On Fang Zhanrong's Art

Art can only be regarded as art if it brings people the enjoyment they need and like.

The clown is a pleasant comic artistic image on the stage. The clown of Chaozhou Opera is an artistic image with distinctive Chaoshan local characteristics and local humanistic feelings.

Chaozhou opera is the soul of Chaozhou opera. Tide ugly art is a colorful, interesting and flexible world. I have studied, performed and explored in this world for more than 20 years. I love what I love and I have no regrets. The depth of my feelings is beyond words.

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Fang Liewen plays a variety of characters, from the emperor to the prince to the cult. This is a colorful life, a kaleidoscope of human nature, a description of the world and an interesting display. Everything is pleasing to the eye.

The clown's performance requires the actor to have a high degree of imagination and analyze the psychological characteristics of different roles.

Doing this knowledge well depends on "playfulness"-a natural temperament. As the saying goes, "what materials make what vessels." Drama is the essence of an actor's career. Whoever is most suitable to perform in this special art world will be strictly selected and ruthlessly eliminated. Second, rely on "understanding"-a kind of gain and understanding in practice. Third, rely on "endurance"-the spirit of perseverance, perseverance, and being able to stand the test and criticism.

Chaozhou art is a special dance world. Clowns' bodies and movements often imitate the shapes of various animals or puppets and shadow puppets. I performed in "Wooden House Club" that Li Laosan suddenly met a ghost and ran away in fear, so he imitated the shape of a gecko when climbing a ladder. Then sit on the slide above. It looks like a frog diving. Let the audience think of their familiar animal forms, so as to deepen their understanding of the plot development and the psychological state of the characters' behavior. This special dance performance is very expressive.

Tide ugly art is also an art with dramatic skills and emotional life. For example, fan valve, top rotating fan, opening rotating fan, impeller fan, throwing fan, soaring fan and double rotating fan; Chair frame of back slide, front slide, hook ladder, top slide and ladder frame. They add luster to the performance of traditional Chinese opera characters and make the audience get artistic aesthetic pleasure. More importantly, they use stunts to express characters and promote the development of the plot. Fan's application in Noisy Wood is precisely to depict the frivolous, overbearing and complacent character of the playboy Fan Peanut (Fang Liewen). The role of ladder skills in the Chai Fang Hui is to show Li Laosan's flustered manner and psychological activities. The famous clown Li Youcun put it well: "The use of stunts must be right." This "right point" is that the combination of characters and programs is accurate.

In such a colorful art world, I have been exploring, inheriting and forming styles, giving full play to my creativity and summing up a set of expression methods: (l) observing its form. Performers should be similar in shape and give the audience a real and intuitive artistic image. (2) move its spirit. Performers should be spiritual and give the audience a vivid and meaningful artistic image. (3) Arouse their feelings. Performers should arouse the passion of creation and let the audience feel sincere. (4) Be clear. The performance should be reasonable, artistic and logical. (5) understand the law. Proficient in technology and solid basic skills. Make the performance skillful, constantly sum up the performance practice, from simple to complex, from complex to simple, and strive to upgrade to theory and experience.

On the stage of ugly art, singing is very distinctive. One is to use "the sound of fire", such as Guo Shimei, Huang Kexi (Hong Kong), He (Bangkok, Thailand), Lin (Guo Shimei's younger brother), Cai, Hu Yancheng, Lu Qihui, Zhang, Yang Rongxi, (Hong Kong) and Chen Wenchang. The other is to use "real-day double-depression sounds", such as Fan Anni, Fang Nen, Cai, Fang, Sewu (Bangkok, Thailand), Lin Dingyin, Yang Caishun, Huang (Old Ugly Yang), Yang, Chen, Yang Jiangquan, Lin Jinyu (Four Ugly Spots), Wu, Wu Weixiong, Chen Wanxi, Lin Mingcai and Xie Qingzu. Xie Shufa, Li Haichuang, Cai Shuqiang, Li, Yang, Chen, Chen, etc. sang, and their voices were clear, sweet, articulate and humorous. The characteristics of Daobai are obvious, some are funny, some are witty, some are vivid, some are weird, and some are southern accents. In short, it is random and measured, cadence and clear rhythm. The former is uncoordinated. Although it has some characteristics, its expressive force is limited to some extent. The latter's voice has a whole * * * tone, indicating that ancient people and modern people are more harmonious, and their speech is not affected by timbre, which sounds very aesthetic. These two kinds of sounds can make it survive, and the key is how to play the artistic style.

Tide ugly art is essentially a temple of aesthetics. For beautiful and kind things, the virtue and content of beauty are promoted through aesthetic art, which is called "promoting beauty with beauty" for short. For ugly things, criticizing their ugly behavior and evil traces by means of aesthetic art is simply called "suppressing ugliness with beauty". In constant stage practice, I find that the beauty of clown art is an extraordinary artistic beauty.

Chaozhou opera is the soul of Chaozhou opera.

For a long time, the artistic practice of the clown has created a colorful and interesting artistic world and unique artistic charm. Therefore, Chaozhou opera has the reputation of "no drama, no ugliness" and "no skill, no ugliness" and "clown is the soul of drama"

In the traditional repertoire of Chaozhou Opera, there are clowns in almost every play. For example, Linda, Zall and Li Jie in Chen San Wu Niang; Yang and nanny Su six niang are here; The half-empty monks, Lu Guogong and A Tong in Zhang Chunlang's Haircut; , Wang Shoubei, Mrs. Yang, Wu Du, bearers, etc. In spring, grass pours into the hall; Hutu in Guqin case; Du Bo and others in the peach blossom transition. Me and my clown masters Fang, Guo Shimei, Chen Daban, Chen Wanxi, Li Youcun, Cai Jinkun, etc. Have played important clown roles in the above plays. For example, my half-empty monk participated in the love relationship between his younger brother Zhang Chunlang and Princess Shuangjiao, and played a role in intensifying the plot and refreshing the mind on important occasions such as "haircut" and "chasing the temple". Through the vivid modeling of monks in mid-air, from gag to skill performance, such as jumping with "staggered steps to grab the back", "split legs and somersaults" and "curling forward to catch pearls and spinning pearls around the neck", it not only enlivened mid-air, but also became an interesting scene of the plot.

The large-scale comedy Doctor Unintentional must be "the most vivid and flamboyant" (in Liu Qizi's language) to push the clown's performance to a climax, so that Doctor Unintentional can reach the personality realm of the character "harmony is good" (in Lin Manlan's language). So, with the cooperation of playwright Shen Xiangqu, composer Li Tingbo and director Guo Nan, I decided to apply the ugly fan technique, sleeve technique and necklace technique more intensively, exaggeratedly and creatively to "pulse diagnosis", and show the feeling that a kind magistrate who doesn't know medical skills is flustered, scared, speechless and "dumb eats coptis" through props. In the play, Zhang Yi accidentally tried to tell the truth, and happened to be unable to tell the truth again and again. The comedy scene is natural, smooth and simple. When the old maid-in-waiting said, "Sir, please (feel the pulse) ..." Zhang had no intention of applying Fan's skills to the complex psychological changes of the characters. Combined with the plot, it emphasizes the psychological activities of the characters-externalization, a series of "throwing fans", "rolling fans", "golden rooster independence", "top rotating fans", "treading fans" and "puppet dressing". The left hand holds the silk thread, and the right hand opens the white fan, sometimes fanning a small step, and sometimes "crouching forward" and "gecko crawling". A white fan writes down the history of the ages, and 1000 strange faces satirize hundreds of loyal ministers and traitors "(in Thai Guo Senlin language), which shows the psychological charm of the characters at that time and that moment, and really" wins the praise of the audience in unison "after the performance (in Lin Manlan language). Many newspapers, such as Wen Wei Po and Liberation Daily, have published articles commenting on Zhang's unintentional performances, such as Running Water, Ugly and Vulgar, Beauty in Ugliness, Wisdom in Silliness, Love in Silliness. Ugliness is the protagonist of Chaozhou opera and has become a treasure everywhere. For example, Chai Fanghui, which is known as the treasure of Chaozhou Opera, has been included and filed as a national famous drama by China Opera Art Research Institute. Another example is "Noisy Wood" played by teacher Cai Jinkun, which is one of the "three treasures" of Chaozhou opera. I have acted in "Lost Printing" by Hu Tu (Guqin Case), Qiu Xiao (Punctuality), Zhang Wuxin (Doctor Unintentional), Shen Zeqing (Two Days), Lan Jizi (Lan Jizi), (River Love), Peach Blossom Transition, and Xie Dazu, whose name is ugly. An ugly "hoop case" of a nun; The ugly "Zi Han" in Qingquan; Ugly women Xie, Chen, Ye, Chen Liangmei, Xu Guizhuang, their iron bows, uncle Kandelia's oil, and those who come to visit relatives on donkeys; Playing Flower Drum by Fang, Xu and Zhang Sanhui's Wife; "SmithKline" and "Zhao Ang's Plea" jointly performed by Huang Kexi and his wife; Yang Caishun's "Liang Zi Qin Qiu"; Zheng's Qiu Hu Plays His Wife; Lin's "Wang enters the wine" and "Zhang Gufeng borrows his wife"; Wu Meicheng and Zhuang's "Building Rats"; Chen Daban's Fake Cow King Mo, The Second Kongming, Yao Da and Fake Constant Treasure; , Chen killed his wife, Yang Zhu Bajie,; The Sun by Lin Ercheng, Chen, Liao Shunxing and Chen Xihe; Guo Shimei's Lv Dongbin, Righteousness, Patriarch and Pride; Chen Wanxi's son-in-law includes "Four Red Noses", "Zhizhou", "Fu Pei" and "Magistrate". Yang Rongxi is merciless; Sun Fu was written by Chen Xian, Lin, Xu Yongshu, Chen, Yaoyao Hu and Zhang Shutong. Lin Chengjian by Chen Yucheng; Zheng's "Playing Chou-heung"; Sister Li by Ye and Xie; Wu's Zall; Lai's "Ugly Old Clothes"; , Ye's "Jin Fu Play Ghost"; Wu Xue, the "Little Childe" in Xu Hantun's "Noisy Buddhist Temple"; Wu Chou Chen Xihe and Chen Weicheng's Hu Lian; Huang Youyi's Ugly Official Robe; Ke Lizheng's "Door Officer"; Cheng Yi by Li; Sun Sian-lung's "Xie"; Liu Bing accused the "little eunuch"; Chen, Lin, Lin Xinrong, and the clown Lao Wang, 90%; Li Tingbo's Little Emperor; Weng Quan's Blue Stepson and Lin Tiande; Zhou Bucuo by Xie, Cai Jinkun, Zhou and Yang; Wan Jia Chun by Xu, Wu Weixiong, Li Youcun, Su Murong, Chen Bangmu and Chen Huanze (Zha Liang Ji); The Crossing of Longjing by Jieyang Chaozhou Opera Troupe Lin Ruoying and Yan Xue; "Blind Eyes" by Lin Yanchong, Cai Shuqiang, Lin and Lin Huiguang; Hong Miao and Weng Chuanglong's Changing Couples; Liao Wenqing, Lin Wanzhen and Ma Chanru's Big Breasts and Filial Wife; Du Bo of Chenshuihe, Zeng Huigang; Lai Bingqing's "Continuous Ascension to Level 3"; Jiedong runs under the stage of Cai's Li Laosan; Lin Huiguang, Huang, Wei, Chen Shuanghe, Xie Jishun and Raoping are famous ugly people in Dongxiang Palace in Huanggang. They all pay equal attention to singing, doing and reading and are very popular. A famous drama with ugliness as the protagonist needs all-round efforts. Actors with a wide range of plays can play the leading role in the play, and even supporting roles can play the roles of "yeast" and "monosodium glutamate" for the fun of the plot. What's more, there is another drama that is ugly. For example, five characters in Iron Bow Edge account for three clowns, seven of the eleven characters in Golden Flower Girl are clowns, and three of the four characters in Cut Braids are clowns, which forms the unique characteristics of Chaozhou clown performance.