Xu Hong, a native of Gaoyou, is a famous puppet performer and a national first-class actor. He enjoys a special allowance from the State Council. Member of International Puppet Federation, executive director of China Shadow Play Society, and head of Puppet Troupe of Provincial Performing Arts Group. He won the 8th Cultural Performance Award and four Golden Lion Awards in the 2nd National Puppet Shadow Play Competition.
20 17- 12 was selected into the recommended list of representative inheritors of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects.
Chinese name: Xu Hong.
Nationality: China.
Place of birth: Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province
Date of birth: 1963
Occupation: Puppet actor
Representative works: starring in Afu, Qionghua Fairy and other plays.
Main achievements: national first-class actor
Enjoy the special allowance of the State Council
Character honor
He starred in more than 10 large and medium-sized plays and 15 episodes of children's puppet TV series, and won the 8th Wenhua Performance Award, the 4th Golden Lion Award of the 2nd National Puppet Shadow Play Competition, and the 1st Jasmine Award of Jiangsu Province for outstanding performance in the 2nd Drama Festival. The edited "Chang 'e Sleeve" successfully put the puppet on the big stage, and his original puppet painting. He has starred in "Golden Crystal" for eight times and participated in the opening ceremony of China Art Festival 1997 Asian Games 1998 Relief Performance in the Great Hall of the People 1999 to celebrate Macao's return to China, the Spring Festival Gala of the Ministry of Culture in 20001Lantern Festival and the "Sino-German Journey" in 2003, and he has been the charm of the Six Dynasties for many times.
He has visited and performed in nearly 20 countries and regions such as Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Peru, Thailand, Germany, France, the United States, Japan, Iran, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Province Province, and has participated in the international cultural exchange activities of the Central Star Art Troupe as the only representative of the national puppet industry and provincial art circles for many times. He has participated in six international art festivals and won many honorary awards. In recent years, she has performed nearly 200 performances abroad, with an audience of 65,438+10,000.
On February 28th, 20 17, 17, Xu Hong was selected into the recommended list of the fifth batch of representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage projects.
May 20 18 was named as the representative inheritor of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.
Character works
I have published many papers in China Plays and other publications, such as the use of dance vocabulary in the puppet drama Qionghua Fairy. The puppet was originally named Mu, and it has a lasting appeal. I paint with puppets.
Xu Hong has been a first-line actor for a long time, performing at the grassroots level for 8- 10 months every year. Over the past 29 years, * * * has performed nearly 10,000 performances with an audience of more than 7 million, which is deeply loved by children.
1998 was selected as the first batch of "333" trans-century academic and technical leaders training project in Jiangsu province, and was included in many dictionaries such as China Drama General Code and China Talent Dictionary.
Review opinion
Xu Hong is the main inheritor of Zhangtou puppet show of Jiangsu Performing Arts Group, and a famous puppet show artist with clear inheritance. He has starred in more than ten puppet shows in the troupe, and his masterpieces are outstanding. His performance has its own unique style and specialty, which is both inherited and developed, and has outstanding representativeness and influence in the same industry. He has won many important national performance awards and received special support from the National Culture and Art Fund. More than a dozen apprentices have made great contributions to the inheritance and spread of wooden sticks. After the evaluation by the evaluation team, the applicant Xu Hong meets the evaluation criteria of national intangible cultural heritage representative inheritors and agrees to be recommended as the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative inheritors.
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1963, Hong Xu was born in Gaoyou city. Perhaps because her parents both work in the theater, "watching white plays" gave her more opportunities to be enlightened by traditional plays, and she had an indissoluble bond with acting since she was a child. Xu Hong began to learn dance at the age of 9. Because of her natural understanding, she always learns quickly and well. She was quickly absorbed as a member of the famous little red flower propaganda team in Gaoyou at that time and became the "spirit" of the little red flower propaganda team in that year. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, Xu Hong was successfully admitted to Yangzhou Puppet Troupe.
To learn puppet performance, we should not only "sing, read, do, act" and "move our hands and eyes" like opera actors, but also practice the basic skills of "lifting and twisting" in a down-to-earth manner. Among them, "lifting" means holding a puppet weighing three or four pounds in your hand for dozens of minutes at a time and moving freely. When I first started practicing, my back ached, my arms were numb and even swollen, so it was inconvenient to eat and hold chopsticks. Xu Hongquan insisted on these difficulties. She not only persisted, but also extensively studied the techniques of puppets of various schools with extraordinary efforts and diligence, and was eclectic. Soon, Xu Hong stood out from many students and became the pillar of the group.
Teach and inherit
In the early 1980s, she went to Xinghua, Baoying and Taizhou with the delegation to perform. At that time, most of the performances were performed in rural towns. They often dismantle the stage overnight and transport several tons of props to the next performance site by car and ship. Those cinemas are not fixed either. Some halls and schools are destroyed temples. As the days are getting more and more prosperous, TV movies gradually replace the dominant position of puppet shows, and the troupe's performances are getting less and less, and the puppet troupe begins to struggle. At that time, there were 25 people who joined the puppet troupe with Xu Hong. Later, I changed careers for various reasons, leaving only four people. Xu Hong has a deep affection for puppet art, and he is very firm. Xu Hong, who had nothing to do, had more time to study puppet shows, which laid a solid foundation for her future creative practice.
reform
Under the impact of market economy, puppet shows are facing unprecedented challenges. Only by actively seeking new ways of development, opening up the performance market and constantly improving the popularity of puppet shows through innovation can we survive. Xu Hong's thinking is clear. She began to study and try constantly, and finally successfully integrated the story of the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou into the puppet show, and created paintings on the Banqiao, which broke the routine of actors performing behind the scenes and appeared in front of the audience for the first time in the form of dolls. As a special talent, Xu Hong was introduced to Jiangsu Performing Arts Group as the head of the Puppet Troupe. After entering the provincial performing arts group, Xu Hong did not relax his requirements. She still insists on the front line of performance for a long time, and has successively created the sketch "Intellectual Fight", which allows puppets to light cigarettes; FACE/OFF can make puppets change their faces in turn on the stage, and bring the unique personality of puppet show to the extreme. From 65438 to 0998, Xu Hong was selected as the first batch of "333" trans-century academic and technical leaders training project in Jiangsu Province, and was included in many dictionaries, such as "China Drama General Code" and "China Talent Dictionary". Li Yannian, chairman of China Center of UNESCO International Puppet Federation, commented after watching Xu Hong's performance: "Xu Hong's puppet performance has made us appreciate the excellent traditions of our predecessors and feel the aesthetics of today. The fusion of ancient and modern dolls shows the highest realm of puppet art.