【评论】《乡间名伶》

        余“从摄”于九十年代。初，茫然于游走采风。又新闻、纪实、艺术等随性而为浅尝辄止。新千年后似有顿悟，依愚感而发，幸得同道好友错爱相助，遂出版拙作《一叶一世界》、《一方水土》、《乡音古韵》…

　　今集五年之力，辗转于燕赵乡村，拍河北流传久远又少为人知的地方小戏。燕南赵北，自南北朝至盛唐歌舞百戏发达。大戏《兰陵王》广泛流传于宫廷教坊、河朔地区。宋元杂剧自北向南渐进，河北更是大家辈出：关汉卿、马致远、王实甫均出于此。明清以降，弋昆腔、皮黄戏、梆子腔扎根河北名扬京津……时光荏苒历史变迁，虽时代之驱让岁月的辉煌已渐行渐远，但徜徉于燕南赵北的乡村集市、庙会、节庆时，伶人的身影仍鲜活依旧。

　　五年多来深为结识二十几个剧团、百十余名演员、戏人而欣慰。五年来，村口、场院、田间、屋后，镜头在历史的记忆与时间的滞留中穿越;快门在“帝相才佳”与草根百姓中迴转。“幻想”中让影像对戏剧的追溯回到乡间，还“企图”将伶人的身影重置于勾栏瓦舍、回到戏剧的原点…..回望这一张张“穿越”的面孔，因其中不乏艺术精湛且传承世家，故将此集定名为《乡间名伶》以示敬意。

2015.5.20于太行西屋

　　Country Actors of Traditional Chinese Opera ---- By Jia, Ke

　　My photography life traces back to 1990's, areas in news, documentary and art, etc. Since 2000, with help of my fellow friends, published my photo galleries of One Flower Is a World, People and the Land Shaped Them, Country Opera and Ancient Rhythm.

　　With latest five years of efforts, I focused on those ancient but little-known by the present age local and folk traditional opera, in Hebei Providence. Back to Northern and Southern Dynasties and Tang Dynasty, Chinese traditional opera highly developed and widely spread in Hebei area, like the great opera Warrior Lanling. In Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Zaju opera spread from the south to north, great dramatists like Guan Hanqing, Ma zhiyuan and Wang Shifu etc. were all from Hebei area. Since Ming and Qing Dynasties， Yi melodies, PiHuang play and the Hebei clapper opera rooted are planted in Hebei Area, also got famous in Beijing and Tianjin areas.  Time flies history changes, although these historical glory has been long away from the current generation, one can still find those vivid images of traditional opera among country market, fair and festival.

　　I am excited that I got to know more than two dozen troupes, hundreds of actors, and made friends with some of them, in latest more than five years.

　　For the past five years, my lens has been lingering around the villages, yards, fields, houses; capturing the histories and memories in the operas; tracing the origin of those operas with help of the images and imaginations. When I was staring at those opera faces, I decided to entitle this collection as Country Actors of Traditional Chinese Opera, to show my respect to all the great actors, inheriting families, and their artistic merits.