Zeng Yongyi, an academician of the Academia Sinica, passed away at home on the 10th at the age of 81. Wang Anqi, artistic director of the Guoguang Opera Troupe, a student he directed, confirmed the news. Wang Anqi said that Zeng Yongyi was the first to be awarded an academician with a major in opera, and the pattern runs through both the ancient and modern times.
Wang Anqi said today that opera used to be regarded as the end-of-the-road skill. Zeng Yongyi was the first academician of Chinese Academy of Drama, breaking through the traditional academic view of opera; Zeng Yongyi was also the first scholar who studied Gezi opera with an academic attitude and wrote a book on Gezi opera. The pattern runs through Both sides of the strait. His death also made the opera world quite sad.
Wang Anqi said that Mr. Zeng just gave Guoguang the script “Tiger Fu Wind and Cloud”, which is expected to be released in 2023. It tells the story of Lord Xinling, which was unexpectedly a posthumous work.
Wang Anqi said that when she was 19 years old, she took Zeng Yongyi’s “Selected Poems” and “Opera Selections”. She was also the first doctoral student accepted by Zeng Yongyi. “I am married, and the teacher is my master of marriage.” Wang Anqi said, because at that time When my father passed away, the teacher did not come to witness the marriage, but to preside over the marriage. “The teacher brought me into the auditorium as the host of the marriage. Up to now. The teacher-student relationship has been for 50 years.”
Wang Anqi said that Zeng Yongyi claimed to be “flying and domineering, and the world is happy” all his life. He created his own “Liquor Party” and named himself the leader of the Liquor Party.
Zeng Yongyi has edited the “Anthology of Ancient and Modern Literature” of “Mandarin Daily” for more than 20 years. He is a visiting scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute, University of Michigan, Ruhr University in Germany, University of Hong Kong, Stanford University, Leiden University in the Netherlands, Wuhan University and other schools. , visiting professor, former chairman of the Republic of China History and Literature Society, director of the National Culture and Art Foundation, advisory committee member of the Chinese Institute of Culture and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, and National Chair Professor, etc.
Zeng Yongyi has won the Golden Pen Award of the Promotion Committee of the Chinese Cultural Revival Movement, the Zhongxing Literature and Art Medal of the Taiwan Literature and Art Writers Association, the National Literature and Art Award, the Outstanding Research Award of the National Science Committee of the Executive Yuan, the Zhongshan Literature and Art Award, and the Academic Award of the Ministry of Education. In 2014, he was elected as an academician of the Academia Sinica (Humanities and Social Sciences Group), the first “Academician of Chinese Opera” of the Academia Sinica.
(Editor-in-Chief: Zhuang Yanyu)