1, the story of Mei Lanfang's grandfather, Mei Qiaoling, who is righteous and thin in the clouds
Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, whose ancestral home is Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, and his grandfather Mei Qiaoling was also a Peking Opera artist in the late Qing Dynasty. Due to her family's poverty, Mei Qiaoling inherited him as a righteous son to the Jiang family in Suzhou at the age of eight, and a few years later the Jiang family gave birth to a son, began to snub him, and then sold him to human traffickers, who in turn sold him to Yang Xisan, the head of the drama class, as an apprentice to study Danjiao. Yang Xisan is famous for abusing his apprentices, Mei Qiaoling is there, either beating or scolding, starving and frozen, Yang Xishan likes to hit the palm of his hand with a wooden board, and finally Mei Qiaoling's palm lines are flattened, and Mei Qiaoling's teenager suffered from human suffering in the world with her adoptive parents and Yang Xishan.
Later, Mei Qiaoling also visited Xia Baiyan, and was also a master who was famous for abusing his apprentices.
Fortunately, Luo Qiaofu, a kind-hearted opera master, sympathized with Mei Qiaoling and spent a lot of money to redeem him and raise him as his own child, not only teaching him the exquisite art of Peking Opera, but also teaching him a noble personality. Mei Qiaoling was very fond of this kind and kind master, who studied drama diligently and earnestly, and inherited the master's character of being lenient with others, being kind to the family, and being righteous and loyal.
Mei Qiaoling later became the head of the famous Peking Opera Sixi Class, and now the Peking Opera Tongguang Thirteen Absolute - Yanmen Guan, Empress Xiao's appearance, is the prototype of Mei Qiaoling.
At that time, Yushi Xie Mengyu was a clean and honest official, loved opera, was proficient in rhyme, and was a loyal fan of Mei Qiaoling. He didn't know how to fish for silver, and when he encountered an emergency at home, he was not embarrassed to tell people. Mei Qiaoling knew about it, so she took the initiative to help him, and Xie Mengyu insisted on writing IOUs in case the economy improved in the future. Over the past few years, he borrowed thousands of taels of silver and a lot of IOUs, but Xie Renren gengzhi had no money, but Mr. Mei never collected debts or mentioned them. Confidant is difficult to meet, confidant is difficult to seek, Mr. Mei is also very appreciative and admired for this old fan, after all, he is a clean and honest official, erudite and knowledgeable, noble character, and a typical upright gentleman.
Many years later, Xie Mengyu died of illness, the Xie family did something wrong, Mei Qiaoling heard that Zhiyin had passed away, tearful, staggered into the spiritual shed, cried loudly, and mourned. After that, he took out the IOU from the cuff tremblingly, and the Xie family was stunned, people are not rotten, what is used to pay off the debt at this time?
Who knows, Xie Qiaoling used the candle of the spiritual platform to ignite the IOU and burned it all, and then took out 200 silver tickets from the sleeve and forced it into Xie's son, saying, Your father is honest and honest as an official, and it must be cramped to handle funerals. After wiping his tears, he walked out of the spiritual shed with heavy steps, leaving behind the people's sighs and admirations.
2, the story of Mei Lanfang's father - fighting for righteousness and giving money
Mei Lanfang's father, Mei Zhufen, studied Huqin in his early years, and after completing his studies, he often performed in the imperial palace and accumulated a huge amount of money of 5,000 taels. At this time, the elders urged him to return to his hometown to marry his wife, and he embarked on the road back to his hometown with a huge amount of money. As the carriage passed by Nanjing, Mei Zhufen saw the seating sheds of the victims, one after another. He felt compassion for a moment, thinking that I would give up 3,000 taels of silver to relieve the disaster, and the remaining 2,000 taels would be enough to return to my hometown to complete the marriage. So he took out 3,000 taels to help the victims, but there were too many victims, and there were still many victims who begged for 3,000 taels, and he couldn't bear it, and he scattered all the 2,000 taels. Years of hard-earned money were all gone in one day, but he was very comforted inside. Without money, he certainly could not marry and have children, so he returned to the capital. The friends wondered and asked him why he was back so soon. He spoke out about the relief of the victims, and many people laughed at his foolishness. Later, Mei Zhufen worked in the capital for three more years before returning to the countryside to complete the marriage and marry his wife Yang Changyu, a descendant of Wu Sheng. Mei Zhufen gave up her family wealth to relieve the hungry, and accumulated a lot of yin and virtue. Tianqi Lin'er Mei Lanfang, a life of unspeakable, is a generation of masters in the field of Peking Opera.
Mei Lanfang's story - patriotic artist
3, Mei Lanfang is a legend in the field of Peking Opera, he was during the Beiyang government, when China's status in the world was low, Chinese was also discriminated against abroad. But Mei Lanfang took the national essence of Peking Opera to the world stage, whether in the United States or in Japan, Mei Lanfang's performance was full, he not only proved to the world the charm of China's national essence, but also proved to the world the personality charm of Chinese self-improvement and self-confidence.
At that time, in the 1930s and 1940s, Mei Lanfang's performance in Shanghai cost as much as ten gold bars. At that time, ten gold bars was a huge amount of money, which not only allowed Mei Lanfang to enjoy the glory and wealth, but also allowed Mei Lanfang to buy a single-family villa in the most prosperous area at that time.
Mei Lanfang is an artist with patriotic integrity. Japan launched the September 18 Incident, invaded and occupied northeast China, and threatened Beiping and Tianjin. Mei Lanfang, who was in Shanghai, wrote two plays, "Anti-Gold Soldier" and "Life and Death Hate", to express her patriotic feelings, which were very popular with the audience.
After the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, they learned that Mei Lanfang's fame and influence were very large, so they asked Mei Lanfang to sing on the radio. Mei Lanfang cleverly said that I was about to perform in the hong Kong mainland and could not do this. He stayed in Hong Kong after arriving, after which Hong Kong also fell, and he and his family were forced to move back to Shanghai. In order to whitewash Taiping and advocate the so-called Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle, the Japanese have repeatedly asked Mei Lanfang to perform on stage, and Mei Lanfang refuses to perform every time on the grounds that she is old and ill. In order to cut off the idea of Japanese hypocrisy, he simply grew a beard, and everyone knew that Mei Lanfang played dan horn, and of course, with a beard, he could not perform. The Japanese and traitorous governments were extremely dissatisfied with Mei Lanfang's resistance, so they froze mei Lanfang's family's deposits and forced him to come out to perform. At that time, Mei Lanfang's family life was extremely difficult, after eating the last meal without the next meal, eating chaff and throat dishes could not fill the stomach, and there was no way, Mei Lanfang began to sell calligraphy and paintings. Because he had studied painting art with Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi and other painters in his early years, in a desperate situation, he decided to sell paintings for a living. Mei Lanfang's paintings were so popular that they were snapped up when they were hung up. Who knew that the famous traitor leader in Shanghai had pasted Mei Lanfang's paintings with notes that had been purchased by so-and-so, and the names on them were all the names of the traitors; after Mei Lanfang knew about it, she was extremely angry and rushed to the scene of selling the paintings and tore up all the paintings.
Mei Lanfang could not make a living selling paintings, so she tearfully betrayed her old mansion in Beijing, and then sold her favorite collection collected over the years and lived in debt.
The famous painter Feng Zikai talked about this period of history, and once praised Mei Lanfang, saying that in the vast history of Qingqing, how many people have broken their rice bowls for the sake of patriotism?
After the founding of New China, Mei Lanfang served as the director of the Peking Opera House in China and became a staff member who received a salary, and his monthly salary was 2100 yuan, which was really an astronomical salary, when the professor's high salary was only 200 yuan, and Chairman Mao's salary was 410 yuan. However, Mei Lanfang still lives the life of an ordinary person, does not wear gold and silver, eats and drinks spicy, splurges, and is always very frugal about her own behavior. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he donated an airplane.
The origin of wealth and nobility introduces the story of Mei Lanfang's father Mei Zhufen and Mei Lanfang. The amount of blessing is great, and the amount of heart is great, how much your blessing is. Those who enjoy a thousand gold must be a person of a thousand gold.
