The two great heroes of Qiu Shengrong's success

Written by Jerry Zhao

The human factor comes first.

Qiu Shengrong's success, there are two people can not fail to talk about. He was able to "stomp" up all with the help of these two people:

Those two?

On the stage is the violinist Wang Benzhen.

Right!

Offstage was the sixth uncle Li Zhimin.

Sixth uncle?

By the way, he's Boss Joe's uncle—he's an in-law.

Lee Chi Min?

This person used to be the manager of Mr. Qiu of Pear Garden Line— in today's terms, an agent. You say it was one of the determinants of the formation of the Jupai?

That's right – external factors!

Jiang Yuanrong's second brother has a famous saying: Without the sixth uncle, there would be no Qiu Shengrong.

Oh, what did you say?

The first thing to do is to make it clear: without Li Zhimin's vigorous promotion, there will be cooperation between Tan and Qiu.

Tan Qiu cooperated

The cooperation between Tan and Qiu had to start from Shi Niang's mother's family: Shi Niang Li Yuying was from the Liyuan family and was related to the Tan family- I often heard Shi Niang honor Tan Fuying as an uncle.

It is normal for the branches of the pear garden to be connected to each other, but what the relatives talk about, outsiders do not know for a while.

I went through a lot of materials for this matter and found out the relationship between the Qiu family and the Tan family. Mr. Qiu's father-in-law is known as Li Jicai, a Hebei Zizi actor, and his mother-in-law is the daughter-in-law of Tan Jiashan, the eldest son of Tan Xinpei. In other words: Master Qiu's grandfather is the grandfather of the Tan family. Grandpa Tai is Tan Xinpei.

Tan Xiaopei was a famous guest, ranked fifth, and was called Tan Wuye at the time. His only son was named Yu Sheng, tan fuying.

At this moment, they clarified their relationship: Tan Fuying was the nephew of his uncle Tan Jiashan, and we Chinese the rules: if you don't serve five, you can be a family. He and his uncle's sister, Li Yuying, a girl from his brother-in-law's family, can also be regarded as the closest relatives of Lang's uncle with bones and tendons.

Mr. Qiu naturally followed his daughter-in-law as Uncle Tan Fuying.

Mr. Qiu is the aunt of the son-in-law of the Tan family.

With this layer of family affection, coupled with Li Zhimin's matchmaking, Tan Fuying gave up his partner for many years and chose Qiu Shengrong, forming Tan Qiu cooperation. Qiu Shengrong took this opportunity to step up a step.

The combination of Tan and Qiu is actually that Mr. Qiu is leaning on Tan Fuying, and it is "hanging up the head card".

Mr. Qiu then went all the way to the wind, and the clouds went straight up.

Now it's called chance, but in the past it was called footsteps.

The tan qiu combination laid the foundation for the formation of the four top cards of the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe Ma Tan Zhang Qiu later.

Do you say that Li Zhimin's contribution is small?

Pear Garden Jumbo

In 1955, the formation of the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe was a major event in the history of Peking Opera.

First the Horse Opera Troupe merged with Tan Qiu's second troupe, and then with the three troupes Zhang Junqiu's combination. The so-called "four top cards" were born. This is an unprecedented move in the Peking Opera world.

Ma Tan Zhang Qiu's four top cards, focusing on the cooperation of the four major schools, has two innovations:

First, Ma Lianliang Tan Fuying - two leaders of the two old schools are in the same group and hang the same head card for a long time, which is rare at the time!

Second, Qiu Shengrong suddenly rose up and was on par with Ma Tan and the two! He became the second person after Jin Shaoshan to hang up his head card with a flower face to "pick the class", and at this point, there were only two in the history of Pear Garden.

The matter of four artists working together to form a group feels fresh and lively in the eyes of the layman, but it is a recombination within the drama class, which is not an easy task. It would be impossible to do without the unity of these four.

The adjustment of the personnel relationship in the pear garden is like the ranking of the 100 singles and 8 generals in Shui Po Liang Mountain.

The drama team pays attention to the "four beams and four pillars", generally speaking, it is like this: the old student head card Qingyi two cards. If you want to change it: Danjiao pick class, the old student carries the knife; the martial student is three cards, and the flower face and the small student are four or five cards.

Among the flower faces, only Hao Shouchen hung three cards, which was an exception, and the others, including Hou Xirui, were only four cards.

Let's take Jin Shaoshan again, he picks a beam in his own 'Songzhu Society'. Among his are the old student Guan Sheng Xi and the martial student Zhou Li'an. In addition to singing a short-term cooperation with Ma Lianliang Tan Fuying, Mr. Jin mostly formed classes with Wu Suqiu and other small characters and hung up the first card.

Qiu Shengrong and Ma Lianliang

First of all, let's talk about the relationship between Qiu Shengrong and Mr. Ma:

First, on seniority

From the "Xilian Cheng" to the establishment in 1904 to the dissolution in 1948, forty-five years before and after, there were seven subjects of Xilian Fushengshi Yuanyun and more than 700 students.

At the beginning, at the beginning of the opening of the mountain gate by the Starting Class, there were six disciples: Lei Xifu, Wu Xiyong, Zhao Xikui, Zhao Xizhen, Lu Ximing, and Lu Xicai.

Mr. Ma entered the department in March 1909.

In 1930, Ma Lianliang's 'Fufeng Society' was established.

Mr. Qiu was born in 1915.

In 1926, he entered the class at the age of eleven.

He was discharged in 1933.

When Qiu Shengrong was out of the department, Mr. Ma had been forming his own 'Fufeng Society' for more than five years.

If you look at this historical record, you will understand that Mr. Qiu was naturally a late descendant in front of Ma Lianliang.

Second, artistic experience

Mei Opera Troupe, Boss Yang, Ma Lianliang, Gao Qingkui, Boss Shang, Boss Cheng, and Qi Laopai have always reused racks and flowers.

Only the Tan Sect and the Yu Sect's regular workers used copper hammers to flower their faces.

In his later years, Tan Xinpei and Yu Shuyan used Jin Xiushan and Qiu Guixian.

The Tan family arrived at the fourth generation of Tan Fuying's pick class, the second brand Danjiao Liang Xiaoluan; the copper hammer flower face used Jin Shaoshan and Wang Quankui, and the shelf flower face was Liu Yanting and Zhang Hongxiang.

When the 'Winter Emperor' Meng Xiaodong sang "Search for Orphans and Save Orphans", he once asked Qiu Guixian's son Qiu Shengrong to play Tu Anjia. This job used to be a copper hammer.

In the platoon of "The Orphan of Zhao", he also sent Mr. Qiu's Tu'an Jia according to the old rules.

Third, cooperative relations

Qiu Shengrong had never taken a Majia class.

Or that Ma Jiaban has never used Qiu Shengrong!

Ma Lianliang's "Fufeng Society" was known as the Five Tiger Generals - Ma Lianliang, Zhang Junqiu, Ye Shenglan, Liu Lianrong, and Ma Fulu. The squad is strong and unmatched.

Most of the flower faces of the "Horse Pai Opera" belong to the shelves and flower faces.

The flower faces used by Ma Lianliang's team were Hao Shouchen, Hou Xirui, Liu Lianrong, Ma Liankun, Yuan Shihai, Zhou Hetong.

The yellow cover in "Heroes of the Crowd", that is also the work of the two doors of the copper hammer frame, there are Ma Liankun and few Ma Chongren who are competent.

Pan Hong of the "Qing Official Book", as well as Zhou Hetong, stared at it!

Other characters such as: Cao Cao, Liu Jin, Liu Chang, Gu Yan, Wu Shu, Yi Li are not what Qiu Shengrong is good at!

Not not, but not!

Ointment

The four top cards bring together the leaders of the four major genres!

This merger forms an unprecedentedly powerful lineup - it is a giant in the Peking Opera world!

Are there any regrets about this combination?

There is - no Ye Shenglan!

The lack of Xiaosheng Ye Shenglan in the horse drama is a big drawback.

His Zhou Yu, Lü Bu, and Lu Wenlong were irreplaceable!

Fourth Master Ye was Corey Hong, and Mr. Ma Lianliang's eyes were like torches, and he had already proposed to his master Ye Chunshan to join his 'Fufeng Society'. Therefore, in 1933, Ye Shenglan, who was only twenty years old, went straight to Ma Jiaban after leaving the department; Mr. Ma was naturally like a tiger. The two worked together until 1948.

On the other hand, Ye Shenglan's cooperation with Li Shaochun Du Jinfang Yuan Shihai in the Peking Opera Troupe may not be the best combination. Li Shaochun's new plays "Wild Boar Forest" and "Legend of xiangma" did not use Ye Shenglan. From Du Jinfang's new plays "Liu Yin" and "The Legend of the White Snake", we can see that Mr. Ye did not show his talents.

Fourth Master Ye was not a second-way student who ate with Danjiao.

However, even the work of these few Corner Dans actually changed Li Shaochun to the top when performing abroad.

Big voice!

- Ye Shenglan cannot go abroad.

Why?

Right!

The China Peking Opera House newly arranged a "Jiujiangkou", and Zhang Dingbian applied for work with a rack flower face. In the past, this job was "two doors hugging" of Wusheng's flower face, and Mr. Li Wanchun loved to act in this play.

At that time, Mr. Ye was wearing a right-wing hat, so he asked him to play Hua Yunlong in this play.

However, contrary to the wishes of the planners, Ye Shenglan's performance really responded to that sentence: only small actors have no small roles. The Hua Yunlong he played shined!

At that time, some audiences watched the performance of "Jiujiangkou" and proposed that the play should be renamed "Huayun Dragon Beckoning"! Listen! Lossy!

If Ma Tan Zhang Qiu plus Ye Shenglan, how many sparks would they burst out together. How many good dramas will be discharged. The canonical works are not only "The Orphan of Zhao", "Qin Xianglian", "Wangjiang Pavilion", and "Zhuangyuan Media".

A fold of "Zhuang Farewell" Xiaosheng flower face, Sheng Lan Shengrong cooperation how good!

Is "The Battle of Chibi" good?

Just say.

But so far, only this "one fold" "Zhuang Farewell" has been handed down, a play of two people.

regretful!.

Grandma Ma San

Looking back on that year, who was the biggest beneficiary of the establishment of the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe?

Qiu Shengrong.

Four top cards?!

Qiu Shengrong actually sat on an equal footing with Ma Lianliang, using the old saying: "The cemetery has been changed to a vegetable garden - la leveled." ”

Many years later, Mr. Qiu was still very excited to mention to me the merger of the three regiments: "Ma family? That's enough, when I was picking the class, I wasn't out of the department yet! ”

Mr. Joe is so clever, he knows his new position today. He was very humble to Mr. Ma as the third uncle.

The first performance of the merged Beijing Peking Opera Troupe was highly anticipated. You see, the first cannon play of the four top cards was all "Folding Drama", each of whom sang one; Mr. Qiu volunteered to appear first, singing "Opening Gong Drama" and "Locking the Five Dragons".

clever?

"No—not stupid.

I distinctly remember this:

The phone rang, and I quickly grabbed the phone and asked:

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

——After a moment of stunnedness, a middle-aged woman's voice slowly came from the other end of the phone:

"Who are you?"

"Who are you looking for?"

I'm a little strange: of course you have to ask you first when you call.

It was another pause before I heard her ask:

"Is the fool here?"

"Huh?! at! You wait a minute -------."

I hurriedly covered the phone with my right hand and turned my head and shouted:

"Sir, your phone!"

Of course I know who the "idiot" she called on the other end was.

"Who?"

Mr. Qiu first asked me when he entered the house:

"Pick it up-------"

I just shook my head and didn't let go.

Mr. Qiu took the phone and asked, "Are you?" ”

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"Three aunts! Hello, hello. ”

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"I wasn't in the house just now."

Mr. Qiu smiled and said into the microphone, as if he had forgotten that it was a phone call.

I listened intently.

"Just now? It's the student, it's the student. ”

- Sure enough, it's me.

"Oh? He didn't know it was you. ”

"Haha------- turn around and I say to him, what's the matter with you, you say."

I'm not leaving at this time, I'm not staying, where is the freeze! I didn't hear a word of what they said.

After the phone call was finished, Mr. Qiu put down the phone and looked at me without speaking, but I couldn't hold my breath and asked:

"Who is she?" So what do you call it? ”

"Who?"

Mr. Qiu said plainly, "Grandma Ma San." ”

"Grandma Ma San?"

I know: Ma Lianliang's wife, Ms. Chen Huilian.

No wonder her name is Mr. Qiu-------!

Hong Kong "The Thief of the Royal Horse"

In 1962, Mr. Qiu returned from Hong Kong with a proud thing, that is, to listen to the live recording of his performance of "The Thief of the Royal Horse" at the "Shouchen Grand Theatre" in Hong Kong.

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"And I saw the horses watching the horses sleeping on either side!"

"Good!"

The bottom of the stage gave a loud color!

"Listen! People really know drama! "Mr. Qiu is so excited, and the smile on his face is so innocent!

I distinctly remember his triumphant expression.

However, what made him most proud was that night, Mr. Ma Lianliang watched his "Horse Theft" from beginning to end, finished the play, and specially invited Qiu to come over and "supper" together in his house.

You must know that Mr. Ma is a Muslim, and when he performed in Hong Kong this time, the leader specially approved him to bring his own master fu to go abroad together, and only opened a small basket for Mr. Ma to cook.

That night, Mr. Ma Lianliang specially ordered him to make a few more dishes and invite Qiu to come and eat a supper.

I heard Mr. Ma Shenglong say: When Mr. Ma had a performance, several horns on the same stage, including the drummer and the organist, were invited to Ma's house for supper after the play was over. Mr. Ma and they talked about today's stage at the dinner table, and by the way, after tomorrow's play, everything big and small was taken care of at the dinner table.

For many years without exception.

This time in Hong Kong, Mr. Ma invited him to come to eat a late-night snack, which was a special courtesy for Mr. Qiu.

"What did he talk to you about?" I asked Mr. Joe curiously.

"Talk about this "Horse Thief" tonight!"

He started from Huang Sanye's "Horse Theft" and ------- "Look at Mr. Qiu's triumphant strength, of course, Mr. Ma praised him for this "Horse Theft" staged on the stage this evening.

For Mr. Qiu, the creation of his own school has finally been affirmed by his predecessors!

refreshing