Zhou Kongkong

Zhou Kongkong

Zhou Kongkong (1887-august 12, 1930), in the 1930s, there were some famous Comedians on the Western screen. For example, Hollywood's cool and funny Pei Si Kai Deng, big nose FENBO Duran, wide mouth Bajo Abram, skinny Sula Simon, fat and thin Laurie, hatai and so on are all the best among them. They appeal to the audience with their own physical features and some comic performances. Before liberation, most of the early Chinese films were influenced by the West. In the 1930s, Han Langen and his old partner Liu Jiqun (later Yin xiucen) formed partners and made many funny films in China. Chaplin, a world-famous comedian, and Tang Jie, who are famous in China for acting as "Mr. Wang" by cartoonist Ye Qianyu, are loved by the audience for their different style of performance.

brief introduction

(1887-1930.08.12) but before Han Langen and Tang Jie, a funny star appeared on the earliest Chinese screen. With his outstanding performance skills and various artistic talents, he made gratifying contributions to the Chinese film industry in its infancy. This is Zhou Kong, who was famous at home in the 1920s and known as "Oriental Chaplin".

Life

Zhou Kongkong (formerly Dapeng) was born in 1887 in Changshou County, Chongqing. His grandfather Zhou Zeyu, who was an official in the Qing Dynasty, once worked as a teacher for a "royal family". After Peng Fenghe, a native of the county, he presided over Changshou Fengshan Academy. Kongkong's father, Zhou Zhongyu, was an official who could read his father's books. Han's mother is also a well-known girl. She has a lot of knowledge. She founded the longevity girls' school in her early years and was the first principal. She was a rare talent in the longevity girls' circle at that time. Kongkong studied as a private school teacher when he was young. He was intelligent and talented, especially fond of various arts. He is good at painting, especially in music and performance. He is good at calligraphy. He is good at running calligraphy and official script, and can write with a brush in his mouth (oral calligraphy). He is good at painting, landscapes and figures. He can also paint with his fingers dipped in ink (finger painting). He wrote and painted for others, often using the alias "Yangzhen". He can play and sing in music, and he knows everything about the classical instrument, the lyre and the imported accordion at that time. I can sing Sichuan Opera and Beijing opera, especially like Sichuan Opera. It was as famous as Fu Shuzhi and Zhang Kaixian, the famous "playmates" of Sichuan Opera at that time. Fu sang Shengjiao, Zhang sang Xiaosheng, Kongkong was good at clowns, and sometimes sang "Xiaohou" (Dan). At that time, in Changshou city and Hejie, no matter the rich or the well-off, every time they met with red (wedding) and white (funeral) wedding, they made a scene to sing "play friends" (Sichuan Opera sitting singing). Fu, Zhang and Zhou would be invited to the scene every time they sang. In addition to singing "playmates", they occasionally have troupes to perform for longevity, and even stage tickets. Kongkong's various artistic interests laid a good foundation for him to become a professional artist. At the end of the Qing Dynasty's rule, domestic exploitation was intensified, resulting in political corruption, and the people's livelihood was in dire straits. At that time, some aspiring youths, such as Tu de Fen, Zuo Shang, Yang Chong Chi, joined the alliance led by Dr. Sun Yat Sen as early as when they studied in Japan. In 1910, Liao Ziya (a member of the alliance) from Jintang came to Sichuan from Shanghai. He was employed by Yin Huating, the president of Changshou school, as a PE teacher of the school. Shi zhoukong also taught music in the school. Because Liao knew that linzhuang school had a lot of ammunition and weapons, when he was hired to live a long life, he had the purpose of plotting to organize the revolution. After coming to the school, he secretly developed organizations with Tu defen and Zuo Shang. Zhou Kongkong, Yin Lu and Kong qingzong all joined the revolutionary organizations led by Liao. The clarion call of the Wuchang Uprising of 1911 blew all over Bashan and SHUSHUI. In the early morning of November 18 of the same year, with the dawn waiting to be revealed and the stars and the moon in the sky, Liao Ziya called several strong students to break into the county government with some muskets. When Shen Zhaoxiang was dreaming, Liao and Zhou rushed into his bedroom and woke up the county government, showing their "bombs" made of mud ball coated with gold powder and shouting to Shen: "we are the revolutionary party . Hand in the seal quickly, or you will be invited to eat the bomb! " The county master was scared out of his wits, so he had to bow to his orders and repeatedly said, "Jiao, Jiao..." Immediately obediently handed over the county seal. Soon, the banner of "commander Liao" appeared in the four gates and the main street of the county. A few days later, Chongqing declared independence and the situation became more stable. In order to celebrate the success of the revolution, Zhou Kongkong and others wrote and performed the fashion civilization drama in the city, and also played the female role. In Zhou Kongkong's scholarly family, he is the smartest of the five brothers and sisters. His parents hoped that he would study hard and make progress in his studies. In the future, he would become a scholar and shine on his family. Who knows that he is fond of blowing, playing, playing and singing. Therefore, he has long been dissatisfied with him and has been severely reprimanded many times. Now Kongkong has secretly joined some "revolutionary party" behind his family's back. If it's not done well, it will harm the whole family. Moreover, an eunuch, who is seven feet in height, has openly painted on the stage and disguised himself as a woman. It's a total treason. Since then, his parents have been estranged from him day by day, and his emotional distance to his family has been lengthened day by day. Kongkong's original match is an old-fashioned woman. She always respects three obediences and four virtues. She has always been on the side of Weng Gu, and her husband and wife have long been estranged. One day, his mother called him to the front, said: "Mirs ah, how out of you this black sheep ah!" Kongkong replied with his inherent wit: "since Mirs, they should fly high. What a black sheep!" Next to the father, already angry, "pa" is a slap in the face, "fly! Let you spread your wings and get out of here Since then, Kongkong resolutely left home and went to Chongqing alone. When a wanderer leaves home, he will inevitably feel desolate if he is lost. At the same time, he will have a deeper understanding of the world when he thinks that his relatives are so indifferent to him. After he arrived in Chongqing, in order to make a living, he officially went to the sea to sing Sichuan Opera and changed his name to "Kongkong". Soon after going to the sea, it became famous. The entrance and exit are all in the arch sedan chair. Two big lanterns were hung on the car curtain, and the word "empty" was written on it. In Chongqing, he also recruited two apprentices, one named "Miaomiao" and the other named "boundless". After a few years, I felt that I couldn't get along with some old habits of the artists in the class. I also felt that in the past, the opera was free and unrestrained. Now I have to deal with some warlords, bureaucrats, local ruffians and hooligans. Sometimes I have to be humble. I feel that it's not a good policy for the opera to continue in the long run, so I want to find another way out. Around 1922, Kongkong quit his troupe and went to Hankou for a few days. What are you going to do before you leave Sichuan? There is no definite plan in the empty heart. When I arrived in Hankou, I started business with others. With part of my savings from opera singing, I went to Hunan to do business with my friends. Kongkong was born as a childe. He loved art all his life. He was a layman in business economics. Soon his business collapsed, and after several attempts, he moved to Shanghai. I lost money doing business in Hunan, and I spent almost all the money I accumulated in singing opera in Chongqing. When I came to this colorful world, I had no choice but to think about the way out of life. At the beginning, he played the signboard of "prophet" and made a living by face-to-face and fortune telling at the beach of Huangpu. At the same time, he used his special skills to sell calligraphy and paintings in hotels. At that time, there was a Japanese named Matsumura, who admired his calligraphy and finger paintings very much. He once subsidized the travel expenses and helped him to go to Japan. After returning from Japan, he performed solo and juggling in the roof garden of Shanghai Shuian company. He could play solo, pull and sing by himself, hit the bowl with his left foot, beat the drum with his right foot on the floor, and play the Hu Qin with both hands. The content of the program often changes. It's all made up by myself in the hotel at night. He plays juggling and can sing monkey opera, barefoot, shorts, wearing a red coat, imitating the monkey to open, close the box, and somersault. Holding a small gong to ask the audience for money and other actions, winking, lifelike, like a little monkey. Every time he did it, the audience would chant "one more, one more!" In Yong'an company, there are two performances every afternoon and night. Soon, it became famous. Many people in Shanghai knew that Yong'an company had an empty week. At this time, he took in a lot of dry children, who learned juggling and solo from him, about ten people. After he became famous, Zhu Zhishan (1926) filmed Tang Bohu's autumn fragrance (Sanxiao Yinyuan) produced by Shanghai Tianyi film company; Zhang Shichuan, the boss of Shanghai Star Film Company, took a fancy to him. In 1924, Kongkong was drawn into the star company to make films. He has starred in more than ten films, including "Jigong living Buddha", "pansiluo", "Peacock Flying Southeast", "Qianlong's tour of Jiangnan", "Emperor Tang Ming's tour of the underground", "Granny Liu's entrance to Grand View Garden". Since then, he has become a famous comic film star in China and known as "Oriental Chaplin". Like Hu Die, Kong Kong is regarded as a cash cow by the boss of the company. In 1930, he went back to Sichuan to set up an early moth eyebrow film company. At the same time, he wanted to take his mother to Shanghai for support and return to his hometown of longevity. Empty away from home for more than ten years, parents have been infected with a Furong addiction, family decline. I didn't expect to be denounced as disobedient

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