In the history of Yue opera, what are the stories of Yuan Xuefen?

It is said that Yuan Xuefen gradually formed a unique style of "Yuan Pai" singing voice, she from the boudoir Dan, the work, the performance is delicate, to create a calm and solemn image of women as its specialty, in the singing voice pay attention to the thick and solemn style, has a profound impact on the singing voice of Yue opera Danjiao, and for Qi Yaxian, Zhang Yunxia, Jin Caifeng, Lu Ruiying and a number of Other Yue opera actors inherited and developed, her interpretation of "Xianglin Sister-in-law" adapted from Lu Xun's famous book "Blessings" has been praised by progressive people in the literary and art circles and the press, and is praised as "a milestone of new Yue opera" 。 Once, their screenwriter and director Nan Wei brought a "Blessing", Lu Xun's novel "Blessing", in her dressing room, she was changing makeup, he read it to her, he said, you listen, can this novel be adapted, after he read it, she said it was completely ok. She said that we are very familiar with this matter, because Lu Xun's pen, Yuan Xuefen, she is also from Zhejiang, Lu Xun wrote about the characters, she has heard from her grandfather and mother, she is very sympathetic to her, she said I want to play her. He (Nan Wei) said that the performance of that play, there is no set, costumes, and anyone to watch, she said that our reform is so supportive to the audience now, from housewives to children, including her husband, all the way to the society, which of our plays is not warmly welcomed by the audience, so our theater from four or five hundred seats to more than a thousand seats to explain this situation, she said that it can be adapted, so they went to visit Lu Xun's wife Xu Guangping, and Xu Guangping invited new writers and artists. It is also their unique external rehearsal. Heck, the people who came that day were all seniors, all well-known people. This person did not know that the sky was high and thick, let go of the courage to play there, there was no concern at all, scared Nan Wei's face rose red, he said that it was Tian Han, Ouyang Yuqian, Hong Shen, Shi Dongshan, Bai Yang, Zhang Junxiang, what a lot, including Hu Feng, they all came.

Yue opera, a new kind of drama, has flourished in the practice of performing artists, especially the party leaders' concern for it has made its development enter a golden age, and Yuan Xuefen, as a famous performing artist of Yue opera, has naturally received care and love from all walks of life. The care of Premier Zhou and Sister Deng for her has strengthened her confidence in improving the level of Yue opera. After arriving in Beijing in 1949, the premier received a lot of specially invited representatives, when he saw Yuan Xuefen, he said, I already know you, I saw your performance in 46 years, and then the eldest sister came to pick her up to go to them, at that time, the premier and the eldest sister did not live in the West Flower Hall, it was a temporary room, and they began to know each other like that, so they often took her to dinner or something, so there was a lot of contact in the middle, and what made Yuan Xuefen most moved was the morning after she arrived in Beijing at the Six Nations Hotel. There was a waiter who brought her a cup of milk, two eggs, she had a white soldier in the same room, called Li Landing, she estimated that they also arranged by the prime minister, about the same age as her, living in a room, that Yuan Xuefen said how she did not have ah, the waiter said that this is specially prepared for you, she said vice chairman Zhou knows that you had lung disease before liberation, eggs and milk are specially prepared for you, although it is a cup of milk, two eggs, but for Yuan Xuefen she is very touched and very moved, After that, they often asked her to come to their house to talk about the situation of Yue opera, to understand the problems they encountered in the reform, to understand all aspects of her understanding, in the forty days in Beijing she had a request to join the party, she told the premier's eldest sister, she said I wanted to join the party, they said very good, and then she made a report, after discussion, after she joined the party, she wrote to tell the premier and the eldest sister, she wrote to tell them that I joined the party, the eldest sister saw this letter and immediately told the premier, She replied to Yuan Xuefen in her letter, she said that we are the happiest, the most concerned about you this matter, she said ThatEn Lai is as happy as I am.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yue opera has changed from the little sister in the opera of that year to a famous big drama at home and abroad. Since the new period, Yue opera has been bathed in the spring breeze of reform and opening up, and is recasting its glory. Not long ago, yuan xuefen went to the rehearsal hall many times for the rehearsal of the new version of the Yue opera "Dream of the Red Chamber", not a task, but out of concern for Yue opera and hope that it could be more prosperous.

Yuan Xuefen has never accepted apprentices in her life, and when she was young, she was bullied and oppressed by the older generation of artists, and out of her concern and love for the younger generation of artistic actors, she not only encouraged the younger generation, but also had strict requirements for them. She had a wish at that time, if she could become an actor who could perform, I must love and protect young people, and never bully young people. She hopes that young people should be able to absorb the strengths of all families and create new ones of their own, and she likes them. In order to enrich his acting ability. At that time, Yuan Xuefen was already seventy-seven years old, but she was still radiant, in addition to taking the only time to read books and newspapers as a compulsory course, more often than not, she was still busy summarizing yue opera theory. The albums "Yue Opera Stage Art" and "Re-entering Glory" and "Shanghai Yue Opera Chronicle" were both published under the auspices and support of Yuan Xuefen.

She mainly writes, she is writing the art of bittersweet life, in her life there are art that she can't forget, and there are collaborators who can't forget, so she has to write it out. She must not only confess to these peers, but also leave a true information to the society. "Stage Art of Yue Opera" was published the year before that, and this album, which was 16 open, (at that time) was now the first in the country, so to speak. She felt that we should both set up a monument for our stage artists, because our stage art has different degrees of influence on more than 300 kinds of plays, which can be said, so after this book comes out, we will make another "Artist". This "Artist" will be the choreographer Yin Mei performance of this comprehensive rise to the theory to reflect, their "Artist" she organized the force, organized a lot of specialists to help them write, they hope that at that time, if the first draft can be published that year, if possible, then next year to be published.

Yuan Xuefen has three sons, and they love her very much because they know the countless ups and downs that her mother has experienced in the past years, and she loves them very much, because she knows that she has no way to make up for the childhood they have lost. Her eldest child went to the farm for more than 4 years, and then, and then entered Jiaotong University, at that time, he did not read any books from elementary school to high school, and completely relied on self-study to enter Jiaotong University. Her second child was admitted to Tongji University, and her third child was admitted to Normal University. Three children they are still better. Three children is still good, now at that time two are in the United States to study for a master's degree, the eldest, the youngest, the second child she hopes he wants him to go to graduate school, he said let me work for a few years and then go to graduate school, just like that. So she is also very grateful to them, they give themselves happiness. They know that their mothers are very hard, and there are many painful things that are never left for them.

Yuan Xuefen and her sons are both mother and son, and she has passed on the principles of her life to the next generation. They often joked with her, her family is very democratic, after dinner, they sometimes, because her sisters all call her big sister, so this child is called hey, big sister, how, play with her, pull around, want to play with her for a while, sometimes she is very tired by them, she goes to bed, they all come to her bed, this side, one over there, she tells them, she says I am your mother, more precisely your friend, because their family is very democratic, very democratic, Her children were like that. She has requirements for her three children, she asks them to have culture and knowledge, but to do something and not to do something, and the principle of being a human being she demands of them. Because she does not have this, the concept that children are private property, before she was born, she made it clear that children are responsible for society, they will come to society, serve society, hope that they should be a person who has something to do and something not to do, she can't ask them to be like herself, but at least to do this.

The long years have left an indelible mark on Yuan Xuefen's brows and the corners of her eyes, and her tightly locked brows seem to have recorded the vicissitudes of history and the ups and downs she has experienced. At that time, looking back, Yuan Xuefen's life was colorful, she not only played a vivid character image on the stage, but also unremittingly fulfilled her principles of being a person in life, serious, serious, selfless dedication to the cause, this dedication to life and love for the cause accompanied her through more than half a century, when and will continue to accompany her.