Speaking of the big coffee in the opera industry, Mei Lanfang is second to none, from the Republic of China to the present, the prestige is still very high, but many people only know that Mei Lanfang sings well, but does not know that he comes from a Peking Opera family.
Speaking of Mei Lanfang's family lineage, we must start from his grandfather.
Before Mei Lanfang's grandfather, the Mei family had been carving for generations and was also a generation of craftsmen. However, then there was a flood, and I couldn't stay in my hometown anymore, so I had to go to other places to make a living.
The people of the Mei family died and fled, and Mei Qiaoling followed her mother and two other younger brothers to the south. The south is relatively wealthy, but it is not easy to survive for orphans and widows, so in desperation, the mother gave her eldest son Mei Qiaoling to a local family as a righteous son, and then left with two young sons.
At first, this righteous father was still very good to Mei Qiaoling, they had no children under their knees, and they raised Mei Qiaoling as a son.
But later, the couple was pregnant with their own child, and they began to snub Mei Qiaoling, thinking of ways to make it difficult for him. Not long after, Mei Qiaoling was sold to the theater by her father.
The theater is called Fusheng Class, and the class leader Yang Sanxi is a person who takes pleasure in abusing his apprentices, usually scolding or scolding, and does not have a good face.
One year Chinese New Year's Eve, Yang Sanxi did not let Mei Qiaoling eat, let her pick up rice grains on the ground to eat, it was simply miserable.
Later, Mei Qiaoling left Yang Sanxi, but met another powerful master, really just out of the tiger's den and into the wolf's den, the second master is also a cruel heart, and Yang Sanxi is no different.
Later, there was a person who could not see it, this person was also Yang Sanxi's apprentice, after leaving the school, he set up his own portal, watching Mei Qiaoling suffer, he paid for him and arranged him in his own theater.
In this way, Mei Qiaoling's third master, Luo Qiaofu, was a benevolent person, who carefully taught mei Qiaoling and took good care of him, and Mei Qiaoling became a teacher in this way.
This sentence is most appropriately applied to Mei Qiaoling, who suffered much more than ordinary people, and later got his due reward.
When Mei Qiaoling entered Beijing, it is impossible to verify, but it is certain that Mei Qiaoling's performance was loved by Empress Dowager Cixi and became a hit in the capital.
After becoming famous, Mei Qiaoling went to her hometown to pick up her mother and brother, only to find that her mother had long since died and the whereabouts of her brothers were unknown.
After sending Mei Qiaoling away that year, her mother and her two sons were separated, and they had no choice but to return to their hometown, and soon starved to death.
This Mei Qiaoling is Mei Lanfang's grandfather and the ancestor of the Mei family's Peking Opera.
It is said that Mei Qiaoling was called "Fat Qiaoling" by Empress Dowager Cixi, because of her plump figure, and got this title, which shows the empress's love for her.
Under the influence of her grandfather, Mei Lanfang innovated her grandfather's skills and created her own Mei's performance faction in the opera industry, which became its own.
The Mei family is also famous in China and even the world because of the industry of opera.