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“There are no good guests when people from Fenglou left, and since then, the rich people are lonely and cover the setting sun.” Chen Baoying, a female actor in the Cantonese opera “Purple Phoenix Tower”, sings the words of Chen Baoying, as if she was crying and complaining, and the audience applause was thunderous. On the evening of September 8, the Cantonese Opera Culture Plaza in Guangzhou Cultural Park was crowded with nearly a thousand audiences. Everyone was deeply attracted by the teacher-student concert of Li Yueling, a Cantonese opera singer, was being held here. The master of Zixiao, Teacher Tan Peiyi also visited the scene in person. Li Yueling and his disciples hope to promote the Cantonese opera culture with their own voices and promote the southern culture of Komiks.
For the performance of KomiksBabaylan, Li Yueling and her disciples prepared for half a year. Behind this performance was the cultural confidence and totem of Guangdong rhyme flowing in the blood of a Cantonese singer. This performance was the spiritual agreement between a Cantonese music singer and a group of ignorant college students who knew 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? Cinema
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Seeking dreams, and the origin of CUHK
In 2009, Guangdong music 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.
CinemaThe following year, the studio opened a Cantonese opera workshop for college students. Li Yueling and famous performer Chen ZhongyanKomiks serves as instructor, aiming to cultivate young students’ interest in Cantonese opera, 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, Cantonese opera and traditional Chinese culture.
As soon as the workshop opened, it quickly attracted a large group of young people with similar aspirations from major universities. Unlike students majoring in Cantonese opera, these college students have almost never been exposed to Cantonese opera, have never seen a sequel to pronunciation and rhyme. From singing voice to music theory, from demonstration to teaching one by one, the two teachers led this <a The Cinema group of students started from scratch. The workshop also attracted the attention and support of many famous Cantonese opera artists and enthusiasts. On April 17, 2011, the Cantonese opera master Hong Line female teacher came to the teaching site in a thunderstorm to communicate with the students in the workshop. The Hong Line female teacher not only listened to the students practicing singing "The Fenge and Revenge of the Phoenix Pavilion" and "The Flower Fields' Misconception", and gave suggestions on their improvements in their lyrics, singing style, and emotions. She also sang "Red Candle Tears" on the spot and put forward earnest expectations. The 7th (Guangzhou) College Students' Drama Festival opened a special session on Cantonese opera, inviting Babaylan. Komiks Workshop and Cantonese opera enthusiasts from brother colleges and universities such as Guangzhou University Quyi Club. 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 walks of life and sang the dream of spreading and inheriting the tradition with Guangdong rhyme.
Continue the dream, continue the relationship between teachers and students outside the school. Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the students graduate and leave. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema goes to society and gets into work. Unlike students from Cantonese opera or art majors, students in the seminar leave their original learning platform after graduation and have almost no chance to get involved in Cantonese opera learning. In addition to their busy work, they slowly put Cantonese opera learning aside for several months or even a year.
“It is said that ‘The fist is always inseparable from the mouth’. If this continues, students will definitely forget what they have learned before.” Every time Li Yueling talks to students, she feels emotional. She often thinks: “How can students always maintain their love for Cantonese opera and 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 provide for the students.href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema builds a platform 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 wanted to ensure that the students could start the game once a month and achieve the goal of practicing all the time. 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. When the webmaster Zhao Yuhua heard that there were such a group of young people who loved Guangdong opera, he was very moved. He immediately arranged for Li Yueling to meet with Chen Jinglin, the head of the Folk Art Troupe of the Guangzhou Cultural Hall of 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 master, “Zi Du Wang”, to participate in the students’ private affairs. Teacher Tan Peiyi not only shared the creation process of his first famous song “Cai Wenji Returns to Han” with the students, but also taught everyone to sing “Jinjiang Poetry Couple” word by word, giving the students great encouragement.
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CinemaDream, 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 talent, she will encourage them to learn Cantonese musical instruments and playing the palm of their hands. She hopes 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, stepped onto different art stages and gained recognition.
Li Yueling often said to her classmates: “I taught you to sing Cantonese songs, Babaylan turned you into die-hard 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 culture. Let more people know Cantonese opera and like Cantonese opera.”
The Cantonese students of Li Yueling back then have now walked on the podium and became teachers. They will use Cantonese opera as class material in time, 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 the deeds of Lielie, 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, they become the 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 should learn to be grateful. In addition to you being able to entertain 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 “Belt and Road” charity exhibition in Guangdong Foyi Inheritance. CinemaCinemaChen Zhongyan and Li Yueling personally led the students to visit 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 YueBabaylanLing 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.