The ancient art of a nation ultimately carries the unique life course of a nation. One side of the green seat, one song of autumn moon, and listen to the Huqin. The songs of elegance and the words of Yuanyuan are like this from generation to generation, and the pure feelings of the world are performed. Inheriting the previous issue, this issue will bring you the final chapter of the "Mei Lan Fanghua - Mei LanFang Art Life Exhibition" exhibited by the National Museum.
Plum bone is proud of blood
The orchid finger twist, the neon water sleeve long air dance, is a thousand delicate zhu lips lightly opened, but also a bearded Mingzhi's breath song and dance. Since the May Fourth Movement, Mei Lanfang's dramas have been related to the changes of the times and are related to the rise and fall of the country, whether it is fashion dramas that break feudal superstitions and rituals such as "A Wisp of Hemp" and "Eunuch Sea Tide", or historical dramas that inspire the fighting spirit of the whole nation in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, such as "Life and Death Hate" and "Resisting The Golden Soldiers", all of which show his loyal and unswerving political belief and national integrity.
The Golden Soldier Cloak
There was the '9.18' incident, the northeast fell into the hands of the enemy, and the Pingjin area was in danger of being annexed every day, so I felt that it was not safe to live in Beiping, so I moved to Shanghai. In Shanghai, I rehearsed two plays, "Anti-Gold Soldier" and "Life and Death Hate", and compiled some meanings of loving the motherland and the nation into the play, hoping to express my hatred for Japanese imperialism.
——Mei Lanfang, "Fourteen Years of Stage Life"
Mei Lanfang - Chick Wisteria Diagram, colored on paper
Mei Lanfang - Guanyin statue, colored on paper
Mei Lanfang - Autumn Flower Cricket Diagram, color on paper
Mei Lanfang - Bamboo stone grass insect painting, color on paper
Mei Lanfang- Luohan statue, colored on paper
Mei Lanfang - Tiannu scattered flowers, color on paper
Mei Lanfang - Infinite Life Buddha, color on paper
Art knows no borders, but the artist has his own homeland. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Mei Lanfang and her family lived in Hong Kong and Shanghai successively, with lips and hair, singing and dancing for eight years, and living only on pawns and paintings. "Unfinished human affairs, unfinished world affairs", Mei Lanfang not only created countless character images that embody national virtues on the opera stage, but also showed the integrity and dignity of "rather than shattering jade rather than tiled" on the stage of life.
Eight years of heart like water, clenched teeth, he changed the habit of hanging his voice every day, and put his artistic feelings on painting, in the long accumulation of calligraphy and painting creation and collection, constantly accumulating strength for the future return to the stage.
Qi Baishi - Duoshou Da Li Tu, color on paper
Qi Baishi - Qiu Sheng diagram, color on paper
Puru - Maple Monkey Diagram, colored on paper
Wu Changshuo - Mo Mei tu, color on paper
Mei Lanfang's interest in painting stemmed from a plum blossom painting given by the painter Wu Changshuo, and then she studied painting with the painter Wang Mengbai. He is good at painting Buddha statues and ladies, mainly based on imitation of the ancients, and created classic dramas such as "Heavenly Girl Scattered Flowers" and "Roselle" according to the female figures. In addition, Mei Lanfang realized the close connection between painting and stage art from the layout, composition and relationship between virtual reality, simplicity and complexity, and closeness, and applied the color collocation in painting as a reference for the design of dramatic costumes and makeup transformation, which can be described as pen and ink, and the heart is tied to the stage.
Huang Binhong - Yuxuan diagram, color on paper
Meiqing- Yunshan map, color on paper
Luo Fukan - Landscape map, color on paper
Plum newspaper all things spring
I have seen with my own eyes how Beijing has changed over the past six decades. In the past fifty years of unpleasant past, in this jubilant festival, I do not want to talk about it, I only talk about since the founding of New China, mulberry fields have become vicissitudes, flat land gushed out of the terrace, Yugong moved mountains, Tiansun brocade, endless thousands of wonderful places, ten thousand kinds of scenery.
——Mei Lanfang, "A Thousand Wonderful Places, Ten Thousand Kinds of Scenery"
After the founding of New China, Mei Lanfang returned to Beijing after a long absence, and climbed the Tiananmen Tower to participate in the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, witnessing this great moment with her own eyes. Eighteen years have transformed the vicissitudes of the old Peiping into a vibrant and powerful new Beijing. As a representative of the literary and art workers of New China, Mei Lanfang, who returned to his hometown, shouldered the mission of the times and led the Mei Opera Troupe to travel all over the motherland, he went to the front line to perform for the volunteer soldiers, and then went deep into the interior to serve the workers and peasants, conveying the beauty of opera to the broader masses.
In 1952, Mei Lanfang went to Vienna as a Chinese representative to attend the World People's Peace Congress, and in 1956, she led a Chinese Peking Opera delegation to perform in Japan, achieving great success and playing an important role in promoting the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations.
Mei Lanfang, who ushered in the new China, became more relaxed, and he knew more and more clearly what he could do for Peking Opera. He kept pace with the times, introduced the old and the new, absorbed the essence of Western drama, tried fashion drama, made different degrees of improvements to the performance script, form and costumes, and presented gifts for the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and rehearsed the first new play after the founding of New China, "Mu Guiying Hangs Commander".
Mu Guiying hung up as a marshal and a female leaning
Mei Yun exhibition new voice
In the era of peace, Mei Lanfang used art as a bridge to sing the theme of the times of common development of the people of the world. As a generation of opera masters, he has devoted a lot of effort to artistic inheritance and experience summary. In 1951, he was appointed as the president of the China Academy of Opera, and while studying the culture of opera, he also maintained the necessary tension in the opera activities, so that this traditional art could be passed down in a relatively complete way in the era of innovation and change, which is another artist known as the "King of the Lingjie" since Tan Xinpei.
Mei Lan Fang Han white jade sitting statue
Our art must be authentic and unbreakable in order to be passed on forever... The legacy that our ancestors have left us, we must inherit well and let it flourish. But we have to have new innovations. At the same time, in the excavation, collation, and adaptation work, everyone should concentrate on co-creation, and also leave some decent things for the next generation.
——Mei Lanfang, "Speech at the Wuhan Opera Circle Symposium in 1957"
Mei Lanfang, with his life, shows us how to melt traditional art and the spirit of the times to create a model of beauty, and how to transcend the times to achieve the perfection of personality and morality. He learned to play at the age of 8 and took the stage at the age of 11, singing the oldest plays in a short and wonderful 67 years, sticking to the purest heart. He first kneaded himself into Peking Opera, then grew up with Peking Opera, and finally carried forward Peking Opera, and his life has been integrated with Peking Opera, which cannot and cannot be separated.
In the center of the stage, Liu Bo's eyes moved gracefully, and the singing and three sighs were just like a jade hairpin flower blooming on the land of China, and the brilliant people were still in the stage, singing the cultural changes of five thousand years.
So far, the "Mei Lan Fanghua - Mei Lan Fang Art Life Exhibition" exhibited at the National Expo has all been shared. In the next issue of the art scene, we continue wonderfully.
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