Commentator Liang Yan
When we talk about the Beijing Commentary, we cannot but talk about the great storyteller Lian Kuoru. Due to the limitations of historical conditions, Mr. Lao Lian did not leave video materials for future generations, and now all that can be heard is the recording of the three short commentaries of "Three Please Yao Period", "Yuanmen Shooting", and "Lu Da Eliminating Hegemony", so the middle-aged and young audiences nowadays know very little about the "Lianpai" commentaries, and even the three words of Lian Kuoru will feel strange. Let alone others, although Xiao Ke is over the age of ancient, he is only the "Three Kingdoms" that he heard outside the window of the Qingpingxuan Tea House in Xinjiekou in middle school. However, Mr. Lao Lian's position in the music industry and the influence of "Lian Pai" commentaries in the industry are recognized by everyone.
The dramatist Weng Yihong (author of the Peking opera "Suolin Capsule") said this:
Beijing's commentaries can be broadly divided into three factions. One faction won over the audience with "through the mouth", showing a cheerful and imposing style... Even the "Eastern Han Dynasty", "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", etc., as Kuo ru said, belong to this faction... One faction delights the audience with its "square mouth", which is expressed in a neat and clean, clear and clear style... Another school is to attract listeners with "living mouth", which is expressed as a cold and humorous style, cool and hot.
Wusheng Taidou Wang Jinlu said:
I admire Mr. Lian very much, the mouth is clear, there is no mess of words, the armor Zaliso, the spirit of the knife and gun frame, the character interaction, the attitude description is delicate and vivid, I can't see people, if I see his people, that stretch out hand is the tile palm, a look is learned, practiced. I love to listen to Mr. Lian's "The Evolution of the Eastern Han Dynasty", inspired by the passage he said about "Noisy Kunyang", when playing Ma Yuan in the Peking Opera "Noisy Kunyang", I found the feeling that the characters are upright and proficient in eighteen kinds of soldiers.
Listening to the evaluation of Mr. Lao Lian by Weng Yihong and Wang Jinlu, even if you have not heard of Lian Kuoru's commentary, you will feel that Yi is a master of book review with extraordinary skills.
Calling Lian Kuoru "Mr. Lao Lian" is because Lian Liru, the daughter of Yi, is now known as "Mr. Xiao Lian". Calling a lady "sir" is intended to show that she is highly respected and respected, and not all women can be called "sir".
Although Mr. Lian Li, a "woman inheriting her father's business", does not dare to say that she has surpassed her father, in some places, such as the "through the mouth" in the book, there is indeed a blue magic, which makes the artistic characteristics of the "Lian Pai" commentary have been highlighted and developed.
Mr. XiaoLian (in fact, Lian Liru is already 78 years old) not only inherited and developed the "Lianpai" commentaries, but also made the "Lianpai" commentaries have disciples to pass on - on June 2, 2007, Lian Liru first opened the mountain gate and took in wu di, Jia Lin, Zhu Zhaoliang, Liang Yan, and wang yuebo and Li Jing, two righteous sons.
Liang Yan is the editor of zhonghua bookstore, from childhood love to comment on books, after worshiping under Lian Liru's door, on-site observation, offstage dialing, self-personal work, art industry gradually. Liang Yan can become the editor of the Zhonghua Bookstore, and his knowledge is rich, needless to say, sometimes Lian Liru encounters strange character allusions and will go to Liang Yan to discuss, which is teaching and learning. Liang Yan also assisted Jia Jianguo and Lian Liru to sort out and publish many commentaries such as "The Romance of the Eastern Han Dynasty", "Thirty-Six Heroes", "Commentaries on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and "Jingzhong Shuyue (Five Kinds of Foreign)", and in the process of editing, he had a deeper understanding of storytelling skills. In addition, since 2008, Liang Yan has been lecturing at Xuannan Bookstore every Saturday, and for more than ten years, he has said that he has performed many long books such as "The Romance of the Western Han Dynasty", "Fengshen List", "Ming Yinglie", "Jingzhong Shuyue" and so on, and the level of storytelling has been significantly improved, and now he is a member of the Book Appraisal Art Committee of the China Qu Artists Association, and has published monographs such as "Beijing Commentary".
Liang Yan is not only an editor and commentator, but also a collector of music art. A few days ago, he showed me a program list of the Beijing People's Radio during the Spring Festival in 1955, which said that every day "13:30-14:00 Commentary Lian Kuoru said "Yue Fei's Biography.". Sixty-five years later, in 2020, also starting from the Spring Festival, every day from 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Mr. Lao Lian's disciple Sun Liangyan broadcast "Jingzhong Say Yue" (Xuannan Bookstore live edition) on the Beijing People's Radio Literature and Art Station. There is Providence in the underworld, and this is the best inheritance.
Liang Yan's "Jingzhong Shu Yue" shows that there are many differences between the "Lianpai" "Yue Fei Biography" and Qian Cai's "Saying Yue Quan Biography" and other commentaries. Successive editions of "Jingzhong Say Yue", written by Yue Xianshi Day after the double will, until Zhu Xianzhen broke his arm to tell the book, among which the lively programs include Niu Gao Zhi taking Woniu Mountain, Yue Fei's Yellow River Estuary Training, Bapanshan's first defeat of Jin Bing, Qixialing's re-defeat of Jin Bing, Qinglong Mountain's three defeats of Jin Bing, The False Will of the Xianshi, the Eight Generals' Troubled Fengtai, Niu Gao's Imperial Certificate, Empress Meng's Stick Beating Zhang Bangchang, Shuang huai ling's harvest of Yang Zaixing, the burning of the Vine Armor Army, Niu Gao's jumping oil pot, the stabbing of the Eight Sages King, Zhang Bangchang's resurrection, the soldiers trapping Niutou Mountain, the sledge-picking brave general who died, marshal Yue's yuanmen beheading, Great Battle Golden Cicada, Drum Battle Golden Mountain, Tianliangguan Double Chopper, etc. Take "Mother-in-law's Thorn Character", which is a well-known story, let's see the difference between "Lianben" and "Lianben" -
The old lady put Mo Yan in front of her, held a flower needle, and said to Yue Fei: "Son, it is very good that the old woman sees that you are not greedy against Wang Yang Yuan's jewelry, that you are not employed by traitors, and that you are not greedy for wealth and wealth and are willing to be poor!" But I am afraid that if you enter the DPRK as an official this time and benefit the lu villains to seduce you, if you are not strong in your heart, lose your will for a while, and do something unfaithful in the middle of the way, how can you treat the ancestors in the Yue clan? I now tattoo the words 'Jing Loyal to the Country' on both of your arms, so that you will always have the ambition to be loyal to the king and serve the country. ”
At this time, the actor jumped out of the plot and commented: "When the mother-in-law stabs the word, she stabs the word on Yue Fei's back; the teaching of our book critics is to stab the word on the arm." Why is the thorn on the arm? Yue Xian's mother's tattoo was to tell Yue Fei to read that word and never change it, and to tell him to be loyal to the king and serve the country. If the thorn is in the back, how does he look? Our statement is different from the popular book. ”
In addition, "Wang Zuo's Broken Arm Storytelling" is also an important review in "Jingzhong Shuyue". The original description of the original text of "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" is only 4,000 or 5,000 words, but Liang Yan has spoken and performed six times in xuannan bookstore, with a word count of more than 50,000 words, which has been recognized and praised by the audience. His success lies in "telling good stories, quoting scriptures, and resonating."
First, "tell a good story." Wang Zuo defected to the Jin camp, and Wu Shu saw that he was pitiful and named him a "bitter man"; the military master Ha Mixuan was suspicious and thought that Wang Zuo was suspected of practicing bitter meat tricks. In this way, Wang Zuo, Wu Zhu, and Ha Mixuan constitute the "three meetings" of contradictions and conflicts in the commentary. So how does Wang Zuo maneuver between Vulture and Ha Mi? The audience's appetite was thus hung up. In order to confuse Ha Mixuan, Wang Zuo told a book in Jinying, and the audience was full. First, Ha Mixuan secretly listened to the book and did not hear anything wrong; then His Royal Highness listened to the book, Wang Zuozheng said that the "List of Sealed Gods" confused the Lord, His Highness the Second Highness angrily stopped, Wang Zuo pretended not to know, and took the opportunity to open a late show to say; finally, Wu Zhu listened to the book, Wang Zuozheng said "Sui and Tang", improvised, temporary expenditure, so that Wu Zhuo could not hear the flaws, naturally relaxed his vigilance. After "three times" of necessary preparation, it is necessary to "shake four", at this time the audience is already very much looking forward to how Wang Zuo will tell His Royal Highness the Second Highness.
Second, "cite the scriptures." When Wang Zuo told His Royal Highness the Second Highness, he no longer spoke long pieces, but changed to single paragraphs, which is the so-called "pulling code" of the commentary. The original text of the "Complete Biography of Yue Yue" only deals with the two stories of "Yue Bird Returning to the South" and "Hua Luo to the North", and Liang Yan, under the guidance of his brother Wang Yuebo, expanded to five stories of "one big and four small". The four short stories "Li Ling's Return", "Su Wu Shepherd", "Yue Bird Return to the South", and "Hua Lu To the North" not only describe the plot, but also criticize the commentary, the key is to use animals and animals to refer to people, all of which refer to. After four small stories, the focus is naturally on the big story - search for orphans and rescue orphans, including plots such as "Fighting Dogs in the Dynasty" and "Searching for Orphans and Saving Orphans", during which "Three Locusts and Nine Thorns" and "Text Couplets" are drawn out of books such as "Three Locusts and Nine Thorns" and "Text Couplets". The reason why I say "search for orphans and save orphans" is because the details of Wang Zuo's broken arm narration are strikingly similar to them: after Zhao Wu was an enemy, Tu Anjia was adopted as a righteous son and raised as an adult; after Lu Wenlong was also an enemy, Wu Zhu was accepted as a righteous son, as if he were his own. Cheng Baby hung up a picture to present a picture, recounting the past; Wang Zuo hung a picture to present a picture, and the Dao broke the organ...
Finally, "resonate". First, Wang Zuo and the grandmother Zhang Clan secretly answered Ji Feng, from the place of origin of the milk lady to inquire about the death of Lu Deng, and then to inquire about the age of Lu Deng's son, step by step to the truth; then the milk lady's face changed greatly, and she forced Wang Zuo with a sword, and at the same time that Wang Zuo explained the bitter meat plan, the milk lady let out a loud cry of sorrow and broke the truth; finally, the mystery of the identity of the second highness was completely revealed, and he was Lu Wenlong, the son of Lu Deng. After such a bit of stripping away the cocoon, the audience resonated with the characters in the book, and it was a matter of course.
The book says that one is meticulous and the other is true. In ancient and modern China and abroad, there is no one who deceives and surrenders who is not suspected. In the Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain", the mountain sculpture is Hu Biao disguised as Yang Zirong; in the movie "Hero Tiger Guts", the female bandit leader Li Yuegui is not suspicious of the fake deputy commander played by Yang? In contrast, in the original book of "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue", Wang Zuo said that he surrendered Lu Wenlong and plotted against Cao Ning, which seemed too simple, while Liang Yan made the Jin State Army's master Ha Mixuan suspect that Wang Zuo had surrendered fraudulently, which not only increased the contradictions and conflicts of the plot, but also made the text more reasonable.
We often say "familiar with the drama", which means that the books that people are familiar with are relatively difficult to say - because some viewers have seen the original works, some audiences have watched Peking Opera, TV series, people have sound, light, electricity, clothing, chemical, Tao, and all kinds of "montages", and you only have one mouth for books, if you are not fresh, how can the audience be impressed? Therefore, in addition to having solid basic skills, commentators must also comment on the criticism, cite scriptures, and show the kung fu outside the book.
Although I sometimes go out and sometimes have trouble, I have not listened to all of Liang Yan's "Jingzhong Shuyue" that has been broadcast on the Literary and Art Station of beijing People's Radio, but I have already felt the "bookish atmosphere" of the "Lianpai" commentary and the characteristics of the "commentary" of the commentary. Mr. Lao Lian's mantra is "to evaluate books to be evaluated", and he believes that the difficulty of evaluating books and books lies in a "comment" word, and it is expensive in a "comment" word, books are not easy to say, and "comment" words are gold. Because of Liang Yan's sensitivity and diligence, coupled with Mr. Xiaolian, a good teacher who is close to harsh and tireless, the "Lianpai" commentary will definitely pass on the torch, and Liang Yan let us see hope.
Source Beijing Evening News
Author Cui Qi
Process Editor: Wang Mengying