A friend asked the author, the big drum book of Liu Baoquan, a famous drum artist in Jingyun, is so good, why don't few people like to listen to it now?
This question is too good to answer, Liu Baoquan's big drum book is good or not, all depends on personal preferences, love to listen to nature feel good, do not love to listen to nature think that it is noise. This is the same as listening to Ma Sanli say crosstalk, Ma Sanye on the stage to shake the "baggage", love to listen to The Gaga laughs forward and backward, does not like to listen to the scorn - ah, it is better to listen to the cockroaches to shout with vigor. He said this, you don't have to worry, this is called radish pickles, each has its own love, do not restrain others with personal preferences.
The author is a Tianjin native, belongs to the kind of people who love to listen to music and art, not only love to listen to but also love to sing, not to mention the Beijing opera review allegro book, but also to manage the stick pendant big drum book, I am all moving, also loose, rap can also sing, is singing can not find the tune, fortunately I do not dare to sacrifice ugly in public, only dare to hide at home to sing, torture only the ears of the wife and children, did not affect others.
I have collected a few of Liu Baoquan's old records, and I also have great respect for Master Liu, I have an old lady who made friends with Master Liu during the Republic of China period, and the author will borrow the question raised by that friend to briefly recount a few paragraphs about Liu Baoquan. Hey, whoops!
Liu Baoquan didn't sing the big drum at the beginning, what did he do in the first place? Tell you, he sang Peking Opera. By the time he was fifteen or sixteen years old, he was able to perform on stage and win a lot of applause.
It is reasonable to say that if you continue to sing all the way, you can't help but become a famous artist of the same value as Tan Xinpei, Yu Shuyan, and Ma Lianliang, but I didn't expect a small stage accident, which made him angry and far away from the pear garden line, and instead invested in the big drum masters Wang Qinghe and Huo Mingliang, and became everyone in the big drum industry in one fell swoop.
Tianjin people have three absolutes, this three absolutes are not the eighteenth street twist flowers of Jinmen Three Absolutes, ear and eye fried cakes, and dogs ignoring buns, but the eyes occupy one absolute, the mouth occupies one absolute, and the ear occupies one absolute, which is a small three absolute. These three must be derived from the drama garden, Tianjin Wei's grandfathers listen to the play, the eyes are thieves, the mouth is fast, the ears are pointed, and how big the horns are on the pipe platform, but where a figure appears in the eyes, or a singing word goes to the board, immediately cheers down, and even "fly" the teapot, without giving the horns any face.
Take Ma Lianliang, for example, just such a big horn, stunned is "planted" in Tianjin Wei. In the thirties, Boss Ma sang "Wang Zuo's broken arm" in Tianjin, perhaps singing too hi, actually forgot the arm that had been "broken", he shook the "broken arm" on the stage, but it was unbelievable, the stage immediately "flew" past three large teapots, and the frightened Boss Ma quickly refunded the ticket to make up for his crime, and no longer dared to continue singing, and immediately returned to Shanghai for "further study". After a few years, I dared to go to Tianjin again to serve the Tianjin grandfathers for a good play.
You don't think that the grandfathers of Tianjin Wei are unreasonable, call you down well, take a big teapot to "fly" you, that is to make you remember for a long time, remember to learn the play well and then go on stage, save people's eyes, this is why the popular sentence "Beijing xuecheng, Tianjin singing red, Shanghai earn silver" reason. As long as you have passed the "magic eye" of the old and young masters of Tianjin Wei, you are always waiting to make a fortune.
The vernacular is so widespread, which leads to Liu Baoquan's reason why he did not sing Peking Opera instead of singing the big drum.
It is said that Liu Baoquan is tall, the head of the drama team is tightly dressed, and the boots are left outside the line, which seems to be twisted, so he wants to buy a set of lines by himself, and as a result, he asks the price code and quickly slips away. The price was too high, he couldn't afford it, his heart was uncomfortable, he always muttered about it, so he brought his emotions to the stage.
That day, he played Huang Tianba in "Falling Horse Lake", and when he read "Why don't you raise your head", because he was still worried about the matter of the head in his heart, he mispronounced it as "why don't you raise your head". get! Just like this, but bad things, Tianjin Wei's grandfathers picked out, two words, the big teapot directly "flew" past, hot tea splashed a body, Liu Baoquan was ashamed and embarrassed, this play can not be sung, shrugged backstage, in a huff, Grandpa did not sing!
In this way, he left the pear garden line and successively worshiped the famous drum masters Wang Qinghe and Huo Liangming as teachers, and learned to sing the wooden drum. Because he had a voice and a good foundation, it didn't take long for his reputation to rise and he became a big drum master.
We must explain that when Liu Baoquan became famous, there was no Jingyun drum, and the reason why Liu Baoquan was able to become the founder of the Jingyun drum was also quite legendary. Once, he met Tan Xinpei, a famous Peking opera artist, and the two talked very happily, and within a few days, Boss Tan sent someone with an invitation to invite him to the palace for a drink. How big Tan Xinpei's wrist is, it can be said that he can be appreciated by Boss Tan, which is really a blessing in three lifetimes. Liu Baoquan hurriedly arranged gifts, dressed decently to visit the door, and performed disciple ceremonies to Boss Tan to show humility.
After three rounds of wine, five flavors of dishes, Boss Tan was very interested, and introduced the process of Adapting Peking Opera for Han Opera on the spot, which talked about the difficulties in pronouncing the words, And Boss Tan advised Liu Baoquan to change the wooden drum to a Beijing interpretation, such a new type of singing method will definitely attract the audience.
Liu Baoquan gladly accepted boss Tan's proposal, after leaving the Tan family, went straight to the string master's home, explained to the string master the idea of changing the wooden plank drum singing cavity, and then the two of them changed the native characters of Tianjin Wei to JingYin'er after some research and design, and in the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, that is, in 1900 AD, the big drum book was officially interpreted in Beijing, which was the prototype of the Jing yun big drum.
Later, Liu Baoquan really made a lot of effort, eliminating some rough sentences and changing them into more elegant civilized language, such as some passages with "powder", such as "Monopoly of Flowers" and "Curtain Tailoring", which were simply abandoned and not used, and the passages of "Ugly End Yinchu", "Great West Chamber" and the Three Kingdoms Water Margin were retained, and the lyrics were adapted, and then combined with the usual body of Dawusheng, the fire was a mess.
According to Yu Shuyan, Liu Baoquan was studious and could "steal" a lot of things from Yang Xiaolou, a martial arts master. Once, Boss Yu went to see Liu Baoquan's "A Loyal Martyr", Liu Baoquan sang and sang, coldly made a figure, Boss Yu looked at it, this is the body he used in "Ningwu Guanbei Mother". Boss Yu immediately clapped his hands and teased with his friends around him: "See, I lost another hand!" ”
You see, Master Liu learned a "steal" word, how much ability he has learned.
Well, the text is so far, stop here, and then go on, I'm afraid I can't finish it one day and one night. Moreover, this kind of article is rarely interested, as the author wrote at the beginning, like the friend looks energetic, the friend who does not like looks annoyed, and most readers belong to the latter, and few people read it instead of writing more, so they simply point to the end.