Chang Xiangyu announced the revocation of the stage name "Xiang Yuxiao"
In mid-May, 2004, Chang Xiangyu, an old man who was being treated in Henan Provincial People's Hospital, entrusted a lawyer and made the following statement:
My statement
At the beginning, I gave my granddaughter Chen Bailing a stage name called Xiang Yu Xiao, which meant that she was required to inherit and develop my school of Henan Opera by often performing "Copy Red", "Legend of the White Snake" and Mulan, which is what people usually call the performing arts of Henan Opera.
At that time, she also expressed her determination to do so, but since 1997, she has not acted according to this promise. To this end, I went to her house twice to talk about it and asked her to return to her original promise, but she just wouldn't listen. He also told me, "Grandma, times have changed now, and Henan Opera has no future. I can't do that anymore. "
Today, the path she took is quite different from the promise she made to me at that time. In this case, the stage name "Xiang Yu Xiao" is not worthy of the name for her. So I decided to take back Chen Bailing's right to inherit and use the stage name "Yu Xiang Xiao" from today.
Luo Xinjian, Chang Xiangyu's lawyer, said, "The old lady went through a process to make this decision. As far as her heart is concerned, it must have been weighed, considered and even repeated countless times. I think so. Then she was very cautious when signing. It can be seen from the action of holding the pen and the action of lifting the pen to sign, which is both cautious and heavy. "
The mat play of the younger generation attracted Chang Xiangyu's attention.
Chang Xiangyu said before her death that she had two regrets. One was that among her descendants, no one could completely inherit her regular singing style. In fact, this master has trained many disciples, including Chen Bailing, nicknamed "Yu Xiang Xiao".
In June 2004, at Chang Xiangyu's memorial service, we met Xiao Xiangyu for the first time. At this time, she did not become the center of media chase, but among the people who followed the body to say goodbye, people found that she had quietly left.
As a disciple of Chang Xiangyu, a master of Henan Opera, she was once known as "Xiangyu Xiao". Why did she disappear on such an important occasion? What kind of twists and turns are hidden between master and apprentice? Things have to start from more than ten years ago.
Xiao Xiangyu, formerly known as Chen Bailing, was born in a family of Henan opera in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. At the age of six, I began to live with my parents in the family courtyard of Henan Henan Opera Troupe. I am influenced by art every day and fall in love with this line.
At the age of ten, she secretly admitted to Henan Art School without telling her family, but she was strongly opposed by her family.
Chen Bailing said: "In addition to grandma, my parents are also engaged in art. These artists were scared during the Cultural Revolution. As soon as they finished cleaning up and didn't want the children to clean up again, they called me crazy. Especially grandma is the most opposed. At that time, she spoke with the most weight at home. She wants me to study hard, learn a skill to make a living and become a doctor. The next year, I was quietly admitted to Zhengzhou Art School, and they stopped me until I became famous. "
1982, 17-year-old Chen Bailing became famous overnight for her role in Mulan.
Chen Bailing said: "Mulan is so popular. First of all, the theme is the heroine, and the story is very good. At present, Hollywood in the United States has not been remake into cartoons; Secondly, there is a lot of beautiful music and grandma's hard work, so it has been passed down to the present. Grandma sings, and my favorite part is' Who says women are not as good as men', which I sing best. "
Chen Bailing, secretary of the municipal party committee, was renamed "Xiang Yuxiao".
Chang Xiangyu and his wife found that Chen Bailing was a good prospect of singing Henan Opera, so they officially renamed Chen Bailing "Xiangyu Xiao", but Chen Bailing was very reluctant at that time: "I am not happy, I think Chen Bailing has become famous, and Xiangyu Xiao has no surname. What is this called? "
It is good to enjoy the cool under the big tree, but the shadow of the big tree is also great. Chen Bailing didn't want to stay in the shadow of the master, but she made her acting career so hard.
But at that time, the secretary of Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee began to work. Chen Bailing finally accepted the stage name "Yu Xiang Xiao" and became a disciple of the master, with the inheritance of the long-style vocals and expectations from all sides.
"Yu Xiang Shaw" who jumped off the wall to escape.
After she changed her name to "Yu Xiang Xiao", Chang Xiangyu discussed with Chen Bailing's family and took her to live in her own home to better teach and train.
Master word of mouth, but at that time, Yu Xiang Xiao couldn't stop. "She can't, she can't stay there. She climbed over the wall twice at night and left at night. "
But the master didn't give up, such a good prospect, she longed to inherit her acting career. Chang Xiangyu always gives her granddaughter advice on every play.
"Xiang Yu Xiao" said: "Grandma has many problems with every work of mine, but satisfaction is the main thing. Including when I went to school later, I did a lot of very modern and cool works. She was positive, but she felt that the rhythm was a little too fast to see clearly, which might be related to age. She never praises me to my face. She always asks me if my tail is under pressure, but don't let it rise. "
Under the careful guidance of the master, with the introduction of a series of excellent repertoires, such as The Legend of the White Snake and Five Birthdays, Yu Xiang Xiao became more and more famous and his acting career was in full swing.
But at this time, things have changed again, and the expectations of the elderly in Chang Xiangyu are once again in crisis.
Yu Xiang finally gave up Xiao.
1994, Xiao Xiangyu took out hundreds of thousands of his savings and founded the first Hope Art School in China. The first batch of students are all free poor children. The hardships in the process made her unexpected. When she was bitter and tired, Yu Xiang Xiao also wanted to give up, but at the same time she wanted to get things done, so it was always contradictory.
Chang Xiangyu gave strong support to Xiao Xiangyu's school. For the development of Henan Opera, Chang Xiangyu even went to Shaanxi to help her, talk to her, help her with her work, and strive for the assistance of various departments.
But Chen Bailing has slowly changed. She said: "In August 2004, all the children graduated, and I also had time to think about the transformation. Should the school continue to run, or should it become an art troupe and do more works that the audience likes on the stage? Xiang Yu Xiao is the youngest in the drama world, but in society, she is almost eliminated and the old face can't be seen. Hurry up and do more work and collect the stalls. "
For various reasons, Chen Bailing thinks that there is not much hope for the future of Henan Opera. "She will stop studying, she will stop performing, and she will quit."
Chang Xiangyu was disappointed. In mid-May, 2004, the old man who was being treated in Henan Provincial People's Hospital decided to save his decision in a way. She entrusted a lawyer, made a will and made the above statement.
I once pinned my hopes on my little daughter.
Some people say that Chang Xiangyu's selection of successors is extremely rigorous, while others say that it is Chang Xiangyu's extremely strict requirements that make Chang Pai singing lose his recognized successor.
But in any case, Chang Xiangyu played an important role as a promoter of drama. In fact, she also made a choice on the issue of successors.
Before Bai appeared, Chang Xiangyu pinned her hopes on her youngest daughter Chang Ruyu. But the development of things is beyond everyone's expectation. Chang Ruyu not only failed to inherit her mother's regular singing, but even went far away to break with Henan Opera. The cold war between mother and daughter lasted 18 years. Bitter, things change.
Chang Ruyu said, "I used to think my mother was a cold-blooded animal. I'm afraid to call her when I get to America. Tell the truth every time you call, and your heart is beating. "
Chang Ruyu is the fourth child in the family. Because the "San Mao" in the comic book "San Mao Wandering" is too bitter, there is no "San Mao" at home, so Chang Ruyu's "delay" has become fifty cents.
Chang Ruyu often heard from her family that she cried loudly when she was born. The father said to his mother with joy: The child has a good voice and will certainly inherit your career in the future.
Chang Xiangyu once had such a plan: "I discussed with my wife that (our future children) three surnames are Chen and two surnames are Chang, and all surnames want to take my class for her."
When she was in primary school, her father named her "Chang Ruyu". But after literacy, Wu Mao felt that the name "jade" had no personality and there was nothing good about being like his mother, so he took the initiative to add a grass head to the word "such as". Father firmly refused, saying, "You will be like Chang Xiangyu in the future."
If you don't learn Henan Opera, your mother raises her knife.
Chang Ruyu likes Henan Opera very much. But because she is Chang Xiangyu's daughter, she didn't study Henan Opera in the end.
Chang Ruyu remembers that once, when she was in kindergarten, she accidentally hurt her hand. Mother saw that the back of her hand was raw and bleeding profusely, and said to the doctor anxiously, you must cure her hand, or she won't be able to perform on stage.
Min Yu suddenly felt that her mother only had Yu Opera in her eyes and no daughter at all. So in a rage, she decided not to learn Henan Opera.
Chang Xiangyu was angry when she saw that her daughter didn't want to inherit the mantle. Once she was so angry that she wanted to cut her with a knife.
As soon as Xiaoyu came home that day, her mother made an ugly remark because she didn't want to learn Henan Opera. She answered at once, and her mother was so angry that she picked up a kitchen knife and cut it at her. Seeing that the situation was not good, the second sister quickly hugged her mother, and her father shouted in horror: Why don't you run! The rescue of her father and sister saved her from a robbery.
18 mother and daughter don't communicate.
1985, in order to get rid of the trouble that her mother asked her to study drama, Chang Ruyu, 30, resolutely left home and went to the United States.
Chang Ruyu went abroad, and every time she called home, she found that her mother didn't want to talk to her. She often hangs a hard "I'm fine and my family is fine". She was so angry that she didn't call home for a long time.
It was not until she got married and became a mother in the United States that Chang Ruyu gradually realized her mother's pains.
Chang Ruyu hopes that her daughter will become a movie actress in the future. She spent a lot of money to send her daughter to model school, and as a result, her daughter's interest dropped out within a few days. Jade was so angry that she wanted to hit her. Her daughter shouted, Will you kill me if I don't become an actor?
In her daughter's rebellious voice, Chang Ruyu found her own shadow. She suddenly felt very sad and disappointed in her daughter, just like her mother.
Two years ago, Chang Ruyu saw a message on the Internet that Chang Xiangyu's Henan Opera art was facing the dilemma of no successor and might become a swan song.
Chang Ruyu felt heartbroken. She thought her mother must be heartbroken ten million times more than her. She immediately dialed the telephone and asked her mother if she wanted to study drama. The overjoyed mother cried on the phone.
Leaving behind his business in the United States and his teenage daughter, Jed's return is a great comfort to Chang Xiangyu in his later years. The contradiction between mother and daughter for many years was completely eliminated through one teaching and one learning.
Besides studying drama, I often like jade and would like to go out with my mother. Chang Xiangyu came back from studying Henan Opera in the United States and understood her daughter's filial piety. However, Chang Xiangyu knows that she has no ability and time to teach her daughter, and her daughter has missed the best opportunity to learn Henan Opera. She can only let nature take its course.
From Chang Xiangyu's body, we can see a generation of old artists' persistent pursuit of traditional Chinese opera, their efforts to contribute to society, and their struggle and compromise among affection, affection and teacher-student relationship. Maybe we don't know Chang Xiangyu's achievements in the art of Henan Opera, but every wonderful performance and touching details of her on the big stage of life are worth savoring.
A few words from me
What I want to say is that it has been four years since Master left us in a blink of an eye. I still remember Children's Day four years ago, because the old man left, it turned gray. I still remember when I saw this news in Dahe Daily, my eyes filled with tears. I really grew up listening to the story of the old lady's Mulan and the old lady donating a plane. I was really sad when she left, and I kept crying. I can't express my feelings at that time. Remember the album of the old lady's artistic life The old lady only has drama in her heart. She said that it was her regret that none of her students could completely inherit her singing skills. It really feels like this. Teacher Hu Meiling is more about her husband's Tsing Yi and his maiden, while teacher Wang Hui is more about her husband's Lao Dan. Our teacher Chang, we all know that both Tsing Yi and Hua Dan are comprehensive. For example, the Tsing Yi drama "Break" can be said that Mr. Wang pushed the Henan Opera to the whole country, which influenced generations.
Today, we cherish her memory in order to learn her spirit of "drama is greater than heaven", her great feelings of patriotism and love for the people, and her selfless spirit of artistic dedication.