She is a famous young opera fan of Shanghai Yue Theatre's Red House Troupe and a direct disciple of the founder of fan art.
Look, for a belief.
Zhang Ruihong is a real water woman. He was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and his father is a senior director of Shaoxing Yue Opera Troupe. However, her connection with Yue Opera is not as natural as people think, but rather legendary, just like those legendary stories that she often interprets on the stage in the future. "My father didn't approve of me being engaged in this industry at first, and hoped that a college student would come out of our family." She said this. However, in 1979, when Linhai Yue Opera Troupe went to Shaoxing to enroll students, she couldn't even hum a word about Yue Opera at that time, but her clear voice and handsome appearance attracted the attention of the teacher in charge of enrollment. Since then, she has formed an indissoluble bond with Yue Opera.
Many years later, when Zhang Ruihong recalled a scene where a person secretly took a long-distance bus to linhai for a second interview without telling his parents, he was still a little scared. "The car is driving on the winding winding mountain road, and there is a bottomless cliff outside the window. At that time, I thought to myself, hanging like this, what if I fall? " However, on this winding mountain road, the stubborn Zhang Ruihong knows one thing better: "Since you have chosen, you can only move forward, not backward. In your own way,
You can only do it step by step on your own. After that, her struggle and exploration made the best footnote for this unusual first step.
If you open Zhang Ruihong's resume, you may be surprised at her rich experience: she joined Linhai Yue Troupe from 65438 to 0979, and served as the main actor and deputy head of the troupe. 1982 was selected and sent to Zhejiang Art School. 1984 was admitted to the Yue Opera Class of Shanghai Opera School. 1987 After graduation, he was officially transferred to the Youth League Committee of Shanghai Yue Theatre as the main actor. Merged into the Red Chamber from 190. This life experience of combining stage practice with theoretical study has brought endless benefits for Zhang Ruihong to understand the essence of art and shape the stage image after his death. After studying in drama school for many years, although young Zhang Ruihong once missed the most prosperous and lively Yue Opera in the 1980s, she also gave her a lot. It is precisely because of those years of hard study and training that she has an excellent understanding and understanding of art today. It is also precisely because of the influence of different styles of Yue Opera in Shanghai and Zhejiang that she has a comprehensive and complete understanding of the art of Yue Opera. This is why Zhang Ruihong, who just arrived in Shanghai, resolutely gave up immediately entering the Yue Theatre and was willing to sit on the bench for three years in the drama school. For this choice, Zhang Ruihong never regrets: "The missed glory is only temporary, but the accumulation I have gained from it can benefit me a lot in my life."
"If the sky is going to fall to the people of Sri Lanka, we must first suffer their minds, work their bones and muscles, and starve their bodies." For those ambitious people, opportunities are often particularly harsh. 1987, when Zhang Ruihong walked out of the drama school with great ambition and prepared to show his talents on the stage of his own life, Yue Opera and even the whole drama circle began to encounter the cold winter. In the long wait, many Shaoxing opera actors couldn't bear loneliness and changed careers. However, Zhang Ruihong chose to stay and continue to associate with Yue Opera. This is nearly ten years. In the past ten years, all she can do is meticulously perform every classic play of Fanpai and strive to make every performance perfect. For her, flowers and applause are of course what every actor longs for. However, a good actor with a pursuit expects more than that. Although, at that time, like her peers, she didn't know when Yue Opera would be brilliant again, but she firmly believed that applause could be suspended for a while, but real art would not decline. To this end, she is willing to watch. For ten years, it is a painful experience for any aspiring actor to repeat the teacher's works without anything of his own. However, some people just painfully copy these stage images. Some people regard this kind of pain as a kind of tempering and a kind of nirvana. Zhang Ruihong believes that opportunities always favor those who are prepared, and any efforts will not be in vain. Although the teacher played Zhu Yu in front, Zhang Ruihong tried to imitate butterfly lovers, Li Wa Chuan, Peacock flying southeast, golden branches and jade leaves, but insisted on integrating his understanding of the characters into his own performance. She believes that if an actor wants to move the audience, he must first move himself. Her plays, such as butterfly lovers, are the classic plays of Fan School and her own butterfly lovers, which not only absorbs the essence of previous artists, but also has her own unique feelings about the characters.
While constantly improving the image of traditional classic art, Zhang Ruihong never gave up the pursuit of creating his own stage masterpiece. Because of this, she dares to boldly challenge tradition and classics. Baoyu night sacrifice is a good example. With her profound performance skills, she impressed the audience with her "infatuation, loneliness and tenderness" Fan Pai Baoyu, thus breaking the impression that Fan Pai is only good at shaping honest people. This play has not only become a repertoire in Zhang Ruihong, but also many famous actors from foreign troupes compete to perform, which shows its popularity among the audience.
If Night Sacrifice of Baoyu is a brave breakthrough of Zhang Ruihong's genre tradition, then in the next novel Blizzard and Fishing firewood, Zhu Maichen, who is proud and charming, is highly respected for her excellent singing skills and ability to portray different types of characters.
Whether it's a well-known classic old play or a newly-made play. Try again and again and explore step by step. Zhang Ruihong's art has matured in this process, and at the same time, an idea in her heart has become increasingly clear-breaking the tradition of talented people and beautiful women in Yue Opera and shaping a young image of Yue Opera that is different from the tradition but does not deviate from it. So, we saw the lively and lovely Emperor Zheng De in Meilong Town.
Meilong Town is a relaxed and lively comedy. However, the significance of these two hours of Yue Opera is by no means as simple as the innocent love between boys and girls, not only for Zhang Ruihong who won the 19 Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Drama, the Outstanding Performance Award of the Seventh China Drama Festival and many other awards, but also for the art of Yue Opera which is facing the dilemma of the conflict between tradition and modernity and is groping forward.
"Meilong Town" represents many firsts in her acting career: for the first time, she chose her own theme and let the screenwriter and director take full responsibility; Play a comedy role for the first time; The first time I tried to "open the door for rehearsal", I was tested by the audience during the rehearsal. At first, when choosing a theme, Zhang Ruihong once again showed her unique vision. Meilong Town, which was born out of The Prince and the Dancer, was interpreted by various operas in Beijing, Huai and Sichuan, and it was nothing more than a dew marriage between a romantic emperor and a beautiful housewife. Zhang Ruihong, on the other hand, keenly saw the place where this old play was in harmony with modern consciousness, and saw the true nature of longing for freedom and worshipping nature hidden in the young emperor, which was no different from that of modern young people. The fashion in the story fascinated her, prompting her to "dare to take the world by storm", change the implicit and sad theme of traditional Yue Opera, and put this ancient version of Growing Pains on the stage of Yue Opera.
For Yue Opera seeking reform and development, another great significance of Meilong Town lies in the slogan of "Youth Yue Opera". "Youth" is multifaceted, including youth in theme, youth in management mode, but more importantly, youth in attitude. The attitude of youth is an attitude of trying all kinds of rivers, an attitude of being enthusiastic and not afraid of setbacks; The youthful attitude is a bold innovation in the selection of materials in Meilong Town. The attitude of youth is also the three drafts of Meilong Town's script creation. Youth is a declaration; Youth is also an opportunity. The appearance of "Meilong Town" made it possible for some hesitant Yue Opera reforms to break through. Since Meilong Town blew a fresh youth wind, the concept of "youth drama" has not only been repeatedly quoted in the Yue opera world, but also become a fashion in other operas. The success of Youth Yue Opera Meilong Town is not only recognized by experts. What's more commendable is that while winning the praise of old opera fans, it has also cultivated a large number of "youth" audiences for Yue Opera. Meilong Town is close to the plot of modern young people's thoughts. Zhang Ruihong abandoned the inherent program constraints and performed naturally, making the young people on the stage feel that the young emperor on the stage was like himself or his friends, and became a "hardcore groupie" in Zhang Ruihong without any doubt. Holding Zhang Ruihong in the background to sign autographs and pouring out his heart to idols, these scenes that used to be seen only at singers' concerts can be seen everywhere in the performances in Meilong Town. For a long time, people often feel the white hair under the stage when performing Yue Opera. For a long time, how to cultivate the younger generation of opera lovers is a big problem that puzzles opera practitioners. However, the performance of Meilong Town inadvertently gave these feelings and questions an answer.
How can you see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain? Along the way, the road in Zhang Ruihong was not smooth. However, if heaven rewards diligence, gold will always shine. She has worked quietly on this charming stage for decades, and has also made enviable achievements silently. The accumulated repertoires include: butterfly lovers, Peacock Flying Southeast, Biography of Li Wa, Playing Golden Branches, Meng Lijun, Meilong Town, Snow Fishing, Night Sacrifice of Baoyu, Purple Hairpin, Romantic Qinhuai, Peach and Plum Girl, etc. He has won many awards, such as 19 Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Drama, Outstanding Performance Award for the 7th China Drama Festival, the 5th Magnolia Drama Performing Arts Award, and the first prize of the National Special Competition for Opera Broadcasting and Singing. The starring Yue Opera TV series "Butterfly Lovers" won the Excellence Award in Traditional Chinese Opera and Film.
Not only that, Zhang Ruihong, as the main actor and famous opera fan of the Red Chamber Opera Troupe, has a large number of opera fans in Shanghai and all over the country, including many elderly opera fans and more energetic young people. Even abroad, many audiences are fascinated by her art, and have traveled across the ocean not far from Wan Li just to feel the charm of her performance for themselves. In the face of all kinds of honors, Zhang Ruihong under the stage has always maintained a rare calm. Pursuing perfection in art, she is sharp-edged, but she is plain and easy-going under the stage. Even in the face of strangers, she is so sincere-she will pay money to buy tickets for the elderly who come from afar but can't afford them and send her in; She will gently take care of the college students waiting outside the theater after watching the play, saying, "Go home early and be careful on the road." Really, Zhang Ruihong left the deepest impression on me.
In recent years, Zhang Ruihong has become more and more famous, and her performance tasks have become more and more arduous. However, she still tries her best to give the best performance to the audience every time. During the national tour of Shanghai Yue Opera, Zhang Ruihong took part in every long journey with her masterpieces "Meilong Town" and "Liangzhu" without complaint. At the first stop of his trip to Beijin, Zhang Ruihong, who was in poor health, fainted backstage due to heatstroke during the intermission in Meilong Town. After waking up, he went on stage again without hesitation. With tenacious perseverance, he persisted in finishing the whole play. The performance was still wonderful, and the audience under the stage didn't even feel anything strange. Afterwards, when the audience learned what happened behind the scenes and burst into tears for the professionalism of the actors, Zhang Ruihong just said airily, "It was really boring backstage that day." Everything seems to be taken for granted. Her real regret is: "that day, although I paid great attention to adjusting my performance, it inevitably affected the quality of the performance." I'm sorry I didn't dedicate the best performance to the Tianjin audience! "
The success of Meilong Town has brought great honor to Zhang Ruihong. In the face of honor, she didn't drift away, but remained calm. Others advised her to strike while the iron is hot, and then create a youth drama to carry the banner of fashion to the end. This is a kind suggestion.
With the successful experience accumulated in Meilong Town and the great response caused by Youth Yue Opera, it is the most labor-saving way to move from success to greater success to continue on the road of youth. Stubborn Zhang Ruihong is unwilling to take this shortcut. What she doesn't want is simple repetition. "I want to think quietly for a while, and I need to review this tradition," she said. She thinks that being young is a good idea, but it is not the only way. Stick to one way, and you will definitely stand still. So, she chose to leave the honor behind. Think silently in gorgeous silence and explore another possibility of innovation.
Thinking is one of the things that Zhang Ruihong has never stopped since he became an artist for so many years. In her view, thinking is a kind of wealth. There are many things to think about and need to think about. On the stage, she has an amazing "hearty voice", and her solid performance is praised by the expert audience as a charming little student who "takes off her daughter powder". Whether she is honest, yellow, spoony and timid, or naive, she can play a good role skillfully and freely. However, she is not satisfied with this. On the contrary, she has been asking herself, compared with the amazing artistic achievements of her predecessors, what can her generation of actors do besides inherit? What else should I do? This kind of thinking may be painful, but Zhang Ruihong is willing to be troubled by this kind of painful thinking, because she doesn't want to just be an excellent "actress". She hopes to brand a vivid stage image in the hearts of the audience, but also bring them, and even bring more other things to the art of Yue Opera. ...
There is no shocking declaration; There was no grandstanding performance. Sincere dedication is not a lotus flower, but a down-to-earth effort. In the long stream of water, I use every performance and every attempt to pursue that dream in my heart. There are smooth roads and rugged roads; There will be sunshine and wind and rain in the future. However, life is born with infatuation, and there will be no regrets when feelings are deep!
In the process of watching and thinking, Zhang Ruihong constantly seeks a satisfactory answer for the audience, Yue Opera and himself. "The road is long, Xiu Yuan, and I will go up and down." This is a minority who has worked silently on the stage of Yue Opera for more than 20 years. This is the real Zhang Ruihong.