How do Peking Opera actors put on makeup, and how do they remove makeup?
How do Peking Opera actors walk?
How many kinds of shoes are there for Peking Opera Danjiao actors?
These cold knowledge of Peking Opera will probably confuse many people, and there will probably be many people who are interested but have no way of knowing.
If there is a professional and good-looking little sister on the internet platform, telling you the answer in a funny and humorous way, are you willing to shake it?
More than 800,000 people gave an affirmative answer.
Wang Mengting, who looks exactly like Fan Bingbing, is a Hua Dan actress at the Beijing Opera House and an "internet celebrity". On the Douyin platform, she has more than 800,000 fans, and on Weibo, she also has more than 300,000 fans.
Over the past year or so, she has recorded more than a hundred videos with as few as few as hundreds of thousands of hits and as many as millions or tens of millions.
As an ordinary girl, Wang Mengting initially contacted Douyin only because of fun, just like all young girls to catch up with the trend. The first video she released was also a popular matching music on Douyin at the time, and the number of hits soon reached millions of times.
The flexible eyes in the video amazed the audience, and some people even asked with emotion, "Are your eyes real?" "However, people who know how to do it know that this is not a difficult thing for Peking Opera actors, but people don't know enough about Peking Opera."
Seeing the rapid increase in clicks on the platform, Wang Mengting realized that this was a good platform to promote Peking Opera.
She began to show the orchid finger in the Peking Opera performance, the makeup process of the Peking Opera performance, as well as the stills, videos and other content.
A few months later, she received her first video with more than 10 million views. This video is actually very simple, that is, the makeup video that was popular on the platform at that time became the Makeup Video of Peking Opera.
There are many beautiful women on the online platform, but there are not many people like Wang Mengting who show the beauty of Peking Opera, and some fans lament that in this video, "the moment of looking up, it is really amazing time." Wang Mengting knows that it is not only the good faces that are amazing, but also the exquisite makeup of Peking Opera.
Seeing that more and more people pay attention to themselves, and therefore begin to be interested in Peking Opera, Wang Mengting is also more and more serious about the dissemination of online platforms, "began to think about which interesting and convenient knowledge points in Peking Opera, which audiences who have not heard of Peking Opera will also like to sing, and which popular music on the platform can be used to show Peking Opera elements." For example, the popular Douyin divine song "Weak Water Three Thousand", which is itself a drama song, she sings it with ease, and is very popular on the platform, and the number of clicks soon approached tens of millions.
"When recording, you should also pay attention to the fact that the essence must be placed in the first few seconds, and no one will watch it after it." Wang Mengting said. There may be many Peking opera peers who play douyin, but not many have studied this form of communication in depth.
If you want to attract the audience, even if you talk about knowledge points, you can't make a face. For example, in a video she recorded about how peking opera danjiao actors drink water, she draws delicate makeup, every move is particularly graceful, but in her hand is a can of Tetra Pak lemon tea, so that the "funny" effect is much better.
Wang Mengting's more than 800,000 fans are mostly post-90s, post-00s, and even post-10s, many of them have never heard of Peking Opera, and in her display, they found that Peking Opera was not so boring as imagined, and there is a very beautiful side. For example, in a video, she showed more than 20 gestures in Peking Opera performances, and also told fans that the now popular "Bixin" is actually the "praise finger" in Peking Opera.
After watching Wang Mengting's video, many fans are looking forward to watching her performance on the spot. A few days ago, she held two special performances at the Chang'an Grand Theater, and the attendance rate reached about 80%, which was not easy for young Peking Opera actors. Ms. Wang said about a third of them were her online fans.
It has been 23 years since she began to study Peking Opera at the age of 7, and Wang Mengting hopes that the theater can be filled with young people, and the online platform is just a space for her to practice her dreams.
Her only criterion for shooting videos is whether people can appreciate the beautiful or interesting side of Peking Opera. To this end, she can not only appear beautifully in front of the camera, but also show everyone the "magical" makeup removal scene after the performance. "Now speaking of Internet celebrity seems to be a derogatory term, in fact, I think that powerful Internet celebrities are still worth advocating, and there are still too few Internet celebrities in the Peking Opera industry, if you can suck a little more powder for Peking Opera, I am willing to be this Internet celebrity."
What makes Wang Mengting most pleased is that she is not fighting alone, "I see that many teachers and sisters have also begun to promote Peking Opera in their own way on the online platform." Wang Mengting's teacher Sun Yumin is also very supportive of her, encouraging her to develop in many habitats, and Peking Opera, film and television, drama, and the Internet should not be delayed, after all, that means that Peking Opera can be promoted on a larger stage.
Recently, the old man who is nearly eighty years old also personally put on the battle and recorded an English version of "Su Sanqi Solution" for Wang Mengting, not only Tu Yile, but also the old artist waving to young people.
Wang Mengting and teacher Sun Yumin
There are 775 seats in the Chang'an Grand Theater, and the performances are full 365 days a year, and there are more than 200,000 audiences, most of whom are still veteran theater fans. However, a video of Wang Mengting can have tens of millions of clicks, and now the cumulative number of hits has reached 170 million times, and the advantages of short and concise videos and online playback can allow people to open their mobile phones anytime and anywhere, spend tens of seconds, and have a little understanding of Peking Opera. Little by little, this accumulation will have what kind of chemical reaction, you can imagine.
In the process of development, Peking Opera has never stopped developing new audiences, but there are different practices in different eras. Today's Douyin, and the Haipai Peking Opera in the past on the stage to install a variety of sets of organs is also the same work, although there are inevitably flashy, but also promote the development of Peking Opera.
Wang Peiyu once said: There are two kinds of people in the world, one is who likes Peking Opera, and the other is not aware that they like Peking Opera. How to let those who do not know know that they like Peking Opera, this is a major topic for contemporary Peking Opera people, and every Peking Opera person has the obligation to complete this topic, which is the real love for Peking Opera. This kind of exploration is not afraid of failure, allows mistakes to be made, and as long as it tries, it is a success.
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Author of this issue: Niu Chunmei
Edit: Haruji
Producer of this issue: Li Hongyan