At the age of 19, he won the Plum Blossom Award, and Cheng sent people to Chi Xiaoqiu, who was highly talented in beauty

11-year-old Chi Xiaoqiu is the best voice in the class at Fuxin Drama School. With a tenacious personality and her own talent, she soon became the focus of the teacher's training. Chi Xiaoqiu insisted on getting up half an hour earlier than his classmates every day to hang his throat, and when he practiced running the round field, others never stopped himself, "Everyone you chase me, and finally after running, I found that sweat flowed from the upper body to the waist." She recalled.

Chi Xiaoqiu: A famous contemporary Peking opera artist and a descendant of Cheng School art. He is a national first-class actor, the leading actor of the Beijing Opera House and the leader of the Youth League. He is a deputy to the National People's Congress and a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Enjoy the special government allowance of the State Council. Born in 1965 in Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, he entered the Fuxin Opera School in Liaoning Province in 1977 to study drama, and began to study cheng pai in 1981 with Mr. Wang Yinqiu, a disciple of Master Cheng Yanqiu, and officially worshipped in Beijing on April 1, 1983, changed his name to "Chi Xiaoqiu", and won the "Plum Blossom Award", the highest award in the Chinese theater industry, at the age of 19. He is known as the "standard descendant of the Cheng School" by the famous playwright Weng Yihong, and is the leader of the Cheng School art of Peking Opera today. She sings well, has profound stage skills, and enjoys high artistic achievements and achievements.

In 1981, after graduating from chi xiaoqiu opera school, he came to Shanghai to learn opera with Wang Yinqiu, a disciple of Cheng Yanqiu. At first, she just carried a small bench every day as an auditor to watch the teacher teach the play, until one day the master suddenly shouted, "That child, you go away." She then walked through the singing and body of "Afraid of Flowing Water" in the chengpai classic song "Suolin Capsule", and Wang Yinqiu discovered her talent. Under the careful teaching of his master, Chi Xiaoqiu's artistic growth has progressed by leaps and bounds. In 1984, at the age of 19, she won the Plum Blossom Award, the highest award in the performing arts of theatre.

"I will teach you how my master teaches me," Wang Yinqiu said the most to his disciples. Today, Chi Xiaoqiu also practices such a tradition. As the head of the Beijing Peking Opera Youth League, Chi Xiaoqiu has always shouldered the heavy responsibility of cultivating a new generation of Peking Opera actors in the inheritance method of "passing on the help and leading the way". When she found talented students, she took the initiative to record the performance video and audio to send to them, a play of "Suolin Sac", down to every eye, the softness of the water sleeve, the inner activity when lifting the car curtain, Chi Xiaoqiu taught it without reservation. "I hope that I will not be afraid of hard work in the field of preaching, and I will teach him seriously, and he may teach others in the future, so that I will be at ease." Chi Xiaoqiu said.

Peking Opera is broad and profound, the rate of becoming a corner is extremely low, and each of the "singing and doing" does not require years of solid practice. In the face of the general desire of young actors to become famous as soon as possible, Chi Xiaoqiu always uses his own experience to warn students to "calm down and calm down".

In the early 1990s, due to the overall downturn of Peking Opera, Chi Xiaoqiu, who became famous early, also faced a situation where there was no drama to perform. She lived alone in a dilapidated bungalow in Liaoning, and her peers around her turned to sing popular songs, walking around, and Chi Xiaoqiu fell into confusion and wandering. For the few performances a year, she and the troupe leaders personally went to various union communities to sell tickets, but the audience in the theater was still sparse every time.

Chi Xiaoqiu is still holding out, the troupe has been stopped from power, and she insists on rehearsing every day with dim candles. The troupe was on a desolate hillside, and friends said she was "like a Taoist girl, who writes every day except practicing." "At that time, it was actually very difficult to persevere, and it would be very painful and painful to encounter setbacks. But to learn drama is to learn to be a person, to sink your heart, step by step, the opportunity is always left to those who are prepared. Chi Xiaoqiu said.

It is this persistence that ushers in a turning point. With the development of national promotion and marketization, Peking Opera has begun to become more and more popular among young people, especially in recent years, Chi Xiaoqiu has found that there are more and more "black hair" in the theater. On major holidays, Chi Xiaoqiu hung water signs at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mei Lanfang Grand Theater and Chang'an Grand Theatre at the same time, and each show would be full.

As the inheritor and promoter of Peking Opera, Chi Xiaoqiu regards the promotion of Peking Opera to young people as his unshirkable responsibility. "We must create opportunities for young people to contact Peking Opera, rather than relying on Peking Opera to blindly change to cater to it." It is necessary to use artistic masterpieces to let more audiences and young people enter the theater. "Any innovation in Peking Opera is a reasoned change after deep thinking, not a change to cater to it." Like some people are eager to incorporate rock and roll into Peking Opera, so that the old audience is lost, and the new audience cannot be attracted. ”

40 years ago, Chi Xiaoqiu, who was looking forward to the Fuxin Opera School, could never have imagined that one day he would take over the banner of inheriting and promoting the art of Peking Opera. Chi Xiaoqiu sighed at the changes of the years, and she fantasized that one day when she could not sing and retired from the stage, if the audience could say, "Chi Xiaoqiu has made contributions to the inheritance of Peking Opera", it is enough. As a leading figure in the art of the Cheng school of contemporary Peking Opera, Chi Xiaoqiu believes that the inheritance of his predecessors is not based on empty words, let alone enjoying the legacy left by his predecessors, but to do more practical things. "My responsibility and responsibility is to make the greatest efforts for the inheritance and development of Chengpai art according to my own understanding and my own conditions."

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