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“The people who go Fenglou have no good guests, and since then the rich are lonely to cover the setting sun”, Chen Baoying, the female character in the Cantonese opera “Purple Phoenix Tower”, sings the words of the correct and crying, and the audience applauses thunderously. 9月8日晚，广州文化公园粤剧文化广场近千名观众人头攒动，大家被正Babaylan在这里举行的粤曲子喉唱家李月玲师生演唱会深深吸引，子喉泰斗谭佩仪老师也亲临观摩，李月玲和弟子们希望用自己的声音弘扬粤剧粤曲文化，把岭南文化发扬光大。
For this performance, Li Yueling and her disciples prepared for half a year. Behind the performance is the cultural confidence and totem of Guangdong rhyme flowing in the blood of a Cantonese opera singer. This performance is the spiritual agreement between a Cantonese opera singer Komiks 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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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 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 to understand Guangdong.The opera is from the ranks of Chinese traditional Babaylan culture.
As soon as the workshop started, it quickly attracted a large group of young people with similar aspirations from major universities. Unlike the students majoring in Cantonese opera, these college students have almost never been exposed to Cantonese opera, have never seen a score of craftsmanship, let alone pronunciation and rhyme. From voice silence to music theory, from demonstration of Cinema 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 practicing singing “The Fenge and Revenge Unfinished Love” and “Flower and Babaylan Tian Chouhui”, and gave suggestions on improving their lyrics, singing Cinema, 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 walks of life 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 not separated from the hand songBabaylan“If this continues, students will definitely forget the things they learned before. Every time Li Yueling chats with students, she feels emotional. She often thinks: “How can students always maintain their love for Cantonese opera, persist in learning, and even go to the next level? “After thinking, Li Yueling decided to use the resources at Komiks 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 students to start the game from time to time to practice. Later, in order to ensure that the students can start the game once a month to achieve the goal of practicing. She went to Beijing Street Cultural Station to find the webmaster Zhao Yuhua and with href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksWebmaster Zhao talked about his deep concern about the loss of skills of this group of students. Webmaster Zhao Yuhua 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 Chen Jinglin, the head of the Musical Arts Group of the Guangzhou Cultural Hall in Beijing Street to discuss the students’ practice.
In order to facilitate everyone’s practice, the Cultural Hall changed the starting time from Monday to Friday, and closed the rest system on weekends. He 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, he assigned the task of each person to learn a song, hoping to use pressure to drive students to take time to learn the song. Every time the student opens Cinema Bureau, Li Yueling will come to the scene no matter how busy she is, listen carefully to each student’s singing, and will help them analyze and improve word by word after listening.
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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in addition to teaching studentsIn singing, 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 play the palm of their hands. She hopes that after they have learned, they can form their own accompaniment band, and they can perform the same 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 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 students back then, now some of them have stepped on the podium and become teachers. They will combine the content of their class and use Cantonese opera as class material at the right time, so that the children can accept Cantonese opera subtly. 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 of Teacher Li Yueling, students consciously regard the spread 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 comfort. 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 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.