The Zhang family and the Bongtian Drops have an unbreakable bond, and many legends have been told.
Zhang Zuolin favored Fengtian Luzi
In the early years, when Zhang Zuolin was pulling a lever in Zhaojiamiao, the territory of Liaoyang warlord Feng Linge, Feng Linge conspired with the Russian army to eliminate Zhang Zuolin. On that day, they encountered Zhang Zuolin, who was so outnumbered and outgunned that he fled alone to Erdigou. Zhang Zuolin fled in a panic, with the Russians in hot pursuit, and the situation was very urgent. Coincidentally, there was a big fair in Erdigou, so Zhang Zuolin immediately rolled off his horse, squeezed through the crowd of people who were watching the performance, and got into the backstage. At this time, Zhu Jincai, an artist, was stacking costumes in the mat shed, and Zhang Zuolin begged, "The old Maoists are chasing me, big brother, save me!" Zhu Jincai immediately pushed Zhang Zuolin into another room, pressed him in front of the make-up table, picked up the color pencils and smeared Zhang Zuolin's face, but also let him put on his costume and sat down next to the big wardrobe box. The Russian army chased him and searched the backstage for half a day without any result. Zhu Jin Cai pretended not to know and use the stove hook stabbed up the stove, choking the guys coughed and covered their noses and left. After the Russian soldiers left, Zhu Jincai took out two large cakes to Zhang Zuolin said: "These two large cakes to stay on the road to eat it, we are poor singers, there is nothing for you to take." Zhang Zuolin asked for his name and left the troupe with tears in his eyes. One day, seventeen years later, two soldiers brought Zhu Jincai, who was still in charge of the troupe, to the Marshal's Mansion in Fengtian. Zhang Zuolin and his savior met again, and Zhang thanked Zhu Jincai.
Zhang Xueliang's wife, Yu Fengzhi
In the early years of the Republic of China (ROC), every theater in Fengtian was staffed by "dalings," which were government inspectors located in the theaters at the time. This group of guys sitting in the box holding a gold skin big order, in addition to watching the play nothing to do, but also often disrupt the performance. According to the rules at that time, no matter what the play to what place, as long as they pushed the door, the theater management immediately have to shout "big order to", the play must immediately stop. The troupe must also play music to welcome them, until they sit still before they can continue to play. If they want to go, the play must also stop, and the troupe will play some music to show their farewell. This kind of churning behavior often makes the actors and the audience laugh and cry. Once, Shin Guihua performed "Zhaojun Out of the Frontiers" on the ****Yi Stage. Zhang Xueliang's wife Yu Fengzhi quietly sat in the box to watch the play. The play was playing to the wonderful place, the lower side shouted "send big order", immediately the play stopped, sounded the horn to send "big order". The audience naturally dared to be angry, but Yu Fengzhi was furious and said on the spot: "What kind of rule is this? The people don't even have the freedom to watch the theater, I think it's useless to have it! Go back and report to the marshal and cancel it." Soon, the theater really disappeared.
The performance of the Fengtian troupe in the marshal's residence aroused the jealousy of some people. One time, the police world theater club of the moon pearl performance, some people even brought a group of people with sticks to the theater club provocation fight, and the "ancestor" tablets and gongs snatched. On this day, Zhang Zuolin's mother-in-law, Mrs. Wang came to see the opera, and when she heard about this, she exploded, so she let the Governor bring her soldiers to the place where those people were staying, and they scolded them at the door, "Bastard" who dared not to let the opera be sung, and hurriedly sent back the things that had been taken away from them to me. Police World Theater Society's drop performance was praised by Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Marshal also made a plaque in the name of Mrs. Wang presented to the theater, engraved with the words "when benevolent". Since then, no one dare to underestimate the drop.
Before and after 1949, some of the Fengtian drop artists with the KMT troops evacuated from the mainland to Taiwan, and still sing the Fengtian drop. Like a seed sown all over the motherland, Fengtian Luzi took root and blossomed. In the early days of the founding of New China, the majority of rural towns in Northeast and North China, and even many villages have fallen son of the troupe, to the extent that "men, women, children and young people will be sung, the streets and alleys," the point of hearing.