Liu Yilong

Liu Yilong

Liu Yilong, male, Kunqu opera performing artist, national first-class actor of Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, winner of the first Shanghai Opera Magnolia performing arts supporting actor award. He graduated from the first Kunqu Opera class of Shanghai Opera School. It was named chouhua Chuanhao, Wang Chuansong, Zhou Chuancang and other true biographies. Good at singing and reciting, both civil and martial arts, witty and witty performance, play and scold. Now he is a member of China Dramatist Association and Shanghai Dramatist Association.

Basic introduction

Liu Yilong, male, vice clown of Kunqu Opera. He graduated from the first Kunqu Opera class of Shanghai Opera School in 1961. GongChou, vice minister, and master of chuanzi generation Hua Chuanhao, Wang Chuansong and Zhou Chuancang. His performance not only inherited the rich traditional clown art of Kun Opera, but also made a successful effort in seeking innovation and popularization, winning the praise of the audience. Over the years, a large number of traditional operas have been performed on the stage of Kun Opera, such as "down the mountain", "capture alive", "Lulin", "Pinghua", "borrow boots", "goudong", etc., and many new plays have been created and arranged, such as "three plays of Jigong, huataisui", "case of dry well", "shadow of noble man", "yipengxue", etc. In 1993, he participated in the drama sketch of the Spring Festival Gala: "the ugly compete for spring".

Awards

In the early 1960s, he won the excellent performance award of Shanghai Youth show in 1960 with the play "down the mountain". "Capture alive" won the second Shanghai Drama Festival excellent performance award and corolla award. He played the role of Rolex in the palace of eternal life and won the first Shanghai Magnolia drama performance art supporting role award. Won the honorary performance award of the first China Kunqu Opera Festival.

He has performed in Britain, the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries and regions for many times.

shape sb.'s character

He created a variety of audience favorite characters, such as Lou rat in shi5guan, Zhu Bajie in monkey king's three hit Baigujing, Gao Lishi in Changsheng palace, Hu Tu in kujing case, XiMenqing in Pan Jinlian, Xiashan, Xiangliang Ciliang, Lulin, zuishao, etc. "Capture alive" won the performance award and corolla award of the third Shanghai Drama Festival, and was known as "Jiangnan clown". He has performed in Hong Kong for many times, and has performed in the United States, Britain, Japan, Denmark, Sweden and other countries, which is deeply loved by the audience.

artistic characteristics

Liu Yilong is an all-round clown artist. He is good at ugliness, Fu and Caidan. He has both culture and martial arts. He plays a man and a woman and is full of wit. Acting as a young monk, a eunuch, an old Taoist, or an ugly woman, they are all full of drama, funny language and extraordinary skills. His performance is not ugly clown, gimmick but not vulgar, hot but not noisy, live but not oil, good at shaping the character of fresh. He is also good at teaching drama. Over the past decade, he has trained a large number of excellent clown actors, and his students are found in many kinds of dramas all over the country. "Borrow tea. Capture alive" is the two fold of "Water Margin". Because ghosts appeared on the stage in "capture alive", it was once banned after liberation, and no one dared to move. In 1985, Liu Yilong and Liang Guyin jointly performed the play in the first rehearsal in China. Liu Yilong went to Zhejiang to learn drama from Wang Chuansong, who gave it to Wang Chuansong. There is another nickname in Kunqu Opera "huozhuo" -- Qinggou, which emphasizes the use of emotion to seduce the soul. It is not a love play between people, ghosts and ghosts, but a love play between ghosts and people, highlighting the word "hook". In the first episode, Zhang Wenyuan coveted Yan Poxi's beauty, and by borrowing tea, they colluded with each other to become a traitor. Later, Yan Poxi was killed by Song Jiang, and after he died, Zhang Wenyuan, his lover, became a ghost to find Zhang Wenyuan, but he had found another lover. Yan Poxi decided to take him alive and go to the underworld together. Now the play is not to exaggerate its horror, but to depict a period of human and ghost feelings delicately, which is very exciting.

Famous repertoire

In "borrow tea. Catch alive", all jokes and scolds are for play, one move in one form is always related to emotion. This play not only retains the tradition of Kunqu Opera, but also removes some pornographic performances and purifies the stage. Zhang Wenyuan is a negative and funny clown. On the surface, he is a gentle and romantic official. In fact, he is a good hand at flirting with the moon and seeking flowers and willows. In the former part, Liu Yilong used a performance technique similar to Jin Sheng to mark his forehead with the brand of inferiority. As soon as he saw the beautiful young woman Yan, she opened and closed the folding fan in her hand, and the fold on her body swayed from left to right. She seemed to be gentle, but her heart was full of flowers. All of a sudden, he let out a few soft and waxy Su Bai, expressing his lustful attitude.

In the latter part of the play, Yan Po Xi is affectionate and haunted by the night. Facing Yan Po Xi's ghost, Zhang Wenyuan is frightened and afraid at first, then caught by Yan Po Xi's flattery, and his old love sprouts again. In order to show Zhang Wenyuan's surprise, conjecture, panic, even pain and numbness, Liu Yilong used the excellent Kungfu of fold ugliness to dance the fold like a dragon into the sea, and externalized Zhang Wenyuan's changeable psychology with a series of exquisite water sleeve performances, such as throwing sleeves, throwing sleeves, grasping sleeves, shaking sleeves, etc At first, the neck was too frightened, and the muscles on his face trembled and twitched. Then he changed his face. Finally, Yan Po Xi told him to lie upright on the table with a unique skill of jumping up. At the end of the play, Zhang Wenyuan is held by Yan Poxi's collar and goes to the underworld with her. Liu Yilong's funny expressions of loss show the characters' inner world of extreme panic. He transforms the ugliness of life into the beauty of art. "Ugly to the extreme is beautiful to the extreme." the characters are ugly, but the performing arts are beautiful. Art is like a dragon. Liu Yilong, who studied under the famous kuntan clowns Hua Chuanhao, Zhou Chuancang and Wang Chuansong, was their favorite student. Before he formally joined the clown industry, he learned Xiaosheng, wusheng, Laosheng, Hualian and laodan, which helped him to speak, express, sing and perform in an all-round way. He not only strives to inherit, but also understands and innovates to be unique. In the highly difficult performance of "borrow tea. Catch alive", Liu Yilong and Liang Guyin cooperate with each other. They are perfect, and their tacit understanding and acting skills are unparalleled. Professor Chen Congzhou of Tongji University presented the word "Qingchou" to Liu Yilong. Pure is elegant, with scholarly spirit and aura, which means clean. Xiao Changhua, a famous clown of a generation, founded xiliancheng science class and taught clowns. He first emphasized "three cleans": clean acting, clean mouth and clean behavior. A clown is not a clown. Liu Yilong plays Zhang Wenyuan. His singing is not vulgar, his expression is appropriate, his banter is elegant, and his charm is infinite. Praising "Qingchou" is the most important comment.

Art life

Liu Yilong, a famous Kunqu opera performing artist, once studied Xiaosheng, wusheng, Hualian, Laosheng, and acted laodan. Later, he was officially classified as a clown. He won the true biography of Kunqu clown heroes Hua Chuanhao, Wang Chuansong, and Zhou Chuancang, and inherited the teachers' performing arts. When he studied drama, he had a good understanding and was willing to learn. He learned the most solidly, so he could play a lot. During his acting, he integrated many new elements into his performance. Fresh, clean and elegant are his performance characteristics, so he was praised as "kuntan Qingchou" by the famous landscape artist Chen Congzhou. Liu Yilong's contribution to the art of Kunqu Opera is various, especially his enrichment of kunchou's language chanting, and his original creation of kunchou's chanting with local language characteristics, such as Chuanbai, Yuebai and Wuhan Bai. This kind of characteristic dialect is not only in line with the plot and the characters, but also can render up the atmosphere of the scene, reflecting the clown's lively business characteristics. The audience feel cordial, which not only shortens the distance between the role and the audience, but also becomes an effective way to spread Kunqu Opera. Yan Huizhu's "little laodan"

When Liu Yilong was young, he played for Mei Lanfang, Yu Zhenfei, Yan Huizhu and many other Beijing Kunming performing artists. Recalling the situation when he was studying in the theater school, he sighed: "among these old artists, Yan Huizhu and I cooperated most. You know, I can play laodan now, thanks to headmaster Yan who dug me up." It turns out that at that time, 19-year-old Liu Yilong had learned martial arts, Xiaosheng, Laosheng and Hualian, but not laodan. At that time, Yan Huizhu was going to play "the horse on the wall". At a glance, she fell in love with the clever Liu Yilong and said that she would let him play "the nurse". The so-called "newborn calf is not afraid of tiger". Although he has never learned laodan seriously, Liu Yilong is not modest. He has been on the stage like this. Unexpectedly, he has received a lot of praise. He has become a once popular "xiaolaodan". Even Zhang Junqiu, a famous Peking opera performing artist, praised his younger generation as handsome, which has made Liu Yilong happy . And in the performance of "wall horse", Liu Yilong also inadvertently "stinks" Yan Huizhu: before going on the stage, Liu Yilong, who is greedy, is garlic and onion, and plays "wet nurse" with a slightly Jingyun "Oh, miss..." Only play Miss Yan Huizhu smoked nowhere to escape, down by the speech principal good lesson.

For more than 50 years, Liu Yilong has always taken the inheritance of opera art as his own responsibility, followed the example of his predecessors, and taught the ugly art talents of Li Hongliang, Tan yuan, Ma Baowang, Hu Gang, Hou Zhe and other operas by words and deeds, so that the ugly art of Kun Opera flourishes and has successors. It is reported that the special performance will reflect the festive scene of the group's ugly making spring, and the disciples will also feel the teacher's kindness with the opera given by teacher Liu Yilong.

personal anecdote

Ode to Longjiang

I'm afraid some young people will be unfamiliar with Liu Yilong, but "the more prosperous the fire, the better!" This line used to be a very popular catchphrase more than 30 years ago. The Modern Peking Opera "Ode to the Dragon River", which was popular in the 1970s, is well known to all women and children. It is Liu Yilong who plays the villain Huang Guozhong in the play. Liu Yilong, who is in front of me, is radiant, hale and hearty, kind-hearted and shakes hands with him

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