Excellent people are always lonely on the road of life. They are so respected and loved that not many people can resonate with their souls. No one understands the state of mind of good people, so they are single.
When it comes to opera, young people may not know much about it, but older people definitely know it. This is the memory of Chinese in their bones, and once they are old, they may become interested in this traditional Chinese program.
Today's opera is not only popular with the elderly, but also more and more young people are beginning to understand and pass on this tradition.
In the opera world, there are very few people who can be called masters. But there are such a part of people, their excellence has been recognized by countless opera lovers.
Among the winners of the Plum Blossom Award for Drama, it is not difficult for us to see such a group of masters. They have dedicated their lives to art, and their voices have given the soul and emotion of opera.
When it comes to Peking Opera, the first thing that comes to our mind is Mei Lanfang, as a famous Peking Opera master, even though he has passed away now, but every time Peking Opera is mentioned, people have to sigh at his excellence and love for opera.
As the originator of the Peking Opera Mei School, he dedicated his life to art. Mei Lanfang's original performance has also made the Mei School, a Peking Opera genre, a far-reaching existence.
The person we are going to introduce today, although he is not Mei Lanfang's personal disciple, still inherits the essence of the Mei School.
Li Shengsu, as one of the disciples of Mei Lanfang's ninth son, Mei Baojiu, dedicated her soul to Peking Opera. As an excellent inheritor among the disciples of the Mei School, she has done her best for the development of Peking Opera.
Li Shengsu, born in Xingtai City, Hebei Province in 1966, she has begun to contact opera at a young age, but at the beginning she was learning to sing Henan Opera, at the age of 23 into the Handan Peking Opera Troupe, due to outstanding strength and diligent quality, June 27, 1995, this is a day worth remembering forever for Li Shengsu. On that day, she was selected by Mei Baojiu to become his disciple.
At that time, Mei Baojiu was 61 years old, and Li Shengsu was only 29 years old, which was the age of his prime. We all know that those who learn opera have to go through a long period of study.
Being able to become Mei Baojiu's disciple is a glorious thing for everyone who learns opera. That's how Lee felt at the time.
In order to win applause and appreciation, Lee Shengsu at that time simply tried his best to study. Because of her beautiful appearance, she was called "the first beauty of Peking Opera" at that time.
In 1996, Lee Seung-su won the Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre.
In 2001, after officially completing her studies, Li Shengsu was transferred to the National Peking Opera Company, and now she has become the head of the first troupe of the Peking Opera Company, which can be described as a high achievement.
In 2004, Lee Seung Su brought Chinese opera to the Vienna Musikverein for the first time, presenting the charm of Chinese art to foreigners.
Today's Lee Seung-su has a smooth career, but her marital status has not been announced to the outside world, which makes countless people wonder.
Different from Li Shengsu's beauty, Li Min's image in Yue Opera has always been like a narcissus, elegant and fragrant. It makes people unconsciously immersed in it.
Li Min, who was born in Zhejiang Province in 1968, was already famous at a young age, and at the age of 18, she had already entered the troupe and worked full-time at Hua Dan.
Partnering with Wang Junan on the stage, two excellent people are always praised when they get together, the timbre of the two is different, they can always cooperate well on the stage, the two achieve each other, as the head of the troupe, Hua Dan and Xiaosheng.
In the past ten years, Li Min has starred in many plays, and the various images created in them have made countless people feel that the image is incomparable.
In 2007, Li Min won the 23rd Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre.
She turned her love into a career, and finally for the inheritance and development of Yue Opera, Li Min resolutely left the troupe she had worked hard for many years and returned to Zhejiang, where she chose to establish the Yue Opera Troupe to pass on this excellent opera to more young people and let more people fall in love with Yue Opera.
As an artist who inherits Yue Opera, Li Min dedicates all her energy. Now she is 47 years old, and she still dedicates her body and mind to Yue Opera, and is busy in the troupe every day, not talking about her feelings.
Another outstanding drama inheritor, Han Zaifen, was born in 1968, she learned Huangmei Opera at the age of 10 and played the leading role at the age of 12.
Although she was very young, the confidence and indifference with which she stood on the stage at that time made people feel at a glance that this was a good seedling to learn Huangmei Opera, and he was also called "Huangmei Fairy" by the audience at that time.
At the age of 32, Han Zaifen's wonderful performance in "Huizhou Woman" made countless people applaud, and it was this play that won her the 17th Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre.
At the age of 37, Han Zaifen served as the director of the Anqing Zaifen Huangmei Drama Theater, a theater named after her, which gave people a sense of her great dedication to Huangmei Opera.
At the age of 47, Han Zaifen won the Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Drama again in 2015. As an excellent inheritor, Han Zaifen can be said to have dedicated his soul to art.
Her great dedication is shocking enough, she is such an excellent person, who has dedicated her life to art, and now lives a life of being alone with Huangmei Opera, which has to make people admire her spirit.
The above three opera inheritors have used their lives to tell people who love art their choices, and their spirit is admirable.
Because of the dedication of these people, we have been able to put our traditional Chinese art on the international stage, and many foreigners have been amazed by Chinese art. The beauty of Chinese art is uninimitable and exciting.
Nowadays, more and more young people are beginning to be interested in opera, and this traditional art has begun to be younger and more modern. The opera that has been integrated with fresh blood will definitely be able to become more and more brilliant under the leadership of young people.
We sincerely thank these veteran artists for their dedication and pay tribute to those veteran artists who have always adhered to traditional art. It is because of their persistence that our tradition has been passed on and developed.
More and more people are beginning to pay attention to these traditions, and for us, we should firmly inherit and love the things left by our ancestors, which is our duty and obligation. I hope that every traditional art will be passed on continuously.