Character business card
Hou Yu, a Peking Opera Laodan actor, came from a family in Liyuan, graduated from the Performance Department of the Chinese Opera Academy, and is now an outstanding young leader of the Peking Opera Theater in Beijing. Yu Zheng Ziru.
For those who met Hou Yu for the first time, it was hard to believe that this young, beautiful and fashionable young girl turned out to be a Peking Opera Lao Dan actor.
Hou Yu has been on the stage since he was five or six years old. He has studied and grown all the way, and has become a famous young actor of Beijing Peking Opera today.
Recently, the album "Voiceless Elegant Rhyme - Hou Yu's Peking Opera Lao Dan Singing Selection" was released, which embodies her 30 years of perseverance and struggle in art.
I fell in love with Lao Dan at the age of 3
Hou Yu, who came from an aristocratic family in Liyuan, started listening to opera at the age of 3 and became a child star of Peking Opera at a very young age.
"There is a Children's Palace next to my grandmother's house. There is often the sound of playing the huqin, and there are people singing in it. I especially like listening to it. I always pester adults to take me there. Naturally, I hum the singing in the play, which surprises the adults. "In 1994, at the age of five or six, Hou Yu won the first prize of the "Xinmiao Cup" National Children's Peking Opera Invitational Competition and the first prize of the "Yanjing Cup" Children's Peking Opera Competition. Admitted as the youngest student.
What is even more incredible is that Hou Yu fell in love with Lao Dan when he was a baby.
"In the beginning, the teacher saw that I was cute and asked me to learn Hua Dan, but I didn't want to, I just like to sing Lao Dan." Zhao Baoxiu, Hou Yu's mentor, said: "The first time I met Hou Yu was at a children's event held at the Dongcheng Cultural Center. In the competition, she sang "Red Lantern", which left a deep impression on me. Later, many people persuaded her to sing Tsing Yi, but she was obsessed with Lao Dan. She is confident and thoughtful, and her Lao Dan path will definitely follow. Go wider and wider."
At the age of 14, he became the youngest student of the Chinese Opera Academy
The reason why Hou Yu insisted on her choice stemmed from her character.
She has been very planned and executed about what she wants to do since she was a child, and once she has set a direction, she will devote herself to it.
Hou Yu recalled: "When I was 11 years old, my grandfather passed away. My grandfather Hou Rongxiang was an old gentleman of the Rongchun Society, and he had a great influence on me. His death made me suddenly feel depressed. When I caught up with the voice change period, my physical and psychological reactions were quite big. From that time, I began to think about how I should go in the future." At that time, Hou Yu was thinking about graduating from technical secondary school when he was 13 or 14 years old. But at that time, there was an age limit for the college entrance examination, and if you were not old enough to participate, what could you do?
Unexpectedly, in that year, the state promulgated the policy of not restricting the age of the college entrance examination.
"I was very happy at the time, I felt that this was a godsend opportunity, so I decided to start preparing for the college entrance examination from the age of 12, and I immediately had a goal in life!"
Hou Yu has been learning opera with teacher Li Mingyan when she went to Beijing opera school, so when she took the professional class exam, she prepared a traditional old drama "The Lotus Monk Saves the Mother" taught by the teacher.
After the first test, the second test, and the third test, she won the first place in her professional class.
Sun Yumin, the then principal of the Beijing Opera School, also wrote a letter of recommendation for her, hoping it could be recommended.
However, the strong Hou Yu didn't want others to think that she was admitted to a university by professional recommendation, and that the culture class was not enough, so she insisted on taking the culture class with all her heart.
At that time, she only learned the culture class of junior high school in the drama school, but she used her last year to be cruel and hardworking. During the day, she attended various remedial classes, asked for private tutoring, and endorsed and reviewed the papers at night.
Hou Yu said proudly: "Later, my culture class exceeded the admission score by more than 100 points, and I successfully obtained the university admission letter from the China Academy of Opera. At the age of 14, I became the youngest student in the entire academy." professional road
After graduating from university at the age of 18, Hou Yu entered the Beijing Peking Opera Theatre, which he looked up to in his heart, as he wished. "It is not only a gathering place for masters and has a profound history and culture, but also my grandfather's original work unit. My grandfather used to be in the Youth Troupe of the old Beijing Peking Opera Theatre. , I am fortunate enough to enter the new youth group, which is also a fate!" At the same time as work, Hou Yu has never given up on studying. She studied for a Master of Arts in the China Academy of Opera, and was recommended to attend the workshop for the inheritors of the genre. , and was admitted to the 6th Young Postgraduate Class.
Along the way, Hou Yu is grateful to the leaders, teachers and colleagues around her. She said: "I have been able to study and work with many excellent people. It is my luck. I have learned from elementary school. I deeply realize that as the successor of the new generation of opera, blind inheritance or blind innovation are all one-sided. We must build ourselves on the basis of inheriting the wisdom of several generations of artists, combining with the development of the times, drawing on the strengths of others, and shaping ourselves in an all-round way. Self-improvement is the future development direction." On June 25, Hou Yu will perform the entire "Li Kui Visits His Mother" at the Chang'an Grand Theater together with Yang Chi, a famous Peking Opera performing artist and director of the Dalian Peking Opera Theater. Another memorial on the road of art.
Our reporter Wang Run