Some people are actually dead, some people are dead, but he is still alive, with this sentence to describe Liu Xikui is more appropriate, perhaps everyone is a little unfamiliar with this name, she is a generation of "Kunling King". Friends who understand opera should know what this means, Mei Lanfang everyone should be very familiar, Liu Xikui and Mei Lanfang are masters of a level, when New China was first established, Premier Zhou personally asked Tian Han to find Liu Xikui and invite her out of the mountain, which shows how amazing Liu Xikui is.
The first time I heard the name Liu Xikui, everyone must think that she is a man, in fact, on the contrary, she is a beautiful woman with a flower appearance, she was born in 1894, her hometown is a small rural area in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, when the family was very poor, her parents hoped that her life would be better, she sent her to a drama class in Tianjin at the age of eight to learn to sing, this name was taken at that time, but the pear garden at that time was not welcome for women, the horns on the stage were almost all men, and it was very difficult for women to be recognized. Liu Xikui followed Song Yongzhen to learn to sing, and Song Yongzhen suggested that she sing Wusheng, but Liu Xikui did not accept the teacher's advice, she resolutely chose Kunling, and thus started her own opera career.
Liu Xikui was very difficult after leaving school, because the Beiyang government did not allow men and women to perform on the same stage, so Liu Xikui had to set up a temporary performance everywhere with the opera team, because she sang the opera really well, so slowly more and more people watched her sing, and finally a ticket was difficult to find, and the price was getting higher and higher. As her fame grew, the pear garden owners in Beijing city began to notice her, and then invited her to sing in the pear garden, with the packaging of the pear garden owner, Liu Xikui's fame was naturally as day in the sky, because he often performed in other places, so his vision was further enhanced, Liu Xikui realized the abomination of the warlords at that time, so when singing some operas, he added some satirical words to the warlords, so many patriotic young students liked to listen to her singing, including Zhou Enlai, who was only sixteen years old at that time. And it was then that Zhou Enlai remembered Liu Xikui.
As Liu Xikui became more and more famous, she got the opportunity to perform on the same stage with three masters, these three masters are Tan Xinpei, Mei Lanfang, Yang Xiaolou, these three are the titans of the opera industry, after this performance, the sixty-eight-year-old Tan Xinpei praised Liu Xikui, and it was this time that Liu Xikui won the title of "Kunling King", when the newspapers were almost all about her reports, so Liu Xikui officially became a hot opera actor, but everyone also knew that there were not many people, and at that time many people stared at Liu Xikui. Why are you eyeing her? Because we said earlier that she was a beautiful woman.
Among those people were Yuan Shikai, Li Yuanhong, Cao Kun and others, at that time these people wanted to get Liu Xikui, fortunately, Liu Xikui had noble people to help every time, and finally Liu Xikui was forced to have no way, so he had to minimize the performance, but this still could not stop the footsteps of those big people, Liu Xikui really couldn't think of other ways at that time, he had to decide to marry, only marrying them would die, in fact, Liu Xikui always had a person in his heart, this person is not someone else, it is Mei Lanfang, but Liu Xikui understands that he cannot marry Mei Lanfang, Because that would make Mei Lanfang a target for those warlords.
She couldn't bear to see the people she liked ruined because of him, but it was certainly not okay not to marry anyone, and finally Liu Xikui decided to marry a section chief named Cui Changzhou, why would she marry him, because Liu Xikui felt that he was honest and dared to tell the truth, dared to fight corruption, but Cui Changzhou was more than forty years old at that time, and his health was not good, and it was precisely for this reason that he had not married a wife, Liu Xikui married himself after making a decision, and after marriage, he was not happy, and after three years his husband died, at this time those warlords were foolish.
Liu Xikui directly announced at that time that he would never marry, which made the group of warlords dispel their thoughts, those warlords in order to satirize Liu Xikui, directly sent a piece of chastity arch to Liu Xikui, to the anti-Japanese period, the Japanese wanted to invite Liu Xikui to perform, Liu Xikui immediately righteously and righteously refused, and directly anonymized, and later began to perform charity, almost all the income was donated to the poor people, so everyone had great respect for her at that time.
When New China was founded, Premier Zhou asked Tian Han to inquire about Liu Xikui's news, and when he learned that Liu Xikui was still alive, Premier Zhou was overjoyed, and immediately invited her to participate in the party of the Ministry of Culture, and took the initiative to toast Liu Xikui, and also asked Liu Xikui to devote himself to the cause of literature and art, so that opera could be passed on.