Since childhood, Cui Jichang had a big voice and an exceptionally high pitch. In the kindergarten singing, he sang the loudest, the teacher is his cousin, taught him to sing many songs. He is also really competitive, no matter what the occasion, let sing, sing, sing also great, back to draw warm applause and praise.
Twelve years old that year, Sanhe famous Jingdong drum artist Kang Fuyuan string master Lu Yongdong came to Xiaodingzhuang said "small eight righteousness", lodging in the house of Cui Jichang, Cui Jichang surrounded the two of them do not leave half a step, a moment to beat the drum, a moment to pull the pull pull the three strings, pestering Kang Fuyuan to learn the art of apprenticeship, only because of the strong opposition of his family, did not have the wish. But from then on, he had an infinite plot for the Jingdong Drum. During the Cultural Revolution, the village set up a Mao Zedong Thought Literary and Artistic Propaganda Team, although the village of Dingzhuang is not large, but also two factions, the head of the two propaganda teams are scrambling to Cui Jichang, he believes that the two factions are revolutionary, and therefore do not know to participate in which faction is good. So that the two factions also because he had a dispute, and finally cast lots to solve the problem. Fortunately, it was only a civil fight, not a military one. In the propaganda team, Cui Jichang not only sang "Chairman Mao's book is my favorite" on the Jingdong Drum, but also began to create programs from then on. The village history play "Testimony of Niudougou", which was written by him, was not performed, but it enabled him to get exercise and also showed his creative talent. In the commune of a meeting performance in a hit, all said small Dingzhuang out of a big living treasure, the future must have a future.
On December 17, 1969, Cui Jichang boarded a train at the Tianjin West Railway Station to the army, and the next day arrived at the tank unit where he had served for 17 years. In the reconnaissance battalion of the second company's New Year's Eve party, Cui Jichang sang the Beijing East drums were warmly welcomed by the officers and soldiers, and from then on to become the backbone of the company's literary and artistic. In the 1974 division directly under the team of cultural performances, he and three other comrades of the reconnaissance of the second company's singing group won the first prize. His singing of the Jingdong Drum "Big Old Man as Critic" was unanimously praised. In October of the same year, he participated in the Jinan Military District Cultural Performance, and their four-member singing group was recommended to perform in Beijing, which caused a great sensation. 1975, as a benchmark for excellent singing groups in the Jinan War Zone, they went on a tour. Cui Jichang's Jingdong Drums sang wherever it rang, and many people have come to the door to learn to sing Jingdong Drums. Cui Jichang is not tired of teaching and singing, by the grass-roots cadres and soldiers of high praise.
Cui Jichang served in the army for 17 years, to participate in the military, military district cultural performances (transfer) 13 times, 13 times was awarded outstanding actor, more than 20 works won awards, he created and sang the Jingdong Drum every time is a reserved program and won awards again and again. 1977, he participated in the third time in the Jinan Military District Cultural Performances, created and sang the Jingdong Drum "picking dynamite" won the creation and performance of the double award, and was Shandong TV, radio recording, video broadcasting. The singing group led by him was once again honored as the representative team of the All-Army Literary and Artistic Performances in Beijing.
In 1980, Cui Jichang's tank unit was transferred from the Jinan Military Region to the Nanjing Military Region, and in October of the same year, he participated in the Nanjing Military Region Literary and Artistic Performance, and his Jingdong Drum "Pick Dynamite" was also sung in the Nanjing Military Region, and it was sung by a number of people who learned to sing it.
In 1982, the Jingdong Drum "One Hundred Waters" that he created was awarded the prize for excellence in the writing of the "Frontier Literary and Art" in the Nanjing Military Region.
In 1983, he participated in the Twelfth Army Literary Performance, Cui Jichang created and performed the Jingdong Drum "journey anecdote" won the first prize. 1986, he participated in the Twelfth Army Literary Performance for the second time in the creation and performance of the Jingdong Drum "full moon" won the first prize for the creation of the Cui Jichang won the individual special award, thus also for his military literature and art stage art practice to put a period.
The end of 1986, Cui Jichang transferred to the Sanhe Cultural Center. 1987 spring on the creation and performance of the Jingdong drum "three rivers of the most" in the county party secretary to report on the performance of the Secretary of the Secretary of the spot by the Secretary's praise. October performance of the National Day, the audience warmly welcomed by the Sanhe TV station video broadcasting in the Jingdong land is widely sung. The neighboring counties of the Jingdong drum enthusiasts will come to learn to sing, or asked to create reflect the reality of the Jingdong drum, such as: he created and performed for the Pinggu Jingdong drum "husband and wife night talk"; for the Jixian County, the fifth elementary school of the town of Bonjun created "good students" and "Bonjun five elementary school song" and so on.
Shortly after Cui Jichang's transfer, he was appointed by the Cultural Center as the head of the mass art group, and he and all his colleagues formed the Sanhe Youth Art Troupe. He rode a bicycle to perform in the countryside, got the county party secretary at the time for them to send off, Hebei TV made a special report. 1988, 1989 for two consecutive years in the city temple fair performance, footprints throughout the Sanhe each township. Regardless of where he performed, he insisted on going wherever he sang, and sang for whomever he performed. As a result, his Jingdong drums have become especially popular.
In 1989, after Cui Jichang became the deputy director, he was even more serious and responsible about his work. He not only insisted on the pursuit of the Jingdong Drum, but also paid more attention to the training of newcomers. 1987, he just joined the cultural center work, the first to put forward the idea of running literary training courses. In the same year, the cultural center set up a music class and a performance class, which laid a good foundation for the establishment of the Youth Art Troupe. 1990, the Youth Art Troupe was formally established, and during the period when he was the head of the troupe, he made more efforts to cultivate the artistic talents of Sanhe, and some of them, such as Wang Shucai, Tian Haichun, and Liu Shouyu, were prominent. Wang Shucai is now the Beijing Municipal Opera Troupe Beijing qinshu actor, but also served as manager of the performance outreach department.
During Cui Jichang's service in the army, the army arranged for him to go to Tianjin twice to learn from Dong Xiangkun, a famous Jingdong drum performer. Mr. Dong also wrote a special inscription for him: "Make efforts to learn this form of literature and art, and better serve the people". These words have always inspired him, and he has persisted in his pursuit of the Jingdong Drum.
In the afternoon and evening of February 19, 1997 (the thirteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar), the "Songs and Laughter Singing Three Rivers--Cui Jichang's Personal Works Concert" was held in the People's Auditorium. Famous writer Haoran watched the performance accompanied by the leaders of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, and two masters of Cui Jichang - Dong Xiangkun, the famous Jingdong drum performer and worker composer, and Liu Liwu, the performer of Gao Pai's Shandong Quick Script - participated in the performance. Nearly 3,000 audience members were not only infected by the wonderful performances, but also touched by Cui Jichang's spirit of pursuing Jingdong Drum and his love for Sanhe. The audience gave a warm applause from time to time, which is not only the reward for the wonderful program, but also the affirmation of Cui Jichang's contribution to the culture of Sanhe.
In May 1993, Cui Jichang from the cultural center deputy director and party secretary transferred to the Municipal Bureau of Culture as cultural arts unit director and party secretary of the Bureau. At this time, he had the opportunity to often go to the countryside to contact a lot of amateur arts and culture enthusiasts, especially on the Jingdong drums rural school representative of the contact with Mr. Chen Huaide, so that he has a further understanding of the origins of the Jingdong drum, development, inheritance, school, and have a better understanding of the future development of the Jingdong drums more have a sense of responsibility. To this end, he strengthened contact with some drum book artists in Sanhe, and constantly learned from them the techniques of creation and singing, which helped him a lot in his creation and singing, and also played a key role in naming him as the inheritor of the Jingdong Drum by Hebei Province. In May 1997, Cui Jichang returned to the cultural center as a director, a job is eight years. In the words of an old comrade of the cultural center: Cui Jichang when the director of the eight years, is the cultural center of the most activities of the eight years.
The main activities are:
1, the creation of the art school, art education in Sanhe City to fill a gap, generally praised by the community.
2, the organization of colorful weekend activities, the new century square every weekend lively, become a bright landscape in Sanhe city. Each event a theme, a theme a program, and from the urban area to the development of townships, villages and streets, creating a new content of mass cultural activities, new forms and new situations.
3, since 1987, the organization held the first Sanhe City Singers Grand Prix, and since then insisted on holding a session every year, found and cultivated thousands of excellent amateur singers, to the professional literary and artistic groups recommended the delivery of nearly a hundred business backbone. Prominent among them are Wang Shucai, a Beijing qinshu actor of the Beijing Municipal Opera Troupe, and Li Juan of the Yanjiao Electricity Department of the Railway.
4, since 1998, the annual "Minghui Cup" children's painting and calligraphy competition. 2003, more than 10,000 participants, the impact of the first in Hebei.
5. Since 2000, the school has held a literary salon every weekend, which has been popularized and introduced by the Langfang Culture Center system.
6, led the cultural center to obtain the advanced grass-roots culture group in Hebei Province, Langfang excellent cultural center title, year after year is the advanced group of the cultural system in Sanhe, his personal is also year after year advanced individual, many times Langfang City, excellent cultural curator title.
7, the formation of the Sanhe ceremonial services company, for the city of Sanhe major ceremonial activities added a great deal of splendor, improve the cultural taste of the celebration of the city of Sanhe. 8, presided over the establishment of the Yanjiao branch of the Sanhe City Cultural Center and Beicheng branch, in a do not want money, do not want to materialize, three does not increase the number of people as long as the office space, the activities were carried out, organized by the first western city singers grand prix and the new year's evening cultural event by the leaders of the western city. Literary evening by the leaders of the western city as well as all walks of life unanimously praised. 9, the formation of the Sanhe City stunts and stunts Art Troupe, to participate in the National Stunts and Stunts Competition won a gold medal, a silver medal, the Museum of Culture was awarded the Organization Award.
10, the formation of the Sanhe City Arts Troupe for the disabled, restored the blind performance team, the blind fortune-telling artists to recall, with the book-speaking and singing and other forms of art, to engage in meaningful cultural activities, a number of media to give high attention and reported.
Sanhe City Cultural Center for Cui Jichang as director and created a brilliant, Cui Jichang in the position of director also did a remarkable performance, the unit has changed the face of the community generally praised. Cui Jichang's artistic activities but never stopped because of busy work, but created more brilliant results, especially on the development and popularization of the Jingdong drums, made a more prominent contribution, as long as there are performances, there is his Jingdong drums, following the "Three Rivers of the most" sung by the leadership of the masses are good, in the annual Spring Festival reunion, there are "new Three Rivers of the most" will be the Three Rivers of the year sung to the fullest extent. Yanjiao large-scale investment activities on the opening ceremony of a song "Yanjiao of the most" not only satisfied with the leadership, but also guests praised for Yanjiao Development Zone investment has played an immeasurable role. The famous comedian Feng Gong, who performed on the same stage, gave a very high evaluation. "Color Weekend" cultural activities, a section of a drum, a section of a drum singing a unit. The countryside performance of a village street, a village street a drum, now playing, just right, simple and concise, accurate expression, who watched who praised, who listened to who praised the Jingdong Drum this traditional art form, and real life combined seamlessly, so that the role of the Jingdong Drum Cavalry of Literature and Art has been fully embodied. In the history of the development of the Jingdong Drum, it can be said to have reached the peak. Even when invited to participate in the Beijing Municipal Opera Troupe to perform in the countryside, he also insisted on this, by the urban and rural residents of downtown Beijing, school students warmly welcome.
Not only to the Jingdong Drum, Cui Jichang's songwriting and performance show in a variety of songs, he and his daughter Cui Zheng performance of comedy "a thousand plans" not only won the highest award in Hebei Province Yan Zhao Qunxing first prize, and Hebei TV station broadcast many times. He and his daughter Cui Zheng were the only pair of father-daughter partners in the country at that time. Father and daughter **** with the creation and performance of men and women comedy "book flow supply staff" won the third prize of the National Song and Art Essay, filling the history of Sanhe no one won the blank of the National Song and Art Award. He created and performed in the book "three river bean piece of the legend", in 2003 and won the Hebei Province Yan Zhao Qunxing Award. To summarize: Cui Jichang thirty years of artistic practice, won a variety of awards have more than a hundred pieces, awards, certificates filled a bookcase, although he cherished the preservation, but never to show off to outsiders. 2000, he applied for a senior title, the Personnel Bureau in charge of the whole file of personnel to ask him for the original certificates. He put the original back to the Personnel Bureau of the title unit, the people startled, could not help but blurt out that: your condition is certainly enough, did not say anything else, immediately give him a variety of formalities. He became one of the few senior title talents in Sanhe City cultural sector. November 15, 2000, Sanhe City Bureau of Culture and Sports party group collectively to find Cui Jichang talk to him part-time business conditions are extremely poor, unsustainable head of the Review of Opera. Party members believe that talk live will be very difficult, and the Secretary just made an opening statement, but how did not expect, Cui Jichang very solemnly agreed. He said well: as long as the party group trust me, I have nothing to say. There is no difficulty, good dry errand, the bureau party group will not be so serious to talk to me. As long as the leadership support me, I promise to let the troupe regain its vigor. However, after all, the theater is not a cultural center, although it is a public institution, but the implementation of the financial gap policy. Said make-up, when the annual appropriation of only 220,000 yuan, it does not care about anything, and commentary troupe retirees' pensions more than 230,000 yuan. Insufficient part of the troupe to the market to earn money for the retirees to send pensions, sometimes can not be issued on time, retirees have opinions, in the work of the staff but can not get the salary, but also a lot of grumbling. As a result, a large number of professional talent loss, especially now the main actor Zhao Lirong Dafang Review Troupe disciple Li Yumei, more part of the staff to become a drummer. Troupe momentum is extremely low, unstable, crisis, but also the rehearsal space, accommodation, no heating, only a dozen dilapidated bungalows, and even the warehouse are not. Costumes and props were piled up outside, exposed to the sun and wind, and no one cared about them. The whole group is like a plate of scattered sand, everyone is precarious, each playing the calculator, at any time have to leave without saying goodbye, and even on the way out of the goat to take away some useful costumes and props.
Cui Jichang reported to the theater troupe, and the director personally sent him there and announced his appointment. After announcing his appointment, the director left, leaving Cui Jichang with such a dilapidated troupe. He stayed that night in the cold office of the troupe's director, but he didn't sleep a wink. What should the troupe do, how to develop? He worked overnight to develop a "development of modern song and dance, restore the traditional opera, cultivate talented people, to create a first-class troupe" approach, and "on stage to shape the image of the artist, off-stage to shape their own image, the image of the troupe internally, and externally to shape the image of the Three Rivers. I am a member of the troupe, the troupe is my home, everyone strives to be a good actor, revitalize the Sanhe Appraisal Troupe. I'd rather work hard and let the people praise our government" is the motto of the troupe and the near and long-term development plan of the troupe. The next day's general meeting of the whole troupe, he announced to the whole troupe's work policy, troupe motto and near and long-term development planning, by the unanimous support of the whole troupe of actors and actresses, *** with the same voice: the troupe finally had a good director, as long as the director of a word, we resolutely have no second thoughts. The hearts of the whole troupe is unified, the energy is naturally big. Under the constraints of the system, the enthusiasm for work is high, and the energy to study the business is great. In less than a week, a legal education program "campus traffic light". In the city's campus performance, by the teachers and students generally welcome, and immediately opened the performance market. One after another special performance to make the troupe initially embarked on a virtuous cycle. Less than three months after taking office, led the troupe to restore the traditional opera "Flower as a matchmaker" and part of the selection of the folding. Performed at the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, more than one thousand audience members were reluctant to leave after the show, and had to reconfirm that the actors and actresses on the stage were the same ones, and when they went out, the audience was still talking to each other and praising, and praised the troupe as promising, and they could see the theater of Sanhe Opera Troupe in the future. This performance pulled back a group of loyal audience, but also to cultivate a group of young audience, for the revitalization of the troupe has a mass base.
Cui Jichang to work in the theater troupe not a day more, not a day less, a full four years. In his efforts to fight and unremitting pursuit, to solve the five major problems of the troupe:
1, to solve the social security and unemployment insurance for all employees. To this end, he up and down the trick, the then competent leaders are forced to annoy, well in the work of the people, to solve the troupe's worries of all employees, so that the whole group of people a heart, one after another, to create a new performance.
2, solved the assessment of the troupe's site, so that the troupe was built nearly fifty years old troupe finally have their own home. Fixed assets from the original hundreds of thousands of dollars at once to nearly two million dollars.
3, increased financial allocations. 2000, the end of Cui Jichang as head of the financial year, although the financial allocation of 220,000 yuan, but because of the retiree salary of nearly 240,000 yuan, so can not be issued in full pension. Since the settlement of the pension insurance, retirees to the insurance institute to receive pension, retirees satisfied. However, the financial yearly money of 220,000 yuan is no longer allocated to the troupe, in Cui Jichang's desperate struggle, the financial reluctance to allocate 50,000 yuan as operating expenses. However, he is still not satisfied, continue to coordinate up and down, the mayor was touched by his dedication, and allocated an additional 50,000 yuan of operating funds, totaling 100,000 yuan. In the whole Langfang will be second only to the Dafang Review Troupe, and stronger than any other troupe.
4, 2002 creation, rehearsal, performance of his set of writing, directing, acting in a modern theater "silly columns of love", to participate in the Sixth Hebei Provincial Theatre Festival, won the repertoire, playwrights, directors, excellent actors, four awards, become a new milestone in Sanhe City Critics Troupe. Cui Jichang one person won the playwright, director, excellent actor three awards, Hebei Province, the Sixth Drama Festival became a good story.
5, four years to restore the four traditional opera: "flowers as a matchmaker", "Auntie is not virtuous", "Sister Yang Sue", "persuade Ai Bao", so that the basic recovery of the Sanhe opera troupe, enhance the municipal party committee, the municipal government's trust in the troupe, strengthened the confidence of the troupe's staff, so that the people of Sanhe see the hope of the troupe, the complete revitalization of the troupe has laid an excellent foundation. On the evening of April 24th, 2009, "the third of the series of activities for the inheritance and popularization of national folk arts--Jingdong Drum Show" sponsored by the College of Education of the Central University for Nationalities was successfully held in the Student Activity Center.
The activity invited Mr. Cui Jichang, a member of China Association of Chinese Opera Artists, director of Hebei Association of Chinese Opera Artists, Hebei inheritor of Jingdong Drums, Beijing Opera Troupe's special Jingdong Drums performer, chairman of Langfang Association of Chinese Opera Artists, Mr. Wang Shucai, the "prince of qinshu", and two performers of Beijing Opera Troupe to present an educational performance for the students and teachers of the university. Two actors from Beijing Opera Troupe and Mr. Cui Jichang, Chairman of Langfang Opera Association of Hebei Province, Mr. Wang Shucai, "Prince of Qinshu" of Beijing, gave a performance and lecture on the traditional Jingdong drums for teachers and students of the university. Ms. Dong Yan, Secretary of the General Party Branch of the College of Education, and Ms. Tan Zhongxiu, Secretary of the General Party Branch of the Youth League, attended the event. Ms. Dong Yan firstly introduced the initial intention of organizing this event. She said that the Jingdong Drum, as a kind of folk opera art, has been popular in Beijing, Tianjin, the eastern part of Hebei Province and all over the Northeast for more than one hundred years, but today most people can only understand it indirectly from the media such as TV, and they don't really experience the charm of this folk art, and the Jingdong Drum is facing the crisis of inheritance. The College of Education hopes to introduce these valuable cultural heritages to college students through exhibitions and lectures by organizing a series of activities on the inheritance and popularization of national and folk cultures, so that more students can understand the charm and value of the excellent traditional cultures, and consciously join in the protection and inheritance of the traditional national and folk cultures, so as to do their part to pass on and carry forward the excellent traditional cultures. Afterwards, Mr. Cui Jichang took "the origin, development, inheritance and current status of the Jingdong Drum" as the theme, and introduced the background of the Jingdong Drum, the development and change history, the inheritance mechanism, cultural value and function with his insightful language.
At the beginning of the lecture, Mr. Cui Jichang made up and performed a few lines of the Jingdong Drum, which immediately mobilized the interest of teachers and students. After that, the speech and singing, not only Cui Jichang teacher singing, Wang Shucai teacher also sang "courtesy" and "longevity village" and other repertoire, yangqin accompanist Zhao Ning also improvised a section of the West River drums "Linglong Pagoda", so that the site of the students have a great deal to enjoy, Mr. Cui Jichang sang the "truth" and then come to a section of the "big blind talk", and invited the site of the students and teachers on the stage to mimic the performance of the questions he put forward about the Jingdong drum to give a correct answer to the The students who gave correct answers to his questions about Jingdong Drums were presented with the book Jingdong Drums Anthology by Mr. Dong Xiang, the heir of Jingdong Drums, to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm for participation. The activity had a lot of climaxes and applause. The flexible expression and characteristic singing of Jingdong Drums not only let the students appreciate the charm of opera, but also y impressed by the profound artistic skills of the veteran artists and the spirit of tirelessly spreading folk art. Many of the traditional repertoires conveyed the moral of "persuading people to return to goodness" with vivid and humorous storylines and languages, which made everyone unconsciously accept the ideological and moral education, and made everyone realize that traditional arts contain rich and valuable cultural and educational values, which are worthy of being treasured and inherited by our future generations.
The activity drew a successful conclusion in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. Through this close contact with the Jingdong Drum once again make students feel the unique artistic charm of traditional folk music, but also make everyone in the personal experience to cultivate and set up the protection and inheritance of the national folk excellent traditional culture of faith.