If you talk about the time when I met Yan Qiu, I still knew Lan Fang the earliest, and Yu Shuang (that is, Yan Qiu) was introduced by Mr. Luo Gonggong. I have no compliments for Royal Frost. I have always spoken to Yan Qiu without a good word, and I always criticize him in person, but he said: I like to listen.
Yan Qiu's life was a life of oppression. I remember that Yan Qiu had performed a church play for Zhang Zuolin, and Zhang's men arranged his play after Zhang had lunch, and the drama code was also very plain, and the play of the famous actor was placed before Zhang ate. Who knew that Zhang admired Yan Qiu's play, the rice could be put out to eat, the opium could be taken out and sucked, and when Yan Qiu finished singing, Zhang was going to sleep, and the people who engaged in the trap fell back to a counterproductive result.
Yanqiu's hanging head card is Shanghai to Beijing. Yu Shuyan took Yan Qiu to Shanghai to sing the second. Not knowing what happened, the Shanghai military and police made trouble with Yu, and Yu secretly bought a train ticket and sneaked back to Beijing, leaving Yan Qiugan in Shanghai.
Cheng Yanqiu's "Fei Gong Ren"
Mr. Luo Luogong asked me how to do it. The first stage suggested whether to go down to Yan Qiuding, Luo Gong was very cautious, and he considered and could not make up his mind. Everyone advocated asking Yan Qiu's own opinion.
At that time, Cheng was about twenty years old and still very young, but he replied, "If you ask me, I will go down." As for whether you are sure or not, see how the selling seat is. So the stage hung up a sign, indicating that because Yu Shuyan's boss was ill, he asked Cheng Yanqiu to hang the head card.
I privately asked Yan Qiu if he was sure, and his answer was still the old saying, really bold, and as a result, his performance was full every day. So later I said to him, it was Yu Shuyan who gave you a good chance.
The warlord Zhang Zongchang also invited Yan Qiu to perform a church play. One day, Zhang Yanqiu went to talk, and after the talk, he was given 60,000 yuan in cash, yanqiu resolutely refused to accept it, zhang had no choice but to give up. Zhang is a robber, but also a thief and a way, and he also has to praise Cheng Yanqiu as a good boy. No one knows about it.
Cheng Yanqiu, Wu Fuqin, Wen Liangchen's "Jade Hairpin"
Yan Qiu went to Shanghai to visit the hooligans, and as a result, the Shanghai tabloids scolded him into a mess. Even though the rich people praised him, he didn't buy it. There were only two kinds of people who wrote to Yan Qiu in Shanghai: one was that the woman seduced him, and he ignored it; the other was poor and helped, and for this, he wrote down the addresses of the letterers one by one. When Yan Qiu went out with me, he took the money and drilled it in according to the address of the letter, and did not leave any reply, but just sent money to help people. This is often the case. Cheng Yanqiu is proud of the rich and sympathetic to the poor.
Yan Qiu is a person of integrity, but this evaluation is still too general, his personality can change two words, at least should be written just, he suffers losses in gang, good is also in gang, singing there is gang. Yan Qiu is one for rigidity, and the other is pure, that is, lonely and pure. It is true that after he went to the countryside, he loved the working life, just as Yan Qiu wrote in his diary: "After all day of exhaustion, he was full of cornmeal and felt sweet and happy, and he worked and was happy." ”
Cheng Yanqiu worked as a farmer at Qinglong Bridge
Yan Qiu likes to be close to the working people, saying that he is not calm with the city scholars, on the contrary, getting along with the "rural generation" is really interesting in the peasants do not feel their suffering. Later, he opened a rural school. Yan Qiu's love for the working people is a red thread running through, which is very related to his future approach to the party. Yan Qiu painted a branch of plum in the siege of Beijing, with two poems attached: "It is expected that the god of joy will arrive, and the end will first put a few springs." "I wrote back to say that these two verses are very good and good, and it is best to write them on the painting. Therefore, as soon as the Communists entered the city, Yan Qiu sang a play for three days to show his congratulations. His poems are fond of the Communist Party, and all those who are oppressed sympathize with the Communist Party. He doesn't rely on any mountain.
Yan Qiu once said after liberation: "I will not join any sect or sect, but if I want to join, I will join the Communist Party of China." "Yan Qiu was oppressed all his life, sympathetic and loving to the working people, and after liberation, he became more and more fond of and close to the party, and was determined to accept the leadership of the party and strive to serve the people. Finally, he joined the great, glorious, and correct Communist Party of China. This is to highlight the description.
Yan Qiu is not fake, he is completely based on art. He advocated that opera should undertake the task of reforming society, and the play "Green Frost Sword" is about this. Wang Yaoqing this gentleman is really responsible, Yan Qiu's play must be listened to every time, Yan Qiu solicited his opinion, often discussed to Tianming, "SuoLin Bag" a play is a collection of his artistic masterpiece, the content of the play is some problems, Yan Qiu also wants to change. He handed over the book for more than a year, offered his own opinions, and as a result, no one changed him. In the past, when this play was sung in Shanghai, no one could beat it. Later, it was this play, I didn't ask him to act, I didn't change it for him. The play "Suolin Capsule" is very high in art, and the content can at least be changed.
Cheng Yanqiu's "Suolin Capsule"
Yan Qiu has a profound understanding of local drama and has a lot to do with it. Of course, films, foreign operas, etc., and so on, are beneficial to his artistic creation, but it is necessary to highlight the influence of local drama on his art.
Many famous characters can act on their own, but they can't teach others to play, which I don't know. Later, I heard yan qiu give a lecture, and he spoke very well, and those who could sing were not necessarily able to teach, but he could both perform and teach people, which was rare and precious.
(Cultural Historical Materials, Episode 1)