Author: I am red

"The decline of the Han Dynasty is in danger and the world is in turmoil."

The season has just entered May, and one foot of the capital has entered midsummer. Even in the early morning, the breeze carries the heat wave and rustles the lush branches and leaves below the terrace.

Xu Rong stood on the terrace, holding his right hand flat in front of him: "The princes from all walks of life are rising from all directions."

Classmate Xiao Zhang was lying listlessly on the recliner, listening to Xu Rong's "arrogant" without end. When Xu Rong finally finished "arrogant", she had an idea and quickly sat up straight on the recliner.

She beat the beat and followed it up with some kind of art form from her hometown: "Get up, get up, get up!"

Xu Rong almost choked when he heard this. He glanced sideways at her, raised his foot, took two steps to one side, and said: "I always visit famous officials."

Classmate Xiao Zhang’s mouth opened slightly. “Visiting famous officials” is not a combination of a noun and a verb. She was going to wait a little longer.

"Collect all the virtuous people in the world."

Classmate Xiao Zhang took it over again: "So search for virtuous people!"

Xu Rong stopped, looked at classmate Xiao Zhang who was staring at him intensely, and asked, "Why don't you practice?"

Classmate Xiao Zhang said matter-of-factly: "I've practiced before."

"Huh? Are you thinking about it again?"

Xu Rong looked at the hint of "Don't you understand?" sent by classmate Xiao Zhang, and swallowed the second half of the sentence. If he had to count, classmate Xiao Zhang had indeed done the morning exercise, and he still exceeded the limit.

"Boss Xu, let's do it again."

At this moment, an extremely sudden shout came from downstairs, startling both of them.

Xu Rong and Xiao Zhang looked at each other: "Call me?"

"One more section, Boss Xu." A female voice urged again.

Classmate Xiao Zhang hunched over, walked to the edge of the terrace softly, poked his head and glanced down: "Oh my God."

She quickly retracted her head.

"What's wrong?" Xu Rong took two steps forward and looked down. He didn't know when seven or eight people had gathered downstairs.

There are men and women, old and young.

One of the gray-haired old men saw him sticking his head out, and shouted with a loud laugh: "Boss Xu, do it again."

My dear, you really feel like a theater actor here to listen to a play.

Xu Rong smiled and neither refused nor accepted, but said: "I don't sing well, I'm disturbing everyone."

Wealth and quality are not absolutely proportional, but the undeniable fact is that the price of the community does screen out most people with low quality, and those who are not screened out often pretend to be poor under the influence of the overall environment.

Due to his unique qualities, a group of people gathering downstairs of another house rarely happened in the past.

"Boss Xu is so humble!"

"The singing is great."

"Thank you."

Xu Rong cleared his throat and took out his best "Lock the Five Dragons": "The order was given to tie up the tent, and the hero couldn't help but smile."

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"You can't resolve your hatred in this life, and you will be reincarnated twenty years later."

This is Xu Rong's favorite and best aria. It comes from a section of "Zhan Xiongxin". It tells the story of Li Shimin's attack on Zheng. Shan Xiongxin, a subordinate of King Zheng and Wang Shichong, rode alone into the Tang camp to fight to the death. He refused to surrender and was executed before he was executed.

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Although he is about to be executed, the aria is filled with the heroism of dying generously.

After about six or seven seconds of silence, a powerful shout of "Okay" suddenly broke out from downstairs.

This is the purpose of Xu Rong's hard work in learning this section. The reason why he likes it and is good at it is because this section is the most suitable for showing off.

It doesn’t matter whether you are an expert or not, whether you know how to play or not, you will know that he is awesome as soon as you hear it.

It's just a bit throaty.

Xu Rong smiled and looked at the neighbors downstairs who were looking up with their chins raised, and said with a smile: "Sorry, I have to go to work later, so I'll sing again tomorrow."

However, the situation downstairs also made him think about a question. If he really followed Shang Changrong's statement and practiced hard for three years before retiring, would he really be just able to perform on stage in the industry?

His initial purpose of learning Peking Opera was to improve his overall level in voice, stage, form, and performance. Peking Opera is one of the few arts he has seen, and every singing line and every body movement contains beauty. performing art form.

Western drama originated from ancient Greek tragedy, while Chinese opera can be traced back to the witchcraft rituals of the Pre-Qin Dynasty. Both have gone through more than two thousand years of development and change, and the development of both shows amazing consistency.

For creators, in addition to the difference in presentation form between film and television performances and Eastern and Western dramas, the biggest difference is that film and television performances are "one-off", that is, whether it is a Western opera, a drama or a Chinese opera, the repertoire performed by each actor is unique. It is limited. Even the best actors are often good at no more than ten plays.

Behind "being good" is thousands of practices of every action, every line and even every expression. With this kind of non-mechanical repetition, we finally reach the ultimate in the art of drama, opera and even performance. Pursue and complete the original intention of the creation, while maintaining the beauty of 360 degrees without blind spots.

The stylization passed down by word of mouth is the basic standard of "beauty". However, because people's materials are different, how to find the most suitable way of presentation is the actor's own practice.

The method Shang Changrong taught him was to practice more. The more times you practice, the more you will understand.

Pu Cunxi's suggestion yesterday to specialize in Cao Cao reminded him.

There was absolutely no need for him to study several different characters at the same time. Instead, he started to study the character Cao Cao first, and thoroughly studied all aspects of this character's hands, eyes, body, method, steps, singing, reading, action, and fighting.

There are many plays related to Cao Cao in Peking Opera, but this role has very high requirements for actors. Some plays have even been lost because they are difficult to perform and sing, such as "Wujie Mountain", "Revolt against Xiliang", "Battle of Huainan", etc., which are currently in theaters. The plays include "Beating Drums and Scolding Cao", "Meeting of Heroes", "Huarong Road", "White Gate Tower", "Xu's Mother Scolding Cao", "Catch and Release Cao", and such plays as "War on Wancheng", " Plays such as "Xiaoyaojin" that were often performed in the past are basically not performed nowadays.

When old books are lost, new ones naturally come out, such as "Cao Cao and Yang Xiu" starring Shang Changrong, but it emphasizes both singing and craftsmanship. It can be said to be a combination of copper hammer and frame. On the basis of difficult characters, the difficulty is increased out of thin air.

In the history of Peking Opera, there are three actors known as "Living Cao Cao". The first is Huang Runfu in the late Qing Dynasty, followed by Hao Shoushen, and then Hao Shoushen's disciple Yuan Shihai. However, according to peer evaluations, Hao Shoushen's skills are obviously Above Huang Runfu and Yuan Shihai.

In the current "Catch and Release Cao", the role of Cao Cao has almost become a supporting role, but the old students who have worked with Hao Shoushen have all been reduced to supporting roles, even the old students like Gao Qingkui and Yan Jupeng. Gao Qingkui once said this: "

Mr. Hao's drama surpasses Chen Gong in terms of grandeur

, this end is not lit, so he can’t even lift his head!” Yan Jupeng once said to his son: “When Boss Hao played Cao Cao, he added a lot of old things.

He is very impressive, but if you are not evenly matched in art, you will definitely not be able to play him."

This is the goal set by Xu Rong. After reaching a similar level, he can then "learn by analogy" and even go beyond the professions to study and study every role in the profession, the Dan profession, the last profession and the ugly profession.

After doing this, his reserve will store a large number of artistically beautiful figures and lines.

And these reserves will explode huge energy in film and television performances.

Cao Cao is not only a problem for the colorful-face industry, but also a big problem for the entire film and television industry. Not to mention perfect, there are very few actors who can be recognized by 80% of the audience.

If he can really master the role of Cao Cao to the point where everyone has to play a supporting role for him, in the future, the role of Cao Cao in the film and television industry will be his exclusive territory.

While Xu Rong was practicing in the morning, Pu Cunxi dialed Shang Changrong's phone number. After chatting for a long time, he said: "Teacher Shang, I really appreciate you. Yesterday, Xiao Xu performed a piece for us, that three-legged scammer."

, I thought he was a martial arts student at the time."

After returning home yesterday, the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became. Xu Rong was brought up by him almost single-handedly. He really didn't understand Xu Rong's temperament, so he either didn't do it or he did his best.

Although Xu Rong assured him that he was just learning from it, he was really worried.

Shang Changrong laughed and replied: "He was born to eat this bowl of rice. He has a good foundation. He can sing Bao Gong and act Zhang Fei, Li Yuanba and Jiang Wei. It is not difficult for him."

Bao Gong, also known as Heitou, has a copper-hammered face, another name for a big painted face. He mainly focuses on singing. Zhang Fei is the representative role of the pretentious painted face. Li Yuanba, Jiang Wei and Gao Chong were all played by Wu painted face in the early days.

Shang Changrong believes that Xu Rong will be an all-powerful person who believes in pure conduct in the future.

Pu Cunxi's heart trembled when he heard it. He didn't care whether Xu Rong was omnipotent or not, but Xu Rong was just an ordinary person. Since he was distracted by movies and TV shows, how could he have so much time to study Peking Opera? After pondering for a moment, he expressed his feelings

Worry: "I have to thank you, otherwise such a good foundation will really be wasted. By the way, Teacher Shang, our college wants to arrange to study abroad, won't it be delayed?"

Hearing this, Shang Changrong chuckled and said, "Good thing, good thing. He also told me early in the morning that learning opera is to learn from each other's strengths and make up for one's weaknesses. It cannot delay business."

Pu Cunxi was a little unsure for a while. He always felt that Shang Changrong had a big agenda, but judging from his attitude, he seemed to have a dispensable attitude towards whether Xu Rong should continue to learn opera.

After Shang Changrong hung up the phone, he sighed silently. In fact, he never expected Xu Rong to give up drama or film.

That's not realistic.

The purpose of actors singing is to survive. Even the initial witchcraft ceremony is to survive in a harsh environment. If Xu Rong abandoned film and television as a mainstream art form for Peking Opera, it would be contrary to the original intention of the birth of opera.

But it's not like he didn't have any other ideas.

Pu Cunxi's guess was correct, he indeed had the intention to make Xu Rong silent and become a blockbuster.

And according to his inference, the possibility of this plan being implemented is very high.

First of all, Xu Rong's various talents are far beyond those of ordinary people, and his foundation has been laid very solidly by sister arts. For example, to train a newbie, it would take one or two years just to teach Qigong. However, Xu Rong does not need to use the expression "Qigou"

Explain to him the connotation of unclear nouns, and he will know what to do.

This is equivalent to ten years less hard work.

What he values ​​​​is Xu Rong's huge fan base and good market reputation, which is difficult for any Peking Opera performer to match.

Even if Peking Opera practitioners collectively speak out, the publicity effect will not be as effective as a performance by a hugely influential public figure like Xu Rong.

He always felt that with Xu Rong's fame, Peking Opera might really be revitalized.

Because the root cause of the small audience for Peking Opera and drama is not that the audience really hates it, but that most people subconsciously resist understanding this art form that seems to be labeled as "traditional", "backward" and "ignorant".

Although both drama and opera are relatively "advanced" arts in the West.

If the audience is willing to put aside the prejudices caused by various external factors in the past and choose a truly good-looking drama, like "Wotou Guild Hall" and "Thunderstorm", which Renyi has become popular among young people in the past two years, I am afraid that they will immediately
To be continued...