Recently, the "China Culture Newspaper" published an article written by Wan Boao, the eldest son of Wanli, entitled "Remembrance of Zhang Chunhua, the Master of Peking Opera Martial Arts".
On March 5, Zhang Chunhua, a famous martial arts artist in Peking Opera, died in Beijing at the age of 94. Zhang Chunhua was born in Tianjin in December 1924 and entered the Tianjin "Jigu Society" class at the age of 12. In 1943, he officially worshiped Ye Shengzhang as a teacher and went to Beijing to perform with Fu Liancheng, and was the main descendant of Mr. Ye Shengzhang's "Ye Pai Wu Ugly Art". On March 9, the farewell ceremony for the body of Zhang Chunhua, a famous martial arts artist of Peking Opera, was held at the Babaoshan Funeral Home in Beijing, and people from the Peking Opera and cultural circles went to bid farewell.
Wan Bo'ao said in the article, "I have known Mr. Zhang Chunhua for a long time, and I have known him since I was still wearing a red scarf. In the mid-1950s, I often went to the house of the dramatist Uncle Ma Yanxiang to play with his son and my classmate Ma Simeng, whose wife, Yun Yanming, the main actor of the Second Troupe of the Chinese Peking Opera House, often cooperated with Zhang Chunhua. ”
At that time, Uncle Ma's family lived in a large courtyard in Xiaoyabao Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing. Ma Simeng's grandfather, Ma Heng, was an archaeologist and the director of the Palace Museum. It is said that in 1950, Uncle Ma got married and did not have a house, so he used the East Wing of the old man's private house compound as a cave house. The wedding ceremony was held in the European and American Alumni Association along the South River, Premier Zhou sent a pair of gold pens, Guo Lao sent calligraphy gifts, and the great painter Xu Beihong painted "Double Juntu" for the newlyweds. The four famous dans led by Mei Lanfang and the famous actors Zhang Chunhua and Zhang Yunxi all attended the wedding. ”
Wan Bo'ao also recalled his experience of watching Zhang Chunhua's performance: "When I was in school, I didn't have the opportunity to watch Zhang Lao's performance, because at that time I had been living in Yucai Primary School and could only listen on the radio. During the ten years of turmoil, the classical traditional drama was all beaten into the cold palace, and Zhang Lao stood aside and did not let him perform. My father, Wan Li, who loved Peking Opera, was also branded a 'counter-revolutionary revisionist clique' and was imprisoned and never saw a play again. On the 18th anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China in 1967, Mr. Zhang was assigned to work the night shift in Tiananmen Square, guarding the float of the Model Play "Wise Tiger Mountain" of the Peking Opera House in China. The autumn wind rises, the yellow leaves flutter, and Zhang Lao buckles the army coat several times in the middle of the night, not daring to have the slightest carelessness, in case something happens, as a 'black line figure', he will be violently criticized by the rebels. Fortunately, at that time, accompanied by An Yunwu, a Ma Pai student who was standing on the sidelines, he finally survived until dawn. ”
After Wan Bo'ao was transferred back to Beijing in 1981, "As long as I heard that there was a performance by Elder Zhang, I would try to see it." "Whether it is "Time to Move to Steal Chickens", which has been famous in Jinmen for a long time and has been famous as early as 1943, or "Thief Jia", "Wine Cai", "Three Thieves Order", "Qiao Lian" and other plays performed in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Wuhan and other places.
Wan Bo'ao is wanli's eldest son. In July 2015, when Wanli died, Wan Bo'ao said in an interview with the Beijing News that he was sent to the countryside by his father for training at the age of 18, and stayed for 10 years, and his father told him to be a cultured farmer. At first, he did not understand his father's approach, complained, and then understood, and in the wind and rain he exercised as a writer. "Fathers are extremely strict with their families, sometimes to the point of being unkind, it is not easy to be the son of Wanli, there have been complaints and grievances, fortunately the family did not insult the father's reputation of incorruptibility."
Wan Bo'ao is also a writer, who has published "Thirty Spring and Autumn", "Forty Spring and Autumn", "Yuanrong People Hanging Pole", "Fifty Spring and Autumn", "Inside and Outside the Red Wall" and so on.
"Political Affairs" (WeChat id: xjbzse) written by He Qiang