On October 31, the famous performance artist and monkey opera artist Zhou Yunliang died of illness at the age of 89, and the farewell ceremony for his body was held yesterday in Nanjing.
On November 3, six children posted on their social accounts to mourn Zhou Yunliang: Uncle Yunliang, teacher for a long time. Both the six-year-old child and Zhou Yunliang have made significant contributions to the monkey play, and the two should also feel sorry for each other, so after learning the news of Zhou Yunliang's death, the six-year-old child is also very sad.
As a Peking Opera artist, Zhou Yunliang has a wonderful performance in "Noisy Heavenly Palace", "Downtown Mansion", "Eighteen Arhats Fighting Wukong", and he is also praised by the audience as the Monkey King of the Southern Sect. The once sharp and decisive and dashing Monkey King bid farewell to this world in this way, and the Jiangsu Provincial Peking Opera House, which Zhou Yunliang joined, also issued a memorial.
Since the age of 7, Zhou Yunliang has practiced with his father, was admitted to the drama school at the age of 9, and three months later he performed on stage, he once studied with the famous Peking Opera artists Xu Jianhao and Liu Kuiguan, and formed an elegant and free stage style in decades of stage performances. He is a national first-class actor and a representative inheritor of Peking Opera, a national intangible cultural heritage project. Zhou Yunliang's starting point is extremely high, his talent is very good, and he can achieve his current achievements, which is inseparable from his efforts the day after tomorrow.
At the age of 18, Zhou Yunliang organized a Peking Opera group to perform in Shandong, Tianjin, Beijing and other places, which also laid a deep mass foundation for him. At the age of twenty-three, he joined the Jiangsu Provincial Peking Opera House and went to Beijing to perform, which was highly praised by the authorities.
Since then, he has visited Vienna, Germany, Sweden, Canada, the Netherlands and other countries for performances, and has also been received by the presidents and leaders of many countries, enjoying a good reputation in the world. Zhou Yunliang also exported Peking Opera culture to the world, so that more people can feel peking Opera culture. He continued to promote Peking Opera culture until 1995, when Zhou Yunliang, who was already 72 years old, officially retired. His daughter Zhou Ruru said in an interview: My father's life was only for art. Zhou Yunliang's family is doing Peking Opera, there are only 7 national first-class actors, in such an artistic atmosphere, Zhou Ruru began to learn Peking Opera from an early age.
What impressed Zhou Ruru the most was that once her father was injured on the stage, and the cervical spine was seriously injured, which was a fatal blow to a martial artist, and many viewers were worried that Zhou Yunliang could still stand on this stage. At that time, my father was sitting in a small van, with a plaster cast on his neck, and his face was swollen red, but he said to little Zhou Ruru unusually firmly: "You believe me, I will definitely be able to stand on the stage in three months." Sure enough, three months later, Zhou Yunliang stood on the stage with great enthusiasm, and he had to hold on to the whole book of "Haunting the Heavenly Palace". Her father's tenacity and perseverance taught the young Zhou Ruru a lesson, and she saw her father's dedication to art and silently remembered it in her heart.
It can be said that Zhou Yunliang taught the children to learn Peking Opera with his own words and deeds, in the ear and eye, Zhou Ruru became a Hua Dan, her eldest brother in the song and dance troupe, the second brother in military art, the younger brother is the same as Zhou Yunliang, the main attack on martial arts, Zhou Ruru's lover, sister-in-law are also Peking Opera actors, it can be said that Zhou Yunliang's family are the same as him, made dedication to art.