Note: The original title of this article is "Talking about Art Hook and Sinking", dictated by Wang Jinlu, edited and sorted out by Hong Ye, originally published in "Talking about Opera and Telling Art - A Hundred Famous Artists Oral Accounts of a Hundred Years of Peking Opera Inheritance History", Shanghai Culture Publishing House, 2015 edition; The image material originated from the Internet, invaded and deleted.
I studied drama because my family was so poor at that time that I couldn't be poorer. You have to have a way to learn opera, you have to get in, so it just so happens that I have a relative who introduced me to the Chinese Opera School.
The main examiner is Mr. Shen Sanyu, Shang Heyu Shang. As soon as they saw my voice, the school accepted me.
As soon as I entered the school, I was put on hold in the old student group, and the play that teacher Chen Shaowu enlightened me was "Weishui River". I was a kid with a voice, and after a year of schooling, I went on stage, and I learned it in school.
尙 and Yu Zhan Chuzhou decoration shedding
At that time, I really didn't learn less, and I really met a lot of good teachers. The aim of our school is that you are best at this play and learn this play with you, you can say whatever you want. So the people invited are good teachers.
Later, it was Mr. Zhang Lianfu Zhang, the brother of Mr. Ma Lianliangma, who taught old students. But I always look at that martial artist, look at that senior brother who learns martial arts, so powerful, and I hit that flower face one by one, I said this is great, if you have to sing this, you have to practice, you have to practice. Anyway, I can't walk behind people's houses.
If it's okay, I'll practice with them, and I'll watch them practice there, and the teacher said that if you want to practice well, you have to practice whip after the mountain, and I said okay.
We were watching the teachers go to sleep, and I got up a little before I got up, and I said to the teacher who was watching us sleep, "Teacher, I'll practice." Teacher: "Good, good, practice." I said, "Don't tell me, I'll be back in a minute." "I'll come back before I pack and get under the covers again.
Once, I was watching them learn "Night Running" from a distance, and Mr. Ding Yongli found me watching there, and as soon as he inquired, he said that this student loved to learn martial arts, and later he said that he could let him look closer, it doesn't matter, let's look here.
This play has been studied for a year, it's time to stage, the director has to be the same as the bishop teacher, who do you see these students play first? Teacher Ding pointed at me and said, "I'll see if he can do it!" "You said I'm a teacher. He said that in the future, I can learn both sides, old students and martial artists. I said okay, I'm proud, I can learn martial arts.
It's a very conspicuous time, in the auspicious performance of "Zhan Wancheng", originally my school knifeman, the master brother who played Zhang Xiu during the morning rehearsal was sick and couldn't sing, so who replaced? I said, "Teacher, I, I can do it." "The teacher said, you come to a third show, I will come, one at once, two chopping heads, as soon as I pick up, I will be an "ah" performance. The teacher said, "Ho, this is good." It seems that I am so powerful, I won the battle just now, I met Dian Wei, I didn't expect you to be so powerful, it was such a look. My master brother was here and didn't pay attention, and when the teacher was talking about the play, I watched the teacher coming. The teacher said, "Okay, just call me to another room and let me start all over again." The next time I performed this play, the master brother was well and changed to Dian Wei, and Dian Wei was changed to Xu Chu, and I was so frustrated, my little Zhang embroidered fire. Because the singing martial artist wears an official robe and a gauze hat, there is no old student's leader, I sing an old student, and I have an official appearance.
Since then, I have been specializing in martial arts, learned a lot of dramas, and cooperated with many good actors, which has really benefited.
At that time, Mr. Jin Shaoshan performed "Serial Set" at the Beijing Chinese Music Theater, it was simply a fire, at that time, Mr. Zhou Ruian accompanied him to perform, Mr. Zhou's age and appearance were suitable, and then he slowly refused the stage, so I caught up with a good opportunity.
In 1943, Mr. Jin Shaoshan wanted to perform this play in Tianjin, saying that this Dou Erdun was good and had to find Huang Tianba to be worthy of it, so someone found me here. It was a really good thing for me, and I went.
When I saw Mr. Jin Shaoshan, I said, "Third Master, you carry me more and carry me more on the field." Mr. Jin Shaoshan said to me: "It's okay, it's okay, you sing yours, sing yours." "
Mr. Hou Xirui and I have acted in "Serial Set" many times. As soon as you look at Mr. Hou's Dou Erdun, snap, horizontal and vertical, look at the people's spirit, the body is good-looking, not to mention, his face is still playful. This one doesn't mean that I just stare at my face with a hook, that's a fool, you don't have a play how to stare or the character of Dou Erdun.
Mr. Hou, he has a joke, before he does this action, he thinks about what I want to do? You see, this is where the old gentleman pays attention to it.
Because I am too familiar with Mr. Hou Xirui, I always accompany him to sing "Serial Set" in Beijing, if I go to Tianjin to sing "Serial Set" is also quasi-full, I cooperate well with Mr. Hou, in some places, I speak, he is in my words, he speaks, I am in his words.
Wang Jinlu Zhan Wancheng
For example, he said, "I, use my skills," and my heart says, "Ah, he stole it?" Well, it's you can, it's you can. "I have to cooperate with him, I just got into his word." After a while, he said, "This horse is eight feet tall, and the head and tail are more than two feet." "Oh, he has to match this with me, so if I don't cooperate, why should I do it alone?" Isn't he getting more and more nervous when he is so matched, isn't this just a play? Mr. Hou Xirui is very particular about these places.
Not only does he look good, but this appearance is also good-looking, and the mouth "snaps" and throws, as if it is flattened, how good.
Hou Xirui Stealing royal horses
If you sing martial arts, you have to learn a little drama and study the demeanor and psychology of the characters. When Huang Tianba was not promoted, he stood up with a very rushing and energetic energy, feeling that no one in the green forest could beat him. As soon as he became an official, he would converge and have a shelf. So he has two things before and after. According to the changes in the characters of the plot, the words and sentences of the script also change, and we actors have to give An (press) things according to this change and show it.
Yang Xiaolou
I have seen almost all of Mr. Yang Xiaolou's plays, he was almost sixty years old at the time, and I was twenty years old. Mr. Chi Yueting, the second martial artist who was next to Yang Xiaolou, also taught me.
How is Yang Xiaolou good, he is not good at light and martial arts, there is a play on his face, he sings martial arts, how to call it singing, not without singing, he has an expression, there is a delicate place there, at that time it was changing faces, I said that he had a change of face when he sang, I said I will tell you about the change of face, this change of face is not simple than that, I said this change of face is not more wonderful than that.
I also told you about Le Ma, I said this is all face change, I said "pick a scooter", "snap" on the horse to press, ha, you have to have this, (heart said) hey, why is this today, you have to have it in your heart, you have to have it on this face, we call it drama.
I often tell them that you grab the back of two tables, as long as you are bold, you are in good health, and you have this boldness, I can practice. If you let you have a "War Jizhou" here, cut off your son's head and throw it to you, you will "oh" to grab the back, it's over, oh you die so dead, that is, you can't die of a temporary heart attack, then you can't move people. You have to see: Oh, my child, this tear has to fall, right? My child, you, oops, bam, this is the show.
Wang Jinlu Zhan Jizhou
At that time, we basically watched Mr. Yang Xiaolou's play, Mr. Yang, holding this child, looking at this child, people threw down from the city, killed and threw down, and then this child, lying down like this, followed by his daughter-in-law's head, lying back, he lay on his front stomach, Ma Dai made up for a snatching back, because his brother, his sister-in-law, "bang" snatched the back, this is Mr. Chi Yue Ting Chi's Ma Dai, that beauty! This is the play I watched.
So I sang this play, and I remember it very deeply when I watched it, and I knew where he coughed. This is not called martial arts singing, who is singing like whom, no, he is pretending to be who is, this is martial arts singing, this is home.
Yang Xiaolou
I heard the old gentleman say that Mr. Yang is too smart. Say Yang Pai, the hand of the beater is so taken in front of the handle, and later they all learn Yang Pai to come here, just turn over here, it's too beautiful.
I've seen Yang Xiaolou's "Pick a Scooter", Liang Wanxiang is so "just", two plainclothes people came up, maybe the apprentice, went over to take the big gun and put it down for him, but I said that I can't wait for us to go up and hold him, you want him to be fascinating.
Wang Jinlu teaches "Zhan Wancheng", 92 years old
You said that he played this Ma Chao, his steps are not the same, because I sing this, I love to ponder, that scene you see him raise his legs, walking is not the same as that Zhao Yun, then I understood, this Ma Chao walks, step legs raised high, fall far, remarkable martial spirit; And Zhao Yun walks, relatively stable, legs raised high and close, Zhao Yun has never crossed the position in this life, can he be the same as Ma Chao?
Yang Xiaolou's "Evil Tiger Village", I also watched, was at a church meeting, there were Mr. Mei and Yu Shuyan's "Fishing and Killing Home", Yang Xiaolou and Qian Jinfu's "Evil Tiger Village", and our school also went.
At that time, it was said that Mr. Yang closed his eyes, but in fact, people had eyes in their eyes. What the teacher said closed his eyes, he did not open his eyes or did not open his eyes, and when he opened his eyes, he was shocked.
Later, I said that I would look at what Boss Yang's eyes were closed, I went up to the curtain and looked, he Huang Tianba was standing there, he held his eyes, waiting for him to open, ah, it was very obvious, he was a counterpoint. If you stare and open your eyes again, it's still like this, not wide. Therefore, this is Boss Yang's method, and he wants to catch first.
This Peking Opera is too good, but also too difficult. Let's just say that these things that this martial artist wears, there are too many obstacles. The one who strangles the dizzy head, he has to hang his eyebrows, he has to paint oil, how hot the day he has to wrap around the big cotton jacket, how much it is to get in the way of tying the flag, wearing a beard is also in the way, such a long beard, you have to make things in the beard. That thick-soled boots, that robe so big, short belts... But we actors turn obstacles into tools for dance, is it easy? His dance also has to perform the psychological state and plot of the characters, just take the flag, he has to pay attention to shaking, kneading, turning, bumping, and beauty, which we summarized.