Author: Liu Butang
Tan Xinpei's emblem of the Great King of the Ling Realm is really worthy of being unanimously respected by all people. After thirty or forty years of stage experience, only relying on his own skills to earn out the four words of "Lingjie King" is indeed much more glorious than Mei Lanfang's inheritance of "Lingjie King".
The emblem of the Mei clan was obtained from the election. It was the spring of the sixth year of the Republic of China, and Lao Tan had just died, so a beijing newspaper ran a Juxuan. At that time, in terms of qualifications, there was no doubt that Yang Xiaolou would be pushed. Only because Mei's hands and eyes were in the sky, she actually suppressed Boss Yang.
To be fair, at that time, Mei Lanfang's artistic skills were not yet extremely beneficial, and although the foundation was laid at that time, there were still many attackers.
Mei Lanfang and Zhu Guifang's "Xi Shi"
Recalling the three or four years that Old Tan was dying, in the city of Beijing, the lurking power was too great, and the general audience almost respected him as a god.
For example, on this day, in the Dongcheng Auspicious Garden posted a play, even the car puller knows, when there is a guest hire market, the coachman often has this kind of questioning tone "Sir!" Listen to the boss today! The audience and ordinary citizens called him "Boss", or "Boss Tan", or "Old Tan", and few people really had the good intention to call him "Tan Xinpei".
Tan Xinpei's "Dingjun Mountain"
This is caused by the passage of time, people have no neglect of the psychology, not as good as Mei Lanfang, until recently, there are still people who call him "Xiaomei".
Tan Xinpei's best era, to count the years before and after Guangxu Gengzi, was in his fifties. Because he was red very late, he had a good martial arts worker since childhood, and the older he got, the more he practiced. The ages are too long apart to go into detail. Around the 30th year of Guangxu, the subordinate Tongqing class sang in the Zhonghe Garden for a very long time, from a hanging of three hundred wen (thirteen copper yuan, heyang one corner five points up and down), plus a hanging of six hundred and sixty texts, every day the door is pasted with a red board only write the daily quasi-auspicious new drama, singing or not singing is not very certain, to plan to know also need to inquire carefully.
He chose the most stringent supporting roles and scenes, and even the tone of his supporting roles should be appropriate, such as Jin Xiushan, He Guishan or Liu Yongchun, Lao Dan Xie Baoyun, Lao Sheng Jia Honglin and Shen Sanyuan, Wu Lao Sheng Liu Chunxi, Xiaosheng Wang Guiguan, Feng Huilin, Hua Dan Tian Guifeng, Qingyi Chen Delin, Wang Yaoqing, Clown Luo Baisheng, Wusheng Yang Xiaolou, and occupied the whole scene for six or seven years in Zhonghe.
Tan Xinpei and Wang Yaoqing's "South Heavenly Gate"
Once you enter the Republic of China, you will not take a long shift, one is old age, and the other is because you feel that the emperor after the Qing Dynasty is extremely long, some sighs! However, the less he came out, the audience expected that no matter how difficult it was, there was a law to be set. Yu Zhenting is a pestering worm, and seven or eight times out of ten times is Yu Wu's instigation.
Contemptible people are also considered to be a Tan fan, calculated from the spring of the second year of the Republic of China, until the winter of the fifth year, in these four years, according to what I know, I am now written down as follows, hanging a leak, naturally unaware, but the self-question is still true, because there are still plays to be examined.
Old Tan died in the spring of the sixth year of the People's Republic, Lu Rongting went to the Beijing Presidential Palace meeting, the government was about to Huairou Southwest, and had to pay a big reward. The play on this day was originally scheduled to be "Catch and Release Cao", and the first few days he was not lightly ill, just got better, and could not go temporarily. The Messenger traveled three or five times. At the end, Tan's best friend Yuan Deliang (the right wing belt) took a car to pick up and push, changed to "Hong Yang Cave", only a "ward". Tired and angry, he died a few days after returning home. After the speech was finished, he sighed and said, "If Lafayette (referring to the Western Empress) were going to be there, Wan couldn't bear to ask me to sing this play", and the aftersound of the string could be pondered.
(Liyan Pictorial Journal, No. 145, 1941)