Born in a famous family, Yu Rongling was a Manchu flag bearer of the White Banner, and in 1895, her father, Yu Geng, accompanied by her mother and daughter, Yu Rongling, served as minister to Japan. While in Japan, she learned Japanese dance from the dancers of the Red Leaf Hall, and diplomatic etiquette, music, classical dance and artistic flower arranging from Nagasaki, the Japanese gift officer. Yu Geng was later transferred to France as a minister, and at the age of 17, Yue Rongling went to Paris with her father. While in Paris, Yue Rongling studied modern dance with Duncan. Her dancing talent was recognized by Duncan and she played a role in an ancient Greek mythological dance drama created by Duncan. Duncan's progressive ideas calling for the emancipation of individuality and the pursuit of freedom also y influenced her. Later, Yu Rongling also studied ballet under the famous professor Sanafoni of the French National Opera. 1902, at the age of only 20, Yu Rongling performed in Paris public performances of Greek Dance, The Rose and the Butterfly, Filja, The Water Sprites, and Spanish Dance, which won her unanimous praise from the audience.
In 1903, Yu's family returned to China, and Yu Rongling entered the palace and became Empress Dowager Cixi, who was awarded the title of Shouxian. From then on, she began her career as a court dancer, which was the most frequent period of her life in which she engaged in dance creation and performance. From the time she entered the palace in 1907 to the time she left, Yu Yung-ling created and performed some five or six Chinese-style dance works, including the Sword Dance, the Fan Dance, the Bodhisattva Dance, the Lotus Fairy Dance, and the Ruyi Dance. She was a court dancer, had a good dance education, was knowledgeable in the art of Chinese opera, and was learned and adept at absorbing talent.
Yu Rongling's Chinese-inspired dance works are derived from Chinese folk dances and Peking Opera dances. In the fan dance she created and performed, she mainly absorbed the folk fan dance. She also created and performed the Bodhisattva Dance, and dressed and made up in reference to the image of Guanyin in Buddhist art.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Yue Rongling actively participated in charity performances, showing her goodwill and sympathy for the working people. She was already in her 40s at the time, which shows her profound dancing skills.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China in 1949, Yu Rongling was employed as a member of the Literary and Historical Museum of the State Council, where she wrote from 0755 to 79,000 books. During the Cultural Revolution, she was in shock, her leg was broken, and life was difficult. She was too old to bear it and finally died on January 16, 1973, at the age of 91 years.
Love Dance
Yu Rongling was born into a noble Manchu family. Because of her love of dance, she was able to break through the pressures and constraints of feudal rites and insisted on learning the art of dance, studied intensely, introduced the foreign art of dance into China through court performances, and endeavored to use the knowledge and techniques she learned abroad to create and perform works in Chinese style. She was the first person in the Qing Dynasty to learn the dances of the East and the West.
The Qing Palace Banquet Dance also included eight other brotherly foreign music and dance, namely, Aga Music and Dance, Korean Music and Dance, Mongolian Music and Dance, Hui Music and Dance, Fanshi Music and Dance, Gurkha Music and Dance, Burmese Music and Dance, and Annamese Music and Dance. These music and dance with national, place and country names as the name of the music society not only have distinctive national style and local characteristics, but also promote the prosperity of the country and objectively play a role in the exchange of all kinds of dance art as the nine songs and ten songs of the Tang Dynasty.
Learning from others
Japan
In 1895, accompanied by his wife and daughter, Ukyo became a minister in Japan. At a banquet, a famous Japanese maiko performed a Japanese classical dance, which impressed the 13-year-old Hong Rong. So Ling Ling started to secretly find a maid who could sing and dance to teach her Japanese dance. The clever age soon mastered the style, rhythm and technique of Japanese dance. One day, the wife of Mr. Takeshi, the Japanese Minister of the Palace, came to visit Ling Ling's mother. Ling put on her kimono and asked to perform the Japanese classical dance "Tsurugame Odori" for her wife, which was praised by the guests. After the guests leave, Ling feels she has lost her status and is severely reprimanded by her parents. As an official of the Qing Dynasty, Gege dances in front of foreign officials without her parents' permission. But Rongling insisted on learning Japanese dance, and her parents had to give her conditional permission to learn dance. But it was stipulated that learning dance was only a pastime and not to be performed on stage. Later, a famous dancer from the Red Leaf Pavilion was invited to teach Rongling and Derring to dance in Japanese and take English and Japanese lessons.
France
Four years later, in 1899, Yu was ordered to leave Japan to become the French minister, and at the age of 17, Ei Ling traveled with her father to Paris, where she attended the Sacré-Coeur school for girls. During this time, a diplomat's wife visited Yu Geng's home. When she saw her smart and beautiful sisters, Rong Ling and De Ling, she said to Renda, "Isadora Duncan from the United States is teaching dance in Paris." I have two daughters and you have two lovely daughters. We could start a class for these four girls and have Duncan teach them to dance. "The morality of fostering versatility in children in Parisian high society somewhat changed Mrs. Yu's old notion that she was ashamed of dancing, and she readily agreed to the proposal.
Learning from the teacher
Isadora Duncan was delighted when she first met Rongling, a girl from China. Yue Rongling then performed a few dances for Duncan. Upon seeing Duncan, he couldn't help but exclaim, "This Chinese girl has an extraordinary talent for dancing, and I'm willing to teach her for free." . After three years of study, Rong Ling was very productive. While accepting Duncan's dance technique, Duncan's progressive ideas of demanding personal emancipation and pursuing freedom also y influenced her. Greek sculpture had a profound influence on Duncan's dance creation. At that time, she choreographed a dance drama based on Greek mythology. When choosing the main actors, Duncan decided to let Rong Ling play the leading role. When the dance was staged, Rong Ling'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 of them were cloaked, with long white dresses, bare feet and bare arms. Their beautiful dancing was mesmerizing. But when they took a look, they realized that this beautiful dancing goddess was actually their youngest daughter, Rong Ling! They held back their anger and immediately locked Rong Ling in her room under house arrest when they got home. This was really bad for her! How could the Duke's daughter appear on a foreign stage? It's embarrassing. I've been locked up for a week, but Rong Ling didn't give in and decided to become a dancer. After all, Mr. and Mrs. Yu Geng liked Rong Ling very much. In the end, they had to agree to let Rong Ling study ballet with Sadani, a famous professor at the French National Opera, and then go to the Paris Conservatory of Music to further her studies.
Deduction
In 1902, at the age of 20, Rong Ling gave two public performances in Paris: "Notes from the Qing Palace" and "Greek Dances," which won unanimous praise from the audience.
In 1903, Dong Yugeng's term of office expired and his family returned to China. on the second day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 1904, Yu, and Rong Ling Palace became Empress Dowager Cixi. From then on, Rong Ling began her career as a court dancer, which was the most frequent period of her life to engage in dance creation and performance. 1907, it took only three years from the time she entered the palace to the time she left the palace. During these three years, she created and performed five or six Chinese-style dance pieces, as well as foreign dances such as Greek and Spanish dances.
Achievements
The Qing dynasty court dance showed a trend of reform, which was represented by Yu Rongling. Yu Rongling, a Manchu, loved to dance since she was a child. When she was 12, her father became a Japanese minister. She went to Japan with her father and studied Japanese classical crane and turtle dance and other folk dances. Later, she went to France with her father to study Western ballet, learning the art of dance under the direct tutelage of the famous American dance artist Isadora Duncan, and performing in Paris in The Rose and the Butterfly and Greek Dances. at the age of 20, when her father returned to China at the end of his term of office, she soon stepped into the Imperial Palace along with her mother and sister to become a female officer of the Empress Dowager Cixi. She was exposed to traditional Chinese dances in the palace and choreographed the Fan Dance, Lotus Fairy Dance, Guanyin Dance, Bodhisattva Dance and Ruyi Dance. She performed the Ruyi Dance, Spanish Dance and Greek Dance for Empress Dowager Cixi, which caused a sensation in the whole palace because of its unrestrained movement and skill. Three years later, due to her father's illness, mother and daughter traveled outside the palace, and her artistic activities stopped. But she lived up to her reputation as the first person in China to learn Western ballet and modern dance.
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Yu Rongling's three years in the palace, on the surface, the palace life is comfortable and peaceful. However, the shadow of the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces in 1900 still loomed over people's minds, causing a lot of pressure on Cixi's spirit, so she was often depressed. In order to relieve her boredom, Li, the eldest eunuch, proposed that the five girls dance a few dances. 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 the Ruyi Dance was created in time, absorbing the traditional opera dances and the arrangements of ancient ladies' paintings. The dancers wore national flag costumes, combed their hair, and held red ruyi in their hands. After the dance, she knelt down and offered "Ruyi" to Cixi, who was overjoyed.
These dances, although created and performed in the Qing Palace, the audience is also the Empress Dowager Cixi and others, but still shows the author's outstanding artistic talent and the pursuit of perfection in the art of dance, and even more remarkable is that Yu Rongling studied Japanese dance, bud dance, modern dance, but after returning to China, he tried to create and perform Chinese folk dances such as the sword dance, the fan dance, the Lotus Fairy Dance, the Goddess of Mercy Dance, the Ruyi dance, etc. This kind of creative use of foreign for Chinese is the best way to create and perform Chinese folk dances, such as sword dance, fan dance, lotus fairy dance, Guanyin Dance, Ruyi dance. This creative foreign-for-China approach was adopted by the aristocrats of the A-ching dynasty. This method was used so consciously and freely that he could not
Yue Rongling also took part in two benefit performances.
On Jan. 8, 1922, he took part in a charity performance at Shanghai's Zhen Guang Theater to help suburban farmers. It's been 11 years since the end of the Qing Dynasty, and he's only 40 years old.
On Feb. 18, 1928, the Chinese and foreign philanthropist held a charity performance at Shirley Hall in Panjing. He performed the Deng Hua Dance and the Lotus Dragon Boat Dance. By the end of the Qing Dynasty it had been 17 years and he was only 46 years old.
After the fall 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 had deep dancing skills and would not have practiced intermittently. If she practiced intermittently, it would be difficult for her to perform at this age.
After the founding of New China, Yu Rongling was reportedly nominated by Premier Zhou Enlai to be the director of the Central Museum of Literature and History in 1955.On June 2, 1961, the author and others visited the 79-year-old Yue Rongling to study the history of Qing dynasty dance and modern dance in China. She was in a very good mood and told us about her performances in the Qing Palace, her performances in the folkloric "walking party", and her own dance activities in the Qing Palace. Many of the historical facts were recorded in her book "The Rose and the Butterfly". Unfortunately, during the ten years of catastrophe "Cultural Revolution", she broke both legs under the onslaught of the rebels and lived a very miserable life. Fortunately, after she wrote a letter to Premier Zhou Enlai, the Premier's office sent her a bed and chair and other daily necessities.