While there is no official honor and halo, he is very famous in the area, and the people of Xingping County are all eager to see him when he performs.
He performed the traditional style of Qinqiang's high-pitched sadness and boldness very well, and the most important feature of his singing style is that he sang first, with original flavor and full flavor, his voice is thick and high-pitched without losing its finesse, and his spouting and dragging of the cavity is very distinctive, and he used the traditional full mouth cavity. Because of its many years in the puppet troupe performance, coupled with the voice thick singing more bitter drama good drag cavity, some people say that he has a Yuan school flavor, I think it is not necessary to apply this school which school, which should be his compliance with the authenticity of the original Qinqiang traditional style of the inevitable embodiment.
Two anecdotes about Dong Housheng
Anecdote 1: Housheng must sing a pot of tea and stand with his hands behind his back, eyes slightly closed, a roar of deep emotion, the listener tears. Whenever sound, find a high chair, a foot on it, a hand to hold the pot, the heart without restraints, love with the play away, is a masterpiece. And Hou Sheng singing opera, sadness mostly, sometimes Gu matter, not only the main family filial son and daughter cried a piece, even the band members also shed tears for it, which shows that Hou Sheng singing, extremely inciting things.
Anecdote 2: One day a farmer, drive a carriage, go to the market. This is a super fan of the theater, humming and singing while walking. Suddenly a Mr. blocked the carriage, want to ride along, the farmer agreed. On the way, the two of them sang and harmonized, but also free. Farmer suddenly thought, said: "the townsfolk listen to you humming opera, a little flavor, why not let out a roar, not happy?" Mr. Shallow smile, then roared up, that is really the gas rushed to the clouds, the mountains and rivers for the moving; lingering euphemistic, heaven and earth for the sadness. The farmer listened to the intoxicated, paper cigarettes are burned to the hand, just remembered to throw. A song is sung, the farmer Huo Ran leaping regiment head, eyes wide open, cursing: "said Hou Sheng sang the beauty, in my opinion, he can day his mother ！！！！ My mother-in-law ah, the countryside party sings, much better than him." That singing Mr. bitter laughter, busy hands clasped fists: "I am Hou Sheng, the township party love." The farmer blushed and couldn't stop apologizing: "I've heard of it before, I've never seen it before, I've got no eyes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Hou Sheng smiled generously, and the matter was closed."
Information on the Internet
Information contributed by Sina.com.cn (Baoding, Hebei):2009-04-25 15:02:29
There is very little information about Dong Hou Sheng, and most of it is rumor, but what is known is that he was originally named Dong Shengxiang, and that he was born in Xingping County in the city of Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, and that his name was Dong Shengxiang. He was born in Sheep Circle Village, Ma Wu Town, Xianping County, Shannxi Province, and has lived there ever since. He has performed in many villages and towns, and has been a member of a folk puppet troupe in Xingping, which is very famous in Xingping and Wugong, and people in Xingping County are always on the run to see Hou Sheng's performances.
Some of his outstanding singing often broadcast in Xingping County, Xianyang City and other radio stations, of which "Sun Bin sitting in the hole", "Zhu Chundeng weeping graves" two were included in the Qinqiang album cassette release. 90's due to illness, seldom appear on stage.
April 2, 2005 Shaanxi Rural Radio "Huaxia to help you become a talent" large-scale science and technology and culture to the countryside series of activities in Qianxian People's Square live in Chen Aimei's lead under the Shang Fanghui and Dong Housheng first meeting, Dong Housheng due to physical illness, only sang a few lines of the slow board, these audio-visual materials have become the audio-visual data of the Dong Housheng circulated on the network.
It is said that Dong Housheng's heart was dislocated in a car accident more than 10 years ago, and he was sick in bed for many years, leaving his family penniless, and in order to see his doctor, he occasionally braced himself on stage to earn a little money to supplement his family's income, and in early 2006, he finally passed away.
He had two sons, the eldest of whom was said to be extremely gifted in Qinqiang, and at the age of eleven he was working as a drummer in a professional theater troupe in Xingping County, where he could play a lot of operas, but unfortunately drowned one day twenty years ago when he fell into a pond while fishing. The second son, Dong Baoping, aged sixteen, had been very fond of playing the qin and drums since he was a child, and because of his family's poverty, he dropped out of school in the first year of junior high school to work at home on the farm, and at home he often used bricks as drums, supplemented by pots and pans, and was even able to play the present opera. Shaanxi Opera Radio famous host Chen Aimei in 2006, we interviewed Dong Hou disclosed the life of his son's wish to go to the opera school, in all walks of life under the donations, Dong Baoping entered the Xi'an Academy of Arts Qinqiao training center to study.
Online rumor is that Shang Fanghui is Dong Housheng's disciple, in fact, Shang Fanghui is since childhood like Dong Housheng's singing, followed by Dong Housheng's tapes and radio recordings to learn to sing, and claimed to be Dong Housheng's disciple, until 2005 has long been well-known Shang Fanghui with the dying old Dong Housheng in Shaanxi Rural Radio Qinqiang live show for the first time is also the last time to meet the old man respectfully referred to him as a! Master. According to Shang Fang will say that at that time to see the famous DongHouSheng simply can not believe their own eyes, the old man emaciated frail bones as thin as firewood, look that ?ti ah, Shang Fang will also pull out the body of the 200 dollars to the Dong teacher.
The more accurate Dong Hou-sheng direct disciple is Yang Hongmei, it is said that Yang Hongmei and Dong Hou-sheng with ten years on stage, y the old man's true heritage, many times in Shaanxi Television Qinqiang Grand Prix won the first prize, known as the "art of the Red Plum, the Qinqiang one of the best," the two years there is a momentum of the rise of the fame. Regrettably, the master Dong Housheng has never appeared in the provincial media such as Shaanxi Television, and has never won any official competition awards, not even a media reputation.
By the way, there is no comparison between Dong Housheng and the Academy of Opera and Music, and it seems very abrupt to put them together in PK. Dong Housheng when it was just a poor, poor, even his son could not afford to go to theater school in the opera world no one even knows the folk Qinqiang street artists, the Opera Research Institute is the only strong financial support of the Shaanxi Provincial Government of the state-run large-scale troupes. Yet this is not important; what is important is the symbolic significance of the vulgar art of the commoner Qinqiang, represented by Dong Housheng, and the refined art of the Academy of Opera, represented by the famous and proper school.
There is not much information available about Dong Hou-sheng, and most of what is available on the Internet is a few of his better-known audio clips, such as Sun Bin Sitting in a Cave, Zhu Chundeng Weeping in the Grave, Putting Food on the Table, Sacrificing the Spirit, Burning Down the Battalion, and The Great Revenge, of which Zhu Chundeng Weeping in the Grave is the most famous due to the reinterpretation by Shang Fang Hui. Zhu Chundeng Crying at the Grave, also known as Sacrifice to the Mother, is a section of the traditional Qin opera Shepherd's Roll. According to the plot, this section should be the content of the latter part of "Putting Food on the Table". Due to the long years of banning of traditional dramas and other reasons, "Shepherds' Rolls" has only passed down the often-performed "Putting Food on the Table" section, and the section of Crying at the Grave has disappeared from the official stage, but this sorrowful section is especially suitable for mourning, and it is then passed down in the folklore. Dong Housheng was a folk Qinqiang artist who was active in Xingping and Wugong in the 80s and 90s, and was very famous in the area, and there were other famous folk Qinqiang artists who were active in Fengxiang and Tianshui, as well as Zhang Xikui who was active in Pingliang, Gansu, in the same time period. the 80s and the beginning of the 90s was the second golden age of the professional opera troupes, and the famous school had Ren Zhezhong, Li Aiqin, Guo Mingxia, Ma Youxia and Li Aiqin. The famous school had big names like Ren Zhezhong, Li Aiqin, Guo Mingxia, and Ma Youxian, while folk artists like Dong Housheng, Ma Tianhu, and Zhang Xikui naturally went unheard of.
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Dong Housheng --- all lonely before and after life
Yesterday, listening to the opera station Aimei theater edge of the program, Sydney Qinqiang famous artist Dong Housheng has been dead. Although I am in a different place, I feel that I am still very concerned about the news of the Qinqiang community. However, it was not until I listened to the program yesterday that I realized that the old artist Dong Hou Sheng had died.
I know Dong Hou Sheng because Shang Fang Hui, that year's big call board red Shang Fang Hui, red "mother sacrifice" singing. I remember when the Qinqiang chat room was still hot, Zhenqin logged on every night was asked to sing "mother sacrifice", and even "mother sacrifice" once became the most popular chat room paragraph. Later, the "Mother Sacrifice" became a necessary part of the rural white-colored ceremony, and the simple villagers used it to set off the sadness and send their condolences.
Once in a while, in the chat room, I heard someone say that the master of the Shang Fang Hui is Xingping famous old artist Dong Hou Sheng, a certain talent, at that time or for the first time to hear the name of Dong Hou Sheng, and then later business trips to Nanjing, and by the way, to visit Zhenqin brother, Zhenqin, got to listen to the Dong Hou Sheng "Mother Sacrifice" sung by the first time to really contact the art of Mr. Dong Hou Sheng, I do not know how many times I heard it in one night. I don't know how many times I listened to it in one night. Later on, I also listened to the radio broadcast of Mr. Dong Hou-sheng's "Sacrifice to the Mother", but it seemed that I never finished it every time.
After that, it seems to be the Shaanxi Rural Radio to engage in what science and technology to the countryside activities, Shang Fang will be invited to help perform, one day it happened to be Dong Hou Sheng on stage, in the host of the host Xiaohui's help this pair of teachers and students for the first time to meet. At that time, Mr. Dong Housheng's health has been greatly weakened, but also sang a few lines "full camp in the three armies of ......", which is the first time I heard Dong Housheng's news on the radio.
Yesterday, when I heard Mr. Chen Aimei say that Mr. Dong Housheng was not alive, I suddenly felt some sadness, and when I heard some of his encounters, I felt even more sadness -----. -The eldest son, who was extremely talented, drowned and died prematurely; the youngest son was forced to drop out of school just after his first year of junior high school; and there are still children in rural Shaanxi who are afraid to go to school due to violence at school (listening to Chen Aimei's introduction of this child, he is very introverted and very shy)! I hope that in the Aimee theater edge matchmaking, the old artist's son can go to an art school.
Before and after all lonely, Dong Housheng did not have much scenery before he died, and did not alarm others, only the "spirit sacrifice", "mother sacrifice" and other Qinqiang paragraph in the story of a Qinqiang artist's hardship and loneliness.