Capital mother
Speaking of playing the mother, we can't help but mention the modern drama "The Moon shines on the mother's heart". As early as the early 1990s, Jesuli Chen won four performance awards, including Wenhua Award, Plum Blossom Award and Magnolia Award, for her true and delicate image of loving mother, sincere and fresh performance and beautiful singing, and filmed eight episodes of Shanghai Opera and TV series with the same name.
Jesuli Chen introduced that Jin Xiaohui, the outstanding people's teacher she played in the play, was based on Hu Manli, a teacher from Wuhan Hua Gang Middle School. Hu Manli selflessly adopted 65,438+08 orphans, and found new families for 65,438+05 of them, and three orphans stayed with her. Hu Manli once said: "I am an ordinary people's teacher, and everything I do is to do my duty as a mother to orphans." Hu Manli once wrote a sentence to her: "May all children in the world have a happy childhood." Jesuli Chen said that she wanted to play such a capitalized mother, and she wanted to celebrate such a broad maternal love. She hopes to touch people's hearts and purify their souls in plain narration, as Yu Shizhi, the old dean of Beirenyi, said: "This tear-jerking drama expresses the touching human feelings in the big socialist family, and shows that true feelings are more precious than money. This is the most meaningful explanation for socialist spiritual civilization. " Jesuli Chen still remembers what Premier Zhu Rongji said to her at the China Children's Theater in Beijing: "There are fewer and fewer people going to the theater now, but Shanghai Opera has always been very popular. Because you are rooted in the people and express people's lives in a very touching way and beautiful singing, you have always been liked by the people of Shanghai."
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Not long after, Jesuli Chen, who was in the heyday of her career, was transferred to be the head of the Youth League Committee of Shanghai Theatre, which meant that she had fewer opportunities to appear in the mirror and act. She was advised not to do this, but Jesuli Chen's idea was simple. Cultivating young people well was an extension of her career.
For a long time, for the sake of "everyone" in the Youth League, Jesuli Chen has no time to care about his "small family" and has been "wild" all day. As the "leader" of the Youth League, Jesuli Chen took the lead in arranging new plays with young actors, living in the countryside all the year round, offering condolences to retired cadres, performing for the lonely and old, and getting together with workers. Shanghai opera is in recession, and there are many temptations from outside. Young people are often at a loss and ask all kinds of puzzles. Jesuli Chen can either call a spade a spade or wait patiently. In everyone's mind, she is both a leader and a "mother". 1995 on mother's day, young actors who were performing in Wuhan found a newborn baby girl at the intersection of children's village, which is the prototype of "the moon reveals mother's heart". Everyone decided to adopt the orphan collectively and gave her a beautiful name Jiang. The Youth League insists on sending 400 yuan to children every month, and Jesuli Chen takes the initiative to undertake 50 yuan every month. She often said: "I am the head of the team. I should lead by example, not by example. I not only want to train more young people, but also take the initiative to make way for young people. " When the drama "Sino-Japanese War" was re-ranked, she once again asked young people to take the lead and play Jintang Horse by themselves. Now many actors want to be the leading role and show off on various occasions. Jesuli Chen won the Plum Blossom Award and the Wenhua Award. He never fought for lines or aria for his role. Her modesty and moral character educate young actors: What is the "one-dish spirit" of China's traditional operas.
Reject fabrication and fiction
10 The story of an ordinary laid-off woman worker who left Shanghai for Anhui to teach for free after the publication of "Moonlight on Mother's Heart" moved the whole Shanghai beach. A series of reports in Liberation Daily made Jesuli Chen burst into tears. She was the first to challenge the Shanghai Theatre: "I must play Charlie Hong Wen."
Jesuli Chen recalled that the first time she met Cha was in Changhai Hospital, and Cha had just finished eye surgery for a few days. When he learned that Chen Yu was going to play her, Cha Hongwen half-truths warned: "Don't play me, so I won't recognize myself." Farewell, Jesuli Chen went to Dangshan with her. Along the way, the topic of the two never left their children, but what really shocked Jesuli Chen was that when Cha Hongwen returned to school that day, 47 students in the class swarmed with tears and hugged each other, surrounded by teachers who had been away for more than a month. There is no need to exaggerate or exaggerate. At that moment, Jesuli Chen saw the most authentic and beautiful scene in the world, and also felt the real pride and value as a teacher. Jesuli Chen paid attention to the gesture of Cha Hong Wen at almost every step: "She is simple, but she also has a very beautiful and tasteful side. She will be spoiled when she talks to her husband, and she is a teacher and a mother to her students. This is not a young, well-educated and trendy urban female teacher, but a week without a good education. In order to live a meaningful life, she constantly strives for self-improvement, leaves her husband and daughter, volunteers to teach, and spreads the seeds of modern civilization to the hearts of children in poor areas with strong personality strength and love. "
Tears ran down the stage.
Jesuli Chen also plays the mother of a drug addict who lives at the bottom of society in the Shanghai opera A Thousand Tears in My Heart. In the face of his son who lost his humanity because of drug abuse and embarked on the road of drug trafficking, the kind and upright Dongling Niang chose to end his own flesh and blood life with poison. Lin Dongniang knocked on the audience's heart with true love and maternal love, which triggered touching scenes of "tears on the stage" again and again.
In order to play this different mother well, Chen Yu often goes to the food market and roadside to observe the words and deeds of the old ladies who set up onion and ginger stalls and sell tea eggs, and capture the temperament characteristics of ordinary retired workers like Dong Linniang. She also went to drug rehabilitation centers, juvenile detention centers and women's prisons many times to learn from prison staff and talk with drug addicts. Jesuli Chen used to have beautiful long hair, but in order to be close to the characters on the stage, she reluctantly cut off her long hair for more than ten years. According to the requirements of the plot, even in summer, she has to put on thick winter clothes, put on a long wool scarf and pull a prop scooter weighing dozens of pounds on the stage. After a scene, clothes can be wrung out of water. Jesuli Chen will never forget that a mother who was devastated by drugs held her hand and cried after the performance; Jesuli Chen will never forget that in the face of tearful and remorseful drug addicts, her heart seems to have been pricked; Jesuli Chen will never forget the impassioned students' speeches at the symposium. Facing the "red warning", more and more people consciously joined the war against drugs without smoke. She said with emotion that millions of tears should be used to infiltrate millions of hearts, so that this drama can enter more people's hearts.
Be a good inheritor of Shanghai opera
Talking about the Shanghai opera Lou Xiangnv, Jesuli Chen introduced that it is a lyric tragicomedy, which takes the artistic pursuit and love experience of the Shanghai Songjiang Gu Embroidery artist who won the gold medal at the Panama World Expo (that is, the World Expo at that time) as the breakthrough point, reflecting the historical origin of Shanghai and the World Expo and the humanistic complex of Shanghai citizens for the World Expo. She introduced that on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of Shanghai's successful bid to host the Expo, Shanghai Theatre and Pudong Lin Town rehearsed a modern Shanghai drama "Dragon Dance", which showed that the relocated households in the Expo site abandoned their families and children, took care of the overall situation and made contributions to the Expo. She plays an understanding mother, Aunt Lin, and the touching feelings of husband and wife, mother-in-law and mentoring are everywhere in the play. She said that June 14 this year is the third "Cultural Heritage Day" in China. Shanghai Opera and Gu Embroidery are both intangible cultural heritages of China and the crystallization of Shanghai's water and soil art and wisdom. Therefore, Lou Xiangnv has deeper connotation and stronger popularity than Dragon Dancer.
Speaking of the representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage projects announced by the Ministry of Culture, Yang Feifei, Wang Pansheng and Ma Lili are included in Shanghai Opera, and Chen Yu feels a great responsibility. She said that the euphemistic and feminine Shanghai Opera originated from Tiantou folk songs and folk slang songs on both sides of the Pujiang River, which has a strong sentiment of Jiangnan water town and is a representative drama in Shanghai. In recent years, under the background of increasing modernization and globalization, how to train the successors of Shanghai Opera so that the art of flexion and extension, which embodies the wisdom of ancestors, can be passed on in an orderly manner, carry forward the past and develop continuously, has always been a big problem. She's worried about this. Although she accepted two students, Xu Rong and Rebecca, last year, she still felt that the steps and methods of cultivating young people in the whole Shanghai Opera circle were not big enough. Although Shanghai Opera belongs to "intangible cultural heritage", its development cannot be separated from "material" support. She sincerely hopes that the government can further increase its support for Shanghai Opera.