The ringtone of the mobile phone is a brisk Xipi flowing water, the tablet computer is equipped with excerpts that love to sing and want to learn, the WeChat is full of colorful faces, and the bedside is full of exquisite stills...
This is Wan Xiaohui's life, which is full of Elements of Peking Opera.
Wan Xiaohui, born in October 1981, is a national first-class actor, a member of the Communist Party of China, a famous Zhang Paiqingyi, the secretary and head of the party branch of the Second Troupe of the Hubei Provincial Peking Opera Theater, who has won the 27th Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award, the 7th National Young Peking Opera Actors Television Competition Gold Award of CCTV, the 14th Wenhua Award Outstanding Performance Award and many other honors, and was selected as the 2016 Young Top Talent of the Ministry of Culture.
She said: "Peking Opera may be niche. Without contact, you know nothing about it; but as soon as you make contact, you get in and obsess over it. Over the past 20 years, from a young child to a well-known big green coat, Wan Xiaohui's ice heart has always been immersed in the pear garden.
"Life of Party Members", No. 09, 2018, on the cover: Wan Xiaohui
Peking Opera is a vintage wine, immersed in it, will be overflowing with fragrance
Peking opera, pay attention to talent, the jargon is "God appreciates rice and eats".
Wan Xiaohui's talent came from the womb. Since childhood, her mother in the Huangshi Han Opera Troupe has taken Wan Xiaohui to rehearse and send plays to the countryside to perform in the fields. Often, when her mother performs, she stays on the side of the stage, imitating her mother's singing voice and movements. Mom's colleagues touched her head: "The girl sings really well, it is the material for eating this bowl of rice." ”
However, talent is a necessary condition, but it is not an absolute condition.
Because, learning Peking Opera, too bitter and too tired!
In 1993, Wan Xiaohui, who had just graduated from primary school and was only 11 years old, bid farewell to her parents and entered the Beijing Opera School as a transfer student, and embarked on the road of studying alone. At that time, there were 14 Hubei classmates who came to the class with her, and only Wan Xiaohui was still on the Peking Opera stage.
Practice three nine in winter, three volts in summer.
In the cold winter of the ninth, the winter in Beijing dripped into ice, making Hubei Wan Xiaohui miserable. At five o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock sounded, Wan Xiaohui and her classmates jumped up like springs, rushed to the water room to wash up, and the water flowing from the faucet was bone-chilling.
At 5:30, in the playground of the cold wind, shouting, pressing legs, and practicing waist exercises together. This kind of training, day after day.
Once, Wan Xiaohui's left leg ligament was seriously injured, resulting in two weeks of training. But in her memory, the most profound thing is not the pain, but the anxiety of not being able to train normally. "I was originally a transfer student, young and young, afraid of being pulled down by others."
In 1999, Wan Xiaohui won the first place in the silver award in the national Zhangpai Young Actor Selection Competition with a fold of "Wangjiang Pavilion". Xue Yaping, a famous Peking Opera performance artist and descendant of Zhang Pai, "listened to love", "This child sings very much like me." Therefore, she personally taught Wan Xiaohui, strict requirements, and carefully taught.
Because, to learn Peking Opera, we must precipitate and hone!
In August 2002, Wan Xiaohui joined the Provincial Peking Opera House.
At that time, it was the trough of traditional drama, and the life of the Provincial Peking Theater was not abundant. Wan Xiaohui still remembers that at that time, her monthly salary was only four or five hundred yuan. That's not the lowest. "The actors who joined the troupe around 1995 only had one or two hundred yuan a month." Many of the actors in that group chose to change careers, including Zeng Li and Yuan Quan, who are now active in the film and television circle.
Wan Xiaohui also had people around him who changed careers. She said that unlike the film and television entertainment industry, the phenomenon of "small fresh meat" and "small flower Dan" that can penetrate half the sky with a song and a play is impossible to appear in the Peking Opera industry. "As a Peking Opera actor, precipitation and tempering are very important."
In the decade from 2002 to 2011, Wan Xiaohui, as a young Qingyi, assiduously studied traditional plays such as "Qin Xianglian", "Zhuangyuan Media", "Xi Xiang Ji", "Spring and Autumn Match", and "Shilang Visiting Mother". She enjoys going to the fields, to the construction site, to the school, to the stage wherever she can perform. In the past ten years, she has played Li Qianniang and princess in "Xu Jiujing Shengguan" and "Zeng Houyi" starring Zhu Shihui, the director of the Provincial Peking Opera Theatre, a famous Peking Opera performance artist and a clown master, respectively, and her superb performance and professionalism are deeply appreciated by Zhu Shihui.
Peking Opera is a vintage wine, immersed in it, will be overflowing with fragrance.
So, when will Wan Xiaohui bloom?
She was born for Peking Opera, which made her bloom
The role that makes Wan Xiaohui bloom on the Peking Opera stage is Cai Wenji;
The role that made her artistic career in Peking Opera from imitation to leapfrog is also Cai Wenji.
Stills from the Peking opera "Anecdotes of Jian'an"
"Sorrow is not sad, sorrow is not sad, I don't know where the hometown is, I don't know where the soul belongs." When interpreting the role of Cai Wenji, Wan Xiaohui impressed the audience with her unique style, which not only perfectly reflected the beauty of the singing tone, but also vividly demonstrated the beauty of the plot.
This role is derived from "Jian'an Anecdote", which is a large-scale original innovative historical drama specially launched by the Hubei Provincial Peking Opera House in preparation for the 6th China Peking Opera Festival, telling the ups and downs of a generation of strange women Cai Wenji.
Unlike traditional repertoire, new screenwriters do not have "routines" or "paradigms", but rely on the understanding and creation of the actors. This is a challenge for both Wan Xiaohui and the Provincial Peking Opera.
From May to October 2011, during the hottest summer in Wuhan, Wan Xiaohui plunged into the rehearsal room, from morning to night. In the first rehearsal, in the face of the strict director Cao Qijing, Wan Xiaohui hardened her scalp and tried to present Cai Wenji in a traditional way, and as soon as she appeared on the scene, the director shook her head, "This feels wrong."
"Traditional drama has a thousand faces, and the distinction lies in the industry; the new drama has a thousand faces and different characters." Wan Xiaohui said with emotion. Before singing a play, she will consult books and materials, repeatedly speculate on the psychology of the characters, and strive to let the audience taste the story in every look, every action, and every singing voice.
An appearance action, she tried hundreds of kinds, came out, didn't feel right, went back, changed her steps, came out again, didn't feel right, went back again. Until the director says, "That's it." And then remember. Then, I tried a thousand kinds of crying, water sleeves, singing, and movements, constantly presenting, constantly denying, from too big, too small, too horizontal, too vertical, and finally just right.
Wan Xiaohui played the Iron Mirror Princess in "Shilang Visiting Mother"
In the painful tempering, Wan Xiaohui completely jumped out of the paradigm of traditional drama, no longer imitated the singing voice of the genre, and finally "grinded" a "new" Cai Wenji with humanity, personality, flesh and blood, and the real Wan Xiaohui version of Cai Wenji.
Wan Xiaohui on the stage will indulge in the beauty of the art of seducing the soul, and forget himself because he blooms to the fullest. Among them, a 15-sentence long singing segment, all presented with a cappella, the scene was silent, the audience's heartstrings, all pulled by Wan Xiaohui's performance, surging heart, excited tears, intoxicated, do not know what night it is.
Peking Opera version of "In the Name of the People" - stills of "On the Road"
Wan Xiaohui achieved "Jian'an Anecdotes", and "Jian'an Anecdotes" also achieved Wan Xiaohui.
In 2011, Wan Xiaohui played the role of Cai Wenji in "Jian'an Anecdotes", and his skills shocked four seats;
In 2012, at the 6th China Peking Opera Festival, "Anecdotes of Jian'an" won the first prize in one fell swoop, and was selected as a key funded play of the National Stage Art Excellence Project in 2011-2012, and Wan Xiaohui also won the gold medal of the 7th Youth Beijing Competition in the same year;
In 2013, the play won the 14th "Wenhua Award", and Wan Xiaohui won the Outstanding Performance Award of the 10th China Arts Festival.
In 2015, she won the 27th Plum Blossom Award, the highest award of Chinese drama, becoming the youngest "plum blossom" in the theater;
In 2017, she played Han Mei, the secretary of the female discipline inspection committee, in the modern anti-corruption new screenwriter "On the Road", with a heroic posture and a healthy temperament. The play can be called the Peking Opera version of "The Name of the People", and she was affectionately called "the female version of Hou Liangping" by the audience...
I hope I can become an artist of the people
In 2016, Wan Xiaohui began to serve as the head of the second troupe of the Peking Opera House and the secretary of the party branch.
Since then, when going to the countryside to send dramas, you can always see Wan Xiaohui's posture; while commercial performances, you can't see her shadow. This is Wan Xiaohui's choice as a party member and business leader, following her heart.
On July 1, 2017, the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the Provincial Peking Opera House performed in Hong Kong. Wan Xiaohui led everyone to the lobby of the hotel where they stayed and carried out a special branch theme party day activity.
As a provincial party representative, Wan Xiaohui said affectionately at the scene: "Literary and art workers should share a common destiny with the party and the people, and consciously contribute to the prosperity and development of the motherland." In the era of Acura, we must understand the times; when we establish a new style, we must be upright; and in pursuit of the beauty of art, our ideological quality must be beautiful, so that we can save righteousness for history and promote virtue for the people of the world..."
Wan Xiaohui believes that only skills, no art, can not climb the peak of art. "Party spirit is the sublimation of art and morality." She hopes that she can become an artist of the people.
"You give the people a grain of seed, and the granary of Wan Hu piles up." You give the people a drop of water, and the waves of qing are gushing out..." Han Mei, played by Wan Xiaohui in the play "On the Road", sang with a bright and high voice, so that the audience could feel the character's deep affection for the masses. This kind of affection, without the actor's heartfelt feelings, is difficult to present.
Participated in the eleventh provincial party congress
Her pursuit is also reflected in the usual bits and pieces.
Wang Shengnan is a young actor at the Provincial Beijing Theater and admires Wan Xiaohui's quality and style. From September to early December 2017, the Hubei Provincial Peking Opera House organized the play to go deep into 14 cities in the province and the Shennongjia Forest Area in three batches, benefiting more than 10,000 party members and cadres and audiences. "When Xiaohui sister went to the countryside to tour, she performed 9 times a month, which was really 'iron voice and steel throat'!"
There are 13 party members among the more than 50 cast members of the second troupe. Under the leadership of Wan Xiaohui, every time the performance, the emergency task of stage loading and unloading, all party members took the lead in rushing to the front to help. After each performance, party members took the lead in cleaning up the dressing room and cleaning up the oil paint and garbage. None of the units of the performance venue did not praise, "Hubei Peking Opera Troupe is really good"!
Adhere to the pear garden, cast the soul, healthy wind and bone, do not stop because of fame and fortune, do not slack off for the laurel, only seek the courage to climb the peak of art, never stop, enjoy it.
This is Wan Xiaohui's ice heart.
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