During the Chinese Valentine's Day in Jinan, some people listened to Guo Degang and Yu Qian's cross talk at the Shandong Provincial Sports Center, some people chased Dilireba at Jinan Sunac Cultural Tourism City, and some people watched a performance of Xipai Ming at the Beiyang Grand Theater, a century-old theater. The drama "White Emperor City".
It has been 11 years since the famous Xi Pai drama "White Emperor's City" left the Quancheng stage. In June 2022, Zhang Junqiang, a famous Peking Opera master, winner of the Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Drama, and a national first-class actor, was the first invited famous teacher in the "Famous Teachers to Pass on Opera" project and personally taught the outstanding young actor Ma Liang of the Jinan Peking Opera Theater the traditional Peking opera "Lost in the Sky" , received unanimous praise from all walks of life when it was performed at the Beiyang Grand Theater. Later, Ma Liang was awarded the title of Jinan City's "Young Art Star" in 2022. In order to present the results of the past two years of study and training to the audience, Ma Liang once again invited the master to come out to teach and guide the rehearsal.
In the play, as the fourth generation descendant of the Xi School of Peking Opera, Ma Liang plays Liu Bei. Ma Liang introduced that the Peking Opera "White Emperor City" tells the story of Liu Bei, the king of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period, who mobilized all his country's troops to attack Soochow in order to avenge the murders of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. As a famous play of the Xi School of Peking Opera, the whole play focuses on "Crying Spirits", "Fire Camp" and "Tuogu", which reflects the protagonist Liu Bei's "sorrow", "hatred" and "revenge", and shows the righteousness of the "Taoyuan Brothers" Bo Yuntian.
This is Ma Liang's first performance of this play. He said: "The singing and speaking of the bones and the inner monologue of the characters are the difficulties of the play "Baidicheng". It is precisely because of these difficulties that it highlights the The profoundness of Xi School art left by Master Xi Xiaobo, the founder of Xi School, needs us to better inherit and promote it."
Performance site, from Changsha, Shijiazhuang, Xi'an, Datong, Chongqing, Tianjin, Theater fans from Handan, Zibo, Binzhou, Weihai, Dezhou and other places across the country come here in droves. Some of them are "die-hard" fans of Xi School's operas, some came to see the famous Xi School's play "White Emperor City", and some came to chase the "starring actor" Ma Liang.
College students from Peking Opera clubs in Jinan universities such as Shandong University, Jinan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Shandong University of Finance and Economics are on summer vacation. After paying attention to the performance preview of Jinan Peking Opera Theater, they all returned to Jinan in advance just to experience Xi Pai live. The artistic charm of famous dramas.
A Handan theater fan said: "I have been liking the Xi School for many years and pursuing the art of Mr. Zhang Junqiang. This time I watched the Jinan Peking Opera Theater perform "White Emperor City" through Douyin, and he played the role of "Liu Bei" Teacher Ma Liang is Mr. Zhang Junqiang's apprentice, so I booked tickets online early. After watching it, I felt very satisfied. Ma Liang has learned the art of Xi style very solidly, and the assistants are all first-class actors. It can be seen that Jinan Peking Opera Theater has great talent. The theater atmosphere in Jinan is very good, and there are long lines to buy tickets, which shows the enthusiasm of theater fans."
A theater fan from Hunan said excitedly: "It's been a long time since I saw this production of "White Emperor City". Mr. Zhang Junqiang's generous teaching and the hard work of Ma Liang, the fourth generation successor of the Xi School, complement each other. Peking Opera will be inherited in this way." Lasting forever!”
There was also a theater fan who came back from other places and specially painted two Chinese paintings for Ma Liang. He said that he saw Ma Liang perform for the first time when he was 11 years old, and he fell in love with the art of Peking Opera at that time. When he saw the singing of "Dream Soul Room", he was so deeply involved in the opera that he "cryed miserably."
At the end of the performance, the audience still couldn't stop, and the applause and cheers echoed throughout the Beiyang Grand Theatre. Subsequently, Zhang Junqiang was invited to the stage as an invited famous teacher of Jinan Peking Opera Theater's "Famous Teachers Biography" project and Ma Liang's mentor, and expressed his gratitude to the theater fans present for their support and love with a classic aria from "Fan Jin Zhongju".
Li Qi, deputy director of Jinan Opera and Folk Art Center and secretary of the Party branch of Jinan Peking Opera Theatre, said that classic genre dramas never lack social attention and audience love. In the future, Jinan Peking Opera Theater will use this perseverance and pursuit of career With infinite perseverance, we insist on honest and innovative career development and make positive contributions to the prosperity and development of Jinan's cultural undertakings in the new era.
Reporter: Shi Xiaodan Proofreader: High-Tech Editor: Liu Meimei
