Wan Rutong: My grandfather Wan Zi and 1
Wan Zi and
Grandpa Wan Zihe, September 16, 1883, [Lunar Calendar August 16, belonging to sheep] - 1969. Originally from Guixi, Jiangxi, he was born into a family of working people. His brother is a martial arts actor who has been performing in classes outside for many years. Once when he went out to perform, his family lost contact with him. Grandpa followed his brother's performance trail and his mother and the two of them inquired and searched, so they came to Beijing. After arriving in Beijing, there was little money left on his body, Grandpa's mother helped others sew clothes and wash clothes to earn some money, Grandpa looked for his brother while doing some labor, handyman in shops, restaurants as a young man. When it is time to collect the sweet potatoes, go to the people's fields to pick up the white potatoes that have fallen underground after harvesting, and walk the streets and alleys in the morning and evening to sell baked sweet potatoes.
Grandpa made many friends with kindness, hard work, and hard work, and learned that his brother died for some reason. Only through the introduction of friends can there be a stable job, that is, to run a movie theater, and the life of grandpa and son will also have a settlement. Grandpa was shrewd and capable, and invested in the original "Daguanlou Cinema" in Dashilar, and now the Daguanlou Cinema. At that time, Grandpa pioneered the domestic film business, and Tan Xinpei's "Dingjun Mountain" and Yu Zhenting's "Golden Leopard" two silent record films were advocated by Grandpa.
Tan Xinpei (23 April 1847 – 10 May 1917), real name Jin Fu (金福), was a famous Peking Opera actor who specialized in lao sheng and played wusheng. Because of the name of the hall Yingxiu, people also called it Yingxiu. He was born in Huangpi, Hubei (present-day Huangpi District, Wuhan). He was born in Jiufu Village, Tanzuowan, outside the Great East Gate of Jiangxia District (formerly Wuchang County) in Wuhan. His father, Tan Zhidao, was the main worker, Lao Dan and Lao Sheng. Tan Xinpei was his only son, born on the ninth day of March in the 27th year of Qing Daoguang.
In 1905, Tan Xinpei filmed the black-and-white silent film "Dingjun Mountain" at the Fengtai Photo Studio, which became the first film in China.
Yu Zhenting, Peking Opera Wusheng. Birthday: September 27, 1879, August 12, 1879, 5th year of Guangxu (己卯); Died: January 21, 1939, the second day of the first month of the 12th month of the lunar year. Son of Yu Runxian.
Grandpa has been obsessed with opera since childhood. In 1926, Meng Bingchu sold [Hua Paradise], led by his grandfather to raise funds, and Wu Mingquan, Liu Zhonglin, Jiao Runshan, Shen Xiushui, Hao Shouchen and others were successively invested. The theater was renovated, with Grandpa as the manager, Wu Mingquan as the deputy manager, and Shuangfuting as the deacon. 【Huayuan Park】 was renamed as [Huale Theater].
【Huale Theater】Like most old-style theaters, the main entrance is a façade, after entering the door, a front is 3.5 meters wide, the rear is 7 meters wide, and the total length is 8 meters Left and right doorways, the middle of the doorway is the ticket office, and the west side is the ticket gate. Enter the auditorium east. There are stairs on both sides of the west that lead to the upstairs office. Cabinet room. Manager's Office and II. Third floor auditorium. Ground floor sub-pool seat. East Corridor. West Corridor. The back porch consists of four parts. At the back of the back porch, there are three eight immortal tables, which are elastic seats, and the audience seats are long reclining chairs, and there are long wooden supports on the backs of the chairs, which are used to place tea sets and food. However, the pool seats are made of iron frame and wooden slats, and the rest are made of wood. There are eight pillars supporting the second floor. Third floor auditorium. The second floor is a cement railing with a table top, east. north. There are a total of twenty-six private rooms in the west, each of which can seat four people. east. There are seven large boxes behind the West Building, each of which can seat ten to fourteen people. Behind the small box in the main building is a scattered seat, and on the third floor there is only the main building, facing the stage, twelve long tables are placed, and six people can sit behind each table. The total capacity of the audience hall is more than 1,300 people.
On the first floor, there are Taiping Gate on both sides of the auditorium, the east side through the long lane headlines, and the west side through a small alley through the fresh fish mouth for the audience evacuation passage The group room around the audience hall has a boiler room. Dormitory rooms. Spectator toilets, etc. The large canopy on the east side is used for spectators to rest.
【Huale Theater】The stage sits south and faces north, with a platform mouth, and the lip is similar to the modern stage. Purple cotton curtain, stage has on. The lower door and the curtain ledger have no side curtains, which is no different from the old stage. Since the stage lights were not very bright that year and in order to prevent blackouts from affecting the performance, two kerosene lamps were hung on the top of the stage. A total of seven makeup rooms are spacious backstage. 【Huale Theater】 was a theater with better conditions in Beijing that year.
Theater head Xu Shuangtai on behalf of the capital to manage everything in the field, deputy head Li Hongkui management front desk three lines of hand towel line five people, each scene to send the hand towel put several times, the big axis play before the opening charge, the famous corner is not allowed to put on the hand towel handle after playing, small shop ten people left. On the right, there are trays stringing halls, and there are food stalls. The tea house is also known as the total of seventy-seven people in the audience, and every seven people pack a place, and each piece has a positive. The first person in the deputy tea room, the leader of the tea room. Tea room charges.
Huale Theater is a famous theatrical performance venue in Beijing, located in the Xianyukou Hutong opposite Beijing's Dashilar. Huale Theater was built during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the theater changed its name several times, originally called Tianle Tea Garden, later renamed Huayuan Garden, Huale Theater, and renamed the Popular Theater after 1949.
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