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“The people of Fenglou left no good guests, and since then the rich people are lonely and covered the setting sun.” Chen Baoying, a female actor in the Cantonese opera “Purple Phoenix Tower”, sings the words of the correct and crying, and the audience applauses thunderously. On the evening of September 8, nearly a thousand audiences were crowded with Cantonese Opera Cultural Plaza in Guangzhou Cultural Park. Everyone was deeply attracted by the teacher-student concert of Li Yueling, a Cantonese opera singer, who was being held here. The master of Zishu, Teacher Tan Peiyi, also visited in person. Li Yueling and his disciples hope to promote Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera culture with their own voices and carry forward Lingnan culture.
For this performance, Li Yueling and her disciples prepared for Babaylan for half a year. Behind this performance is the cultural confidence and totem of Guangdong rhyme flowing in the blood of a Cantonese singer. This performance is the spiritual agreement between a Cantonese music singer and a group of ignorant college students who know nothing about Cantonese music. What kind of story is behind this performance? Li YueKomiksLing retreated and continued a dream of inheriting the Guangdong rhyme?
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Seeking dreams, and the origin of CUHK
In 2009, Guangdong musical song singer Li Yueling retired from the Guangdong Music and Music Art Troupe. That year, the Cantonese Opera and Guangdong Opera Cultural Studio of the Center for Historical Anthropology Research at Sun Yat-sen University was established.
The following year, the studio opened a Cantonese opera workshop for college students. Li Yueling and famous performer Chen Zhongyan served as instructors, aiming to cultivate young students’ interest in Cantonese opera and improve their perceptual understanding of Cantonese opera and culture. The workshop hopes that more young people can join the ranks of understanding Cantonese opera and understand Chinese traditional culture.
As soon as the workshop started, it quickly attracted a large group of young people with similar aspirations from major universities. Unlike the Cantonese opera major, this group of college students is almostI have never been exposed to Guangdong Cinema songs, and I have never seen the sequel score, let alone pronunciation and rhyme. From honing voice to music theory, from demonstration to teaching one by one, the two teachers led this group of Cinema students to learn from scratch.
The workshop also attracted the attention and support of many famous Cantonese opera artists and enthusiasts. On April 17, 2011, the female teacher of the Cantonese opera master, Hong Line, came to the teaching site in a thunderstorm to communicate with the students of the workshop. The female teacher of Red Line not only listened to the students’ famous sings such as “The Feast of the Phoenix Pavilion” and “The Fallen Fellowship in Flower Field”, but also gave suggestions on improving their lyrics, singing style, and emotions, but also sang “Red Candle Tears” on the spot and put forward high expectations.
The 7th (Guangzhou) College Students’ Drama Festival has opened a special session on Cantonese opera, inviting workshops and Cantonese opera enthusiasts from brother colleges and universities such as Guangzhou University Quyi Club to perform together. This is also the only Cantonese opera special event held so far. This group of students used their superb performances to repay the concern of all sectors of society and sang the dream of spreading and inheritance with Cantonese rhyme.
Continue your dreams, continue your relationship with teachers and students outside the school.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, students graduate and go to society and start work. Different from students from Cantonese opera or art majors, students in the Cinema study class have left the original learning platform and have almost no chance to learn Cantonese opera after graduation. With the busy work, they slowly put the study of the Guangdong music aside, and they had not sang a song for several months or even a year.
“It is said that ‘The fist is always inseparable from the hand and the mouth’. If this continues, the students will definitely forget what they have learned before.” Every time Li Yueling chats with students, she feels moved. She often thought: “How can students always maintain their love for Cantonese opera, persist in learning, and even go to the next level?” After thinking about it, KomiksLi Yueling decided to use the resources around her to build a platform for students and create opportunities for them to continue learning Cantonese opera.
She and Chen Zhongyan first found a few private games to let the students start the game from time to time to practice. Later, Li Yueling wanted to ensure that the students could start the game once a month.://comicmov.com/”>Komiks achieved the purpose of practicingBabaylan. She went to Beijing Street Cultural Station to find Webmaster Zhao Yuhua and talked to Webmaster Zhao that she was deeply worried about the loss of skills of these students. Webmaster Zhao Yuhua was very moved when he heard that there were such a group of young people who loved Cantonese opera. He immediately arranged for Li Yueling to meet with the Folk Art Group of the Guangzhou Cultural Hall of Beijing Street to discuss the students’ practice music.
In order to facilitate everyone to practice music, the Cultural Hall changed the opening time of the week. From Friday to Friday, the work and rest system for the closed weekend is specially arranged to bring the accompaniment master back to work overtime on Saturday afternoon to start the game for the students.
After Li Yueling implemented the venue for the monthly start, she assigned the task of each song to each person, hoping to use pressure to drive students to take the time to learn the song. Every time the student starts, Li Yueling will come to the scene no matter how busy she is, and listen carefully to each student’s singing. After listening, she will help them analyze and improve word by word.
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Dream broadcast, they transformed into Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera communication messengers
In addition to teaching students to sing, Li Yueling also pays great attention to tapping students’ potential. For students with artistic talents, she will encourage them to learn Cantonese opera accompaniment instruments and playing the palm board, hoping that after they have finished learning, they can form their own accompaniment band, which can integrate singing and accompaniment; for students with writing skills, she href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema encouraged them to write lyrics. Under her earnest teaching, many students made breakthroughs, went to different art stages and gained recognition.
Li Yueling often said to her classmates: “I taught you to sing Cantonese songs, and turned you into die-hard fans of Cantonese songs, but in terms of the transmission of Komiks, I hope you can one day take the initiative to shoulder the important task of spreading Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera culture. Let more people know Cantonese opera and like Cantonese opera. “
Li Yueling’s Guangdong-style students, now some of them have stepped onto the podium and become teachers. They will use Cantonese opera as class material in time to allow children to accept Cantonese opera subtly. Some have joined the bank and added Cantonese opera special show to the bank’s customer feedback activity, giving many customers who have never entered the theater for the first time to come into contact with Cantonese opera and become enthusiasts…
Under the words and deeds of Teacher Li Yueling, the students consciously regard the spread of Cantonese opera as their obligation. They have no passionate things, but have used ordinary practical actions to sow the seeds of Cantonese opera to the href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaThe hearts of more people.
Realize their dreams, they become messengers of love
Li Yueling often says: “We have received strong support from many groups along the way and the help of enthusiastic people. We must learn to be grateful. In addition to learning Cantonese opera, you can entertain yourself and enjoy yourself, I hope you can use what you have learned to bring joy to more people. ”
In recent years, Li Yueling has led students Wu Guanxian and Li Yingtong to participate in the Guangdong Music Festival on the same stage in the “Belt and Road” Charity Exhibition. Chen Zhongyan and Li Yueling have personally led the students to more than a dozen nursing homes in Guangzhou, Foshan, Jiangmen and other places for condolences. In addition, they also gave nearly 20 free plays to Foshan, Dongguan, Taishan and other places, allowing Cantonese opera to enter people’s daily lives, allowing people to feel the charm of traditional culture, and enrich the local residence. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaThe cultural life of the people.
Li Yueling is a folk artist who takes the inheritance and communication of Cantonese opera as his responsibility. Li Yueling’s disciples are the successors who make the Cantonese rhyme reverberate in the new era.