Zhang Jianting

Zhang Jianting

Zhang Jianting (1909-1984) was an actor of Tanci. He is from Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. When he was 9 years old, he performed with his uncle in his hometown. At the age of 12, he joined the Shaoxing class of hongqingtang in Hangzhou. In the same year, he appeared on the stage. He played the role of Baogong in plays such as Da Luan Jia and Duan taihou, and his stage name was Xiaolin Tong. At the age of 14, he performed Shaoxing opera in Hangzhou big world, and at the same time, he co starred with famous comedian Du Baolin in "huoshao tofu shop" and other rap; at the age of 16, he joined the fashion troupe to learn laodan and clown; at the age of 17, he paid homage to Tanci actor Zhu Yongchun in Shuanglin Town, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. Later, he gradually became a high-profile Tanchi actor.

personal works

Since 1928, he has cooperated with his brother Zhang Jianbang to sing the fragments of Pearl Tower and Japanese robe. Later, based on the novel as the blueprint, he made up a long Tanci "ten beautiful pictures", and adapted the xuanjuan version "a meal" into a long Tanci "Gu Dingchen", which was performed in Jiangsu and Zhejiang villages and towns, and also sang funny songs. At the beginning of 1929, he entered Shanghai and became a member of simiixuan bookstore. Since then, he has been to Shanghai five times and has not become popular. In the meantime, with the help of Guo shaomei, Cheng Hongfei and Xia Hesheng, the predecessors of Runyu society, they constantly polished the libretto of Gu Dingchen and Shi Meitu, and assiduously studied the performing arts. A few years later, the arts made great progress. In August 1939, Zhang entered Shanghai for the seventh time. He was attached to Cangzhou bookstore and became famous in the world of books. Since 1941, he has been singing with his second younger brother Jianguo in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. In 1951, he joined the Shanghai People's Pingtan Troupe (today's Shanghai Pingtan Troupe) and was one of the first 18 actors to join the troupe. He went to rural areas, factories and troops to experience life. While performing medium length, short stories and selections, he also talked and sang new long Tanci "Qin Xianglian", "Qian Xiucai" and "red seed".

Achievements and honors

Since the 1940s, Zhang Jianting began to form his own performance style, and gradually matured in the early 1950s. Its singing is called "Zhang Diao". The early "Zhang tune" was similar to "Ma tune", with fast rhythm and dozens of lyrics in one go. Later, the form of fast playing and slow drinking was added, which was called "Kuai Zhang tune". Later, on the basis of shudiao, he absorbed the strength of "xiadiao" and the basic melody of "Jiangdiao", and used the luck of Shaoxing opera and Beijing opera for reference to form a steady rhythm "manzhang tune" with voice and voice. "Zhang Diao" is characterized by strong and straight, deep in popularity and mellow charm. It is one of the most popular and influential Pingtan schools. His theory is characterized by obvious setbacks, distinct strengths and weaknesses, and is good at being energetic, vivid and emotional. It's very infectious. If you are good at playing a role, you can often show the body actions that can best reflect the identity and appearance characteristics of the role, and give people a vivid visual image. At the same time, he portrays the character and emotion of the characters with eyes, expressions and tone, and successfully creates such artistic forms as Zhang Yong in the middle part of Lin Chong, Lin Laosan in the sea hero, Zhang carpenter in Luo hanqian, Wang Yanling in the long part of Qin Xianglian, Bao Gong and Chen Ping, Zhao Wenhua, Yan Song and Tang Qin in the ten beauties, and master Shaoxing in Gu Dingchen Xiang is not only appreciated by the audience, but also a model for future generations. In his later years, he was engaged in performing arts and recording art experience. He published articles such as "talking about the development of singing", "Pintan's pindang", "Shuo Biao's vigorous expression" and so on. His representative works include Qin Xianglian, fan Gongming, Lanjiao Mingyuan, Shoutang song, Lin Chong, mistakenly blaming zhenniang, shimeitu, Zeng Rong telling the truth, Chongshan's encirclement, risking his life to save his relatives and denounce the enemy, reed Qingqing, looking at reed, Gu Dingchen, Huating, etc. The successors include Zhou Jianping, Chen Jianqing, Huang Jiaming, Wang Xiqin, etc.

Chinese PinYin : Zhang Jian Ting