Yu Rongling, born in a famous family, is the Manchu flag bearer of Zhengbaiqi. From 65438 to 0895, accompanied by Yu Rongling's mother and daughter, his father Yu Geng became a Japanese minister. While in Japan, she learned Japanese dance from the dancers in Hongye Hall and diplomatic etiquette, music, classical dance and artistic flower arrangement from Nagasaki, a Japanese gift officer. Yu Geng was later transferred to France as an envoy. Yu Rongling, 17 years old, went to Paris with his father. During her stay in Paris, Yue Rongling studied modern dance with Duncan. Her dancing talent was appreciated by Duncan, and she played a role in Duncan's ancient Greek mythology dance drama. Duncan's progressive thought of demanding personality liberation and pursuing freedom also deeply influenced her. Later, Yu Rongling studied ballet from Sanaforny, a famous French national opera professor. 1902, 20-year-old Yu Rongling performed Greek dance, rose and butterfly, Firga, water sprite, Spanish dance and other programs in Paris, which won unanimous praise from the audience.
1903, Yu's family returned to China, Yu Rongling entered the palace, became Empress Dowager Cixi, and was awarded the title of Shouxian. From then on, she began her career as a court dancer, which was also the most frequent period in her life when she was engaged in dance creation and performance. From 1907 entering the palace to leaving the palace, Yu Rongling created and performed about five or six Chinese dance works, including sword dance, fan dance, bodhisattva dance, lotus fairy dance and wishful dance. As a court dancer, she has a good dance education, a good understanding of China opera and is good at attracting talents.
Yu Rongling's Chinese style dance works come from China folk dance and Peking Opera dance. In the fan dance she created and performed, she mainly absorbed the folk fan dance. She also wrote and performed "Bodhisattva Dance", and dressed and made up with reference to the image of Guanyin in Buddhist art.
After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, Yue Rongling took an active part in charity performances, showing goodwill and sympathy for the working people. At that time, she was over 40 years old, which showed her profound dancing skills.
1949 After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), Yu Rongling was hired as a librarian of the State Council Literature and History Museum. She wrote 0755 to 79000 books. During the Cultural Revolution, she was frightened, her leg was broken and her life was very difficult. She was too old to bear, and finally died at the age of 9 1.973+0. 1.06.
Love dance
Yu Rongling was born in a Manchu aristocratic family. Because she loves dancing, she can break through the pressure and bondage of feudal ethics, persist in studying dance art, devote herself to studying it, introduce foreign dance art into China through court performances, and strive to create and perform works with Chinese style by using the knowledge and skills learned abroad. She was the first person to learn eastern and western dances in Qing Dynasty.
The banquet dance in Qing Palace also includes eight other brotherly foreign music dances, namely Aga music dance, Korean music dance, Mongolian music dance, Hui music dance, Fanzi music dance, Gurkha music dance, Myanmar music dance and Annan music dance. These music and dances, which are named after ethnic groups, place names and country names, not only have distinct ethnic styles and local characteristics, but also, like the nine songs and ten songs in the Tang Dynasty, promote the prosperity of national strength and objectively play the role of various dance art exchanges.
Learn from others' experience.
Japan
From 65438 to 0895, Yu Geng became a minister of Japan accompanied by his wife and daughter. At a banquet, a famous Japanese maiko performed a Japanese classical dance, which left a deep impression on Hong Rong, who was 13 years old. So Lingling began to secretly find a maid who could sing and dance to teach her Japanese dance. The wise era quickly mastered the style, rhythm and skills of Japanese dance. One day, the wife of Japanese minister Takeshi came to visit Rongling's mother. Ling smartly put on a kimono and asked to perform the Japanese classical dance "Crane Turtle Dance" for his wife, which was praised by the guests. After the guests left, Rongling felt that she had lost her identity and was severely reprimanded by her parents. As an official of the Qing Dynasty, Gege danced in front of foreign senior officials without his parents' permission. But Rongling insisted on learning Japanese dance, so her parents had to allow her to learn dance conditionally. However, it is stipulated that learning dance is just a pastime and you can't perform on stage. Later, famous dancers from Hongye Pavilion were invited to teach Rongling and Deling to dance Japanese and learn English and Japanese courses.
France
Four years later, on 1899, Yu Geng was ordered to be transferred from Japan and became the French minister. Rong Ling, 17 years old, went to Paris, France with her father and studied at Sacred Heart Girls' School in Paris. In the meantime, the wife of a diplomat went to Yu Geng's house. Seeing her smart and beautiful sisters Rongling and Deling, she said to Renda, "isadora duncan of the United States teaches dance in Paris." I have two daughters, and you have two lovely daughters. We can give these four girls lessons and let Duncan teach them to dance. "The moral concept of cultivating children's versatility in the upper class in Paris has somewhat changed Mrs. Yu's old concept of being ashamed of dancing, so she readily agreed to this proposal.
Learn from the teacher
When isadora duncan first met Rongling, a girl from China, she was very happy. Yue Rongling immediately performed several dances for Duncan. After seeing Duncan, he couldn't help but sigh: "This China girl has an extraordinary talent for dancing, and I am willing to teach her for free." . After three years of study, Rongling is very effective. While accepting Duncan's dancing skills, Duncan's progressive thought of demanding personal liberation and pursuing freedom also deeply influenced her. Greek sculpture has a profound influence on Duncan's dance creation. At that time, she made up a dance drama based on Greek mythology. When choosing the main actor, Duncan decided to let Rongling play the leading role. At the beginning of the dance, Rongling's parents went to see it at the invitation of a French friend. Mr. and Mrs. Yu Geng saw the dancers on the stage, all with long hair and long white gauze skirts, barefoot and bare arms. Their beautiful dance is intoxicating. But when they looked at it, they found that this beautiful dance god turned out to be their little daughter Rongling! They choked back their anger and immediately locked Rongling in her room and put her under house arrest. This is really bad for her! How can the duke's daughter appear on the foreign stage? Awkward. I have been locked up for a week, but Rongling didn't give in and decided to be a dancer. After all, Yu Geng and his wife like Rongling very much. Finally, they had to agree to let Rongling study ballet with Sadani, a famous professor at the French National Opera, and then go to the Paris Conservatory of Music for further study.
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From 65438 to 0902, 20-year-old Hong Rong gave two public performances in Paris: Notes on the Qing Palace and Greek Dance, which won unanimous praise from the audience.
1903, Dong Yugeng's term expired and his family returned to China. 1904 On the second day of the fifth lunar month, Yu, He and Rong Ling Palace ascended the throne of Empress Dowager Cixi. From then on, Rong Ling began her career as a court dancer, which was the most frequent period in her life when she was engaged in dance creation and performance. 1907, it took only three years from entering the palace to leaving the palace. In the past three years, she has composed and performed five or six dances in China style, as well as Greek dances, Spanish dances and other foreign dances.
achievement
The court dance in Qing dynasty showed a trend of reform, and its representative figure was Yu Rongling. Yu Rongling, Manchu, likes dancing since childhood. When she was 0/2 years old, her father became a Japanese minister. She went to Japan with her father to learn Japanese classical folk dances such as crane turtle dance. Later, he went to France with his father to study western ballet, studied dance art under the direct guidance of isadora duncan, a famous American dance artist, and performed Roses and Butterflies and Greek Dance in Paris. At the age of 20, her father returned to China after his term ended. She soon entered the palace with her mother and sister and became a female official of Empress Dowager Cixi. In the palace, I came into contact with traditional Chinese dances, including fan dance, lotus fairy dance, Guanyin dance, Bodhisattva dance and Ruyi dance. He also performed ruyi dance, Spanish dance and Greek dance for Empress Dowager Cixi, with unrestrained movements and skillful skills, which caused a sensation in the whole palace. Three years later, due to my father's illness, my mother and daughter played outside the palace and the artistic activities stopped. However, she deserves to be the first person in China to learn western ballet and modern dance.
Life [/s2/]
Yu Rongling's three years in the palace, on the surface, life in the palace is comfortable and peaceful. However, the shadow of Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion in 1900 still hangs over people's minds, which puts great pressure on Cixi's spirit, so she is often depressed. The eunuch Li Jian suggested that five girls dance a few dances to relieve boredom. This proposal prompted Yue Rongling to hold a grand performance in the palace. Yue Rongling performed Spanish dance, Greek dance and Ruyi dance. Of course, the first two dances were learned from foreign countries, but Ruyi Dance was created in time, absorbing the arrangement of traditional opera dances and ancient ladies' paintings. Dancers wear national flag costumes, comb their heads and hold red Ruyi in their hands. After the dance, she knelt down and presented "Ruyi" to Cixi, who was overjoyed.
Although these dances were created and performed in the Qing Palace, and the audience was Empress Dowager Cixi and others, they still showed the author's outstanding artistic talent and perfect pursuit of dance art. What is more commendable is that Yu Rongling studied Japanese dance, bud dance and modern dance abroad, but after returning home, he tried to create and perform Chinese folk dances, such as sword dance, fan dance, lotus fairy dance, Guanyin dance and Ruyi dance. This creative method of making foreign things serve China was adopted by the nobles of A Qing Dynasty. This method is used so consciously and freely that he can't.
Yue Rongling also participated in two benefit performances.
1922 65438+ 10 participated in a charity performance to help suburban farmers in Shanghai Zhenguang Theater on October 8th. It was 1 1 year by the end of Qing Dynasty, and I was only 40 years old.
1928 February 18, Chinese and foreign philanthropists held a charity performance in Panjin Shirley Hall. He performed "Flower Dance" and "Lotus Dragon Boat Dance". By the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was 17, only 46 years old.
After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, Yue Rongling still actively participated in charity performances, showing her kindness and sympathy for the working people. Judging from her age, she is a profound dancer and won't practice intermittently. If she practices intermittently, it is difficult to perform at this age.
It is reported that after the founding of New China, Yu Rongling was nominated by Premier Zhou Enlai as the director of 1955 Central Museum of Literature and History. 196 1 On June 2nd, the author and others visited Yue Rongling, 79, to study the history of Qing Dynasty dance and modern dance in China. At that time, she was in a good mood. She told us about her performance in the Qing Palace, her performance in the folk "Party Walking" and her own dance activities in the Qing Palace. Many historical facts are recorded in her Rose and Butterfly. Unfortunately, in the ten-year catastrophe "Cultural Revolution", she broke her legs under the impact of the rebels and lived a very miserable life. Fortunately, after she wrote to Premier Zhou Enlai, the Prime Minister's office sent her daily necessities such as beds and chairs.