Song Shanghua Guo Chaozhong", "Killing dogs and persuading wives"
Song Shanghua (1918-2003) was a native of Chang'an, Shaanxi. Famous Qin Lu Danjiao performance artist. In 1929, he began to study art, and was a student of the ninth batch of Xi'an Yi Folk Society, who was awarded the title of Zhimo and Mr. Chen Yunong, and took the strengths of each family, extensively drawing on the performing arts of brother dramas such as Yu opera and Jin opera, and gradually formed his own artistic style. Good voice conditions, clear and natural singing voice, simple and mellow, especially good at work-making drama, distinctive personality, unique charm. The representative works mainly include "Kao Hong", "Longmen Temple", "Killing Dogs to Persuade Wives", "Qi Shuanghui", "Tiger Thief Rune", "Lv Siniang", "Yin Tao Niang", "You Guishan", "Han Baoying" and so on.
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Before his death, Song Shanghua said that the reason why his "Kill the Dog and Persuade His Wife" can be loved by the audience and appreciated by experts is "not his own ability, but benefited from Mr. Feng Zhimo." In his posthumous text about Mr. Feng, he once wrote: "Although Mr. Feng Zhimo did not kiss me in the play of "Killing the Dog and Persuading His Wife", I have seen the plays he rehearsed for others, and the demonstration has inspired a lot. The most important thing is the balance and grasp of the tone of Jiao's character. This character can be played as a shrew, a, a, a wicked woman, but he treats it as a good person who occasionally makes mistakes, which seems natural and reasonable. Because Jiao's husband, Cao Zhuang, was a cultured, filial piety, and bloody boy, he could not tolerate his wife abusing his mother at will, let alone often punching and kicking. At the same time, at the end of the play, Jiao Shi also has to repent, and when he knows his mistake, he will change it, which is beyond the ability of the evil generation. Therefore, I took the method in time, deliberated and adjusted, and tried my best to make the characters appear a variety of colors such as angry, ridiculous, cute, and cola, in order to be different from other ways in this drama and brother drama and become their own style.
However, Mr. Feng, the originator of this 'grid', is not well known for his unique and painstaking intentions. In addition, the richness of details, there are many places, such as Jiao's soft cake with raw onions, stringing copper coins with red-headed ropes, avoiding and joking jokes on the pretext of serving tea and making rice when the husband returns from firewood, half hugging and half hugging when supporting the mother-in-law after admitting mistakes, showing kindness, etc., all of which are full of life interest and local atmosphere, adding a lot of color to the performance. ”
Song Shanghua Yang Ling Custom "Kill the Dog and Persuade The Wife"
Excerpt from Song Shanghua's "Remembering Mr. Feng Zhimo"
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