Xiangsheng Examination 164: Li Baoqi of the Xiangsheng family "Jiaojiamen"
The most famous disciple of Zhu Kuoquan, the "Big Bread", is the "Qilin Tong", but this "Qilin Tong" is not Zhou Xinfang, but a combination of Li Baoqi, Hou Baolin (Lin), and Wang Baotong. In addition to these three people, Zhu Kuoquan also has an apprentice wang Fengshan, the founder of Wang Pai Allegro, who is known as "Qilin (Lin) Mountain" by his peers in the art world together with Li Baoqi and Hou Baolin.
Speaking of Li Baoqi, we must talk about his and his disciple Hou Baolin's intrusion into the Guandong.
At the end of 1939, Hou Baolin and his brother Li Baoqi came to Shenyang to live a mixed life, thinking of earning a sum of money by performing and improving their lives. On this day, Hou Baolin sang a Piece of Taiping lyrics "Five Pigs Save the Mother" on the stage, the main story content is: the butcher wants to kill the sow, has tied the sow on the case, he is going to get the pig killing knife, running five small pigs, a small pig picked up the blood basin, a small pig picked up the butcher knife, the other two piglets picked up other tools, all of a sudden ran. The butcher was wondering when the youngest pig untied the rope from the sow. Seeing such a scene, the butcher was deeply moved, saying: The pig still has filial piety, and I am a man in vain. So the butcher decided to put down the butcher knife, so he ran to the deep mountain to cultivate the path, and finally became a Buddha. It is the so-called "put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha." After Hou Baolin finished singing, he asked the audience for money according to the old rules. Generally, the audience gave money for a few cents and a few cents, but a young master-like person paid a dollar and said, "Hey! Remember! Next time in this sub is not allowed to sing such a thing again! ”
Hou Baolin secretly wondered to himself, "How can this person give so much?" There was an audience member next to you who said, "You just came from Guanli, a newcomer, don't understand this, don't understand this." Don't sing this song again. Later, Hou Baolin inquired, and only then did he know that he had made a mistake and committed a taboo. There are many Muslims here in half a day, and it is the young treasurer of the Muslim restaurant who gives him a reward of one yuan. Hou Baolin secretly said that he was lucky. This is considered to be a good person, and if it is a wicked person, it will be scolded without being beaten.
At the beginning of 1940, the situation outside Guanxi continued to deteriorate, and Hou Baolin and Li Baoqi did not even take their luggage, and fled back to Guannei in a hurry.
For this experience of closing out the art, there is also a theory that Hou Baolin and his brother Li Baoqi witnessed the tragic death of the Henan pendant artist Qiao Liyuan in Shenyang, and the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders and the increasingly sparse business made the two little brothers dare not stay any longer, and fled back to Beiping in a hurry without luggage. After returning to Beiping, Hou Baolin calculated the account: three months after he left the customs, he mixed a coat for performing on stage.
Someone further added to Hou Baolin and his brother Li Baoqi's intrusion into the Guandong: Hou Baolin went from the Spring Festival to the west of a single field, working until October, because there was no one in the cold shopping mall and could not continue. It happened that at this time, Zhu Kuoquan's old friend He Yuqing came from Shenyang to Beijing and invited Zhu Kuoquan to perform in the northeast; Zhu Kuoquan dragged his family and could not go, so he recommended Hou Baolin. Therefore, Hou Baolin and his brother Li Baoqi broke into the Kanto together. In order to successfully reach the Kanto, Hou Baolin and Li Baoqi also served as Beijing Houdefu running hall guys.
According to some sources, Hou Baolin and Li Baoqi arrived in Shenyang and performed at the Wanquan Tea House south of the Drum Tower.
It is said that once Ye Lizhong and Zhang Shouchen jointly talked about "The White Affairs Society", and in the second half of the large-scale mouth, some old artists said that Sun Yat-sen "came out of the funeral", some said that Wu Peifu "came out of the funeral", Ye Lizhong chose to use Wu Peifu to make work. Before he could think of the burden, Zhang Shouchen bowed and stepped down. Ye Lizhong hurried to the backstage to ask Master what was going on, and Zhang Shouchen said with a very serious expression: "Ye Lizhong, (Zhang Shouchen usually never calls him that) You 'Tripper' learned from Li Baoqi (Li Baoqi is Hou Baolin's brother), right?" This shows from the side that Li Baoqi's work is dirty and smelly.