Yu Shuyan

Yu Shuyan

Yu Shuyan (November 28, 1890 - May 19, 1943), from Luotian County, Hubei Province, was born in Beijing. Its name is Diqi, and its character is Xiaoyun. Its official name is Shuyao, and it communicates with Yan. Its strokes are too many, so it is often replaced by "Yan". Beijing Opera actor, veteran worker.

At the age of 9, Yu Shuyan appeared in Tianjin xiatianxian theater under the stage name of "little Yu Sansheng". In 1908, he resigned because of the change of position. In 1913, Ren Zhisheng raised his tune at the hall of his residence and performed the Peking Opera "empty city plan". In 1915, he took Tan Xinpei as his teacher. On October 17, 1918, he formally returned to the stage in the auspicious garden of Beiping, where he performed the play "the volume of stealing". In 1919, he officially joined the Xiqun society. In February 1920, they cooperated with Yang Xiaolou to form Zhongxing society, and they began to perform together. On January 14, 1925, he cooperated with Yang Xiaolou to form Shuangsheng society. On November 21, 1928, after performing "lost empty chop", he broke up and stopped playing business drama. In May 1931, he and Mei Lanfang, as the founders, established the national drama society in Beiping. In January 1937, he participated in Wu Youquan's family hall meeting and performed the play "stele of Li Ling".

On May 19, 1943, Yu Shuyan died of illness at the age of 54.

On the basis of inheriting the art of Tan (Xinpei) school in an all-round way, Yu Shuyan developed and created the art of Tan school with rich singing skills, and became the representative of "new Tan school", known as "Yu school" in the world.

Character experience

Yu Shuyan was born in the Liyuan family. He inherited his family education from his childhood and was an old student of civil and martial arts. At the age of 9, he studied arts from Yao Zenglu, a martial arts student, and learned qianyuanshan, Tanzhuang and other operas, laying a solid foundation. In the same year, he performed in Tianjin xiatianxian theater under the stage name of "Xiaoyu Sansheng". At the age of 11, he studied Laosheng opera from Wu Liankui.

In 1904, he recorded records of "killing a fisherman" and "empty city plan" in Beka company. In the autumn of 1907, Yu Shuyan and Zhou Xinfang, who first went north to perform in Tianjin, performed together.

In 1908, Yu Shuyan left his class in Tianjin and returned to Beijing because his voice could not be restored due to the collapse of his position. With the help of his father-in-law Chen Delin, he learned from Qian Jinfu, Wang Changlin, Yao Zenglu, Chen yanheng, Aixinjueluo Pudong (the owner of Hongdou Hall), Wang Junzhi and others about the singing of Tan school. During this period, he carefully observed Tan Xinpei's performance, and all the drummers, zither players, and even the examiners and Longtao who had worked with Tan had modestly consulted and greatly improved their skills.

In 1913, Li Zhisheng's (Li Zhun's) house held a hall meeting, and Yu Shuyan raised the tune and sang the Peking Opera "empty city plan". In 1914, the box office of Chunyang friendship association was established. Soon after, Yu Shuyan joined Chunyang Friendship Association and competed with fan Disheng, Shi Zhesheng, tie Linfu, etc.

In 1915, he joined Mei Lanfang's troupe; in the same year, he was taught by Tan Xinpei the acting skills of Shi Jingsi in Taiping Bridge and Wang Ping in lost Jieting.

In August 1917, the first stage of Beiping began to perform the Beijing zhaoshui compulsory drama. Yu Shuyan performed "beating sticks out of the box", "Yangping pass" and "Ningwu pass" respectively.

In 1918, after his voice recovered, Yu Shuyan joined the Yuqun society in the name of Yu Shuyan. In February of the same year, Yu Shuyan participated in the Spring Festival presidential palace hall meeting and co performed the play "zhulianzhai" with Chen Delin and Mei Lanfang. On October 17, Yu Shuyan formally returned to the stage in the auspicious garden of Peking and performed the play "stealing clan scroll". On October 19, he co performed the play "You Long Xi Feng" with Mei Lanfang.

In 1919, Yu Shuyan officially joined the Xiqun society. In April of the same year, he participated in Mei Lanfang's grandmother's 80th birthday hall, where he sang the play "yanyanglou", in which he made a comeback. In September, Yu Shuyan held a hall meeting for his mother's 60th birthday in Zhengyi Temple. In November, he performed with Mei Lanfang and Yang Xiaolou in Wuhan Heji grand stage. Yu Shuyan performed for 38 days, including "qionglinyan" 》"Selling horses", "eight hammers" and other 28.

In February 1920, Yu Shuyan and Yang Xiaolou formed the Zhongxing society, and they began to perform together. On November 28, a large number of victims swarmed into Wuhan due to the severe drought in North China. The Hankou Red Cross Society invited Yu Shuyan to perform a charity performance to raise money for the relief of the victims. Yu Shuyan successively performed the repertoire qionglin banquet, beating drums to scold Cao, selling horses with maces, and tuozhao touching steles.

In 1921, Yu Shuyan recorded six and a half albums in EMI company. The contents of the albums include: catching and releasing Cao (on his way), beating sticks out of the box (disturbing the house), exploring his mother (seeing his mother and crying in the hall), going to the roof, fighting in Fancheng, selling horses and playing maces, changing children in Fachang, a handful of snow, eight sledgehammers and sending children to mulberry garden.

On December 1, 1922, Puyi, the abdicated emperor of the Qing Dynasty, got married and listened to the opera at shufangzhai stage, and Yu Shuyan was invited to participate in the performance; on December 17, at the invitation of Tianjin Nanshan hall, Yu Shuyan, Mei Lanfang, Yang Xiaolou and others performed a three-day compulsory Opera on Tianfu stage. On that day, Yu Shuyan, Qian Jinfu, Bao Jixiang, and CI ruiquan co performed the play Dingjun mountain; on December 18, he co performed the play with Yang Xiaolou "Eight hammers"; on December 18, he sang the play "beating sticks out of the box".

On August 22, 1923, imperial concubine Jingyi celebrated her birthday by performing a two-day performance at the shufangzhai stage. Yu Shuyan and others were invited to the palace to sing the Peking Opera "Dingjun mountain".

At the beginning of 1924, Yu Shuyan participated in the routine compulsory play of Peking Opera, which was organized by the first stage of Peking Opera to raise funds to relieve the suffering of Peking Opera. He performed the play "killing fishermen".

On January 14, 1925, he cooperated with Yang Xiaolou to form Shuangsheng society; in March, he was invited to attend Zhang zuolin's birthday hall, and Yu Shuyan sang the play "beating drums and scolding Cao"; in the same year, he recorded six records in Gaoting company, including "beating nephew to go to the grave (xipi three eyes)", "searching and saving the orphans", "zhulianzhai", "eight hammers (broken arms)", "Zhan Taiping", "Wu pen Ji" and "empty city" "Plan", "stele of Li Ling", "Hongyang cave" and "fish intestine sword".

On October 2, 1926, at the invitation of Tianjin Nanshan hall, Yu Shuyan took part in the three-day compulsory play in Tianjin. On that day, Yu Shuyan and Wang Youqing jointly performed the play "going to the snow mountain in Nantianmen"; on October 3, he and Wang Youqing, Qian Jinfu and Wang Changlin jointly performed the play "killing the fisherman"; on October 4, he and Mei Lanfang, Yang Xiaolou and Gong Yunfu jointly performed the play "returning to Jingzhou"; on the invitation of the audience, Yu Shuyan and Wang Changlin jointly performed the play "returning to Jingzhou" Mei Lanfang added the play "You Long Xi Feng".

In 1927, he took part in the play "killing Monkey Mountain" with Uncle Yang.

In January 1928, he took part in the routine compulsory play organized by the first stage and co performed the play "wujiapo" with Cheng Yanqiu. On November 21, after performing "lost empty chop", Yu Shuyan broke up due to his illness. Except for compulsory play and hall play, he no longer played business play. But it did not stop its Peking opera career. He has always attached great importance to the theoretical research, social activities and Apprenticeship of Peking Opera.

In April 1929, he took part in the fund-raising performance of the first stage Shanxi relief association, and co performed the play "You Long Xi Feng" with Mei Lanfang《

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