Why Shenyang teahouse why?

According to "Fengtian Tongzhi" records, the end of the Qing dynasty, Shenyang has eleven teahouses. Which is the small west gate of the stone city of Hongtaixuan is the first year of Xianfeng (1851) opened, originally for the Qing teahouse, Tongzhi years before Zhao Wendong and other famous artists in this book, is the earliest review of the Shenyang bookshop. Small South Gate in the item teahouse was opened at the end of the Tongzhi; small east side of the door of the Gu teahouse, small Beiguan Yu teahouse, Dandongmen forever teahouse, Kui Sheng Xuan, in the middle of the street Copper Row Hutong Ja teahouse, South Gate of Ruixinfa are opened during the reign of the Guangxu; small Xiguan Fusheng Xuan, small Beiguan Furnace gray mountain white produce into the teahouse, the face of the South Gate of the Qiu teahouse, are the Xuantong yuan year of the opening of the. The above commentary artists are in these teahouses take turns to say the book. Generally for the day and night two games. Famous writers say "lights night". In addition to the bookshop, there are vaudeville hall. Such as Hai Feng Yuan is often performed commentaries, drums, ditties, juggling and other ten kinds of juggling place, the masses called "flower teahouse".

The tea garden to listen to the opera

Artists put the performance, are said to sing a section of a section of the money, how much is not limited to no money can also listen to the so-called "money to help a money edge, no money to help a person's edge". Came up with a certain amount of money, and then sing the next section. Artists into the teahouse, still "playing money system", but the provisions of a good section of a few dollars, usually a performance of five or six paragraphs, the last half of the delivery. Trampoline artists perform, in addition to this play money, there are some other names to ask for money. Such as playing "Double Lock Mountain" in the Liu Jinding promised to marry a paragraph, acting Gao Junbao's "underwear", asked to play Liu Jinding's "on the suit" singing a ditty, he listened to enough to agree to the marriage. He had to ask the audience for "happy money". Another example is the performance of "Ding Lang looking for his father", is a bitter play, acting Ding Lang artists sitting on the high table singing "December rammer song", the master said: "small Ding Lang can not find his father, life is very bitter, we help a few money it! This is called "begging for bitter money". There is also the performance of "Huang's female tour of the Yin" in the blood color scenes, to "ask for color money".

When an artist sings a short passage, the audience has the right to sing a certain program. Artists have a "theater folders", written on the top of the repertoire, the audience or the master of the family point program called "point list.

The storytellers in the teahouse rapped a long book, the rules are "three sections a year", each section is a book, less than the day, can not change the book. The so-called "three sections" is from the first day of the first month to May Dragon Boat Festival; from the Dragon Boat Festival to the August Mid-Autumn Festival; from the Mid-Autumn Festival to the 23rd of Lunar New Year to close the book, a year of rapping three big books, each section of about four months. Some artists say the book is not enough for a section, the last few days, it is cobbled together, the plot of the other book changed and moved in. Therefore, the traditional big book often has the shortcomings of "tiger's head, snake's tail", the second half of the artistic level is not as good as the first half. But some clever artists, the more they say, the better, and finally the plot of the book to the climax.

Miscellaneous Ba ground popularity

Shu-telling, comedy artists to perform venues called "cave", a partnership performance called "take the cave", go out to perform called "go cave", and more income places called "cave", and more income places called "cave". The place with more income is called "fire cave", and the place with poor income is called "water cave". The storytellers also called the teahouse "ground", the teahouse storytelling is called "on the ground", after the performance is called "down to the ground". The artist's residence is called "under the place". Fengtian teahouse rules are tube pick up regardless of delivery, that is, on the field to pick up the artist package on the road, the artist left, the road by the next stop to pick up the artist's teahouse industry director. However, to prepare a meal, there is a "pick up artists dumplings send artists noodles (noodles)" said.

Performances at temple fairs

The income of the "hole-holding" performers is "food and drink", which is divided into two parts: one for the general performers and the other for the head performers. The average performer gets ten points, the top performer gets twelve or thirteen, the worst get seven or eight, and the smallest performer gets only five points. Drum artists who sing long books and string masters are generally divided into "three-seven" or "two-eight" shares, with the singers taking the lion's share, and the famous "sitting string masters" (string masters who are always in a teahouse) in some teahouses do not move, but only change the singers. (string master in a teahouse all year round, only change the singing artist) also have to take 40% of the money. The division between the artists and the owners of the teahouse is called the "book", generally "37" and "28", with the artists taking the lion's share, and only after the book is paid can the remaining singers and string masters be re-divided into "shares" (the "share" of the artists). "After that, only the singers and the string masters can share the money again (the commentators will get all the money for themselves). The above custom of the artists from generation to generation, has been extended to the Republic of China period. The old society artists income is very unstable, sometimes good and sometimes bad, therefore, the storytellers in the circulation of a couplet:

and dignitaries and the restaurant **** drink;

evening with the flowers and beggars sleep with the temple platform.

When they became famous, the dignitaries also called it Mr., boss, reward money and wine, the old saying that when it does not move, there are a lot of artists died of illness on the street, no burial place. This is the situation of folk artists in the old days.

Republic of China period, Shenyang's performing arts artists are mainly miscellaneous Ba Di Er and tea house. There are also a small number of famous artists to the military and political officials to go to the home of the "singing club" or on the radio to broadcast live music programs. In the early years of the Republic of China, Shenyang's miscellaneous Ba ground in the "west face" - West Shuncheng Street in the middle of the large West Gate to the small West Gate between about a mile long. According to the fifth series of the Shenyang literature and history of the West garden of the old Shenyang "miscellaneous Ba Di" - from the face of the first shopping mall to the first article, the "Ximen face" of the arts are introduced as follows:

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Five unequal distance "put down the ground" music field, occupying the center of the miscellaneous Ba Di Er. Each field has rough wooden benches, surrounded by a square circle of about three feet long field boundaries, and near one side of the benches. A roughly made high legged rectangular table and a small square bench are set up. The artists sat on the small square stools and performed a variety of performances. Among them, there are "meat mouth" comedy; there are also bamboo slate "scolding Water Margin", long drum lyrics "Xue Li Zuidong", commentary "three warriors sword", "Jigong biography" and other programs. Each show starts at 10 o'clock in the morning and stops around 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

In 1923, under Zhang Zuolin's regime to rebuild the downtown area, Fengtian Municipal Office established the first shopping mall in Fengtian between Taiqinggong and Xiaoxibianmen. The east yard of the shopping mall is Xing Leyuan, there is a white teahouse in the garden (owner Bai Qi San), on both sides of the twelve sheds, performances of commentary, drums, comedy, juggling and other "ten kinds of vaudeville". Xingleyuan existed for twenty years, after the fire in 1943, the artists flocked to the North Market.

In 1923, Fengtian Municipal Office of the city's five districts of the Tea House has done a survey, the situation is as follows:

The first district (the city) has Hongtaixuan, Daxing Tea House, Yongchang Tea House and other three, the singers have commented on the lyrics of the artist Li Qingkui, Kong Rongqing and drums book artist Zhang Yuzhen.

The second district (Dongguan) has three Xinglong Xuan, Zhile Xuan, Gao Teahouse, etc., sung by lyrics artist Liu Huiqing, Shen Lanjun, De Ziyuan and drums and music artist Ding Xufeng.

The third district (Nanguan) has a Sun teahouse and east and west of the two Du teahouse, the singers have commented on the lyrics of the artist Lin Ronglin, Liang Tanyuan, Zhang Yushan, Feng Jinghe (should be drum artists), Guang Yihua, Wang Shiyuan. In addition, there are put down to sing the drum song artists Zhang Yuke, Gao Zhencheng, Wang Hanchen.

The fourth district (Xiguan) has four tea houses such as Qingxiangge, Zilingzhou, De Taixuan, Contract Xuan, and a storytelling shed, the performers in the drum book artists are male actors Yang Shuangcheng, Li Wanchun, commercial Xing, Wang Yuelai, Liu Lizhu, female actors Yuan Shiqing, Wang Guifeng, Wei Yaqing, Wen Yulan, Zhang Yunqing, Liu Jinlan, Zhang Pingqin. In addition, in the "Ximen face" put down the performance of the drum and song artists male actors are He Yunge, Zhou Rongfeng, Bi Delin, Jiao Fengyi, Zhao Qingchun, Song Huaji, Jia Guolin, Lang Zaochen, Gao Changqing, Lin Yuanguo, female actors are He Fenglan, Zhu SiXi, Zhu YaXiang, Zhu YaZhen, Zhu XiaBiaoZi (ZhuXiZhen), DongYaRu, Ren XiaoHei, MaHuiFang, Wang Zuiqin, Liu Yashuang, Wang Xiaoyu, Li Fengxi, Xiaojuzi, Lin Lianying (who partnered with Lin Yuange when they were a family), and comic artists Zhu Tianrui, Zhu Fengshan, and Cui Baoxiang.

The fifth district (Beiguan) has six Yongtaixuan, Baoyunxuan, Zhonghuaxuan, Danyouxuan, Fuhe Rongkuan, rich teahouse. Performers include commentators Wang Hanchen, Yuan Yongzhai, Li Mingshan, Yang Zicheng, Pan Cheng (Cheng) Li, Liang Danyuan, Liu Huiqing, Lin Ronglin, Zhang Fushan.

In the above survey, five districts *** have twenty teahouses (including an unnamed storytelling shed), *** have sixty-two opera artists.

In addition, there are Luanzhou Teahouse in the South Market and Qinglian Pavilion in the North Market. In the area along the Xiaohe River, the seasonal teahouse every summer, there are Hundred Flowers Teahouse, Wansheng Teahouse, De Taixuan, Ningxiangshe, Qinfang Ting, Biluochun, Xiaopenglai, Lotus-root Lotus Shelter, Changguanlou, Qingxiangge, Tianquan, Yongquan, Yiyuan, Taoran, Fuxiang, Huaying, and so on, sixteen. Some of them are branches of large teahouses.

Nodaizi theater crowded

Also according to "Fengtian Tongzhi" records, in 1924 the city **** there are seventy-five teahouses (including eleven teahouses already existed at the end of the Qing Dynasty), after the Republic of China teahouses increased by nearly seven times, its distribution is: twelve within the city, thirteen in the East Pass, twenty in the South Pass, twenty in the West Pass, twelve in the North Pass. Among them only in 1923 to 1925 two years in each district of the newly opened tea house has revival of the residence, Rongshan Tea House, Sun Teahouse, Fuyuan Cheng, Heji Teahouse, Sanheshun, Fuxing long, JinYuanSheng, GuangYuanChang, DongShunHo, QingHuaHuan, YuShunHo, ZhiLeXuan, ZhangTeaHouse, LiShunDe, xiaoTeaHouse, YangTeaHouse and so on twenty-two, which can be seen in the teahouse industry is booming.

Painted wild stage play

In 1928, "Huanggutun incident", Zhang Zuolin was killed by the Japanese bombing, social unrest in the Northeast, one-third of Shenyang's teahouses out of business, only forty-two left.

In 1931, "September 18" Incident, the Japanese invaders occupied Shenyang, and soon after the occupation of the three northeastern provinces. After two years of social unrest, in 1933, Fengtian City, the opera teahouse once again thrived. According to Song Liangui's "Shenyang's teahouse" in the article provided information, the 1930s Fengtian's main teahouse has the following fourteen: the city's wooden rows of Hutong Gongyu Tea House, Zhongjie Road south of the Ningxiangshe (today's Kwanglu Cinema), the stone city of the Xiaoximen Lane Hongtaixuan (the old teahouse), Xiaobeimen Lane store Tea House, Dabeimen Lane, Sanyi Hutong, Jiuqing Tea House, the Gulou south of the double wells Hutong, the Zuoxin Tea House (that is the original item) Gulou South Shuangjing Hutong Zuoxin Teahouse (that is, the original item Tea House, the item Defu Tea House to Qi Guozhi changed to this name), Gulou South Wanquan Teahouse (the largest, but not for long), Gulou South Gray Market Tianhe Teahouse, Gulou North Union Teahouse, the same Lixian in the South Gate, the Dexinquan outside of the South Gate, Xiaoxiguan Xiangyunge (the original DeTaiXuan renamed), the Industrial District open-air market Ruyi Teahouse, the North Market, the Sihui Teahouse. In addition, there is a seasonal teahouse called "Little Green Sky" in Fengtian Park outside Xiaoximen, which is also very famous. There is a couplet on the door of the teahouse: "Seek fame bitter seek profit bitter to eat a cup of tea to go; for the public busy for the private busy take a bottle of wine to." To this day, it is still remembered by the Shenyang old man in his heart.