Father, second mother, drama team
Pei Yanling's father was named Pei Juting, a teenager who was good at drama and often played Wusheng; his stepmother was called Yuan Xizhen, singing Hebei Zi Danjiao. The father has no feelings for Pei Yanling's birth mother, only love drama. The stepmother is good, but she does not give birth. The Pei family designed to take Pei Yanling, and she has since followed the drama team and walked in Hebei, Henan and Anhui.
At that time, the troupe had to beat a gong and drum before the performance, which was called "opening up" in the jargon. In the old days, the rule was to play three times, the audience gathered, and the drama class began to play. When Pei Yanling was 4 years old, she specially knocked the gong when she "opened up". Knocking on the gong is simple, and when the time comes, it is enough to "click" a sound. Enjoyable.
"As soon as I heard the opening, I couldn't sit still," Pei Yanling said, "and between the gongs, a group of us children ran to the back of the scenes to watch the play." The audience looks at the front, and the children sit behind the curtain and look at the butts. Every literary drama will sleep, and every martial arts drama will open its eyes and watch. "After more than two years, Pei Yanling learned the trick. Watching the play on stage, I will recite words with children offstage.
Father did not want her to learn the play, saw her with a big top to practice the past, five fingers printed on the face, "one with the head folded out, like a small toad," Pei Yanling repeated, "Pain? I don't cry. ”
One winter and one summer, dozens of plays
Since Pei Yanling was 7 years old, her father Pei Juting took her study of drama seriously.
"Other people feel bitter, but I don't feel bitter," Pei Yanling said, "I like it in my heart." "The ruler at home can be used as a gun, the feather duster is a big flower gun, the pillow towel is blocked in the hand when the water sleeve is thrown, and the earth kang is the stage." Learn to play as you play.
Her father inserted herself into drama training during her daily routine. Every two or three days, learn a play. This learning continued until the troupe came to Zhengding Province, Hebei Province. Her father gave her to his good friend Li Chongshuai. Li Chongshuai's training method is no longer seen in today's Xiqu Academy. One summer and one winter, Pei Yanling practiced with Li Chongshuai: first practiced to open her muscles and bones, the teacher sat down, Pei Yanling stood well; the teacher took the leg to pin her leg, and when she held her in her arms, the other leg was lifted. The teacher began to chat with others until he pressed for two hours and his legs were numb and sore. The side legs, the cross legs, the front legs, the secondary legs, all have to be pressed out. After two hours, move a little, and then don't get on.
You also have to practice spinning on the threshing ground. When the sun poison was specifically picked, a sideways body flipped through the air. A row of legs must hit 72 spins in a row. "The limbs take off, like a small swallow, flying in the air and landing on the ground, flying and landing again, forming a circle, six circles," Pei Yanling said, "these kung fu are to scare me, as soon as I see him, I will be ashamed." But now even young people have not been able to hit more than 50 spinners. ”
When the outside world describes the depth of Pei Yanling's kung fu, it is often said that "eight years of hard work". "In fact, my kung fu is very short, that is, I have been practicing for a year. Some people say that practicing for eight years, then this person can only practice for eight years to practice, which must be a waste. Pei Yanling said.
Li Chongshuai taught Pei Yanling dozens of plays. Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Lao Sheng, Wu Sheng, Monkey Opera, omnipotent and all-taught. "Now the xiqu school has a class of 45 minutes, the teacher takes money to teach the class to leave, who accompanies you to wrench the leg and play the spinner? Such teachers cannot be found now. Pei Yanling said.
The old-time people enter the new society
In 1960, the state reorganized a private theater troupe into a state-run troupe, and since then the actors have changed from eating performance meals to eating national meals. Pei Yanling began to pay a monthly salary of eight hundred yuan from the age of 9, and became a national person together with the famous characters of the old era.
Pei Yanling was still able to get a salary during the public-private partnership period, and when she reached her twenties, she was completely discouraged from acting.
"At the beginning, I thought it was good not to act, only let me act in modern dramas, men do not play women, women do not play men." It just so happened that I was in love, got married, and had children, but in this way, the hardships I ate when I was a child were equivalent to eating in vain," Pei Yanling said, "Dad looked at my posture, looked at my children, and said, the previous achievements have been abandoned." ”
Women play martial arts, if you can't get married and have children, the stage life is very short. Pei Yanling realized that this would not work, and quietly weaned the child and sent her back to the countryside. In the evening, when the people of the Northern Jiaotong University were gone, she recited "Lin Chong Night Run" alone in the large classroom. The classroom was dark with lights, and she read white to the dark void: "I want to send you to ascend to the top of the clairvoyant, and the clouds are low and lock Hengyang Road." The fish book is not unfounded by the goose, and this time the air is a sad wind endowment. Looking back at the oblique shadow of the western mountains, it is really difficult to cross the lonely guests at the end of the world. The husband has tears, not softly, only because he has not reached the sad place... During the day, I did not dare to walk, so I had to walk at night. ”
In the face of the new era, where does Peking Opera go?
After going through ups and downs, Pei Yanling has now won the "Plum Blossom Award" three times. When it comes to learning from traditional dramas and old dramas and absorbing nutrition, Pei Yanling made such an analogy. "You can write simplified characters, and what's so bad about recognizing traditional characters?" You can't write it down, you can't memorize it, but you have to know that this word also has traditional characters. Only a large number of traditional characters are first known, you can write a good traditional character, and then write simplified characters naturally. Pei Yanling said with emotion that no one does not want to innovate and make new, but the premise is that you must know whether there is a "grain depot" behind you, whether there is an innovative "capital", and those plays left by the old ancestors are the "grain depot" and the source of innovation. "Some people say I'm conservative, I have to say thank you to them, I don't think I've 'kept' enough." If I 'hold' a little more, a little more firmly, I am stronger than I am now, and I am better than I am singing now. ”
