Qiu Pai flower face Meng Guanglu is one of the most heavyweight figures in the current Peking opera industry, born in an ordinary worker family, he chose this path since childhood because of his love of singing, although after countless hardships, but finally tasted the joy of success, his growth process is the best interpretation of the poem "plum blossom fragrance from the bitter cold".
Meng Guanglu was born in 1962 in Guozhuangzi, Hedong, Tianjin, to an ordinary worker family with three older brothers and two older sisters, his mother had no job, and his father worked alone to support the family. The old Meng family did not sing. At that time, the model drama was popular, and the radio was broadcast at any time, and Meng Guanglu loved to listen to it since he was a child. When he was 4 years old, he climbed onto the Kang table and sang "Shuo Wind Blows Lin Tao Roar, Canyon Shakes..." With all his strength, he fell down. The big sister unit party, the big sister took him to the party, sang on the stage, and was not afraid of the stage.
Meng Guanglu
The enlightenment teacher of Meng Guanglu Peking Opera is Mr. Tao Hanxiang, a famous ticket friend. Mr. Tao gave him a play and lent his own tape recorder to Meng Guanglu to listen to and learn from the play. One year Meng Guanglu and his brother brushed pulp at home, the furniture and beds were moved outside, the house was empty, he learned Qiu Shengrong's "hate Bao Mian..." The brother was stunned, saying Xiao Lu How can your voice be so good?
Meng Guanglu in addition to singing, but also like sports, football, basketball, volleyball, martial arts, boxing, all like, 100 meters can run 11 seconds 02, and play football with small partners, which one to grab Meng Guanglu, the other can be more than one person, because Meng Guanglu a top two.
At the age of 14, Meng Guanglu was admitted to tianjin opera school. On the day of the exam, it rained heavily, the road was full of water, and his brother pushed him to the drama school on his bicycle, and unfortunately fell off the list. In the past few years, the Chinese opera school has enrolled ten people in the whole country and one person in Tianjin. Meng Guanglu went to the exam again. Soon after, the postman sent two letters, both of which were acceptance letters, and at the same time as he was admitted to the Chinese Opera School, Meng Guanglu was also admitted as a pilot. It was also after some choice that he finally chose the opera school.
Formally learning drama, but also suffered a lot. Once he fell with a heel, the knee meniscus was removed, at that time he was eighteen or nineteen years old, the teacher advised him to change his career, Meng Guanglu did not dare to tell his father, he wrote a letter to his brother, his brother came to the hospital to see him, Meng Guanglu said, I can still walk, I can not change my career. Just gritted his teeth and persevered.
Meng Guanglu and teacher Fang Rongxiang
After graduating in 1981, Meng Guanglu was assigned to Henan. His father said that he could not go to other places, so he asked his brother and sister to collect ten yuan a month to support Guanglu. Teacher Zhao Jingbo of the Chinese Opera School came to the Tianjin Opera School several times to ask someone to take in Meng Guanglu. Teacher Zhang Rongshan of Tianjin Opera School heard Meng Guanglu sing, he lay in the middle of the playground and said to the leaders of the drama school, you don't want Meng Guanglu, I won't get up, I guarantee that he is a talent!
In this way, Meng Guanglu was finally assigned to the Tianjin Opera School, but he could not move his household registration and did three years of sweeping the floor. Later, Tianjin set up a youth Peking Opera Troupe, and Meng Guanglu went to the youth troupe and continued to do miscellaneous work, sweep the floor, and pull the curtain. But he always insisted on practicing, the so-called qu did not leave the mouth and fist, every morning almost a moment 5 o'clock on time to get up, go to the Haihe River to run, hang his throat, every day. It was a very cold winter, and the ground was frozen with white foam.
Meng Guanglu's singing voice and appearance at that time were not as good as others, and he was particularly thin and small, and his weight was more than ninety pounds. People say you are so thin and small, how can you sing flower faces? But he did not give up, thinking every day, watching others sing is also progress. In the third year of the Youth Peking Opera Troupe, once, the flower-faced actors in the troupe fell ill, and he finally got a substitute opportunity to perform "Chisang Town" with Lao Dan Liu Xiufen at the Xinhua Theater, and when he sang "Died Under the Bronze Hammer of the Long Pavilion", the audience's applause rose.
The Tianjin Youth Peking Opera Troupe conducted a "100-day training" to let young actors visit famous teachers, and Meng Guanglu was under Mr. Fang Rongxiang, a disciple of Master Qiu Shengrong and a Peking Opera performance artist. Mr. Fang lives in Jinan, and every weekend, Meng Guanglu takes a train to Jinan to study opera. There is no money in the group, Meng Guanglu basically buys station tickets, gets on the train at night, stays overnight, arrives in Jinan at 5:40 the next day, walks from the station to the teacher's door, waits until more than seven o'clock, after the teacher gets up, he finds that Guanglu has come.
Meng Guanglu loved to listen to the teacher's sentence "It seems that such a courtier is unfaithful and filial", and the whimper is particularly beautiful. He learned to sing in the house, and the teacher listened outside, saying that the child was too similar. He took a small tape recorder every time, studied during the day, practiced singing word by word, recorded it with a tape recorder, stayed at the teacher's house at night, lay in the bed and continued to listen, and adjusted the sound to the minimum, but in the middle of the night, the teacher heard it, and quietly pushed open the door: "Guanglu don't sing, rest early, tomorrow you have to learn the play." ”
Meng Guanglu and Fang Rongxiang had a deep love affair. The last time Fang Rongxiang had surgery, Meng Guanglu went to the hospital to see him, lying on the bed the teacher was still teaching this student. When Fang Rongxiang died and finished his affairs, Meng Guanglu resigned to Shi Niang, who put his arms around him and said, Guanglu, I especially miss your master, you sing me two sentences of "Exploring yin mountain". Meng Guanglu sang a passage in front of the teacher's portrait. After the teacher's death for so many years, Meng Guanglu must go to see the teacher every year, and he also accepted Fang Rongxiang's grandson Fang Xu as an apprentice.
Meng Guanglu likes Dou Erdun and Bao Gong in the play the most, because Dou Erdun is clearly distinguished, Bao Gong is loyal and filial piety, and selfless with an iron face. Now on the stage, he is still nervous, before each performance, the whole play is from the beginning of the back, waiting in advance, opening the voice, afraid that in case you forget the words on the stage, or can not sing, there are thousands of people sitting under the stage, what to do? No way to account.
In Meng Guanglu's view, from the arts, it is not only to sing a good play and play a good role, but also to find the right way in life. From art is to be a person, he summed up a passage - there is wisdom can not have pride, there is self-confidence can not be crazy, there is nobility can not be rigid, there is enthusiasm can not be clingy, there is a principle to have more arrogance, there is a temperament can not be aggressive.
Many people do not know that Meng Guanglu is also an expert in raising clams, and he is also a master of making clams. Meng Guanglu's great-grandfather and grandfather were all raised to run the family, and he had heard about it since he was a child, and he liked the spirit of the cockroach the most. When I came back tired from singing, I saw the cockroaches, and the tiredness suddenly disappeared. He had two or three hundred cockroach tanks in his house, as well as cages, sinks, and gourds associated with the cockroach tanks. More than twenty years ago, he bought a cart of cockroach cans for a month's salary and came back, but there was an ancestral motto at home: "Playthings do not lose their minds, they are addicted to gambling, and obscene gambling is an axe saw with broken bones." This is also a boundary in Meng Guanglu's heart.
Meng Guanglu studied under the calligrapher Mr. Ouyang Zhongshi. Mr. Ouyang is a descendant of the Xi Sect and a calligrapher. His profound understanding of Chinese characters and traditional culture gave Meng Guanglu a lot of inspiration, Meng Guanglu and his teacher learned not only calligraphy, but also the way of thinking of art, on the road of art to kneel on the ground to learn the ancients, stand up and write themselves. (Text: He Yuxin)