Exploring the family members and kinship relationships of the famous pear garden masters, we will find an interesting phenomenon: from the famous masters to the unknown pawns, their in-laws and relatives are intertwined, spanning various trades, forming a network of relationships, a closed system of self-circulation.
Mei Lanfang's grandfather, Mei Qiaoling, nicknamed "Fat Qiaoling", Mei Qiaoling met The Kunqu Danjiao Chen Jinque. Mei Qiaoling's generosity, benevolence, and integrity were very appreciated by Chen Jinque, so he found a matchmaker and gave his daughter to Mei Qiaoling. The Chen clan gave birth to two boys and two girls for Mei Qiaoling, and both boys entered the pear garden, and the second son, Mei Zhufen, married the famous Pihuang opera martial arts actor, the daughter of Yang Longshou, the "living Wusong", and gave birth to Mei Lanfang.
At the age of 17, Mei Lanfang married Wang Minghua, her father Wang Shunfu played Hua Dan, and her brother Wang Yulou was a famous martial artist. Later married Fu Zhifang, she was also a Dan actor.
Mr. Mei Lanfang and the original wife Wang Minghua
Five years after Mei Lanfang married Fu Zhifang, Mei Lanfang fell in love with the old actor Meng Xiaodong. Meng Xiaodong's grandfather, Meng Qi, was a famous Wenwu veteran and Wujing actor of Tan Xinpei's contemporaries, and her father, Meng Hongqun, known as Meng Wuye, Gongwen Wusheng and Wujing.
Ma Lianliang has a son-in-law named Huang Yuanqing, who is a famous Peking Opera martial artist and a disciple of Ma Lianliang. Ma Lianliang's younger daughter Ma Xiaoman is Mei Lanfang's daughter and disciple, and Ma Xiaoman's husband is the famous violinist Yan Shouping.
Ms. Ma Xiaoman
Ma Lianliang's righteous son, Ma Changli, was married to the famous Peking Opera Danjiao actor Xiao Wang Yurong (daughter of Peking Opera performance artist Wang Yurong). Ma Changli had a brother-in-law named Ding Zhenchun (the husband of Xiao Rong, the queen of Wang Yurong), who was a famous Martial Arts performing artist in Peking Opera and a former professor at the China Academy of Performing Arts. Ma Changli's son-in-law is Du Zhenjie, an old actor at the Beijing Opera House.
Yan Jupeng's daughter Yan Huizhu married the Jingkun performance artist Yu Zhenfei, and after Yan Huizhu's death, Yu Zhenfei married the famous Peking Opera Chengpai performance artist Li Qihua, and Li Qihua's ex-husband was the famous Peking Opera Ma Pai old student Guan Zhengming, and they had a son who was the Peking Opera actor Guan Dongtian (formerly known as Care).
Ms. Yan Huizhu
Zhang Shaolou, a famous peking opera female student, and Major General Wang Xiaotang, the former director of the Bayi Film Studio, married Yan Jupeng's sons Yan Shaopeng and Yan Xiaopeng respectively. Yan Jupeng's younger daughter, Yan Huilan, is married to Chen Yongling, a Peking Opera Danjiao, and their son is Peking Opera Flower Face Actor Chen Lincang.
Cheng Yanqiu's mother-in-law, Yu Suxia, was the eldest sister of Peking Opera master Yu Shuyan, so Cheng Yanqiu was called Yu Shuyan's uncle.
Master Cheng Yanqiu
Cheng Yanqiu's second brother, Cheng Zuochen, and Cheng Zuochen's son-in-law, named Zhong Mingqi, was a Peking Opera martial arts actor. Zhong Mingqi's uncle, Qu Enlong, played the yueqin at the Beijing Opera House in Beijing. Qu Enlong's seventh sister married Sun Shengwu, the ugly name of Peking Opera, and Sun Shengwu's grandfather was Goldman Sachs Quan, who was the grandfather of Gao Qingkui, the founder of Peking Opera Gao Pai.
Goldman Sachs Quan's son-in-law, Li Shouchen, is a veteran of Peking Opera, and Li Shouchen's niece Li Shuqing (also known as Li Shouchen's brother and daughter of Peking Opera Jingjiao Li Shoushan) is the first wife of Peking Opera master Shang Xiaoyun and the mother of Peking Opera martial arts actor Shang Changchun.
Shang Changchun and the famous Peking Opera net corner actor Jing Rongqing are consorts. The Cheng family, the Shang family, and the Gao family all had marriages.
Yu Shuyan's father-in-law is Peking Opera Qingyi Chen Delin, Chen Delin's son, the famous Peking Opera veteran actor Chen Shaolin's father-in-law is Peking Opera Wudan Zhu Guifang (Little Forty), and his mother-in-law is Wu Caixia's fourth sister. Xun Huisheng's wife, Wu Chunsheng, was Wu Caixia's sixth sister.
Chen Shaolin's son, Chen Zhiqing, is an old actor from the Yu Pai of the Beijing Experimental Peking Opera Troupe.
Chen Delin also has a son named Chen Shaoyun, mrs. Wu, Wu's niece Wu Jingwen, Wu Jingwen's husband Li Zhimin, Li Zhimin's grandfather is Tan Xinpei's son Tan Jiashan, Li Zhimin has a sister Li Yuying is Qiu Shengrong's wife.
Chen Zhiqing called Yu Shuyan his uncle, Wu Caixia his uncle, and Xun Huisheng his aunt.
Yang Xiaolou, the master of Chinese opera, is the son of Peking Opera master Tan Xinpei, and Yang Xiaolou's father, Yang Yuelou, is also a Peking Opera martial arts performance artist. Yang Xiaolou's daughter Yang Guizi married Liu Yanfang, an old student of Peking Opera, liu Yanfang's son Liu Zongyang was also a Peking Opera veteran, and his wife, Chi Wenyuan, was the daughter of Yuan Shihai's elder brother-in-law, Chi Jingkun. Therefore, Liu Zongyang and Yuan Shihai are consorts.
Liu Yanfang's daughter Liu Huifen married Gao Shenglin, the son of Gao Qingkui, the founder of the famous Peking Opera Gao Pai, and a martial arts student of Peking Opera. Gao Qingkui's granddaughter, Gao Hong, the daughter of Gao Shishou, a martial artist of Peking Opera, was Qiu Shengrong's daughter-in-law and the wife of Qiu Shaorong (Qiu Ming), but unfortunately Qiu Shaorong died young.
Therefore, Gao Qingkui and Qiu Guixian are old relatives.
Zhang Junqiu is the son of Shang Xiaoyun and Ma Lianliang; Zhang Junqiu's third wife, Xie Hongwen, whose former husband is Yang Baosen, a master of Peking Opera and founder of Yang Pai.
Zhang Junqiu's mother was the daughter of Li Baozhen, the father of Peking Opera Lao Dan Li Duokui. Li Duokui's eldest son, Li Zonghua, was a Peking Opera martial arts student, and his second wife was Zhai Ping, a disciple of Peking Opera master Zhang Junqiu and a Peking Opera actor at the Peking Opera House in Shandong Province.
Mr. Zhang Junqiu
Why is the relationship between pear gardening so complicated?
Before the 1930s, the "pedigree" of Pear Garden Was Fairly Pure. In the pear garden line to settle down, the actors rely on two kinds of interpersonal relationships, one is the relationship between the teacher and the inheritance, and the other is the family relationship. The former refers to the artistic school, and the latter refers to the surname in-laws. The two webs of relationship are intertwined and inseparable.
The weaving of this network of relations is not a day or two, but is closely related to the characteristics of the pear garden industry, social status, and historical inheritance. The dramatist and theorist Luo Luogong of the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty once mentioned a sentence in the Jubu Cong Tan: "All famous people have several in-laws; in the past, the boundaries were very strict, and the boundaries of the ling world could not be married to the outside world." ”
This sentence points out the helplessness of internal intermarriage.