黃慧仙?鮑珍玲
尋訪手記:滄海桑田,物轉(zhuǎn)星移。一本來自月山春晚初期的紀(jì)念筆記本,承載著這臺晚會厚重的歷史,也見證著改革開放40年的光陰故事。
于月山春晚本身而言,從點著煤油燈的土屋到燈光明亮的文化禮堂,從紅色歌曲到流行曲調(diào),從浙南一方山村到遍曉全國,40年時光,它跟隨改革開放的腳步,愈唱愈響亮。其浸潤的,既是月山村民對文藝演出的熱愛,更是國人數(shù)十年來對文化的渴求。文化小康的路上,月山春晚正閃爍著璀璨而持久的光亮。
在慶元縣月山村村民李方德的抽屜里,有一本鎖了8年的硬殼筆記本。但李方德,卻并不是它的主人。
本子的扉頁上,是兩行藍(lán)色圓珠筆字:“吳友賢同志,春節(jié)文藝活動紀(jì)念”,并蓋有“浙江慶元逢源文化藝術(shù)協(xié)會”字樣的章。
筆記本的主人吳友賢已過世8年。多年前的一個春節(jié),時年20歲的他因參加村里舉辦的春節(jié)文藝活動得到了這件紀(jì)念品。幾十年光陰,從青蔥少年到霜鬢老者,吳友賢一直保存著這本筆記本,未曾在紙頁上著過一字,直至2010年去世。同村好友李方德發(fā)現(xiàn)了這件特別的“古董”后,收藏了下來。
這場春節(jié)文藝活動,正是如今月山春晚的雛形。
《慶元縣志》載,慶元“深僻幽阻,舟車不至,名人游歷足跡之所不至?!痹律酱宓靥帒c元縣東部山區(qū),僅有600多戶人家,距離縣城53公里,與省會杭州則相距400余公里,海拔820米,交通十分不便。
月山村后有一片毛竹林,形如半月,村前舉溪奔流環(huán)繞,形成山環(huán)水抱之勢?!鞍朐聼熅影朐律?,松篁蔭翳抱東環(huán)”,月山之名便由此而來。
歷史上,月山村又有過金鄉(xiāng)、東莊、舉溪、舉水的別名。吳友賢筆記本上所蓋章上提到的“逢源”之名,正是新中國成立前月山村所在地的舊名——逢源鎮(zhèn)。
過去“逢源鎮(zhèn)”上的春節(jié)晚會情狀,如今我們多已無從知曉。有據(jù)可考的故事,要從1981年的春節(jié)講起。
那一年的大年初一,走親訪友、年節(jié)飲食之外,村民吳紹利等一些有才藝的村民聚在一起,敲起鑼鼓,拉響弦琴,唱起民歌,冬日里的小山村頓時熱鬧起來。彼時還有不少節(jié)目均是取材于村民的日常生活。一臺《農(nóng)活秀》節(jié)目,便將他們?nèi)粘Ia(chǎn)生活中編草鞋、打稻谷、犁秧田等充滿鄉(xiāng)村氣息的場景悉數(shù)搬上了舞臺。
在物質(zhì)相對匱乏的年代,點滴的文化之泉也能成為村民們心頭最渴求的甘霖。聽聞有這樣的文藝表演,全村人都紛紛搬出桌椅板凳,在村委會前的空地上圍出了一方簡易舞臺……這場幾乎是興之所至的自娛自樂式演出,當(dāng)年在村中意外地走紅,收獲了一大票粉絲。于是,這樣的春節(jié)表演形式便一直延續(xù)了下來。而它,便成了月山春晚的一個標(biāo)志性起點。
“上世紀(jì)80年代初的月山村,家家戶戶還點著煤油燈,土屋里即使是白天光線也并不好。但大家對春晚的期待卻從未因此被沖淡。”現(xiàn)年65歲的村民吳美媯?cè)缃袷窃律酱和淼目倢?dǎo)演。那時候的她還是村里的一個裁縫師傅,與從事木匠活的丈夫共同養(yǎng)育著4個孩子,即使生活忙碌,但熱愛文藝的她多年來一直參與著月山春晚。在她的記憶里,當(dāng)時為了讓表演獲得更好的采光,村民們甚至還特意將表演時間安排在了大年初一的下午。
光景飛馳。此后數(shù)十載,春晚從最初的村民家中演到公路邊、操場上、會堂里,直至走出了山村……村里的每個人都可以是這個舞臺上的演員;晚會的節(jié)目內(nèi)容也在不斷充實創(chuàng)新,村人對于春晚的堅持成了一種儀式性的存在,也成為春節(jié)時這片山村最亮麗的風(fēng)景。
“溪水清清溪水長,溪水兩岸好呀么好風(fēng)光……”當(dāng)吳美媯清亮的歌聲在舉溪畔響起時,光陰的流逝都顯得溫柔起來。這首在上世紀(jì)五六十年代紅極一時的《采茶舞曲》,幾乎伴隨了吳美媯數(shù)十年的春晚記憶。
1991年,慶元縣實現(xiàn)了村村通電。月山春晚進(jìn)了村里的大會堂,不僅演出的燈光亮了起來,音箱、話筒等新設(shè)備也為春晚演出完美“助攻”。同時,春晚的節(jié)目內(nèi)容也愈加充實。除了《采茶舞曲》,當(dāng)時流行的“迪斯科”“太空步”也登上了月山春晚的舞臺。
對于吳美媯大女兒吳玉燕來說,最令她印象深刻的節(jié)目變化卻是那檔春晚舞臺“常駐”節(jié)目《農(nóng)活秀》?!霸谵r(nóng)民勞動的情景里,我們舉著廊橋、香菇的模型上臺走秀?!眳怯裱嗾f。
其實,這樣的節(jié)目設(shè)計并非憑空想象。當(dāng)時,隨著改革開放的推進(jìn),慶元一帶的香菇和茶葉生意興盛起來,慶元縣相繼舉辦了中國香菇節(jié)等多場大型活動。這些正發(fā)生于生活中的元素,自然而然地被月山村村民們放入了春晚內(nèi)容之中。
而穿過當(dāng)年月山村里香菇和茶葉的香氣,剛剛步入21世紀(jì)不久的月山春晚又迎來一次新的轉(zhuǎn)折。2004年,剛從北大進(jìn)修班畢業(yè)歸來的“山妞”吳艷霞,閱盡山外風(fēng)光后,愈加想把月山春晚的故事講給更多人聽。在她的努力下,延續(xù)了20多年的月山春晚開始受到媒體關(guān)注,此后各級媒體對于月山春晚的報道更是絡(luò)繹不絕。2010年,月山春晚獲得國家文化部頒發(fā)的最高文藝大獎“群星獎”。月山春晚逐漸走出慶元、走出麗水,走向全省各地。這臺原本隱匿于鄉(xiāng)間的晚會逐漸成為中國著名的“鄉(xiāng)村春晚”。
2013年起,浙江開始打造新時期農(nóng)民群眾的精神家園,一座座文化禮堂在浙江廣袤的田野上悄然涌現(xiàn),月山村的大會堂正是在那一年建設(shè)成為村里的文化禮堂。月山春晚的演出場地也因此有了更正式的名號。
走進(jìn)月山村文化禮堂,眼前2米多高的舞臺,拖地的紅色幕布,十幾排呈坡度的棕黃色座椅,頓時讓人有了對上世紀(jì)90年代小鎮(zhèn)影院的追憶。這樣“復(fù)古”風(fēng)格的廳堂布局在浙江已經(jīng)少見,它們不知不覺間已漸漸消失在我們記憶的深處;但月山村卻將這份珍貴回憶近乎完整地保留了下來,正如它對春晚的執(zhí)著堅守一樣。
從簡陋的美工布景到如今聲、光、電、影的華美舞臺,從當(dāng)年觀眾們樸素的服裝到如今的時尚著裝,還有那些曾經(jīng)年輕的面孔……
恒久不變,唯有傳承。
今年71歲的吳吉祥是月山春晚舞臺上的“新人”。他的父親吳達(dá)榮曾是月山春晚舞臺上年紀(jì)最大的演員,100歲時仍在登臺演出。去年吳達(dá)榮在101歲上謝世,吳吉祥便正式接過了父親的接力棒,穿著父親無數(shù)次登臺演出時穿過的藍(lán)色長衫,開始表演《農(nóng)活秀》。
吳美媯說,吳達(dá)榮演了十多年的《農(nóng)活秀》,更唱了許多年的《東方紅》,最后一次登臺時,吳達(dá)榮特地叮囑說,如果自己演不動了,他空出來的角色就讓他的兒子來演?!暗谝淮紊吓_很害羞的,幸好打草鞋是我從十幾歲起就會的,一直打到二十多歲,所以演了一會兒就不怕了?!被貞浭状紊吓_的情景,吳吉祥說。
慕名而來月山旅游的客人一年比一年多,于是月山人的春晚從一場增加到了兩場。臘月小年專為外地客人演一場。那天的月山熱鬧非凡,貼對聯(lián)、掛燈籠、殺年豬、打黃粿、做麻糍、烙社餅、蒸年糕、炸粿片,家家戶戶開門迎客。熱情的月山人在逢源街上開起百家宴,用最隆重的方式招待遠(yuǎn)方來客。而大年初一晚上的那一場表演,則是月山人自己的春晚。
如今,依托月山春晚的品牌,月山村吸引了紛至沓來的人群,經(jīng)濟不斷發(fā)展。2014年,在省有關(guān)部門支持下,月山村投入3200多萬元,啟動了歷史文化村落保護(hù)利用項目。
不少曾經(jīng)外出打工的年輕人回流家鄉(xiāng),回到青山下,筑巢舉溪畔,做起生意,開起民宿。2017年,全村民宿和農(nóng)家樂已達(dá)30多家,床位300多張,共接待游客12萬余人次,旅游收入近1300萬元?!斑@里給了我很多,我在這里結(jié)婚、生子,我的孩子還將在這里長大,我會帶著她繼續(xù)看我們從小看到大的春晚?!?年前從嘉善返回村中開民宿的村民吳學(xué)平說。
月山春晚已經(jīng)成為月山村的一張“金名片”。不斷發(fā)展的時代為月山春晚舞臺提供了無窮的創(chuàng)作靈感,更在節(jié)目內(nèi)容中注入無數(shù)鮮活元素。舉水鄉(xiāng)鄉(xiāng)長吳華說,不久的將來,這里還將建起全國首家春晚博物館,吸引八方來客。
“從專業(yè)角度來說,我們的春晚和電視上任何一臺晚會比起來都相差很多。但也正是這些土得掉渣、講述我們老百姓自己真實故事的節(jié)目,傳遞了一份份濃濃的鄉(xiāng)情鄉(xiāng)韻。臺上演員又都是身邊熟識的人,大家看起來愈覺親切?!眳敲缷傉f。
應(yīng)是江南好風(fēng)景,最美之處是鄉(xiāng)韻。時光流轉(zhuǎn),月山春晚早已不是一臺簡單的春節(jié)演出,而更像是一條無形的文化脈絡(luò),年年歲歲流傳中,是親情鄉(xiāng)情積淀,也是游子歸心的寄托。
合上吳友賢老人留下的筆記本,耳邊仍是舉溪潺潺的水聲和劃過山后竹林間的簌簌風(fēng)聲。或許,這些陳年而空白的紙頁想要訴說的,并非過往,而是蘊含無限可能的月山春晚的未來……
Spring Festival Gala in Moon Mountain
By Huang Huixian, Bao Zhenling
A hard-cover notebook in a drawer of Li Fangde, a resident of Moon Mountain Village in Qingyuan County in southern Zhejiang tells a story about the Spring Festival celebration in the village. The notebook belonged to Wu Yuqian, who passed away more than eight years ago. Li was a friend of Wu and the notebook came into Lis possession. The notebook is valuable. It had never been written in. It was an award issued in commemoration of the 20-year-old Wus participation in the villages first Spring Festival gala show.
Moon Mountain Village is nestled in the mountains east of the county seat of Qingyuan. It is 53 kilometers from the county capital and over 400 kilometers from Hangzhou, the capital of the province. At an altitude of 820 meters above sea level, the village sits at the foot of a mountain and semi-circled by a bamboo forest. Far away from anywhere, villagers are in the habit of entertaining themselves.
Nobody can tell exactly how the Spring Festival show started in the village, but it can definitely traced to 1981, a time when there was no electricity in the village at all. On the first day of the traditional New Year, Wu Shaoli and some villagers got together and began a performance. Some sang folk songs. A few villagers put on a show called “Rural Life”. It demonstrated what the villagers did for living: how they made straw shoes, how they thrashed rice after the crop was taken in, and how they ploughed rice paddies. The show took place on a spacious ground in front of the village administration office and all the villagers were there. It was a huge success. Since then, the show has been on every Spring Festival.
But there have been huge changes. Electricity came to the village in 1991. The showground has changed again and again: at homes of villagers, by a highway, on a schools playground and then in the villages hall. The village cultural center, built in 2013, has become the home of the Spring Festival gala show. Inside the center is a theater with all the rows of seats on a sloped floor, reminding one of the old-time cinemas. The style is hardly seen today.
When there was no electricity, the show was always held on the afternoon of the Spring Festival for the best sunlight. In 1991, the show went on at the villages hall and modern acoustic equipment was used. Over years, the changes in the county have seeped into the show. Qingyuan has thrived as a major producer of tea and mushroom. In 2004, Wu Yanxia, a village girl who took an advanced course at Peking University, began to tell the villages story of Spring Festival gala show to the outside world. The story caught the attention of the local and national media.
The 71-year-old Wu Jixiang is a new performer of the show. His father had been on the stage for more than ten years and he performed his swan song at 100 in 2016. The father passed away at 101 in 2017. Before he passed away, he asked his son to replace him in the show. Wu Jixiang recalled his show in 2018:“I was nervous. Fortunately I made straw shoes from my teen years to my 20s. I soon calmed down.”
Moon Mountain Village has experienced many changes. It is now a tourist attraction. In 2017, the villages tourism industry, which was composed of 30 some hostels and restaurants with nearly 300 beds, brought in 13 million yuan as sales revenue. Many who used to work away from home have come back. Wu Xueping, a villager who used to work and live in Jiashan, a county of Zhejiang near Shanghai, moved back three years ago. “I was born and brought up here. I got married here and had our daughter here. My daughter will grow up here and I will watch the Spring Festival gala show with her,” said Wu.
“Our Spring Festival celebration is nothing like any spectacular show on television, but the show tells stories about us, the ordinary people. These stories bring the community together. All the performers are people we know in our everyday life, which makes the show delightful and heart-touching,” commented the 65-year-old Wu Meiwei, who has directed the show for many years.