Famous critic Xin Fengxia (1928-1998), formerly known as Yang Shumin, female, from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. At the age of 6, he learned Peking Opera, at the age of 12, he learned to comment on drama, and at the age of 14, he starred. After a long period of artistic practice, it has gradually formed a unique "new school of singing", especially known for its fluency. In 1945, he came to Qingdao to sing opera. After 1949, he successively served as the head of the Beijing Experimental Critic Troupe, the deputy head of the Literary and Labor Troupe of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army, an actor in the Chinese Critics Theater, and a member of the Seventh National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
The new Fengxia in her youth
Before and after the japanese surrender in 1945, I was singing in the theater garden of Qingdao West Town and East Town. There are many artists in Qingdao, and most of the artists come from Tianjin and Beijing. The local Ewha drum female artist Sun Dayu sang very well, with a bit of "cloud covering the moon" voice, singing "Prostitute Sighs", listening to people cry. There is a cross-talk actor who can sing backing tunes, change tricks, and count treasures. Cross-talk actor Wang Fugui nicknamed Wang Fool, is from Tianjin, I am also from Tianjin, the hometown meets very affectionately, I call him Uncle Wang, his wife Fat Niang is very good with my mother.
This place in Qingdao was a water and land wharf, which should have been a place to raise artists, but in that era, first little Japan and then American soldiers, plus dog legs, traitors bullying us, the market buyers and sellers did not go down, the people closed their doors and closed their homes, the theater gardens and restaurants were scattered, and the business was closed.
Unemployed and hungry, the most terrible thing is that the devils and traitors arrest young men to go to the northeast as laborers, arrest young women to go to the barracks to comfort the imperial army, the cries in the streets, and the big trucks are filled with captured young men and women, so that the girls dare not freshen up and dress up. Feared all the time, the taste of being a slave to the country is really miserable!
The theater owner disbanded the drama class, and the actors were all from out of town, their eyes were black, and they were living on the street without relatives.
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We opera artists have an old saying called "art does not separate families". Artists are angry, where are they trapped, and when there are difficulties at home, artists will come forward to help. Set up a table to perform a volunteer play. Make up some money, no more, less, help. Turn to the Opera Guild, etc.
Hua Yuxia and Hua Jinrong, me, and Hua Jinrong were the three flowers in the drama class.
Hua Yuxia is a local native big girl, although she also pulls the family to bring mouth, but she has a mother who can speak of the prostitute, all rely on her to arrange socializing for her daughter. To support the family. Hua Yuxia sang on stage and gave the rich man Little Japan as a plaything offstage, which inevitably attracted right and wrong.
Once, an old customer brought a group of Japanese into the backstage and scolded: "Hua Yuxia, you come out!" Stinky singing, you are blind, dare to fucking deceive Lao Tzu, really fucking responded to that sentence, can make a bitch can not make a play, you give me out! The Japanese held Down Hua Yuxia and kicked her belt and snatched her ring and watch.
After being bullied and beaten, Hua Yuxia still had to socialize, tears and rouge powder, and the tears had to go out to accompany the merchants ashore.
Although Hua Yuxia's mother is also a 40-year-old woman, she still has the charm, with fine skin and white flesh, black hair, a pair of watery eyes, a high nose, and a smile full of white teeth is very cute. However, she has a big temper, although she is a two-way job (supporting role - author's note), the shelf is not small, a bit xenophobic. I sing the lead actor, is a foreigner, younger than her, step by step to let her three points, she is not intentional to bully me, is to be mighty, happy and care about me, her heart is good, is to learn a slippery old drama class.
Hua Jinrong is also an actress who sang erlu work, she came to Shandong from Tangshan to sing in a class, and her mother married a critic who pulled a big string. Jin Rong has a good look, and a good voice, smart and clever, and learned to comment on the drama with her stepfather, but it can be said that she sang a red opera when she came out, and became a liang pillar, and her stepfather married her mother, which is to see this cash cow.
I came from Tianjin with my mother and a few sisters to Qingdao, Yantai and Jinan to sing opera. Although the three actresses have different origins, the people who sing and run the rivers and lakes are home everywhere, and they are relatives everywhere. Singing on the same stage and looking for food in the same pot. The three of us became the "three sisters" of the drama review class.
The best relationship between these three families is the mother who takes her daughter to the rivers and lakes and sings, they have common bitter water, watching the girls sing at the front desk, they are very affectionate in the background, happy to talk about eating and wearing, unhappy to scold the sky, scold the earth, scold the society, scold the girl, scold the bitterness, scold the husband for not being able to bear it. They were used to talking together, comparing together, complaining together, and when they were too bitter, the three of them cried together, and they persuaded each other and cared for each other.
Hua Yuxia's mother is from a brothel in a big city in Shandong, with a large hand, talking about eating and wearing, and doing things happily and enthusiastically.
Hua Jinrong's mother came from a relatively wealthy family in the countryside. A little light white hemp, always gray, comb a round head, tie a white head rope, do not forget to be widowed when "want to wear three points of filial piety", Jin Rong's mother is always the strength of wearing filial piety, she said: "Since the death of Jin Rong's father, there has been no filial piety on the body, although married to a string, you can't forget your ex-husband..."
Hua Jinrong's stepfather is also our drama ban pulling big strings, is a play oil that can pull and sing, can speak the Tao, eat, drink, gamble and smoke, and owe pits and abductions. He said behind Jin Rong's mother's back: "I am not in love with Jin Rong's mother, a mercurial widow, but I have a big girl who looks like a water onion." So he taught Jin Rong to learn drama after passing the door, and he was both a father and a master, so Jin Rong's mother was grateful to her husband. The mother and daughter are obedient, as long as he opens his mouth, it is really a difference.
Jin Rong has no father since childhood, her mother married to the string, she learned to play, this meal is indeed given by the stepfather, you have to take it well. Jin Rongren was honest, very kind and clever, and soon came to power to earn money, and his father was heartbroken. Mother Jin is an ignorant woman from the countryside, everything listens to her husband, and Hua Jinrong is also honestly making money for her stepfather and at his mercy.
My mother has a strong personality, she took her daughter out to support the family, because my father and brothers, I have to send money home on time. My mother knew that I sang and suffered, but I could bear it, but we didn't sell our mouths and not our bodies, and we didn't look hungry when others got rich again.
Bai Yushuang is a famous critic actor, and one of her famous plays "Take the Fly" is well-known in the north and south, and of course it is also popular in Qingdao. It was a yellow drama, which was called "pink drama" at the time. The actor dressed as a fly spirit, wore a pink tights inside, and opened his wings with both hands, revealing his entire body. At that time, Bai Yushuang was white and fat, with the lighting, coupled with her performance, the audience handed over their eyes and made flattering gestures. The audience laughed and called evil good. Bai Yushuang also specially made a very thin silk underwear, which was tightly wrapped around his body, and his entire body was exposed as soon as he opened his wings. Where this play is sung, it is red, but only Bai Yushuang dares to sing. But because of singing this play, she was expelled from Beijing.
I sang at the Tiancheng Theater in Qingdao Xizhen, the owner of the theater is called Bao Shanting, nicknamed Bao Big Belly, he is a business master, this small theater specializes in singing and commenting, many famous critics have sung here, and they all know that he is ruthless. He saw that I was a small actor who was not very conspicuous, and was worried that I would not be able to sing popular, so he asked me to play the so-called famous dramas he ordered (in fact, they were all pornographic yellow dramas). He said: "'Take the Fly' insurance is red as soon as it is posted, "Horse Widow Opens a Shop" is full of halls, if you play "Huang's Female Youyin" with eighteen layers of hell color, "Killing Children" with color, even if you close your eyes and go to the full seat! These plays should be performed. "But my mother and I firmly refused to agree, we have our own bottom line.
Comment on the drama "Queen" - Xin Fengxia
Our family is living a hard life, sticks and sweet potatoes, every day, the sisters are also sensible, even other people's houses do not enter, we are poor and can not make people look down on. As soon as I shouted, they quickly ran back to the house and said, "Sister, I didn't watch people eat, I was waiting for you at the door!" ”
The three of us live in the backstage courtyard, the door is next to the door, the three houses are the same, but the family situation is different. Hua Yuxia doorway is more than good at home. Spend Jin Rong father and daughter to earn money, life is still surplus.
Famous critic performance artist - Xin Fengxia
Only our family's life was difficult, and it was a really sad day! Every dollar spent has to be counted with your fingers crossed. Fortunately, my mother will live a life, and although my sisters do not earn money, they can bear hardships and stand hard work. The mother helped people to do some needlework to earn money, and the sisters carried sweet potatoes, sold miscellaneous and noodles, and went to the beach to sell beer and popsicles to supplement the family.
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The warhouse owner called Bao Shanting to immediately announce that the theater was scattered, and everyone had no choice but to move out of the courtyard with tears in their eyes and find a way out.
Leaving the Tiancheng Theater, in order to take care of each other, the three of us stayed in the same inn again. Hua Yuxia wants to entertain guests, living in a large and ventilated house with a living room in the sunny house, Hua Jinrong's family lives in two larger north houses, just count my family's poor conditions, we and my mother can only live in a small south house on the corner, fortunately, they are all upstairs.
Chinese-style old buildings are all houses, the stairs are very steep, the railing handrails are also very thin, the upstairs does not let the fire, cooking has to go downstairs, life is very inconvenient, this small inn is more chaotic than the Tianjin courtyard, the people who live are the lower nine streams, prostitutes, singers, fortune tellers, jianghu artists, there are also foreign traders. There are dozens of households on three floors, and there are all kinds of things and people.
The saddest thing is that poor artists, there is really no way to live, women have to open their faces, the wife brings a man back, the husband has to hide out, no longer admit to being a husband, to say that it is a brother. Men carry baskets to sell rags, stall fortune tellers, pull rickshaws, sell coolies on the docks, most of these are outsiders, and they have any accents.
Some actresses say that their husbands are with the bag in order to earn money, and the husband has to pour tea and water for the guests. The people who live in the building, no one can look down on anyone, they are all for their lives.
Kao Kasumi is the richest upstairs, there is always a rushing mahjong sound in her house, the people who come and go in are all robes, horses, suits, and leather shoes, the old, the young, the wen, the martial, and from time to time there are rough laughter and scolding, the strange cries of the Japanese, and the delicate and squeamish women's voices. In the restaurant, the master who delivers the box of food, the guy carrying the fruit in and out, Hua Yuxia changes clothes three times a day, wears silk wrapped satin high heels, the fragrance is fragrant, out and in and out, Zhang Luo, the spirit is not good.
Hua Jinrong's mother is a fast-talking person, she saw Hua Yuxia's life is very hot, came to my mother and said: "All of them are artisans, some eat fragrant and drink spicy, some open their eyes and look at the sky, the pots and bowls can't open the pot!" This year, the child can't get help, and the girl may get help! Look at people's flowers Yuxia, we are also raising girls, isn't it a look, two laughs, three stay, call the children also merry, we also stain the light, who looks down on them to see, foreign money in the pockets of hard gas, we are all selling art, not the high door and noble building of the lady, no one to our children to set up a chastity archway ah! Don't be so dead-eyed..."
My mother was annoyed to hear such a big set of words from her: "Don't you see the money like this!" Money, money, money dropped in the eyes? We are not red-eyed, my daughter sang and earned money on stage, every day pretending to be a man and a woman to make people happy is already pitiful enough, but also to force the child..."The mother finished speaking, twisting her body to do work, ignoring Jin Rong and her mother.
Jin Rong is a soft heart for people, there is no accurate idea, the stepfather threatens to seduce, plus she can not stand the temptation of money, through yuxia's introduction, also went into the water, life followed by changes, wearing gold dangling jewelry on her hands, her mother also put on a watch, because she can't look, often stretched out her hand to ask people: "See what time is it for me."
Her stepfather held up the snuff bottle, holding a cigarette roll in his mouth, looking very angry, deliberately standing in the middle of the yard and saying: "Fucking handsome, ugly is not ugly, wearing silk, eating is oil, pocket money do not worry!" ”
I had a hard life with my mother gritting our teeth, and my mother wouldn't let us out of the house. In order to save some rent, we moved from upstairs to a small east house downstairs, where the original pile of rags was stacked, next to the coal house. My sister's little face is always black, the back of her hand is white, the cinder often flies, and the teeth creak and creak.
Once my sister swept the cinders on the road into our dustpan and left a raw stove. When my mother heard about this, she slapped her sister and said, "We can pick up coal cores in the waste slag, we can't sweep the cinders on the road, people will say that we stole it." ”
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There are also many trapped performers in the inn. One day, the artist Yang Xiaoting suddenly came to my mother and said, "We artists just want people to help people, and with people, we can find a way to eat." There was also Sun Cuiyu, who sang the Tune of Shandong Pear Blossom, Zhang Wenhan, a martial artist who turned over the head of Peking Opera, Zhao Yueting, who pulled a big string, Li Wenyuan who sang a three-flowered face, Zhang Mingsheng, a xiaosheng, and Wang Youde, who changed tricks. The big ship on the sea came, and we would open the gong and open our mouths to reach out to the money. ”
Of course my mother said yes. But Yuxia's mother and Jin Rong's mother heard about it and came to persuade her: "Sister-in-law Yang, this is not okay!" If you go to the ground, even if the ground is oily, the level will be low, but you will not be able to enter the theater, and you will not be able to climb the rich and rich people...
I was very angry when I heard these words, and my mother said, "No, we are selling art to make money, no matter how inferior the oil is." ”
The old society's ground-breaking entertainers are performing
Yang Xiaoting's eldest brother was very enthusiastic, and after he ran forward and ran, he united everyone. We opened a big scene on the beach, sang the scene, and the ground was also very popular, really a mouth, a gong, reached out and opened the mouth to earn money, and finally barely able to deal with three nests, I don't think this is a shame. Hua Yuxia came to watch in a rickshaw, we each had our own numbers, each took our own way.
Yuxia introduced a rich man on a large steamship to Jin Rong, and it was the habit of the people ashore on the big steamship to temporarily start a family on the big steamship.
Jin Rong did move into a good house, and she found a tall, black, thick, bearded middle-aged man. "Watch big leather shoes, is a big uncle" This is Hua Yuxia's mother said, Hua Jinrong suddenly lived a wide life, sat on a rickshaw with a bell, her stepfather big wine pot did not leave her hand, peanuts filled her pocket, want to eat and drink and reach out.
The three families were poor in our family, and later the land could not be stopped, and the hooligans wanted land money. Yang Xiaoting also left, the tree fell and scattered, Yang Xiaoting walked away, everyone scattered, each looking for a way to live.
Hua Yuxia is busy every day and is the limelight of this small inn. Hua Jinrong is also very prosperous, but there is also a bitter water, her stepfather is to force her to earn money, take money everywhere to prostitute prostitutes, Jin Rong scolded her mother blind, said that her home is a bottomless hole, fill the pit of dissatisfaction, the temporary husband is a hundred and one hundred shun, but the dew husband and wife have a little love, the temporary ladies play for a while, the boat opens, who recognizes who is gone, Hua Jinrong secretly said a few confidant words to me with tears.
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Hua Yuxia's mother and Hua Jinrong's mother came to my mother, Hua Yuxia's mother said mysteriously: "It is difficult for your mother and daughter to eat the mountain sky away from home, you big girl, can be said to be a first-class woman, but the drama class does not open the gong, the old is not a thing, we will introduce your big girl to a rich uncle on the ship." How about giving a meet and greet gift?
The mother listened to the persuasion of the two of them, thinking that it was also for our own good, she did not speak, waved her hand at the two of them, and took a basin out of the door to the water pipe of the hospital to fetch water, and she had something in her heart and slipped and fell. I don't want to fracture my calf this time, this is really worse!
The new Fengxia of adolescence
The sisters were small and unaccompanied, Yuxia's mother kindly came to my mother again, this time she said to me directly: "The fire is burning eyebrows, I have to think of saving your mother, the rich uncle on the ship is also your Tianjin native, I will lead you to go, see you and ask for help, I can give it to you." ”
My mother needed money to heal her legs, and she also had to send money to my father in Tianjin, and my sister was still young, so she only relied on me, and at this time I just thought in my heart, trapped outside to ask the villagers for help, and if he wanted to withdraw from the wilderness, I would shout, if a kind person I would repay him in the future. Thinking of this, I went to the living room of their house with Yuxia's mother. When I entered the room, I saw a tall, thin man in his fifties and sixties, dressed in a robe, like a silk robe hanging from a bamboo pole, slipping down from his shoulders, unable to lift his clothes, holding a folding fan in his hand, and his purple-black face was full of folds.
When the man saw that I was not sitting, he said, "I am also from Tianjin, and I am the home of Dazhijie." The workers on the ship went ashore to spend money, to pack the houses, to rent houses, to live in hotels, to eat, drink, and have fun..."
I couldn't listen anymore, and I boldly said, "Don't say it, you can't think of me as the kind of person you look at, two sitting, three left behind..... The man rushed to say, "No, no, no, I'm not talking about this, my family has wives and children, old and young, I know you are a Tianjin native, a villager in the township!" Looking at the way he spoke, he was indeed a kind person, and I couldn't help but get down on my knees with my legs and cry, saying, "I see you like Daddy, you are a kind person, I asked you for help..."
After listening to my crying, the Tianjin fellow surnamed Lu moved his heart of compassion and gave me a handful of money to solve our family's urgent needs.
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After the surrender of Japan, Bao Da belly changed the courtyard into a bar and a dance hall, and Hua Yuxia became a dancer and became a jeep girl, and she was very adaptable to such a life.
Hua Jinrong also met a businessman and was soon taken back to Tangshan by his parents. My mother and I sold costumes back to Tianjin, and did not return to the stage of judging drama until after liberation.
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