Mei Lanfang learned art, how did Mei Lanfang learn art?

Mei Lanfang's learning process is as follows:

Mei Lanfang has been learning Tsing Yi since she was 8 years old, and she began to learn the four simplest sentences, but he couldn't sing it for a long time, the angry teacher brushed his sleeves away, and the master said that his eyes had no gods, not the material for singing, and Mei Lanfang's determination to learn art was not shaken.

He later learned drama from the Tsing Yi actor Wu Lingxian, and every morning at five o'clock he had to go to Chenggen to shout his voice, and after lunch, he had to hang his voice, practice his body, learn to sing, and read a book after dinner, and each paragraph must be sung 30 times.

After diligent study and hard practice, Mei Lanfang finally became a famous Peking Opera master.

Mei Lanfang's early introduction.

In 1894, Mei Lanfang was born in a family of Liyuan, her grandfather Mei Qiaoling was one of the "Thirteen Uniques of Tongguang", and her father Mei Zhufen was also a Peking Opera Dan. From being born with extraordinary talent to later introductory learning, Mei Lanfang is easier than ordinary people.

He began to learn opera at the age of eight, studied Tsing Yi at the age of nine with Wu Lingxian as his teacher, and performed on stage at the age of 10. Of course, bel canto and beauty are only one of the conditions that God has provided for Mei Lanfang to become an opera artist, and his success is inseparable from his own daily efforts.

Although she was born in a family, Mei Lanfang's childhood and adolescence were also unfortunate. He lost his father when he was four years old, and when he was fourteen years old, his mother Yang Changyu died of illness.

Because she was still young, Mei Lanfang had to pass on to her uncle who was a Peking Opera pianist. Later, Mei Lanfang worked hard to learn opera, hoping to be self-sufficient as soon as possible.

Mei Lanfang Qing Guangxu was born in the old house of the Mei family on Li Tiegui Street outside the front gate of Beijing in the twentieth year, and her grandfather was Mei Qiaoling, a famous Tsing Yi Hua Dan actor in Beijing. Mei Lanfang's parents died early, and she was raised by her uncle Mei Yutian, who was a Peking Opera pianist, and began to learn opera at the age of eight, and appeared on stage at the age of ten (1904). In 1907, he took Ye Chunshan to perform in the "Xilian Class".

In 1913, he went to Shanghai to perform "Mu Ke Zhai", which caused a sensation in Shanghai and became famous in one fell swoop.

In the same year, he apprenticed to Qi Baishi to learn to paint workers, and Qi Baishi also teamed up with Jin Beilou and Wang Mengbai to paint on his 30th birthday in Mei Lanfang's Yu Xuan. In 1930, he traveled to the United States and performed in Seattle, Chicago, Washington, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Honolulu and other places for 72 days, causing a sensation, and Mei Lanfang was awarded honorary doctorates of literature by Pomona College and the University of Southern California.

Mei Lanfang moved to Shanghai in 1932 and then visited the Soviet Union in 1935.

In 1938, Mei Lanfang led the Mei Opera Troupe to perform in Hong Kong, and in 1941, due to economic reasons, he returned to Shanghai, and the Japanese puppet traitors invited him to perform, but he was unmoved, and deliberately grew a beard, declaring his determination to break with the Japanese forces. He did not perform, his economy was cut off, and he supported his family and troupe by selling calligraphy, paintings and trophies. Japan surrendered in 1945, and Mei Lanfang reappeared on the stage in October, which was very prosperous.

In the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu (1902), he officially worshiped Wu Lingxian as his teacher to learn Tsing Yi, and the first play he learned was "Zhan Puguan", and then he studied more than 30 plays such as "Erjin Palace" and "Sanniang's Godson". also often follows Qin Zhifen and Hu Ergeng to learn Hua Dan opera.

On August 17, the thirtieth year of Guangxu (1904), the "Guanghelou" theater in Beijing took the stage for the first time, and Gong Huadan played the Weaver Girl in "The Palace of Eternal Life: The Secret Oath of Queqiao".

In the thirty-third year of Guangxu (1907), Mei Lanfang's family moved from Baishun Hutong to Lucaoyuan, and officially took the class "Xi Liancheng" to perform. After that, Ye Chunshan, the head of the Xilian class, accepted Mei Lanfang as an apprentice.

Personal Achievements:

1. Meipai's innovation.

Mei Lanfang's innovative Peking Opera Mei School art, is not only the peak of Chinese Peking Opera and the entire Chinese opera art, but also ranks among the world's three major performance systems, the development of Mei School art, since the opportunity of the times, Beijing elite gathered, theater teahouses gathered, in Mei Lanfang Yu Xuan gathered "Mei Party" also showed its strengths, grand event, and then achieved Mei Lanfang's Mei School art at that time.

2. Integration of art and drama.

Chinese drama can be said to be an active ink painting in terms of costumes, props, makeup, and performance, and Mei Lanfang knows that she should draw nourishment from painting that is helpful to drama. So he studied painting and sought advice from some famous painters, including Qi Baishi, who was very fond of Mei Lanfang's plays.

Qi Baishi is also a teacher and friend to Mei Lanfang. Mei Lanfang brought art and life together with her interests, bringing traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting into drama, expanding the field of art, and at the same time breaking down the original artistic barriers, creating a new way out, and spreading this new style of things abroad.

Born in a family of Liyuan, he learned drama at the age of 8, worshiped Wu Lingxian as a teacher at the age of 9 to learn Tsing Yi, and took the stage at the age of 10. Grandmother Wuxi people, lost her mother at the age of four, lost her father at the age of twelve, and her uncle was in Yunhetang's private apartment. Gong Qingyi, also acting as a knife and horse.

He is good at Dan horns, has a beautiful appearance, has a mellow singing voice, and is graceful and generous in the typhoon, and is known as the grandmaster of the Danxing generation. Later, he sought advice from Qin Zhifen and Hu Ergeng to learn Hua Dan. After a long period of stage practice, he has created and developed all aspects of Peking Opera Danjiao's singing, recitation, dance, **, costumes, makeup, etc., and has formed his own artistic style, known as "Mei School".

Mei Lanfang's era was all about learning art in this way of master and apprentice. So it was very hard to study art at that time.