Text/Jinyang.com reporter Song Yi, correspondent BabaylanLi Danhong
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“The people from Fenglou left no good guests, 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 the correct and crying, and the audience applauses thunderously. On the evening of September 8, nearly a thousand audiences were crowded with people from 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, who was being held here. The master of Zishu, Teacher Tan Peiyi, also visited in person. Li Yueling and his disciples hoped that Komiks would use their own voice to promote the Cantonese opera culture 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 and totem of Guangdong rhyme flowing in the blood of a Cantonese singer. 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 retreats and continues to inherit the dream of inheritance?
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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 Babaylan‘s 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. Different from the students majoring in Cantonese Opera, these college students have almost never been exposed to Cantonese opera, nor have they seen the scores of the craftsmanship, let alone pronunciation or rhyme. From voice to music theory, from demonstration to voice one by oneTo teach, 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 a thunderstorm and communicated 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 Student Opera Festival has opened a special session of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera, inviting workshops 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 Cinema students used their superb performance to repay the care of all sectors of society, and sang the dream of spreading and inheritance with the 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 the study of Cantonese opera aside, and they have not sang music for several months, and 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 to enable students to always maintain their love for Cantonese opera, persist in learning, and even go to a higher 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 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 chatted with webmaster Zhao about her deep thoughts.cmov.com/”>Cinema was deeply worried about the loss of skills of these students. Webmaster Zhao Yuhua was very moved when he heard that there were such young people who loved Cantonese opera. He immediately arranged for Li Yueling to meet with Chen Jing, the Folk Art Troupe of the Guangzhou Cultural Hall of Beijing Street, and negotiated with students to practice music. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan.
In order to facilitate everyone to practice music, the Cultural Association has changed the starting time from Monday to Friday and the rest system of the venue 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 Yueling fell to the venue for the start of each month, and assigned the task of each person 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, listen carefully to each student’s singing, and will help him word by word after listening. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema analyzes and improves.
In addition, Li Yueling also invited her master, “Zihu Wang” Teacher Tan Peiyi to participate in the students’ private affairs. CinemaTan 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 become the messenger of Cantonese opera Cantonese opera. In addition to teaching students to sing, Li Yueling also pays great attention to tapping students’ potential. For students with artistic talents, she will encourage them to learn Cantonese operaKomiks accompaniment instruments and playing the palm board, hoping that they can after learning.Babaylan forms her own accompaniment band, which can integrate singing and accompaniment; for students with a good foundation in writing, 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 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 culture. Let more people know Cantonese opera and like Cantonese opera.”
Li Yueling’s Cantonese opera students back then, now some of them have stepped on the podium and become teachers. They will use Cantonese opera as class materials in time, and let the children subtly accept Cantonese opera. Some people joined the bank and added a special Cantonese opera opera to the bank’s feedback activity to give back to customers, giving them to many customers who never enter the theater for the first time to come into contact with Cantonese opera, and become enthusiasts…
Under the words and deeds of Teacher Li Yueling, the students consciously took the broadcast 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 your 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 must learn to be grateful. In addition to learning Guangdong opera, in addition to being able to 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. 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 music artist who regards the inheritance and spread of Cantonese opera and Cantonese opera as his own Cinema. Li Yueling’s disciples are the successors who make the Guangdong rhyme reverberate in the new era.