In 1908, a baby was born in Zhiquan Street, Jinjiang District, with a clear cry. Father Huang Xingguo is a weaver girl who loves opera. He named his son Huang. Ting Quan lost his father at the age of 4 and was alone. At the age of 8, the "Kunyuban" errand boys in Pengxi County went to Chengdu to buy costume props, and Huang Tingquan also went to Pengxi to learn arts with them to make a living. He learned to sing when he was a junior in Wenwu. He was willing to work hard and use his head. His stage name is Xiao Kunqi. Beautiful appearance, sweet voice, flexible figure, all-round development of singing, doing, reading and playing.
1922, 14-year-old Huang Tingquan ran back to Chengdu, joined the leading Sichuan Opera Troupe-Sanqinghui, and performed in Huaxing Street "Yuelai" (the existing Duchuan Opera Art Center). Unfortunately, after the "voice change period", his voice was so low that he couldn't get on. At this critical moment, the kind artist instructed him: "Don't hang around the tree". According to his handsome appearance and gentle and graceful figure, why not learn the role of Dan instead? Introduced by artists in the same class, Huang Tingquan worshipped Zhou Mulian, a famous actress who enjoys the reputation of "expression seed". Zhou Mulian named him Pei Lian. In three years, Zhou Mulian taught Huang Peilian many masterpieces of Kunqu, Gaoqu, Huqu and Tan Qu.
1926, Huang Pei-Lian started her career with Crazy Children Driving the Phoenix, and it was a great success. The next day, he and Kang Zilin, president of Sanqing, co-starred in Sweeping the Chinese Guild Hall, which received rave reviews. The audience commented that his singing was not imitation, but innovation on the basis of inheritance. His coloratura design just meets the needs of the plot, and the audience is hooked. His style is "chanting nature", and his words are clear, vivid and lyrical.
In 1930s and 1940s, the "Lotus School Singing Method" represented by Zhou Mulian and Huang Peilian was popular among opera fans, and many college and middle school students were crazy about it and idolized it. At this point, Huang Peilian is not only famous in Sichuan, but also influential outside the province. 1934 At the invitation of Shanghai Shengli Company, I went to record Beimangshan, Visiting Friends, Chunling, Yuanyang Tomb, Sunset Tower, Jiuhuashan and other records, and the sales were good. 1936, EMI invited him to Shanghai and recorded such records as Detective Love, Chopping the Son, Grab the Stick, He Fan, Lonely Goose and so on, which showed Huang Peilian's versatile demeanor. Famous flowers are in full bloom, and the viewers are amazing.
Huang Peilian not only has her own representative plays in Kunqu Opera, Gaoqiang Opera, Shanghai Opera and Pingju Opera, but also learns dulcimer outside Sichuan Opera. He is a famous dulcimer lover and a friend in need of Li Decai, a dulcimer master. He is good at absorbing nutrition from sister art. For example, he transplanted the dulcimer's Liang Hongyu. He sang the way of playing traditional Chinese opera and Huqin, and finally changed it to a high-pitched way. Up to now, Liang Hongyu is still a reserved play.
Huang Peilian dropped out of school as a teenager, but she was open-minded and eager to learn, and often made friends and consulted with cultural celebrities in central Sichuan. In particular, Mr. Lin Shanzuo (the founder of Sichuan Library in the Qing Dynasty) often explained the lyrics to him, added or deleted Huang Peilian's performance books, and also talked about the rhyme and intonation. Lin Shanyou also wrote poems many times. For example, after watching Huang Peilian's "North Mangshan" performance, he praised his aunt's amorous feelings:
The king gave a new golden armor and hunted around Mangshan Mountain. Ride the horse in red makeup immediately, and Lop is blushing so far.
After 1949, Huang Peilian also used her savings to set up the Shushengchuan Troupe, which made a contribution to the art cause. 1957 has been forced to leave his beloved stage for a long time. After 1966, she was working as a boiler and was smoked by coal, so she fell ill and vomited blood. The author once saw Huang Peilian ask for leave from the "leader" with thick paper wrapped in blood sputum. Only after the downfall of the Gang of Four can we return to the stage of Sichuan Opera. More than 20 years of wind and frost have dyed the young head white.
Huang Peilian's rough experience touched Wang Zhiping, a well-read poet. Wang Zhiping carefully wrote 588 words of Long song's "Jincheng Silk Tube Line". First, the history of Sichuan Opera in the past 200 years is described, and then Huang Peilian's experience is described from the perspective of history and people: "... At that time, a small number of Huang Lang were good at autumn water, a river, a beautiful jade (Qiu Jiang) and a mountain full of red makeup (Northern Mangshan) when they boarded the altar at the age of fifteen. Chu Shi, an isolated mountain, is better than Longmen. He admired the monarch for pleasure, but he understood Huang Zhong's elegance and integrity, and did not teach the laughing people next to him ... Once he was in prison, it would be cold, and the art world would be bleak from then on. Thunder and lightning, dry Kun electricity swept the atmosphere. Jinjiang is beautiful in spring, and Huanglang's hometown is ancient and rare ... Now the white hair is defeated in the red, and the day is green and beautiful. Once I saw a gorgeous dress, I was shocked to control my cigarette. Three thousand waters in the sea, dreams fall for sixty years. " This poem is full of emotion, swaying, lyrical narrative, compact and harmonious, melodious syllables and colorful. The author can be described as "Huang Lang's bosom friend", which handed down a history of trust for Liyuan.
From then on, Mr. Zeng Daowu, who lives in "Shallow Water and Flat Sand" in Shahe, wrote "Jin Lu Qufu to Huang Peilian" with sincere feelings. He said, "I was also worried about it a thousand times in those days. Wine is lifeless, peaches are cut and Ying Ge cooks them. Ask for your promise in the same spirit, and ask for pearls and jade in your throat to comfort the loneliness of the world. When will Jinjiang bring wine and my husband and daughter make silk and bamboo? Sing it to me, Qu. " Huang Peilian's expressive performance not only left many fond memories for the opera fans of that year, but also won the colorful poems of three Sichuan poets, leaving a much-told story for the poetry circle and the art garden. Under the grave, Huang Peilian has no regrets.
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