Weng Yihong
Weng Yihong (1908-1994), famous opera writer, theorist, educator, librarian of the Central Research Museum of Literature and History, a native of Beijing. His original name was Weng Linsheng, and his pen name was Lotus Red, which was later changed to Evenhong. Weng Yihong attended Jingzhao Senior High School in her youth and often appeared on stage as a ticket fan in her spare time. After graduation, he devoted himself to the study of opera, and often shared the stage with Huang Zhanpeng, Cheng Maoting, Guan Zuichan and other famous tickets. In 1930, the Chinese Drama College was established, and Weng was hired to teach part-time at the school. In 1934, he worked as a screenwriter and director at the Chinese Opera College. After 1949, he worked as a screenwriter at the Peking Opera House in China.
The continuation of the Northern Kunqu Opera to this day is half attributed to the amateur music-loving literati and scholars, and half to the Kunyi Class founded by the Qing Dynasty. Kun Yi class performed externally, and its influence was particularly huge. His class went from the royal palace to the township, and from the township to the capital again. After several vicissitudes, the Qing Mansion should push Han Shichang.
Han Shichang and Bai Yunsheng's "Lion Roar: Kneeling Pond"
Han Shichang entered the Qingchang Society at an early age, first learned to be a doll, and then changed his habits to ugly. After transferring to the Rongqing class, he changed to martial arts, and finally began to learn dan from Hou Ruichun. Hou Ruichunbo resumed work flute in the song. Shichang performed, accompanied by RuiChun, complemented each other perfectly. The reason why Shichang is the xiong of Beikun is that he developed the singing method of Beikun in it, which is deeply supported by those who are proficient in Kunqu. The northern song does not have an "into the sound", while the southern song must sing the "into the sound". Beikun repertoire, not only the northern song, but also the southern song, but the Beikun XiDan, confined to the master, can not get out of the "sound" of the "break", Gu Qu Zhou Lang tasted the snickering.
Han Shichang's teacher is hou Ruichun, a famous piper
When Han Shichang performed with Rongqingshe in Beijing's Tianyuan Garden, Peking University students often entered the park to watch dramas with "White Qiu" and "Nashu Yue Song Score". Yu yu liu but also introduced Wang Xiaoyin, Gu Junyi and other drama critics to Han Shichang, but also invited Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University, and so on. Mr. Yuan Pei's most favorite of Shichang's "Nun Sifan" is said to have "religious revolutionary ideas", and the taster knows that "Kunqu is elegant, and Yu Ning praises 'Kun' instead of 'Kun'". "Kun" means Kun Ling, and it is also for the elderly. The word of mouth of the masters and students of The Great Master shook the people of Beijing who knew the music, and the famous Kunqu opera artist Mr. Wu Qu'an (Mei) was also in Beijing, and he once watched Han's "Qin Pick" and greatly appreciated it. Qu An is a giant of duqu, and his rhythm is extremely exquisite. Bu Tang, Jun Yi and other great dramas of Mou Shichang, introduced his teacher Qu An and studied Nanqu in depth. During the ceremony of worshiping the master in the apricot blossom village of Dashilar, he also got to know the famous Kunqu opera master Zhao Zijing, and Zijing also learned from the composer.
Shichang learned qu from Qu An, and his teacher Hou Ruichun also accompanied the trip, and the wind and rain were cold and hot, and they never stopped. Once, in the summer heat, I still walked from the purple bamboo forest outside the front door to the beach north. On the way home, it rained heavily, and teachers and students avoided the street eaves and did not think that they were bitter. Accumulated years, he learned the "Kao Hong" of "Xi Xiang Ji", the "Send Fan" of "Peach Blossom Fan" and "Wu Gang Xiuyue", etc., and the biggest gain was that the programs he had studied and performed had to be corrected by Qu An, strictly his rhythm, his singing method, the length of Yin Ping, the suppression of Yang Ping, the slippery of the upper voice, the resistance to the sound, the interruption of the sound, and all of them were studied.
Han Shichang's "Si Fan"
Shichang moved to Mr. Zijing next to him for the convenience of learning songs, and learned more by day and night. For example, "Folding Willow Yang Guan", "Sweeping Flowers , Three Drunks", "Kneeling Pool • Three Fears", "Dreaming", "Anhui", etc., are all learned from Zijing. Shi Shichang's art has entered the forest of elegance, landscape painter Xiao Qianzhong (good at ink, known as "Black Xiao") and Huang Jigang, Zhang Jiluan, Li Wensun, Lin Shaohe and other celebrities, following Cai Yuanpei and Wu Qu'an also like Korean drama. When Shichang performed in the Chengnan Amusement Park, Peking University classmates gave the Jinban with the inscription "Junshan Yifa Qing", and Gai Qu'an once gave the word "Junqing" as Shichang. At this time, Han Shichang's name was Mei Lanfang of the Four Famous Dans, and his status was like Yu Liangyan.
Han Shichang Zhengdan can play Zhao Wuniang in "The Book of Pipa", Zhang Sangu in "Female Bullet", Cui Shi in "Dream", Dodan has played the red child of "Fire Cloud Cave", assassination Dan (i.e. SiDan) can play Wu Feixia in "Fisherman's Music", Yan Xijiao in "Water Margin", Fei Zhen'e in "Thorny Tiger", Yang Guifei in "Hall of Eternal Life" (i.e. Wudan) can play Yang Guifei in "Hall of Eternal Life", Du Liniang in "Peony Pavilion", Tie Dan (i.e. Liu Dan) can play the red lady of "West Chamber", Chunxiang of "Noisy Learning", Zhao Cui'er of "Jade Garden", and fat girl of "Learning Tongue". The voice is centered, and the tone is positive and fickle. Singing Zhengdan is rigid, energetic and powerful, and deeply symbolizes the name of "female big face". Singing and assassinating Dan is extreme, with a voice, with vocal cords, the wind and frost are fierce, coming out from between the teeth. Singing Boudoir Dan is soft, lingering and beautiful, warbler swallow guanguan, deep compassion, singing spring flower bottom. Singing Andian is more clever, cut butt painting ice, exquisite and transparent. Supplemented by delicate and nuanced watches, eyebrow peaks and corners of the eyes, A block to convey the gods, one person can transform a thousand faces. Playing "Thorn Tiger" Fei Zhen'e's face tiger is pretending to be happy, and the back tiger is hateful, changing rapidly, and everywhere is true.
Han Shichang's early years of costume stills
Acting in "Thorn Liang", Wu Feixia is afraid of her heart inside, hides her color outside, goes deep step by step, and the spring cloud is several exhibitions. The innocence of acting "Sending Cambodia" is not chiseled, the love of "Good Period" is just opening, the positive color defense of "Kao Hong", the same red bride, the change of thought and feeling is like an ant wearing a pearl of nine curves, analyzing a line. Acting in "Frightening Dreams" Du Liniang's reverie, also contains also revealed. Acting in "Little Feast" ("Serial Count"),The correction of the mink cicada is tender, and it seems to be true or false. Make the details of the table, the so-called mountain division four, the soil with five colors. Acting in "Hundred Flowers and Dots", the Princess of Hundred Flowers sends affection, the tip of the plume is like a bunch of mellow mash, can drunk Hai Jun; the blade is sharp, and the stab is spicy. The iron fan princess who played "Basho Fan", and the live monkey Hao Zhenji in the song "Intoxicated east wind", singing and playing, there are board eyes, there are sizes. Shi Chang tried to play cannons with the drama of "Si Fan", from the appearance of [chanting], [hillside sheep] to [wind blowing lotus leaves] and [epilogue], the song must have a dance, the dance must be with sleeves, sleeves and brooms at the same time, especially difficult to do. "Counting Arhats" is a game, sometimes with "piles of Arhats", on which eighteen actors, each wearing a mask, poses the Luohan Hall. Shichang's color is empty, imitating its form, expressing its own mood, water sleeve cloud broom, dancing out of eighteen patterns. Sometimes there are no arhats piled up, only by means of the color space freehand virtual, singing and dancing, one person singing a full one, just like the presence of eighteen arhats.
In addition to the folding play, Shichang has created and arranged all the "Butterfly Dreams", "Xia Notes", "Lion Roar", "Fu Hutao" and so on. Branch Beikun Building, Shichang Gong immortal.
("Sixty Years of Weng Yihong Watching Drama")