Chapter 238: Peking Opera Chrysanthemum (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Guo Degang said with a smile on his face, "It is not easy to invite Mr. Li Ming to our program, and everyone knows that the opera we are going to study today is "The Palace of Eternal Life", and Mr. Li Ming has a very close relationship with "The Palace of Eternal Life", do you know what it is?" β
Li Ming sat there with a smile and a word, looking elegant and friendly, which made everyone on the scene feel very comfortable!
Yang Chaoyue raised her hand excitedly and said, "I know!" β
Everyone's eyes couldn't help but look over, and even Li Ming cast an encouraging look!
Facing this handsome uncle in his fifties, Yang Chaoyue felt dizzy, and said a little nervously, "Because Mr. Li Ming has acted in "Mei Lanfang"!" β
Yes, Li Ming's movie "Mei Lanfang" back then, although there are many plots in it that do not conform to history, it is undeniable that this movie caused a huge sensation at the time and has a great role in promoting the Peking Opera industry!
Within a year of the film's broadcast, the Peking Opera market had a significant rise.
Mei Lanfang played by Li Ming can be said to be very in place, especially the elegant temperament, the two are almost identical!
Guo Degang bowed his head slightly and said, "That's right, Mr. Li Ming's "Mei Lanfang" was really a household name, and the famous Peking Opera "Taizhen Gaiden" created and rehearsed by Mr. Mei Lanfang is based on the legendary content of "The Palace of Eternal Life", and at the same time, Mr. Mei Lanfang's Yang Guifei is a must!" β
Guo Degang changed his words and said with a smile, "Actually, there is another reason between Mr. Li Ming and "The Palace of Eternal Life", I don't know which of you knows?" β
Another reason?
Suddenly, everyone showed a look of surprise!
The corners of Li Ming's mouth showed a shallow smile, which was also the main reason why he came to participate in this show!
Guo Degang said seriously, "Because a big-budget movie will be broadcast in this year's Spring Festival, called "The Woman of the Dynasty, Yang Guifei", in which our Mr. Li Ming played Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, and the heroine Yang Yuhuan is also a golden lock that is red through half the sky!" β
Only then did everyone suddenly realize, I see!
Li Ming clasped his hands together, looked at the camera with a smile, and said, "Yes, thank you, I hope you will definitely go to the cinema to support our "Dynasty Woman Yang Guifei", this movie is well-made and will definitely not disappoint everyone!" β
Naturally, the promotion of the movie should not be too much, otherwise it will cause disgust among the audience!
Point to point!
"As we all know, there is a professional term in our opera industry, why do we call our own industry, Mr. Li Ming, do you know?"
Lin Mu looked at Li Ming with a smile!
Li Ming thought for a moment and said with a smile, "It should be a pear orchard!" β
"That's right, Liyuan, that's what describes our opera industry!"
"Liyuan is talking about the Tang Dynasty training institutions for musicians, "New Tang Dynasty Book Lile Zhi" contains: "Xuanzong not only knows the rhythm of music, but also loves the law, and chooses to sit on the three hundred children of the Ministry of Tricks and teach in Liyuan. If there is a mistake, the emperor will feel it and be right, and he will be called the disciple of the emperor's pear garden. Later, I referred to the pear orchard in our opera world! β
As soon as Lin Mu introduced this, everyone knew the origin of the pear orchard!
"By the way, does Mr. Li Ming like to listen to dramas on weekdays?"
Li Ming nodded and said, "Of course, I have liked opera since I was a child, especially Mr. Mei Lanfang, so it was really an honor to ask me to play Mr. Mei, although I can only perform half of Mr. Mei's charm, but I am already very satisfied!" β
Guo Degang nodded and said, "It's not just half a charm, but Jiu Ye praised your performance a lot!" β
Jiuye, it's Mei Lanfang's son, Mr. Mei Baojiu!
It's a pity that Jiu Ye passed away two years ago, which is a big loss for the Peking Opera industry!
Li Ming said with emotion, "Yes, Jiu Ye came to visit the class several times, and he also worked tirelessly to guide my figure and eyes, and all the singing segments of Mr. Mei in the movie were dubbed by Jiu Ye himself!" β
Jin Chen, who was on the side, suddenly asked, "Then Mr. Li Ming, do you know how to sing?" β
Hearing this, everyone showed curious expressions!
Li Ming said with a smile, "Of course, I deliberately studied for several months in order to perform, although it is nondescript, but it is barely a ticket holder!" β
When Li Ming said the word ticket friend, he still had a little pride on his face!
Because people who can call themselves Peking Opera ticket holders can definitely sing a few words.
Ticket holders are the jargon of the opera industry, which refers to lovers who can sing opera and do not make a living from professional acting.
Legend has it that the children of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty went to various places to sing the children's books with the "dragon tickets" issued by the Qing court, without getting paid, and promoted them for the Qing court.
In the past, many ticket holders not only sang, but also had a professional box office and were able to perform on stage!
There are even many ticket holders, and the level is no worse than that of professional actors!
What's more, there are some ticket holders who have become top Peking Opera performers after going to the sea!
So, in the midst of everyone's uproar, Li Ming stood up generously, put on a posture, and sang a classic singing segment in "The Drunken Concubine" "The Island Ice Wheel Turns at the Beginning".
Although there are many defects in the bite, the figure, eyes, and charm are all in place!
It can be seen that after so many years, Li Ming still hasn't let go of Peking Opera!
"Good!"
Guo Degang applauded very appreciatively, for a ticket holder, it is enough to be able to sing a voice!
Guo Degang said with emotion, "It's very good to be able to have this level of ticket holders now!" β
"Mr. Guo, I've been wanting to ask just now, what is a ticket holder?"
Although Yang Chaoyue has already come to record a show, she still doesn't understand this kind of professional terminology!
Guo Degang smiled, glanced at Lin Mu, and said, "Xiao Mu, you can tell our Chaoyue classmates!" β
In fact, in addition to Qiu Shi, other people are also very curious about the professional terms of Peking Opera!
Lin Muhao said in a good time, "This Peking Opera ticket holder, in our popular words, is a Peking Opera fan, but these fans are different, the difference is that they not only know opera, but also can sing." β
"The highest level of fans is ticket friends, as a ticket holder, you have to understand the play, at least you can win the role of the play, you have to understand it, and you have to be able to sing, although you are not required to sing well, but at least you have to be like Mr. Li Ming, you can come with your mouth open!"
"In the more than 200 years of history of the development of our Peking Opera industry, ticket holders have made indelible contributions to the development of Peking Opera.
"Just like the four great Susheng back then, the four famous Dans all have a group of big ticket friends around them, and the big literati help them!"
"And in our Peking Opera industry, there is also a kind of magical ticket holders!"
As soon as they heard this, everyone was interested, knowing that Lin Mu was about to start talking about the ancients again!
Even Guo Degang showed an interested expression!
"In our Peking Opera industry, there is a class of ticket holders with particularly high qualifications, whether it is EQ, IQ, word of mouth, basic skills are very good, and their identity is noble, and finally they went to the sea to sing and become a real Peking Opera actor, becoming our peers, and even becoming the top Peking Opera actor!"
"The representative of this is naturally Mr. Yan Ju Pengyan, one of the four major students!"
When Guo Degang heard this, he nodded with a smile, he already knew what Lin Mu was going to say next!
"Mr. Yan Ju Pengyan, is the founder of the Yan School of Lao Sheng, and he is known as the Four Great Susheng along with Ma Lianliang, Tan Fuying, and Xi Xiaobo."
"Mr. Yan Jupeng, in the era of 'no life and no story', was known as the most authentic big ticket friend in the world to learn from Mr. Tan Xinpei."
"Mr. Yan is a Mongolian, the earliest people are not called Yan Jupeng, his Mongolian name is Yanshou, and later changed to a Chinese surname, Yan and Yan have the same sound, so he uses words as his surname, because he loves Peking Opera, he claims to be a friend of Liyuan, so he is named Jupeng, which means a friend of Jutan!"
Li Ming was very interested in some stories in the Peking Opera industry, so sitting next to Lin Mu, he was listening to the stories told by Lin Mu very seriously, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment!
"Mr. Lin, excuse me!"
Li Ming raised his hand at Lin Mu very politely!
Lin Mu hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, Mr. Li Ming, is there any problem?" β
Li Ming frowned and asked, "Did I hear it wrong just now, you said that Mr. Yan Jupeng prides himself on being a friend of the pear garden, and all of them are named Jupeng, which means friends of the chrysanthemum altar, I heard it right!" β
Lin Mu nodded and said, "Yes, that's right!" β
Li Ming was silent for a moment, and asked with a wry smile, "Then what's going on with this chrysanthemum?" β
When Lin Mu heard this, he was also stunned for a moment, patted his head, and said with a wry smile, "I'm sorry, I'll explain this to you, the pear orchard and the chrysanthemum altar are actually talking about the opera industry!" β
Lin Mu didn't wait for Li Ming to ask, and continued, "Actually, the origin of this chrysanthemum altar came from the Song Dynasty!" β
"Because Song Gaozong also likes opera very much, there is a Lady Ju in his inner palace, who is good at singing and dancing, fine music and rhythm, and is called 'Ju Butou' in the palace."
"Now many people are accustomed to calling singing opera as Liyuan Xing, in fact, in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, the Peking Opera world was called Jutan, and there were not a few people in the chrysanthemum department!"
Hearing the word Kikube, everyone's faces showed complicated expressions, and they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh!
After all, the meaning of the word Kikube in today's society has been distorted!
Chrysanthemums used to be just a flower, but now, it's not!
"For example, Mr. Ding Bingsui's "Old News of Chrysanthemum" and Liu Dongsheng's "Chrysanthemum Flower Appreciation" are all works about the story of the pear garden!"
In 1921, the Yi Folk Society went to Wuhan to perform, and the Times commented on the actor Liu Zhenshu and said: "There is an outstanding talent, the style of Oumei, in the future, the chrysanthemum will win, the pear garden is outstanding, and Ouyang Yuqian and Mei Lanfang stand tall and have high hopes." β
Lin Mu told these allusions one by one like a few family treasures, and even Guo Degang's face showed a look of amazement!
These things are not prepared by the program team in advance, but Lin Mu's knowledge reserve is strong enough!
Lin Mu's explanation gave everyone a deep understanding of the word ticket holder, and also had a different understanding of "Jube"!
Guo Degang also said with a smile, "Okay, let's talk so much today, we still have to go back to our main topic today, "The Palace of Eternal Life", don't say much, let's listen to a paragraph first, let us invite two descendants of the fifth generation of Zhejiang-Kunming '10,000-character generation', and bring us a fold of Kunqu Opera "The Palace of Eternal Life - Love"! β
Everyone has been admiring Kunqu Opera for a long time, and today I can finally hear it, and they all responded with warm applause!
"Specially bring the golden hairpin box to make love with Qingββ"
The actor who played Li Longji, Cao Xiaojie, picked up a gold-painted box and a golden hairpin and sent them to the actor Hu Yuping, who played Yang Yuhuan!
I have to say that the appearance of Kunqu Opera is really handsome, and the figure is also really beautiful!
"Xie Jinchai box to Feng Junhuanβ"
"I'm only afraid that the cold posture can't dispel the Heavenly Jade Dew Regiment-"
"Just peeking at the phoenix and the dragonββ"
"Love to kill this two-headed beautiful two-headed reunion-"
"I wish to be like goldβ"
"The hairpin is not only divided into boxes and will never be finished-"
This paragraph of singing, but the original text of "The Palace of Eternal Life" is Li Longji's use of the golden hairpin box as a token, and the love legend of the two also began here!
I have to say that Kunqu Opera is really beautiful, not only the appearance is beautiful, but the singing is even more beautiful, and the following people who have not heard Kunqu Opera are all fascinated by it!
As the ancestor of a hundred operas, Kunqu Opera has a side that other operas cannot match, that is, its elegance!
It can be said that Kunqu Opera is prosperous in elegance and defeated in elegance!
When Peking Opera was just born, there were only two kinds of operas in the entire Chinese opera world, the first was called Yabu, which was Kunqu Opera, and the second was called Huabu, which was other operas!
And after the rise of Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera began to slowly decline!
The reason is because it is so elegant!
is like this "Palace of Eternal Life", the lyrics in it are all words and phrases in the original text of "The Palace of Eternal Life", biting the words and smacking the words, unfathomable!
In Guo Degang's words, Kunqu opera is an opera that the former Qing Dynasty can only understand by flipping through the Kangxi dictionary!
For the common people, this belongs to the spring and white snow, so the rise of Peking Opera is inevitable!
After watching the play, everyone still hasn't been able to take it back from the plot, which is the charm of Kunqu Opera.
Guo Degang said with a smile, "Okay, everyone, collect your heart, how do you feel after listening to this Kunqu opera just now?" β
Li Ming said with admiration, "This is the first time I have listened to Kunqu Opera, it is really beautiful, the actors look beautiful, and the singing is even more beautiful, their singing is very different from Peking Opera, but it sounds so comfortable!" β
Lin Mu on the side nodded and said, "Yes, what Mr. Li Ming said is very right, you must know that when we studied at the Academy of Chinese Opera, there was a professional Kunqu Opera class, and every Peking Opera actor had to learn a little Kunqu Opera, because their singing voice is very distinctive, called 'Water Mill Cavity'!" β
Water mill chamber!
There's a new term coming out!
"Kunqu Opera, with a beautiful tone, is known for lingering and tactful, soft and long-lasting, pays attention to the control of the voice in singing skills, the rhythm and speed of the frustration and the attention to the articulation of the words."
"Just now, these two Kunqu opera teachers have shown us a good style of Kunqu opera, and the specific performance of this water mill cavity is to slow down the tempo and delay the rhythm, so as to use more decorative cavities in the melody progression."
"And Kunqu opera is very particular about the bite of the word, for the pronunciation of the word has a very strict attention, flat, up, go, into one by one exquisite, each singing a word, pay attention to the bite of the word, belly, tail, that is, the word, through the cavity and the sound, so that the space of the music layout increases, the changes increase, its lingering tactful, soft and long-term characteristics are also more and more prominent."
These characteristics were actually taught to him by the teacher when Lin Mu was learning Kunqu Opera at the Academy of Opera!
Whether everyone understood it or not, they all nodded their heads!