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How do you rate Mei Lanfang?

? ? Mei Lanfang (1894-1961 AD), formerly known as Mei Lan (梅澜), was originally from Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, and was born in Beijing in 1894.

I. Mei Lanfang was an outstanding opera singer and Peking Opera performer. Meilanfang in the elders, under the cultivation, from a young age, like to watch and listen to the opera, at the age of 8 years old began to learn the opera, at the age of 10 years old on the stage performance of the "match of the Tianxian," he synthesized the Qingyi, Huadan, knife and horse Dan's way of performing, created a mellow and flowing singing voice, the formation of the unique Mei School, in the Peking Opera singing, recitation, dancing, music, clothing are unique artistic innovation, in the Peking Opera He made unique artistic innovations in singing, recitation, dance, music and costume, and laid a deep foundation in the art of Peking Opera performance. After that, and the courage to innovate, compiling and performing new plays, the Peking Opera in all aspects of innovation, performed the "Drunkenness of the Concubine" and other plays, the response was great, known as the master of the Mei school, is the representative of China's traditional opera, the impact is extremely far-reaching.

? Secondly, Mei Lanfang is the pioneer of making Peking Opera go global, and is a world-famous master of the art. In April 1919, Mei Lanfang was invited to perform in Japan, where he performed plays such as The Heavenly Maiden Scatters Flowers and The Jade Hairpin. In the spring of 1930, Mei Lanfang led a troupe to the United States to perform Peking Opera in New York, Chihuahua, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities, which was a great success. According to a local newspaper review, the Chinese opera was not a realistic reality, but an artistic reality, a disciplined performance method, which was more y felt than the reality of life. During this period, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of Pomona and the University of Southern California, U.S.A. In 1935, Mei Lanfang led a troupe to perform in the Soviet Union and Europe, and to study foreign theater. Among the Peking Opera artists, the one who traveled the most and received the most foreign artists at home was Mei Lanfang, who introduced the Chinese Peking Opera performing art and the fine character of the artist's humility and simplicity to the people of other countries, and was called the cultural envoy of the Chinese Peking Opera art in the twenties to the fifties of the century and the world-famous master of the art.

? ? Third, Mei Lanfang has a noble national temperament. Mei Lanfang is not only of high moral character and fine acting skills, enjoying high reputation in the art world and the people, but also demonstrated a noble national moral character. After the outbreak of the war, the Japanese wanted to borrow Mei Lanfang to buy people's hearts and embellish the peace, several times to ask him to appear were rejected, he stored beard, live in a simple house. Later, Mei Lanfang considered in Shanghai can not stay long, in 1938 went to Hong Kong, in Hong Kong, such as the performance of "Liang Hongyu" and other plays, to inspire people's fighting spirit of the war.

? ? Overview: Mei Lanfang is an outstanding opera singer and Peking Opera performer in China. Mei Lanfang is not only the pioneer of China's Peking Opera to the world, is known as the world's master of the art, high moral character, fine acting skills, but also has a high national moral character, and therefore enjoys a very high reputation in the art world and the people.

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