Republic of China Funny Literary Writer

Originally known as Yao Xiqi. Originally from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, he was born in Shanghai in 1918. He is a first-class actor, a member of the Democratic League of China, a director of the China Association of Chinese Opera Artists, and an executive director of the Shanghai Association of Opera Artists.

The actor studied under the tutelage of He Shuangdui, and in 1939, he started to perform one-legged opera on the radio (then known as "Free Talking and Singing"). At the beginning of the partner for Qiao Yundao, two months after the breakup, and then 50 years of artistic career has been with his brother Zhou Bochun partner, is the longest partner in the comical world of the prestigious brothers partner stalls. The masterpieces of his one-legged opera include "Ningbo Musician", "English Translation", "Hall Herald from All Over the World", and "What Man Marries Dui Yi". In the transition from one-legged opera to burlesque, Yao and Zhou were also the first pioneers, and in the early 1940s, they participated in the earliest burlesque groups, such as "Smile Troupe" and "Huating Troupe", and acted in the earliest burlesque plays such as "The Blind Man Borrows an Umbrella", and "Little Shantung Goes to Shanghai", among others.

In 1950, Yao and Zhou*** formed the Bee Comic Troupe, starring in modern plays such as "Pediatrics", "The Old Tent House", and "The Village That Never Sleeps", which were highly praised and encouraged at the time. 1960 saw the Bee incorporated into the Shanghai People's Art Theater, and the troupe reached artistic maturity, playing the role of a hotel waiter in No. 4 in "Full of Spring", and the role of ancestral Chinese medicine practitioner Hua Kang in "Smiling and Bidding Farewell to Yesterday". In "Spring in the Garden", he played the No. 4 waiter in a hotel, and in "Laughing Goodbye to Yesterday", he played Hua Zukang, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. After the establishment of the Shanghai Opera Troupe, he played the role of a big furnace worker Lao Fang in "Excellent Answer", with hard language and sharp body movements, portraying the image of an old worker who looks down on evil and is upright and selfless, which is a typical artistic image on the stage of burlesque, and he was awarded the Certificate of Outstanding Contribution to the Cultural Cause issued by the State Council and the Special Government Allowance in 1992. He has many disciples, only the "double generation" has nearly 30 people.

He died on September 20, 2004, after a long illness, and was regarded as a great comedian in the comedy world.

Zhou Bochun (1922-2008)

Originally known as Yao Zhenmin, originally from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, he was born in Shanghai in 1922. First-class actor. Member of the Democratic League of China. Member of the Central Committee. Deputy to the First Shanghai People's Congress, member of the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the Third Shanghai Federation of Literature, member of the Chinese Dramatists' Association, and the Second and Third Vice-Chairman of the Shanghai Opera Artists' Association.

In 1939, Yao Mushuang, his brother, started his career as a comedian when he was paired with his brother Yao Mushuang to perform a one-legged opera on the radio, and in 1950, he and his brother *** formed the Honey Bee Comical Troupe, of which he was the head. In the same year, he attended the National Theater Work Conference on behalf of the comical community and was received by Premier Zhou Enlai. He also served as the chairman of the Shanghai Comic Drama Improvement Association and the chairman of the traditional repertoire organization committee. In the Bee Comic Troupe, he participated in and starred in representative plays such as "Pediatrics", "The Old Tent" and "The Village That Never Sleeps". During his time in the People's Art Theater Comic Troupe and Shanghai Opera Troupe, he starred in more than ten large-scale comedies and portrayed a lot of comedic characters with distinctive personalities. For example, she portrayed the advanced worker No.2 waiter in "Spring in the Garden", the henchman of "Gang of Four" Ma Jiajun in "Excellent Answer", and the small property owner Jiang Agui in "Baby under the Street Lamp", etc. Her performance movements and language are soft and delicate. His performance movements and language are soft, delicate and elastic, and he is characterized by "cold-faced comedy" with his ease of preparation and treacherous clouds. His award-winning one-legged operas include "The Liberation of the Thousand Characters" and "What Man Married Dui Yi".

In 1985, he and Yao Mushuang went to Hong Kong to perform in a sensational show, which was hailed by the local newspaper as "the super comic double file of the mainland".

In 1992, he was awarded the Certificate of Outstanding Cultural Contribution and Special Government Allowance by the State Council. He and Yao Mushuang*** have nurtured a large number of burlesque talents.

Yang Huasheng

Originally known as Yang Baokang, he was born in 1918, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province.

First-class actor, member of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party. He is a member of the First and Second People's Representatives of Shanghai Municipality, a member of the Second Municipal Federation of Literature, a member of the Chinese Dramatists Association, a member of the Third Standing Director of the Shanghai Dramatists Association, a member of the Chinese Quill Association, and a member of the Second Director of the Shanghai Quill Association.

Subject to Bao Lele, he joined the Shanghai Big World Huaguang New Drama Society in 1931, and in 1937, he was paired with Zhang Qiaonong to sing a solo act, and joined the fifth anti-enemy drama team under the direct leadership of Zhou Enlai, and engaged in propaganda performances for the resistance against the Japanese in the eastern battlefields. 1947, he returned to Shanghai, and became the head of the Cooperative Comical Drama Troupe in 1950, and played the leading role of Rudolph in the comical drama The Living Bodhisattva. 1951, he formed the Dagong Comical Drama Troupe. In 1951, he formed the Dagong Comic Troupe and played the role of 369 in "72 Tenants", which portrayed the image of a treacherous and vicious reactionary policeman; and Zhang Chao in "Two Officials in Suzhou", which portrayed the image of a chivalrous and resourceful official.

In 1979, he joined the Shanghai People's Comic Troupe and served as deputy and honorary director. He played Zhu Shoucai in "Fake Husband, Fake Wife", showing the greedy character of Scrooge with exaggerated performance. His one-legged opera performances include speaking, learning, acting and singing, and his representative works include "Opera Miscellaneous Singing", "Putonghua and Dialect" and "Ningbo Empty City Plan". He has attended the National Symposium on the Aesthetics of Comedy, and has given "comical lectures" at more than ten institutions of higher learning, including Shanghai Jiaotong University and Fudan University. His works include "60 Years of Yang Huasheng's Comic Career".

In 1992, he was awarded the Certificate of Outstanding Cultural Contribution and Special Government Allowance by the State Council.

Zhang Qiao Nong

Originally known as Zhang Bao En, he was a comedian. Born in 1910 in Nanhui, Pudong, Shanghai. He is a member of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party, a member of the Chinese Opera Artists' Association, and a member of the Shanghai Dramatists' Association.

When he was a child, he was out of school in the fifth grade of elementary school, and at the age of 13, he was apprenticed to Wanshengchang Cigarette and Paper Shop in Shanghai, and at the age of 14, he studied under the master of civilized actor Yu Qiao-weng, and performed in the Great World Amusement Park in Shanghai, the Xianshi Paradise, the Great World in Hangzhou, and the provinces of Jiangzhe and Zhejiang. In the 25th year of the Republic of China (1936), he switched to solo opera, first partnering with Xu Xiaolin and then with Yang Huasheng. During the Anti-Japanese War, he participated in the Anti-Enemy Opera Team of the General Political Department, and then formed another War Sound Miscellaneous Opera Troupe.

Republic of China 36 years (1947) and Yang Huasheng came to Shanghai to sing one-legged opera, known as \ "Chongqing comical \". After the Shen Yile, laughingly joined one after another, became \"Yang, Zhang, laugh, Shen\" \"four stalls\". Spring Festival in 1950, with Yang, laughing, Shen and Cheng Xiaofei, small Liu Chunshan, Yu Xiangming **** build cooperative burlesque troupe, performing large-scale burlesque "living Buddha", the role of the reverse Pan Laotai, funny ladder, the mouth of the reputation.

In 1951, Zhang and four other people established the Dagong Comic Troupe, and Zhang successfully portrayed the role of Du Fulin, an upright and witty pear paste candy vendor, in The House of 72 Tenants;

In 1979, he joined the Shanghai Municipal People's Comic Troupe, and performed a very successful performance of a talented and kindly old painter in Filial Piety and Our Son. When he was in Hangzhou, he performed several times with Du Baolin, who was famous for his small hot faints, and he benefited a lot from Du, so most of the one-legged operas he performed were based on \"say\". Regardless of whether he is performing a big opera or opera, his style of performance is simple, steady and generous, with abundant gas and a bright voice.

Laughing

Originally known as Que Deng Hui, he was a first-class actor. Born in 1919 in Wu County, Jiangsu Province.

Member of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party, member of the Chinese Dramatists' Association, member of the Chinese Songwriters' Association, and executive director of the first and second sessions of the Shanghai Songwriters' Association.

He was honored as an advanced worker in the Shanghai cultural system in 1960.

Subject to Liu Chunshan, he started his career at the age of 9. He and his younger sister Liaoqiqi sang one-legged operas at the Great World Amusement Park, and were known as "child prodigies". From 1946 to 1948, he was a partner of Yao Mushuang and Zhou Bochun, and later cooperated with Yang Huasheng, Zhang Qiaonong and Shen Yiluo. He was a member of the Laughing Troupe, the Wanxiang Troupe, the Cooperative Comic Troupe, the Dagong Comic Troupe, and the Shanghai People's Comic Troupe. Before the Cultural Revolution, he was the director of the Dagong Comic Troupe, and after 1979 he was the deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal People's Comic Troupe, and after his retirement in 1987 he became the honorary director of the troupe.

Performed dozens of large-scale comedies, including "Seventy-two Tenants", in which he played the role of Bingen, a rogue who oppressed tenants and extorted money, which was very well portrayed; the play and his role in "The Confused Masters and Mothers", both of which were filmed; "Two Officials from Suzhou", in which he played the role of the official Li Da, which showed the character traits of goodness, naiveté, cowardice, and righteousness; and "The Living Buddha", in which he played the role of the bad monk, which was very realistic in its form; and "The Living Buddha", written, directed and performed by him, in which he played a bad monk, which was a realistically realistic. After the performance of "Filial Piety and Our Son", which was written, directed and acted by him, there was a strong social reaction, and it was transplanted by many kinds of dramas all over the world. Has published dozens of one-legged opera "Nail Ba" and other segments.

Shen Yile (1926-1968)

Comic opera singer. Member of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party. Native of Suzhou. Parents died early. He attended Yude Middle School, and at one time practiced medicine at the Eye Hospital. After being introduced by his foster mother, he studied under the tutelage of Shin Happiness, and went on to sing one-legged opera on the folk radio.

In 1942, she left Shanghai to sing in Suzhou, and then went to Wuhu to do business for many years. After the victory in the war, she returned to Shanghai and took Shen Juyin as her teacher again, and acted as the master's hand.

In 1948, he was partnered with Yang Huasheng and Zhang Qiaonong, known as "Yang, Zhang and Shen"; soon after, Laughing Hip Hop also joined the team, playing "Yang, Zhang, Laughing, Shen" four heavenly kings "signboards," and became the only "four stalls" in the history of comedy one-legged opera. On the radio, because Shen is the youngest, good at singing, and some "feminization", so when broadcasting jingju opera, Shen often play the female role, such as in the "Jade Hall Spring", playing the female lead Su San.

In 1951, Shen and Yang, Zhang, laugh*** built the Dagong burlesque troupe. Shen Yile's first appearance in a large-scale burlesque was in The Living Bodhisattva. Shen decorated with upright and honest young master Yin Shi Fan, Nianniang decorated with pure and beautiful Miss Pan Li Rong, green Yang decorated with resourceful maid, there is a section of more than half an hour of "love misunderstanding" play, the three improvisation, the more gimmicky, became a popular and exciting moments, and then often be pulled out for individual performances.

Shen Yile's articulation is clear, the stage style is simple, with the theater to do their duty, play a green leaf supporting role. He also gave excellent performances in a number of plays, such as the helpful, unfair little tanner in The House of 72 Tenants, the high-spirited, talkative little Beijing official in The Two Officials of Suzhou, and the lively, sweet, honest little Ah Long in The Confused Masters and Mothers, all of which portrayed distinctive personalities.

After 1960, he became the deputy director of the Dagong Comic Troupe.

During the Cultural Revolution, he was persecuted to death. After crushing the "Jiang Qing Counter-Revolutionary Group", he was rehabilitated.

During the Cultural Revolution, he was persecuted and killed.