Original title: Lu Yanzhong, a wandering artist
Lao Ge "Yong Bao", July 12, 1936
Strange shapes are set in the open air, and "talking about state affairs" is specially used to create rumors.
Sell medicinal sugar
The vendors of Tianjin Wei, for the sake of their sales, have exhausted their brains for all kinds of trading. Invented all kinds of strange and eccentric amusement methods to seduce the patron.
There is a kind of hawker, who uses the pedestrians on the street, the playful children, and the bridesmaids who have not been out for a long time. In this kind of trading, the protagonists are three people, one is an adult, one is a middle-aged person, and the other is a child. They dressed up with middle-aged and children, choosing a piece of the road that pedestrians must pass, middle-aged disguised as women, covered with lime, wrapped their heads in green cloth, erected a claw bun behind their heads, and planted green old flowers; children painted black, wore torn felt hats, and held "hanging tarts". (Note: That is, the two wooden boards used by beggars are called hanging tart boards in Tianjin.) The middle-aged man with four beards in his hand (musical instrument, similar to a huqin) and the two men walked back and forth through flowers, jumping on the open space and singing songs, singing nothing more than popular things. Such as horse widows opening shops, old mothers quitting work, visiting relatives, small cattle herding, mistakes and so on. Singing and dancing, vocal ensemble, very lively. Thus the general walkers were attracted to stand still and stare at them. Especially small children and women in general. At this time, the adults think that the opportunity to buy and sell is coming, so they hold a large glass bottle, containing various kinds of medicinal candies, wandering in the crowd, so that the viewers each buy a copper dollar, (Note: they come with a piece of two pieces of sugar, after singing, they will be easy to one piece, there is a half of the benefit. Inquiry is said to be a daily profit of one yuan or so, but each winter business is slightly inferior to spring and summer.
businessman
People who live on this kind of life are commonly known as businessmen. Among them, the protagonists range from three to five people, they are set up in densely populated places, outside the Tianjin Hedong Tunnel, Nanshi Sanwu and other places, there are traces of them. Among them, there are "full", "half-pack", "casual wear". As far as casual clothes are concerned, they are three people in partnership, one person plays the piano, one person sings Dan horns, one person sings and beards, and three or four large benches are rented, and tourists love leather reeds, and they all listen to them. The so-called "casual wear" people do not wear costumes (lines), only style. The "half-dressed" person sings similar to the casual wearer, but such a person is not only a style, but also wears a costume, but in the end it is not as complete as the real stage. Those who sing Dan horns only wear buns or green yarn nets, and those who sing raw horns only wear a beard, so they are said to be half-dressed.
The "dresser" is a person who sings in the open air, so the costume worn by the play is omitted, so each song is completely through the head. The singers are all fifteen or sixteen-year-old little girls three or four people, the songs are like songs, the words are more obscene, they are the viewers, and they are even more crowded. These three kinds of business have one paragraph per song scene, and let people give money. Or the singer, holding a bamboo fan and begging. Tourists with its singing voice, donkey cavity horse tune, no board and no eyes, so more than one with it. Or even mourn, there are two or three pieces. Every winter season, there is a lack of footprints, because most of them are all unclothed, and have heroin hobbies, and most of them are frozen and die. There are undead, open the river in the coming year, and then regroup.
Hedong Freaks
Found in the Hedong area, from morning to night, sold in various alleys. This man was forty years old, with a tall body and a long braid in the pre-Qing style on his head. Dressed in a blue dress, carrying a wooden box, selling along the street, walking like a woman. Pedestrians look at it, mostly surprised, stop and look, the more they gather, the more crowded. The vendor saw that there were more and more pedestrians, so he went out of the box to sell twist flowers (Note: food). If a pedestrian buys more than ten pieces and makes a small song section, it will be allowed. When singing, it is like stepping on stage. Unfortunately, I don't dress up, I walk freely and my tone is calm. According to his own account, he spent his old stage life. People who look at it, take the women's world as a partner. Cover also has multiple benefits per day. The residents of Hedong, with their singing and composing danjiao, walk like women, so the group gives them to sell twist flowers to call the big sister.
Lectures
The protagonist of this kind of stage is not learned, and has the psychology of measuring and speculating, and does not serve as a gram. Otherwise, the doorway will be left out in the cold, and the listener will not move forward. However, the protagonist relies on his eloquence, rhetoric, and when the country is eventful, the business is prosperous. Its equipment is very simple, with several benches per day, and the protagonist stands among the listeners, with a small table in front of him, on which is placed a teapot, a money board and a dilapidated newspaper. The protagonist uses the title of the newspaper in the genre of the novel and continues to talk continuously. East and west paintings, hands and feet in unison, dedicated to some recent news, by him to add roots and leaves, painting snakes and feet to talk, every time he talks about tense and lively places, he will hold a bamboo basket and ask for money one after another. Each person has a large piece, because the people who are concerned about the affairs of the state do not know the truth of the world, and they use him as a messenger, a reporter, and a daily listener. At present, although the summer season, the number of listeners is not reduced, so this kind of stage is a popular luck, and the daily net surplus binary spectrum. The Tsu people are called storytellers. However, such a person must be good at patting horses and speak more cautiously, otherwise there is great hope of being invited to the public security bureau. There are outstanding speakers in Tianjin, namely Yang Blind Talk, Cui Buxiang, and Tang Bowl Wax.
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