Tong Zhiling, a master of Peking Opera Danjiao, has been influenced by his family since childhood, and can perform "Female Solution" at the age of 11. Later, he took the owner of the Jinyun Pavilion and Zhang Manjun as his teachers, and together with his second brother Tong Shouling, his younger brother Tong Xiangling, and his younger sister Tong Baoling, he made the "Tong Jia Ban" famous in the Peking Opera circle. In 1939, he took Xun Huisheng as his teacher and asked Wang Yaoqing for his art. Later, he took Mei Lanfang as his teacher.
Her plays are extremely wide, informal, delicate and good at portraying characters. It has Plum God, Xun Yun, Cheng Cavity, and Shang Bone. In terms of singing, she takes the cheerfulness and beauty of "Xun Pai" as the keynote, appropriately kneads the elegance and luxury of "Mei Pai" and the subtle euphemism of "Cheng Pai", which is delicate in boldness and dignified in femininity, which makes people feel fresh and chic and unique. Her recitation is profound, full of emotions, rhythmic and touching. Her extraordinary versatility has always been praised by the world.
Tong Zhiling is an artist who has run through the rivers and lakes, walking in the wind and rain, naturally different from a student like Li Yuru and a modern lady like Yan Huizhu, she has a very bad wind and dust. It is not serious on the stage, but this wind and dust makes her perform "Big Splitting Coffin" and "Spinning Cotton", which is particularly evocative, and sometimes she can also have a Caidan.
According to the memories of old opera fans, in the 40s, when Tong Zhiling was very popular, she often missed the scene due to socializing, and it was common to forget words, singing "Iron Bow Edge", but when she opened her mouth, she was "young and twenty-eight, growing up in a poor family." "But she was very good on stage, covered her mouth and had a good time, and the stage and offstage laughed together, and a stage accident passed."
In Gu Zhengqiu's memoirs, it is said that when the theater was about "Eighty-Five Flower Cave", on the one hand, tong Zhiling and other four famous characters, on the other hand were several of their students who had just graduated from the drama school, Gu Zhengqiu was not as angry as himself, so he rehearsed seriously, and when he performed, Tong Zhiling missed the stage again, and the audience was coaxed, and Tong did not care at all. On the stage, the gestures, eyes, and steps of the four Pan Jinlian of the drama school students were exactly the same, and the audience immediately applauded like thunder, suppressing the famous characters, Tong Zhiling returned to the back and threw the fan away, "Grandma does not sing." ”
At that time, she was called the Four Empresses together with Yan Huizhu, Wu Suqiu and Li Yuru. These four people are similar in age, close to the drama road, and both color and art, and are the representative figures of Kundan art. Although they are students of the four famous Dans, they have basically completed the feminization of Danjiao art. The performance is fresh and beautiful, generous and natural, and there is an unstoppable feminine beauty.
Yan Huizhu specializes in Mei Pai Qingyi flower shirt and is the most comprehensive student who inherits Mei Lanfang's opera road. But he can also act in Huadan dramas such as "Proud Edge" and "Zhan Wancheng" and Wudan dramas such as "Hujiazhuang". It is said that he also acted in "The Great Coffin". When Tong Zhiling and her played against the stage that year, Tong Zhiling sacrificed the two box office magic weapons of "splitting and spinning", because these two plays had a bit of "pink drama" color, Wang Yaoqing issued a martial law order on her own disciples, "Wang Men disciples are not allowed to play spinning cotton", Yan Huizhu did not make a new cut, and made a play "Miss Drama Fan", which is also a southern and northern tune, each showing its ability.
Wu Suqiu and Li Yuru are classmates, the same is the Chinese drama school "Jade Character Section" students, Wu Suqiu did not leave the department on their own to run to the dock, Bai Shang Xiaoyun learned Xun Huisheng, of the four empresses she was the first to be red, "split spinning" two dramas are also her first to perform fire. When she was in the middle of the day, Tong Zhiling only temporarily appeared, and the ambitious Tong Zhiling dared to fight with her, And Tong is a history of Taiwan, in addition to her teacher's four famous Dan, basically God blocks the killing of God, Buddha blocks the Buddha. However, only two or three years later, Wu Suqiu retired from the storm and got married.
After the Cultural Revolution, Yan Huizhu xiang sold Yu Xi, Li Yuru and Wu Suqiu tried to make a comeback, helpless things are not human, the style is not there; Tong Zhiling has ushered in the second spring, did not the theater let me give the young actors a play? Well, I'll let! I went to act elsewhere, took my own team on a national tour, broke out of a new world, and in the famous Dan of the 40s and 50s, only she and Zhao Yanxia could successfully make a comeback. It should be said that during this period, her plays have entered the realm, compared with the "Iron Bow Edge" and "Oolong Yuan" left by her and Wu Suqiu at this time, which are obviously higher than the latter. Compared with Li Yuru, on hua dan drama, Li Yuru rules, Tong Zhiling is brilliant, and Tong seems to be slightly higher.
Tong Zhiling was a flower worker, but qingyi, flower shirt, and knife and horse were not in the question. The most commendable thing is her "four famous Dan" kick. Although other Danjiao can also come, there are only a few who can reach the level of Tong Zhiling.