“A complete set of thirty-two dowries, I will paste double happiness flowers on each piece”… On the 19th, when the reporter came to Jinan Lu Theater, Lu Huanling, a Lu opera performance artist and representative inheritor of Jinan intangible cultural heritage Lu opera project, was accompanying the students to practice the classic song “Sisters Easy to Marry”.
A still from the new modern Lu opera “Big Sister Sunshine”.
The reporter saw at the scene that day that with the change of the accompaniment and tone of the repertoire, Lu Huanling sometimes raised his eyebrows, sometimes raised his eyebrows, sometimes squinted, sometimes opened his eyes, and his eyes were alive and not scattered, conveying the joy, concern and love of the old student “Zhang Youwang” in the performance repertoire for his daughter to get married.
Lv Huanling played Zhang Zhang Carpenter in the traditional Lu opera “Notes on the Wall”.
According to Lv Huanling, he was admitted to Shandong Opera School in 1981 to study Peking Opera, and after graduation, he was selected by Jinan Lu Opera by chance, and has been engaged in Lu Opera performance for more than 30 years. “Peking Opera is very urban, and it pays special attention to singing, chanting, and fighting, including biting words and vocalization. And Lu opera is very life-oriented, the performance flexibility is strong, the more life and down-to-earth the word bite and voice, the more suitable for the Lu opera genre. ”
With the change of accompaniment and tone of the repertoire, Lv Huanling sometimes raised his eyebrows, sometimes raised his eyebrows, sometimes squinted, sometimes opened his eyes, and his eyes were alive, conveying the joy, concern and love of the old student “Zhang Youwang” in the performance repertoire for his daughter’s marriage.
Due to the large difference between the two genres, Lv Huanling, who has studied Peking Opera for 4 years, also encountered many difficulties when learning Lu Opera for the first time. Lv Huanling said that in order to practice the pronunciation of Lu Opera, he changed to speaking Jinan dialect when he had been speaking Mandarin in his daily life, practicing sentence by sentence, and finally learned. “I added the characteristics of Peking Opera to the flexible and life-like performance method of Lu Opera, and gradually formed my own style.”
On December 19, when the reporter came to Jinan Lu Theater, Lu Huanling, a Lu opera performance artist and representative inheritor of Jinan intangible cultural heritage Lu opera project, was accompanying the students to practice the classic song “Sisters Easy to Marry”.
”Since its formation, Lu opera has a history of more than 100 years, and it has generally followed the development of Shandong Qinshu, masquerading dulcimer, and named Lu Opera.” Lv Huanling said that opera performance is very demanding for actors, paying attention to the “four skills and five methods”, the four basic skills of singing, reading, doing and playing must be solid, and the hands, eyes, body, method and steps must be consistent, including voice conditions, pitch, limb coordination and other requirements are very high.
Lv Huanling accompanies the students to practice the classic song “Sisters Easy to Marry”.
”Lu Opera has gone through a hundred years of history, and Jinan Lu Opera has also been established for 70 years, and the development of Lu Opera still depends on young people.” Pointing to a pile of certificates, Mr. Lu said that many of the students he led had achieved little and had won prizes in provincial competitions many times. “In order to promote the inheritance of Lu Opera, Jinan Lu Opera also carried out Lu Opera activities on campus, teaching with performances, cultivating students’ interest and discovering Lu Opera talents.”
Lv Huanling is accompanying students to practice the classic song “Sisters Easy to Marry”.
It is understood that Lu Opera, also known as masquerading dulcimer and qin opera, originated in the Yellow River Delta north of Shandong, evolved from Shandong Qinshu, is a national intangible cultural heritage, one of China’s eight major opera genres and the most representative local opera in Shandong, popular in most areas of Shandong and parts of Jiangsu, Anhui and Northeast China.