Xue Xiaoqing

Xue Xiaoqing

Xue Xiaoqing (1901-1980), born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, is an actor of Shanghai Pingtan troupe. Xue Xiaoqing and Shen Jian'an have been working together for a long time. They are good at speaking, playing and singing. They are sometimes called "tower king" and have long been well-known in the world of books. His Xue Diao and Shen Jian'an's smooth, mellow and charming Shen Diao sing together to set off each other, complement each other and complement each other. Therefore, they are also called "Shen Xue Diao" among the audience.

Youth

"The moon is dark, the night is long, and the wind frightens the iron horse. There is no sound in the west chamber. There is a maidservant named purple cuckoo This is Xue Diao's representative work "night exploration of the purple cuckoo" sung by famous Tanci actor Xue Xiaoqing. The tone is sonorous and the rhythm is bright. Especially when the reiterative is used to sing 14 "one" in succession, it is bright and fluent, and the words are clear, which makes the listener feel like flowing water and flowing jade. In his youth, Xue Xiaoqing learned from Wei Yuqing and studied the Pearl Tower. Wei Yuqing inherited and developed Ma Rufei's tune, especially in the aspects of changing tune, dragging tune and repeating sentences, which made the rhythm more active and felt like a thousand li. He was called "Wei tune", which made Xue Xiaoqing deeply influenced.

History of Xue Diao

Schools do not come into being out of thin air. They must learn from other schools, or from one person, and then develop into a new one. Xue Xiaoqing adapted to her voice characteristics and singing skills and processed Wei tune. In addition to the development of the characteristics of Ma Diao and Wei Diao, he also strengthened the bright color, which made the singing more detailed and the expressive force improved correspondingly. The most outstanding thing was that he had a kind of forceful, crisp, straightforward and sharp elasticity in the aspect of line tune and enunciation. The audience commented that Xue Tiao was like "a pungent and crisp sandalwood olive". Xue Diao gives full play to the characteristics of recitation and recitation of Pingtan shudiao, which is sound and fluent. It is one of the most popular schools of Tanci in modern Suzhou, and is often absorbed and used in modern books. In the aspect of musical instrument accompaniment, Xue Diao changed the habit of only passing through the door accompaniment in Ma Diao, and closely cooperated with the singing with pipa. In the technique of supporting performance, Xue Xiaoqing created flexible branch tone polyphony, which enriched the musicality and made the performance more pleasant.