19 13, Wang Wenxiang's apprentice Yuan Renyi, a native of Yangjian, Wuxi, moved to Shanghai after Soviet Union, becoming the first beach actor to sing in Shanghai for the Spring Festival Evening.
Subsequently, Zhou Puyi, Wang Jiada and other "Tan Chun" actors also entered Shanghai one after another. At first, they just walked in the street, or sang in teahouses and restaurants. On 19 16, Yuan Renyi, Li Tingxiu and others organized a class called "Wuxi Tanquan", which entered the Tianwaitian Entertainment Center at the end of the year and then transferred to the third floor of Shanghai World. In addition, Sun Yucai, Wang Jiada, Zhou and other groups named "Changzhou Tanquan" performed in 19 19 and entered the small world.
192 1, Changzhou class was renamed "Changzhou Wenxi" and Wuxi class was renamed "Wuxi Wenxi". In the same year, he often helped actor Zhou Puyi and Xigang to hold university meetings in Zhao Rong, and the two gangs cooperated to perform on the playground of Shixian Company. Since then, the two gangs have merged and changed their names to "Chang Opera".
At the same time, the actors who performed Tan Chun Opera in Wuxi began to enter the urban area of Wuxi during the slack season. During the day, they sing in roads and open spaces, and at night, they sing in alleys and hotels. Sometimes they are secretly invited by some listeners who love to listen to Wuxi Beach Springs to perform makeup performances.
Soon, five actors, Lu, Liu, Xing, A Si and Zhu Baoquan, entered Liuxiangge Tea Garden in Wanqian Road, Wuxi City for makeup. The makeup performance of this theater caused a sensation in Wuxi.
In A.D. 1923, Chang Opera flourished in Shanghai, affecting four towns in Wuxi. Du Zhangyu, a brave and insightful actor, went to town again. First he went to the hotel to sing, and then the workers invited him to the factory to perform makeup.
From 65438 to 0925, Wuxi Tanquan was the most prosperous period in Wuxi. At that time, there were Shengping Building, Leguang Building, Tianhe Building, * * Building and Zhoushanbang Building in Wuxi. Huinong Bridge has Qunxian Building, the first floor of * *, Duobao Lane; There are beaches and hot springs with business licenses such as Grand View Garden in the city. These places are all cosmetic performances, and there are many oratorio classes. There are 1 1 so many places.
1935, Wuxi No.1 advertised in People's Daily and Tin Daily, and performed Kebaoqiao in the name of Wuxi Opera.
Later, after the beach spring was greatly improved, there were more stable performance venues in Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and other cities, and a number of more stable four-season classes appeared one after another, including Yuan Renyi's Yuan Jiaban, Sun Yucai's Sun Jiaban, Zhou Jiaban, Li Tingxiu's Li Jiaban and Liu's Liu Jiaban.
1in the autumn of 937, the class club, which mainly performed Huai opera, performed a literary drama in Suzhou Jinxing Theatre. Their Wulin class played Fang Wuniang's crying building in Xinmin Theatre, and the long play played Li Sanniang's real estate in Xiexing Theatre. These three cinemas are very close.
During the performance, the actor quoted the mainland board house of Wulin class for the first time to enter Li Sanniang's real estate. Subsequently, Yao Meifeng, Yu, Shen Peihua, Lu Aiying and other actors learned to sing one after another, which gradually spread and became the basic tune juxtaposed with the spring tune.
After Tan Chunchun took root in the city, he had closer contact and communication with other brothers' operas, and began to accept the influence of folk art such as movies and dramas, which made Tan Chunchun's operas develop further.
The actors first improved their plays. They introduced Pearl Tower, Jade Dragonfly, Double Pearl Phoenix and Meng Lijun from Bao Juan and Tanci successively. Absorb the essence of Huizhou Pipa and Cai Jinlian; Also transplanted the Beijing opera "Horse Dealer" and "Climbing Pear Blossoms" and other aria.
Influenced by the commercial culture of Shili foreign exchange, in order to advocate novelty and attract audiences, Shanghai's traditional operas began to stage a large number of series and case-solving dramas with institutional settings and lighting in the mid-1930s, which soon influenced the traditional operas in southern Jiangsu, such as "Civet cats for princes", "God List" and "An".
At the same time, the actors also staged a number of fashionable and clean dramas, such as Kebao Bridge and Xianying Bridge, as well as Ma Yongzhen and Yang Naiwu and Chinese Cabbage. These large-scale joint dramas, or the first drama, mark the stage of common dramas entering the same stage.
After the fame of Chang Drama Club was greatly enhanced, other Tanhuang Drama Clubs in Wuxi began to take the name of Chang Drama Club, but only the Tanhuang Drama Club in Suzhou, Shanghai called itself Su Drama Club. It was not until 1925 that the major Wuxi and Changzhou Tanquan clubs in Shanghai finally formed the unified name of Changwen Opera.
Subsequently, seven regular troupes jointly held a benefit performance in Hushe Tea Garden, and staged the drama "Three Tours". After watching the drama, Mr. Jinshi Qian from Wujin, Jiangsu Province went backstage and said, "There was no martial arts drama in Changzhou before. Now "Three Seeing Otome" is literature and martial arts, and it seems inappropriate to call it a literary drama. "
Later, seven opera troupes discussed and renamed the opera "Chang Opera". 1950 was officially named "changxi", referred to as "changxi" for short. From 1955, it is called "Tin Opera" for short.
The music of tin opera is lyrical and beautiful, with the beautiful style of Jiangnan water town. Its music belongs to the complex of Qupai board cavity, which has obvious characteristics of male and female cavity separation.
The singing of tin opera is a structure with changing sentence formats, and a long, short or short blank is often inserted between the upper and lower sentences. The main theme of tin opera is spring tune. In 1930s, it absorbed the mainland tune of Hangzhou Wulin class, the Lingling tune in singing, the mysterious tune of Su Tan and Qu Shen, the high tune of Sanjiao and Peking Opera, and Jiangnan folk songs such as Chundiao, Zizhu tune, Jiulianhuan and Xiuhebao, which made the singing colorful.
Among these tunes of Xi Opera, the basic tunes can be divided into three categories: Spring Tune, Continental Tune and Lingling Tune. The earliest tune of tin opera is spring tune, which is developed from the combination of Jiangnan folk songs and Suzhou Tanci.
Its melody is beautiful and smooth, and it is longer than lyric. Old reed tune, spring soft board, old Dan anti-bow tune, etc. 10. Actors should have a bright and healthy mood, smooth tunes and rich charm of Jiangnan water town when singing. All the bands that spread the tune and sing will accompany him.
The second main aria of tin opera is Lu tune, which evolved from Wulin tune in Wulin drama, and is also called "Continental Board". The melody of the continental plate is beautiful and smooth, strong and open, with lyrical characteristics. When singing, the actors are required to be emotional, articulate and smooth.