Wang Tianmin (center of the front row) and Yang Lingzong Song Shanghua
Su Rui'e Su Yuqin Wang Xiamin
Wang Tianmin, who has a variety of styles on the stage, is a "clumsy" person in life. His descendants, students, and former teachers and friends have confirmed this, and some have even said that he is "stupid, clumsy, preambled, and timid."
Performing in Beiping in the winter of 1932, Wang Tianmin was 19 years old, which was the age of prosperity. But when he saw the living person, he blushed and was helpless, not at all like a "dancing young man". At that time, Tianjin's "Ta Kung Pao" reported, "As soon as he saw the reporter, his face and movements always showed a state of embarrassment." Wearing a black velvet collar uniform, a Turkish-style black leather hat, a scarf, and two hands in pockets, the hat always refuses to take off. When the reporter asked him a question, he immediately stood up to answer, but always hesitated, and when he spoke, he often used a finger to scratch the ground, as if he was performing on the stage, and when he finished speaking, he lowered his head. ”
Many people were surprised, and somehow when Wang Tianmin got on the stage, it was like changing a person, crying and laughing, which made people fascinated and intoxicated. As a teenager, he always wore a black cloth uniform and a student hat, which he still did after the founding of the People's Republic of China. With his achievements, he was highly respected in the Yi Folk Society, and when others praised him, he seemed to be criticized, and said with a red face: "Nothing, red flowers and green leaves." "He is pure in heart, others squeeze him, onlookers are indignant, he is unconscious, but on the contrary, he shows a bit of childishness, sometimes as a master brother with the young disciples who have not recently entered the department to catch blind children, hide and seek, sometimes joke about eating losses and crying noses."
On the stage, Wang Tianmin was bold and never afraid of the stage, but when he got off the stage, he was extremely timid, acted cautiously, and often went home at night, either taking his master and disciple as companions, or asking his brother with martial arts to be a "bodyguard". Mr. Fan Zidong wrote "Jingzhao Thrush" in 1946, saying to Yang Lingguo: "You play Jingzhao, Tiangui (Wang Tianmin's milk name) is timid, suitable for Mrs. Jingzhao." "At that time, he was already a well-known actor in the theater world, and he was a strong boy in his early 30s. Where did Wang Tianmin's timidity come from? Many years later, he revealed to the student Quan Qiaomin that he was not born like this, in 1937, the Yi Folk Society went to Beiping for the second time to perform, and on the evening of July 7, the "Lugou Bridge Incident" broke out, when all the students of the Yi Folk Society were watching the performance at the drama school, for a time the cannon was everywhere, the atmosphere was terrifying, and Wang Tianmin was shocked. He said to Quan Qiaomin: "People have three souls and seven spirits, and the teacher has one less courage." "Half joke, half truth.
Wang Tianmin (first from right) poses with relatives
Excerpt from Yu Jing's "Mr. Yi Vulgar"
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