"Queen of Sichuan Opera" Xu Qianyun dies at 94
On June 9, a reporter from Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News learned from the Sichuan Opera House that "Queen of Sichuan Opera" Xu Qianyun died at 10:40 p.m. on June 8 at the age of 94.
This is another master of Sichuan Opera leaving us after Ren Tingfang passed away a few days ago.
"Dear teacher used tenacious perseverance to explain the love of life and the reluctance to give up on the career, and left us. Your departure is a loss for Sichuan Opera and the drama world, and it is the eternal heartache of your disciples. Beautiful and strong teacher all the way Go well, we will pass on your art from generation to generation. Heaven is free from illness and pain, and heaven also has relatives and friends who love you, teacher rest in peace..." Xu Qianyun's apprentice, famous Sichuan Opera actor, and winner of the "Plum Blossom Award" Cui Guangli sent a message to mourn her teacher.
Xu Qianyun is a famous Sichuan Opera actor in China, stage name Feiqiong, Gonghuadan and Nudan.
The recipient of the special government allowance of the State Council.
She began to learn Sichuan Opera in her 10s, and has served as an actress in Southwest Sichuan Opera House, Sichuan Sichuan Opera House, Chongqing Sichuan Opera House, and vice president and president of Chongqing Sichuan Opera House.
In 1952, he won the second prize of the first national opera viewing performance; in 1956, he was named a national model worker; in 2010, he was awarded the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage.
Together with Chen Shufang, Jinghua and Yang Shuying, Xu Qianyun is known as the "Four Famous Actors of Sichuan Opera" and is known as the "Queen of Sichuan Opera".
She has also trained nearly 100 Sichuan Opera disciples, of which 6 winners of the Chinese Drama "Plum Blossom Award" include Shen Tiemei, Jiang Shumei, Cui Guangli, and Huang Ronghua.
"When I left in February this year, she said, 'I will wait for you to come back, you have to come back sooner'." Talking about her teacher Xu Qianyun, the famous Sichuan Opera actor and winner of the "Plum Blossom Award" Cui Guangli choked several times, "I just said that I wanted to Give her good news, because I said that I want to pass on her most representative drama. The Sichuan Academy (Sichuan Sichuan Opera Research Institute) had approved my application the day before, but I didn't have time to tell her, I didn't expect her The old man is gone."
Cui Guangli was very saddened by the sudden death of her teacher.
Recalling the last time I met Xu Qianyun, she was about to go abroad. "In February of this year, although Teacher Xu was in the hospital bed, she was still very awake. She told me that the art must be passed on and the next generation must be cultivated. She He also asked me to come back early. I wanted to see her several times, but I couldn’t go back because of the epidemic. I didn’t expect that she would leave after a few months, maybe it was God’s will.”
What makes Cui Guangli most regretful is that Xu Qianyun has been worried about the inheritance of Sichuan opera during her illness.
The day before Xu Qianyun's death, the Sichuan Academy had just approved Cui Guangli's application for drama inheritance, but Xu Qianyun didn't have time to know the good news.
"She loved her Sichuan Opera career all her life. Every time I went to see her, she asked me to pass on the Sichuan Opera career. I also promised her." Cui Guangli choked and said, "Every time I go, she has to talk about it. Where to revise her drama, talk about her love for Sichuan Opera... Her strength and love for her career will always be remembered by us as juniors." Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News reporter Ren Hongwei intern He Yanling Mao Yuchuan