Peking Opera knowledge that fans must know _Wang Hongshou

Wang Hongshou (1850~1924), stage name "Sanmazi", known as "Three Bosses" by colleagues, was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, his father was an official in Nantong who managed the waterway to transport grain, because of his love of opera, he organized two opera classes of Huitong and Kunqu. On the basis of inheriting the performing arts of his predecessors, such as Mi Xizi and Cheng Changgeng, Wang Hongshou has created and developed a lot of Hongsheng art, and is revered as the "Originator of Hongsheng" and the world is called "Wang Pai".

Wang Hongshou was influenced by his father since childhood, and once played martial arts, old students and martial arts in the drama class, and performed "Stealing Chicken" and "Stealing Armor" and other levels. At the age of 14, because his father was not good at flattery, he did not send a birthday gift to the superior who inspected the inspector, so he was involved in a book, which caused the door to be cut off. Fortunately, Wang Hongshou was hidden in the box, and オ was spared. Since then, he has been buried in anonymity, exiled to a foreign land, because of the slight numbness on his face, so he got the stage name "Three Mazi".

Wang Hongshou went north to Jinmen, first performed the old student drama, but was not taken seriously, so he re-performed Guan Yu plays such as "Ancient City Society" and "Flooded Seven Army", which became a hit, and has since become famous for acting In guan gong plays. The reason why guan yu he played can be praised is because he carefully studied Guan Yu's images. It is said that he once got 66 portraits of Guan Yu dancing knives at his father's friends, such as obtaining the most precious treasure, studying day and night, pondering with his heart, melting his understanding, on the basis of inheritance, there was a breakthrough development, creating a majestic and solemn stage Guan Yu image, loved by people, known as "living Guan Gong".

At the beginning, Guan Yu's drama only had a few plays such as "White Horse Slope", "Huarong Road", and "Battle Changsha". Based on Guan Yu's story, Wang Hongshou has choreographed more than thirty Guan Yu plays, and has carried out a series of innovations and creations in many aspects according to the plot: in terms of face makeup, Guan Yu's rubbing rouge face has been changed into a silver Zhu face, the lines of the face have been increased, the color of the face has been increased, and the black or black five hairs have become black three silks; In terms of clothing knives, a special master helmet, heart-covering armor, and soft leaning were designed for Guan Yu, and a special green dragon knife was made; In terms of body shape, many beautiful shapes were designed from Guan Yu's statues and portraits, and special horses and knife flowers were designed; In terms of singing, he sang the emblem tune with a high-pitched voice, and at the same time used the Kunqu opera blowing cavity, plum blossom board, Nanyun pluck, Xipi, Erhuang, Erhuang and Erhuang as Guan Yu's unique singing voice; In terms of doing merit, the performance characteristics of Wenwu Laosheng, Wusheng and Zizihua are integrated, so that they have a variety of characteristics such as solemnity, shenxiong, bravery, and mighty, and a horse boy is added to enrich Guan Yu's dance movements. Wang Hongshou made progressive innovations for Guan Yu opera, which can be called a well-deserved "red originator".

Wang Hongshou's plays are extremely wide, in addition to Guan Yu's plays, short play plays, especially the decline of the school and the old drama of doing meritorious old students also have a deep achievement, such as "Xu Ce Running City", "Sweeping Songxia Book" and so on are excellent works. He is also adept at using stunts such as the beard, yarn hat wings, plumes and eye tricks to increase the atmosphere of the play.

In 1923, Wang Hongshou took the illness to perform "Walking Maicheng", which was extremely enthusiastic in the Japanese audience. After Guan Yu returned to heaven, Wang Hongshou also had difficulty moving, so he was bedridden and died of illness in Shanghai the following year.