红线女与恩平

共工新闻社12月15日电 题：红线女与恩平

共工新闻社•共工财经局记者 冯创志

媒体报道称，今年是著名粤剧大师红线女诞辰100周年。2025年12月中旬，笔者与恩平几位红线女的忠实粉丝闲谈，提及这位粤剧泰斗，众人皆难掩激动之情。红线女在粤剧唱腔领域博采百家之长，秉持大胆创新的艺术魄力与精益求精的匠人精神，开创了独树一帜的粤剧“红腔”，缔造了影响深远的“红派”表演艺术体系。2013年12月8日，红线女因病逝世，享年88岁。她一生矢志不渝深耕粤剧艺术，以敢为人先的创新精神与炉火纯青的表演技艺，为粤剧的传承与发展立下不朽功勋，其登峰造极的艺术成就与温润高尚的人格魅力，至今仍为世人称颂。红线女祖籍开平，而鲜为人知的是，她与恩平这片热土，早已结下了一段难以割舍的深厚情缘。12月12日，退休前长期任职于恩平市文化局的黄娇嫦女士，向笔者娓娓道来一段尘封的往事。

那是1991年2月26日，红线女率领广州红豆粤剧团莅临恩平县演出。消息一出，全城轰动，恩平百姓奔走相告，喜悦之情溢于言表。无数戏迷早早守候在红线女下榻的招待所门前，只为能一睹大师的风采。黄娇嫦回忆道，曾有一天，从下午两点起，数以百计的戏迷便自发聚集在招待所大堂，翘首以盼红线女的出现。眼看时间悄然滑至下午三点半，戏迷们的热情丝毫不减，她只好快步上楼，向红线女说明楼下的情形。彼时，红线女正在房间的小厅内舞剑，剑光流转间尽显飒爽风姿。听闻百姓的殷切期盼，她不假思索地放下手中长剑，爽快应允：“你告诉他们，我四点钟下去。”一句朴实的承诺，让等候已久的戏迷们瞬间沸腾，欢呼声此起彼伏。这，便是心怀苍生、善解人意的红线女。

为了不耽误学生们的正常课业，同时满足青少年对粤剧艺术的热爱，文化部门特意安排了两场周末早场演出，专供学生观看。红线女得知这一安排后，脸上露出了欣慰的笑容。两场演出，她均亲自登台献唱，一曲婉转悠扬、韵味悠长的《荔枝颂》，听得孩子们如痴如醉，惊喜得忍不住啧啧赞叹。激动的孩子们再也按捺不住内心的欢喜，纷纷站起身来，一边热烈鼓掌，一边雀跃欢呼。那满含崇敬与热爱的欢腾景象，至今想来仍令人心潮澎湃。

更令人动容的，是红线女主动要求下乡演出的故事。考虑到她年事已高，大家不忍心再劳烦她奔赴乡间。谁料，红线女却悄悄拉过黄娇嫦，神色带着几分神秘，语气却无比严肃恳切：“落乡演戏，既然我来了，就要登台亮相，圆基层观众一睹红线女真面目的心愿。除非不演，要演，就得演到最好，绝不能辜负大家的期待。”多年以后，每当黄娇嫦在工作中遭遇挑战、倍感迷茫时，红线女那句掷地有声的“认真唱戏，认真做人”便会回响在耳畔，成为她砥砺前行的不竭动力。为了助力红线女以最佳状态登台，黄娇嫦每天都会准时陪同她前往县医院口腔科，做咽喉保健护理，这份细致的守护，也成了那段岁月里温暖的注脚。

恩平，本就是远近闻名的粤剧之乡，当地百姓对红线女更是心怀崇敬与爱戴。1994年，在时任市委宣传部一位副部长的鼎力支持下，恩平市文化馆与恩城四小携手，以红线女为精神标杆，创办了“小小红豆培训班”。培训班聘请文化馆粤剧花旦陈文女、吴柳仙担任教员，从恩城四小的学生中挑选数十名粤剧爱好者，开展业余粤剧技艺辅导。时光荏苒，岁月如歌，数十年的深耕细作，让“小小红豆”生根发芽、茁壮成长。如今，这个培训班已为省、市各级粤剧团输送了二三十名优秀人才。其中，吴非凡更是凭借精湛的演技脱颖而出，成为广州粤剧团的担纲花旦，摘得中国戏剧梅花奖的桂冠。

三十年粤韵悠悠，三十年薪火相传。自1994年创办以来，“小小红豆粤剧曲艺培训中心”于2011年正式升格为“小小红豆艺术团”。艺术团始终以“传承非遗、以文化人”为使命，将粤剧这一世界级非物质文化遗产的种子播撒在校园的沃土之上，让古老的岭南艺术焕发出蓬勃生机，成为岭南传统文化传承创新的典范。每学期，艺术团的校内常态展演如期而至，丝竹声声里，粤韵芬芳沁人心脾；各类文艺赛事与交流活动中，小演员们与校外粤剧爱好者切磋技艺，取长补短；社区文化惠民活动的舞台上，他们将粤剧艺术送到市民家门口，累计惠及群众约20万人次。近八年来，艺术团的学生们在各类粤剧文艺赛事中屡创佳绩，斩获国家级奖项1项、省级奖项3项、江门市级奖项5项。

一脉粤韵承薪火，百年风华续新篇。红线女与恩平的这段情缘，早已化作一缕绵长的粤韵，流淌在恩平的山山水水之间，滋养着一代又一代粤剧新人茁壮成长。

The Red Lady and Enping

(Gonggong News reporter Feng Chuangzhi)

According to media reports, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous Cantonese opera master, Ms. Hongluo. In mid-December 2025, while chatting with several loyal fans of Ms. Hongluo from Enping, I mentioned this Cantonese opera master, and everyone was unable to hide their excitement. Ms. Hongluo drew upon the strengths of various schools in the field of Cantonese opera singing, upheld her bold artistic spirit of innovation and meticulous craftsmanship, and created a unique style of Cantonese opera known as "Hongqiang," which has had a profound impact on the performance art system known as "Hongpai." On December 8, 2013, Ms. Hongluo passed away due to illness at the age of 88. Throughout her life, she remained unwaveringly dedicated to the art of Cantonese opera, using her pioneering spirit of innovation and consummate performance skills to make lasting contributions to the preservation and development of Cantonese opera. Her unparalleled artistic achievements and warm, noble personality continue to be celebrated by the world today. Ms. Hongluo was originally from Kaiping, but what is less well-known is that she had already formed a deep and unbreakable bond with the land of Enping. On December 12, Ms. Huang Jiacheng, who had worked at the Enping City Cultural Bureau for many years before her retirement, recounted a forgotten story to me.

It was February 26, 1991, when Ms. Hong led the Guangzhou Hongdou Cantonese Opera Troupe to perform in Enping County. The news caused an uproar throughout the city, and the people of Enping were overjoyed. Countless opera fans eagerly waited outside the hotel where Ms. Hong stayed, hoping to catch a glimpse of her. Huang Jiao Chang recalled that one day, starting from two o'clock in the afternoon, hundreds of opera fans spontaneously gathered in the lobby of the hotel, looking forward to the appearance of Ms. Hong. As the clock ticked quietly towards three thirty in the afternoon, the enthusiasm of the opera fans did not diminish. She had no choice but to quickly go upstairs and explain the situation downstairs to Ms. Hong. At that moment, Ms. Hong was dancing with her sword in the small hall of the room, and her sword light showed off her dashing style. Hearing the earnest expectations of the people, she put down her long sword without hesitation and readily agreed: "Tell them I will come down at four o'clock." This simple promise instantly excited the opera fans who had been waiting for a long time, and cheers erupted one after another. This is Ms. Hong, who cares about the people and understands others.

In order not to delay students' normal schoolwork and at the same time meet teenagers' love for Cantonese opera art, cultural departments specially arranged two weekend morning performances for students to watch. After learning about this arrangement, Honglian smiled with relief on her face. In both performances, she personally took the stage and sang a melodious song with long-lasting charm. The children were so enchanted that they couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. Excited children could no longer contain their inner joy and stood up, clapping enthusiastically while jumping and cheering. The scene of jubilation full of respect and love still makes people's hearts surge when they think about it today.

What is even more moving is the story of how Ms. Red Line actively requested to perform in rural areas. Given her advanced age, everyone felt reluctant to trouble her by sending her out into the countryside. Unexpectedly, Ms. Red Line quietly pulled Huang Jiao Chan over and, with an air of mystery but an extremely serious and earnest tone, said, "Since I have come here to perform, I must take the stage and fulfill the wishes of the grassroots audience who want to see the true face of Ms. Red Line. Unless we don't perform, if we do, we must give it our all and never let down everyone's expectations." Many years later, whenever Huang Jiao Chan encountered challenges at work and felt lost, Ms. Red Line's resounding words, "Be serious about performing opera and be serious about being a person," would echo in her ears, becoming an inexhaustible driving force for her to forge ahead. To help Ms. Red Line perform at her best, Huang Jiao Chan would accompany her to the county hospital's dental department every day to receive throat care. This meticulous protection also became a warm footnote during those years.

Enping, which is well-known as the hometown of Cantonese opera, has always been respected and loved by its people. In 1994, with the great support from the deputy director of the Municipal Propaganda Department at that time, Enping City Cultural Center and Encheng Fourth Primary School joined hands to establish "Little Red Bean Training Class" under the spiritual guidance of Ms. Hong Xiuzhu. The training class invited Cantonese opera flower girl Chen Wenyu and Wu Liuxian as instructors, and selected dozens of Cantonese opera enthusiasts from students of Encheng Fourth Primary School to conduct amateur Cantonese opera skills coaching. Time flies like a song, and decades of hard work have allowed "Little Red Bean" to take root and thrive. Today, this training class has sent twenty or thirty outstanding talents to provincial and municipal Cantonese opera troupes. Among them, Wu Feifan stood out due to her superb acting skills and became the leading flower girl of Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe, winning the title of Plum Blossom Award in Chinese Drama.

For thirty years, Cantonese culture has been passed down from generation to generation. Since its establishment in 1994, the "Little Red Bean Cantonese Opera Arts Training Center" was officially upgraded to the "Little Red Bean Art Troupe" in 2011. The art troupe has always been committed to the mission of "passing on intangible cultural heritage and cultivating people through culture." It has sowed the seed of Cantonese opera, a world-class intangible cultural heritage, in the fertile soil of the campus, allowing the ancient Lingnan art to flourish and become a model for the inheritance and innovation of traditional culture in Lingnan. Every semester, the regular performances of the art troupe at school come as scheduled. In the sound of silk and bamboo, the fragrance of Cantonese opera permeates the heart; in various literary and artistic events and exchange activities, young performers exchange skills with Cantonese opera enthusiasts outside the school, learning from each other's strengths and weaknesses; on the stage of community cultural welfare activities, they bring Cantonese opera art to the doorsteps of citizens, benefiting about 200,000 people. In the past eight years, students of the art troupe have repeatedly achieved excellent results in various Cantonese opera arts competitions, winning one national award, three provincial awards, and five Jiangmen municipal awards.

A lineage of Cantonese music carries on the flame, and 100 years of brilliance continue to write new chapters. This love story between Lady Honglian and Enping has long since turned into a lingering Cantonese melody that flows through the mountains and rivers of Enping, nourishing generations of new Cantonese opera performers to thrive and grow.

作者：冯创志

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