Original title: Ren Tingfang, a famous Sichuan Opera performing artist, died of illness. Wei Minglun wrote a joint memorial: one body and two terms, the stage achievements are full of Tingfang
Ren Tingfang, a famous Sichuan Opera performing artist, died of illness, Wei Minglun wrote a joint memorial: one body and two terms, the stage achievements are full of Tingfang
On June 1, the cover reporter learned a sad news from the Sichuan Opera House in Sichuan Province: Ren Tingfang, a famous Sichuan Opera performing artist, director, and representative inheritor of national Sichuan Opera, died of illness at the age of 80.
Ren Tingfang, born in October 1942, is a native of Naxi County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. National first-class actor, representative inheritor of national Sichuan Opera, former vice president of Sichuan Sichuan Opera House. In 1951, he entered Chongqing Youxin Grand Theater (the predecessor of Chongqing Sichuan Opera House) to study Sichuan Opera performance, and in 1953 he transferred to Sichuan Sichuan Opera School to study performance. After graduating in 1960, he entered the Sichuan Opera School Experimental Group (later renamed Sichuan Experimental Sichuan The troupe, now the Sichuan Opera House of Sichuan Province).
Ren Tingfang used to be a martial artist and martial artist. He has a masculine temperament, a bright voice, and a strong figure. He has laid a solid foundation in singing, reading, doing, and fighting. In 1978, he studied with Zhou Yuxiang, the performer and director of the four famous clowns in Sichuan Opera, and began to specialize in clown performing arts. After assiduous research, he not only won the essentials of Zhou Yuxiang’s performance style, but also received the guidance of Zhou Qihe, another artist among the four famous clowns. Therefore, he innovated and used a variety of traditional Sichuan opera performance methods to express the personalities of various characters in art. Integrating the unique traditional performance elements of Sichuan Opera with new aesthetic concepts, forming a Sichuan Opera clown performance style and drama genre with wit and humor as the main expression methods, and becoming a new generation of famous clown performing artists.
Ren Tingfang’s drama “Three Openings”
Ren Tingfang’s drama “Forcing the Palace”
He has been associated with Sichuan Opera for more than 70 years. Ren Tingfang has both civil and military skills, and is good at robes and folds. In “Capturing Saburo Alive”, “Qiujiang”, “Wu San’s Tiger”, “Giving a Robe and Kneeling at the Door”, “Three Openings”, “Jade Crab Trial”, “Xiguan Crossing”, “Blocking the Horse”, “Trapped Xingzhou”, “The Legend of the White Snake” and “He Qin Ji” He has played many familiar roles in plays such as “The Bridge of Husband and Wife” and “Lotus Matching”. Among them, Ren Tingfang played the first protagonist “Floating on Water” in the Sichuan Opera “Face Change”, which left a deep impression on the fans. Performance Award, “Sichuan Top Ten Actors” and other honorary titles, the play won the “Top Ten Excellent National Stage Art Projects” Play Award.
Some critics once said: “The uniqueness of Ren Tingfang’s creation of this artistic image is that he uses the martial arts industry to express the martial spirit of a folk artist with stunts, and uses the old school to set off the hobbled old state of a weather-beaten and destitute person. Showing the humorous, witty, and humorous cultural charm of an ‘old river and lake’, and summarizing, refining, and processing 3 seemingly-separate lines of work, they are harmoniously unified into one person, and it promotes the art of Sichuan Opera. Excellent tradition.”
Ren Tingfang’s drama “Pearl and Lotus”
Ren Tingfang plays the role of floating on the water in the Sichuan drama “Face Change”
In addition to the performance, Ren Tingfang is also a cross-border Sichuan Opera director, independently directing Sichuan Operas “Xizhao Qishan”, “White Snake”, “Wang Niang Beach”, “Easy Bold”, “He Qin Ji”, “The Tragedy of Autumn Frost”, “Return My River and Mountain”, “Jiang Sister”, etc. , “Changing Faces”, a rehearsal for young and middle-aged actors of Sichuan Opera House, has now been staged. Among them, “He Qin Ji” won the Director Award of the 4th China Drama Festival, “Easy Bold” won the Gold Award of the 2nd Sichuan Opera Festival in Sichuan Province, “Sunset on Qishan” won the Outstanding Play Award of the 12th China Drama Festival, and “Frost in Autumn” Won the Best Director Award at the 11th China Population Culture Award. In 2006, the Shanxi drama “Under the Mountain of Lanke” directed by the Jinju Art Research Institute of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province won the “Excellent Play Award” at the 17th China Arts Festival.
Before his death, Ren Tingfang was interviewed by a cover news reporter and left a 16-character motto for young Sichuan Opera actors: “End the family, learn from others’ strengths, and use Bona widely for my use.” He hopes that young Sichuan opera players will learn to play with a heart, instead of putting “being famous” in the first place. Ren Tingfang said: “Everyone wants to be a famous actor, but you don’t have to act in one or two plays, you are a famous actor. You must endure loneliness, keep calm, and study hard. The end. Always see your own shortcomings and always find your own gaps. There are people outside people, and there are days outside the world. Even if you are perfect, the times are developing and the audience’s aesthetic taste is changing. You have to follow the times and do everything. study.”
Ren Tingfang Chuan drama “Catch Saburo Alive”
On June 1st, upon hearing the news of Ren Tingfang’s death, Wei Minglun, a well-known playwright who had worked with him many times, was deeply saddened and wrote a joint memorial:
Send off Ren Tingfang
Solo and beautiful, both literary and ugly, and martial arts, flourishing on stage, unrestrained and immortal, lucky life is always happy;
In one suit and two terms, the actor became the director, brilliantly changed his face, Wenhua awarded awards, and the stage achievements were full of Tingfang.
Wei Minglun
Wei Minglun wrote a memorial
From left to right: Wei Minglun, Xie Pingan, Ren Tingfang
compose
Wei Minglun explained: “”Yong Yule” and “Man Tingfang” are all music cards. The second couplet is ‘one body and two roles’, ‘the stage achievements are full of Tingfang’, and the inlaid name is Ren Tingfang. He can both act and direct. In my heart , Ren Tingfang is the most talented and accomplished Sichuan Opera director after Xie Ping’an. He has cooperated with me in many plays, not only acted in my “Changing Face”, but also directed my writings “Xizhao Qishan” and “Good Woman, Bad” “Woman”, “Changing Face”, “Easy to Be Bold”, etc. And he is very emotional, grateful, and low-key, and has been one of the representatives of Chuan Chou since the 1980s.”Return to Sohu, see more