1in the summer of 937, the Japanese army was forced to drop out of school and go south to Guangzhou. 1938 immigrated to Hong Kong, joined the "Mr. Jue Opera Troupe" led by a famous actress (also her cousin Tang's husband), was responsible for copying music, and later turned to be a screenwriter. Soon after, he created the first Cantonese opera "Jiang Yuhua", starring "Little King" Bai Jurong (the father of a famous actress), and began his screenwriter career. His screenwriter is the famous screenwriter Nanhai Shisanlang.
Tang Tisheng married Xue Jueqing, the tenth sister of Xue Juexian, and had a son and a daughter after marriage, but the marriage lasted less than three years before she divorced. Later, in 1942, she married Zheng, a famous Peking Opera actress who was good at dancing and had two daughters. He added the elements of Beijing opera and dance to Cantonese opera. Later, Tang Tisheng studied under Xue Juexian and Feng Zhifen, and assiduously studied the works of Nanhai Shisanlang, Feng Zhifen and Xie Hanfu. When Ren Bai founded the Xianfengming Troupe, he hired Tang Tisheng as the resident screenwriter, and wrote famous plays such as Peony Pavilion, Butterfly Shadow and Red Pear, Queen Flower, The Story of Purple Hairpin, Nine Days Xuan Nv and Red Plum in the Near Future for Xianfengming. Because of his beautiful rhetoric, in-depth description of the emotional world of characters and his own style, he eventually became a master of Cantonese opera and won the reputation of genius.
On the evening of September 1959 and 14, the new drama "Red Plum" of "Xi 'an Troupe" premiered at the Yuli Stage, and Tang Tisheng also attended. In the fourth scene of "Escape from the Trap and Save Pei", unfortunately, he had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, fainted on the operating table and was sent to a French hospital for rescue. He died the next morning at the age of 42.
In his short life, Tang Tisheng wrote the most brilliant page in the development history of Cantonese opera. He made the development and creation of Cantonese opera enter the most brilliant and prosperous period in the 1950s, trained generations of Cantonese opera actors, and even promoted the trend, attracting countless Cantonese opera lovers and audiences. During the twenty years from 1938 to 1959, he wrote 446 plays, which means that he wrote more than 20 plays every year on average. In fact, in his heyday, he wrote thirty or forty plays every year, of which 1943 wrote 43 and 1944 wrote more than 58, which was the most creative year in his writing career. In addition, he also wrote 170 plays from 1950 to 1955 (only 1950 has 48 plays), which is another peak of his creative career.
"Draw a column with the wind and the bamboo, and the moonlight night on earth is so clear. Worried about rustling courtyards and overlapping terraces. At dusk, the moon has gone to the moonlight, so it is difficult to continue the dream of the night bridge and wander around. How to distribute the double infatuation? It is better to write a new article with crayons than to be bored and nostalgic. Who is responsible for this face and Song Yu's figure? " ("Come out of the cage to save Pei" in "Red Plum Near the World")
"With the book sword, Beijing. There is a yellow list of recruiting talents, but it is lost. Old Confucian scholars are full of complaints. Keke is the last person in the world, and the department director drinks, drinks and drinks on credit. When is the article valuable? It's hard to tell true from false. Once I pass the autumn exam, I will enjoy watching the lights and be willing to live up to the ten-year window. " ("Picking up vegetables in Dengjie" in the story of Purple Hairpin)
Judging from the above sentences, the rhetoric is clear, elegant and agile, and the phonology is more harmonious, which reflects the high level of Mr. Tang Tisheng.
In addition, the characters described in his plays are full of emotions, so many of them have been adapted into movies. Costume films include The Queen Flower, Phoenix Lapras, Butterfly Shadow and Red Pear, Red Plum Rebirth, Purple Hairpin and Luoshen, while fashion films include Flowers in a Dream, Sister Cheng and Luoshen. His works, Poet of Pink City, Soul Coming, and Ten Years of Prosperity and a Dream Sale, all use film and drama techniques.
At that time, almost all Cantonese opera stars performed his plays, such as,,, Fang Yanfen, Xian Nvhong,,,, Luo Yanqing, Ren Jianhui and Bai Xuexian.