In Henan, the opera "Rolling Tube" can be described as a household name, and many people can casually sing a few sentences of "Xiao Cangwa I left Dengfeng XiaoXian ...", and it is Hai Lianchi teacher who creates the classic artistic image of "Xiao Cangwa".
Hai Lian chi was born in the war-torn 1940s. At that time, the Haijia family had only two acres of thin land and two adobe houses. Hai Lianchi was the second eldest of the six brothers, and the family often ate the last meal without eating. Filling his stomach has always been Hai Lianchi's biggest dream as a child. In order to make a living, Hai Lianchi's father often gave people shoes in addition to farming. Because of the compulsion of life, Hai Lianchi, who was only 8 years old, began to follow his father's shoes.
Fortunately, poverty and hunger did not bury The Artistic Talent of Hai Lian Chi. He has a third uncle who can pull the strings, and when Hai Lianchi was four or five years old, every piece of music or each singing section could be familiar with it as long as he listened to it three or four times. Hai Lianchi also had a babo who had been a soldier in Feng Yuxiang's army, went south and north, and had seen the world. When he saw that this little nephew was both intelligent and studious, he bought him a string and encouraged him to learn from the three uncles. In an era when there was almost no overnight food, this string was definitely worth as much as the piano today. One summer, a drama class came from the nearby village of Shilipu, singing the operas "The Great Sacrifice Pile" and "Liu Gongzi Surrender". People from eight villages in ten miles went to see it, and there were many people under the stage. Hai Lianchi, who was only 5 years old, was small and inconspicuous in the crowd, so he went to the front of the stage and held the stone stone under the stage to see (in the old days, the rural stage was built of stone bricks), so that no one blocked the view, and no one squeezed him away. When he got home, he imitated it and compared it one move at a time, almost to the point of obsession. When he was 8 years old, he often performed opera in front of his fellow villagers.
In the summer of 1954, a hailstorm not only smashed the Hailianchi family's crops to no harvest, but also smashed two adobe houses into countless holes. However, the roof leaked during the rainy rain, and the whole family of 8 had typhoid fever except for Hailian Pond. In order to fill his stomach, Hai Lianchi had to run dozens of miles to dig up wild vegetables, and as a result, he was so hungry that he fell to the ground...
Helpless, after recovering from illness, his father decided to take Hai Lianchi out to beg for a living. Relying on the craft of spikes, they traveled all the way to Dengfeng County (present-day Dengfeng City). At that time, the Baisha Reservoir was being built at the junction of Dengfeng County and Yu County, and there were many workers on the construction site. Seeing that the work on the construction site was very expensive, they stopped temporarily. Father and son have one spike and palm shoe, and the other pull strings to attract customers. At that time, people's amateur life was already very poor, the construction site was semi-military management, and the workers' lives were tired and monotonous. The sound of the strings of The Hailian Pond has attracted the attention of many people, and there is an endless stream of people who repair their shoes while listening to the strings. Hai Lianchi and his father also earned more and more, and they spent that difficult time. For this experience, Hai Lianchi once said when he was alive, "I was very smart when I was a child!" Indeed, when he was a child, he learned everything. Soon after, he learned all of his father's shoe repair skills and went out alone to earn money.
The construction project of Baisha Reservoir was a key project in Henan Province that year, and there were often drama troupes to perform on the construction site. At a young age, HaiLianchi often did business during the day and climbed to the trees at night to watch performances, becoming more and more fascinated by drama. Because he especially likes drama, he set a rule for his shoe repair business: the people in the troupe came to repair shoes and did not receive anything.
One day, a tall and thin man suddenly came to the shoe stall of Hailianchi (Hailianchi later learned that it was Wang Peiying, the music designer of the Zhengzhou Qu Opera Troupe), and after repairing the shoes, he had to let Hailianchi pull a string to listen. After listening, the man said yes in a loud voice, and then asked him: "Do you want to go to the Zhengzhou Qu Opera Troupe?" Hai Lianchi blurted out, "Do you want to go?" I want to go in my dreams! Then the man said, "Then you go to the regiment to take the exam!" The next morning, Hai Lianchi hid from his parents and arrived at the opera troupe with a shoe repair box and strings. Wang Peiying led him to the regiment leader and pulled a string, and the regiment leader immediately made a decision: "Tomorrow I will come to the regiment with your luggage to work." ”
When he first entered the troupe, Hai Lianchi was engaged in accompaniment work behind the scenes. In 1956, he was sent by the troupe to zhengzhou opera school to study. During the four years of schooling, Hai Lianchi specialized in the flower face trade, that is, net angle. He got up at 5 o'clock every day, and every minute and every second was eager to learn all kinds of knowledge and practice, not only learning various skills in his profession, but also mastering the basic knowledge of other trades.
But after Hai Lianchi Xuecheng returned to the troupe, he found that the repertoire of the opera at that time was mostly lyrical, the main actor was generally Dan Jiao, and the performances were mostly short plays in the parents such as the fall of the prince, the rescue of the miss, the clown provoking, the parents repenting of marriage, and there were very few flower-faced roles, and he could only run the dragon set and play some roles such as the head of the class, the servant, the family, the book boy, and the solution. Hai Lianchi was not reconciled, wanted to come and go, and decided to secretly learn the art: no matter what kind of drama, as long as he liked it, he would secretly watch and learn while learning, while learning and remembering. As long as there is a performance on the stage, he will listen carefully and watch it carefully as soon as he has time, and he will work harder and harder than in school. Others often see him standing under the stage for several hours, staring at the actor, except for the occasional painting of his hands, a scene down, almost in place.
The work pays off. One day when he was 22 years old, the opportunity came. Once, the Zhengzhou Qu Opera Troupe went to the army to perform "Wind and Snow Matching". While the officers and soldiers in the audience sat neatly waiting for the performance to start, the male protagonist unexpectedly disappeared. Seeing that there were only 10 minutes left to leave the show, the leader of the group had to ask impatiently whether anyone could get on top. Saving the scene is like putting out a fire, and Hai Lian chi Mao volunteered himself. Although he was full of doubts, the situation was urgent, and the regimental commander asked him to come to power and try. What everyone did not expect was that the Hailian Pond on the stage was fluent, accurate in his lines, and proper in communication, especially in the singing voice, and he used his special voice to control it just right, winning a burst of applause. As soon as the performance ended, the head of the troupe announced in public: from now on, Hai Lianchi is the male protagonist of this play.
Not long after, during a performance in Qishan County, Xinyang City, a similar incident occurred again. This time, the role of Hailian Pond Rescue Field is Cao Baoshan in "RollIng Tube". Once again, he won the full house. Since then, Hai Lianchi has laid the position of absolute starring in the troupe. In the 1970s and 1980s, "Reel Tube" swept the country and even Southeast Asia In the late 1970s, Hailianchi cooperated with Xi'an Film Studio to put "Reel Tube" on the movie screen. After the film was released, it immediately became the largest circulation of opera art films at that time, and the little cangwa in the play soon swept the country. Hai Lianchi has also become a household star.
In May 1986, at the National Conference on Popular Plays held by the Ministry of Culture, "RollIng Tube" won the three honors of "First Seated Drama", "First National Cassette Opera Recording Tape Circulation", and "Hundred Flowers Award Vote No. 1". The famous playwright Cao Yu commented: "'The Scroll Tube' is comparable to Shakespeare's plays."
By the 1990s, Hai Lianchi's "RollIng Tube" had been performed on stages nationwide nearly 7,000 times, with a total audience of more than 30 million people. According to incomplete statistics, at that time, there were more than a dozen drama genres and more than 80 troupes in the country transplanted and performed "Reel Tube", and in the declining theatrical environment at that time, "Reel Tube" was like a timely rain, which effectively promoted the development of the drama market. Zhengzhou Qu Opera Troupe has been active on stages across the country for a long time with this play. After "Rolling The Sleeve" went abroad, it was widely welcomed in Southeast Asia and even Europe, North America and other places, and many people exclaimed that "a broken sheet swept all over Southeast Asia". Because Xi'an Film Studio and others have obtained huge profits and made a lot of money by relying on "Reel", people at that time have jokingly called "Reel" a "money reel".
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