China News Service Client, Beijing, May 28 (Yuan Xiuyue) "I told all of them to listen to me ..." After saying this, Liu Lanfang's face showed a touch of playfulness.
She is 76 years old this year, and she still has a loud voice and an energetic look when interviewed by Chinanews.com. When it comes to sister art, she has the humility of traditional artists. When it comes to current online novels and short videos, she is curious again. Speaking of storytelling, she really opened the conversation box.
From "Yue Fei Zhuan" to "Yang Family General" to "Hu Family General" and "Dream of Red Mansions", it's not tiring to blurt out. She said that this is the practice of talking on the stage all the year round to practice his mouth.
She has her own confidence in the storytelling. "Whether it is a theater of thousands of people, or the open air of tens of thousands of people, my voices are guaranteed to catch it." She emphasized that this is the charm of the art of storytelling.
Liu Lanfang was interviewed by Chinanews.com. Photo by Yuan Xiuyue
Liu Lanfang and "Yue Fei"
Until now, after 90, A Zhe still remembers the days when he listened to the storytelling with his father when he was a child. From the first grade of elementary school, he and his father were holding the radio at home every day to listen to the storytelling. In order to listen to the storytelling, he never takes a nap. Whether it is the wind and rain in the book, or the rise and fall of the dynasty, and the prosperity of the heroes, he is very fascinating.
Not only the post-90s generation, from playing the "negative drum blind man" in the poems of the Southern Song Dynasty, to the famous storyteller Liu Jingting in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and then to Yuan Kuocheng, Shan Tianfang, Tian Lianyuan ... The storyteller accompanied the people through unknown How much tea after meal time.
People invariably stood by the radio, listening to a storyteller named Liu Lanfang, starting from "Yue Fei Zhuan".
The book "Legend of Yue Fei" collected by Liu Lanfang. Photo by Yuan Xiuyue
That was in 1979. At the beginning of reform and opening up, Vientiane was renewed, and people's spiritual and cultural needs were increasing day by day. At this time, Anshan People's Radio invited Liu Lanfang to talk about a traditional book. What to say? Liu Lanfang made a proposal that seemed a bit bold at the time-"Yue Fei".
The story of Yue Fei has been circulating among the people for a long time, and Liu Lanfang often listened to her mother when she was a child. At the age of 15, she was admitted to the Anshan Qu Arts Troupe. After joining the troupe, the teacher taught "Yue Fei Zhuan", then called "Jing Zhong Shuo Yue". As soon as he was 18 or 9 years old, Liu Lanfang also said Yue Fei. The book Daozi (the outline of the storytelling) was passed down by her Bole Yang Chengtian. Therefore, when the editor of the radio station looked for Liu Lanfang to record books, the first thing she thought of was "Yue Fei Zhuan".
Choosing Yue Fei, in addition to being familiar, is also because of Yue Fei's classic stories. The storytelling has two eternal themes, one is life and death, and the other is love. Shifan storytelling, regardless of men and women, said Daomajingo, that is war. The storytelling includes "Four Generals", "Hujia General", "Yang Family General", "Xue Family General" and "Cao Family General", plus "Yue Fei Zhuan", the theme of which is patriotism and filial piety. In the past, this was a model for the elderly to educate children.
Books collected by Liu Lanfang. Photo by Yuan Xiuyue
Sometimes thousands of words are written, and the words are torn apart
In 1979, "The Legend of Yue Fei" Liu Lanfang's speech was successfully broadcast on Anshan People's Broadcasting Station. Even she did not expect that this book would be so hot. She once wrote in the article that she took the train to perform, and it was okay not to speak. Everyone would be recognized by others. Everyone was around to let her come for a paragraph. There were also listeners who rode bicycles to give her apples from dozens of miles away. There were also many letters from the audience. Sometimes they packed a sack a day.
According to statistics, over the past 40 years, there have been 774 radio stations or channels broadcasting "Yue Fei Zhuan", some of which have been broadcast many times, totaling 1,259 times, covering more than 90% of the country.
Wu Wenke, deputy chairman of the Chinese Artists Association and director of the Quyi Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Art, once analyzed that the reason why Liu Lanfang's "Yue Fei Zhuan" succeeded was because it seized the historical opportunity of chaos and chaos anyway, which triggered people's deep hearts Emotional resonance.
Liu Lanfang said fans, handkerchiefs, and soberwood used for storytelling. Photo by Yuan Xiuyue
However, for Liu Lanfang at that time, he experienced the most difficult moment in his life. At that time, she worked as a factory worker and came home from work every day to take care of her three children. She had a comfortable life and suddenly wanted to talk, not knowing what to say at all. And in the past of the "Ten Years of Catastrophe", she forgot many old books and burned many materials. Calligraphy is the life of an entertainer. Without it, there is no basis. Later, a friend found a copy of Jing Zhong Shuo Yue for her, but the content of the book was limited, and she had to rewrite the book with her husband Wang Yinquan.
For that short time, she went to the radio station to record books in the morning, went to the stage to say "Ming Yinglie" in the afternoon, listened to the book in the evening, and wrote the book in the middle of the night. She wrote in the middle of the night, and called her wife to help revise it in the middle of the night, and she got up in silence at five or six o'clock. Sometimes thousands of words were written, and they were torn as soon as they were not human words. Liu Lanfang cried angrily, "What kind of thing did I write?" But I still have to continue to write, a section of "Yue Fei" is 28 minutes, more than 7,000 words, recording three paragraphs is more than 20,000 words. I can't finish writing anymore, what can I do, I can only rely on the scene to play.
"Turn on, snap, wake up, and the last book said ... the brain began to add the accumulated things to it like a movie." Liu Lanfang said, and finished "Yue Fei Zhuan".
Data Map: Liu Lanfang made a guest appearance on the China New Network video "Character Interview Room" and improvised a storytelling performance at the interview site. China News reporter Jin Shuoshe
365 days a year I have to say 345 days
"There are so many businesses in the world, only storytelling is difficult to learn. It's not easy to comment on the expressions, and a thousand words must be remembered. First, the voice is loud, and the second is frustration. Pretending to dress up myself, like a big show!" These few words tell the storyteller's difficulty.
When she was a child, she studied storytelling not because of hobbies, but because of family difficulties. She grew up in a single-parent family. Many children could not be raised by their mothers, so she could only send her out for a meal. Most of Quyi's career emphasizes family heritage. When they enter the Quyi Troupe, everyone else is together, only she is alone. The other students are all learning Xihe Drums, and only she is the Northeast Drum, so she is always a "listener" sitting and watching.
"But then I found out that this is more than just practicing on the spot. That's why learning art is better than stealing art." She said, now she still remembers endorsing, shouting, walking, and writing books with the teacher when she was a student. situation.
In the storytelling, the suspense in the story is called the button. This suspense running to another suspense process is the key to attracting the audience, and it is also the essence of the storyteller's life to study. If the research does not understand, there will be no audience, and Liu Lanfang has no tears for this.
The elimination rate is very high in this line, talent is indispensable, and we often beat on the stage. Liu Lanfang said, why can she speak to attract others' ears? It was the practice of talking on the stage all the year round. She had to speak 345 days 365 days a year.
In more than 60 years of his artistic career, Liu Lanfang has spoken in "Yang Family General", "Hujia General", "Bao Gongqiao's Broken Crab Three", "Three dozen Wulong Towns", "Zhao Kuangyin Romance", "Nurhachi", "Liu Jinding vs. Southern Tang", and "Team Young "Yue Yun", "Mixed Demon King Cheng Biaojin", "Huaguoshan Legend" and many other storytelling books have a large audience.
Data Map: Liu Lanfang served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Photo by reporter Xu Xiyi of China News Service
The other side of Liu Lanfang: love to read online novels
However, in recent years, there has been a steady stream of comments about storytelling. In this regard, Liu Lanfang has his own views. In her view, the number of storytellers and theatregoers has dropped sharply. This is a good thing, and it shows that our stage is prosperous. But storytellers must constantly improve their own level, improve their cultural qualities, absorb sister art in many ways, and welcome them.
"Why do people like to listen to storytelling? Workers go off work three shifts and sit with their lunch boxes and listen to books; those who do small business and repair shoes in the market, sit there and wait to listen to books. Why? He was happy. What it advertises is that people have no distinction between nobleness and inferiority. At last, the small citizens at the bottom reached the peak after hard work and became a general marshal. The people will have an incentive effect when they hear it. "
Liu Lanfang said that it is not unreasonable to listen to books. It is a summary of history. Although there are rumors, the spirit has not changed. She thinks it is a pleasure to talk about the world and talk about the ancients and the present, and it may not die out.
"Whether it is a theater of thousands of people, or the open air of tens of thousands of people, I can guarantee that these throats can catch up, no matter how high you are other art artists, I go up and grab the audience, I call them all to listen to me Yes. This is the charm of the art of storytelling. "
At the age of seventy, Liu Lanfang was still exposed to various new things. She mentioned that she loves to read online novels whenever she has time. Whether it is fantasy, love or travel, she reads it, as long as she does not read it or sleep. For the combination of storytelling and the current new media, she is also happy to see the results, and she usually brushes short videos. She said, who did not come from a young age, should support young people to explore.
"I never have the same old storytellers as the old ones. The new ones are the new ones. We have to keep learning and keep up with the times. We are old and can't keep up with the twilight years, but I think so. "(Finish)