Cross-talk examination: Ma Delu, the legendary ancestor of the mapai legend

Cross-talk: The legendary ancestor of Ma Pai, Madrodelu Seventeen

Ma Jia Qu Art begins with Ma Chengfang, and Ma Jia Xiangsheng begins with Ma Enlu. Ma Chengfang was a storyteller and had three sons, namely Ma Enlu, Ma Enshou and Ma Enrong. Ma Chengfang, along with Ah Yantao, Chun Chimelong and Enpei, are contemporaries of artists and are all good friends

Ma Enlu (1882-1935) did not speak the book like his father, but at the age of 9, he worshiped Chun Chimelong (also known as Chun Changlong) as a teacher and learned to cross-talk. (Some people say that when he was 12 years old, he worshiped under the Chun Chimelong Gate)

After completing the master, he followed Shi Bo Enxu to make an art mixed life. Enxu changed his name to Enpei after Guangxu became emperor, also known as Enzi; his nephew Ma Enlu, who followed him, was given the title of Little Enzi. Enpei had a bull fork apprentice "Ten Thousand Charms" Li Dezhuo, and the middle word was "De", so Ma Enlu was called Ma Delu. But this statement is also doubtful, because Yu Delong is the master brother of the German character generation.

Ma Enlu followed Enpei to the ground and the field, and the role was "picking the cage": a carrying box was placed with props folding fans that said cross-talk, handkerchiefs, bamboo boards for singing Taiping lyrics, waking wood for shooting, pots and bowls for drinking water, and so on. Not only to do all the chores of the performance, such as cleaning the venue, setting up stools, fetching water, collecting money, etc., but also to "make a living" for the master, or to hold or tease, or to "pad the field" when the master is tired, tell a joke, stand up, or sing a Taiping lyric. Ma Delu was honest and generous, and won the trust and love of Enzi, and later, Enxu gave his beloved daughter Encuiqing to his nephew Ma Delu; Encuiqing sang a big drum and usually assisted Ma Delu in selling art, and the first child she gave birth to the Ma family was Ma Guiyuan, the second child was Ma Guilin, and the third child was Ma Guifu. Ma Guifu later changed his name to Ma Sanli. Ma Delu later measured Li Dezhuo's work and let his eldest son Ma Guiyuan worship under his partner. Three years after En cuiqing gave birth to Ma Guifu, he died.

Ma Delu gave Li Dezhuo a measure of work, Li Dezhuo was a "million fans", and Ma Delu also followed the light and became a red man at that time. How good is Lee? Zhang Shouchen is the master brother of the Shou Zi generation and the chief disciple, but he serves Li Dezhao like his father, not only obeying his art, but also grateful for the cultivation of his old man. However, Li Dezhuo was a big smoker, because he smoked opium, and died in 1926, at the age of 45. After Li Dezhuo's death, Madrough's career plummeted. In 1935, he died of depression at the age of 53. There is a saying that in the later years, Ma Delu and Zhou Deshan held the cave Lianxing Society. But this claim is questionable, because a person is over 60 years old before he says that he is old; Madrough died at the age of 53, and the woman he married after his death also swept away the gold and silver of the family, leaving the entire Ma family confined to difficulties. After Li Dezhuo's death, it is said that Ma Delu could not even pay Ma Sanli's tuition, so that Ma Sanli had to drop out of school early and go to the sea to talk about crosstalk.

It is lamentable that in 1940, 5 years after Ma Delu's death, Ma Delu's eldest son, Li Dezhuo's beloved apprentice Ma Guiyuan, also died of opium smoking. He was only 29 years old.

Later generations referred to Enxu's three apprentices Ma Delu, Li Dezhao, and Li Dexiang, Xu Youlu's two apprentices Jiao Dehai and Liu Dezhi, Chun Changlong's apprentice Ma Delu, Fan Youyuan's apprentice Zhou Deshan, and rich disciple Yu Delong as the "Eight Virtues of Xiangsheng". These eight cross-talk masters were active in the Beijing-Tianjin generation in the 1930s and were very famous.

There is a saying in the cross-talk circle that once a cross-talk artist has a nickname, it becomes popular. The nicknames of several people in "Xiangsheng Bade" are very interesting, Li Dezhuo is called Wanren Fan, Zhang Dequan is called Zhang Mazi, Yu Delong is called Eye Yuzi, and Zhou Deshan is called Zhou Toad

Ma Delu is good at white sand sprinkling, and can sprinkle double hooks on the ground such as "Fulu Shouxi", "Zhao Cai Jin Bao", "Golden WanLiang", etc., which is a school that pays attention to "Wen Que" in the cross-talk genre - the pursuit of elegance and is good at language and word games. Ma Delu has a solid foundation, a solid living road, and a wide living road, and is known as the "Crosstalk Company". His major works include the counterpart "Wu Gua Dart", "Porridge Picker", stand-up "Antique King", "Timid Follower", "Wuxing Lou", "Junchen Dou" and so on.

Ma Delu received Gao Shouting, Gao Guiqing, Yang Wenhua, Yin Shoushan, Guo Rongqi and so on. The most famous of the apprentices was Guo Rongqi, who took in Chang Baoting, Guo Baoming, Du Sanbao, Xie Tianshun, Zhang Baoru, and Yang Shaohua.