Peking Opera veteran masters interpret Tan Fuying's stage spring and autumn

This article tells the life of Tan Fuying, one of the new four major students, and his anecdotes.

Tan Xinpei, the king of the Lingjie World, had eight sons and four daughters, of which five were guests, the stage name Xiao Pei, and were also famous veteran actors. Tan Fuying is the son of Xiao Pei, born in Beijing in 1906, belongs to the horse, and his nickname has been upgraded. He learned his roots from a young age, and he could hum a few words at the age of five or six, and Tan Xinpei especially loved this child and thought that it was a piece of material for eating drama. From his hospital bed, he entrusted Ye Chunshan, president of Fulian Cheng's class, to cultivate his little grandson. Ye Chunshan also gladly obeyed his orders, and compiled Xiao Shengge into the three disciplines of Fu Liancheng to learn from Cai Ronggui, Xiao Changhua, Lei Xifu, Wang Xixiu and other artists. When he entered the department, he was 12 years old and named Fuying by Xiao Changhua, because of his extreme talent, he actually learned a Play "Golden Stage" in only two months, which coincided with a church meeting at the Zhejiang CiHui Hall, which was contracted by Fu Liancheng to perform. Ye Chunshan, in order to make Tan Xinpei in his illness get a little comfort, told Tan Xinpei of this good news, and did not really think that Tan Xinpei died on the second day after Tan Fuying first appeared on the stage. Xiao Changhua made Tan Fuying not forget to teach him a Huang Tianba in "Evil Tiger Village" in order to remember his grandfather who was also a generation of masters who had both culture and martial arts. After a short performance, he studied the old student drama and stopped learning martial arts. However, Tan Fu has both English and martial arts, so after a period of time, he is still mainly a student of martial arts. From the age of 13 to 15, he learned plays such as "Zhan Taiping", "Dingjun Mountain", "Yangping Guan", "Zhu Curtain Village" and other literary dramas. After he became famous, his ability to dominate the drama world by tricks was also caused by his infancy. After six years of hard study, he completed his training period at the age of 18, and his debut was the golden stage. According to the rules of fulian city class, students have to sing for another month or two months after leaving the department before giving the play, that is, the performance remuneration. But Tan Fuying gave the drama on the day he left the department, which was afraid that he would quit his class and leave, but he did not expect that his father Tan Xiaopei would take him home the next day. This is the two second days he passed before he set up his career, the day his grandfather Tan Xinpei died on the second day of his debut, and the second day that his father brought him home on the second day of his departure. After leaving the department, he went through a period of wandering. First of all, Tan Xiaopei hung his voice at home for the violinist for half a year, and then bought a line (that is, clothing), and officially performed in shifts at the age of 19, successively singing two-card old students for Xu Biyun and Xun Huisheng, Yang Xiaolou, and Zhu Xinqin, who were equally famous as the four famous Dans, and traveled all over Shanghai and other major cities, performing "Hong Yang Cave", "Selling Horses", "Scolding Cao", "Playing dragon and phoenix", "Catching and releasing Cao", "Empty City Plan", "Oolong Courtyard", "Silang Visiting Mother" and other more than 20 years of drama. On the one hand, he relied on the yinde of his ancestors and dipped tan Xinpei's grandson's light, on the other hand, he was also a true grandfather. The class masters also attach great importance to him, and after 11 years of hard work, he chose to perform on his own when he was 29 years old. Here is a quote from himself: Tell you, who doesn't want to pick their own class and hang up the top card of the old students who do our business? But the first thing to get the acting on the stage can stand, not how good it is, but don't smash the pot; second, to have a good popularity offstage, cultivate a group of basic audiences, no matter the wind and rain, you sing he will come to listen, if you pick the class, the seat is not good, the loss of money or small things, how much shame, and then give people a knife is too late. You look at me, it is estimated that there are at least five or six hundred permanent seats in the first place, I dare to pick a class, nothing else, you give more advice, more praise! It can be seen from this that in the ups and downs of the old society, he was not only artistically mature, but also had accidents practiced. His class name was originally called Fuchun She, and later changed to his grandfather Tan Xinpei's social name Tongqing She, which has the meaning of Sun Chengzuye and Yang wei Tanmen, this club name has been used for ten years, during this period to the Tongqing Society to take the class of many famous actors, there are his disciples, sisters, such as Ru Fulan, Yang Shengchun, Sun Shengwu, Qiu Shengrong, Liang Xiaoluan, Weng Miaoxiang, the elder ci Ruiquan, as well as Wang Youqing, Zhang Junqiu and so on.

In 1938, when he was 33 years old, a new star rose in the air, that is, Li Shaochun, who went north to pick a class after becoming famous in Shanghai after learning both art and martial arts. Li Shaochun dressed up beautifully, his voice was wide, his singing voice was mellow, and his body was beautiful. In Beijing, the first cannon play "War Horse Chao", followed by "Drumming and Scolding Cao", martial arts learned Yang Xiaolou, literary opera learned Yu Shuyan. This time, I was also going to worship under Yu Shuyan's gate. A cannon hit the red sensation of The city of Beijing, Tan Fuying deeply felt that the threat was not small, in order to strengthen the momentum to resist, through the suggestion of friends to the opening drama "The Great Baoguo", "Exploring the Imperial Tomb", "Erjin Palace" the old drama rearranged and continuous performance named "Dragon And Phoenix Pavilion", a week after Li Shaochun fired the cannon, the response was strong, the best cooperation was Jin Shaoshan, Tan Fuying, Zhang Junqiu, this is the history of the big, detective, and two that has been passed down to this day. Twelve days after Li Shaochun played the cannon scene, he officially worshiped Yu Shuyan as his teacher. Yu Wei Li said "Battle Taiping", which was very successful after the performance. "Zhan Taiping" was originally a play that Tan Fuying learned to act when he sat in science 20 years ago, because singing, doing, and heavy work were too tired to perform for many years, in order to compete, he also rearranged and launched in the following year. Naturally, it is also full of halls, but the audience reflects that in addition to the wide and bright voice, the delicacy is not as good as Li Shaochun, and it is believed that Li is carefully processed and taught by the Yu sect. And Tan is the big road goods when sitting in the department, this is his momentary mistake, Tan Fuying dressed well, born through the bridge of the nose, big eyes, especially playing the emperor has a more graceful and luxurious temperament, his biggest capital is a good voice, both wide and bright, the back of the brain sound is excellent, the strange unjust report a large section of anti-two yellow sleeves can be described as the Yangtze River, a thousand miles, let people listen to the pain after listening to the heart, simple and sonorous, unique old Tan (Tan Xinpei) and Yu Pai style. However, in the end, the famous master was not carefully crafted, slightly too big a road, after listening to the aftertaste of more than enough, the charm is shallow, compared to Yu Shuyan, Yang Baosen is slightly inferior.

Tan Fuying's martial arts works are solid, and his waist and legs are deep, and after years of tempering, he is known for his long life. His masterpiece "Dingjun Mountain" is also beyond Yu's reach, and his big knife and flower slip and the handsome man who runs the round field can be said to be incomparable. For example, a section of "My Lord's Attack on Yeyin Pass" is an allegro, singing while walking in the garden, and the spirit is full of energy, which is really a superior masterpiece. In "Visiting Mother", a "Suitable Talent Leaving the Palace Courtyard" allegro, fast, clean, neat, his reading white, body style is also excellent, just rely on stealing work. Such as a famous gathering, he played the dialogue between Tian Dan and Yi Li in "Golden Stage": Aaaah, how to say this? While reading and doing, hand to intention, delicate transmission, won the audience such as thunderous applause, this performance surpassed Ma Lianliang, another Pear Garden Guild great righteous performance backscoring out of the "Eight Wax Temple" in the opening to dance Zhu Guangzu, when read is the five seven Dazi flying leopard? Next sentence and read the old hero please speak, please enter. Just a dozen words were pronounced fluently and crisply and won bursts of applause, and insiders and insiders said that his skills were extremely deep. So why did he go up to the middle and not go up? Let's move on.

Tan Fuying's father Tan Xiaopei and his people have a strong desire to control, Tan Xinpei did not die out of etiquette, everything listened to Tan Xinpei's arrangement, after Tan Xinpei's death, Tan Fuying sat in the section, everything was obeyed by the class, after leaving the department Tan Xiaopei was able to exert his father's authority, and he took him home the day after he left the department. After this, Tan Fuying was like a puppet in prison, acting like a puppet, from the performance route, drama, affairs, finances to private life, food, clothing, making friends, etiquette and entertainment, etc. all under his control. At that time, under the leadership of Mei Lanfang, new plays were already popular, and Tan Xiaopei decided that Tan Fuying would only act in old plays and not make up new plays in order to control Tan Fuying's contact with outsiders, and naturally to act in old plays was to play the repertoire of his grandfather Tan Xinpei, and Tan Xiaopei bluffed Fuying: Your grandfather sang this way. Tan Fuying had no evidence and could only blindly follow. And the real Tan Sect descendant Yu Shuyan wanted to return the favor of Tan Men to pass on the essence of Master Tan Xinpei to Tan Fuying, and Tan Xiaopei was jealous, afraid that this would reduce its authority, and later reluctantly agreed to Xueyu under the persuasion of friends, and because Yu was too serious and serious, Tan Fuying's progress was slow, at this time Tan Xiaopei knocked on the side and said: Putting on the wrong horn, going to school like a primary school student every day, is this not a sin? A few days of teaching in a small place have not yet been decided, and besides, according to this teaching, is this not torture? Forget it, or our grandfather and grandfather to study and study, saying that everything is our surname Tan, his surname is Yu, and how the surname Tan sings are All Tan Sect, and the result is that they stopped studying.

Tan Fuying's best play is "Dingjun Mountain", the most profitable play is "Silang Visiting Mother", Tan Xiaopei is on "Silang Visiting Mother" to make a big money, and the theater owner is circling, but all the income obtained falls into the hands of Tan Xiaopei's old boss, and has nothing to do with the small boss Tan Fuying. Because he was forced by his father to develop a rebellious mentality, coupled with weak physical fitness, he had to rest for a few days every ten and a half days of performance in other places. Tan Xiaopei also had no choice but to publish a notice: Tan artist Fu Ying, because of the spirit of adjustment, how many days of rest from a certain day, changed to a certain number of days on the stage, and was rumored to be a joke in pear garden.

Pear gardeners have the virtue of humility, do not sing the same drama code, do not play against the stage, Tan Xiaopei is a pear garden family, understand this reason, but he is self-respecting, come to find the old student to sing on the stage, just to name two examples: in 1935 Wang Youchen (Tan Xinpei's son-in-law) Tan Fuying aunt should be about a short-term performance at the Tianjin Beitan Theater, Tan Xiaopei is known to have a trip, but he should also go to Tianjin to perform with the covenant of Tianjin Chunhe Grand Theater, and the result is that Tan Fuying is rich and powerful in his 30s, wang Youchen is already in his fifties, adding supporting roles and the contrast between the advantages and disadvantages of the theater, so that Wang Youchen was defeated After losing face, after returning to Beijing, the old tears said: Tan Wu is too bullying, our relatives are not in contact, and after that, he fell seriously ill and died at the age of 56. Although the Tan father and son were filial to each other, they were coldly spoken by outsiders. Another time Tan Xiaopei disobeyed Yu Shuyan, and his disciples were even more dissatisfied, 40 years yu Shuyan disciple Meng Xiaodong posted the Yu Pai famous drama "Hong Yang Cave", Tan Xiaopei went against it, let Tan Fuying sing the double out of the literary drama "Mulberry Garden Sending Son", the martial drama "Picking The Ribbon", is also a good play of Yu Pai, the result is that Meng Xiaodong's side is full, and Tan Fuying only sells 70% of the seats and can't buy Meng Xiaodong tickets to come here. In fact, Meng Xiaodong's true biography of Yu Yu is above Ma Lianliang and Tan Fuying. Tan Fuying was mentally depressed after picking the class, and even did not often go in and out of the park, and it was like Elder Liu walking into the Grand View Garden by chance, which was indeed pitiful. Occasionally, when I had the opportunity to go to the street with my father, I was found by my father and said that they flattered you like this, they were eating us, and how much money we had for them to enjoy, and interrupted. Later, everyone made up a joke and said: One day, Tan Xiaopei pointed to Tan Fuying and said: Your father is not as good as my father. Then he turned to Tan Xinpei and said, "Your son is not as good as my son." It is used to ridicule Tan Xiaopei for inheriting his father's Yinde and enjoying his son Qingfu. But although Tan Fuying was very filial and was forced to resist urgently, once because the pocket money was not enough, he took out a few pieces of leather robes and other good clothes for the messenger to take to the mouth, the old mother took it to Tan Wu's grandmother to see, the fifth grandmother had to take out private money to give to Fuying, on the one hand, at night, he told Tan Xiaopei that he would give more change from next month. This situation was not abandoned until Tan Xiaopei died.

Tan Fuying himself respects the elderly and respects the sages, enthusiastically helps others, and respects himself in front of his predecessors, and regards himself as a junior. For his peers is also helpful to others, Ma Lianliang has acted in Manchukuo, after the victory, he has been imprisoned for a lawsuit, after his release from prison, Liyuan tongye sang a cooperative play "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" for him, ma played Qiao Xuan, Tan played the supporting role of Liu Bei to the end, which is also the embodiment of virtue. Tan Fuying made friends, he called Xiao Fan Ga up because of "Shilang Visiting Mother", and the audience withdrew, but also with the help of friends to tide over the difficulties.

After liberation, he and Ma Lianliang, Qiu Shengrong, and Zhang Junqiu were in the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe, and they were able to coexist for a long time, interact with each other, take turns to sit on red flowers and green leaves, rehearse a number of excellent repertoire, and spread them as good stories, all of which showed his virtues and sentiments, and Tan Fuying was very patriotic for the party and the country in the second half of his life, but he unconditionally took the initiative to apply for participation in the state organization of condolence charity performances (such as the Korean War), and it was precisely because of his good performance that he successfully joined the Communist Party of China in 1959. Tan died of illness in 1977, and his sons Tan Yuanshou, Sun Tan Xiaozeng, and great-grandson Tan Zhengyan were also veteran actors who inherited the art of the Tan school.

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