Chen Bohua

Chen Bohua

Chen Bohua (1919.3-2015.1.30) was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province. He is a Dan actor in Hubei Han Opera. CPC member, member of the third and fifth CPPCC National Committee. He has successively served as president of Wuhan Han opera academy, vice chairman of Hubei drama Association, director of China Drama Association, etc.

He won the title of "master of Han Opera Art" and the gold medal of honorary member of China Federation of literary and art circles. His masterpieces include cosmofront, second plum blossom, edge of cupboard, three requests for fan Lihua, etc. His works include Chen Bohua's singing selections, Chen Bohua's stage art and Chen Bohua's memoirs.

He died in Wuhan on January 30, 2015 at the age of 96.

Life of the characters

Chen Bohua was born in Wuhan in 1919. Chen Bohua, who has a rich family, often follows his mother around the opera garden when he is young. He is a little fan of opera.

In 1927, 8-year-old Chen Bohua went on the road of learning arts and entered the "Xinhua class" to learn to perform Huadan. She took the stage name "Xinhua hairpin" and was enlightened by Liu Benyu. Thanks to the master "peony flower" Dong Yaojie, she became famous as soon as she came out of the class, known as "Xiao peony flower".

In 1934, at the age of 15, he starred in farewell my concubine and the three heroes of the wind and dust under the stage name of Xiao peony.

After 1936, Chen Bohua married as a woman and retired from the stage.

In the autumn of 1960, Premier Zhou prepared a family dinner and invited Chen Bohua, Yuan Xuefen and hongxiannv, who attended the national Dan actor workshop, to be guests at home. "Han Opera has a long history and has a great influence on Beijing Opera and many kinds of opera," the premier told Chen Bohua. There are Han operas in 13 provinces in China, and this ancient type of opera has a bright future. "

In January 1962, Hubei Province established the Wuhan Han Opera Theater with Chen Bohua as its president. The establishment of Wuhan Han opera academy has created an Art Center for Chinese opera in China, which has a far-reaching influence on promoting the development of Chinese opera in China.

On January 30, 2015, Chen Bohua died in Wuhan at the age of 96.

At 9:00 on February 3, 2015, the farewell ceremony for Chen Bohua's body was held in Wuhan.

Deputy to the National People's Congress, vice chairman of the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. Executive director of China Drama Association, vice chairman of Hubei Province and Wuhan CPPCC.

Art career

In his more than 70 years of artistic career, he has successfully created a series of artistic images with distinct personalities and different styles, and creatively reformed and innovated the danjiao singing art of Han Opera.

In 1927, Chen Bohua took the stage name of "Xinhua Chai" when he applied for the first women's class of Han Opera "training young girls society". Master Liu Benyu is a versatile art educator who is proficient in the top ten lines of Han Opera. Thanks to the guidance of a famous teacher and his intelligence and diligence, Chen Bohua has been shining in the past few years. Later, she became a teacher of peony flower (Dong Yaojie), the king of Chinese opera, and married her father and daughter, so she changed her stage name to "Xiao peony flower". Xu Chi, a poet, praised Chen Bohua as "a bright red peony" in the peony before his famous reportage Goldbach's conjecture

In 1929, the women's society went to Jiujiang for the first time. When the actor who played Xiaosheng was ill in a performance of "my nephew goes to the grave", Chen Bohua, who often "steals art" on the stage, volunteered: "I'll play it!" At that time, the situation was urgent. Although the boss was not at ease, he had to let her introduce it. Chen Bohua walked to the front of the stage. Before she read her first line, her vivid eyes won applause. Chen Bohua made his first comeback with unexpected success. After finishing her studies, Chen Bohua did not revel in a series of success. With the growth of her artistic experience, she gradually felt a new dissatisfaction. Because the traditional green clothes have many shackles, they are conservative and often sing with their stomachs covered, so it is impossible to describe the artistic image of the stage. Chen Bohua began to consciously cooperate with the innovative predecessors of Han Opera, and organized a new class in Changle opera park with Zhu Hongshou, a drama reformer who was very popular at that time, to put forward the slogan of "rejuvenating Han Opera". They invited Liu Yizhou to write two new plays for Chen Bohua, farewell my concubine and biography of red Fu. These two plays are elegant in style, which can give full play to the characteristics of Han Opera, but also full of new ideas of the times. Shortly after the founding of new China, the Central South administrative committee sent Cui Wei and Chen Bohua, two famous film and drama artists, to modify and process the traditional drama "cosmofront" and take part in the first national opera performance in Beijing as the key repertoire of Han Opera.

In 1952, the newly established Wuhan Han Opera Troupe welcomed Chen Bohua to join. Yu Yu Feng, a traditional Chinese opera play starred by him, went to Beijing to participate in the first national opera performance. Li Caiyun, a famous Han Opera actor, has played this play, and it is also the representative of Mei Lanfang, a Peking Opera master. However, on October 3 of this year, Chen Bohua's performance in the capital theater was totally different from that of her predecessors. She integrated Qingyi and Huadan into a furnace. According to the needs of character performance in a specific environment, she borrowed the body of Hualian, Xiaosheng and even ghosts. Her singing was perfect and integrated with the body performance. Chen Bohua's performance caused a sensation in Beijing and won the first prize of actor. Her art is like a fragrant and dazzling peony blooming on the stage of people's drama in the new era. The success of "cosmofront" gave her confidence and courage, and then she rehearsed the traditional plays such as "Qin Xianglian" and "fate in the cupboard".

In 1957, Chen Bohua toured Shanghai, Beijing and other places with his new plays, such as Er Du Mei, Yu Yu Feng, Qin Xiang Lian and kuzhong yuan. On the day of the premiere of the second plum blossom, a group of foreign experts also came to Shanghai. Experts carried flower baskets higher than human beings to the stage, and on the ribbons were written "a string of shining pearls to Chen Bohua" in Chinese and foreign characters. The enthusiastic audience crowded at the entrance of the stage and refused to leave for a long time. Peking Opera master Zhou Xinfang praised Chen Bohua's performance and specially prepared a family dinner for him. Not long after, er Du Mei, after Yu Yu Feng and Juzhong yuan, appeared on the screen. Chen Bohua's performing arts are well-known at home and abroad.

On the new year's day of 1962, Wuhan Han Opera Theater, named by Premier Zhou himself, was solemnly established. Dong Biwu, vice president of the people's Republic of China, gladly wrote an inscription for the founding of the theater. Chen Bohua was appointed president of the Academy. Han Opera ushered in a brilliant golden age. Chen Bohua has successively rehearsed such plays as the drunken concubine, the horse on the wall, the number one media, Mu Guiying's wisdom breaking the gate of heaven, three requests for fan Lihua, and modern dramas such as Jiangjie, Zhao Yushuang, Qiujin, and the sun out of the mountain, thus gradually forming the style characteristics based on cosmofront: pursuing elegant taste and artistic conception, paying attention to the shape and skills of inner activities, Elegant, fresh and generous, beautiful melody, euphemistic voice. It not only maintains the strong characteristics of Han Opera, but also disperses the fresh flavor of the times, pushing the ancient Han Opera to a new height and forming a rich and perfect art system of Chen school.

In Chen Bohua's mind, art is above everything. In her later years, she still devoted all her energy to the cause of Han Opera. In order to train successors, she did her best to be a ladder. For more than ten years, her students have won "plum blossom Award" one after another or been rated as national first-class actors. In addition to giving apprentices, she often went to the countryside to perform for farmers and frontier soldiers. Regardless of her old age, she led a delegation to perform in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and other places, making the ancient Chinese opera take on a new look and cross the country.

In 1982, Chen Bohua, in his 60s, led a delegation to perform in Hong Kong again, starring in the masterpieces "two plum blossoms", "cosmofront", "fate in the cupboard" and "drunken Concubine". All walks of life in Hong Kong praised her "wonderful performance".

Features of works

Chen Bohua's artistic achievements are mainly reflected in the innovation of singing art, which not only retains the traditional characteristics, but also boldly integrates them. She designs many popular aria according to different characters. With her clear, beautiful and flexible voice, which is known as "excellent coloratura soprano" in the music world, Chen Bohua shows her beautiful, delicate, euphemistic and profound artistic style It is famous all over the country.

Chen Bohua has been studying art for 76 years since she was 8 years old. She has gone through several times over two centuries. She has worked tirelessly and perseveringly on the fertile soil of Han Opera art. She is the symbol of Han Opera art, just like yuan Xuefen of Yue opera, Chen Suzhen of Henan opera, hongxiannu of Guangdong opera, and Yan Fengying of Huangmei Opera. Chen Bohua is no longer a personal symbol, she is a symbol It is a milestone in the development of modern Han Opera.

Chen Bohua is very particular about posture, eyes, gestures and steps. Li Jinzhao remembers that on his way home from a performance in a county town, Chen Bohua told him the true meaning of practicing basic skills. Yesterday, he specially compiled these contents into a 20 sentence formula, which means that "eyes are the window of the heart, and looking straight through the wall.". Rinse your eyes around, sweep your eyes away. Flash eyes like pull Huo (lightning), crazy eyes with consternation. Scattered eye without spirit, virtual eye as if no "and so on.

Born in 1919, Chen Bohua studied art at the age of 8. In her early years, she became famous as "little peony". Her performances are both civil and martial arts. She has performed many classic plays such as "cosmofeng", "Er Du Mei", "number one media", "wall horse", "three please fan Lihua", "fate in the cabinet", "qinxianglian", "broken bridge" and other modern plays such as "Jiangjie" and "Qiujin". She has formed a gorgeous, delicate, mellow and mellow "Chen school" aria, which is well received by the fans Comments.

Professor Hu Xiaoshi, a famous writer and historian of Nanjing University, praised Chen Bohua's talent after watching the Han Opera "cosmofront" in the 1950s. First meeting

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