Zhou, a famous scholar who teaches in Wuxi National Studies College, saw his second son coming to the world during the national disaster, so he tried his best to name him Hua Bin, which means he will never forget his identity, and he is from China.
Zhou Huabin spent his childhood with his mother in the alleys of Wuxi and Suzhou. Zhou, who was busy running around, was famous at that time. He is not only a famous scholar and professor, but also an excellent "golden screenwriter" and a best-selling author. Family affairs and the cultivation of children naturally fall on his good wife, Ms. Yu Yang. It was not until 1950 that Zhou Cai and other scholars returned to Beijing from Hong Kong to reunite with Zhou Huabin and his mother.
But Zhou Huabin really came to Beijing to live and study in the late 1950s.
Zhou Huabin was influenced by southern Jiangsu culture in his childhood, and he had a refined style which was rare among northern literati. Speak slowly and treat others sincerely and peacefully. Almost all people who have never contacted him think that Zhou Huabin should be a charming and well-dressed gentleman and scholar, but once they get in touch with him, they will know that although he is a "gentleman", he is a real "native gentleman" who neither wears famous brands nor pays attention to pleasure. So why is the difference between the two understandings so great?
The reason is a photo.
"That's a photo of my trip to America." Whenever someone mentioned that Professor Zhou was a "handsome man", Zhou Huabin would laugh. "At that time, it was the early 1980s. I had to wear a suit when I went abroad. It was too expensive to cut my hair in America, so I kept my hair. Didn't you have to register for taking pictures at that time? I'm going to take a photo. "
Zhou Huabin doesn't like taking pictures. This photo brought back from America was used in the "Personal Introduction" of his monograph, so his "charming" image spread everywhere in his book.
The reason why Zhou Huabin is so ordinary and even untidy is related to his unique life experience.
After graduating from college, President Mao Zedong called on students to study engineering and agriculture, and "working class" became the most fashionable occupation at that time. Zhou Huabin, who was full of ambition, immediately gave up his studies and devoted himself to the construction of the motherland-he came to Beijing Sixth Construction Company.
At that time, the salary of Beijing Sixth Construction Company was not the highest. However, Zhou Huabin was diligent and easy to write, and was soon appreciated by the leaders of Liujian Construction Company, so he was assigned to work in the Propaganda Department. It is worth mentioning that Zhou Huabin's colleague "Starlight Glimmer" in Liujian at that time included Bei Dao, a world-renowned China writer, and Liu Jingmin, who later became the vice mayor of Beijing.
But at that time, they were all warm-blooded young people, dedicating their youth to the revolutionary ideal.
Life on the construction site is hard and busy. Zhou Huabin developed the habit of dressing casually and slovenly, and later brought this habit to academic research and university classes. Zhou Huabin felt very meaningful about his experience. "Construction workers do things with a purpose, and they will never give up until they reach their goal. Just eat and wear warm clothes and have the strength to work, as well as study. " Zhou Huabin's greatest achievement in the construction company is to become a painter by himself.
Wang Mingming, the current member of the Standing Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of Beijing Painting Academy, was once a "painting friend" of Zhou Huabin. They studied painting skills together, but Zhou Huabin's painting skills were honed when he sketched in six construction projects.
Because of his artistic attainments, Beijing Artists Association also accepted him as a member and became a professional painter.
Today, Zhou Huabin still has the habit of carrying art clips when he goes out. Wherever he goes, he will draw casually with a clip. The Bird's Nest in Beijing, the National Grand Theatre and the Water Cube are all objects of his sketches. Zhou Huabin's sketch lines are bright, with a strong sense of perspective, which can be described as unique and unique.
If he follows the path of a painter, Zhou Huabin will become a master of fine arts Rainbow Mingming, Pan or Chen Yifei in the future, but on a winter day in 1977, he resolutely chose to follow in his father's footsteps and began to study the history of drama.
The biggest reason is the death of his father Zhou.
Zhou, born in 1900, was born in Changsha, Hunan. I worked as a drama actor in my early years and participated in the Northern Expedition. 1936 during the national disaster, he was dissatisfied that the history of Chinese drama was written by the Japanese, so he angrily wrote two monographs, A Brief History of China's Drama and History of Chinese Drama, which became famous for a while and was hired as a professor by Fudan University and Wuxi National College. During this period, he created hundreds of plays, screenplays and novels, and was known as the "golden screenwriter". 1950, inspired by the patriotic plot, he returned to Beijing from Hongkong and founded the Central Academy of Drama with scholars such as Ou Yangyuqian and Tian Han. During the Cultural Revolution, he was labeled as a "reactionary academic authority" and died in 1977.
"I haven't made a history of drama since my father died." Whenever Zhou Huabin mentions this history, he will burst into tears. "My father created a history of drama all his life. Until his death, he thought that none of his children had created drama history. After his death, I went to Zhou Yang's home and told Zhou Yang about his father's death. Zhou yang first asked,' who else in your family is engaged in the history of opera?' "
Zhou's death touched Zhou Huabin a lot. In the cold winter of 1977, he realized for the first time that the research work of his father's life was so meaningful and valuable. So, he began to plunge into the study and read the materials left by Zhou carefully. Father's familiar handwriting and words make Zhou Huabin feel that this is not only a family honor, but also a cultural undertaking worthy of continuation and inheritance. After several years of research, Zhou Huabin finally compiled and published several works of Zhou. These include Lecture on the History of Chinese Drama, Zhou Novels and Drama Criticism, and Outline of the Development of Chinese Drama History.
In the process of sorting out the materials, Zhou Huabin himself learned a lot of knowledge and academic opinions about the history of drama. At the same time, he was deeply moved by his father's love and nostalgia and devoted himself to a cause. Finally, he became a self-contained expert in the history of traditional Chinese opera, and was employed by Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now China Communication University) to teach the history of China's traditional Chinese opera. During this period, he published dozens of high-level academic papers in major journals all over the country, which has a high academic reputation. Moonfall is an anthology published by Zhou Huabin in recent years. The so-called moon setting refers to his life experience when he first engaged in the study of drama history. He goes to work during the day and starts reading and writing at sunset at night.
Until now, Zhou Huabin is used to writing at night. Friends and students often receive emails from Mr. Zhou at three or four in the morning, and they all feel very guilty, making an old man in his sixties tired so late.
"I am used to writing at night, quiet, and no one bothers me." Zhou Huabin's unique living habits have influenced many colleagues and classmates around him. "At the beginning of the history of drama, I slept late at night and smoked to prevent insomnia."
China Communication University, formerly known as Beijing Broadcasting Institute, is a professional key institution focusing on cultivating talents in the field of radio and television. Over the past 50 years, it has trained tens of thousands of talents for China's radio and television industry. But this school is not a special drama school. As far as domestic drama majors are concerned, the Central Academy of Drama, Shanghai Theatre Academy and China Theatre Academy attach importance to the drama stage. In addition, compared with Beijing Broadcasting Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, Nanjing University and other universities started earlier in drama and drama research and achieved more results.
Zhou Huabin is a man who is willing to think. How to carry out drama and drama research and teaching in China Communication University, a distinctive college, has been a problem he has been pondering and thinking about.
Drama is an ancient and novel subject and one of the earliest forms of entertainment and art in the world. The actor is performing on the stage and the audience is watching. This viewing relationship is actually the same as that of movies, TV and even the Internet. Only drama is more demanding than the latter. Drama emphasizes "on-the-spot communication", that is, the "fourth wall" has been eliminated between the actors and the audience, and they can interact, but the actors can't make mistakes, otherwise they will be coaxed. With the development of science and technology and the improvement of editing technology, in the latter, actors' mistakes can be "cut", and many of them need to work hard under the stage for decades. Now, with a few mouse clicks, actors can walk around. ...
No matter how it changes, isn't it still a "house-looking relationship"?
The keen Zhou Huabin quickly captured such a special artistic relationship, and "drama" and "film and television" are actually in the same strain. The study of drama aesthetic psychology will certainly help to open up a new way of film and television aesthetics. Therefore, "Great Drama" has become the academic orientation of Zhou Huabin in the new period. As a result, the academic circles began to pay attention to Zhou Huabin's Great Drama: Great Drama: A glimpse of the development of TV dramas as audio-visual art-an interview with Professor Zhou Huabin, doctoral supervisor of China Communication University; The concept of "Grand Drama" and the prospect of drama in the 2 1 century —— An interview with Professor Zhou Huabin of China Communication University ... Zhou Huabin and Li Xingguo, vice chairman of China Television Artists Association, also founded the magazine "Grand Drama Forum", which was published publicly and attracted great attention from academic circles at home and abroad.
Zhou Huabin, who is involved in the research of radio and television art, has published many monographs in recent years and made great achievements in the subject of radio and television art. He was hired by the Radio and Television Art Committee of the Master of Arts degree of the Ministry of Education as a steering committee member, responsible for compiling the radio and television art part of the teaching materials. In addition, he was added as a doctoral supervisor of radio and television art by China Communication University.
However, Zhou Huabin did not neglect the research and exploration of drama. Under the leadership of Zhou Huabin, China Communication University has become an important characteristic base of China's drama and drama research. Drama education has formed a four-tier education echelon of masters, doctors and postdocs in drama, film and television literature, drama and drama, which has delivered many professional and constructive talents for the cultivation of drama and drama and radio and television art in China. People's Daily once published an article about Zhou Huabin, calling him "a scholar with artistic temperament" (People's Daily Overseas Edition17th Edition on June 22nd, 998). However, Zhou Huabin himself is very strict in his studies.
Among them, the study of Nuo Opera made Zhou Huabin enjoy an academic reputation in the world.
Nuo opera is the oldest existing drama form in the world. Its performance mode is mainly group wearing masks, singing and dancing, accompanied by folk forms such as sacrifice and witchcraft. Because it is inextricably linked with the oldest form of drama, it is called the "living fossil" of drama by academic circles. With the development of society, this form of drama is gradually unknown and tends to die out. Finally, there are only remnants in remote rural areas such as Xiangxi, Guizhou and Zhongyuan in China. The study of Nuo opera is not only a supplement and re-understanding of the history of drama, but also provides strong evidence for studying the relationship between drama viewing and performance.
In order to study a historical fact, or to find a performance, Zhou Huabin made more than one field trip. Due to lack of funds, he borrowed an old bicycle from his friends in the local city many times, rode it desperately during the day, and stayed in a big store with 30 cents a night at night to chat with passing farmers. In Shanxi, Zhou Huabin visited more than 20 most remote districts and counties in southern Shanxi many times. He forgot to eat and sleep, wore a pyramid-shaped mound in the sun and rain, and slept on the kang. There is no shelf for professors. On the investigation of Nuo opera performances, Zhou Huabin visited Nuo opera villages widely distributed in southern China and remote villages in the Central Plains many times, breaking the saying that there is no Nuo opera in the Central Plains. He has published papers in relevant international conferences, and compiled works such as "Tracing the Ancient Nuo" and "China Nuo Mask", which has far-reaching influence in the domestic and foreign drama circles.
Zhou Huabin teaches students that if the research is confined to the desk, it must be superficial and subjective. He believes that only by taking the three paths of cultural relics, literature and field investigation, that is, going out of the study to study, can knowledge be full of vitality and theoretical creation be full of inspiration. For each group of freshmen, Mr. Zhou will teach them to study happily and live a better life.
At the beginning of 2007, the Fifth Session of the 12th Beijing Municipal People's Congress was held. As a representative of the National People's Congress, Zhou Huabin actively made suggestions. Submitted to the National People's Congress a proposal of "taking literary creation as a reference for job evaluation". He believes that at present, the evaluation of college teachers' professional titles relies solely on quantitative standards such as the number of published papers and the level of publication, while novels, paintings and other works created in practice are not included, which has caused many publications to make huge profits and academic fraud. "Now it depends on whether your paper has been published in the core journals, and how many words are there. This kind of work can be done by both secondary school students and laymen. This simple management weakens managers' responsibilities and lowers their standards. "
Zhou Huabin's proposal caused an uproar in China. The Beijing Morning Post, Tencent.com, beijing business today and other media reported the news one after another. The doctoral supervisor put forward that literary creation should be included in the evaluation criteria of university titles, which is the first case in China.
"Eating cultural miscellaneous grains" is a long-standing mantra of Zhou Huabin. He believes that his knowledge is accumulated by eating cultural miscellaneous grains. The so-called "cultural miscellaneous grains" is one of his academic propositions. He asked himself not to be "too sophisticated" in the field of liberal arts, especially in the field of literature and art. After all, literature and art are interlinked. To engage in literature, we must understand art, do drama and opera research, and understand the art of music. Only in this way can we broaden our horizons and have aspirations.
In half a century, a Suzhou teenager was edified into an art theorist who was over sixty. This is due to "miscellaneous grains of culture", and Zhou Huabin's consistent academic attitude is to learn from each other's strengths. Although he did not learn directly from his father, Mr. Zhou, his cultural concept and academic style are very similar to Zhou's. He admitted that he was greatly influenced by Zhou. "My father also eats miscellaneous grains of culture and has not received formal higher education, but he is self-reliant and broad-minded. He has studied all his life and wrote books."