Interview notes: Tong Zhiling
Tong Zhiling is a Tianjin girl, from "students" to "play tickets", from "play tickets" and "to the sea", and now Kunling group can be said to be a radiant red star! It is difficult for the children of the insiders in the pear garden to become a "horn", and it is especially difficult for the children of laymen to excel, so we know that Tong Zhiling has today's achievements, not by chance.
When she was in Weihaiwei, she was ready to sing, which was very early! Zhiling was only seven or eight years old at that time, and their whole family went from Tianjin to Weihaiwei. Her father taught in a middle school, accompanied by a newspaper as the main writer, life is quite comfortable, because of the proximity of sex, but also because of the profession of journalist, I like to contact people in the drama class. Although that place is not out of singing, that is, occasionally go to a batch of Beijing Corners, he also has to take special care, the old man Dong Junfeng was once trapped in Weihaiwei, it is their help, can leave there safely! Now when Dong mentions this matter, he always remembers it! Seems to miss the enthusiasm of the "Tong family"!
Or maybe it is because of nature, Zhiling, Shouling, And Ling, they also like the old drama, the father must take them with him as soon as he hears the play, and when he comes back, he will learn the posture of people singing on the stage, especially Zhiling, she is ready to sing at that time! No wonder she has what she has today!
Tong Zhiling casual wear photo
He returned to Tianjin to study at Shenggong Primary School
In Weihaiwei, driven by the environment, the whole family has returned to Tianjin! Of course, her father was the mind of a student, although he liked old dramas, in the end he could not let his children officially sing opera, and it was okay to learn one or two plays to prepare to play, so that after arriving in Tianjin, they would first send their three brothers to Shenggong Primary School. They had no choice but to study with their hearts, but whenever there was a good play, they all clamored to listen. Of course, the parents could not bear to brush their meaning, but they could not let them always listen to the play, and then they thought of a way and decided to listen to the play once a week. It is said that they always looked forward to praying at that time, hoping that they could listen to the drama for a day!
One memorable thing: Jiao Ju went to Tianjin and joined the Xiqu School
At that time, the Xiqu School was not long established in Beijing, and it was still the era when Jiao Juyin was the principal, and it was also the golden age of Zhao Jinrong, Guan Dexian, and Song Dezhu. At the request of a garden, they came to Tianjin. By chance, Jiao Juyin saw Zhiling, and at that time, she praised Zhiling's wisdom and beauty, thinking that if she was allowed to sing, the future development would be unlimited! And repeatedly said how great the drama school is, how considerate it is to the students, to learn drama and study, and will never mislead people.2 His father listened to this over and over again, thinking that to cultivate Chinese opera talents, there must be such a place, and it is the nature of the school, of course, it cannot be as harsh as the class, and the treatment of children must not be too bitter, he thought about it for half a day, and he thought about Zhiling. He wanted to enter this school much better than to learn drama with ordinary people, and in the future, he would not fall into the name of "Kun Ling", but also let her achieve her wishes, and at that time he mentioned this layer to Jiao. Jiao, of course, couldn't ask for it, and inadvertently found such a good talent. Quite simply, Zhiling decided to abandon the school and join the drama school, when she was about eleven years old! Since then, she has really tasted the taste of drama school.
"You Sanjie" Tong Zhiling as You Sanjie
Changed his name to Tong Yuling, kaimeng drama "Golden Mountain Temple"
After the theater school expired in Tianjin, it followed it to Beijing. When she left Tianjin, she did not have the slightest concern for her hometown and parents, and her heart was only full of warm hope, fantasizing about how the drama school could cultivate talents. But after entering the school, she was a little disappointed! Or maybe it's because she's always been spoiled at home and hasn't suffered the slightest pain. Originally a naïve girl, let her leave her parents, hometown, to a strange place where to become!? But she was embarrassed to go back to this end, so she made a great determination, determined to learn the drama in that dead heart. The name is ranked according to the drama school, changed to "Tong Yuling", Jiao Juyin of course has a different view of her, just entered the school to let the school work Qingyi opera, the first play opened is the white snake of "Golden Mountain Temple", all day long practicing the body and singing of this play!
With Zhao Jinrong, "I can't eat white boiled tofu", and I had to leave the drama school
Day by day to learn the drama, in the school popularity is also good. At that time, Zhao Jinrong was already red, and the two of them really saw each other at first sight. Zhao is very good with her with the status of "master sister", and the two people often study the figure and tone in the play. Others like Hou Yulan and Deng Deqin were also very good at it!
When the drama school treated the students with bitter points, it was simply said that the family environment was slightly more favorable or there was no great determination of the children, who were not accustomed to that kind of life. At first, Zhiling wanted to continue, but after three months of entering the school, she really couldn't bear it anymore! Eating boiled tofu in white water every day, she is really not used to eating, but also because she saw that the drama school at that time was not the drama school she imagined, and the original ideal was better than the fact that it was the most distressing thing, so she had to ask the family to take her back. In three months, I left the drama school and returned to Tianjin!
"Qiu Jiang" Tong Zhiling as Chen Miaochang
Studying and learning to play is a two-pronged affair
After returning to Tianjin, if you can't succeed in the drama school, you should continue to study! So that he entered the Shenggong Primary School. After two or three years, she was fifteen years old! It's getting more and more beautiful! Although she was hit a little hard at the drama school, she still had a long time for learning drama. At home, she is really carrying a billet for singing, so it is better to let her go to school as usual every day and spend the rest of her time learning to play. After such a decision, she invited the brother of Sun Yiyun, an old worker, to talk about drama, and hired Du Fulong, a young student, to practice her skills, and then re-started to learn several plays in "Cai Lou Matching". Both studying and learning drama, their family thinks that killing two birds with one stone!
For the first time, he appeared on stage at the Tianjin Central Theater to perform "Famen Temple".
Every day, in addition to going to school, I followEd Sun and Du to study the body and singing voice of each play. "Visiting Mother", "Yutang Spring", "Wu jia po", "Fenhe Bay" several dramas can be picked up! In a fan-friend cooperation play, Song Qiaojiao, who appeared in the Central Theater once in "Famen Temple", was well received by the audience for her appearance and voice. The family saw that her first time on stage, she would have such a good result, and she liked it all, especially her father was even more painful, he had long thought that the future of Zhiling's drama fate was unlimited! However, Zhiling sang at that time to "play tickets" rather than "go to the sea"!
"Roselle" Tong Zhiling as Roselle
Fang Lianyuan told her father that it would be better to let her formally learn drama
Graduated from Shenggong Elementary School! After more than half a year of middle school, after the encouragement of many people at home, she officially abandoned her studies! Of course, there has been great progress in the play, and Qingyi Huadan has learned more than twenty plays, and he has made a lot of lines. However, at that time, her father's psychology did not think of letting her formally engage in theatrical life, the "play" component is relatively large, and it is not interesting to make a splash in Tianjin! Later, Sun and Du both left Tianjin, and then asked Fang Lianyuan to tell him, and gave him a few Wudan plays. Fang praised Zhiling very much, and repeatedly told her father that it was better to let her formally learn drama and save so much without a vote. His father was also very aware of this, and Fang Lianyuan's words really made her officially start her dramatic life soon after!
The brothers bailed in Danting
After many days of deliberation at home, it was decided that she would pay all her attention to singing! To put it simply, that is, to let her enter the drama class! Shou Ling also clamored that she had to learn drama, one did not do, two did not stop, Shou Ling also threw herself into the pear garden world! The two brothers sang Dan horns and the other sang Xiaosheng. At one time, the old ticket friend Bao Danting was in Tianjin, and Bao and her father were friends who were friends, and they let the two children worship under bao's door in view of the profound knowledge in Bao's belly. ZhiLing learned several "Kun" plays with the old, Shou Ling's "Yaguan Lou", "Tanzhuang", "Eight Sledgehammer" several Wu Xiaosheng plays are mostly Professor Bao's. Of course, Bao Jiao drama is more serious than ordinary people, and the foundation of Zhiling was indeed laid at that time.
In the spring of the 28th year of the Republic of China, he paid homage to Xun Huisheng
Coincidentally, in the spring of the 28th year of the Republic of China, Xun Huisheng led the Liuxiang Society to visit Tianjin to sing in the Chinese Theater, which was of course a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Very simply, Xun promised to accept her last female disciple. After visiting the teacher, Mr. and Mrs. Xun liked her very much, gave her a lot of books at that time, and said that it was best to go to Beijing to register. Although Beijing already has an impression of her. After she finished worshiping Xun, Shou Ling also cast under Jiang Miaoxiang's door, and almost a period of time the brothers both voted for the famous master, and suddenly all of them were ten times the price of the dragon gate!
At the age of seventeen, he took the stage in the Tsu group class
The seventeen-year-old group sang! They are performed in several gardens in China, Beiyang and Central China. Many people criticized her for playing a boudoir, because she did have the style of a small children's family. Tianjin people are known as Kunling only see characters, and many people in the press say that her style is like Xun Huisheng, and if she can really learn something from Xun Huisheng in the future, she is simply a "little Xun Huisheng". Originally, she had deeply imprinted Xun Huisheng's last shadow in her mind, but now that she was relatively red, she already had the ambition to worship Xun Huisheng.
After bai Xun, she ran back and forth from Tianjin to Beijing many times, and the toys were all "horn" style! Kun Jiaoli is also a number of characters! Until this year, she officially stopped in Beijing, and each period of singing two plays in Chang'an and Sanqing was able to maintain a record of six or seven hundred people. Now I am sorting out several old plays of "Wang Xifeng" and "Pipa Ji", and learning Kunqu opera "Dream of Visiting the Garden" from Han Shichang, etc., and are scheduled to sing it recently.
Family living conditions
She is a girl of double ten years this year, a total of four brothers, the eldest of Lingling, the second oldest of Shouling, she is the third, and there is a little sister, and her parents are alive. They lived in a corner of the three branches of the Xuannan Sect Field, a family full of joy, and everyone lived a happy life. When she was in Tianjin, she liked to play tennis, and she never touched it after coming to Beijing! Yan Huizhu and Zhang Yunyan are her best friends, they often gather together, talk in the north and south of the mountains, and it is said that they also have a dinner party every week!
It's already noon! Especially when people have already put lunch on the table, they are really embarrassed to sit down, although they have repeatedly stayed and finally stepped out of the door! She smiled at the door and said, "I'll report you a few pieces of news tomorrow!" "I also accepted with a smile," Miss Tong told the news must be a little special. Halfway down the road, I thought to myself!
(Liyan Pictorial Journal, No. 140, 1941)