Midnight, March 3
Famous Peking Opera performance artist
Tong Xiangling posted in pain:
"My second brother Tong Shouling died yesterday at the age of 102 at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai. It's so sad! He made great contributions to the entrepreneurship of Tongjia Peking Opera! The age of 102 also set a precedent for the longevity of the tong family. May the brother go all the way! ”
Tong Shouling was born in July 1920. In 1932, 12-year-old Tong Shouling was admitted to the Peking Chinese Opera College and formally studied drama. He has successively studied under Du Fulong, Jiang Xinping, Jiang Miaoxiang and other famous artists, specializing in Peking Opera Xiaosheng, obtaining his true tradition, having both literature and martial arts, and constantly improving his art.
As the main actor of the prestigious "Tong Jia Ban", he cooperated with his sister Tong Zhiling, a famous Peking Opera performance artist, to perform many classic plays, successfully shaping various types of artistic images and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Representative works include "Huatian Mistake", "Playing Yan Song", "Red Lady", "Wu Zetian", "You Sanjie", etc., and "Red Lady" and "You Sanjie" starred in, which have been put on the screen.
Tong Shouling Infographic
Among the five brothers and sisters of the Tong family, many viewers are familiar with Tong Zhiling and Tong Xiangling, one of them is the "Kunling Throne" who is gifted and famous as a teenager, and the other is "Yang Zirong" who fights tigers and goes up the mountain and is angry. The "Tong Family Class", represented by tong xialing, tong shouling, tong zhiling, tong baoling, and tong xiangling brothers and sisters, has also become a good story in the Chinese opera circle.
The father of the five siblings, Tong Hanxia, graduated from Tianjin Law and Politics College, and his mother, Chen Qianying, graduated from Tianjin Women's Normal College. Tong Hanxia loves Peking Opera, and the children have been fans of peking opera since childhood.
In 1939, Tong Hanxia officially formed a family drama class, taking the last word of his children's names and naming it "Lingshe", which is commonly known as "Tongjia Class". In the upsurge of donations to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the Tong brothers and sisters were the first to take the lead in charity performances in the private class club in Beijing, and they also agreed to perform once a month until the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
At the invitation of Zhou Xinfang, then president of the Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre, the Tongjia class went south to establish the Shanghai Peking Opera Second Troupe in Shanghai, with the Tongjia class as the team. At that time, there were media reports that the Tong brothers and sisters had made great determination to participate in the national theater troupe. Many theater gardens in other places also asked the "Tong family class" to act, but they all refused one by one, determined to unconditionally join the national theater troupe and become a national actor.
In 1984, Tong Shouling wrote an article in the Xinmin Evening News entitled "Unwilling to Be the Bell of Hanshan Temple", in which he said that the Shanghai Peking Opera House was as famous as the bell of Hanshan Temple in the opera industry. However, at that time, the Beijing Opera House, the local attendance rate in Shanghai was not as good as some foreign theater groups, Tong Shouling analyzed, a machine, only the main parts are good, and the spare parts are unqualified, can not become genuine. The same is true of the troupe, not only the main actors must be good, but other actors must also be selected for use.
His advice still applies today — a troupe with neat staffing; plays that are performed should be rigorously rehearsed and revised to be staged after maturity; plays that do not meet the requirements of the artistic level should not be staged, and the ticket prices should be appropriate, so as to win the trust of the audience.
Netizens learned of this elimination
One after another sent their last wishes to the old gentleman
Not only send candle expressions to express mourning
I also took the floor hoping that Mr. Eternity
At the same time, he also advised Mr. Tong Xiangling
Mourning the death of his brother
Comprehensive: Xinmin Evening News (reporter Zhao Yue), CCTV news (reporter Zhang Qian)
Source: Newsroom