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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 Zishu, Teacher Tan Peiyi, also visited in person. Li Yueling and his disciples hope to promote the Cantonese opera culture in their own voices and carry forward the Lingnan culture.
For this performance, Li Babaylan Yueling and her disciples prepared for half a year. Behind this performance is the cultural confidence flowing in the blood of a Cantonese singer and the totem of Guangdong rhyme. 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 Yueling retreated and continued to continue her dream of inheriting the Cantonese rhyme?
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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 Cantonese opera and improve their perceptual understanding of the study 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, 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 to music theory, from demonstration to voiceTeaching one by one, the two teachers led the Babaylan 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 a 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) University Student Drama Festival has opened a special session on Cantonese opera and 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 majoring in Komiks, students in the workshop leave the original learning platform after graduation and almost did not have the opportunity to learn from 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 first found a few private games to let the students start the game from time to time to practiceBabaylan. Later, Li Babaylan Yueling, in order to ensure that the students can 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 is specially arranged to bring the accompaniment master back to work overtime on Saturday afternoon to start the game for the students.
Li YuelingBabaylanAfter implementing the venue for the start of each month, he assigns the task of each of them to learn a song, hoping to use pressure to drive students to take 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 Cinema, 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, and Babaylan 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 Babaylan Yueling also pays great attention to tapping students’ potential. For students with artistic talent, she 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 will encourage them to write lyrics. Under her earnest teaching, many students have achieved breakthroughs.ttps://comicmov.com/”>Komiks has stepped onto different art stages and gained recognition.
Li Yueling often tells her classmates: “I taught you to sing Cantonese opera and turn 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 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 make children accept Cantonese opera subtly. Some have joined the bank and added Cantonese opera special show to the bank’s customer feedback activity, which has given many customers who have never entered the theater to get in touch with Cantonese opera for the first time 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 deeds, but have used ordinary practical actions to sow the seeds of Cantonese opera to more people. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema‘s heart.
Realize their dreams, they become messengers of love
Li Yueling often says: “We have received strong support and enthusiastic help from many groups along the way. 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 Foyi inheritance “One Belt One” Charity Exhibition. Chen Zhongyan and Cinema Li Yueling have personally led the students to more than a dozen nursing homes in Guangzhou, Komiks Mountain, 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 and Cantonese opera to enter people’s daily lives and let people href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema Feel the charm of traditional culture and enrich the 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.
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