Text/Jinyang.com reporter Song Yi, correspondent Li Danhong
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“There are no good guests when people from Fenglou left, and since then, the rich people are silent. Cinemacover 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, 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 voice and carry forward Lingnan culture.
For this performance, Li Yueling and her disciples prepared 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 of 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 Yueling retreated and continued to continue her dream of inheriting the Cantonese 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 Chen Zhongyan, a famous performing artist, served as instructors. The purpose is to cultivate young students’ interest in Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera and improve their perceptual understanding of Cantonese culture. The workshop hopes that more young people can join the ranks of understanding Cantonese opera and Chinese traditional culture.
As soon as the workshop started, Komiks, it was soonCinemaAttracted a large group of young people with similar aspirations from major universities. Unlike students majoring in Cantonese opera, almost all of these college students have never been exposed to Cantonese opera, nor have they seen the sequel score, let alone pronunciation or rhyme. From voice sucking to music theory, from demonstration to teaching one by one, the two teachers led the 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 Cantonese opera master Hong Line came to the teaching site in thunderstorm to communicate with the students in the workshop. The female teacher of Red Line not only listened to the students’ famous sings such as “The Fenge and Revenge of Fengge” and “The Fallen Fields of Flowers”, but also gave suggestions on improving their lyrics, singing style, and emotions. She also sang “Cinema 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 time that the Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera special has been 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. Unlike students from Cantonese opera or art majors, students in the seminar have left the original learning platform after graduation and have almost no chance to learn Cantonese opera. With the busy work, they slowly put their Cantonese Opera 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, Li Yueling decided to use the resources around her to build a platform for the students and create opportunities for them to continue learning Cantonese opera.
She and Chen Zhongyan looked for a few firstBabaylana private game asked students to start the game from time to time. Later, in order to ensure that the students could start the game once a month to achieve the goal of practicing all the time. She went to the Beijing StreetBabaylan to find webmaster Zhao Yuhua, and talked with webmaster Zhao that she was deeply worried about the loss of skills of these students. Webmaster Zhao Yuhua was very moved to hear that there were such a group of young people who loved Cantonese opera, and immediately arranged for Li Yueling and Chen of the Folk Art Troupe of the Beijing Street Guangfu Cultural Association. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksTelegrapher Jinglin met and negotiated the students’ practice.
In order to facilitate everyone’s practice, the Cultural Association changed the starting time from Monday to Friday and the rest system of the venue closed on weekends. It 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 learn a song, hoping to use pressure to drive the students to take 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 the singing of each student. After listening, she will help them analyze and improve word by word.
Komiks In addition, Li Yueling also invited her master, “Zi-throat king” Teacher Tan Peiyi to participate in the students’ private affairs. Teacher Tan Peiyi not only shared the creative process of her first famous song “Babaylan” with the students, but also taught everyone to sing “Jinjiang Poetry Couple” word by word, which gave the students great encouragement.
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They became the messenger of Cantonese opera Cantonese opera communication
In addition to teaching students to sing, Li Yueling also pays great attention to tapping students’ potential. For students with artistic talent, she will encourage them to learn Cantonese opera accompaniment instruments and play the palm board, hoping that they can after learning.Cinema forms a Komiks accompaniment band that can integrate singing and accompaniment; for students with writing skills, she encourages them to write lyrics. Under her earnest teaching, many students have made breakthroughs, stepped onto different art stages and gained recognition.
Li Yueling often said to her classmates: “I taught you to sing Cantonese opera and turn you sing Cantonese opera into a die-hard fan of Cantonese opera, but in terms of inheritance and communication, I hope you can one day take the initiative to shoulder the important task of spreading Cantonese opera culture. Let more people know Cantonese opera and like Cantonese opera.”
Li Yueling’s Cantonese opera back then, now some of them have stepped on the podium and become teachers. They will use Cantonese opera as class material in a timely manner, so that children can accept Cantonese opera in a subtle way. Some people joined the bank and added a special Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera in the bank’s feedback activity, which gave many customers who never entered the theater to come into contact with Cantonese opera for the first time and became enthusiasts…
Under the words and deeds of Teacher Li Yueling, the students consciously took the spread of Cantonese opera as their obligation. They did not have any great deeds, but they used ordinary practical actions to sow the seeds of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera into the hearts of more people.
Realize their dreams, and they become messengers of love
Li Yueling often says: “Babaylan We have received strong support from many groups and the help of enthusiastic people along the way. We must learn to be grateful. In addition to learning Guangdong Opera, in addition to you can entertain yourself, I hope you can bring more people happiness with what you have learned.”
In recent years, Li Yueling has led students Wu Guanxian and Li Yingtong to participate in the “Belt and Road” charity exhibition on the inheritance of Guangdong folk art on the same stage. Chen Zhongyan and Li Yueling personally led the students to more than a dozen nursing homes in Guangzhou, Foshan, Jiangmen and other places for condolence performances. In addition, they also gave nearly 20 scenes for free 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 cultural life of local residents.
Li Yueling is a folk artist who regards the inheritance and communication of Cantonese opera as his responsibility. Li Yueling’s disciples are the batters who make the Guangdong rhyme reverberate in the new era.