Jiang Yuequan

Jiang Yuequan

Jiang Yuequan (December 1917 - August 2001), male, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Famous Pingtan performance artist.

Member of the 4th China Federation of literary and art circles, vice chairman of the 2nd and 3rd China quyi Association and vice chairman of Shanghai Branch. Member of China Democratic League.

Character experience

In 1935, he learned art from his teacher. Later, he performed in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he successively served as deputy head of the Shanghai People's Pingtan troupe, art consultant, and member of the sixth CPPCC National Committee.

He successively studied under Zhang Yunting and Zhou Yuquan. In 1936, he learned to sing "Jade Dragonfly" from Zhang Yunting, and in 1941, he learned to sing "Wenwu Xiangqiu" from Zhou Yuquan. At that time, some people praised his performance as "the wonderful performance of Yunting and the God of Yuquan". Referring to the vocal methods of Peking Opera, he created and developed "Jiang tune" with beautiful melody and mellow charm on the basis of "Zhou tune" and "Yu tune", becoming the most popular and influential Tanci school in Pingtan tune.

The artistic charm of the Jiang school is endless. He is a good storyteller, a good writer, and a good speaker. His language is elegant and concise, humorous and implicit. His performance is natural and vivid. His playing and singing are pleasant to the ear, and his voice and emotion are both strong. In his later stage, he entered a state of perfection and became the most famous person in the world of calligraphy. The art of the Jiang school has also become the most important school in Pingtan Be loyal to your audience.

In 1951, he joined the Shanghai People's Pingtan working group (now Shanghai Pingtan group) and served as deputy head of the group. He went deep into the construction site of Huaihe River Harnessing in Anhui Province with the delegation and participated in the performance of the middle part Tanci "must cure the Huaihe River". In 1953, he joined a delegation to the DPRK. Together with Tan ci writer Chen Lingxi, he sorted out the traditional novels jade dragonfly and white snake. His performances, such as Wang Xiaohe, Lin Chong, Liu Hulan, Wang Zuo's broken arm, Tang Tang duo Zi, strong men and strong horses, were deeply loved by the audience.

Jiang Yuequan's calligraphy is exquisite, rigorous, clear and humorous, and vivid. The modern bibliography plays a more outstanding role in the performance of characters. He also trained Wang Baiyin, pan Wenyin, Su Yuyin, Hua Guoyin, Jiang Peisen, Qin Jianguo and a large number of influential successors of "Jiang Diao".

On August 29, 2001, he died in Shanghai Huadong Hospital at the age of 84. Su Wen's compilation and drawing of the book of Wuzhong sages

December 4, 1917 (lunar October 20)

Jiang Yuequan was born into a family of theater workers in Shanghai. Father Jiang Zhongying, mother Jiang Gu. Jiang Yuequan is the eldest son, formerly known as Gensheng.

1920-1924 (3-7 years old, under one year old)

Because his father was a member of the theater Bureau (i.e. the staff of today's theater), he grew up in the theater. His love for Peking Opera has affected his life. He is also influenced by other operas. He often watches them and unconsciously likes the performing arts.

1925 (8 years old)

Fan Zhu primary school

1930 (13 years old)

He studied in Yangzhen middle school and became interested in Pingtan art. Because of poverty, I often go to the fruit shop in nongtangkou to listen to the opening of the gramophone. When I listen to it, I often forget the time and ask my parents and good grandmother to look for it before I go home.

1931 (14 years old)

After her mother died of illness, her eldest sister Jiang Yufang went out to study Southern CI (sutan), ran to the dock alone, and later became one of the founders of Sukun opera company.

1932-1933 (15-16 years old)

Continue to study until you graduate from high school.

1934 (17 years old)

Dian went to the pearl flowers left by his mother and collected all the gold to worship his teacher. He worshipped Zhong Xiaonong as his teacher and studied the Pearl Tower. Feeling that the book was out of character, Zhang Yunting put in Jade Dragonfly after March. The next year, he performed on the stage and started singing for the audience on the radio, which made him famous. The representatives at that time were as follows: men cry for aloes, women cry for aloes, Li hen Tian, etc.

1935 (18 years old)

Marry a Feng

1936 (19 years old)

Led by Zhang Yunting, the second industrialist, he made his way in Guangyu society, and the identity of the artist was recognized by the guild.

1937 (20 years old)

Because of his admiration for Zhou Yuquan's art, he was willing to surrender his status. He worshipped his elder martial brother Zhou Yuquan as his teacher and studied Wenwu Xiangqiu and jade dragonfly.

1938-1939 (21-22 years old)

During this period, Jiang Yuequan's voice is the best. After continuous practice, singing skills improved by leaps and bounds. At that time, the radio station was proud to invite Jiang Yuequan to sing. At that time, his masterpieces included persuading his wife under the lamp and pricking his beard.

1940 (23 years old)

On March 2 (the 24th day of the first lunar month), Zhang Yunting led his apprentice Jiang Yuequan out of Guangyu community. It was because of voice inversion that Jiang Yuequan melted Yang Baosen's singing and Jingyun Dagu's voice into his own singing. According to his own voice characteristics, he continued to evolve on the basis of "zhoudiao" and began to form "Jiangdiao". At that time, the representatives were Du Shiniang, Zhan Changsha, etc.

1941-1942 (24-25)

Continue to compete with Zhou Yuquan, and continue to sing in various radio stations

1943 (26 years old)

And Zhou Yuquan spell schedule is over, began to put a single file

1944-1947 (27-30)

When she started to run to the wharf and performed in Wuxi, Yao Yinmei in daozhong passed by and stayed in the book yard where he performed. Two people holding candle night talk, Yao Yinmei hit the nail on the head and said: "you are now a villain, wear a big dress, and your fame does not match." Jiang Yuequan remembered that there was a saying at the tea party: "if you want to set up the enemy's stall with Jiang Yuequan, you only need to start with ten pieces of slang. After ten pieces of slang, it will float away!" Jiang Yuequan understood that storytelling is mainly about expression. Speaking, stunting, playing and singing are the most important. To be a ring, it's important to talk about the watch. Mr. Shuo Shu always goes to the bookstores of the small wharf to fight. Jiang Yuequan knew that he was singing Jiang Diao and Xiangdang. It's hard to run through the terminal. He decided to give up the comfortable environment in Shanghai and perform with Cao Hanchang and pan Boying. After several years of continuous practice in Jiangsu and Zhejiang docks, Jiang Yuequan finally became a real big voice with excellent speaking, stunting, playing and singing.

1948 (31 years old)

On March 4 (the 24th day of the first month of the lunar calendar), daozhong held a dinner to celebrate the birthday of the three great masters of Pingtan. During the dinner, Zhang Hongsheng had a quarrel with the owner of Cangzhou Bookstore because he drank too much wine. Zhang said something too much and hurt each other's face. The owner of Cangzhou bookstore and the bookstore guild decided to punish Zhang Hongsheng for his performance in Shanghai. In order to protect the interests of daozhong, Jiang Yuequan joined hands with Zhang Jianting, Zhang Jianguo, Wang Baiyin, pan Boying, Zhou Yunrui, Chen Xi'an, Tang Geng Liang, Han Shiliang and Zhang Hongsheng to form a whole competition in the bookstore, known as "qishadan".

On April 5, he held a special meeting in Cangzhou bookstore to raise money to buy rice and relieve daozhong. He raised more than 500 silver yuan to solve the problem. The performances include the Pearl Tower by Xue Xiaoqing, Guo binqing, Zhou Yunrui and Chen Xi'an, Yang Naiwu by Li Bokang, fan Xuejun and Wei Hanying, Changsheng Palace by Yang Zhenxiong, Gu Hongbo and Tang Geng Liang, as well as Zhang Jianting, Zhang Jianguo, Jiang Yuequan, Zhang Hongsheng and pan Boying.

In the same year, "qishadan" entered Changshu, and Dongtang city and other places made year-end meeting papers, which lasted three days each. Jiang Yuequan, Tang Geng Liang, pan Boying and Zhong Yueqiao performed in Yifeng and Huayuan Hotel in Changshu.

1949 (32 years old)

In early spring, Jiang Yuequan and pan Boying worked in Wuxi.

On May 26, after the liberation of Shanghai, the daily performance of Migao meiballroom (Tibet bookstore) was changed into a bookstore, opening Qinglong. First, Zhang Hongsheng; second, Jiang Yuequan and Hua Boming; third, Tang Geng Liang; fourth, Zhang Jianting and Zhang Jianguo; seeing off Liu Tianyun and Xie Yujing.

In July, he performed the book drama "Xiao erhei's marriage" in Shanghai Golden theater. Jiang Yuequan acted as Xiao erhei, fan Xuejun as Xiao Qin, Liu Tianyun as Caidan sanxianggu, Zhang Jianting as Er Kongming, Zhang Hongsheng as Jin Wang, and Tang Geng Liang and Gu Hongbo performed "Li Chuang Wang" before the book drama.

In the same month, he wrote four books at the "Venus" (laodahua) Innovation Conference in Shanghai. Zhang Jianting and Zhang Jianguo's the true story of Ah Q, Zhang Hongsheng, Tang Gengling and Gu Hongbo's crossing the Dadu River, Jiang Yuequan's the marriage of Xiao erhei, and pan Boying's the changes of Li Jiazhuang.

In October, the book drama "three heroes punishing beauty" was performed in Suzhou Xinyi theater. Liu Tianyun, Zhang Jianting and Yao Yinmei act as rickshaw pullers, while Jiang Yuequan and Yang Zhenyan act as US troops.

On November 6, he went to Beijing and Tianjin to perform the book drama "three heroes punishing beauty"

1950 (33 years old)

During the Spring Festival, Jiang Yuequan, Wang Baiyin, Zhang Jianting, Zhang Jianguo, Zhou Yunrui, Chen Xi'an and Tang Geng Liang went to Hong Kong to perform for three consecutive months, known as the "four ring show".

In the same year, Lin Chong, adapted by Chen Lingxi, was performed by Jiang Yuequan, Wang Baiyin and Zhu Huizhen.

1951 (34 years old)

Chen Lingxi adapted Lin Chong as a novella and performed it in the golden theater. It was premiered by Jiang Yuequan, Liu Tianyun, Zhang Jianting, Yao Yinmei, Zhang Hongsheng, Wu Zian, Zhou Yunrui, Zhu Huizhen, Wang Baiyin, Zhang Jianguo and Chen Xi'an. Jiang Yuequan's Lin Chong, Zhang Jianting's Zhang Yong, Yao Yinmei's Gao Shide, Liu Tianyun's Lu Qianhe dianxiaoer, Zhu Huizhen's zhenniang, Zhang Hongsheng's Lu Zhishen, Wu Zian's Gao Qiu, Zhang Jianguo and Chen Xi'an's shrewdness are all the choices of the moment. All the actors and actresses are perfect and unique. Among them, the selected song "missing wife in the hotel" is one of Jiang Yuequan's representative works in his prime, while "Lin Chong stepping on the snow" is the representative work of Chen Diao of Jiang school.

On August 22, Jiang Yuequan, Wang Baiyin, Zhang Jianting, Zhang Jianguo, Liu Tianyun, Xie Yujing, Zhou Yunrui, Chen Xi'an, Tang Geng Liang and others toured from Hangzhou to support the war of resistance against US aggression and aid Korea

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