Xiangsheng Kao 54: Changjia Story's "Master of Wenxiao" Su Wenmao fifty-four
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Su Wenmao, born in 1929 in Louzizhuang, Outside the Guangqu Gate of Beijing, is a Manchu blue flag bearer. The only cross-talk master in the cross-talk industry who has been named "Master of WenBei".
Su Wenmao was once a high official and could enjoy a hereditary official position. But in my father's generation, the family fell in the middle of the road and eventually became poor. Especially after the death of his father, the family's situation was even worse, although it was not sloppy, but it was also hungry and full. In this case, 12-year-old Su Wenmao had to come to Tianjin alone and apprentice at a drug store called "Jiuchuntang". In the 1940s, the apprentices had a hard time, and even after Su Wenmao's apprenticeship was completed, his monthly income could only buy a bag of noodles.
In addition to apprenticeships, Su Wenmao likes to listen to the cross-talk of Chang Baokun and Zhao Peiru, who are one of the five cross-talks in Tianjin. After a long time, Su Wenmao had the idea of worshipping a cross-talk master as a master and taking the road of cross-talk. In Su Wenmao's view, if you can say that crosstalk makes money, it will definitely be more than making money in the drug store. Of course, if you can worship Chang Baokun as a teacher, it is the best way out, after all, the little mushroom is red and purple at this time, on the radio, filling records, and is well-known.
Since there are ideas, they must be seen in action. As a result, Su Wenmao often used his leisure time to come to the Qingyun Theater, where Chang Baokun's brother troupe was performing. He came to help, set up the stage with the actors, moved props, and during the performance, he learned to figure out how these cross-talk actors performed.
In 1944, the 15-year-old Su Wenmao officially worshiped Chang Baokun as a teacher in the "Taihua Building" in Tianjin Nanshi, and Xiao Mushroom gave him the stage name Su Boguang. Chang Baokun is the head of the Baozi generation, and Su Wenmao is even the head of the character generation. The head of the Shouzi generation is Zhang Shouchen. Of course, some people say that Li Jiechen's apprentice Zhao Xinmin is the head of the ming generation, and Zhao Xinmin's son Zhao Weizhou is the head of the ming generation. The "treasure" of the Baozi generation began with Chang Baokun, so I believed more in the status of Chang Baokun in the Baozi generation. Since Su Wenmao, this generation has used the word "Wen" more often. The German generation began with Li Dezhuo. Some people also say that Su Wenmao is the master brother of the writing generation. Regardless of what he said, Su Wenmao was highly respected in the cross-talk industry.
In 1945, Su Wenmao returned to Beijing with The Little Mushroom and performed while apprenticed at the Qiming Tea House. The Qiming Tea House gathered a large number of cross-talk celebrities, so at this time, su Wenmao's praise was also everyone, like Yu Junbo, Huang Helai and so on at this time to measure him.
In this year, Su Wenmao also returned to Tianjin with his master once, performing the cross-talk segment "Playing Bai Lang", and it was his master Chang Baokun who gave him a praise. There is a super bull fork master is good, this battle, achieved success, since then "Su Wenmao" has had an influence in the cross-talk industry.
Su Wenmao is talented and sharp-tongued, coupled with hard-working, diligent and studious, following famous teachers and famous characters, so he grew up quickly and his performances matured quickly. By 1948, after only three years of kung fu, he had learned and mastered dozens of cross-talk and could make fun of it. During this period, Zhang Shouchen, Chang Lian'an, Liu Baorui and other big coffees all measured his work for him.
After leaving school, Su Wenmao first partnered with Kang Liben and Gao Yuanjun to tease each other.
In 1951, Su Wenmao partnered with the four mushrooms Chang Baohua, Chang Baohua teased, Su Wenmao praised, and the two cooperated for three years.
In September 1951, Su Wenmao joined the Tianjin Quyi Work Troupe.
In 1953, Su Wenmao and Chang Baohua participated in the condolence performance team to North Korea, and the two performed "Lantern Riddle", "Eight Fan Screen", "Wine Order" and other programs.
In 1954, Su Wenmao partnered with Quan Changbao.
Su Wenmao and Zhu Xiangchen
In 1956, Su Wenmao joined the Tianjin Radio QuYi Troupe and began to partner with Zhu Xiangchen. The two cooperated in sorting out and performing the traditional cross-talk "On Praise and Teasing", "Approving the Three Kingdoms", "Thief Talking", "Answering Questions", etc., and the new cross-talk of cooperation includes "Doing Happy Things", "Returning home with a full load", "Famous and Far-reaching", "Learning the Guangfu Road", "The Red Flag Fluttering on the Guangfu Road" and so on. These cross-talks laid the foundation for him to form a "Wen Wei" style characterized by elegance and depth, with a bookish atmosphere. Su Wenmao and Zhu Xiangchen cooperated for 8 years until Zhu Xiangchen's death in 1973. Su Wenmao said: "Mr. Chang Baokun taught me art and taught me to be a person; Mr. Zhu Xiangchen helped me establish an artistic style, which helped me the most." ”
In 1960, Su Wenmao transferred to the Tianjin Qu Art Troupe, and then excavated and sorted out seven long-unperformed traditional pieces such as "Playing Bai Lang", "Selling Five Instruments", and "Bell Notation".
Su Wenmao and Ma Zhicun
In 1977, Su Wenmao and Ma Zhicun partnered to say crosstalk. The two performed "Learning Zhang Shizhen", "Waste Turning Over", "Noble Woman", "After the Arrival of the New Bureau Chief", "Red Chamber Encyclopedia", "Daddy and Son" and other cross-talk segments. Su Wenmao and Ma Zhicun cooperated for ten years.
In 1981, Su Wenmao Ma Zhicun won the first prize of the National Quyi Performance for "After the Arrival of the New Director".
In 1983, Su Wenmao Ma Zhicun won another grand prize for "Daddy Son".
On May 3, 2015, Su Wenmao died in Tianjin at the age of 87.
Su Wenmao's wife Wu Yanfang is a Henan pendant actor, who is said to be Chang Baoting's relative to WuJiati. After the samurai agreed, Lightning got engaged and then quickly married again. The two had 5 children: the eldest son Su Mingjie, the eldest daughter Su Mingjuan, the second son Su Mingjun, the third son Su Mingkun and the second daughter Su Mingxiu, who were all Mingzi generations. Unfortunately, Wu Yanfang suffered from breast cancer and left in 1967.
In 1969, Su Wenmao married again and remarried Wu Runqing, a nurse at tianjin second hospital. Wu Runqing not only took care of the five children born to Su Wenmao and his ex-wife, but also supported Wu Yanfang's mother, who lived to be 85 years old.
Su Wenmao received 10 disciples, including Zhao Weizhou, Wu Fuxing, Ji Ma, Guo Xin, Huang Yuncheng, Liu Junjie, Su Shijie, Cui Jinquan, Song Dequan, and Su Liancai.
Su Wenmao's cross-talk style is elegant and elegant, and he is known as the "Master of Wenxiao", which is very consistent with his external image: when he was young, he had a beautiful appearance, and when he was old, he was full of green silk and turned white hair, and he had a polite scholar's style. His representative works include "Three Kingdoms of Su Ping", "Encyclopedia of the Red Chamber", "Article Meeting", "On Teasing", etc., which have become insurmountable classics of literary cross-talk. To say more: When Su Wenmao was old, he had white hair and even his eyebrows were white, and later some people called him "White Eyebrow Hero".
The so-called Wen Wei is actually to remove those ethical groans, smacks and stinks. Su Wenmao has always maintained the image of Wen Wei, even if he encounters ethical and dirty smell, he must try to change. For example, in the Five Elements Poem, he washed it white.
The first poem of the "Five Elements Poem" begins with the word "Jin", teasing Yue Fei and saying Yue Yun, the two are father and son, and the paragraph itself is burdened with ethics. Speaking of the last four small words, he said: "Father and son hero" Tease grabbed the ethics with the question: "Son! (Empty, wait for the promise of the praise) to be faithful with the Father." Su Wenmao downplayed ethics here and changed it to: "Come, be loyal to your father." Changing the word "child" to the word "come" has diluted the psychology of deliberately taking advantage of the situation and reduced the burden. In this way, the ethics was removed and the Five Elements Were whitewashed.
Su Wenmao said that although he had apprentices, he never let his disciples come to visit and congratulate him on the three festivals and two birthdays. In order to express filial piety and not to go against master's wishes, the disciples thought of a way: to "make trouble" on master's birthday. For example, Cui Jinquan chose to accept disciples on his master's birthday. The apprentices want to accept the apprentices, the disciples want to worship the master, and Su Wenmao naturally wants to participate. In this regard, Su Wenmao said: "I never let my apprentices celebrate my birthday, but today is an exception. You receive disciples, this is the best birthday gift for me. For the cross-talk business, I personally am not important, the inheritance of art is a big thing. When you have an apprentice, you are a successor, and I see it as a continuation of my life. Congratulations are to hope that I will live a long life; there are people after crosstalk, which is the secret of my longevity. ”
He knew the rules, but when he encountered these rules and troubled the apprentice, he saved it. However, when he met people in the cross-talk circles who were higher than his own, he still did things according to the rules: when he saw Chang Baofeng and his wife, he respectfully called out "Nine Uncles, Nine Aunts."
Su Wenmao is not optimistic about the current cross-talk, and his evaluation of Guo Degang is "like an upstart, he blows it himself, and the Internet also blows for him." These remarks are mainly aimed at "Guo Degang will speak 600 cross-talk", he compared his master Chang Baokun: the small mushroom Chang Baokun will only have 90 paragraphs, Mr. Chang has a fan written with the name of these 90 cross-talks, when the hall meeting gets the audience to live, which paragraph is said, which paragraph is the real ability. Now, this is a false rumor, and the specific situation is not clear. As a big disciple of the Chang Family's Little Mushroom, he would not take such a rash stance.
Anecdotes about Su Wenmao are:
During Su Wenmao's performance in Beidaihe, when he was on stage, he received a telegram from his family, and it turned out that the second daughter had a high fever because of a cold and disappeared. With grief, he performed "Selling Tickets" on the stage, and only cried after stepping down.
In order to help his friend who had a sick family, Su Wenmao borrowed money from his son, and then returned the money to his son, and the son did not want it, so he saved a fold in his son's name and gave it to his son before he went abroad.
Su Wenmao's visit to Chang Baokun also has a saying in this paragraph: Chang Baokun, a small mushroom known in Beijing and Tianjin, not only speaks cross-talk on stage, but also goes to the radio station to record records, and sometimes broadcasts advertisements. Su Wenmao, who loves Chang Baokun, stays outside the radio station every day to have a beautiful encounter. Finally, one day, Chang Baokun took a car to the radio, but there was no change to pay the fare, at this time, Su Wenmao, who was on the side, quickly paid for Chang Baokun. When Chang Baokun finished the recording and walked out of the radio door, he found that Su Wenmao was still guarding the gate. Chang Baokun asked Su Wenmao: Why haven't you left yet? Su Wenmao said: I'm afraid you don't have any change in the car. As a result, the two became acquainted, and later Su Wenmao worshiped under Chang Baokun's door.
This statement is a bit mysterious, beyond normal cognition: in the 1940s, if you want to catch a star, you can only go to the tea house where the star often goes, where is the radio to arrest people?
Another thing: one day after the Cultural Revolution, Su Wenmao happened to meet Hou Baolin on his way home on a bicycle, and although Su Wenmao was less than fifty years old at this time, his hair was white, and even his eyebrows were white. As soon as Su Wenmao saw Hou Baolin, he immediately approached and called out to Uncle Shi tightly, and Hou Baolin grabbed Su Wenmao's hand and said, "There is a white-bearded old man from the south." "The cross-talk actor is also so funny in private, and it is always hanging.