Luo Yiming tuned the channel to Hu Province Satellite TV.

At first, some people were not happy, because they were usually keen on the opera channel.

But at the beginning of the show, the host above said the word Peking Opera, and the eyes of the fans lit up all of a sudden.

Everyone can't wait to get into the TV and listen to what this host has to say.

Luo Yiming is in the picture, he is very serious, but as soon as he opens his mouth, is there still anyone who likes Peking Opera?

Has Peking Opera Declined?

Such a start made many people unhappy.

Zhang Yunchu was originally with a rhythm, and when he saw that the host was Luo Yiming, who had just sung the opera, he was also satirical about the art of Peking Opera, and he was even more angry.

Because Mei Lao was here, Zhang Yunchu's buttocks moved, but he didn't have a seizure.

After enduring Luo Yiming's saying that traditional Peking Opera needs to be innovated and the concept of new Peking Opera needs to be introduced, finally, Mr. Mei Baojiu's speech was ushered in on the stage.

"Okay, Mei Lao has given a speech, and he must scold that stinky boy and let him know what the real art of Peking Opera is. ”

"Mei Lao, on TV, very photogenic. ”

"Yes. Jiuye, you are on a variety show, why don't you tell me. It's not like your style, and I was shocked when I heard the host say your name. ”

"Mei Lao, this looks very handsome, and he is thirty years younger in an instant. ”

"Poof, that Mei Lao is about to become a young man. ”

Fans talked.

Mr. Mei Baojiu's face was serious.

The words he had spoken that day are still ringing in my ears.

In front, he reminisced about his father Mei Lanfang and the development of Peking Opera art.

Later, it is his own reflection on the decline of Peking Opera.

At the same time, he called on young people to give Peking Opera a chance and give Peking Opera a tomorrow.

The presentation began.

The fans also straightened up and looked at the TV.

"My father is Mei Lanfang. Standing in front of the podium, Mr. Mei Baojiu gave a speech.

In his 56 years of stage practice, he has successfully created many beautiful artistic images, and pioneered the "Mei School", an important genre of performing arts in Peking Opera.

"My father had nine children, five of whom died at an early age, leaving behind three boys and one girl. ”

"My eldest brother Mei Baochen, he is steady by nature and willing to think. My father provided him with the conditions for his development in science and engineering, and later, my eldest brother was admitted to the architecture department of the polytechnic college of a prestigious university and became an architect. ”

"My second brother Mei Shaowu is smart and lively, and his image thinking is developed. My father sent him to study literature in the United States during the Anti-Japanese War, and he became a translator after returning to China. ”

"My sister Mei Baoyue is calm, quiet, gentle and dignified. My father encouraged her to graduate from college and become a university teacher. But everyone should also know that my sister loves singing, so she also entered the pear orchard later. ”

"Then there is me, I am the last of the nine children, so my father named me Mei Baojiu. ”

"Many people ask me, why did you become the successor of the Mei School of art?"

"Did you have a talent for Peking Opera when you were a child?"

The audience under the stage said yes.

Mei Baojiu shook her head: "I tell you, actually, it's really not. ”

"Mostly because my father saw me looking like him. ”

Burst.

Some of the old-timers in the theater know that Mr. Mei Baojiu has inherited his father's talent for Peking Opera, and he is really humble when he says this.

Mei Baojiu continued: "My ears and eyes are like my father, and I have a voice and conditions to study, just like that, my father took a makeup photo for me. ”

"Then I played the child in "Three Niang's Godson", and my father thought that the acting was okay and thought that I had talent in this area, so he began to let me learn the Mei School. ”

"I've been studying since I was 10 years old, and the performing arts of Peking Opera can't be fished for three days and dried for two days, so if you put yourself into it, you have to spend ten hours a day grinding. ”

"My father hired a teacher for me, and you have to learn singing, Kunqu opera, martial arts, etc. ”

"Someone asked, isn't your father a master, why don't you just learn from him?"

Mei Baojiu smiled: "Peking Opera performances can't be achieved overnight, and ten years of sharpening a sword may be fast." ”

"Because Peking Opera has to lay the foundation first, pronunciation, articulation, singing, these basic skills, my father will not teach me. ”

"My first teacher was Wang Yaoqing's nephew Wang Youqing, and I followed him every day to learn very standardized things, just like Leonardo da Vinci painting eggs, constantly repeating and repeating. ”

"During that time, my temperament was polished, and I knew the art of Peking Opera, so I had to calm down and be in a hurry. ”

"After learning the basic skills for two years, my Kunqu Opera teacher is Zhu Chuanming, who is a handwriter, and then the martial arts teacher is Tao Yuzhi, don't think that this is enough. ”

"After learning these, I learned Hua Dan from Zhu Qinxin, and this study is a few years. ”

"When I was 10 years old, my father recognized me as the inheritor, and it was only five years later that I really stepped onto the stage of Peking Opera and really performed on the same stage with my father. ”

"In the past five years, I have been learning Peking Opera, when I was 10 years old, I worshipped my grandfather, thinking that I was already very great, but 5 years later, the first time I performed on stage with my father, I realized that I was actually still a scumbag. ”

Teacher Mei Baojiu talked about his childhood.

Other children may be happy, but he doesn't seem to have a childhood.

The learning that comes out of his mouth should actually be very torturous and painful.

But Mei Lao said it very ordinarily and indifferently, as if it was not him who encountered all this, but someone else.

The cultivation of an artistic master is not overnight, perhaps it can be seen from his childhood that he is really working hard and wants to carry the banner of inheriting the Mei School of Peking Opera.

"The first play I played with my father was 'A Nightmare in the Garden'. ”

"My father played Du Liniang, and I played Xiao Chunxiang, at that time, I felt that I was really good. ”

"Five years of study, five years of obscurity, I think as soon as I appear, I will amaze everyone and become the pride of my father. ”

"But when I got on stage, I realized that it wasn't like that at all. ”

"In terms of singing skills, I can barely finish singing. ”

"But in the performance, the body is wrong, the eyes are wrong, the stage is wrong, the whole thing is sometimes clubbed like a stone on the stage, stupid, if it weren't for my father's cooperation, there would have been boos off the stage. ”

"At that time, I realized that after five years of study, you are nothing. ”

"You are still far from the title of Peking Opera performance artist. ”

"I was so disappointed, after the performance that day, I thought my father would scold me and say that I had failed him. ”

"But after supper, he didn't criticize me, he just rearranged it for me, he told me what was wrong and how it should be arranged. ”

"Tell me which one you want to pay attention to. ”

"He didn't rebuke me at all. ”

"Well, I'm even harder. If my father had said a few words to me, my heart would have felt a little better at that time, but my father didn't say anything, and my heart felt like it was dripping blood. ”

"Peking Opera, it's not that easy, kid. ”

"It was only at that time that I really realized what my father had gone through along the way. ”

"I was taught by someone, I could learn from the teachers, and I was taken care of by my father, and the teachers didn't criticize me, they all took good care of me. ”

"But what about my father?"

"I thought I understood. ”

"But then I learned that I wasn't at all understanding. ”

"I can't understand what a Peking Opera master and a Peking Opera inheritor endures. ”

"I still remember the conversation my father had with me one night in '58. ”

That year, Cheng Yanqiu, a master of Peking Opera performing arts of the Cheng School, died. ”

"He had a heart attack. ”

"The cause of death was related to a bad mood, the doctor said. ”

During that time, Mr. Cheng wanted to make his favorite "Suolin Bag" with the most effort and the highest artistic level into a color film. ”

But because "Suolin Bag" was besieged by some critics, at that time, the mainstream media attacked him and was blocked from above. ”

In early March, Cheng Yanqiu suddenly suffered a myocardial infarction and was admitted to the hospital for rescue. ”

After his illness stabilized a little, a comrade who worked with him at the Chinese Academy of Drama went to see him in the hospital, and Cheng asked about the revised version of "Suolin Bag" that had been submitted for review, and he shook his head bluntly without thinking much about the possible consequences. ”

This made Cheng Yanqiu leave the stage of Peking Opera art forever. ”

Speaking of this, Mr. Mei Baojiu deliberately paused.

There was a blur in his eyes at this time, too.