Liu Jingting (1587- 1670? ) Born in Taizhou, his ancestral home is Yu Xichang, Nantong. The original surname is Cao, the name is Yongchang, and the word is Kwai Yu. Famous storyteller in late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. 15 years old, unruly, breaking the law and discipline. Li Sancai, the magistrate of Taizhou, was exiled for excuses. He fled to Taixing, Rugao and Xuyi. Because of listening to artists telling stories, I also began to speak in the city according to the novels of officials, which actually touched the people in the city. After crossing the river to the south, he changed his surname to Liu, renamed it Jingting. Because of "pockmarked face, everyone called it pockmarked Liu" (biography of Liu Jingting by Shen Longxiang). In Yun Jian (today's Shanghai), I got the guidance of Mo Houguang, and my calligraphy has made great progress. Then I went to Yangzhou and Hangzhou to tell stories. In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), "Scholar officials fled south, and thousands of overseas Chinese in Jinling" ("Wu Chuan Liu Jingting"), Liu Jingting also went to Nanjing to tell stories. He "said it once a day, priced it once or twice, and sent the book to the handkerchief ten days ago, which is often not empty" (Zhang Dai's "Tao An Meng Yi"). Qiao Fan Sima, who lives in Nanjing, and He, who lives in Tongcheng, also invited guests from vitamins. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, he went to Zuo Liangyu to tell stories in the army and lived in Wuchang, assisting in military affairs. After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, Zuo Liangyu was sent to Nanjing, and the powerful ministers and Ruan Dacheng of Nan Ming were also called "General Liu" by Nan Ming. In the second year of Qing Shunzhi (1645), Zuo Liangyu died, and Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng tried to capture Liu Jingting alive. Liu fled Suzhou and returned to his old job. After that, he spoke in Yangzhou, Nanjing, Qingjiangpu and Changshu for ten years. In the spring of the 13th year of Shunzhi, he was 69 years old, and served as a military officer in Ma Fengzhi Prefecture, the magistrate of Susongchang Town, Songjiang. But he was depressed and left the army three years later. In the first year of Kangxi (1662), Liu Jingting went north to Beijing with Cai Shiying, governor of Huainan grain transportation in Qing Dynasty, and performed in the palace. He is often in contact with bureaucrats and politicians and has considerable influence. The words in the opening appendix of Cao Zhenji's "Xue Ke Ci" contain: "Liu Sheng Jingting is famous for its comments. When it entered Beijing, it was invited in succession. ..... the name of the pavilion, so it is beneficial. " Later, he returned to the south in the fourth year of Kangxi and arrived in Taizhou via Yangzhou. Another story says that Liu Qu has been to Beijing twice. In the second year, I went to Bozhou, Anhui, and then I told stories in Nanjing. Huai Yu's Banqiao Miscellanies records him: "When he is over 80 years old, he sleeps under the porch when he meets Yuqiao, and he still says that Qin sees a girl." In the seventh year of Kangxi, Zhang Chao compiled "A New Record of Yuchu" and selected Wu's "Biography of Liu Jingting". At this time, Liu was 82 years old. Liu Jingting's bibliography, although taken from ready-made novel scripts, is not scripted. Yan's novel "Liu Mazi" notes: "The head of the department is a hero, and the position is different from that of the official"; Zhang Dai's "Tao Anmeng Liu Yi Jingting Commentary" records that he killed a tiger in the water margin: "I heard him say that he killed a tiger in Jingyanggang, which is quite different from this biography." It shows that he gave full play to the original text and formed his own characteristics when performing. At the same time, he is good at expressing exquisitely, changing the original content, and adding or deleting from the characteristics of storytelling art. Zhang Dai said that he "described implicitly, but found (added) cut (deleted) clean and didn't nag." In the use of language, he is not satisfied with straightforward narration, but focuses on creating an atmosphere and writing people and things in a visual way. Yan Meier said that he "started with a slightly ordinary narrative, then wavered and raised his voice." "When it comes to bones and joints, all-powerful people shout and violently collapse the house" (Meng Jingting's storytelling by Zhang Dai). Ming Zhu Yi's "Listening to the Words of Liu Sheng's Jingting Pavilion" also said that he "suddenly shook the sky, the pearl shook, and it seemed to be ethereal from time to time, and the back song turned to sorrow, and people under the eaves suddenly smelled the wind and rain, and saw ghosts and gods standing in front, swinging back to the waves, and the forest and soldiers gathered in Kunyang, and the guests were shocked to hear that there was no owner and wanted to vomit for praise." He is also good at supplementing social life in the book, and integrating his own experiences, stories, likes and dislikes into the book. In this regard, Huang Zongxi's "Liu Jingting Biography" wrote: "Jingting has lived in the army for a long time, and its heroes, killing and fleeing, being displaced, and losing his country are all obvious to all. And those five local accents, which are good and I am familiar with them. Every time you make a sound, it makes people feel pale, or it is like a sword and iron horse, but it is empty; Or like the wind howling, the rain crying, the birds are sad and the animals are terrible. The hatred of national subjugation is sudden, the sound of sandalwood is colorless, and there are people who can't finish it. " These characteristics formed in his storytelling have always been imitated by later storytellers. The bibliography that Liu Jingting often talks about is mostly excerpts from long stories according to sporadic records of relevant materials. According to the selected novels, there are roughly Water Margin, Sui and Tang Dynasties and Western Han Dynasty. In addition, Liu Jingting is said to have left hundreds of storytellers in Xia Liu. Liu Jingting has been a storyteller for 60 years, from Shaoxing in the south to Wuchang in the west and Beijing in the north. For a time, he was famous, and he didn't pass on his disciples for most of his life. I didn't accept Yangzhou as an assistant minister until my later years. His evening scene is bleak, and some people think that he died of hunger and cold.
Yuan Kuocheng is very famous for telling stories.