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She is a master storyteller who has come out of the years. One person and one leaf and one wheat, playing the loyal and good generals, and telling the past and the present alone. Her voice is a unique memory that belongs to two generations. In the past 60 years of Spring and Autumn, she has experienced the art of storytelling from glory to decline, and has always changed her original intention, running for the development and dissemination of the art of storytelling.
From decades of art, Liu Lanfang has told countless classic stories. At the end of the 1970s, more than 100 radio stations broadcast her long commentary" "Yue Fei", which caused a sensation in the country and affected overseas. After 40 years, her commentary "The Biography of the New Yue Fei" has been listened to more than 600 million on the online audio sharing platform, and the commentary "The Complete Biography of the Yang Family" has also received hundreds of millions of listeners.
Recently, at the Grand Theater of Suzhou Culture and Arts Center, Liu Lanfang was awarded the honorary title of "Lifetime Achievement Quyi Artist of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles", in recognition of her outstanding contribution to "devoting her life to the cause of quyi". On the evening of October 17th, Liu Lanfang, a famous storyteller and performance artist who had just won the Lifetime Achievement Quyi Artist Award of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles in Suzhou, came to Nanjing to participate in the grassroots activities of sending laughter, and the "Kangxi Buy Horse" she said at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications allowed young students to appreciate the wonderful fun of listening to the book on the spot. After many years, the Yangtze Evening News reporter interviewed her again.
"I have won many awards, such as the March 8th Red Flag Bearer, outstanding party member, labor model, etc., but these are other aspects, have nothing to do with art, and the Lifetime Achievement Award is a satisfactory end to my art, and it is an encouragement and summary of my life's work in art." Liu Lanfang said, "Many excellent storytellers have not won this award, and I have caught up with the good times. I am grateful to the country, to the audience, and to my husband for his careful teaching to me. ”
Liu Lanfang, 76 years old this year, heard the reporter said that she did not change much from the interview many years ago, she laughed and said that there is still a difference. However, being active on the stage of quyi is the main reason why I maintain a good mental outlook. "Not leaving the stage and speaking my voice, it's more important than anything. The applause from the audience was the greatest encouragement to me and inspired me to create more works of storytelling. The years are not spared, and there are many bumps and sad experiences behind every successful person, but the encouragement of the audience is the spiritual strength that supports me all the way up. The reporter also noticed that Liu Lanfang's nail art on her hand was very beautiful, and she was still willing to show the best side to the audience.
During the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Liu Lanfang paid close attention to the dynamics of the epidemic and cared more about every anti-epidemic worker. She and her wife have successively created new works of anti-epidemic commentaries such as "Academician Zhong, a Mountain in the Hearts of the People" and "Little Mask" to popularize anti-epidemic knowledge and praise anti-epidemic heroes. She warms people's hearts, boosts morale, and transmits positive energy to the society with her works.
There are more than 400 kinds of Chinese opera art, and fewer than 100 are active in the folk today. With the change of times, many different performance forms and contents compete for the attention of the audience. She admitted that in the past, most of the Chinese had a weak cultural foundation, and many people learned culture by listening to books and watching plays. Now that people's cultural background is good, it is reasonable that the audience of book reviews has narrowed, and there are few practitioners in this industry. Now all kinds of cultural and entertainment forms are competing for everyone's attention and ears, so before that, the national cultural authorities will determine the inheritors of book appraisals in various places, hoping to pass on this art. Liu Lanfang is one of the representative inheritors of the Beijing Commentary on National Intangible Cultural Heritage.
So far, there are only 3 national representative inheritors of Beijing commentaries, including Liu Lanfang, and Liu Lanfang laughed and said that she is the youngest of them. Book review requires artistic talent, and it is indispensable to diligent practice the day after tomorrow. Storytellers must first learn the basic skills from the doll period, and then persevere unremittingly throughout their lives. Liu Lanfang said, "Five-thousand-word speeches are often memorized within two or three days, but they need to be repeated fifty or even hundreds of times before going on stage." Every day I think about it, I will have a good performance. "In addition, storytellers must continue to accumulate their own social experience." Only when the worldly feelings are clearly understood can the book be clear, and the 'dead book' will never attract people. ”
Liu Lanfang said that for the current music workers, the living environment they face is more difficult, and they need to create more works that are popular with the audience and strive to occupy the stage. It is particularly gratifying that there are also many true loves among the students they teach, for example, they have their own jobs, but in their spare time, they love to talk about books and insist on turning their hobbies into professional levels.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhang Nan
Source: Yangzi Yang Eye