This article is an article written by Yan Fengying, the grandmaster of the Huangmei Opera Generation, after watching the Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang perform "Guifei Drunk" and "Qi Shuanghui" in Hefei, and the original article was published in the Anhui Daily on March 29, 1958.
Yan Fengying presented flowers to Mei Lanfang to congratulate the success of the performance
When I heard the news that Mr. Mei Lanfang had come to Anhui to perform, I made up my mind to learn from Mr. Mei.
Mr. Mei is more than sixty years old this year, but he does not obey the old age, and he still walks so far to perform in Anhui, and this spirit of enthusiastic service to the people is worthy of our good study. We are all young girls and young men, so we should all the more show our revolutionary vigor, respond to the party's call to go up to the mountains and the countryside, go deep among the masses and into life, and unswervingly serve the workers, peasants, and soldiers.
Mr. Mei's performance is a good opportunity for us to learn. I have seen "Noble Concubine Drunk" and "Odd Double Society", Mr. Mei played two different characters in these two plays: one is the noble concubine who "looks back and smiles", the other is a young woman who was newly married and was driven out of the house by her stepmother, Mr. Mei portrayed these two characters, it is really both profound and distinct, Mr. Mei's performance, giving us young actors more inspiration than the last year's acting class!
On the stage, Yan Fengying presented flowers to Mei Lanfang
Mr. Mei's humble and studious style is also worth learning from. Mr. Mei often taught us to learn from his brother's drama, watched his performance, and deeply felt that in his performance, he did absorb many of the strengths of local drama, and even some things were absorbed from drama, and Mr. Mei dissolved these things to make them an organic part of his own performing arts. He is good at learning from local dramas and enriches Mr. Mei's performance.
Mr. Mei came to Hefei to perform, which is a rare luck for the Hefei audience, and it is also a good opportunity for our young actors to learn, and we should thank Mr. Mei with an open mind.
Photocopy of Anhui Daily