Chapter 54 Watching a play with children who are acting

This night was the day when the third batch of graduates of the Chinese Opera School in Beijing reported their performances. When I walked into the rehearsal venue, the gongs and drums were already beating and the lights on the stage were already on.Suddenly a group of children wearing red scarves surrounded me inside the door. They laughed and said: "You are here, we didn't expect you to come!" I also smiled happily and said: "Okay, I also I didn't expect to see you here again!" After talking, we sat down in the first few rows together. These are the first-year students of the Chinese Opera School. When I visited the Chinese Opera School two days ago, we had a hasty but lively conversation for more than half an hour.The children are so enthusiastic, and the meeting made them welcome me like an old friend!

It is common to watch plays and movies with children, but it is the first time for me to watch plays with children who are acting.This experience delights me and amazes me.They are all only eleven or twelve years old, but they are "expert" than me in Beijing opera Much more!They are not like ordinary children who pull you to ask about the story in the play, or ask who is a good guy and who is a bad guy on the stage, and they don't dawdle on their seats or look around.They are concentrating on studying and observing, and they are closely watching every movement on the stage: pulling out their feathers, swinging their sleeves, somersaulting, hitting their hands... They tilt their heads sideways, listening to every line of lyrics and words with rapt attention. Said Bai, while frequently looking up at the subtitles mapped on the wall in front of the stage.Sometimes they also pointed and whispered to each other, and when they heard the benefits, they leaned back and let out a long sigh of admiration!

This scene made me laugh secretly with joy. They were watching the play, but I watched them quietly.But the children were polite, and while they were concentrating, they did not forget that there was a guest sitting among them.At this time, the performance of "The Meeting of Heroes" on the stage was almost over. A classmate sitting on my right leaned into my ear and said softly, "The one playing Zhou Yu is the grandson of our principal—Xiao Runde." When he said When it comes to the words "our principal", the voice is full of respect and love.Mr. Xiao Changhua's painstaking efforts over the past few years were not in vain!

They also told me that they performed "Three Claps" and "Second Entry into the Palace" themselves yesterday... After learning a play, they performed on stage. improve. They also repeatedly reminded me that tonight's actors are not all graduates of this year, and some of them have already been assigned to other provinces.Over the past few years, more than 100 graduates of our school have been assigned to Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Guangdong, Anhui and other provinces, including students who study opera and music.I remembered that when I sat in on the seventh-grade exam in their school a few days ago, the "scene" was all my classmates, and the female students were also beating drums and gongs!

"Proud Fate" is on the stage, and now it's my turn to ask the children about the story. I have never seen this play. "Teaching Darts" is discounted, very lively and gratifying. Liu Changyu, who plays Di Yunluan, and Xia Yongquan, who plays Lu Kunjie, both can act. The dialogue is very vivid and can firmly attract the audience.After that came "Jinshan Temple". The young actors played and danced vigorously. Liu Qi, who played the role of Qing'er, rolled and tumbled brilliantly, making people so dizzy that they dare not breathe!Chinese opera schools are very successful in coaching basic skills.When we visited, we saw that in several large classrooms, there were "handrails" embedded in the walls. This was originally a tool for teaching ballet, but they adopted it. This is really "using foreign things for China"!

When it comes to practicing martial arts, we always feel that it is very strenuous and dangerous, but the children don't think so.Wen Ruhua, who was a martial arts student who talked to me that day, said: "We have never had any accidents in our practice, and the teachers have protected us well." He laughed again, "Some students practice secretly by themselves, and sometimes they get a little bit injured. "Everyone who said that laughed. The play broke up, and the children reluctantly followed to the door.The summer vacation is approaching, and they all have a complete rest this year, and some of them have returned to their hometowns far away, like Zhao Yan who played Tsing Yi, who returned to Heilongjiang—this enthusiastic little girl, in order to talk to us, went so far that day. I missed my meal!

In the deep night and the cool wind, I waved goodbye to them, and the car slowly drove out of the vast courtyard of the Chinese Opera School, with lights shining from the windows of several large buildings. The little actors are tired in the middle of the night, so it's time to prepare for "night snack"?The children watching the play should also get ready for bed, right?Remember what they say: "No matter how excited we are, we fall asleep as soon as we lie down!" Rest well and have the happiest holiday ever! Woke Up Spring". )