What are the stories of Zhang Zhengfang in history?

Teacher Zhang Zhengfang, a famous Peking Opera performance artist and opera educator; He was one of the leaders of the "Zheng" generation of the old "Shanghai Opera School" at the end of the 30s of the 20th century, and later was a disciple of Mr. Xun Huisheng, one of the four famous Peking Opera artists of the 20th century.

She is a high-achieving student of the Shanghai Opera School, she is a disciple of the four famous Dan Xun Huisheng, she is faithful, brave and innovative, she works hard, peach and plum fragrance, she is Zhang Zhengfang.

Hua Dan's opera "Hanging Paintings" is only 40 minutes, but it contains the basic skills of Hua Dan's performance, and is recognized as a basic drama dedicated to cultivating Hua Dan, and it is a compulsory course for Hua Dan majors in art schools. In the early forties of the twentieth century, in order to cultivate Zhang Zhengfang, who did not have a small voice at that time, the Shanghai Opera School taught her Shanxi Bangzi "Fanwang Palace", Zhang Zhengfang starred in "Ye Hanyan", which sang Bangzi with her own voice, so that the audience knew and loved her at once. In 1961, Zhang Zhengfang transplanted it into a Peking Opera called "Ye Hanyan". In 1982, it was condensed into the Peking Opera "Hanging Paintings", which can be said to be integrated into Zhang Zhengfang's decades of painstaking efforts and became a representative work of her artistic achievements. "Hanging Paintings" has skills, "Hanging Paintings" itself is also through continuous processing, the performance on the chair, when I was young, I didn't have it, Mr. Zhou Yongtang taught himself to kneel in the chair, there was no hard chair at that time, this is with me and that after entering Beijing, I followed Ren and my heart, read her report, I absorbed it from her, and I taught it to students through my own practice. At that time, Zhang Zhengfang was 88 years old, but she still stuck to the front line of education, imparting to her students what she had learned, thought and gained in her life, hoping that more and more children would get better and better on the road of Peking Opera art. In April 1929, Shanghai, a girl named Song Meizhen was born, and the parents of the Song family, who had three sons, regarded their daughter as the pearl of their palms, Mei Zhen's grandfather was the former Qing Xiucai of Wuxian County, Jiangsu, and later served as the editor of the "Declaration" in Shanghai, and his father worked on the Shanghai Gold Exchange. When Mei Zhen was four or five years old, she went to kindergarten to receive Western-style education, and in November 1937, the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, and the Song family's solid and peaceful life came to an abrupt end.

Later, in order to want to go to night school for free, night school for difficult children, sugar child laborers went to seven o'clock in the morning and came back at seven o'clock in the evening, and could not go to school, and then they did some odd jobs, and pasted an envelope at home, and they had some income from needlework, so as to maintain the family, at this time, probably in 1939, when they had gone from the second grade to the fourth grade in the third volume, they saw the advertisement on the road that was the enrollment of Shanghai Theater School. Its conditions are very generous, free to learn culture, learn drama, study for six years, help for one year, then become a teacher, introduce work, see for yourself, this is not for me to solve the difficulty of learning drama and culture, I went to sign up. In old China, artists belonged to the lower ninth rate, how could the daughter of a scholarly family learn to sing, however, in that stormy year, fate arranged for her to embark on this road. After I came back, I thought I was solving the difficulties for my family, and told my parents, I went to apply for the Shanghai Opera School, and I said that I wanted to learn Peking Opera, and become a Peking Opera actor in the future, so that I could earn money and support my family, but my father was furious when he heard it, and slapped the table and said that you are not allowed to go, and he said what is wrong, he said that our old Song family is a scholarly family, how can you go to learn opera, as soon as you learn opera, you will become a ninth-rate, and it will be a shame for our old Song family, we can't afford to lose it, we can't afford to go, we can't go, Saying anything, you can't let the daughter of the old Song family eat. The sensible Song Meizhen wanted to help her family, she really didn't want to lose this opportunity, so in order not to humiliate the family, she changed her surname without authorization. At that time, there were two female classmates when I applied for the exam, one was named Zhang Lizhen, and the other was named Shen Yuzhen, they also applied for the Shanghai Opera School with themselves at the same time, and then they made ideas for themselves, she said that your father is unreasonable, and the family can't provide you with enough food, and can't provide you with school, you go to a free cultural drama class, and he won't let you go, she said Didn't you say that you were afraid of embarrassing the old Song family, you changed your surname, your surname is Zhang, that Zhang Lizhen is three years older than herself, even if my sister, Zhang Lizhen and Zhang Meizhen are admitted to the drama school at the same time, hey, I think this is right, because my father has to go out every day, go out early and return late, he is not at home, and he doesn't know if I can go to drama school, so I changed the drama school that Zhang Meizhen applied for. On December 4, 1939, the admission list of new students of the old Shanghai Opera School was announced, and 20 girls were selected, and Zhang Meizhen of the dark Chen Cang ranked second, the first was Gu Xiaoqiu, and Gu Zhengqiu, who became popular in the future. The students of our drama school are very hard-working and very hard-working, although the enrollment brochure just now says that it is free, food and housing, because the school building is very difficult and cannot be lived, because there is no income, the principal, the school director, Mr. Xu Xiaochu, he paid a lot of money and spent a lot of money to run our school. With the original intention of relieving the refugee children in Shanghai, cultivating Peking Opera talents in Shanghai, and propagating patriotic thoughts, Mr. Xu united all walks of life to establish the Shanghai Theater School at the end of 1939, enrolling 186 poor students. When Mei Zhen first entered the drama school, because she didn't have a small voice, the chief examiner, Guan Hongbin, decided to let her learn the knife and Ma Dan. In this regard, Gu Zhengqiu recalled, "The dimples on her cheeks are deep and shallow, her smile is very charming, her eyes can speak, but unfortunately she has no small voice, she can't sing and play, her acting path is similar to Xiao Cuihua, and the school also cultivated her at that time, I envy her acting and kung fu." "There were not many teachers in the drama school at that time, but they were all famous artists with unique skills, such as Guan Shengming, an old student from Fuliancheng, Liang Lianzhu, etc., Zhu Chuanming and Zheng Chuanjian of Sukun Academy. At the beginning of the school year, except for two hours of cultural classes, all of them were used to practice and learn opera. Under the strict education of famous teachers, all students are motivated and have laid a solid foundation. In August 1940, the Shanghai Opera School ushered in its first public performance, and before the performance, the drama school selected stage names for the students in a unified ranking of orthography, and since then, Zhang Meizhen has become Zhang Zhengfang. Positive, that is, the "positive" of Zhengda and brightness, for example, Gu Xiaoqiu, her original name was Gu Xiaoqiu, and she changed her name to Gu Zhengqiu, but her name is Zhang Meizhen, and it is not good to change Zhang Zhengmei, Zhang Zhengzhen is not good, the teacher is very partial to himself, and it was announced at the meeting that we will give you the best word Zhang Zhengfang and Fang, you don't have a voice now, the conditions are not good, you will grow up in the future, if the voice comes out, Mei Lanfang, Li Shifang, you are Zhang Zhengfang, you can also be a good actor, So herself, Song Meizhen, became Zhang Zhengfang. In the performance of the Golden Theater, "Eight Five Flower Caves" is a cannon play, Gu Zhengqiu, Zhang Zhengfang, Tong Zhengmei and Sun Zhenglu play the real golden lotus, Zhang Zhengfen, Lu Zhengmei, Shen Zhengxia, Jia Zhengyun play Jia Jinlian, and the strong young male lineup of eight Pan Jinlian suddenly caused a sensation among Shanghai audiences. Our teacher Guan Hongbin, he is very innovative, he thinks that we have a lot of Danjiao, Danjiao conditions are not bad, eight five-flower holes, four real Pan Jinlian, four fake Pan Jinlian, four real Wu Dalang, four fake Wu Dalang, so it's very hot on the stage, there are two Wu cannons, two officials, just ten short people squatting in front, to the lobby hey, 10 of us are generally tall! Click...... and one side of the high. The great success of the premiere established the status of the Shanghai Opera School in the hearts of the audience, and since then, Zhang Zhengfang has performed more than 1,300 performances during her time at the school. In the winter of 1945, the Shanghai Opera School officially announced its closure, and more than 40 students stayed in the school to get their graduation certificates, but Zhang Zhengfang was not among them. At that time, Zhang Zhengfang was a very high-achieving student, and she had already made a name for herself on the Shanghai stage, what was the reason for her to say goodbye. In the winter of 1944, my father died, after my father died, our family fell apart, my father died, my mother married, I took care of myself, and my mother was uneducated, she was a housewife, she could only remarry, she remarried, her brother, the three brothers were disconnected from her, you remarried, you are not my mother, you can't get out of relationship with your mother, but you don't have the ability to support her, the old man she remarried is very bad, just a ruffian, I wanted to make up my mind on myself, I wanted to use myself as a cash cow, at that time, I was so scared that I didn't dare to go home, and then many of our classmates said, saying that since you are afraid of the evil forces of this old society, and there is such a bad wolf in your family, he said that it is better to find a suitable person to marry and it will be over, and sooner or later you will have to marry someone, so you can avoid this disaster, and you think about it, you said that my father did not let me learn drama, I was afraid that I would be the ninth rate, I could not really be the ninth rate, just like that, it was very sloppy and did not go through any detailed investigation, etc., So I got married. Sixteen-year-old Zhang Zhengfang moved to other places and married a wife, the old-fashioned family did not give him the peace and dignity he wanted, she gave birth to four children in one go, and she no longer belonged to her in her prime. At that time, life at home was very difficult, because the child's father did not have a job, that is, he gave himself very little living expenses, that is, soy sauce soup and pickles, just eat like this, and he went to learn sewing and cutting, learned sewing and cutting, and gave it to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and in 52 years to resist US aggression and aid Korea, to make that military supplies, what military tents, military uniforms, military socks, and to maintain a living with a little income.