The seven generations of Tan Men, in addition to the first generation of Tan Zhi Dao Gong Lao Dan, began to sing lao sheng from the second generation of Tan Xinpei, but not all the generations sang red, but took two V-shapes. Standing at the bottom of the V is Tan Xiaopei, and the other is today's Tan Xiaozeng.
(Tan Yuanshou, Tan Xiaopei, Tan Fuying)
The second generation of Tan Xinpei is the most popular, is the founder of the Tan School, a generation of Peking Opera masters, is the epoch-making artist of Peking Opera. His grandson Tan Fuying, known as the "New Tan Sect", was ranked alongside Ma Lianliang, Xi Xiaobo, and Yang Baosen as the four major students. Tan Fuying's father, Tan Xiaopei, also sang Lao Sheng, but his prestige was not as good as Tan Xinpei and lower than Tan Fuying, and the three of them formed a V-shape. Tan Xiaopei spared no effort to support Tan Fuying, not only for his son to cross the knife, such as Tan Fuying singing "Catch and Release Cao", he came to Lu Bohao, but also comprehensively took care of Tan Fuying's performance affairs, so that he had no worries. Of course, he is also famous for being too strict with his son.
At that time, a cartoon was published in the Beiping newspaper, with Tan Xiaopei in the middle of the picture, the first being his father Tan Xinpei, and the lower head being his son Tan Fuying. Xiao Pei said to Xin Pei, "Your son is not as good as my son." Turning back to Fu Ying, he said, "Your father is not as good as my father." ”
If you count from Tan Yuanshou, who is still alive today, it is still three generations, and it is another V-shape. Tan Yuanshou inherited the mantle of his father Tan Fu English Wu Laosheng, active on the stage of a nail, he humbled himself is not an artist, but today the tan school of the first Wen Wu Lao Sheng throne is none other than him. Tan Zhengyan is the sixth generation of people, or take the road of wen and martial arts, although the conditions for singing are not ideal, too tall and his voice is not mellow, but from the perspective of personal will and environmental atmosphere, it is much more than the ambition and trend of his father Tan Xiaozeng and re-glory.
The Beijing Opera House has launched the "Thirteen Masters" exhibition, Tan Zhengyan ranked first in the "Thirteen Masters" (the other "Twelve Masters" are Yang Shaopeng, Zhang Jianfeng, Zhang Xinyue, Dou Xiaoxuan, Jiang Yishan, Guo Wei, Chang Qiuyue, Fang Xu, Bao Fei, Kang Jing, Zhai Mo, Zhan Lei), the Beijing Peking Opera House recently arranged a new modern drama "Xu Yunfeng", Tan Zhengyan is the first starring, the famous old students Du Zhenjie and Zhu Qiang help each other, which shows that the theater leaders support Tan Zhengyan.
Speaking of Tan Xiaozeng, fans know that this name is still a matter of recent years. In fact, in the 1960s, Tan Xiao used to practice in the theater when he studied drama at the Beijing Opera School, and his name often appeared in newspaper advertisements, such as he and Li Jiqing sang "Shatuo Guo" and "Broken Secret Stream".
In 1964, when performing modern dramas, Ma Lianliang, Qiu Shengrong and Zhao Yanxia of the Beijing Opera Troupe rehearsed "Cuckoo Mountain", in which Tan Xiao played the role of Du Xiaoshan. It is said that the "Ma Lianliang scolding incident" also occurred in the rehearsal, which is related to the role of Tan Xiaozeng. In Ma Long's book "My Grandfather Ma Lianliang", it is written that one day in the Guanghe Theater "Cuckoo Mountain", Peng Zhen sent someone to say that the character "Du Xiaoshan" should be added two sentences to sing. After Ma Lianliang heard it, he found the singing voice design of this play, Li Muliang, and asked him to quickly tell Tan Xiaozeng that it was easy to say that it was easy to have two loose words. Li Muliang replied bluntly, "No need to sing!" Ma Lianliang didn't expect his apprentice to be so rude, and the resentment accumulated in his heart suddenly exploded, and he shouted at Li: "Li Muliang, what are you, dare to talk to me like this!" How to play "Ludang Tinder" well, you are all right, you are too proud!......" After that, Ma Lianliang honestly made self-criticism in the troupe, and since then he has lost his status as a "spiritual leader" in the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe.
Tan Fuying was very fond of his grandson, not only teaching drama, but also personally choosing a mate for him. One day, he saw Yan Guixiang performing on TV and thought she was beautiful and sang well. He said it would be nice if the girl were his granddaughter-in-law. Under the urging of his grandfather, Tan Xiaozeng and Yan Guixiang eventually became dependents. Yan Guixiang played Ke Xiang in "Cuckoo Mountain" and was well received.
After the Cultural Revolution, Tan Xiao once worked at the Peking Opera House in China, but never sang the protagonist, but only played Chen Shimei in the folding play "The Case of Chen Mei". Later, he was transferred to the Beijing Opera House and remained unknown. He himself recently spoke in a television interview about this "dragon running" time. He said that even if he ran the dragon set, he was meticulous, conscientiously made the play, and successfully completed the performance task.
It was probably during this period that there were rumors that Tan Xiao had to settle overseas. However, news soon came out that Tan Xiao had given up his plan to settle overseas and decided to stay in China. Obviously, as the fifth generation of Tan Men Laosheng, Tan Xiao was not qualified to give up the national art, even in the state of Peking Opera recession, other actors can give up, but Tan Xiao zeng and his next generation must always stick to the Peking Opera stage. This is the historical responsibility after Tammen.
Perhaps it was after this that Tan Xiaozeng had more opportunities to perform, from singing on the side of the station to the middle of the station. The Beijing Peking Opera Troupe's "Zhuangyuan Media" is the most popular repertoire, Wang Rongrong's Cheshire Lord, Tan Xiaozeng's King of Song, Du Zhenjie's Lü Mengzheng, Li Hongtu's Eight Sages, Ye Jinyuan's Yang Yanzhao, Han Juming's Fu Dingkui became golden partners, and later made into movies.
Tan Xiaozeng not only sang more and became more famous, but also his political status also improved, and he served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for three consecutive terms. Needless to say, the title of the national first-class actor was not to be said, later, the Beijing Opera House launched the "Nine Top Cards", Tan Xiao once ranked first, and the other eight were: Zhao Baoxiu, Wang Rongrong, Du Zhenjie, Li Hongtu, Chi Xiaoqiu, Zhu Qiang, Dong Yuanyuan, and Chen Junjie. Later, Dong Yuanyuan was transferred from the Beijing Opera House to the National Peking Theater and made up for Zhang Huifang. Looking at the selection and ranking of these nine places, it is obvious that it is not entirely based on artistic standards, and some people do not think much of it, but in fact, it is not necessary, because this is due to the value orientation under the national policy.
Tan Xiaozeng, who was born in 1949, is now also at the age of retirement from the stage. Tan Xiao was once rational, a generation has a generation of missions and responsibilities, and his new positioning for himself is to fully support and cultivate the sixth generation of Tan Zhengyan. He also revealed his heart in a recent TV interview that he is nearly seventy years old, and now he is concentrating on cultivating Zhengyan to succeed him, so that TanMen's torch can be passed on from generation to generation.
Tan Xiao once rearranged Tan Zhengyan's famous Tan Pai drama "Peak Spring and Autumn" (Zhan Fancheng Huan Sha Ji Fish Intestine Sword Thorn King's Staff Fight Five Generals), which highlighted Wu Zixu's fierce temperament, increased martial arts, and also put pressure on ZhengYan. "Zhan Fan Cheng" a section of fighting, others can sing a comparison, ZhengYan is really hard work to play life, the sweat of the fight, a down Zhengyan said to others, "Have you seen Wu Zixu who sweated like this?" "This time the new row of modern drama "Xu Yunfeng", Tan Xiaozeng went all out to push Tan Zhengyan to the center of the stage and to the audience, and he himself was willing to serve as the B corner of Xu Yunfeng and Xu Pengfei to cushion Tan Zhengyan.
From this point of view, didn't Tan Xiaozeng re-play the role of his great-grandfather Tan Xiaopei?