(1847 April 23rd-1917 May 10) The famous artist Tian, formerly known as Tan Jiaotian, was born in Wuchang County, Hubei Province (now Jiangxia District, Wuhan City), a Peking Opera actor, a worker and a student, and once performed martial arts. He is a Beijing Opera performance artist with far-reaching influence. After his death, Liang Qichao wrote an elegiac couplet, "Tan Xinpei, with a reputation of over 30 years, is like a thunder", to illustrate its influence. Representative works include Dingjun Mountain, Yangpingguan and Nanyang Pass.

Tan Xinpei (1847 April 23rd ~1917 May 10) was an actor, an old worker and a martial artist. My real name is Jin Fu, and the words look heavy. People also call it Yingxiu because of its name. The stage name is Tian. Born in Huangpi, Hubei (now huangpi district, Wuhan). Born in Jiufu Village, Tanzuowan, Dadongmen, Jiangxia District, Wuhan (formerly Wuchang County). His father Tan Zhidao is an old worker and an old student. His only son, Tan Xinpei, was born on the 9th day of March in the 27th year of Qing Daoguang.

/kloc-When he was 0/0 years old, he went to Beijing with his father. 1 1 year-old entered the small golden chamber to learn martial arts ugliness, and later changed to a martial artist and a veteran of civil and military affairs. He graduated from 1863. At the age of 23, he took the Sanqing class, mainly playing martial arts dramas such as Crusade to China, Sanchakou, Baishuitan and Badana. Stable boy, who played "Qingshishan" with Cheng Changgeng, was appreciated by "Big Boss" and entrusted with martial arts. Tan Xinpei is the only martial artist in the painting "Thirteen Musts of Tongguang". It was ten years after Guangxu, enjoying the famous drama world with old students.

Artistic image

Tan Xinpei created a large number of artistic images in his life. Because he is good at observing the identity, personality and spiritual temperament of characters, he plays both form and spirit. Chen Yanheng, a famous amateur who is familiar with Tan Pai's art, said: "Tan Xinpei plays Kong Ming as a Confucian, Huang Zhong as a veteran, Bai Huai as an old minister in Rouge Pledge, and Zhou Wenyuan as a stubborn ordinary citizen in Wuyi. The products are different and different. "

When portraying characters, he not only pays attention to the truth of the image, but also stresses the beauty of art, and has his own unique creation in singing, reading and playing. Among the "old students and three outstanding figures" at that time, Sun Juxian made good use of "cavity voice" to win with impassioned; Wang Guifen makes good use of "the voice behind the head" to win with vigor and strength; Not like Sun and Wang, with a strong singing voice, there are loud pets and tunes everywhere. But with the voice of "Yun Zheyue", melodious and tactful, longer than lyrical, but sometimes a little sentimental.

The same drama, such as, catching and releasing Cao, fish-intestines sword, etc. It was performed by three people, each with its own characteristics. Tan's vocals not only blend the vocals of Zhang Erkui, Lu Shengkui and Feng Ruixiang, but also widely absorb the vocals of Qingyi, Hualien, and the tones of Kunqu Opera, Bangzi and Drum, which are skillfully integrated into the vocals of the old students without showing any trace, and can be unified in their own unique style, forming their own family.

Singing style

He is also good at breaking through the syntax of "223" and "334", using inter-line and function words to moisten the cavity and flexibly change his eyes. As a result, his singing is delicate, lively, changeable, plain and ingenious, and can vividly express the feelings of different characters. For example, the sadness of selling horses, the sadness of Yang's Hongyang Cave, Hua Yun's "Fighting for Peace" and his "Sadness" are all wonderful. His reading aloud, diction and sentences are clear and fluent, and the "Three Reports" in Empty City and the "Ballad-telling" in Eight Hammer are his elaborate masterpieces.

flexible

Tan Xinpei was a martial artist in his early years, and his martial arts skills were solid and skillful. Therefore, no matter how he plays tricks, arrows and pleats, he can be flexible and clean, and he also shows his unique skills in many plays, such as "Hanging Hair" in Shiro's Visit to Mother, "Jumping Tiger" in "War of Peace" (a sentence about "rattle") and. The whole "Qionglin Night Banquet" is heavy, but he plays with ease, showing his waist and legs; The playing style of mace in Selling Horses with Mace and the dancing knife in Cuiping Mountain also have their own characteristics.