Text/Cheng Hai
Ren Zhezhong is nothing, just a singer.
Not long ago, this "singer" passed away. When he was dying, he sang a few more plays: "Tonight the moon is hazy and silent, and the cold and desolate suburbs cry a few times..." He loved to sing all his life, knowing that he could not live, he still had to struggle to sing. Now, his voice, which has fascinated the people of the Great Northwest for decades, as well as his miserable face and tearful eyes that have sung "Zhou Ren Huifu" have frozen and turned into green smoke and fly ash... He was completely finished, and the obsession of thousands of drama fans in the Great Northwest was also over, and they could no longer see a living Ren Zhezhong who made them very fascinated.
He was just a singer. But after his death, wreaths filled a long street, and thousands of people guarded and mourned for him. Some of the guardians mourned for him for days and nights without eating or drinking. Not only Xi'an, but all of Shaanxi, but all the fans of the Great Northwest are grieving for him.
Ren Zhezhong was born in Yongshou County, adjacent to our Qian County. When he was young, he came to the Qianxian Opera Troupe "Xiaozhong Society" at that time, and was favored by local cultural celebrities such as Fan Zidong and Liu Wenbo. They let this poor boy play Zhou Ren in "Zhou Ren Returns home", and the result was that the fish dragon changed and became a hit. Soon it was from Qianxian Hong to Shaanxi, from Shaanxi Hong to the whole Great Northwest.
One of the reasons for his popularity is opportunity and genius, and the second is the simplicity and authenticity of his art. In his peers, there are many people who have a clearer voice than him, and pay great attention to the skills of the line, and he is such a hoarse voice, one move and one style is so casual, not neat. He didn't seem to like Kit Kat very much, always so clumsy, but the connoisseurs saw in it the chaotic beauty of his transcendence of skill. Many actors just act on stage, but he is really living on stage. When he stepped off the stage and entered the real life, he instead seemed to be "acting" instead. He is said to be a genius because he is a person who can only be extremely excited and cheered up when acting, can open up the wind from all sides, can the infinite wisdom and wisdom rush like a spring, and the infinite life light is like a torch. Qin Lu was his air, grain, and beloved lover. He was born for the Qin Cavity and died for the Qin Cavity. If there was no Qin Cavity, he would live a boring life, live a helpless life, and even live so much that he didn't want to live. He played Zhou Ren to play a "Crying Tomb", crying and rolling, crying so much that he choked on his throat and blocked the tears, sometimes tactfully low and sometimes high-pitched and agitated, sometimes crying and shaking the liver and intestines. He showed the crying of human beings in that moment so colorful and vivid that he was almost performing an encyclopedia of crying. But if it wasn't for the death of "Zhou Ren's wife" but the death of his wife Ren Zhezhong, I couldn't believe that he would have such sadness and such crying!
Ren Zhezhong's father, after watching his son's performance in "Zhou Ren's Return to the House", once sighed: "I will die in the future, see if this dog can cry so sadly!"
My answer is: definitely not. Because his son honors The art of Qin Cavity, and honors millions of spectators, he exhausts his sorrow for the sake of the audience, his passion and all the essence of his life, and what he leaves for himself, for his parents, for his wife and children, is only his tiredness and the dross he has been squeezed out by art.
To get to know Ren Zhezhong, in fact, there is no need to meet him. He is not the real him in life, and his true self only lives on the Qin Cavity stage.
Naturally, there are many imperfections in his life, such as the gossip I often hear about him, the embarrassment of his situation, and others. Even if these legends are all true, how can they hide his artistic brilliance and unattainable excellence?
Now that he is dead, everything has become empty for him. But his death is not death, because his art is still alive, the unique singing voice he created is still alive. If the Qin people do not die, and the Qin Cavity does not die, will he still die in Ren Zhezhong?
Ren Zhezhong's soul is his singing voice. When an ordinary person dies, it is the time when the soul rests, but the soul in Ren Zhezhong will never rest in peace. Because millions of fans of the Great Northwest will also summon his soul from various video and recording devices countless times to sing for them eternally.
Many seek eternal life, but not eternal life; he does not seek eternal life, but he lives forever. His eternal life is not His need for us but our need for Him.
Just think about it, if our Qin Cavity singing section lacks his unique singing voice with a thick nasal voice, such as crying, gentle and melodious, endless taste, mellow and incomparable, and touching, then life is still life? Qin Cavity or Qin Cavity? Spring Festival or Spring Festival?
However, how much did an artist who was so remarkable get paid for his art? As far as I know, he didn't have four rooms and a living room, no cars, no millionaires, and he didn't become a literary official, and fate seemed to be too stingy with him, until he died, he was just a poor singer.
When he was born, he always regarded himself as ordinary. Most of the people he befriended were ordinary people, some who opened restaurants, sold groceries, and planted crops... In our neighboring village, there is a chicken vendor who sells chickens to Xi'an, and he is also a regular customer on his seat. In his eyes, there is no nobility, no high, no low, all brothers and friends in the whole world, the same face, the same enthusiasm. No matter who opens his mouth to ask, he will respectfully stand up and sing a few words of "random play" to make the other party have a good time. He was always willing to be a layman, to mingle with the layman, and to find a confidant and a friend in the pile of the layman. Unrestrained, uninhibited, unsophisticated, unholy.
Emperor Wu of Liang asked Dharma, "What is the First Meaning of the Noble Truth?"
Dharma Day: "There is no holiness." ”
Dharma denied the existence of the saints, but Dharma became a saint instead.
When Ren Zhezhong was alive, I didn't think of saying anything to him; now that he was gone, I suddenly felt that there was a lot to say. But what's the use of saying that now?
The artist passed away, and he will never be seen again in the Spring Festival Gala and various opera concerts in the future, so everyone suddenly feels regret and feels a huge gap. This gap cannot be filled in any way. So this gap gradually revealed the priceless value of this person named Ren Zhezhong.
After writing this article, it is late at night. There seems to be a little sour in the eyes. Suddenly remembering a few words he sang on his deathbed, he changed one of the words and sang: "Tonight the moon is hazy and silent, and there are a few weepings in the cold and desolate suburbs..."
I have never held a horn in my life, and this article is a one-time pick,although it is late.
【About author】:Cheng Hai, originally from Shangchengjia Village, Daqiang Township, Qianxian County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. Writers at the national level enjoy special allowances from the State Council. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and an advisor to the presidium of the Shaanxi Writers Association. President of Chenghai Literature and Painting Institute in Weiyang District, Xi'an. Dean of Xianyang Daqin Literature College. Former chairman of Xianyang Writers Association, adjunct professor of Xi'an University of Finance and Economics. In 1993, he published the novel "Love destiny", which distributed nearly one million copies, became popular throughout the country, became one of the main generals of the "Shaanxi Army Crusade", and was praised by netizens and relevant newspapers and periodicals as "the first talent in the northwest". In addition, he has also published four volumes of the Cheng Hai Anthology, the novels "Prayer of Suffering", "Personality Crushing", "National Wind", the short story collection "My Eve", the prose collection "White Dragonfly" and "The Garden of the Soul". : His short story "Three Goji Beans" was selected as a Chinese language textbook for secondary schools in Hong Kong, Singapore and Chinese mainland.