Cross-talk examination 99: Zhao Yugui of the "high gate" of the cross-talk family
In his lifetime, Gao Deliang only accepted two apprentices, the eldest apprentice Gao Fengshan and the second apprentice Zhao Yugui. There are not many high-ranking disciples, so the high-gate disciples are all like gold yuan treasures, and they all have skills. The three gao family brothers were basically in the Beijing-Tianjin area from the road of art, and in the 1930s and 1940s, they were invited by the Sun family to perform at the Jinan Chenguang Tea Society. Therefore, Gao Men's apprentices, the three brothers of the Gao family, basically all worked hard. Zhao Yugui, as the apprentice of the old third Gao Deliang, naturally also received the guidance of Gao Deguang and Gao Deming, two big coffees; under the guidance of the three brothers of the Gao family, Zhao Yugui's art industry improved and began to emerge. Of course, Yang Haiquan, who was famous in the northeast, also studied art with the three brothers of the Gao family in his early years, but later he visited Feng Zhensheng, the second generation of the Gao family's feng family. The artists cultivated by the three gao family brothers are all well-known horns. Including Feng Daquan, Yu Youfu, Zhang Songqing, Gao Fengshan, Zhao Yugui, etc., the number is small, and the value is weighty.
Before the liberation, Zhao Yugui followed the three brothers of the Gao family to perform in Beijing and Tianjin, and when he was in Beijing, he used to perform in the Tianqiao area, and when he was in Tianjin, he mostly performed in the "Three Disregards" or in the "Bird Market", or in the "Qiandezhuang". In this way, these artists are clear. Of course, in addition to the ground, these artists also entered the tea house and also went to the church meeting. Gao Deming was the head of the Beijing City Hall Society, and Zhao Yugui, as a disciple of Gaomen, followed The Light and went to many church meetings. The tea houses in Beijing, Tianjin and Jinan are three big ones: the "Qiming" of the Changjia family in Beijing, the Lianxing Tea House of the Majia in Tianjin, and the "Chenguang" Tea House of the Sun Family in Jinan. Of course, the performance at this time, especially the performance of the ground, has more meat mouths, there is a rule that women's tickets are not sold, once the female audience stops, the actor will politely say: "Please go to other places to play in the art field, our mouths are not clean." Please leave, thank you! ”
Zhao Yugui's main partners were Zhu Kuoquan and Wang Shichen. These two are cross-talk celebrities, both cattle people. Zhu Kuoquan is Jiao Dehai's gaozu, Zhang Shouchen's brother, Hou Baolin's master, stage name Big Bread. Wang Shichen's stage name is Xiao Confused, and he studied under Chen Yuting; after Chen Yuting's death in 1934, he studied art with Zhang Jieyao, a fool. In this way, Wang Shichen and Zhao Yugui were very close and belonged to Gaomen. It's just that Wang Shichen is the Baozi generation, and Zhao Yugui is the Shouzi generation, but it has been reduced to the Baozi generation. Zhao Yugui was still commensurate with Wang Shichen's brothers.
Zhao Yugui and Wang Shichen worked together for many years, and the two worked together from 1947 to 1965, but unfortunately Zhao Yugui died during the Cultural Revolution, and the two partners broke up. I had to disperse.
Wang Shichen
In 1951, Mr. Wang Shichen, a little confused, set up the Capital Experimental Qu Art Troupe, which brought together many famous cross-talk artists. Zhao Yugui is Wang Shichen's partner, and naturally he is among them. During this period, the two partnered to perform cross-talk segments such as "Selling Cloth Heads", "Pulling Foreign Films", and "Haunting the Public", which became a must-have and was used by the tree as a model for cross-talk performances. However, the representative works of Wang Shichen and Zhao Yugui are recognized as "Jiao Zan Fighting Yan Song". Regarding "Selling Cloth Heads", many famous artists have said that from the earliest Dai Shaofu and Yu Junbo, Hou Baolin and Guo Qiru, Wang Shichen and Zhao Yugui; to the later Guo Degang and Yu Qian, Miao Fu and Wang Sheng, they all performed "Selling Cloth Heads", each with its own characteristics. But everyone recognizes the works of Wang Shichen and Zhao Yugui.
In 1959, the Beijing Qu Art Troupe was established, and Mr. Wang Shichen was one of the main actors of the troupe, and he cooperated with Zhao Yugui to perform in "Yingqiu" and "Qianmen Small Theater" for a long time.
This pair also performed at the "World Amusement Club" in Beijing, but they could only be arranged in the second place, because there were two more powerful celebrities than him: Sun Shujun and Hou Baolin and Guo Qiru.
Zhao Yugui's style is delicate language, deep skill, can be funny, willow, through the mouth, pour mouth all kinds of good.
Gao Fengshan was demoted, from the Shou zi generation to the Bao zi generation. Gao Fengshan is Zhao Yugui's brother-in-law, and since Gao Fengshan has been demoted to the Baozi generation, zhao Yugui, as a disciple, has no reason to be a Shouzi generation.