Zhang Zhikuan
A few years ago, Zhang Zijian, the star of the TV series "Detective Di Renjie", became popular on the Internet because of a sentence of "Yuanfang what do you think". He is a native of Tianjin, born in the quyi family, his father Zhang Zhikuan is a famous allegro book performance artist, who has served as the deputy head of the Tianjin Qu art troupe and the secretary general of the Tianjin Ququ Association. Zhang Zhikuan has hundreds of students, twenty formal apprentices, and the most famous is the Canadian comedy star Dashan. Being able to cultivate such an excellent actor as Zhang Zijian can see Zhang Zhikuan's character and artistic virtue.
Zhang Zhikuan was born in 1945, from childhood liked Allegro books, the family was poor, there was no cultural background, his mother was bent on hoping for Jackie Chan, did not allow him to sing Allegro. In the summer of 1960, Zhang Zhikuan was in the second grade of junior high school, and the Tianjin Qu Art Troupe enrolled, he secretly ran to the exam, who knew that he would be admitted to the exam. The famous cross-talk actor Guo Rongqi is the chief examiner, and he shook a burden with embarrassment: "The superior stipulates that only primary school students are recruited, you are not tall, the culture is too high..." Zhang Zhikuan went home with tears in his eyes, and when he arrived home, he was beaten by his mother.
Li Runjie and Zhang Zhikuan
Teacher Guo Rongqi liked Zhang Zhikuan and thought he was a talent in this line of work, don't delay, so he recommended him to the Tianjin Radio Qu Art Troupe. Zhang Zhikuan studied here with teacher Li Runjie and formally studied the Allegro book. A year later, he visited Bai Quanfu again and learned to talk to each other. Soon after, Zhang Zhikuan and teacher Li Runjie cooperated in the counterpart allegro "Vertical Derrick", and the performance of zhulian was well-known throughout the country, and Zhang Zhikuan became a hit.
Teacher Li Runjie loves Zhikuan and sees that his quality is better, so he puts forward strict requirements from the tone, tone, sentence head, board skills and the correct use of performance hands, eyes, body and steps. Li Runjie is good at self-editing and self-acting, and Zhang Zhikuan still has a gap in this regard, so the teacher takes the students to go deep into life and write together. Li Runjie pays attention to "singing and playing changeable, stringing into a line" and "there are raps and singing, and the sentences are appropriate" in the singing of the Allegro book, Zhang Zhikuan also learned some essentials after hard work.
After several years of tempering, Zhang Zhikuan has become more and more mature, his singing language is fluent, his voice is wide and bright, the spitout is sonorous and powerful, the rhythm is bright and changeable, the performance is vivid and enthusiastic, and he even shows his profound artistic skills.
In the program "Three Dozen White Bone Essences", Zhang Zhikuan created a vivid image of Sun Wukong's magic, agility, and fearlessness to descend demons and catch monsters. In order to show the personality of the characters in the book, he also asked Dong Wenhua, a Peking opera actor who was good at monkey play, to learn the performance program, which turned into a performance action suitable for the Allegro book, in order to accurately show an action of Sun Wukong fighting the white bone essence, he could stand in front of the mirror and rehearse ten times, or even dozens of times.
In the 1980s, Tianjin Radio broadcast Zhang Zhikuan's long-form allegro book "Wulin Zhi", and The story of Dongfang Xu was well received by the audience. During this period, he and his teacher Li Runjie and others performed the "Swallow Li San Special Session" and the "Jie Zhenguo Special Session", which set off a boom in new Allegro books.
Gansu Audio-Visual Publishing House has published three boxes of personal albums for Zhang Zhikuan, including a large number of Li (Runjie) Pai Allegro book titles such as "Carjacking", "Qiaojiao Prison", "Long March", "Wusong Fighting Tiger", "Cross Slope", "Lu Da Removal", "Three Dozen White Bone Essences", etc., retaining the classic sound.
Feng Gong once said: "Teacher Zhang Zhikuan is an idol that I have worshipped since I was a child, just like Teacher Ma Ji. No matter when and where, just watching the Allegro book he sang, it made me suddenly have a healthy and upward passion, and I hated not being able to immediately show my skills on the stage like he did. For decades, I have been impressed by Mr. Zhang Zhikuan's art, his personality charm makes me respect, he is generous and enthusiastic, willing to be charitable, and has the excellent qualities that Chinese have been advocating since ancient times. ”
Tianjin qu art circles all know that Zhang Zhikuan is enthusiastic and has a board and an eye. In 1985, Li Runjie suffered from cerebral thrombosis and was paralyzed in the middle of his body, and Zhang Zhikuan took care of his master like his father. After the death of his master, Zhang Zhikuan took the initiative to take care of his master's mother. He also did filial piety to Bai Quanfu and The widow of Mr. Wang Fengshan, who had taught him cross-talk, and took good care of them, leaving behind a good story in the music world. (Text: He Yuxin)
Zhang Zijian