Hua Wenyi

Hua Wenyi

Hua Wenyi, born in 1941, is a famous Kunqu Opera actor. Hua Wenyi is the first graduate of Shanghai Opera School. She was taught by Zhu Chuanming and other "Zhuan" generation artists as well as Yu Zhenfei, Yan Huizhu and other famous teachers since she was a child. She specializes in women's affairs, and has excellent skills and talents. She has enjoyed the reputation of "little Mei Lanfang" since the 1960s.

In 1989, she went to the United States to perform with the group, but did not return.

In 1997, he won the highest traditional art award of the US government in the White House.

Character experience

Hua Wenyi was fond of opera since she was a child. After graduating from primary school, she was admitted to the "Kunqu Opera actor training class of Shanghai East China Research Institute" and was the first graduate of Shanghai Opera School. In the training class, she studied Kunqu Opera. She was taught by Zhu Chuanming and other "Zhuan" generation artists and Yu Zhenfei, Yan Huizhu and other famous teachers. She has excellent skills and talents. After eight years of hard training, she was a little famous "boudoir" in Shanghai when she graduated. She is good at using her eyes to control the audience's emotions, and her eyes can cover the whole audience when she throws her monologue.

After graduating from the Shanghai Opera School upgraded from the training class, Hua Wenyi became an actor of the newly established Shanghai Youth Jingkun Opera Troupe.

In 1961, she went to Hong Kong with the group to perform as the white lady in the story of the white snake. On the stage, her temperament and appearance were very similar to Mei Lanfang when she was young. She immediately conquered the audience. Hong Kong newspaper called her "little Mei Lanfang".

In 1965, the "Cultural Revolution" swept across the country, and some of the classic Kunqu operas were put in the cold. When there was no play to sing, Hua Wenyi had to turn to Beijing opera. She once played a small role of "Jiapigou common people" in the model play "outwit Tiger Mountain", and also played "Qiao Lian" in "Panshi bay".

In 1978, Shanghai Kun Opera Troupe was founded. Hua Wenyi finally got her wish and can go back to singing Kunqu Opera. Since then, she has made great progress in her career. She has not only been recommended as the head of Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, but also won many awards at home and abroad. "Cai Wenji" starred by her won the performance award issued by the Ministry of culture of China; "Peony Pavilion" and "hairpin Phoenix" won the grand prize in Shanghai Drama Festival; "Qingwen" won the best TV drama art film award in China; in 1986, she acted as Chen Miaochang in Kun Opera "jade hairpin" and won the highest art award "plum blossom Award" of the national Dramatists Association. Liu housheng, vice president of the Chinese Dramatist Association, called her "the daughter of Kun Opera.".

In terms of art, another breakthrough of Hua Wenyi is to integrate Kunqu opera performance into drama performance. In 1988, Guangzhou dialect troupe adapted the novel a dream in the garden by Bai Xianyong, a famous Taiwanese writer, into a drama. Among them, the heroine, Mrs. Qian, is a singer who once married as a lady, but unfortunately lost her husband and power. The plot asks "Lady Qian" to sing some Kunqu Opera. Bai Xianyong had seen Hua Wenyi's Kunju Opera before, and was very impressed, so he invited her to join in the performance. Hua Wenyi's audition of the play has become a highlight of her artistic career. Bai Xianyong watched Hua Wenyi's performance and commented: "it's a cross industry for Kun Opera actors to perform drama. She (Hua Wenyi) is a quick witted person who skillfully integrates the taste, posture and gestures of Kun Opera into the drama

In July 1989, Hua Wenyi led a delegation to perform in the United States. After the performance was successfully completed, the United States decided to stay in the United States because of the green card that was granted to the Chinese mainland at that time. This has also become a new starting point for her artistic career. In her second year in the United States, together with her husband, Su Shengyi, a former famous actor of Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe, and Susan pertel Jain, a scholar of Chinese drama studies at Columbia University, she founded Huakun Research Society in Los Angeles. Through cultural, artistic and educational program production, she systematically introduced Chinese Kun Opera and other traditional Chinese Drama Arts to American audiences.

In September of the same year, at the Los Angeles International Art Festival, she led the Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion" on behalf of the outstanding actors of traditional Chinese drama, with a 20% discount of "a dream in the garden", which caused a warm response. Hua Wenyi also actively promotes Kunqu Opera Art in the United States. She has successively toured Yale, Princeton and other universities in the United States to give lectures, teach Kunqu opera performance courses, and carry out demonstration performances, so that American students can understand and learn the ancient Chinese drama art. When she lectured at Yale University, her classrooms were often crowded, and even the aisles were full of people. After class, some teachers and students came to learn Kunqu opera singing from her. By teaching Chinese opera to American college students, Hua Wenyi felt that her life in the United States was full and full of accomplishment.

In September 1996, at the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of culture, Hua Wenyi returned to her ancestral country, where she had been away for seven years, to participate in the national Kunqu opera performance and won the honorary award from the Ministry of culture.

In September 1997, Hua Wenyi won the highest Traditional Art Award in the United States. At that time, first lady Hillary Clinton personally presented medals to 11 art masters in the White House, of which Hua Wenyi was the only Chinese American. When she saw Hua Wenyi, Hillary held her hand happily and said, "thank you very much. It is the help of all of you that enables us to remember and retain the excellent traditional culture. You are the foundation. Without your traditional art, there would be no modern art today! "

In February 2001, she returned to Shanghai to take part in the shooting of Kun Opera drama Fan Li and Xi Shi.

Main works

Du Liniang (Peony Pavilion), Chen Miaochang (jade hairpin), Bai Suzhen (Legend of white snake), Yang Yuhuan (Changsheng Hall), Li Qianjun (wall horse), Li Guizhi (horse peddling), Liu's (lion roar · kneeling pool), Fei zhene (Cihu), Cai Wenji (CAI Wenji), Tang Wan (chaitoufeng), etc.

Character honor

In July 1989, Hua Wenyi settled in the United States and founded the Huakun Research Society in Los Angeles. Seven years later, she returned home.

In September 1997, Hua Wenyi was awarded the highest Traditional Art Award in the United States. She is the first Chinese artist since the award began.

Since 2006, Hua Wenyi has joined the new version of the classic Kunqu Opera "the story of the jade hairpin", which was produced by the famous Chinese writer Mr. Bai Xianyong, and served as an artistic director. In addition, Hua Wenyi was invited to return to her alma mater "Shanghai Opera School" to deliver art to the students of "Kun class 5".

artistic characteristics

Hua Wenyi is graceful in appearance, graceful in figure, elegant in posture and beautiful in voice. Her performance is implicit and explosive, and her emotion is rich without losing her maiden status. She pursues the natural style and integrates the program into her performance without any trace. "When singing, the music is startling, and when dancing, it is wonderful", creating a beautiful image with long lasting charm and meaningful refined for the Kunqu opera stage. Hua Wenyi on the stage is always dazzlingly beautiful. In wall horse, together with Yue Meiti, the former "golden partner", she reproduces the classic images of Yu Zhenfei and Yan Huizhu.

Perhaps, with the passage of time, those conversations between the sleeves will fade away. But for a moment, I'm afraid no one can forget it. When Li Qianjun, the bold Marquis daughter, invited her lover Pei Shaojun to a private meeting in the garden and was knocked down by the nurse, she chose "escape" as her feeling The price of love -- Hua Wenyi on the stage threw her sleeve, knelt down to her mother, and sang out two sentences: "the girl is a sojourner in the hall, for example, married to a foreign country!" That determination, determination and reckless bravery really makes the viewer not know what's the end of the day. It's like seeing Li Qianjun 1000 years ago, Du Liniang 400 years ago, and Yan Huizhu 50 years ago Such ordinary words, several women with such strong personality, are surprisingly similar.

personal anecdote

Hua Wenyi, the "little Mei Lanfang" of Guanghua, has a very stubborn and unique personality. Some people in the circle once recalled that time - "at that time, Hua Wenyi was already a little famous, and there were often parties in the literary and art circles. The girls gathered around the leaders and elders, cheering, laughing, dancing and singing, but she often sat alone, different from others..." This is Hua Wenyi, who has no more special flattery and dignity, and no less liveliness and closeness for ordinary people. A fan wrote a letter saying that "you didn't record the part you sang on the radio". She dropped the letter and rushed to someone's house with her partner Yue Meiti to make a "living radio" and perform a "live version" with one set of songs, which made the ordinary housewife who wrote the letter stay on the scene in horror and excited All this, done by Hua Wenyi, is neither boring nor surprising. On the stage, she is so charming that she can't be more charming. Off the stage, she often laughs that "her tenderness has been exhausted on the stage", so her life is always so hot and fierce, just like a man. This is quite like the wisdom of her teacher. It can be imagined that Hua Wenyi's "word-of-mouth" will naturally be like Yan Huizhu's, "loved by her relatives and hated by her enemies". The extreme is irreparable, which also lays the foundation for her future destiny.

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