Xu Liuxian

Xu Liuxian

Xu Liuxian, a Cantonese Opera actress formerly known as Xu Zhenkun, is a native of Bajia village in Jinsha, Nanhai, Guangdong Province. She has been well-known for more than 50 years. Her singing skills are self-taught and her singing style is unique. She is known as "Xianqiang" or "liuxianqiang". Her personality is straightforward and forthright, and the style of "Liuxian tune" is just like freehand landscape painting and flowing water, which is hard to imitate. Xu, together with little stars, Zhang Yueer and Zhang Huifang, is known as the four big flat throats in the singing world. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he settled in Hong Kong. In his later years, he set up a music research society. He died in 1985. Representative works: folding Changting willow again, unforgettable song and dream of the red chamber.

Life of Wu

Young talent

In 1920, when Xu Liuxian was just three years old, he followed wensenxue's "peach blossom to deliver medicine" and "Wulang to save his younger brother" and other Cantonese operas. At that time, Wu Shengliang, a famous Cantonese opera, thought that she was an adopted daughter and was known as "child prodigy".

In 1929, he formally joined the singing world in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and worshipped the musician Xu Guifu as the master. He learned to sing the heartbroken stele by the famous actor Yan Yan, which won the audience's praise and made him famous.

Chivalrous character

In the field of Quyi, some of those who participated in the Anti Japanese war propaganda were little stars, Xu Liuxian, Li Shaofang, etc. In February 1932, Cai Jia's 19th route army defeated the provocative Japanese army in Shanghai. Wang Xinfan immediately wrote a song "victory of the Anti Japanese War" for the little star as a hymn for Chinese soldiers to resist the enemy. Later, the little star also sang another patriotic song "public enemy of mankind" and recorded it on record.

Xu Liuxian, a chivalrous woman, resolutely refused to sing for the enemy puppet radio station during the Anti Japanese war. She was only 24 years old when the enemy asked her, "why not sing? "She calmly replied," China is in trouble. It's not a time of peace and prosperity. It's not a time of singing and dancing. "The enemy forced him to ask," are you not afraid of death? "She said with a smile," China has 40000 compatriots. What's the death of a woman? I'm dead, and my children, and so many fellow listeners! However, he did not sing songs for the immortals of Liuguo. In the early 1940s, she went back to her hometown with other Cantonese actors to perform Anti Japanese propaganda.

Xu Liuxian was invited to sing in a restaurant in Tianle Li. He was fortunate enough to follow a senior in the press for two nights. At that time, Mr. Xu was more than 60 years old. He heard that his life was rather miserable. He said that he would rather starve than sing in the typhoon shelter. He had the character of an old man. In my memory, Mr. Xu is a little thin and gaunt, but he is still "iron plate and copper teeth, with edges and corners". His unique flat throat is like flowing water. After all, it's her "registered trademark". I've finally seen it.

The willows of Changting

The chivalrous Xu Liuxian

Mr. Liu Xian's "folding the willows in the long Pavilion" has been popular for decades, which is the first one. However, the famous songs such as heartbroken stele, romance of the west chamber, dream of the red chamber, blood loyal soul and so on all enter the heart and lungs. Sometimes they are generous and resentful, sometimes they cry back. For a long time, they still linger in the heart Valley and lung valley. It's no wonder that some Gu quzhoulang is infatuated and some others are sad This comment: "Xu's singing style is unique, like freehand landscape painting, which is difficult to imitate. 」

There is a program called drama world on Radio 5 of RTHK, which can be reviewed on the Internet. If you go to the "search" page and enter "Xu Liuxian", you can often find 30 or 40 items. It can be seen that the melody of Mr. Xu has been fresh for a long time, and the broadcasting rate is still high. So far, there are still many bosom friends.

Another break of the willows in the long Pavilion is a masterpiece by Wu Yixiao, the king of music. He is crazy about writing. The original version of Mr. Liu Xian has become a masterpiece. In recent years, although Lu Shan's singing is a little mellow, it has a style of wild grass and a style of thin gold. If you listen carefully, it has another flavor of vicissitudes. The good thing about Lu Shan is that she sings attentively, so she has a good voice.

Farewell to others, what's the matter with you

Yuequ, no bell, only like Xu Liuxian. Before the war, the Xu family had become popular in Hong Kong and Macao, and worshipped the "Four Heavenly Kings" with the little star, Zhang Yueer and Zhang Huifang. The rest of his life is also late. Zhuang Sui once gathered in Luyu's teahouse with his ancestors and had to listen to Xu's famous song "re folding the willows in the long Pavilion". Up to now, there are more than 20 years left. It is said that Xu's late life was rather rough. In my humble suitcase, I checked several CDs of Xu's music and listened to the old songs again.

The tone is clear and magnificent, and the voice is full of emotion.

The remaining sound curls, has become a masterpiece, floating so?

Where is the jade man?

Read long Pavilion broken willows, now only, dark sandalwood board, Aizheng column.

He is the best in life and pear garden.

The dream of the red chamber, the broken soul of the blue bridge, only add sorrow;

Waiting for the West Chamber of the moon, the fragrance of tea flows to the melody, and the wind flows to the end.

Sigh star sink art sea, but God's will, leave people!

personal works

I used to make movies

Qiao Feng tries Lang Xin (1962)

Single marriage (1953)

Liu Yumei

Sparrow Sutra (1939)

Xiangjiang flower moon night (1939)

Mei kaiduo (1939)

Siblings (1938)

Strange woman (1938)

Wife Emperor (1937)

Mysterious night (1937)

Spring flowers and Autumn Moon (1937)

Seventy two lines (1937)

Poor autumn fan (1936)

Polygamy (1936)... Six concubines

Participation in film production

Another long Pavilion Liu (1948)

Single marriage (1953)... Singing

Mysterious night (1937)... Singing

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