Source: China Youth Network
In January 2017, Yu Ping successfully held a personal special session of "Today's Top Card, Wenwu Huadan - Yu Ping", which shows the play Huang Mei 's Play 'Hujiazhuang'. I provide the picture
"I started studying Huangmei opera when I was 11 years old, and I have been 14 years now. Huangmei opera is like eating and sleeping, it is a part of my life, and it is indispensable for a day. Anqing Zaifen Huangmei Art Theater actor Yu Ping said.
Yu Ping is an atypical post-90s generation who likes traditional arts, especially Huangmei opera. As a Huangmei opera actor in the new era, she is well aware of the heavy responsibility of inheritance on her shoulders, she said: "Our generation of young actors face too many temptations, too many choices, or a little impetuous, but since they have chosen to engage in this industry, we must be unswerving, sink our hearts to do art, and work together to promote Huangmei opera to go further." ”
14 years of Huangmei opera in the classic repertoire is the most challenging
Yu Ping was born in the Huangmei opera family, his grandfather was a drummer, his grandfather sang laosheng, his parents were once actors in the Huangmei Drama Troupe in Nanling County, Wuhu City, but forced to make a living, Yu Ping's father finally changed his career, "He regrets that he did not stick to it, but he will now spend an hour or two every night to sing Huangmei opera live, and even show off to me that he has more fans than me." Yu Ping said with a smile.
One night, Yu Ping asked her father to take her out for a walk, but her father refused her without hesitation, saying: "No, no, no, the fans and netizens are waiting for me to sing Huangmei opera, and I can't sleep at night without singing." ”
Under the influence of a strong family atmosphere, Yu Ping's love for Huangmei opera has become increasingly strong, and in 2004, she entered the Anhui Huangmei Opera Art Vocational College and opened a professional Huangmei opera learning path. In 2008, she was admitted to the Huangmei Opera Undergraduate Class of Anqing Normal University for further study, and after graduating from university in 2012, she successfully joined the Anqing Zaifen Huangmei Art Theater as a professional Huangmei opera actor.
"Heavenly Immortals", "Female Pony", "Cowherd Weaver Girl"... Yu Ping's student career has been quietly spent in the moving melody and plot of the traditional Huangmei drama, and the classic roles in these classic plays that have been handed down to this day are her favorite and most want to challenge, she said: "The more classic, the more difficult it is to act, I often feel particularly inferior because I can't learn the charm of it." ”
Whenever this happened, Yu Ping's teacher would patiently enlighten her, "'To do anything you must reach a certain amount to produce qualitative change,' I always remember, the teacher is teaching us to lay a solid foundation, and it is not good for opera actors to be quick to make quick gains." Yu Ping said with emotion.
Han Zaifen (left), a Chinese Huangmei opera performance artist, a national first-class actor, a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project, and a recipient of the "Second Degree Plum", directed Yu Ping (right) to rehearse "Female Pony". I provide the picture
Anqing City, Anhui Province, is the famous "Hometown of Huangmei Opera" in the country, which has bred a large number of outstanding Huangmei opera artists, Yan Fengying, Pan Jingli, Han Zaifen... Many outstanding young actors of Huangmei Opera have emerged under their careful cultivation, and Yu Ping is one of them.
"In Anqing, everyone will come to a few Huangmei operas, and some fans are 'crazy' than us, singing all day long. Building Anqing into a Huangmei Opera Theme City is the wish of President Han Zaifen, and it is also what our troupe is committed to building, and the Anqing Municipal Government is also very supportive. Yu Ping said that the China (Anqing) Huangmei Opera Art Festival is held every three years, and the eighth session will be held from September to October this year, when she will make a wonderful appearance at the festival.
Sink down and sing good drama To strengthen the actor's "ingenuity" spirit
"Opera actors are really bitter, the requirements are particularly high, the comprehensive ability is also strong, singing and practicing, playing, hand, eye and body steps must be handy." With the pace of the times, culture and literacy are the foundation for measuring how far an actor can go. ”
"Especially in martial arts, you have to practice hard kung fu, I have practiced long sleeves, hair throwing, tie big leaning, long silk and so on."
"Even if you vomit before going on stage, the next second you have to go on stage, and opera actors can't perform on stage, as long as they are on stage, it is live."
"Even if the basic skills of opera are practiced a thousand times, there is still the possibility of mistakes, and mistakes are mistakes, and there is no chance of remedy, so the basics must be practiced with a thousand hammers."
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The incompatibility between pay and return deeply troubled opera practitioners, and many people changed careers as a result. When Yu Ping was in drama school, there were more than 40 people in his class, only 15 people when he went to college, and only three or four people insisted on the opera stage after graduation.
Yu Ping (right) learns the art of fire-breathing. I provide the picture
"The amount of information in this world is too big, and there will be many opportunities." Yu Ping admits that he has also been confused and shaken, and sometimes he wants to stick to it so hard and not look for a job that is easy and well paid.
However, Han Zaifen's words calmed Yu Ping's restless heart, "Dean Han said that the reason why she insisted on staying in the small city of Anqing was because Anqing could sink her heart to make art. As the engineer of the human soul, the actor can indirectly educate and infect people through opera, which is a very glorious professional career. ”
At the beginning of this year, Yu Ping accidentally saw an episode of "Reader", Sichen Gaowa read Jia Pingwa's "Written to Mother", her relaxed and affectionate reading infected the audience, and also quickly brought Yu Ping off the screen into the scene, "A good actor can exude an irresistible force, can move others, and become the spiritual pillar of others." ”
Yu Ping sighed that if the eyes are always habitually looking outward, what they see will be countless choices, but they will not know what they should do, "The young actors in the new era after 90 and 00 need to sink their hearts, look for one thing, stick to the end, sing with their hearts, bring the audience the most sincere and attentive works, and create their own extraordinary in ordinary posts, I think this is the 'ingenuity' of opera actors." ”
Youth Inheritance Intangible Cultural Heritage Write a fragrant chapter of Huangmei opera
Huangmei opera is not as divided into factions as other dramas, Huangmei opera actresses have a wider range of plays, Hua Dan, Qingyi, Caidan, Lao Dan, Doll Sheng, etc. can be performed, and what actors need to do is to lay a solid foundation and be ready at all times.
As an opera actor, how to play a role well? "I usually first interpret the characters in depth, then refer to a lot of literature and videos, and then study the characters thoroughly, and finally I have to clearly understand the inside and outside of the play, on and off the stage." Yu Ping said that the current young actor has a common disease, that is, the desire for self-expression is very strong, which is especially evident in the trainees after the 90s, and it is also where she needs restraint and reflection in the future.
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation. Culture rejuvenates the country and prospers, and culture strengthens the nation. Without a high degree of cultural self-confidence and the prosperity of culture, there will be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Strengthening cultural self-confidence is of far-reaching significance to the inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture. As a national intangible cultural heritage, in recent years, the inheritance and development of Huangmei opera has been rejuvenated with new vitality and vitality.
Elegant art into the campus, three to the countryside, benefit the people performances, poverty alleviation performances... Through a variety of colorful activities, Huangmei opera art has flown into the homes of ordinary people across the country, and the audience group is getting younger and younger, "Almost all primary schools in Anqing have opened Huangmei opera education classes, starting from dolls to cultivate children's enthusiasm for Huangmei opera, teaching them to learn the theoretical knowledge of Huangmei opera, the history of development and inheritance and singing. ”
In order to better attract young audiences, the actors continue to improve and innovate with the times on the basis of ensuring the essence of Huangmei opera art, "In Huangmei opera "Promoting Officials by Virtue", we added current trend elements such as Internet buzzwords, and interacted with the audience at zero distance, in fact, before the performance, we were very worried about triggering the audience's disgust, but we did not expect that the effect was far beyond expectations. ”
The Huangmei opera "Deng Jiaxian" with the theme of modern historical figures is the first modern play that Yu Ping participated in the rehearsal, and there are differences and innovations in the tune and the traditional flat word flower cavity, there is no gong and drum and live accompaniment, the violin and symphony are added, and the overall style is partial to the main melody, but it is very harmonious with the music of Huangmei opera.
"Opera actors are better at walking the stage, running rounds, and orchid fingers, but when we perform, we wear modern costumes and dance modern dances, so the unnatural feeling of the costumes when performing will be exposed." For Yu Ping, this is both novel and fresh, and it also allows her to have a better accumulation of experience.
Like Yu Ping, there are now many post-90s Huangmei opera actors who are immersed in non-genetic inheritance and use youth to write the most fragrant chapter of Huangmei opera, she said: "The future glory and road of Huangmei opera is not a matter of one person, but a group of people's affairs, and I hope that through the joint efforts of our generation of new young people, Huangmei opera and even the entire opera industry will become the trend of the times and have greater influence at home and abroad." (Reporter Zhang Qun)