Li Shengsu, a famous opera performer, is considered the first performer of modern Peking Opera. She visited Austria in 2004 and gave a performance at the Golden Hall in Vienna.

Of course, our opera culture may be a very novel form of artistic expression for foreigners, but opera has a history of more than a thousand years in our country, starting from its infancy.

As the quintessence of the Chinese nation, we should also understand some stories about the development of Peking Opera and learn to appreciate the beauty of Peking Opera.

Now let me introduce you to Teacher Li Shengsu and see what kind of relationship she has with Peking Opera.

Nowadays, in their free time, people either read their favorite books, check Weibo on their mobile phones, cook a delicious meal, listen to music, or even just sit in a daze and empty their brains.

No matter what, you can always find your own way of entertainment.

People in the Ming and Qing Dynasties liked to listen to operas, and the most common one was Peking Opera.

Often the audience is full of spectators before the play begins.

As a form of entertainment that is both refined and popular, Peking Opera has been passed down to this day and has become a unique cultural gene of the Chinese nation.

There are not many opera singers nowadays, but most of them are hardworking and diligent. Li Shengsu is one of the best, known as "the most beautiful woman in Peking Opera".

One minute on stage, ten years of hard work off stage People often say that everything is difficult at the beginning, and anything is never easy at the beginning.

Whether it is your first time going to school or your first love, when you step into a field that you have little knowledge or even no experience in, you will feel uneasy in your heart, even if you love this thing very much.

Li Shengsu was just about ten years old when she first came into contact with opera.

At such a young age, facing unfamiliar new things, we are indeed curious and expectant, but fear is always unavoidable.

But fear is useless. For the young Li Shengsu, all she can do is to learn and practice to make the unfamiliar become familiar and even proficient.

Sometimes, it is not the hardest thing to start something, but it is the hardest thing to keep doing it.

How many people give up halfway through and then fail.

But Li Shengsu did it, she persisted and did not leave even when it was the most difficult time, so she succeeded.

Some people would say, it’s just singing. How difficult can it be? What’s the big deal if you persist for a few years?

In fact, the truth is not as simple as we think.

To learn Peking Opera, you need to practice more than just singing and voice. "Sing, read, do and beat" is not just a simple four-character phrase.

It may take more than ten days or even several months to practice a simple sleeve-flipping movement.

Repeating it again and again will always get annoying, not to mention that Li Shengsu was still a child at the time.

But she didn't give up halfway.

Naturally, she has troubles and times when she is tired, but she knows that in order to succeed and show her best side, countless repetitions are necessary.

Such persistence is so valuable for a child.

Fortunately, all the hard work will pay off in the end.

When she was 21 years old, after several years of hard training, she became the little girl who sang "Lian Jinfeng" on stage, and later became the national first-class actress.

No wonder the ancients often said, "One minute off stage, ten years on stage."

As an audience, we can never guess how many times the little girl performing on the stage was exhausted behind her skillful movements.

There are indeed people who learn from famous masters and become self-taught, but most of them gradually become successful under the guidance of their predecessors. Li Shengsu's success is also inseparable from the careful teaching of her masters.

Between the ages of 13 and 20, her teacher Qi Lanqiu put a lot of effort into her.

After she achieved some success at the age of 21, she was not complacent with the status quo. Instead, she became a member of Liu Xiurong and Mei Baojiu and continued to work hard.

Under the guidance of famous teachers, Li Shengsu's performance continues to improve.

But she does not just imitate blindly, but after thoroughly understanding everything she uses, she combines it with herself and injects her own soul into it.

In this way, she successively won awards such as the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award.

Later, he entered the National Peking Opera Theater and gained a distinguished position.

Her fame spreads far and wide. Li Shengsu is undoubtedly the number one among her peers. Even some artists of the older generation are not as good as her.

Her voice is classical and subtle yet elegant, full of gentleness and gorgeous. Just listening to her music is an auditory enjoyment, not to mention watching the performance.

With such achievements, Li Shengsu is not only popular at home, but also brings Chinese opera abroad, taking opera culture to a new level.

When her unique voice came out from the Golden Hall in Vienna, Austria, when the jinghu, moon strings, qudi and sheng mixed with the drums and banjos sounded, China's Peking Opera finally wiped away the dust that the years had cast on it and once again had a

The splendor and glory it deserves.

And these are inseparable from the efforts of Li Shengsu and the efforts of people who are as obsessed with Peking Opera as she is.

Li Shengsu's name has gained popularity abroad, and China's Peking Opera has also become famous overseas.

There was a popular song on the Internet some time ago called "Chi Ling", which sang about the patriotism of Pei Yanzhi, an actor during the Republic of China period.

There was Pei Yanzhi in front of him and Li Shengsu in the back.

They all exchanged their efforts for applause and praise.