Li Xiyuan

Li Xiyuan

Li Xiyuan is a native of Liaoyang. He was born in beimenwai, a poor family. However, he loved quyi very much since childhood. When he was 7 or 8 years old, he often went to the bookstore to listen to Pingshu and Dagu. I don't think this laid the foundation for his future Pingshu creation. When he was 13 years old, Li Xiyuan became an apprentice in Liaoyang textile factory. He was diligent and studious, and learned to play various musical instruments in his spare time. After liberation, he wrote and performed many literary and artistic programs, such as Shandong express, on behalf of the factory, and participated in many literary and artistic performances in the city.

Life figures

Li Xiyuan is a native of Liaoyang. He was born in beimenwai, a poor family. However, he loved quyi very much since childhood. When he was 7 or 8 years old, he often went to the bookstore to listen to Pingshu and Dagu. I don't think this laid the foundation for his future Pingshu creation. When he was 13 years old, Li Xiyuan became an apprentice in Liaoyang textile factory. He was diligent and studious, and learned to play various musical instruments in his spare time. After liberation, he wrote and performed many literary and artistic programs, such as Shandong express, on behalf of the factory, and participated in many literary and artistic performances in the city. In 1960, Li Xiyuan, a talented man, was sent to Liaoyang Municipal Art Troupe to engage in quyi. At the same time, he was employed as an amateur supplement of Liaoyang daily. In 1964, he was transferred to Anshan people's radio station as a literary and artistic program. With the platform of literature and art broadcasting, Li Xiyuan devoted himself to his favorite literature and art work. Previously, the literary and art programs broadcast by Anshan radio station were only songs, which was relatively monotonous. In order to enrich the literature and art broadcasting, Li Xiyuan mobilized the city's literature and art lovers and increased the literature and art programs loved by the masses, such as storytelling, Allegro, crosstalk, drum, etc., which also revitalized the Anshan quyi troupe. Li Xiyuan's quyi programs, such as Shandong kuaishu "pick up Lei Feng's car" and kuaishuzhu "grab dynamite", are short, pithy and witty, which are very popular with the audience. At that time, during the construction period of Angang's three major projects, listening to Anshan radio's literary and artistic programs at 6:30 p.m. became the greatest enjoyment of front-line workers. Later, the audience wrote letters hoping to hear a long storytelling. In order to meet the audience's demands, Li Xiyuan decided to launch a series of storytelling columns. So we invited Yang Tianrong, an old artist, to record "the forest and the snow" and other works together. After the broadcast, there was a great response. Until the beginning of the cultural revolution, all literary and artistic programs were stopped, and all literary and artistic programs were decentralized. In 1971, Li Xiyuan worked in Panjin farm for two years and returned to Anshan radio station. Facing the situation of "model opera" monopolizing the art world, he boldly proposed to the leaders of Taiwan to resume the storytelling serials, and restored the storytelling serials, which had been suspended for five years, to the first time in the national broadcasting system. He took the risk to break through the resistance and decided to adopt the novel boiling mountains written by Li Yunde. This novel describes a mine in the south of Liaoning to resume production and construction. Li Xiyuan got in touch with Li Yunde, the author of the novel, and studied and adapted the book with Yang Tianrong, a famous old storyteller. It took them less than a month to adapt and record the long storytelling Book boiling mountains. When "boiling mountains" was first broadcasted, Forty Mile steel city was also boiling. Like snow flakes, nearly 100 letters from the audience flew into the radio every day, and the audience expressed their love and praise for storytelling. After that, Li Xiyuan recorded more than 10 new storytelling programs, such as "fierce battle against nameless Sichuan", "sunny sky", "Golden Avenue" and "shining red star", all of which were arranged in the golden time with the highest radio listening rate. after smashing the gang of four, it ushered in the spring of literature and art, especially after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee. The audience hoped that the radio would broadcast more and better storytelling programs. Li Xiyuan broke through the "left" forbidden area and boldly proposed to broadcast traditional storytelling. In 1979, there was no radio station in the country to broadcast traditional storytelling. This idea caused controversy, and there was no way to choose the theme of the work. Just then, Guangming Daily published an article on Yue Fei, a national hero, which fully affirmed that Yue Fei was a patriot and a national hero. Li Xiyuan was deeply inspired, and his heart suddenly brightened: "just record the biography of Yue Fei!" He immediately reported his decision to the leaders and got their support. In order to broadcast the book well, Li Xiyuan selected it several times, and finally decided that Liu Lanfang, a northeast drum actor of the opera troupe, was going to speak the story of Yue Fei. Liu Lanfang, a fellow of Liaoyang, said the new book clearly, fluently and passionately. He was young, quick to accept new things, and had the performance characteristics of a lesbian, which was more refreshing. When the actors are chosen, storytelling plays become the key. At that time, Li Xiyuan and Liu Lanfang had only one old book, the complete biography of Shuoyue, in their hands. Moreover, the complicated plot, old frame and superstitious elements in it made it very difficult to adapt. Li Xiyuan works during the day to find information. After work, he plays with Liu Lanfang and records in the evening, revising while recording. At the beginning, it took hours to record a lecture. Sometimes Liu Lanfang can only come to the radio station to tell a story after completing the performance task, and the recording often goes to midnight. After Liu Lanfang left, Li Xiyuan had to listen and revise the script, often all night long. After working day and night for more than two months, Yue Fei Zhuan was finally recorded and officially broadcast in September 1979. The effect of the broadcast is beyond everyone's expectation: every night at 6:30, 40 Li steel city is full of people, and people are listening to Liu Lanfang's "biography of Yue Fei"; the semiconductor radios overstocked for many years in Anshan stores and stores are snapped up; the cinema warns the audience that in order to ensure that everyone hears "biography of Yue Fei", the screening time will be postponed; most radio stations in provinces and cities across the country will be delayed He came to Anshan to copy and broadcast the biography of Yue Fei; people's daily, Guangming Daily, Liaoning Daily, Wenwei Po, Xinhua news agency and other media published critical articles commenting on the biography of Yue Fei; the Ministry of literature and art received more than 5000 letters from the audience praising the biography of Yue Fei and putting forward valuable opinions; Liu Lanfang became famous at one stroke, setting off "a history of cheating on Yue Chuan Zhong" nationwide, There is an upsurge of "Liu Lanfang". CRI asked Liu Lanfang to give a Book Review and a new year's message to Bangladesh and India after the biography of Yue Fei, Li Xiyuan recorded nearly 100 traditional storytelling books, such as Yang Jiajiang, Xue Jiajiang, and romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, which were broadcast on nearly 100 radio stations across the country. Influenced by Anshan radio station, other radio stations and TV stations also record storytelling with traditional themes. As a result, the themes of traditional storytelling are gradually exhausted, and their contents and forms tend to be formulaic and similar, which can no longer meet the needs of the audience. Li Xiyuan began to reform, he put forward a new idea of recording storytelling programs with the theme of modern history, which was recognized by the leaders of the radio station. Li Xiyuan started a new attempt. In 1984, he cooperated with the famous storytelling artist Shan Tianfang to adapt a long storytelling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling story telling! More than 100 radio stations have come to Anshan to copy the storytelling book "hundred years of wind and cloud"; the Central People's radio station has broadcasted the book twice in a row at the request of the audience; schools, troops and government departments across the country have taken the program as a patriotic education course, and they are required to listen to it every day; colleges and universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University have taken the book as a historical textbook, and set off a learning revolution There is a great upsurge in learning modern history. Bo Yibo, the former leader of the CPC Central Committee, met Li Xiyuan in Zhongnanhai to encourage him to continue to run a good storytelling program. Bo also wrote an inscription for Anshan radio's storytelling program: "develop storytelling, a popular art form, and enrich people's cultural life." This is an inspiration to Anshan people's radio station and an inspiration to Li Xiyuan. After returning, with the support of the higher authorities, Anshan radio and Television Bureau set up a storytelling production center, with Li Xiyuan as the director, providing four or five long storytelling books to all parts of the country every year. Zhang shaozuo, a storytelling performance artist from Heilongjiang Province, said that Li Xiyuan and his production of storytelling not only keep improving and keep good quality, but also help the actors to study the plot, analyze how to shape the characters and give them guidance anytime, anywhere. His greatest achievement in recording storytelling with Li Xiyuan in Anshan is that the level of storytelling has been greatly improved and the style of storytelling has also changed. Since 1965, Li Xiyuan has cooperated with Yang Tianrong, Zhang Hefang, Liu Lanfang, Shan Tianfang, Gong Baosheng, Lian Liru, Chen Lijun, Zhang shaozuo, ye Jinglin, Yang Peiqin, Shi Lianjun, Zhao Weili and others to adapt nearly 200 storytelling books and provide them to more than 100 domestic radio stations and overseas Chinese radio stations. In 1995, Li Xiyuan retired, but he did not retire and was hired back to Anshan people's radio station. After retiring for more than 10 years, he still produced his favorite storytelling program.

personal works

In 1979, Li Xiyuan recorded the biography of Yue Fei, and then recorded nearly 100 traditional storytelling books such as Yang Jiajiang, Xue Jiajiang, and the romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, which were broadcast on nearly 100 radio stations across the country. Together with the famous storyteller Shan Tianfang, he collected more than 50 modern history materials, such as "hundred year heroes" and "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", and adapted them into a long storyteller "hundred year storm". This storytelling book, with a length of 220 stories, is divided into three parts: the first, the middle and the second. From the Opium War to the revolution of 1911, it tells the historical facts of nearly 500 years. The content is fascinating and the style is magnificent.

honor

In 2008, Anshan storytelling was listed as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage, which earned Anshan the reputation of "hometown of storytelling". Li Xiyuan's personal honor has also formed a long string: he has been an excellent journalist in Liaoning Province for many years in a row, he has been rated as an excellent journalist in China twice, he has been a provincial and municipal labor model for many years in a row, he has been an advanced worker in the organs directly under Anshan City, and he has been an excellent Party member,

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