Among the singers of Henan pendant, there are many famous artists in Henan, among whom Zhao Zheng and Liu Zongqin are both masters, but their styles are completely different.
Zhao Zheng was born in a scholarly family. After graduating from Kaifeng Art School in Henan Province, he stayed there to teach.
After the Cultural Revolution, she started a Quyi class. 1982, the first Quyi class enrolled 39 students, which was also the first Quyi class in China after the Cultural Revolution. Then it was held twice.
1932, three earliest teahouses appeared near Yi Xi Street, Xier Street and XiTaikang Road in laofengang, namely Juxian Teahouse, Yipin Xiang Teahouse and Laojia Teahouse. Teahouses sell tea, artists sing and earn their own money. 1934, the Xia Ya market in Laofengang was formed, and five storytelling booths appeared successively. There have been more than 20 artists singing here, including,, Liu Zongqin,, Yu Zhongxia,, Wang, Ma Sufang, Mingming Fan, Zhao Falin and so on. Among Liu Mingzhi, Liu Guizhi and Liu Zongqin, Liu Mingzhi is feminine, Liu Guizhi is charming and Liu Zongqin is unrestrained. They often perform together in the shed, which is called "Zhengzhou Sanliu".
Liu Zongqin is from Daye Town, Dengfeng. At the age of 65,438+02, he studied several masterpieces with Liu Kui, a Henan pendant artist. 14 years old, wandering alone in the rivers and lakes, singing in an and Baoji station sheds, and making a name for himself. Liu Xilu, a native of Xi, also taught her long bibliographies such as Biography of Horse and Looking for Father in the West. She returned to Henan on 1946.
Liu Zongqin skillfully combined three different styles of vocals, namely "Henan pendant in the middle", "Henan pendant with clever cards" and "Heluo drum", and showed the complex psychology of being bored, annoyed, impatient, rash and vicious to the fullest. Tianjin is a famous hometown of Quyi. In the history of Tianjin Quyi, the Henan pendant, represented by Qiao Qingxiu, the "pendant queen", is one of the popular operas introduced to Tianjin from other places after the reform.
1929, Qiao Qingxiu and Qiao Liyuan were invited to perform in Tianjin Beihai Building. Seeing that the appreciation requirements of Tianjin audience are quite different from those of previous singing areas, Qiao Qingxiu, together with Qiao Liyuan and pianist Kang Yuanlin, reformed the content, music and language of Henan pendant. In order to attract the audience in Tianjin, they not only transplanted a large number of popular tracks in Tianjin, but also changed the text of existing tracks and increased the local color of Tianjin. In singing, we should flexibly use Beijing, Tianjin and Henan accents to strengthen communication with the audience. The record company also released nearly 20 records for her, which made Qiao Pai pendant popular all over the country.
1935, Qiao Qingxiu was broadcast on the radio, claiming to be the pendant queen, the pendant queen and the pendant king. The audience of Quyi was "all over the city talking about Qiao Qingxiu". Qiao Qingxiu's success has attracted a large number of Henan pendant artists to Tianjin, many of whom are famous in Henan and Hebei.
In Tianjin, Cao, a teacher of Tianjin Qupai School, inherited Qiao School's art, developed a new way, boldly innovated and designed a novel pendant singing method.
193 1 August, Cao was born in daming county, Hebei province, and is a famous player in Henan province. She fully inherited the characteristics of the three schools of Dong, Qiao and Cheng, and learned from others' strengths, and made outstanding achievements in singing, performing, creating operas and teaching in Henan Province.
The repertoires frequently performed include Three Chapters Trial, Sister Wang Sifu, Su Sanqi's Deduction, Zhu Maichen's Divorce, Sprinkling Water before the Horse, Blue Bridge Club, Lv Mengzheng's Fasting, Baochai's Butterfly, Exclusive Flowers, Han Xiangzi's Longevity, White Ape Stealing Peach and Swimming in the Lake. While Henan pendants became famous in Tianjin, some pendant actors also entered Beijing, gradually forming Henan pendants with "Beijing character and Henan flavor". Written in the 1930 s, the book A Talk on the Rivers and Lakes records: "The pendant on the overpass is not a Kun angle, but a Gong angle. This man has a pockmarked face and sings alone. People in society watch him play the piano and sing, but they can't recognize what he is singing. It was 123 years of the Republic of China, and the society was not poor. It is easy for artists to make money. This singer can earn two or three yuan a day. "
Asako's surname is Che, and he is called "Che Asako". He sang pure Henan dialect, which Beijingers didn't understand and felt a little rustic, but his self-help singing with relish still attracted a lot of attention. So the male and female classes who sang pendants came to Beijing one after another. At that time, the pendant actors who were famous earlier in Beijing were Lu Yong 'ai and Da Lao Hei (named Ren Yongtai). The two sang in duet, and Lu Yongai sang well, with a good figure and delicate expression. Big, old and black are good at catching and funny.
Then Yao became famous, and her singing skills were called "authentic Henan flavor, one string and one rhyme, which really made people feel interesting for three days." The songs she sang at that time included The Little Black Cow, Sister Liu Tie the Doll, Xu Xian Tour the Lake, Daiyu Sorrow for Autumn and so on.
Around 1932, Henan pendant actress Dong Guizhi, Cheng Yulan's aunt, military pendant singer and pianist successively went to Beijing to make a living, and together with Yao, they created the prosperity of Henan pendant in Beijing, and the performance venue gradually moved from overpass to variety parks all over the city, which was the result of further improving the overall performance level of Henan pendant in Beijing. Dong Hecheng is famous in Tianjin for a long time, and the audience in Beijing likes to listen to their duets. Their duet tracks include Blue Bridge Society, Xiangfu Borrowing Grain, Yutangchun and so on. From 1936 to 1938, Qiao Qingxiu, the "pendant queen", went to Beijing twice and gave a short performance in Xidan Entertainment Club.
After the 1940s, Li Xuefang, Ma Zhongcui, Li Yuling and other Peking Opera actors were active in the Beijing school music scene.
Around the 1960s, Henan pendant artists in Beijing included Yao, Ma Yuping, Liu and others. Yao's performance at that time was mainly a pendant with Ma Yuping, which was deeply loved by Beijing audiences. Ma Yuping, born in Daming, Hebei Province, has a sweet and mellow voice. She is famous for her bold innovation and reform in singing. Henan pendant flowed into Shandong very early, but it developed rapidly in Shandong, and its influence expanded, which was closely related to Qiao Qingxiu. 1926 and 1937, Qiao Qingxiu performed twice in Jinan, Shandong Province, which was very sensational. Influenced by it, Shandong drum musicians changed to calligraphy. For example, Xu Jiaban, the famous Shandong pear flower drum in Jining, changed to singing pendant books, and famous artists such as Xu Yulan and Xu Yuxia appeared; Guo Jiaban changed to pendant calligraphy, and famous artists such as Guo and Guo Wenyu appeared. After Tan Jiaban of Juye Tan Jiaozhuang changed to singing books, famous artists such as Tan Jinfang and Tan appeared. Jiaxiang Shenjiaban changed to pendant calligraphy, and famous artists such as Shen Yongyin and Shen Guifeng appeared.
Xu Yulan is the best among the Henan pendant actors in Shandong. Xu is from Jining, Shandong. She learned to sing Henan pendants at the age of seven or eight and performed at the age of 13. Taking the melody of the pendant as the mother, she widely absorbed the tones of sister arts such as Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, Beijing Opera, Henan Opera and folk songs, and created Xu Pai's pendant. Representative works include Baoyu Crying for Daiyu, Lin Chongfa, Qingwen Buqiu and so on. She can not only sing very lyrical works, but also sing magnificent arias, which shows her outstanding artistic talent. Especially "Lin Chong Fa Pei" directed by Gai Jiaotian, a master of Peking Opera, is a must for its neat and magnificent movements.
Guo is a pendant actor with the same reputation as Xu Yulan. 1958, Guo attended the first Quyi concert in Beijing and performed a new song "Send a Comb". With her crisp voice and fluent melody, she passionately sang the new style of commercial delivery and developed the "Qiaopai" pendant singing method. She kept innovating and became the representative figure of Henan pendant in Shandong. In fact, most Henan pendants in Shandong are based on the musical structure of Qiaopai pendants, and they still maintain the dialect of Northwest Shandong (Shandong Mandarin) without the rhyme of Zhongzhou, and the instruments they play are also different, forming their own distinctive artistic characteristics and becoming an influential art school.
After 1952, the state called for support for the construction of the northwest, and many Henan pendant artists from other places came to Gansu one after another, making Gansu another active place for pendants in Henan.