Wen Shi Gong knows: Qiu Shengrong was a "hand apprentice"; the Nationalist Army Cultural and Labor Corps was directly transferred to the People's Liberation Army Cultural and Labor Corps; the leader of the "Model Regiment" of the Cultural Revolution, the "Wang Regiment Leader" in the play "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Regiment"; even so, fang Rongxiang was also overthrown at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, not only a "bourgeois faction" but also belonged to the "three high- and three high" figures, squatting in the "cowshed" to pull the ground to row the car; mr. Qiu Shengrong always knew the gratitude and reward; disciple Meng Guanglu.
Fang Rongxiang's singing and watching and the use of timbre are all cool and are regarded as blue out of blue. He can use the chest and nasal resonance very well, and his voice is strong and soft. According to the aesthetic needs of modern people, the style is expanded to the feminine aspect, and his singing voice is charming and comfortable, ethereal and transparent, and is praised by the audience as "Fang's Qiu Yun".
Born in 1925 on Guang'anmen Avenue in Beijing. His original surname was Zhou, and his younger son followed his stepfather's surname, Fang.
September 1931. At the age of 6, he learned to practice basic skills with his neighbor, the famous Wudan Fang Lianyuan.
In October 8, 1933, he was introduced by the artist Zhou Mazi to study art in the Rongchun social science class founded by Shang Xiaoyun. Start practicing your voice and basic skills.
From 1934 to March, he studied at Hufangqiao Primary School in Beijing, but dropped out of school two years later.
In June 1935, he studied under the famous Peking Opera actor Luo Lianxiang and learned to write and spend his face. Later, he studied from Song Fuxiang, Tan Shiying, Su Shenggui, Jin Shengfu, Chen Shinai, Li Shengzuo, Sun Shengyun, Zhang Shitong, Gao Shenghong, Geng Shizhong and other famous masters, such as Sheng, Dan, Jing, and Ugly, and the repertoire of "Shangtiantai", "Golden Platform", "Zhu Traces" and so on, until March 1939.
He made his debut at the age of 12.
In 1938, he studied under the artist Zhang Xinkui and learned to play flower face lines, and his repertoire included "Catching and Releasing Cao", "Erjin Palace", "Lost Space Chop" and other 10 or 20 flower face plays cooperated with Lao Sheng and Dan Jiao.
In March 1939, led by Mr. Zhang Xinkui, he sang in Beijing and other places.
In September 1941, in Beijing's Guangde Building (now Guanghe Theater), the famous martial arts student Liu Zongyang and the famous copper hammer flower face Qiu Shengrong performed all the "Serial Sets", and Zhang Xinkui led Fang Rongxiang to the backstage, and performed a worship ceremony for Qiu Shengrong, formally learning the Qiu School.
Qiu Pai, a special worker, was carefully instructed by Qiu Shi, and once performed with his teacher in various places, becoming Qiu Shi's "hand apprentice".
In 1943, while learning drama with Qiu Shengrong, he went out to perform in shifts, and successively performed "The Great Detective II", "Catch and Release Cao", "Lost In the Air", "Zhu Curtain Village", "A Stick of Snow", "Famen Temple", "Three Stores", "Dadengzhou" and other famous actors with Lei Xifu, Ji Yuliang, Shen Jinbo, Hu Shao'an, Meng Youdong, Tang Yunsheng and other famous actors, and toured Beijing, Tianjin, Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, Baoding, Shijiazhuang and other places.
In early 1944, he married Zhang Yurong, the daughter of Mr. Zhang Xinkui, in the northeast.
In October 1947, he joined the Peking Opera team of the 88th Division of the 71st Army of the Kuomintang in Siping as an actor.
From 1948 to the end of the year, he performed three scenes at the Shenyang Hotel for Zhou Enlai, Zhang Zhizhong and Marshall's military negotiation team in "Catching and Releasing Cao Cao", Wei Yan in "Battle Changsha", and Anti-StringIng Pig Eight Precepts in "Pansi Cave".
From 1948 to October, siping liberation, in March he joined the Peking Opera Troupe of the Seventh Column of the Northeast People's Liberation Army as an actor.
In February 1949, he went south with the army and served as an actor in Tianjin to reorganize the Peking Opera Troupe of the Forty-fourth Army of the Fourth Field Army. He once performed the newly compiled historical drama "Nine Pieces of Clothing" at the Ping An Grand Theater.
In August 1949, he went south to Jiangxi and was reorganized into the Peking Opera Troupe of the 15th Corps of the Fourth Field Army as an actor.
In March 1951, he worked as an actor in the Peking Opera Troupe of the 13th Corps of the Northeast Border Defense Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
From 1951 to October, he went to Korea with the army to participate in the Peking Opera Troupe of the General Political Department of the Chinese Volunteer Army as an actor.
In 1951, he participated in the Peking Opera Troupe of the Chinese Volunteer Army and went to Korea for 7 years.
In 1955, the army changed its salary system and was rated as a fourth-class actor in literature and art.
September 1956 – Joins the Communist Party of China in Korea.
In 1958, after returning to China, the Volunteer Army Peking Opera Troupe collectively transferred to Shandong and was reorganized into the Shandong Provincial Peking Opera Troupe. He served as the deputy head of the Peking Opera Troupe of Shandong Province.
From 1964 to June, he accompanied the troupe to Jinjing, performed "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Troupe", participated in the 1964 "National Peking Opera Modern Opera Observation and Performance Conference", and played the role of Wang In "Qi".
At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution" in 1966, Fang Rongxiang was also overthrown, not only as a "bourgeoisie" but also as a "three high- and three-high" figure, squatting in a "cowshed" to pull a row of cars. But after three months, the "cow ghost snake god" was liberated.
In November 1970, he went to Changchun Film Studio with the troupe to shoot the color film drama film "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Troupe".
In November 1971, Qiu Shengrong was critically ill and rushed from Changchun to Beijing to take care of him, until Qiu finally died of illness.
In 1984, the Spring Festival Gala performed the Peking Opera "Will Be Harmonious".
In 1986, Shandong Film Studio filmed the documentary "Fang Rongxiang Stage Art" for Fang Rongxiang.
On April 22, 1989, Fang Rongxiang died in Jinan due to a heart attack at the age of 63.
Fang Rongxiang was good to the teacher and never "drew a clear line" with Qiu Shengrong. When Qiu Shengrong was raided and his original salary was suspended, Fang Rongxiang still secretly sent money to help Qiu Shi. After Fang Rongxiang was "rehabilitated" and received the first compensation salary of 1,000 yuan, he immediately sent his son to the Qiu family in Beijing, and said to his son Fang Lisheng: "Your master's family has a large population, let's be anxious, we can't let the master suffer." ”
Fang Rongxiang's tombstone is engraved with the inscription of Li Ruihuan's "Art Excellence and Virtue, Pear Garden Liufang", and the three characters of "Fang Rongxiang" were inscribed by the famous calligrapher Ouyang Zhongshi.
His repertoire includes dozens of traditional plays such as "Heroes of the Crowd", "Yang Jia general and trial Panhong", "Yao Period", "Dragon Robe after encounter", "The Case of Gongmei", "Xiang He", "Removal of Three Harms", "Chisang Town", "Dragon And Phoenix Pavilion" (Dabaoguo, Exploring the Imperial Tomb, Erjin Palace), "Thief Royal Horse", "Black Whirlwind Li Kui" and other traditional plays, and performing modern Peking Opera dramas such as "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Troupe" and "Snowflake Drifting".
Fang Rongxiang (September 6, 1925 – April 21, 1989) was born in Beijing. Chinese Peking Opera performance artist, flower face actor of Peking Opera House in Shandong Province.