Author: Liu Hongyu.
As soon as you say "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong", older friends, especially those in the north of Beijing, Tianjin and the surrounding areas, will immediately think of Master Hou Baolin's popular classic cross talk, and some can even learn a few paragraphs vividly.
Too many people who are familiar with that cross talk may not have thought that the "story" of Guan Gong and Qin Qiong may not be the "originality" and initiative of Master Hou or "cross talk" - cross talk is a folk popular art that only "sprouted hazy" in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and I dare not say that it is the latest in "quyi", but it is definitely later than most of the types of quyi that can still be seen today (including "two-person turn"), so many stories in cross talk have older prototypes. Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong, there are probably ten ** and there are already "old news".
There is also a cross talk, which also has a similar meaning, called "Luo Cheng plays Diao Chan", and we chatted about word-of-mouth. The reason why there is a huge difference between "one meaning" and "one meaning", in addition to the "name" of the interpreter, I am afraid that it is difficult to detect the difference between the story itself and some people who are difficult to detect when listening to cross talk, but if you think about it carefully, it can be described as an "order of magnitude" - the same is "dynastic disorder", Luo Cheng plays Diao Chan, which is a relatively pure gag;And if you think about "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong", there are many "flavors" that are intriguing.
Because I don't know the exact age of the classic cross talk of "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong" and the "explosion", and even if I know and know it, I don't dare to mess with the generation, so I will start with the cross talk joke itself.
It was a cross talk about opera. Mr. Hou Baolin first learned Peking Opera, but later changed his career to cross talk because of the compulsion of life. Because of his experience in learning opera and his love for "enthusiasts", the master has studied Peking Opera a lot, and has also extensively dabbled in some other operas, but the most familiar, the most similar to learning and singing, and the most deeply studied are still Peking Opera, so many works run through Peking Opera;But it seems that only in this "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong", the "church" of "naming names" is mentioned, preaching-
In the old era, Han Fuyu, the new warlord of Shandong, made a birthday for his father and invited the opera troupe to perform in the house, which was called "Tanghui";is playing the "Red Clean" drama "Thousands of Miles to Ride Alone";Singing and singing, Han Fuyu's father (old lady), who didn't know how to play at all, shouted to stop, asked what he was singing, and learned that the protagonist in the play was "Shanxi Guan Gong", he was very angry, and reprimanded Shanxi people for not letting Shanxi people play majestic on the ground in Shandong, claiming that there are many heroes in Shandong who can sing, casually mentioning a Qin Qiong, and the opera troupe is ready to change to sing Qin Qiong's related dramas.
Unexpectedly, the old lady asked, who is more powerful between Guan Gong from Shanxi and Qin Qiong, a good man from Shandong, and the troupe did not dare to accuse him of ignorance, so they could only say that the two had not compared, and they were forced to "let them compare";was intimidated by obscenity, and had to make up a show ......
I listened to this cross talk at the age of seven or eight, and I heard it many times later, and I was very impressed;When I was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, I knew a concept called "black humor", and when I think about it, the earliest "black humor" I came into contact with should be considered this paragraph.
The so-called "black humor" probably refers to the "mode" of interpreting and expressing absurdity, bitterness, sadness and other "black" meanings in the form and genre of humor and laughter, which can be embodied in a variety of artistic categories - film, drama, opera, literature, poetry, and later performance art, etc., can "carry" and "play" black humor;Among them, our unique, "special" funny cross talk can be said to be the most direct and convenient to express;However, due to the "limitations" of cross talk as a folk popular art, it is not easy to see black humor that is "elegant and profound".
Of course, it is not easy to see, it does not mean that there is none, today it seems to be "old-fashioned" "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong", according to the author, belongs to the kind of in-depth "black humor" - with a "background story" that is likely to "have a background", deduce the estrangement, imbalance, suffering, helplessness and other aspects and angles of art, artists, times (the era in which the story takes place) and even "supply and demand", as well as the "unsolvable absurdity" that all of these together constitute is really wonderful!It's really a breathtaking masterpiece in our soil where there should be too much "black humor"!
Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong" One of the most eye-catching burdens in cross talk is an order from Han Fuyu's father (old lady): let them compare. One of them is Guan Gong (Guan Yu), a native of Shanxi in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the other is Qin Qiong, a native of Shandong in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties (Qin Shubao, one of the door gods). From the perspective of traditional opera that follows the style of "respecting the ancients", it is ridiculous that two people who are separated by more than 400 years of the entire Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties compete on the same stage to see who is powerful. Anyway, for the "corners" who basically don't understand anything other than learning and memorizing drama since childhood, there is no "solution", as it is said in the cross talk - where does such a play come from!
However, if we change to today, today's people who rely on the "extensive knowledge" of the Internet can examine and compare the ancients of different eras on the track of "crossing" or simply from the "perspective of God". The author wrote a small article, called "Xiang Yu and Napoleon", which was written according to hearsay about an "early "proposition";Two people who are two thousand years apart and thousands of miles apart can be compared, Guan Gong and Qin Qiong, what can't be compared!
Therefore, let's just say a few words here, and recklessly "let them compare"!
According to the cross talk, from the perspective of the characters in the opera - Peking Opera has five "big trades", birth, dan, purity, end, and ugliness.
Guan Gong, the famous general Guan Yu of the Shu Han side during the Three Kingdoms period, belongs to the "net" in Peking Opera;And Qin Qiong belongs to "life";Let's refine it - because Guan Yu is a "big red face" in the legend, the character is expressed in a red face, called "Hongjing";This is a relatively special "treatment", in the "net" is commonly known as the "flower face" industry, there are only a handful of "red net" characters painted red, with Guan Yu being the most famous and having the most dramas, in addition to the "thousands of miles to ride alone" mentioned in the cross talk of "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong", as well as "Battle Changsha", "Going to the meeting with a single knife" and so on. Correspondingly, Qin Qiong's "subdivision of the line" is the "Wu Laosheng" in "Sheng". From the perspective of the character categories of the "Mei Lanfang Performance System", the most general refinement of the difference between the two characters can be described as follows: Guan Gong is a "general" and Qin Qiong is "handsome". If you have to "compare", the difference between general and handsome will be much easier to understand.
However, when it comes to "Guan Gong" specifically, it seems inappropriate to classify it too broadly as "will". Usually, the basic characteristics given to the characters by the "pure" line are "fierce", "reckless", and "rigid", but there are special cases, such as Cao Cao, who is also "clean", but it is "white" by analogy with "rape";Another example is Bao Gong (Bao Zheng), because the legend is that his face is very dark, for visualization, he is a dignified and wise character, and he is "black-faced" into "net" (Wenjing, copper hammer flower face);Guan Yu has become "clean" and red, which is also related to the legendary complexion. In history, **, and legends, this "early medieval" general who was later "enshrined" as a "martial saint" had a "handsome talent" who was "in charge", and he was indeed given the mission equivalent to "handsome" (guarding Jingzhou), but the "ultimate" "completion" was a failure (carelessly losing Jingzhou, defeating Maicheng), and the ending was also tragic (killed).
In contrast, Qin Qiong, who may have a slightly inferior "relative status" in the "force value" of "individual combat" (legend, Guan Yu can be ranked in the "top five" in the "Three Kingdoms", while Qin Qiong is relatively low in the "Sui and Tang Dynasty Heroes" in the "Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", and has already "fallen out" of the "top five"), and was given a more "benchmarking" wisdom and steady "old student" image in the opera;Among the old students, the most famous opera characters are Zhuge Liang, Wu Laosheng, Qin Qiong, Huang Zhong (contemporaries of Guan Yu), etc., which are "typical". According to legend, Qin Qiong, who was not at the "forefront" in terms of force value, was not only officially "made marshal", but also became the founding father, not to mention the good death, and was also made a portrait and pasted on the door by later generations, acting as one of the "door gods" who "guarded the door" (another "prototype" was Wei Chigong of the same era, and belonged to the "net" corner in the opera), which can be described as "complete merit".
In this way, if you have to "compare", these two ancient military celebrities, in terms of "comprehensive value", are comparable, but only in terms of "life", perhaps, Qin Qiong is really "slightly higher".
In the cross talk "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong", it is said that the "old lady" who is a longevity is Han Fuyu's father, not only does not understand drama (I don't know who the red-faced person is after watching it for a long time), but also does not understand "history" at all - asked the manager of the drama troupe "Where is Guan Gong from", and was replied "Shanxi people", and immediately said, "Why did Shanxi people come to our Shandong to kill people, do you have our orders", and then asked "Do you know who he is", and then asked himself "He is Yan Xishan's team".
My God, Guan Yu, the ancients of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, were actually said to be the "subordinates" of Yan Xishan, who was their contemporaries (last century)!Whoever you give this to, I'm afraid no one will be able to take it!Not to mention that you have to have your "orders"!
Yan Xishan, a Shanxi warlord, not only controlled the entire Shanxi Province at that time, but also controlled the northern part of present-day Shanxi and a part of Inner Mongolia bordering it (then called "Suiyuan"), and for a long time (from the late Qing Dynasty until the 1940s) to operate with heart, self-contained, belonging to the "national **" at that time Quyi "Zhao'an" strong local warlords.
Han Fuyu of Shandong, on the other hand, not only controls the "majority" (not "all") of present-day Shandong Province, but also relies on the appointment of "national **", although it can also be described as a "self-contained system", but for Shandong's "management", there is no "on the table" achievements.
However, in the end, among the many "local powerful factions" in that era, it was quite "outstanding" - after the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japan, because of the fear of war, he led his troops to withdraw from Shandong, which was equivalent to giving up the "territory" to the Japanese invaders, and was arrested by Chiang Kai-shek, the "commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese War", and sentenced to capital punishment (shooting), which may be the highest-ranking general who was executed internally during the Anti-Japanese War!At that time, I don't know if the "old lady" who forced the troupe to sing "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong" is still alive. Even if he lives, I'm afraid that my son will die of shame!It may not be ashamed, but it must have tasted what a "command" ...... is
is also a "local warlord", the author makes up his own brains and speculates in vain - if he gives Yan Xishan and his family a birthday "singing hall" and performs the story of "Shandong Heroes", it may also cause unpleasantness, but it may not develop into a ridiculous "let them compare".
Han Fuyu's father's "let them compare" is obviously to let the "local" characters "win". Regarding this point, the troupe members in the cross talk completely "understood", and according to such a "general spirit", they made up nonsense on the spot - he (the old lady) couldn't understand it anyway - just toss it twice to "pass".
He, the old lady, doesn't care about art or not, as long as he is happy;And his "joy", in essence, is a kind of "indigenous consciousness" "based on ignorance and power"!
Everyone "loves" their homeland, at least, we Chinese naturally think that this is the way it should be. However, the basis, form, manifestation, and result of this "love" may be very different - rationality, appropriateness, and inquiry, and the positive, helpful, respected, and even admired "love";It is difficult for people to be willful, arrogant, and strong, and at most they can only put on the coat of "love" and play the banner of "love", which is actually not "harmful", and they dare not say anything, but it is difficult to say that it will play a "good" role of "helping", and it is very "difficult to bear". What should be seen more is that the "lovers" who hold this so-called "love" have been ruthlessly proved by history that when the "love" faces disasters, they will run away and throw it away, and they will not hesitate to be infamous and spurned!If the "good man Qin Qiong" he keeps saying can travel back to their times, I don't know if he will pick up the fatal weapon and smash a few bullying dog heads!
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