"For the Xiangjiang film industry, if 950 is a year of a hundred flowers blooming, with masterpieces such as the Great Wall, Yonghua, and South China frequently appearing, then 95 must be a year of Huangmei Opera.

Looking back on the past after half a century, history seems far away. All we know is what we hear and write in the old newspapers.

And then through these, to get a glimpse of the Huangmei Opera at that time.

Huangmei Opera started in Hubei and Anhui, but finally became known to the world in Xiangjiang, which is separated by half of China. Among them, I think it was the director and screenwriter Mr. Yang Qiu, who had never expected it at that time.

At the end of last month, I was fortunate to meet Mr. Yang who came from Xiangjiang to present the award at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Award held in Sanya.

From this, I also seem to vaguely see the situation back then.

Before the project was established, in the Xiangjiang film industry, the diversion of Chinese and Cantonese audiences was serious, and it was common for the country not to look at Guangdong, and Guangdong not to look at the country. Countless directors and screenwriters have been trying to find a way to bring both audiences into the theater at the same time, but they have failed.

However, director Yang Qiu, who was in the repertory troupe at this time, discovered an interesting fact: that is, no matter whether Peking Opera or Cantonese opera is sung on the stage, there is always a group of people under the stage, who are the same audience.

After careful questioning, I realized that although these people don't know words, they like tunes.

So look at it.

Director Yang Qiu was deeply inspired, so he turned his attention to traditional Chinese theater, and after some exploration, he found the easy-to-understand Huangmei tune.

After selecting the traditional repertoire, it was painstakingly revised and rearranged more than ten times to make it more understandable before it was made into a movie and released.

In the end, it eventually became a generation of classics, triggering a boom in Huangmei Opera in Xiangjiang for more than ten years.

According to Director Yang's own account, at the beginning of the release that year, everyone was actually not optimistic about it at first, because costume films at that time were not profitable.

It's just that I didn't expect that the feedback from the theater was unexpected.

In just two days, the theater sold out all the tickets, which made it difficult to find a ticket for the whole Xiangjiang, and the theater chain had to expedite the postponement of the screening for another week to alleviate the audience's worries about buying tickets.

Mr. Yang joked that there was a sweeping sister in their company back then, and later told him that he had gone to see it eight times, and he sang a piece of 'brine light fan to reduce inflammation' with him, and he was so happy that he gave Sister a bonus of 100 yuan that month.

This can be seen from the abundance of influence.

By the time of the screening, the number of moviegoers had reached a staggering 210,000, and the box office was as high as HK$430,000, breaking the box office record in Hong Kong over the years.

It wasn't until two years later that this record was broken by Director Yang Qiu himself.

At that time, in the streets and alleys of Xiangjiang, you could hear the humming of 'birds in pairs in pairs' everywhere. If someone sings the last sentence and you can't take it, it's outdated or old-fashioned.

The streets are full of yellow plum tones.

The year of Huangmei Opera began here.

——Zhang Wei"

The young Yang Qiu naturally didn't know that he was half a century later, he was still so full of nonsense and casually fooled, and more importantly, he also fooled the nostalgic young people of literature and art into a daze.

If his front part was just to provoke everyone to follow suit, then after the results came out, there were suddenly many Huangmei drama groups in the entire Xiangjiang.

The familiar tune of Huangmei Opera sounded from time to time on a certain set of Beidi Street in Houwangmiao.

Even Cheng Gang, who has been busy with new dramas and the repertory troupe, came to complain to him, saying that the boss of Liyuan somehow invited a Huangmei Drama Troupe from Anhui Province and robbed them of many performances of the Repertory Troupe.

Now it's even more difficult for their repertory troupe to mix......

However, Yang Qiu only couldn't hear them, and there weren't many dramas in his mind that could save them. Besides, the repertory troupe is even better, and there is still a shortage of talent after his set is built.

The repertory troupe is a talent reserve training base, and he Yang Qiu has been staring at it for a long time.

As the dust settled in the Jinguo Cinema Line, while the results were blinding, Yang Qiu also held a celebration banquet at the Zhuangyuan Restaurant of Houwangmiao in early July.

I saw that on this day, the colorful flags fluttering in front of the Zhuangyuan Building, the red lights were hung high, and a big banner was pulled on the plaque of the "Zhuangyuan Building", with a big book on it: "Warmly celebrate the big sale of 400,000 yuan, breaking the new record of the box office of Xiangjiang movies".

At the gate under the banner, people come and go very lively, and almost all those who have a relationship with Jiahe are invited. The Repertory Troupe, Guangyizhuang, Li Ying, Zhang Shankun, etc., and even Mount Tai also sent Zha Liangjian over.

Cheng Gang, as today's intimate guest, has been busy at the door of the restaurant, and his mouth is about to stiffen.

As long as there are guests coming, Cheng Gang has to greet him with a smile, and then six or seven reporters who are invited or come from next to him will have a 'click' with their cameras.

Can you not stiffen your mouth this morning......

It wasn't until around half past nine in the morning that the entrance of the Zhuangyuan Building was lively for a while, and Yang Qiu drove his Morris, carrying Yang Meng late.

As soon as the two got out of the car, they were greeted by a burst of 'click-click' flashing lights, which almost blinded their eyes.

Yang Meng obviously hadn't experienced this situation, so she was so frightened that she unconsciously leaned towards Yang Qiu's side, looking at the girl's somewhat panicked little face, Yang Qiu smiled and took her hand and walked inside together.

This 'click' is louder.

"Boss Yang, what is the relationship between you and Miss Yang Meng?" one of the reporters holding a camera suddenly asked loudly.

Yang Qiu smiled, raised the hand he was holding and said, "As you can see, this is the relationship." ”

Click, click, click——!

"Boss Yang, this time your movie broke a record at the box office, do you have anything to say?"

"Golden Harvest products must be high-quality products. ”

"Director Yang, it's already been released, do you have any plans for a new film now?"

"There is, but it's not convenient to disclose. ”

"Huh? Why?"

"Everyone, accuse and accuse. Cheng Gang suddenly squeezed up, blocked in front of the reporter and arched his hand: "Everyone, today is a celebration banquet, not a press conference, the interview is here, thank you." ”

After speaking, Cheng Gang turned around and surrounded Yang Qiu and the two of them, and strode into the restaurant.

While walking towards the second floor, which had been fully covered, Cheng Gang complained: "What do you care about them? ”

"The uncrowned king, naturally it's not easy to offend. Yang Qiu replied casually, thought for a while, and said, "By the way, I'll wrap a few little red envelopes later, and you can send them down." ”

“……”

Cheng Gang was speechless for a while, and said helplessly after half a sound: "You are the gold master, you can do what you say." By the way, do you want Han Xiang to film Huangmei Opera?"

"How do you know?" Yang Qiu was a little surprised.

Cheng Gang pursed his lips and said, "That kid can't handle the script, so he asked me for help." ”

I almost forgot that this girl was a script grocery store, Yang Qiu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Did you help?"

I helped a little bit and introduced him to another person. ”

"Who?"

"You don't know you when you say it, but you'll know when you go in. Cheng Gang shook his head into the building, and suddenly complained: "I said that you can't shoot less Huangmei Opera? ”

"If you can't live, you'll die, and I'll support you when the time comes...... Well, you guys. ”

“……”

Cheng Gang suddenly felt a chill all over his body, glanced at Yang Qiu with a strange expression, turned around and ran to the gate to greet him.

Yang Qiu shook his head with a smile and walked up to the second floor, but before he could see the situation clearly, a slightly chubby young man hugged him.

"Okay, you Yang Qiu, it's been so long, I didn't expect you to remember my brother and me!"

"Get out, fat man, I'm bigger than you!"

"But obviously......" Liang Daren, who had grown two sizes horizontally, walked up to Yang Qiu, gestured left and right, and said, "I am bigger than you in terms of weight and body shape." ”

"Haha-" Yang Qiu smiled and hugged the fat master, and asked, "How is the business of your bakery recently?"

"So-so. ”

Yonghua's former eight students were scattered, and now only Yang Qiu and Li Hanxiang are still in the film industry. Even Liang Daren and Wang Ruilian, who have always been in love, broke up peacefully after living together for four months.

Wang Ruilian followed Leng Yi back to the magic capital, but Liang Daren stayed, and opened a bakery in Central, Hong Kong Island, as Yang Qiu teased him before.

Business, not bad.

But maybe it's because the bread is too much, and Liang Daren's body has also turned from thin to fat like toasting bread.

Therefore, Yang Qiuzi didn't believe this guy's 'modest' words, and said with disdain: "General, it's impossible, right?"

"How can't it be, anyway, it's not to the extent that you said back then, people lined up to buy it. Liang Daren teased casually.

"......" Yang Qiu was speechless for a while.

Liang Daren was very happy with the general Yang Qiuyijun, touched his chin and said, "Eh, you say, how can I raise the bakery's business again?"

"Simple. Yang Qiu raised his eyebrows and said, "Advertise." ”

"But I also sent a lot of advertising leaflets, and you can see them in the fishing villages over there in Sha Tin. ”

"Advertising leaflets are of limited use, so you have to switch to something else. ”

"What?"

"For example, product placement. ”