I have always wanted to write about Elder Chen, although I know very well that my clumsy words are far from expressing the legendary and bumpy life of this master, for her splendid talent, for her chivalrous and soft disposition, and for her lamentable encounters.
I don't want to dwell on her life and her outstanding contribution to the art of Yu opera, which occupies an important position in local Chinese opera, because people who like her are no longer familiar with it, and those who don't like her will be uncomfortable when they see this, and will even speak ill of the master under the fountain of eternal rest again, so I just want to express my admiration, love, and feelings for Elder Chen in this small article.
There are many people in the world who have encountered ups and downs, and few people have smooth sailing, and her ups and downs alone are a few points more than people, which makes people sigh in their hearts. She was also a lady of the eunuch family, and she should have lived a life of gold and jade. However, Heaven refused to let her have this, and when she was still ignorant of personnel, her family fell. In order to survive, her mother took her around and eventually married a Yu opera artist, and her surname was changed from Wang to Chen. Although she finally had a home, she still had to drift with the drama team, and she naturally learned to play.
I don't know why God arranged it this way. Is it to complete Yu opera, in order to let Yu opera write the most colorful stroke in its most brilliant period? If so, I'd rather go to heaven to rewrite her fate! Heaven never let her go too smoothly, and when she learned drama, she was very smart and learned very quickly, but she had no voice, which was simply fatal to opera artists. Someone else may have given up, and she didn't! Shout without a voice, she will shout out of her voice. Shouting at the wind and the water, wearing the stars and wearing the moon, day and day, finally shouted out a loud and sweet and crisp voice. She, like gold buried deep in the earth, finally revealed the ground, and she was going to shine!
She is the first generation of actresses in the history of Yu opera. When she first appeared on stage, people went to see her with the rare idea of watching her. The show was a failure. A few years later, when she returned to the place, she chose to open the play. Because, she is not willing to lose, she has to prove herself to those people.
When she was very popular, she was still very young. She unleashed her talents in the world of Yu Opera without distraction. Needless to say, it is even more rare that she has excellent talents in makeup and creative cavity. She loves drama, otherwise she wouldn't be so intoxicated to think about how to make her eyes more beautiful, how to make a play sound better. People loved her so much that they called her "Henan Mei Lanfang", "Empress Yu opera", and "King Zi".
How nice it would be to be able to keep going! However, fate dealt her another blow, and her hard-earned good voice was broken by recording! I don't know how she endured such a tribulation, but with the support and help of Fan Puting, she went to Beijing to study workmanship, and has since devoted herself to the creation and performance of work-making dramas.
In that turbulent era, her studies did not last long, and she began to drift around. She has no fixed performance team, no harbor to rely on, and treks through the journey again and again. Even after liberation, she did not get the treatment she deserved, she suffered more persecution, and finally settled in Tianjin, a place that was neither her hometown nor the home of Yu opera.
Emotionally, she never got much of the warmth a woman deserves. When she was young, her mother did not give her much maternal love, her adoptive father was a wooden person, only knew how to sing, not bad for her, but also did not have much love, only one of the brothers of the drama team was very kind to her and loved her as a sister. Regarding love, someone really loved her, but she always passed by before it started. And marriage, she wants to seek warmth and comfort in marriage, otherwise she would not have been married three times, but she has never met a good man who can give her true feelings, and what she gets from marriage is more hurt and cheating. Fortunately, Heaven still left her the last window and gave her five sons, after all, she enjoyed the joy of heaven.
In today's society, the title of "master" has been used too much, and I think these two words are too big for anyone to deserve. To be called a master in a certain field, several conditions must be met: first, it is natural to have a prominent talent in the field, and this talent is not limited to one aspect, but is manifested in many aspects; secondly, it has had a profound influence on the development of the field; and finally, it must be more or less personal. Elder Chen undoubtedly met these conditions. She is not only good at singing and performing Yu opera, but also good at choreography, and has her own creation in various aspects such as makeup. Because of her, Yu opera is no longer considered to only be re-sung and not redone, showing another style. And these, without a doubt, have had a profound impact on the development of Yu opera. When it comes to personal charm, she is still admired by people today. Therefore, I think that Teacher Chen can be called a master.
I have loved drama since I was a child, but I know that Elder Chen is only a few years ago. For unknown reasons, her plays are rarely heard or seen in Henan, the hometown of Yu opera. She left very little audio and video material, and I saw only two of the only two plays with poor video effects, and it is no exaggeration to say that I was shocked! When the video was recorded, she was more than 60 years old, and her voice had long been broken, but the elegant and beautiful, endless singing voice and the fascinating, moving workmanship suddenly stunned me, it turned out that Yu opera can also have such a good workmanship, Yu opera, can also be so beautiful!
Judging from Elder Chen's words and deeds, I have always felt that Elder Chen has surpassed the limitations of ordinary women, and her personality has a kind of chivalry and a bit of literary pride. She envied the life of a horseman, even married people preferred soldiers, acted smoothly, had the style of a gentleman, and was a man of temperament. It is her wind and bone that supports her to face the ups and downs of life, and it is also her wind bone that I admire the most.
She was born in Shaanxi, grew up in Henan, and was displaced in Xi'an, Lanzhou, Chongqing, Nanjing, Hebei and other places, and finally settled in Tianjin. She has been running around almost half her life, so many places, measuring with her feet!! In the vast china, it was difficult to have a world that could accommodate a little Chen Suzhen!
Opera brought her great popularity, but it did not give her a lifetime of glory, and she paid too much for it. I think she should have no regrets, because she loves opera so much that even at the end of her life, she thinks most about Yu opera (not her Chen Pai). If there is an afterlife, I would rather she be an ordinary person, have parents, lovers and children who love her, and live her life in peace and stability.
Fortunately, people have not forgotten her after all, and they have not forgotten the beautiful characters and voices she left behind. Writing this, my ears sounded a hundred times a thousand times, beautiful and matchless singing: "Shame answered out of the door, lowered his head, cried a father, and then called Mom, hey, my old nursing mother!" I couldn't stop the tears from rolling like numbness. I was like a roadside flower wind and rain, holding back the air and tears to pick up the reed flowers. ”