Zhang Junqiu is the most outstanding Peking Opera Danjiao after the "Four Famous Dans" Mei Shangcheng Xun. However, compared with the comprehensiveness of all aspects of the "Four Famous Dans", Mr. Zhang's artistic focus is prominent in "singing"!
Speaking of which, some people may not understand what I mean, I have said before that the Zhang school is a flawed genre, it only continues and develops the singing art of Peking Opera Danjiao, and this continuation is facilitated by several conditions, the first is his talent, the second is his teacher, and the third is his opportunity.
First of all, let's talk about his talent. Zhang Junqiu's voice is excellent, the appearance is excellent, this can be said not only the heavens pity and is the grandfather to appreciate the meal, there is a person who said that Zhang Junqiu's appearance is the most beautiful in the male Dan, although this word is somewhat exaggerated, but it is not difficult to find when we look at Zhang Junqiu's period photos, Zhang is indeed born beautiful male and female is difficult to distinguish, of course, the elderly said another.
Teenager Zhang Junqiu
It is said that the first time he performed "Female Explanation", the two audience members in the audience tore it up because they argued that he was a boy and a girl, which made people can't help but be funny.
The second point is that his teachers are too good and excellent, most of them are the top masters of Peking Opera at that time, for example, Wang Yaoqing is his master, the master of his master Li Lingfeng, and later many plays, his master Li Lingfeng can not teach, Mr. Wang Yaoqing undertook the task of teaching Zhang Junqiu, so I have long said that the skeleton of Zhang Pai is Wang Pai.
Another person who had a great influence on him was the Peking Opera master Cheng Yanqiu. Mr. Cheng especially liked Zhang Junqiu, a descendant, he took the initiative to go to his home to teach him drama, took the initiative to give him a script, when performing, Cheng's props set was used casually, even if Cheng Yanqiu lived in seclusion in QinglongQiao to work as a farmer, he did not break the professor's guidance to Zhang Junqiu.
Mr. Shang Xiaoyun is not to mention, at first he watched Zhang Junqiu's performance, he wanted to take him as an apprentice, but Li Lingfeng did not do it, so he let Zhang Junqiu worship him and became Zhang Junqiu's dry old man, Shang Xiaoyun ancient road hot sausage, love talent, he taught Zhang Junqiu a lot of plays, and promoted Zhang Junqiu to perform together, so there are many components of The Shang School in Zhang Pai's singing.
Shang Xiaoyun is teaching students
That Mei Lanfang is not to mention, in the "Four Famous Dans", Zhang Junqiu is the only one who has worshiped Mei Lanfang, for many teachers who have taught him, he is only a student, and for Mei Lanfang, Zhang Junqiu is a disciple, as we all know, Mei Lanfang generally does not teach students personally, he has an early disciple Wei Liangfang to teach, but for Zhang Junqiu, Mei Lanfang personally taught him six plays, of which the sword sleeve of "Farewell to the Overlord" was taught to Zhang by Mei herself, this treatment, Among Mei's apprentices, it is said that only Li Shifang and Zhang Junqiu had them. Therefore, the tabloids at the time said that Zhang Junqiu was the most promising to become the best heir of mei lanfang meipai.
Zhang Pai art is a continuation and development of Danjiao's singing style, but other aspects are much worse. The "four famous dans" are not the same, their reform and creation is not only different from the singing voice, but also involves clothing, makeup, body, dance, character sounds, and even huqin gongs and drums, from scene scheduling to the style color of a flower on the sideburns. The meticulousness and nuance of their reform of Peking Opera is not comparable to That of Zhang Junqiu, although Zhang Junqiu also began to reform these aspects later, but he always failed due to his personal ability and environment and other reasons. His first reform of the costume is not very successful, his costume can only be said to be very characteristic, such as the use of the head of the costume, with the traditional cape, the costume was originally called "small head" (the traditional Baotou is called Bao Datou) but Zhang Junqiu's costume head is huge and very ugly, as if wearing a big hat, very uncoordinated, so the reform is reformed, but the beauty is not beautiful is another story.
Zhang Junqiu performs "The Tale of the West Chamber"
Therefore, when we talk about Mr. Zhang Junqiu's art, we have to go back to singing here, indeed, in addition to his superior music and superb control of the singing voice, there is also his voice, which is excellent beyond the average person! It is said that Mr. Zhang's vocal range can sing two and a half octaves, reaching a wide range of seventeen degrees. He was born with a cross-tone voice, horizontal tone and vertical tone are excellent, Peking Opera Pear Garden Line 200 years of history, can be called cross voice only two, one is the "Ten Quan Dajing" Jin Shaoshan, and the other is this Zhang Junqiu, known as the "female tiger".
If the voice is good, then it is the grandfather's appreciation of the drama meal. There is such a story, it is said that after Zhang Junqiu's debut in Beijing, he gradually became popular, and as a result, there was a theater in Tianjin to meet the corner, and it was Jin Shaoshan, Tan Fuying, and Zhang Junqiu who cooperated in "Erjin Palace". This play, mainly the old student flower face let DanJiao's tune sing, "men are afraid of Xipi, women are afraid of erhuang", so the people who are about the corner ask Zhang Junqiu, what tune do you set when you sing?
Yang Baosen Zhang Junqiu Wang Quankui performed "Erjin Palace"
Jin Shaoshan, Tan Fuying, that is a good voice of "talent and good throat", this drama is a two-yellow drama of male and female duets, and Danjiao's high requirements for voices worry everyone.
As a result, Zhang Junqiu did not move, but said calmly: What tone they use, I will use what tone.
Oh, confidence, this is the confidence of a good voice! Why do you say this, because just said, Pear Garden Line has a sentence, called: "Men are afraid of Xipi, women are afraid of Erhuang" (the female here refers to Danjiao), especially when the Birth Dan is playing, if the old student normally adjusts the Door Dan Horn Er Huang in f key, then when singing with Dan Horn, you have to lower the point of tuning, Dan Horn long point tuning, e or lower e key, otherwise Dan Horn does not have a natural good voice, it is impossible to catch life.
In the face of famous characters with good voices like Tan Fuying and Jin Shaoshan, Zhang Junqiu, as a junior, will not be disrespectful, but not afraid of difficulties and quite confident, which can also be seen that Zhang Junqiu has not been ordinary since childhood, and the famous characters are born? I think it is also a little, although the acquired efforts play a certain role, but your talent is not good and no matter how hard you work, I think everyone has a feeling, and there is really no need to confirm it repeatedly.
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