Who is one of the cross-talk wizards introduced this time? This has to start with Li Yuanfang, the bodyguard of Lord Di Renjie, because this gentleman is Li Yuanfang's role as Zhang Zijian and his father, Zhang Zhikuan.
Zhang Zhikuan, born in 1945, is a native of Hebei. He was the eighth oldest in the family, and his widow had never seen his father in his life, and his father died under the bombs of the Japanese at the end of the War of Resistance.
The origin is very bitter, but Zhang Zhikuan, who is very young, has a strong interest in Allegro books. Li Runjie, the founder of Allegro Books, was his idol in his youth. In 1960, Zhang Zhikuan applied for the Tianjin Qu Art Troupe, but due to his age, he was almost turned away, but the chief examiner Guo Rongqi left him and recommended him to Li Runjie. However, Zhang Zhikuan's first master was not Li Runjie, but Bai Quanfu, who first started from cross-talk and then began to learn Allegro books. Due to his diligent study and hard work, he became a famous artist in both cross-talk and allegro.
Regarding Zhang Zhikuan's artistic standards, everyone can judge from several representative works, such as Allegro's "Three Dozen White Bone Essences" and "Confused County Officials", and cross-talk can be seen in his and Zhao Weizhou's "Three Gu Maolu".
We'll talk about him here in isolation with a few anecdotes:
1. Zhang Zhikuan is the leading filial piety apprentice in the qu art world.
Why is Zhang Zhikuan high? He has many masters, his Allegro master is Li Runjie, the cross-talk master is Bai Quanfu, and he has also studied with Wang Fengshan, the founder of Wang Pai Allegro, so many masters have taught him, that level is naturally wrong.
Treating Li Runjie, he helped Master publish Master's painstaking work "Selected Books of Li Runjie" at his own expense, and also erected a bronze statue of Master, which was the first one in the music and art world. After the death of the master, he insisted on sending money and gifts to the master every month, and this filial piety was rare.
Treating Bai Quanfu, since the death of his master, he has often brought money and goods to honor his master's wife, and zhang Luo has also held commemorative activities for Bai Quanfu and held a discussion meeting on Bai Quanfu's art.
For Wang Fengshan, although Wang Fengshan was not his official master, he had studied with Wang Fengshan and had never forgotten this teacher. In the early nineties, Wang Fengshan died, worried that the teacher was unwilling to collect money, Zhang Zhikuan ordered 50 pairs of allegro from the teacher who could make allegro, a total of 2500 yuan, catching up with ordinary workers in that era for more than half a year's wages.
2. The entire music and art community should thank Zhang Zhikuan
Why is it that the entire music and art community is grateful to Zhang Zhikuan, because he learned a system from the Southern Dance Hall, that is, to send flower baskets.
The Southern Song and Dance Hall had resident singers at that time, and the audience generally did not send cash directly in order to show appreciation, but sent flowers, and each flower represented how much tip. Zhang Zhikuan brought this method back to the music art world.
Since then, when the music and art industry performed, there was a project of sending flower baskets, and a flower basket represented a tip, generally sending even numbers, one-on-one pairs. When the actor receives the flower basket, he will return to the scene until there is no flower basket.
This system is not very obvious in the cross-talk industry, because cross-talk is generally high in tickets. In the drum music industry, it has played a big role, and the general drum music artist receives a flower basket tip for a performance can be ten times or even dozens of times the normal income. For example, Guo Degang's lover Wang Hui once received ten flower baskets in a row in Guangde Lou, which is at least a few hundred yuan of income.
For the increase in the income of the music and art circles, Mr. Zhang Zhikuan has made great contributions.
3． An Allegro exam that students love and hate
In 2016, the National Allegro Art (Performance) Examination Committee was established, Zhang Zhikuan served as the first director, and launched the Allegro Examination System in the face of 400,000 Allegro students across the country, with a total of ten levels, and the judges were also very strong, led by Li Lishan. This news is definitely mixed for some students, the joy is that playing allegro has the same qualification assessment as playing the piano, and the worry is that the pressure of the examination has been great since then.
Of course, Mr. Zhang Zhikuan's greatest achievement as a father is to cultivate a well-known film and television star Zhang Zijian.
What do you think about this, Yuanfang?