Yang Zijing, a famous playwright of Cantonese Opera, became the best representative works of Cantonese Opera and himself in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Searching for Academy, Guan Hanqing and The Wind and Cloud of Mountain Country (in cooperation with others).

Chinese name: Yang Zijing.

Nationality: China.

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Place of birth: Guangzhou

Date of birth: 19 13.

Date of death: July 7, 2006

Occupation: screenwriter

Representative works: The Wind and Cloud of Mountain Country, Hairpin Phoenix and Guan Hanqing.

brief introduction

Yang Zijing, a well-known screenwriter, has such major representative works as "The Wind and Cloud of Mountain Country", the appearance of which set off the climax of Cantonese opera performing modern drama.

Make good use of the vulgar language that Guangzhou people are willing to accept, enjoy both elegance and popularity, and portray and shape the characters. His works, such as Xie Bao, Ada, Guan Hanqing, Black Bull, Liu Qin and Chopped Tail Snake, are deeply loved by the audience.

He created the eternal Cantonese opera "The Last Day of Shan Bo" and other tracks.

character introduction

A famous Cantonese opera writer. 19 13 was born in Guangzhou. When I was in middle school, I dropped out of school because of my poor family. After I left school, I continued to study hard. When I was young, I loved literature, poetry and songs, and had rich experience. Later, I worked as a primary school teacher and a principal. During the Anti-Japanese War, poor people were everywhere, and he could not even be a primary school teacher. 1943. He met Ma Shiceng, a famous Cantonese opera actor, in Zhaoqing. Ma appreciated his literary talent and invited him to write plays in the troupe. His first Cantonese song "Give Me Back My Country" was sung by Ma Shiceng and Xian Nihong, which was a sensation. From then on, he began his pen and ink career of writing Cantonese opera scripts. He worked closely with Ma Shiceng and wrote many plays, which were appreciated by the troupe and the audience. After liberation, he returned to Guangzhou from Hong Kong to settle down and joined the South China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. During this period, he wrote many plays praising the new society and cooperated with the work of the center. In 1950s, he served as a lecturer in the drama department of South China People's College of Literature and Art and director of the art room of Guangdong Cantonese Opera Troupe. 1960 Deputy Director of Guangdong Cantonese Opera Troupe Art Committee.

Main work

Yang Zijing is very modest and enjoys cooperation with other writers. His composition has always been rigorous, trying to keep the words fresh, not following the rules and not hurting the meaning of the words. He often pays attention to both refined and popular tastes when making sentences, and tries his best to suit the character. The Cantonese operas he produced and cooperated with include costume dramas "Searching for the Academy", "Two Yous in the Red Chamber", "Hairpin Phoenix", "Guan Hanqing", "Cai Wenji" and "Burning". He wrote The Last Day of the Mountain Man, and participated in the creation of the new historical drama Ice Cream in the North and the drama The True Love of Yue Nv. And spent a lot of brains and efforts on creative work and wrote many good scripts. Published papers on China traditional operas and monographs on Guangzhou dialect and phonology.

Gong Jing is dead.

On July 7, 2006, Yang Zijing, a famous Cantonese opera screenwriter, died in Guangzhou at the age of 93. In the evening, another representative work of Yang Zijing, Cantonese Opera "The Storm of Mountain Country", was staged at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. Before the performance, the actors of Guangdong Cantonese Opera Troupe held a short silence ceremony backstage. On June 5438+0 1 day, the famous Cantonese opera "Guan Hanqing" rehearsed by Guangzhou Hongdu Cantonese Opera Troupe was staged in Hong Kong Gaoshan Theater. I'm afraid few people know that the screenwriter of this play is Gong Jing.

Before the performance, all the cast members stood in silence for Lao Yang and paid high tribute to him.

The life of the character

Yang Zijing was born in a scholarly family, and his father was a Chinese medicine doctor. When I was a child, because I was poor, I went to middle school and had to drop out of school to make a living in society.

Yang Zijing loved art and music as well as classical literature since childhood, and was willing to write poems. An uncle taught him to play the flute and be familiar with music, which laid a solid foundation for Yang Zijing to become a screenwriter in the future.

Yang Zijing used to be a primary school teacher and principal. During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he failed to teach. He worked as a clerk in the Kuomintang army, and then tried to write plays in the army war zone. 1943 went north with the army and met the famous Cantonese opera actress Ma Shiceng in Zhaoqing. Yang Zijing's literary talent was appreciated by Ma Shiceng. 1945, he officially joined the Ma Shiceng Theatre Company.

Give My Country Back to Me is the first script co-written by Yang Zijing and Ma Shiceng. This drama expresses the joy of Emperor Guangwu in recovering the Han Dynasty, defeating the Japanese aggressors and recovering the lost land. At the end of 1945, the play was performed by Ma Shiceng and Sinuhong, which was a sensation.

Since then, Yang Zijing has worked in a theater company in Ma Shiceng for five years, and also worked as a governess in Xin Nvhong, teaching her ancient poems. According to the custom of the troupe, Sinuhong called him "Uncle Amethyst".

From 65438 to 0955, Ma Shiceng and Xian Nvhong returned from Hong Kong to settle in Guangzhou and joined the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Troupe. Ma Shiceng and Yang Zijing cooperated again, and created classic characters such as Xie Bao and Guan Hanqing in Searching for the Gods.

Yang Zijing's plays are always meticulously produced, and the lyrics are repeatedly scrutinized. Gong Jing pays attention to the literariness of script language, literary talent and rhythm, and often uses poems and allusions to describe characters. Cantonese opera director Chen Youming praised Yang Zijing's plays: sometimes semantic puns are very interesting; Sometimes it is as mysterious and thought-provoking as philosophy.

Working for the Kuomintang, Yang Zijing suffered a lot in the historical movement after the founding of the People's Republic of China. This also formed his cautious, indifferent and low-key temperament.

At the age of 75, Yang Zijing was unfortunately knocked down by a reckless man riding a bicycle, resulting in a broken ischium. However, he believed in Chinese medicine and refused to undergo surgery, so he stayed at home for illness in his later years and rarely appeared in public.

Yang Zijing has been worried about the decline of Cantonese opera. However, Guangdong Cantonese Opera has been short of screenwriters for a long time and does not pay attention to cultivating new screenwriters, which makes him lament that it is "rare and worthless".

Only a few dozen people attended Yang Zijing's memorial service. "Such an accomplished screenwriter is dead, but the memorial service is so deserted!" Mo Rucheng, an old partner and famous Cantonese opera screenwriter, said bitterly: "It can be seen that the screenwriter has no position."

"Teacher Yang Zijing plays an important role among writers. His death is a great loss to the Cantonese opera world. Xiao Mei, head of Guangdong Cantonese Opera Troupe, said sadly.