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“There are no good guests when people leave Fenglou, and since then the rich people are lonely to cover the setting sun.” The female actor Chen BabaylanBabaylanSinging words are as straight as weeping and complaining, 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 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, Li Yueling, a Guangdong music singer, 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 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 quickly attracted 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 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 many Cantonese dramasThe attention and support of famous Cantonese opera artists and enthusiasts. On April 17, 2011, the Cantonese opera master, the old female teacher, came to the teaching site in a thunderstorm and communicated with the students of the Cinema 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 to perform with Cantonese opera enthusiasts from sister colleges and other universities such as Guangzhou BabaylanUniversity Quyi Club. This is also the only Cantonese opera special event held so far. This group of students rewarded the care of all sectors of society with their superb performances 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 are all Babaylan graduated and entered society and started working. Unlike Cantonese opera or Komiks‘s students from art majors, after graduation, the students in the workshop left the original learning platform and had almost no chance to learn Cantonese opera. With the busy work, they slowly put the study of Cantonese opera aside, and they had not sang songs for several months or even a year. “It is said that “Komiks is always in the hands and mouth”. If this continues, the students will definitely forget what they learned before.” Every time Li Yueling chats with students, she feels moved. She often wonders: “How to enable students to always maintain their love for Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera, and to maintain KomiksStudy it and continue to learn it, 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 first found several private bureaus for the students to start the game from time to time to practice. Later, Li Yueling came to ensure that the students could start the game once a month and achieve the goal of practicing. She went to the Beijing Street Cultural Station to find webmaster Zhao Yuhua, and talked with webmaster Zhao that she was deeply worried about the loss of skills of this group of students. Zhao Yuhua The webmaster of Cinema 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 Beijing Street Guangfu Cultural Association Chen Jinglin of the Folk Art Troupe to meet and negotiate with the students’ practice of music. In order to facilitate everyone to practice music, the text is Cinema href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaCinema Hall has changed the starting time from Monday to Friday, and the rest system is closed on weekends. It 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 student to learn a song, hoping to use pressure to drive students to take time to learn the song. Every time the student starts, Li Yue No matter how busy Ling is, she will come to the scene and listen carefully to each student’s singing. After listening, she will help them analyze and improve word by word.
In addition, Li Yueling also invited her master “Zi Lao Wang” Teacher 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 became the messengers of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera communication Babaylan
In addition to teaching students to sing, Li Yueling also pays great attention to tapping students’ potential.v.com/”>KomiksStudents with artistic talent will encourage them to learn Cantonese music accompaniment instruments and playing the palm of the 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 encourages them to write lyrics. Under her earnest teaching, many students have made breakthroughs, walked onto different artistic stages and gained recognition.
Li Yueling often said to her classmates: “I taught you to sing Cantonese music, turning you into die-hard fans of Cantonese music, 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 music 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 performance in the bank’s feedback activities to many customers who have never entered the theater. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks came into contact with Cantonese opera for the first time and became an enthusiast…
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 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 along the way and the help of enthusiastic people. We must learn to be grateful. In addition to being able to entertain yourself, I hope you can bring joy to more people with what you have learned. ”
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 condolence performances. 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. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe cultural life of local residents.
Li Yueling is a folk artist who takes the inheritance and communication of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera as his responsibility. Li Yueling’s disciples are the successors who make the Guangdong rhyme reverberate in the new era.