Let's take a look at Mr. Yuan's work first:
1 Red Rock Soul
2 Shui Po Liang Shan (Water Margin)
3 Eastern Zhou States - Shang Martingale Transformation Method
4 Water Margin
5 Shi Gong case
6 History of entrepreneurship
7 Peng Gong case - Three Rivers Judgment Case
8 sunny days
9 Thirteen sisters
10 Xue Gang was anti-Tang
11 Blue-eyed golden cicada
12 Nagasaka Yuki (included in romance of the Three Kingdoms)
13 Cross the sea and plant flags
14 Forest Sea SnowField
15 Romance of the Three Kingdoms
16 Be bold and faithful
17 Stormy
18 Agni King Kong
19 King of Western Chu
20 Armed Forces Behind Enemy Lines
21 Twelve Gold Darts
22 The Legend of the Heroes of Lüliang
23 Biography of the Children of new heroes
24 Thorn Turtle Mountain (including the ancient city of Spring Wind Dou in wildfire)
25 Police officers with special status
26 Sherlock Holmes
27 Qianlong and Ji Xiaolan
28 Twelve Gold Darts
29 Transferred to northern Shaanxi
30 Li Zicheng - Righteous sending a flag
31 Li Zicheng - Gu Cheng will be dedicated
32 Tongue Battle Small Furnace Makers (including in the LinHai Snowfield)
33 Li Zicheng - Liu Zongmin jumped into the river
34 Xu Yunfeng to the feast (including in the Red Rock Soul)
35 Baqiao Robes (including in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
36 Canonization of the Gods
37 Li Zicheng - The Red Lady saves Li Xin
38 Raise the fire to recruit talents
39 Five daughters and seven virgins
40 Long March
41 Changshan Zhao Zilong
42 Make a big fuss in the Daimyo Mansion
43 Qiao Ruined Qiankun Building
44 Yan Qing beat
45 Big fight
46 Peach Blossom Village
47 Shenzhou Ring
48 Three flutes
49 Swirl
50 Peng Gong case
51 Wildfire Spring Wind Dou Ancient City
52 Song of Youth
"Handsome selling strange and bad" is a summary of the performance style of cross-talk actors, and some people use these four words to apply them to the performance of the book: Handsome sells strange and bad, Liu Lanfang, Yuan Kuocheng, Shan Tianfang and Tian Lianyuansi each occupy a word. I understand that the "selling" here refers to a large amount of learning, dropped book bags, informative, and fascinating. Mr. Yuan Kuocheng's most famous work is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the novel is written in shallow and close language, saying that "shallow and close" is according to the level of the time, and it is basically a heavenly book for today's public. Mr. Yuan's passage of text, a paragraph of vernacular, detailed explanation, and then repeatedly inserted comments and jokes in the middle, making people listen not tired, always knowing.
Of course, "selling" is a unique job. In fact, he is also "handsome", the slightly hoarse voice in the high pitch is highly recognizable, the words are clear, although the encounter is always on the radio, but the theater effect is not bad. He was also "bad", laughing at Lü Bu's wolf nature, Cao Cao's cunning, and Liu Bei's wrestling children, full of ridicule and a very damaged mouth. He described Gao Li's appearance in "Shui Po Liang Shan" and said that he was "a collection of the appearance of traitors in the past: Zhao Gao's head, Dong Zhuo's eyebrows, Wang Mang's ears, Fei Zhong's nose, You Hun's eyes, Cao Cao's face, Pang Wen's mouth, just a good beard, almost the same as Zhang Shigui..." A person who looks like this, can he still want it? Who knows what the parts on the faces of the traitors of past generations look like? Anyway, as soon as he described it, it was fun.
Mr. Yuan's "Three Kingdoms" is not a script, but a modern perspective, with profound life experience and historical insights. For example, Zhuge Liang is more intelligent and close to the demon in the original work, and in the mouth of Mr. Yuan, this Mr. Kong Ming has a lot of small calculations and pranks, especially with Lu Su, and suddenly the divinity decreases, and the human taste is greatly increased. Another example is the Second Prince Guan Yunchang, Yuan Kuocheng poured deep feelings into him, which was depicted according to the specifications of Wu Song in "Water Margin", a god-like figure, but he did not forget to ridicule Guan Yu's rigidity and arrogance. He has a talented ability to make words and sentences, and exudes the beauty of rhythm in his oral narrative, and also takes his description of Gao Li's virtue as an example, saying that during the song Huizong period, the rebel army was everywhere, and Gao Li's principle was "love where to oppose where to oppose, I don't care, the capital is the safest." Come alive and well.
Originally a civic art, later into a teahouse entertainment, and finally a theater art, TV darling, Yuan Kuocheng has a sense of cultural thoroughness that Liu, Shan, Tian and other commentators do not have, you will feel that he is the only one who can enter the university and go to the pulpit. I do not deliberately elevate Mr. Yuan when I say this, but his works have the color of traditional storytelling, and also create a realistic meaning in fictional art, and he also expands the boundaries of expression of storytelling. Most of the commentaries are the interpretation stories of the emperors and generals, the narrative has routines, the characters have faces, with obvious grassroots colors, with unlimited possibilities for replication. For example, niu gao, Hu Dahai, Cheng Yaojin's personality, appearance, and experience are extremely similar, such as Pang Wen, Pan Renmei, Zhang Bangchang are also similar deeds, but the best artists can play personality within roughly the same framework, like Chen Yinrong's "Xingtang Biography", which is really full of paper folk wisdom. And Yuan Kuocheng's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" not only narrates the story, but also exports the plot, sometimes passionately, sometimes laughing, there is a legendary magnificence, there is a depth of commentary, and it is the top spot in the robe belt book.
"Shui Po Liang Shan" is another way, taking the commentary to the direction of martial arts novels by a big step. This book begins with the theft of the Purple Gold Eight Treasures Luminous Pot, leading to the birth of the Iron Buddha to steal the pot to see, Kaifeng Province mistakenly captured the jade Qilin Lu Junyi... The story is completely different from the original work, and it also gets rid of the routine narrative of the book, the plot direction is always unexpected, and the character personality grows madly in the dark field of the original work, and the anger is frozen. The depiction of martial arts goes beyond the three-plate axe of the commentary, and a "backward kick of the purple and golden crown" leads to two stories, which incorporate more psychological activities in the process of fighting, and the fun is close to the martial arts novels of Jin Yong and Gu Long. It can be said that "Shui Po Liang Shan" refreshes the IQ and emotional intelligence of the book review and enters the ranks of high-quality legendary literature.
For me, storytelling is inseparable from the adolescent time in my memory, and is connected with my grandfather and grandfather, who have passed away. Grandpa is an amateur storyteller in the township, and a "Sui and Tang Dynasty" is ripe. Grandpa was a deep fan of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and television and radio were to his meaning, one was the weather forecast, and the other was "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "White Brow Hero". Under the influence of the two old men, and thanks to the blessing of the book-reading fever at that time, my literary enlightenment was completed in the depression of several people. In today's parlance, the "three views" are also tempered and formed in listening to the book, the pursuit of heroic feelings, the attachment to good and evil, from adolescence to youth to middle age, irrevocable, not easier.
Although Mr. Yuan has gone to the west of the crane, the art of storytelling has gradually become niche due to the diversion of new entertainment methods, and has become a tool for some ancient people to remember the past, and no longer has the magic power to turn all sentient beings upside down. But it doesn't matter, once a dazzling star, it will always twinkle in the sky of history.
If you want to listen to Mr. Yuan's works, please send me a private message Yuan Kuocheng