Li Shiji

Li Shiji

Li Shiji (may 1933 may 2016), female, Han nationality, was born in Meixian, Guangdong Province in 1933. The second batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects are representative inheritors of Peking Opera, Peking opera performing artists, and national first-class actors. A famous Dan actor in Beijing opera.

Li Shiji, gongqingyi, Zongcheng school, is an outstanding representative of the Cheng School of Peking Opera. Silver medal winner of World Youth Festival. Member of the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th CPPCC National Committee and member of the 10th CPPCC Standing Committee. Vice chairman of China Federation of literary and art circles. Her husband, Tang Zaixin, is a famous pianist. The adopted daughter of Cheng Yanqiu, a famous master of Peking Opera.

At about 11 p.m. on May 8, 2016, Li Shiji died of illness in Beijing at the age of 83.

Character experience

Li Shiji, a famous Peking opera performing artist. He was born in Suzhou on May 4, 1933. Outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a famous Peking opera performing artist, inherits the classic repertoire of Cheng School and carries forward the artistic spirit of Cheng school. Since the new era, her repertoire has taken on a new look and is an outstanding successor of Peking Opera Cheng school.

He was fond of Peking Opera when he was young. At the age of 5, he learned to sing "nvqijie" and was instructed by Cheng Yanqiu and furongcao (i.e. Zhao Tongshan). At the age of 12, he followed Cheng Yanqiu and learned to perform in Qingyi. (Li Shiji recognized Cheng Yanqiu as his godfather, but never visited his teacher). Then he asked Mei Lanfang, Wang Youqing and others about the art. After years of hard work, we have laid a solid foundation. He was admitted to Shanghai Second Medical College in 1950. From 1952 to 1956, he organized Li Shiji troupe and acted as the head and leading actor. From 1956 to 1979, he starred in Beijing Opera Troupe, participated in Beijing Opera Troupe, and cooperated with Ma Lianliang, Tan Fuying, Qiu Shengrong, etc. From 1979 to 1983, he starred in the second troupe of Peking Opera Theater. After 1983, he served as deputy head and head of the first troupe of the Chinese Peking Opera Troupe. She has been abroad many times for visiting performances.

Social service

He once served as the director of China Dramatists Association. Vice chairman of China Federation of literary and art circles. Member of the Standing Committee of the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth national committees of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. He is now a standing member of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. Director of China Federation of literary and art circles. In March 2013, he was elected as a standing member of the 12th CPPCC National Committee.

artistic characteristics

Through his stage practice, Li Shiji strives to be new and perfect from script to singing. According to his own personal conditions and Tang Zaicheng's performance style, he creates a new style different from the traditional Cheng school, and inherits the Cheng school. She popularizes Cheng Qiang, which is more appreciated by the contemporary audience and adds new vitality to Cheng Qiang. Many people call it "new Cheng School". Her charm is mellow, her singing is euphemistic and mellow, her feelings are sincere and touching, and she is good at depicting characters in detail. Many audiences, including many young people, also like Li Shiji's performance.

Li Shiji can be said to be a modern master, who has formed his own unique style on the basis of Cheng school. The characters in the play are full of both voice and emotion, and give full play to the characters in the play. In 2011, he won the lifelong art achievement award. On October 10, 2008, he won the 7th plastic performing arts achievement award.

Rough life

An indissoluble bond with Peking Opera

Li Shiji was born in a scholarly family in May 1933. His grandfather was an official of the Qing Dynasty. A chance made her contact with Peking Opera for the first time, and from then on, she became puzzled all her life. At that time, little Shiji, who was only four or five years old, always liked to sit under the table of eight immortals and peep at his aunt's learning Su San Qi Jie. Day after day, instead of being bothered, she learned all of them unconsciously and could perform fluently on stage. Although she was regarded as the base of opera by adults, she was not allowed to really learn opera, because in the old society, opera was classified as a lower class business, so Xiao Shiji, who was fond of singing opera, had been listening to the Opera under the eight immortals table and "stealing art" until she was one or two years old.

Father daughter relationship with master

In 1945, at the age of 12, Li Shiji met Master Cheng Yanqiu on an accidental occasion. At that time, some people said that she "looks like Master Cheng, why don't you be a dry daughter?" it was such a joke that she was taken seriously by Master Cheng. The next day, Mr. Cheng came to Li Shiji's home in Shanghai with a special gift to visit her parents. The master's sudden visit is a big surprise for Li Shiji, a fan's home. For Mr. Cheng, "I respect him from my heart. I don't know how to do it. The adults quickly asked me to kowtow to the master, and I kowtow. I recognized him as my godfather, and thus confirmed the relationship between father and daughter."

Since then, Li Shiji began to learn Peking Opera formally and systematically with Mr. Cheng. However, it's not easy to be an apprentice. Once Xiao Shiji occasionally forgets his words or sings wrong, he will surely suffer from his godfather's use of a mahogany ruler. When she was young, she was also very hardworking and hardworking. When she practiced walking, she would break a pair of shoes in a week, from paper clips, to the top of the book, to the top of the bowl, and even to a bowl of water on her head. At this time, Mr. Cheng, who is skillful and skillful, will sew a new pair of shoes for his beloved dry daughter, and mail them to Shiji in Shanghai from Beijing. Shiji is full of gratitude and emotion, and redoubles his efforts to continue to practice. Shiji shouts in his voice. He shouts to the jar for fear of affecting his neighbors. When he practices reciting yutangchun, he pastes a piece of rice paper on the wall and sprays it full with spitting star. In addition to learning from Mr. Cheng, under the arrangement of Mr. Cheng, Shiji has to learn martial arts, Huadan, Kunqu Opera and so on from other famous teachers. Every day, he practices from four in the morning to nearly ten or eleven in the evening, which is extremely hard.

A lifelong regret

Although he has studied drama with Master Cheng Yanqiu all his life, Li Shiji is always rejected by Master Cheng when he asks for formal apprenticeship. He can't bear to let his beloved daughter do this job. Therefore, apprenticeship has gradually become a knot in Li Shiji's heart.

After liberation, Master Cheng, Li Shiji and a group of other outstanding performing artists were sent to Moscow as representatives of the literary backbone of new China to participate in the World Youth Festival. Before leaving, Premier Zhou Enlai, who was in charge of the activity, inadvertently learned Li Shiji's long cherished wish for many years, so he promised her with care. After the event, he personally hosted the ceremony for her and Master Cheng. Li Shiji was very moved and embarked on the journey with full joy.

The performance was very successful. Although the living conditions in a foreign country were extremely difficult, Li Shiji still insisted on it in order to wait for her wish to become a teacher after returning home. However, just after the performance, when she was busy with her new performance, she suddenly received the news of the master's death. The sudden death of the master was like a bolt from the blue for Li Shiji. He was at a loss and rushed to the hospital, lying on the master with tears pouring down. In this way, Li Shiji's wish to become a teacher has become a permanent regret, in her own words, "a lifetime of hope, a lifetime of sustenance, shattered.".

Give up medicine and become an artist

In 1952, despite Cheng Yanqiu's opposition to Li Shiji's abandoning medicine and becoming an artist, she resolutely studied in Shanghai Second Medical University and came to Beijing to set up her own opera troupe. She performed through the then Peking Opera Union (where she often performed were old opera gardens such as Jixiang, Chang'an, Guanghe, etc.) and got a good response.

In 1956, Li Shiji joined the Beijing Opera Troupe. As a young actress, she often performed with Ma Lianliang and other masters, and was guided by many famous teachers. In addition, she has also performed for leaders in Zhongnanhai.

the Ten Year Calamity

During the period of the four Qing movement, Li Shiji spent ten months beside the great wall and also went to do farm work. But she insisted on practicing her voice and covered the doors and windows with cotton quilts to prevent others from hearing her. Later, he went to the drama academy to teach students and sang a lot of modern drama. Because she kept practicing, she could keep her original level when she came back to the stage later.

Improvement and innovation

In 1976, at the Great Hall of the people, she performed her first solo performance "butterfly loves flower" after smashing the gang of four. Although ten years of catastrophe has taken away the best years of her artistic life, she is still singing and glorious.

When she returns to the stage, she often thinks about such a problem: if Beijing Opera wants to develop, it must innovate. In 1979, she performed "Suolin bag" in the workers' club. When the curtain call light was on, she saw a wave of applause from the audience with white hair, and she firmly believed: we must turn the audience with white hair into the audience with black hair, and we must find the audience lost in the "Cultural Revolution"! The next day, she went to the theater to investigate and see when the young audience would applaud. She also visited young people and asked them what kind of opera they like. After investigation, she believes that most of Beijing Opera is traditional opera, which is far away from the younger generation because of its slow singing rhythm and implicit expression. In the later days, she devoted herself to the reform and exploration of Cheng school art, and carried out the reform and exploration in practice, which achieved good results. Over the years, facing the pressure of numerous public opinions, she has kept silent, because she does not want to waste her time on worthless things. Instead, she closes the door and puts her energy on art, silently enduring slander and rumors.

In art, she didn't create anything for herself. Her main job is to adapt and organize teacher Cheng Yanqiu's works, so that they can be used in the new era

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