Love drama has become a delusion, but Wang Renjie's road to "drama delusion" is not so smooth. 196 1 year, Wang Renjie, who failed in the college entrance examination because of her poor composition, entered the local troupe, thinking that she could exert her strength in her favorite field, but was sent to a remote mountain village in 1962, where she stayed for five years. Wang Renjie used "muddling along" to describe those years, doing work unrelated to opera and art. 1975, Wang Renjie finally returned to the troupe, and then studied in 1980 Shanghai Theatre Academy's special student class. During his two years in Shanghai, he gave Wang Renjie a certain accumulation. In the process of research, study and accumulation, Wang Renjie felt the loss and change of traditional Chinese opera more and more deeply, which made him feel sad. "Our national drama has been transformed more and more, incorporating many things of western drama, such as conflict theory. However, our classical opera, regardless of structure, characters, expression and so on. Different from western drama, it has its own vast world. Now, we can see people constantly making many tricks on the stage of China's traditional drama. A drama costs millions or even tens of millions of yuan, and external things such as sound, light and electricity occupy the stage. On the contrary, the literary connotation has declined, and the performing arts of actors have declined. Everyone is innovating, but I am rebellious. I just want to pursue tradition and the most noumenon of drama. I didn't know much about drama. I just go to the theater carefully to see how the old artists perform, especially the traditional plays. I watched respectfully from the audience when the gongs and drums were loud. Over and over again, I read very well, and I can recite it, depending on why people write like this and why they act like this, which is different from our current opera. After comparison, I found that traditional things are the best, which is amazing. Later, I also liked Kunqu Opera. "
After watching, writing and studying drama for many years, Wang Renjie has several experiences. First, he wants to see drama, especially traditional drama, the original ecology of China opera culture, and the ontology of drama; Another is to watch famous dramas, try to figure it out, integrate it and understand it. Clear pronunciation and mellow voice, beautiful sentences, lingering fragrance after reading, listening for three days, the elegance of Kunqu Opera and the taste of Liyuan Opera are the reasons for Wang Renjie's obsession. Reading Wang Renjie's plays, we can especially feel the classical elegance and traditional beauty revealed from the words. Over the years, Wang Renjie still maintained his momentum as a "literary youth" and read a lot of books on history and philosophy, which made his plays get rid of the lightness of words and expressions and exude a heavy feeling, while Wang Renjie himself also condensed a strong sense of literati. Some critics once wrote: "There is a Liyuan Opera in Quanzhou, and Wang Renjie lives in Quanzhou. Did Wang Renjie discover Liyuan Opera, or did Liyuan Opera come to Wang Renjie? Maybe it can only be explained as fate. The spirit of Liyuan Opera and Wang Renjie's temperament really fit in to a great extent. The understanding of history, the exploration of traditional culture, the ponder of national psychology, and the persistence of literati's style have always kept Wang Renjie as a traditional literati. "
Wang Renjie has always had a kind of warmth and respect for traditional culture. Adapting famous works such as Peony Pavilion and Pipa Travel, he always followed the original work and carefully cut it. Since the creation of this drama, Wang Renjie has resisted all kinds of fashion changes and temptations from money and interests with his love for tradition and persistence in coping with changes. This "drama idiot" stubbornly believes that "a person can only do one thing in his life", so he doesn't write TV dramas. Over the years, he has been using brush and Xuan paper to draw the traditional opera in his heart word by word, without seeking utility. Only when he has a favorite theme can he spread paper and grind ink. He said: "Small print is very tiring to write, so I will cherish ink like gold and won't write very long. I don't want to be a calligrapher I use rice paper to print manuscript paper and even write traditional Chinese characters. I think writing lyrics that express the ancients can better understand the artistic conception. "
Wang Renjie often writes in black and white behind closed doors before the deadline, so that every time he finishes writing a play, he feels relieved. It is difficult to find a theme, so Wang Renjie owes more than a dozen plays. There is a play that he owes for ten years. On the last 10 day, he had a high fever and stayed up all night. When he remembered a sentence, he got up and wrote one. After the script was written, he didn't have the strength to read it again, so he didn't dare to read it himself. And this "Pipa Journey" which was "endured" by a high fever once again imprinted Wang Renjie's name on people's minds.