How to recite? We extract a conclusion from the essay "Random Talk on Recitation Art" by the famous actor Xie Fang, and make some explanations for your reference.
The selection of materials should be moderate and the experience should be sincere.
Unique handling, performance needs to be calm.
Mouth to heart, heart to heart.
Although your mind is concentrated, your eyes and ears should be well informed.
Love is not impulsive, natural and relaxed.
A good recitation poem is distinctive in theme, easy to understand, harmonious in rhyme and rhythm, suitable for spoken English, full of passion and agitation. Reciting such poems in the activities of the Young Pioneers, beautiful and touching language can strike the hearts of young friends, and advanced ideas and heroic feelings flow into the hearts of young friends like clear springs.
If you want to move the audience, you must first move yourself. Correctly understanding and appreciating the profound ideas of a poem is actually more important than reciting skills. It is hard to imagine that the audience can sing famous songs by a pretentious "performance" without really understanding the poet's intention and the theme of poetry. Only when you have a deep understanding of the works can you have a well-thought-out plan when performing and properly send the poems to the audience's ears and hearts with sound and emotion.
To speak standard and fluent Mandarin, we should read each initial clearly and each vowel completely, ensure accurate tone, and pay attention to stress, pause, intonation and speech speed.
In order to make your voice clearly heard by every listener with a louder volume, you should also learn "abdominal breathing" and "abdominal transport", and the activities of the abdomen and chest should be coordinated with breathing and ventilation. These skills can be consulted and learned from Chinese teachers, music teachers or other experts.
"Lang" means "loudly", and recitation means reading works aloud. If you want to impress the audience with your voice, you should pay attention to your pronunciation and learn to "say a word and it will ring when you touch the south wall", at least in this direction.
If we strive to be affectionate, articulate, sonorous, articulate, emotional, unpretentious, simple and true, leisurely, look at the audience with our eyes, communicate with our emotions, and use some appropriate movements and expressions, then "as long as you stand there naturally, mouth to mouth, heart to eye, and grasp these three points, your body and limbs will naturally rotate with your eyes."
To sum up, reciting poems should pay attention to the following points:
First, understand the background, clear purpose
Before reciting a poem, it is necessary to find out the background of the poem and why the author wrote it. After understanding the background and purpose, we will have a deeper understanding of the content of the work, which will help to stimulate our passion and better express the poet's will and mind.
Second, use imagination and design boldly
Although a poem has its own characteristics in describing feelings, scenery, people and things, it is inseparable from images. Poets often use images to express what they want to say when expressing their feelings. When we recite poems, we should use image thinking, enrich our imagination with "poetic imagery", and at the same time boldly use association to design.
Third, the rhythm is harmonious and the language is fluent.
Rhythm is the musicality of language and its regular alternation of sound intensity and length. The priority of rhythm changes with the ups and downs of people's emotions and the changes of environment, especially the rhythm of poetry. If the rhythm of the five-character quatrains or seven-character quatrains in ancient poetry is not well mastered, it will give people a sense of disorder after reading. To master the rhythm, it is mainly to deal with the pause and beat of poetry.