Compared with Fu Liancheng's old-fashioned education, after 1949, Peking Opera education has turned a brand-new page, and female students have been widely recognized by the society. 1952, Beijing Pei Yi Theatre School (predecessor of Beijing Opera Vocational and Technical School) was established, and Li Wenmin was one of the first students of Beijing Pei Yi Theatre School 108.
Besides studying hard in the drama school, he also worships the only successor of Cheng School with persistent spirit. When Li Wenmin came into contact with Cheng School for the first time, he was first attracted by the novel singing style of Cheng School's representative play Suolinnang. My sister is studying Jumak with (Mr. Cheng's disciple) in China Theatre. It happened that Dafeng Drama Club, which was led by her, was performing "Shepherd Mountain" in the popular theater, and Li Wenmin went with her sister. At that time, she was a stranger to Zhao Rongchen. However, she was fascinated by the sight. In order to find Zhao Rongchen, Li Wenmin even went to the relevant police station to inquire. Later, under the introduction of Xiong and others, I finally met them. Since then, their mentoring relationship has lasted for 30 years.
The formal apprentice was in 1957, Zhao Rongchen was 4 1 year old, and Li Wenmin was only 19 years old, and he was Zhao Rongchen's first disciple. Her father Li Chunlin specially arranged for her to pay tribute to Zhao Rongchen at the cheap roast duck restaurant outside the front door.
Zhao Rongchen has a profound cultural background. He seeks the essence of Cheng School and explores and grasps the artistic laws of Cheng School. In addition to seizing every opportunity to ask Miss Zhao for a teaching play, Li Wenmin accompanied the teacher to Jingshan Park to shout and practice in the morning. Both of them were riding bicycles, chatting all the way, and they arrived at the park unconsciously. Teachers and students teach while walking, sometimes attracting people in the park to stop and watch.
Zhao Rongchen is an art teacher in Li Wenmin and an enlightener of her teaching thoughts. Li Wenmin integrated Zhao Rongchen's rigor and concern for art into her later teaching thoughts.
In his early years, Li Wenmin was bent on becoming an excellent Peking Opera actor, but things changed. 1958, Cheng died of illness, and Cheng Opera Troupe was dissolved. After graduating from drama school, Li Wenmin joined the newly established Beijing Youth Peking Opera Troupe. Although Li Wenmin's career as a stage actress is only four years, she has accumulated necessary stage experience for herself to become an excellent Peking Opera art teacher in the future. Students without stage practice can't be actors, and teachers without stage practice can't be excellent teachers. As an actor, unfortunately, I failed to catch up with the troupe, and the newly established Beijing Youth Peking Opera Troupe also died on 1963. Li Wenmin was tricked by fate and returned to the North Opera. Initially, it was not Li Wenmin's inner choice to move from the stage to the podium; Pushing students from the classroom to the stage is her whole life for the next 50 years. She stirred up the upsurge of Cheng School's drama returning to the market, created the miracle of stirring the pear garden with special teaching sessions, and proved her ability of "turning the stone into gold" to the world. In the practice of applying genre teaching to basic teaching, she is independent but resolute, and always adheres to the scientific and standardized teaching concept.
Nowadays, it is recognized as a Peking Opera educator in the industry, a successor of Cheng School, and enjoys special government allowance from the State Council. Won the "Beijing Master Award" and was listed as the "non-legacy" inheritor of Beijing; He is the first drama teacher in China to hold an exhibition of personal teaching achievements, and has been hired as a tutor for graduate students of outstanding young Peking Opera actors in China and a tutor for Peking Opera genre classes.
1978, Beixi enrolled the first batch of students after the Cultural Revolution for Class 78. Soon, some substitute students were recruited from Qinghai, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan and Guangxi. Among the 78 classes in Li Wenmin, except for Liu Bei and Li Haiqing, who are younger and live in Beijing, they are basically substitute students from other places, including Li Haiyan. Li Wenmin lived in school at that time. After school, she has a holiday on Sunday, and all the students come to her dormitory. Li Wenmin was with them almost all the time.
In fact, the school's cultivation of Li Haiyan is a bit "crooked". Li Wenmin was only in his thirties at that time, and he was a young teacher in the school. The cram school is under great pressure, even a little "experimental"; Li Haiyan was a substitute student at that time, and was not taken seriously after entering school, so he was arranged to accept the "experiment" here in Li Wenmin. Fortunately, teachers and students are very serious and hard, and Haiyan's quality advantage is slowly emerging. After years of training and my hard study, she has become a leader among Cheng School's artistic successors with her broad and clear voice, pure singing charm, exquisite and vivid acting skills, elegant and smooth figure and graceful and delicate imitation.
Outside Li Haiyan, Li Wenmin used his unique teaching method to teach students according to their different qualifications, paving a new way for students to develop their own style in the future. She trained a group of disciples who are quite famous in the pear garden, such as Zhang's elegant beauty, Guo Wei's elegant beauty, her subtle nature and Zhang Qian's massiness.
Li Wenmin was persistent and persistent in Cheng School, and kept calm and rational thinking. She warned the students: don't be fooled by the superficial phenomenon of one place at a time. In the pursuit of true art, we must adhere to the road of standardization, endure loneliness and loneliness, carefully study and understand what our predecessors have learned, and don't be a black sheep and make people poke their spine.