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“The people who go to Fenglou are not good, and the rich have been lonely since then,” Chen Baoying, the female character in the Cantonese opera “Purple Phoenix Tower”, sings the words of Chen Baoying, as if she is crying and complaining, and the audience applauses thunderously. On the evening of September 8, nearly a thousand audiences were crowded with people in the 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 the Momo. Li Yueling and his disciples hoped to promote the Cantonese opera culture in their own voices and carry forward the Lingnan culture.
For this performance, Li Yueling and her disciples prepared for half a year. Behind this performance is the cultural confidence flowing in the blood of a Cantonese opera singer and the totem of Guangdong rhyme. This performance is the spiritual agreement between a Cantonese opera singer and a group of ignorant college students who know nothing about Cantonese opera. 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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In 2009, Guangdong musical Zixia singer Li Yueling retired from the Guangdong Music and Music Art Troupe. That year, the Cantonese Opera and Cantonese Opera KomiksCultural 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 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 Cantonese opera and Chinese traditional culture.
As soon as the workshop started, it attractedA 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 lifting to music theory, from demonstration to teaching one by one, the two teachers led this group of 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 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. 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.
“As the saying goes, “The fist is always inseparable from the hand and the mouth.” If this continues, the students will definitely forget what they have learned before.” Li YueBabaylanEvery time he chats with students, he feels moved. She often wonders: “How can students Babaylan 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 Komiks students to 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 made sure that the students could start every month and achieve the goal of practicing. 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 this group of students. Webmaster Zhao Yuhua listenThere was such a group of young people who loved Guangdong opera Komiks, and they were very moved. They immediately arranged for Li Yueling to meet with Chen Jinglin, the head of the Folk Art Troupe of the Guangzhou Cultural Hall in Beijing Street to discuss the students’ practice music.
In order to facilitate everyone to practice music, the Cultural Association has changed the starting time from Monday to Friday and closed on weekends. It has 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 start of each month, she assigned the task of each student to learn a song, hoping to use pressure to drive students to take the time to learn the song. Every time the student starts, no matter how busy Li Yueling will come to the scene, listen carefully to each student’s singing, and after listening to them, she will help them analyze and improve word by word.
In addition, Li Yueling also invited her own master, Mr. Tan Peiyi, to participate in the students’ private affairs. Teacher Tan Peiyi not only shared the creation process of her first famous song “Cai Wenji Returns to Han” 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 transformed into Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera communication messengers
In addition to teaching students to sing, Li Yueling also pays great attention to tapping the potential of Cinema students. For students with artistic talent, Babaylan she would encourage them to learn Cantonese accompaniment instruments and play the palm board, hoping that after they have finished learning, Komiks can form their own accompaniment band, which can integrate singing and accompaniment; for students with writing skills, she would encourage 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, turning you into Babaylan‘s hardcore fans 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 and Cantonese opera culture. Let more people knowCantonese opera, like Cantonese opera. ”
Li Yueling’s Cantonese students, now some of them have entered the Babaylan podium and become teachers. They will combine their own class content and use Cantonese opera as class material, allowing children to subtly accept Cantonese opera. Some of them have joined the bank and added a Cantonese opera special show in the bank’s feedback activities to give back to customers, which has given many customers who have never entered the theater to come into contact with Cantonese opera for the first time and become enthusiasts…
Teacher Li Yueling Under the teachings of Babaylan, students consciously regard the spread of Cantonese opera as their obligation. They did not have a grand deed, but used ordinary practical actions to sow the seeds of Cantonese opera in the hearts of more people.
Realizing their dreams, they turned into the messengers of love
Li Yueling often said: “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 you being able to entertain yourself, I hope that 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 Quyi inheritance “One Belt One” 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 scenes to Foshan, Dongguan, Taishan and other places, allowing Cantonese opera and 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.
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