1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 150: Singing Masks

Liu Xiaoqing, who was wearing a red dress and had a sakura-ko hairstyle on the stage, glanced at Xia Tian and said, "Next, please welcome Comrade Xia Tian from Dongzhimen No. 10 Middle School to perform the Beijing opera "Singing Face Painting"~"

The audience was first amused by Dongzhimen No. 10 Middle School, and then stunned by the "Beijing Song": Did the host slip up?

What is Beijing song?

"Singing Mask"?
I haven't heard this song!

Xiatian stood up from the round table and walked onto the stage, with her long hair tied up, an old-fashioned white coat with cloth buttons, loose black cloth pants, and cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles... She was dressed very coolly in the middle of winter!
Looking at Xia Tian adjusting the height of the microphone, everyone had the same thought in their mind: as beautiful as a jade tree!

At this time, music on the stage sounded, a kind of joy rarely seen at this time. It started with passionate electronic music and then instantly turned into traditional opera bangzi and other instruments, making many people fall over on the spot!
Then a mellow and playful baritone voice sounded from Xia Tian's mouth:

“Foreigners call that Peking opera~Beijing Opera~”

Audience: Huh?!
"I've never seen those five-colored oil paints~ and you're just painting them on your face~" Xia Tian made a gesture of wiping his eyebrows.

"The first appearance of the four-strike show (wow...), it's beautiful, wonderful, absolutely OK, the best!"

Audience: Numb, numb, I’m numb!

But many singers present, such as Li Guyi and others, noticed that Xia Tian’s singing was unexpectedly contagious!
It’s the ability to bring you into the emotion with just one sentence!

This is amazing!

However, the singers who came from the song and dance troupe were not surprised, because they had all heard Xia Tian sing.

Suddenly the music changed, and the traditional Peking Opera's four-beat headbeat - the big gong was struck four times in coordination with the small gong and cymbals, and it sounded directly!
"The blue-faced Dou Erdun stole the imperial horse, and the red-faced Guan Gong fought in Changsha!"

"Dian Wei with yellow face, Cao Cao with white face~"

"Black-faced Zhang Fei, yelling!!!"

Her originally mellow voice instantly transformed into Peking Opera, and her posture, expression and eyes suddenly became lively even though she was not wearing any makeup!
Whether there is anything or not can be seen from just a few lines of lyrics, a few expressions and two or three actions.

There were also several Peking Opera performances in this first Spring Festival Gala, and there were Peking Opera actors on the scene. For a moment, I had an illusion: Is he a professional?!

"A series of vivid mandarin duck tiles, a group of lively bodhisattvas, a stroke of the pen, a little bit of exaggeration, and a beautiful face painting!"

……

Xia Tian thanked and bowed, and walked off the stage in three or two steps. Only then did the audience react and burst into thunderous applause!
Except for a few Peking Opera actors who had a bit strange expressions, everyone else thought the song was really good and the singing was even better!

Xia Tian nodded in thanks.

The concept of Beijing opera has not appeared yet. It is too new and will definitely be criticized again afterwards.

But it doesn’t matter. At most, I’ll just have another argument with those old-fashioned people in the newspapers.

It's just that they replaced a group of people from the opera industry... It can be considered as a way to give old man Ma some vent.

At this time, the audience in front of the TV, especially the audience in Yanjing, were stunned!

Can you sing in summer?!
At this time, many music lovers knew that Teacher Jinghongke could compose music. "The Flowers Have Bloomed in the North Sea" and "Yearning Across Time and Space" are very popular!

Many people recorded the two songs played on the radio on blank tapes and listened to them repeatedly.

Very few people know that he can sing nursery rhymes, but apart from the dance troupe and a few friends, really no one knows that he can sing!
This song "Singing Face Mask" seemed to open the door for the audience, and they began to frequently request songs from Xia Tian - after all, Teacher Jing Hongke has a mass base in Beijing~
I had prepared such a song in the summer, and now it has become an impromptu song.

He sang "On the Field of Hope" and "Wild Goose" successively, and also performed ventriloquism - musical instrument, saxophone song "Going Home" ~
In the summer, I actually wanted to sing a song by Teresa Teng, but gave up in the end - not yet, not for the next three to five years at least.

When the ventriloquism performance was over, he began to "beg for mercy": "Stop ordering, please stop ordering, I don't have as much "reserve" as Teacher Li and the others, I don't know much. The only song I can sing next is "Counting Ducks"!"

The audience at the scene and in front of the TV burst into laughter again.

Live broadcasts need something like summer to create an atmosphere!

Perhaps because he begged for mercy properly, the audience finally stopped urging for more.

The subsequent performance was also very interesting. Liu Xiaoqing sang "Ronghua", which was an interlude in her first movie "Xiaohua".

Yan Shunkai, who played Ah Q, and Siqin Gaowa, who played Hu Niu, also performed an impromptu scene. When Hu Niu came on the stage, she said, "It's damn right!"

Next up was Li Guyi’s special performance. Teacher Li is still very popular! She sang eight songs in a row!
At this time, the people backstage and Director Huang were sweating - because "Homesickness" began to appear in the audience's on-demand program!

This is a banned song!
In fact, less than half an hour after the show started, someone requested "Homesickness", but the preparation team definitely suppressed it.

As a result, there are more and more of them now, probably about 20 or 30!
What should I do? !
There was no other way, Director Huang reported it to his superiors, and the superiors were also courageous - the people love to hear and see, so sing!
Then something embarrassing happened. I didn’t prepare any accompaniment tapes… Who the hell knew that this could be sung?!
It was a CCTV staff member who rode his bicycle home to get a copy.

Then Li Guyi suddenly heard the hosts Jiang Kun and Liu Xiaoqing announce in a long voice: "The next program is Li Guyi's "Hometown Love"!"

Not only her, but everyone present couldn't believe their ears.

Teacher Li is worthy of being Teacher Li. After a moment of hesitation, he walked onto the stage and started... This is considered the beginning of pop music in mainland China.

According to the final statistics, Li Guyi sang a total of nine songs in this first Spring Festival Gala, seven of which were solos, which is unprecedented.

……

Soon it was 11 o'clock, and CCTV broadcast the video - behind-the-scenes footage and movie clips of "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace" and "The Last Emperor".

It starts with Liu Xiaoqing’s makeup and goes all the way to the movie clips, for nearly ten minutes!

Moreover, Liang Jiahui, who played Emperor Xianfeng in the clip, actually appeared on the screen passively. This can be regarded as a special way for him to appear on the Spring Festival Gala stage.

This is the benefit Xia Tian fought for Li Heizi - Xia Tian's reason is very good: after all, they are co-produced, and it is of great significance, so giving them a promotional clip is not too much, right? !

It has to be said that the audiences in that era were too naive and basically tied the actors and the roles together.

When Liu Xiaoqing played Xiaohua, everyone liked her.

When she was acting in "Wilderness", I felt that she was stealing men.

When she was acting in "Look at This Family", I felt that she was vulgar and shallow.

Now look what’s good—she’s playing the role of Empress Dowager Cixi!
Liu Xiaoqing even wrote a book during the filming to analyze his own mental journey - the result was even more controversial!
Because everyone in the circle thinks that the older generation of artists didn't publish books, so why are you, Liu Xiaoqing, so arrogant? !
This scolded her!

So she was very grateful to Xia Tian for inviting her to host the Spring Festival Gala.

Some things can only be healed by time.

The more you do, the more mistakes you make. Just ignore it.

Since the show has not been rehearsed, the final schedule is uncertain.

When Jiang Kun and Ma Ji were halfway through their crosstalk performance, it was exactly midnight - they suddenly received a notice to quickly ring the bell.

This crosstalk was cut short and replaced with a scene of Ma Ji, Jiang Kun, Wang Jingyu and Yan Shunkai ringing a bell.

After the bell was rung, Aunt Wang, deputy director of the song and dance troupe, came on stage to speak, and Ma Ji and Jiang Kun's crosstalk came to an end.

As the New Year’s bell rang, the four-and-a-half-hour party came to an end, and everyone in the preparation team finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the first Spring Festival Gala has ended, but its influence has just begun!

……

After the Spring Festival Gala, Xia Tian went straight to the secret base.

The current old address of CCTV is on Ximin'an Street, south of Yuyuantan Lake, which is relatively close to Milan.

When Xia Tian came in, he didn't say much. He just hugged her, said "Happy New Year", sat next to her and ate a bowl of dumplings that Milan had specially left for him, then he went home.

It was already late at night, and not only Xia's parents but also Dachun's family of three were at home. The five of them had New Year's Eve dinner together and watched the Spring Festival Gala.

"Come on, son, are you hungry? The dumplings are still hot!" Mother Xia quickly brought the dumplings over.

Dachun was peeling garlic on the side. After peeling, he wiped his eyes and burst into tears: "Tian'er, you sang so well~"

Xia Tian was shocked: Oh my god, is this so good? You sang it to tears!
Xia Tian took out a bottle of Moutai from his military coat and handed it to Chun Dad—he got it from the table in the studio~
There's no need for the Arctic Ocean, that thing is cheap~
(End of this chapter)