Wang Shaofang

Wang Shaofang

Wang Shaofang (October 11, 1920 - September 19, 1986), formerly known as Wang Shaofang, was born in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. He was an actor of Huangmei Opera in China. He worked as Xiaosheng and acted as Laosheng. He once served as a deputy to the people's Congress of Anhui Province, a member of the CPPCC Anhui Province, a member of the National Drama Association, and deputy head of Anhui Huangmei Opera Troupe.

At the age of nine, Wang Shaofang studied Peking Opera under Bao Xiaolin in Shanghai. At the age of 13, he officially performed on the stage. Since 1938, he has performed together with Huangmei opera artists in Jiangsu, Anhui and other provinces. He began to perform in Huangmei Opera and tried to modify the traditional singing of Huangmei tune. In 1949, he organized xinshengsheng drama club in Hefei, served as the president, directed and performed Beijing Opera xiaocangshan, hongniangzi and forced to go to Liangshan. In 1950, he formally changed his singing to Huangmei Opera and joined anqing people's Huangmei Opera Troupe as the head of the troupe. He participated in the arrangement and rehearsal of the traditional Huangmei Opera repertoires, such as beating pig grass, couple watching lantern, blue bridge meeting, road encounter, etc. In 1954, he was transferred to Anhui Huangmei Opera Troupe as an actor (later as the deputy head). In the same year, he took part in the East China Opera performance, and won the first prize for playing Dong Yong in "Tian Xian Pei". In 1956, he took part in the first opera performance of Anhui Province, playing Zhang Chaozong in "gaoliangguan", and won the first prize of actor. In 1975, he went to Beijing to participate in some provincial and municipal theatrical performances, playing Ma Hongliang in the harbor. In 1979, he took part in Anhui opera performance and won the first prize as an actor in Yuan Pu and Jing Feng.

On July 19, 1986, Wang Shaofang died of illness at the age of 67.

Wang Shaofang combined the art of Peking Opera with Huangmei Opera, enriched the performance art of Huangmei Opera, and paved a way for the development of Huangmei Opera.

Character experience

On October 11, 1920 (August 30 of the lunar calendar), Wang Shaofang was born in Hankou, formerly known as Wang Shaofang. In 1926, his father Wang Zhonghui died. In September 1927, he was sent to Shanghai to study in private. Three months later, he returned to Nanjing to continue his study.

In August and September 1929, Wang Shaofang was sent to Shanghai by his mother to study Peking Opera under Bao Xiaolin's tutelage. In 1930, he went to Nanchang, Jiangxi Province with his master to sing opera. In 1931, master divorced his master's mother, but Wang Shaofang was left to help his master's mother. When he was instructed by his master's mother to study drama with his younger brother, he studied many old dramas such as Si Lang Tan mu. He also went to Zhejiang with his elder martial brother to participate in the waterway team and Nanjing "big world" Beijing class to perform. He not only studied Beijing opera, but also enjoyed Yang opera, Wenming opera, Huahua opera, sutan opera and Shanghai Opera Fang Xi and Qu Yi. Later, he left Shanghai with his stepfather Wang Mingshan and came to the countryside of Jiangxi.

In 1933, his parents took him to Anqing with the boss of Anqing Wanzhong stage. When he was singing in Anqing, he came into contact with Huangmei tune, and learned Huangmei's little play "bitter daughter-in-law sighs" with the washerwoman of Nanyang Hotel, which was used in Peking Opera "fan Zhuan", "spinning yarn" and other jokes. This is the beginning of his work in Huangmei Opera. After that, Cao Jimin signed a contract with his father to perform in the company of Beijing opera.

In 1935, he joined the Xiaojing class and performed the Peking Opera "cat for Prince". In the first half, he played Chen Lin, a eunuch with a sense of justice, and in the second half, he played Bao Gong. At the beginning of 1936, Xiaojing class was disbanded. He lost his job and stayed at home. He studied opera behind closed doors. Later, he went to Wuhu and Xuancheng to sing opera.

In 1938, Wang Shaofang's family was exiled in Anqing. Arranged by his stepfather, they performed together with Huangmei Opera actors on Wanzhong stage. The actors of the two operas helped each other and made guest appearances. During this period, he performed Huangmei tune for the first time and played the second sister in Tianxianpei.

In 1939, he continued to perform with Huangmei tune class in Hualin theater in Anqing, and played the leading actor Shang Lin in liantai's Huangmei tune Qin Xuemei. He began to try to modify the traditional singing style of Huangmei tune, and tried to get rid of the Beijing opera program that had been used all the time, using the techniques learned from Huangmei tune, video, drama and other art forms. Huang Mei Opera has no orchestral accompaniment. He asked Xiao Xizi, a Beijing Opera musician, to sing with Jinghu tune, which is the first time that Huang Mei Opera has orchestral accompaniment. In the same year, he cooperated with Wang Jianfeng, pan Zehai and other artists of Huangmei tune to perform the contract of Wang Qingming in Huangmei tune, playing the leading actor Wang Qingming and Gong Xiaosheng in the play.

In 1942, in Anqing, "singing in Anhui Province of Beijing Opera" was carried out, and the Peking Opera repertoire "Si Lang Tan Mu" was performed in Huangmei tune. In 1943, Wang Shaofang continued to rehearse Zhuge Liang's marriage, Youlong Xifeng, Fenhe Bay and other operas, and began to further study Huangmei tune, trying to enrich Huangmei tune in music.

In 1944, he cooperated with Liu chuntong to perform "the mother of the fish net" in the traditional play "the story of the white fan" in Huangmei tune, playing xiaoyuwang in the play. He absorbed some of the singing and moistening methods of Beijing Opera into Huangmei tune, and the singing of "Mother Worship" borrowed the singing method of "jianniang" in Beijing Opera "Sibang Tanmu".

In 1945, after the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he became an old master of Peking Opera at Hualin theater in Anqing. This year, because he had the same name as a Peking Opera actor who sang Dan, he took the word "Fang" from Yangzhou Huafang Lu and changed the name from "Shaofang" to "Shaofang".

In 1946, because he could not bear the exploitation of Hualin theater owners, he escaped from Anqing and performed in counties and towns such as Dangtu and Wuwei. In 1947, he came to Wuhu City from Wuwei and performed in the "grand entertainment" theater. In 1948, he performed in Dangtu and Hefei Xinmin theater.

In January 1949, after the liberation of Hefei, the military control commission of Hefei took over the Peking opera troupe performing in Xinmin theater and renamed it "xinshengsheng Opera Troupe", with Wang Shaofang as its president. Under the leadership of Wang Shaofang, the troupe created Beijing Opera repertoires such as "forced to Liangshan", "Red Lady" and "three dozen ZHUJIAZHUANG", which were welcomed by the masses and praised by leaders, and transplanted by peers in Anqing and other places. In December, he became the people's representative of the people's conference of all walks of life in Northern Anhui.

In 1950, encouraged by Wang Fangsong, chairman of the Anqing Federation of literary and art circles, Wang Shaofang decided to officially "abandon Beijing and turn yellow". He moved from Hefei to Anqing and became the main actor and chief director of the popular theater. He led Huang Mei artists to perform traditional plays, transplanted the Beijing Opera "stone man to recruit relatives", rehearsed the serial opera "Er Du Mei" and "Zuo Weiming's skillful judgment of the unruly case", and arranged the current events "Da Zao Wang", "father and son competing for the first", "corrupt officials and bullies" and "hatred as deep as the sea" to meet the needs of the struggle situation. From October 21 to 25, as a representative of Huangmei Opera, he participated in the North Anhui District literature and art work conference.

In 1951, after the reform of the private theater company, he served as the chairman of the people's Theater Management Committee. In response to the call of the government, he rehearsed modern dramas such as persuading husband to go up the dike, Luo hanqian, Xiao erhei's marriage and little son-in-law, and played Er Kongming in Xiao erhei's marriage. During the new rehearsal period, music reform was carried out, and lighting and setting were added to lay the foundation for the entrepreneurship of Huangmei Opera.

In 1952, he participated in the training of Anhui opera reform, rehearsed Huangmei Opera "encounter on the road", "blue bridge to draw water" and "Qin Xuemei" with Yan Fengying, pan Zehai and other actors, sorted out traditional Huangmei Opera "beating pig grass" with Yan Fengying and screenwriter Zheng Lisong, transplanted "willow well" and other plays, and performed in Shanghai in November.

In 1953, he participated in Anhui Huangmei Opera Troupe and performed in Bengbu for Tan Zhenlin and other leaders of the central and East China Bureau who inspected the Huai River project. Later, he and Yan Fengying formed a "Huangmei Opera Troupe to Nanjing" to get together with the mazovsche song and dance troupe of Poland who visited China. On June 10, he performed a traditional drama composed of "spring outing" and "send off Ling Luo" for Polish guests. After seeing off the Polish guests, he stayed in Nanjing for the performance. On October 4, he left Beijing with the Chinese people's delegation to North Korea for a performance.

From September to October in 1954, he performed the myth drama "Tian Xian Pei" with Yan Fengying at the East China Opera Performance conference. He played the simple and honest Dong Yong in the drama and won the first prize as an actor. In November, he began rehearsing the drama "Chun Xiang Zhuan", which was transplanted from Yue Opera and played the infatuated boy Li Menglong. In 1955, Wang Shaofang played Dong Yong in the Huangmei Opera Tianxianpei, which was shot by Shanghai Film Studio and directed by Shi Hua.

In 1956, he participated in the first opera performance of Anhui Province in Hefei. He cooperated with Wang Yuqin to perform the Huangmei Opera "gaoliangguan", which created the ordinary people Zhang Chaozong who was aboveboard and resentful, and won the first prize for his performance in the drama. In autumn and winter, he toured to Guangzhou with Anhui Huangmei Opera Troupe, and performed such plays as "Tian Xian Pei" and "husband and wife watching the lantern". In the same year, he was rated as an activist of socialist construction in Anhui Province.

In 1957, he and Yan Fengying led Anhui Huangmei Opera Troupe to perform in Tianjin, Fuzhou, Xiamen and Shantou Coastal Defense front. The troupe lasted seven months and traveled 4000 Li. On June 12, 1958, he took part in the Forum on drama language held by the Propaganda Department of Anhui provincial Party committee and delivered a speech entitled "the credit of Ci", which talked about the compilation of local opera libretto.

In 1959, she took part in the Huangmei Opera film "the son-in-law" starring Yan Fengying, and created a humorous and witty old man Liu Wenju by using the performance technique of "handsome acting as ugly". In 1960, the Huangmei Opera "biography of Baoying" with the story of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom co starred by Yan Fengying was staged in Hefei. He drew on the experience of Beijing Opera "Wu Laosheng" to shape the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom general Shi Dakai.

In January 1961, "biography of Baoying", starring Yan Fengying, was released in Hefei. 4. In May, she toured in Anqing and performed "the girl"

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