that is learned, not the "skill." She learned to act, she learned to portray people. The highest state of "learning" is to learn from the teacher to learn from the teacher and learn to create your own artistic image. Art is connected, and the various trades of Peking Opera are even more common.

What is the charm of the artistic image created by Grandma Gao? Not only is the voice good and the appearance is handsome, but also what is like what it looks like, and it performs the charm of the characters. At that time, Chairman Mao burst into tears after reading "The Red Lantern", and he watched it twice in a row. Now the actors learn things too narrowly, most people only learn the profession, and some even only learn the genre, such learning is difficult to become a good role. Mei Lanfang learned Kunqu opera, learned calligraphy and painting, learned martial arts, Kunqu, calligraphy and painting, and martial arts are all invisible nourishment for his art. Learning should not be too utilitarian, as Lu You's poem says - "Kung Fu is outside the poem".

For Peking Opera, my grandmother was both an outsider and an expert. She is not an actress herself, but she comes from a pear garden family. Her maternal grandfather was Ye Chunshan, the head of Fu lian cheng's class, so she knew opera and knew how to cultivate opera talents. When my grandmother was training my sister Xu Ying, she hired a wide range of famous teachers to let her study across the profession. Xu Ying first learned Hua Dan with my aunt Xu Peiling, and the first play was "Thorn Clam"; then he learned martial arts, and at the same time he studied martial arts with his grandmother's cousin Ye Peng; finally, he changed to Wu Dan. As a result, her outstanding performance today is due to the fact that she learned a lot.

Peking opera art is the art of the horns, what is the horns - the only, can not be copied. The reason why it is not easy to form a horn is precisely because it is unique and unique. The role of Grandma Li in "Red Lantern" has young actors who are also inheriting the performance, but the role created by Grandma Gao Yuqian has become the only one and cannot be copied.

After Grandma Gao left, my grandma called her home. Her son said that my mother did not want to alarm the big guys, especially the elderly, so she did not engage in any rituals.

Grandma Gao's later life was peaceful and happy, which was her greatest happiness. She shines on stage, and she is ordinary in life. My grandmother said, "I've known Yuqian for more than 70 years, and she went to the cave room on the day I married your grandfather." The last time the two of us met was when I went to her house to bring dumplings to her during the Spring Festival of the previous year, and she was in good spirits at that time, and the two of us had a very happy conversation. She loves to eat our dumplings. "The past is all a relic, all left in Grandma's memories."

I am reminded of a quote from Chekhov's novel My Life: "I believe that everything we experience will not disappear without a trace." "Grandma Gao left us Grandma Li.

(The author is the great-grandson of Mei Lanfang's violinist Xu Lanyuan and a teacher at Beijing No. 5 Middle School)

(Original title: Grandma Li)

Source: Beijing Evening News