What are the stories of Zhang Baoxiang in history?

Mr. Zhang Baoxiang is a senior local playwright in Shangdang Bangzi, a national first-class screenwriter, and a famous screenwriter in Shanxi.

As the saying goes, "the script is the foundation of a play", and the screenwriter is an indispensable and important role in the process of drama creation, who captures the touching moments in life with delicate life perception and extraordinary artistic enthusiasm, condenses them into poems, sublimates them into plays, and brings lasting warmth and inspiration to the audience. Today we walk into the creative world of Zhang Baoxiang, a famous screenwriter in Shanxi, Zhang Baoxiang was born in Liaoning and grew up in Shanxi.

I have written thirty or forty years of plays, thirty or forty large-scale works, most of the dramas I have written are Shangdang dramas, but I am not a Shangdang person, I was born in the "black land", I am a native of Tieling, Liaoning, but I came to Shanxi at a very young age, Shanxi's mountains and rivers, human customs, revolutionary stories, I have raised myself into a Shangdang person, the story here has attracted me, the drama here has exercised myself, and I have been on this road to the present. He was admitted to the Shanxi Provincial Academy of Arts at the age of fifteen, studying the Department of Drama and Drama Literature, and after graduating from the Department of Drama of the Shanxi Provincial Academy of Arts at the age of seventeen, he was assigned to the Jin Opera Troupe of Wuxiang County. At that time, I wrote some small things, and there was no teacher to advise me, so I could only make up for my clumsiness and stupid birds fly first, so after finishing the work of the troupe, I used my sleep time and dark night to study and write, so I developed the habit of staying up late. I started writing plays, until now, sixty-one years, I was seventy-seven years old this year, it can be said that most of the time is working at night, when I was young, when I could write something, that is, the window paper was not bright, there was no glass at that time, the countryside was all this hemp paper window, the window paper did not turn white, did not sleep, it came to four or five o'clock in the morning, develop this habit, and then I felt that this habit has its benefits, concentrated, It's easy to let go of your imagination, so after you develop this habit, and the effect is not bad, there is a lot of inspiration that is easy to burst out, and you can keep getting in, the time is short, you are like saying that I stay up for an hour or two nights, go to bed at twelve o'clock, I go to bed on time, that doesn't work, twelve o'clock serious ideas, sensitive ideas come, so I have to keep writing, write until four o'clock five o'clock, so that some works are done in one go, the effect is better, so until now, I have entered old age, and I still don't think it's too much of a problem to stay up late, plus I don't have any miscellaneous things to do now that I'm retired, so I still want to focus on creation.

Because he is often at the grassroots level, most of his service objects are grassroots troupes, and the requirements of the grassroots troupe for this creative repertoire are diverse, which requires both modern dramas, new historical dramas, and traditional plays in ancient costumes, because of what, because it has to complete the creative task, but also complete the economic income, maintain the livelihood of the troupe, as a grassroots playwright, he must adapt to the needs of this troupe, Premier Zhou put forward the "three simultaneously" policy at that time, that is, modern dramas, new historical dramas, Adapting costume dramas at the same time, is to take into account these actual situations, I give two examples, that is, in modern dramas, I have written a lot, for example, "Zhao Shuli", "Xigou Daughter", "Shen Jilan", "Out of the Mountain", etc., I have written a lot of new historical dramas, for example, "Chen Tingjing", "Hao Jing", adaptation of traditional dramas, I have also done a lot, "Borrowed Grain" and "Borrowed Grain" are adapted from the traditional costume dramas of Shangdang Bangzi.

The most difficult thing in writing a play is to write characters, especially those famous masters who are widely familiar to the audience, how to write their joys, sorrows, and sorrows, so that ordinary audiences can resonate and empathize, Zhang Baoxiang's Shangdang Bangzi's "Zhao Shuli" provides a useful reference. Zhao Shuli is a well-known Chinese and foreign great writer, his hometown is in Qinshui County, Jincheng City, he has been to his hometown several times to collect wind and collect materials, he has had this idea very early, because he works in Jincheng City, he is the vice president of Jincheng Shangdang Drama Theater, in charge of creation, he has long had this idea, that is, whether Zhao Shuli can write a play, because Zhao Shuli put his hometown drama Shangdang Bangzi's "Sanguan Banquet" on the screen and made a movie, he wanted to make Zhao Shuli into a Shangdang Bangzi play, Move it to the stage, as a commemoration of Zhao Shuli, coinciding with the "100th anniversary of Zhao Shuli's birth", this is a good node, at that time, the leaders of the province and the city also told themselves, what are you going to take, at that time there was an idea that Zhao Shuli wrote "Sanliwan", and "Xiao Erhei Marriage" These things can you adapt, I said that this person has not done what others have done, and the drama of "Sanliwan" Hunan has not been acted, so "Xiao Erhei Marriage" It's everywhere, and I said that we still have to think of some new tricks, so I wanted to write "Zhao Shuli". As soon as some people heard that this was impossible, how could a writer write a play, and he had no bullets and bullets, and no life and death encounters, he said let's try it, and he started to work on it himself two years before his "centennial birthday", because he respects Zhao Shuli very much, he not only has good works, but also good character, he is a peasant writer, he pretends to be a farmer in his heart, writes about farmers, and speaks for farmers, so he thinks about it, and puts his experience, Whether a play can be composed at some key nodes, so I took the form of a character biography to write this play, and after writing it, after expert argumentation, and the opinions of people in the troupe, I made many revisions. Another advantageous element is that the director is good, the director is also very famous, Xie Ping'an, he also appreciates and is very interested in this theme, and said Baoxiang, let's do it. At that time, this was a risk, that is, to move the drama written by Zhao Shuli as a character biography to the stage and the drama stage, and we are not sure what the effect will be, but there is an advantage that the province is very supportive, because there is a node of "Zhao Shuli's centennial birth", so these favorable factors contribute to the success of this play. Another advantage is that the actors are not bad, the actors are Zhang Baoping and Wu Guohua, this is a "Plum Blossom Award" couple, Zhao Shuli is played by Zhang Baoping, and Zhao Shuli's wife is played by Wu Guohua, these many factors come together, it can be said that the time and place are favorable, under such conditions, we still made this play, when he premiered this play, Zhao Erhu, invited him to watch, he cried bitterly in the theater, because this play Zhao Shuli is related to the relationship, it is when he and his wife love story, I used one of my own, which can also be regarded as the theme song, and it can also be regarded as a behind-the-scenes accompaniment throughout the whole play, these four words made Zhao Erhu cry. What are these four sentences, I don't dislike your little feet, she is a small foot in the relationship, a three-inch golden lotus, I don't think your little feet are uneducated; the second sentence is a female voice, that is, the relationship is sung, that is, I don't dislike your second marriage with a baby, Zhao Shuli is a second marriage, the first wife died, died of illness, died of illness, and gave birth to a child, gave birth to a son, with this child, and married this relationship, the relationship said, I don't think you have a baby in your second marriage. The third sentence is that the two of us will not change the hexagram in this life, and since the two of us are married, we can't change the hexagram in this life. What is the fourth sentence, who wants to change his mind is a toad, these four sentences. These four sentences are very outstanding, in the first half of the play, in the middle of the play and at the end of the play, a chain is formed, a rope is formed, and the whole play is tightly tied together, reflecting the plot of Zhao Shuli and the love between the young, middle-aged and old.

Especially in the end, when Zhao Shuli was summoned and detained him, when he was about to leave, when the husband and wife parted, he asked him in the relationship, saying that you are leaving, Zhao Shuli said, I can't help but leave. Guan Lianzhong said can you still come back, Zhao Shuli said very practically I don't know, I don't know if I can come back, I don't know, and then Guan Lianzhong said I won't let you go, I won't let you go, the two of them hugged each other, one sang a section, Zhao Shuli sang a large section of singing, Guan Lianzhong sang a large section of singing, after singing, the two of them looked at each other silently and were speechless, Guan Lianzhong put on a small coat for Zhao Shuli, tied buttons, sorted out clothes, and sang these four sentences in this gap, I don't think your little feet are uneducated, I don't think you have a baby in your second marriage, we don't change the hexagram in this life, whoever wants to change their minds is a toad, the theater is crying, the audience in the theater is crying, and then it ends under this emotion, the last one. This play participated in the National Northern Film (District) Drama Show, won the second prize, won the Shanxi Drama Apricot Blossom Award in Shanxi, and was also very popular with the audience when it was performed in the countryside, and this play was also performed for a long time.

The Shangdang area has always been a battleground for soldiers from ancient times to the present, and the famous Battle of Changping took place here. Zhang Baoxiang deeply explored the historical and cultural significance of the Battle of Changping, interpreted the gains and losses of success and failure from another side, and created a new historical drama "A Thousand Autumns of Changping".

"Qianqiu Changping" means that there is indeed a record in history, in the "Historical Records", and Sima Qian's "Historical Records" is recorded, the Battle of Changping. Qin and Zhao fought a battle, and all the 400,000 soldiers of the Zhao army were buried alive at Changping Pass in Zhao, which can also be said to be the only one in history, very rare, such a big battle, it happened in Gaoping County, Jincheng City, I am still from Jincheng, I still have to write this thing, and it has been brewing for a long time, these screenwriters of Gaoping include literary authors, writers of novels, countless people, including Xuzhou, Anhui, The authors of Shandong have all gone there to collect the wind, and they all want to write about this theme, but they are all in the end, why, it is too difficult to write, it is a big frame, a big battle scene, a large number of people, how can it be concentrated on the stage, it is performed as a play, it is quite difficult, so I thought of a way, with a unique perspective, different from the perspective of their other works, to write this play. What point of view, is "employing people", I take the word "employing people" as the theme of this play, to run through the whole play, write this play, this Changping Pass is Qin Bing, do not retreat, has always been here, this Lian Po does not fight, King Zhao is not satisfied with him, he wants to withdraw him, so what kind of way to take, just call this Zhao Kuolai, Zhao Kuo to the palace, after Zhao Kuo goes to the palace, just say that you two try to compete, this minister, There is a minister, Sun Chang's mind is not right, he came up with a topic, you two get a military book to see how it is, that is, to memorize the military book, what to read the military book, "Sun Tzu's Art of War", what is the name of such a paragraph specially designed in the middle, someone came up with a topic, called Lian Po to read first, that is, which chapter and which paragraph at the end of a few sentences, you read it to me, Lian Po really read it, after reading it, he said that this old man is okay, this Zhao Kuo said, you don't count, look at me. Then people came up with a paragraph of the military book, called Zhao Kuo to read, Zhao Kuo read, the Manchu Dynasty Minister of Civil and Military Affairs was dumbfounded, what kind of military book is this reading, I have not heard of this military book, as a result, Zhao Kuo proudly explained, which paragraph and which sentence is this, I read the backward recitation, backward recitation of the military book, in order to show that his talent overshadowed Lian Po, that is, he is proficient to this extent, he can recite it backwards, this is himself, he still took some effort to design this, this plot, this plot is made by himself, and there is no history There is no such record, but there is a record in history that is what it is, Zhao Kuo's military book is very skilled, and he can memorize it backwards and use it himself. At that time, experts in Beijing said that this was a stroke of genius and agreed with this.