According to Huang, a poet of the Republic of China, all these great achievements of Luo Yinggong were "broadcast in the middle of the night after listening to music".
However, the "fans" at that time could not be as aboveboard as in Idolization today. In particular, literati linger in the music world, "when you laugh at it more."
In the book "Xu Beihong" published in the early years of Taiwan Province Province, there is such a narrative about Xu Beihong's public transportation with Luo Ying: "In 19 18, Xu Beihong was introduced by Kang Youwei and went to Peiping to find his great disciple Luo Yinggong ... Luo Yinggong was famous as an actor at that time, and Xu Beihong had to join this corrupt and declining circle. Xu Beihong once painted a picture of the goddess scattered flowers for Mei Lanfang, and Luo Yinggong also wrote a poem for this. "Without Xu Shengchuan's wonderful pen, I don't know that the goddess is on earth. "In the eyes of the author" is the standard taste of boring literati. "
Liang Yan, a professor at China Opera Academy who has studied this history, believes that people have misunderstood Luo Yinggong's love dramas before his death. In fact, in 19 14, Yuan Shikai's remarks about restoring the monarchy were rampant. Luo Yinggong, then secretary of the presidential palace, had an old friendship with Yuan, but he refused to violate it. So, he resigned and lived in Guangzhou Guild Hall, indulging in poetry and wine every day and lingering in the theater. His good friend Huang Huiwen advised him many times, and Luo Yinggong only revealed the truth in front of this old friend. "I want to be bored and hurt myself, so I borrow a way to help myself and make the world laugh."
In Liang Yan's view, Luo Ying pretended to be crazy and sang, in fact, in order to avoid disaster.
It's just that in many cases, "playing the fool" is inevitable. Luo Yinggong met Cheng, who was only 12 years old at a church meeting, and was recognized as a wizard "after Milan". Later, Cheng changed his voice in adolescence and still wanted to go to Shanghai to learn from his teacher. Luo Yinggong raised money to redeem him from his master, arranged courses for him personally, and extended the supervision of teachers. As mentioned above, Luo Yinggong specially arranged for Xu Beihong to paint "The Goddess Scattered Flowers", which is actually a teacher's gift for Cheng to worship Mei Lanfang as a teacher.
Since then, Luo Yinggong's love drama has changed from "avoiding disaster" to real "obsession", and even personally compiled 12 plays for Cheng, such as "Green Frost Sword" and "Golden Lock". Luo Yinggong once confided to his friends, "I can't imprison the whole world, but I will also lead it to the right path."
Cheng had to go through eight hutongs (places where fireworks were set off in old Beijing) when he came home to study drama in his early years. Luo Yinggong told him to enter the East Gate of Dama Temple from Coal Market Street, preferring to make a detour. Therefore, Cheng walks two miles more every day.
Later, Cheng got into the habit of gambling. Luo Yinggong, who was seriously ill, was very sad to hear that he lost to 600 yuan at cards. So "go there and find all the cards and all the tools, without explanation." Later, Cheng called Luo Yinggong, gave up the "bamboo war" and never gambled again.
In his later years, Luo Yinggong devoted all his energy to Cheng, who was quite a godfather. This is also the reason why he later became famous and lamented that "it is what it is today, and it is the first achievement."
Luo Yinggong, who doesn't want to be an official, is still thinking about listening to music. At the end of the year before his death, when he visited his old friend Huang Huiwen, he said, "Now, all I have left is a golden ear, with hundreds of copper coins in it. I don't listen to music anymore, and I have no money in my pocket."
A few years later, Luo Yinggong died. He was criticized during his lifetime. After his death, many mourning poems of his peers mentioned Cheng, which is also a fable. On the contrary, it was Cheng's elegy, which was told for a while because of its simplicity and sincerity: "When the soliton fell, the realm was born, but it was the end of the art, and Xu Gong gave it; Since then, the Great Wall has lost its support, hurting children and weakening itself. Every time I read a song, I have no tears to swing. "
Three years later, at the age of 23, Cheng and Mei Lanfang tied for the semi-finals. People commented: "Mei Lanfang is as gentle as a woman and as shy as a scholar." Described in this way, Cheng was influenced by Luo Yinggong, and his temperament was self-remoulding.
Since then, the Japanese invaders captured Beiping, and Cheng, who "would rather die under the gun than sing for the Japanese aggressors", retreated to Xishan and became a farmer. Later generations lamented that the character of Luo Yinggong, a scholar, was still preserved in this artist with "ice and snow movement". In Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Luo Ying was a well-known celebrity in Shunde. He is good at calligraphy, poetry, drinking, making friends and helping others. He has good friends from dignitaries to ordinary people. In the Complete Works of Lu Xun, there is a saying that "writing for Luo Yinggong and writing poems for Huang Huiwen".
But McCullough's relationship is not a simple subsidy relationship, but more like the relationship between playwrights and actors, teachers and students. Cheng was later hailed as one of the "four great talents", and Luo Yinggong played an important role in it. Cheng became famous in his early years, 13 years old, and sold himself to do butterfly fairy drama that year. Unfortunately, during the development period, Cheng's voice did not fall. Master and boss Rong Diexian saw that a promising artistic life would be destroyed, and still forced Cheng to perform in Shanghai. Luo Yinggong, a celebrity in Beijing at that time, was very appreciative of Cheng, so he redeemed Cheng Congrong's family, taught him literacy, poetry reading and calligraphy, helped him to improve his voice and martial arts, and invited famous teachers, Yan, Qiao Huilan to teach Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera and martial arts. Two years later, Cheng not only recovered his voice, but also composed a new song, Cheng Pai, which was all the rage. Luo Yinggong not only strongly supported Cheng, but also personally wrote various Peking Opera scripts suitable for Cheng's singing, such as Marriage of Dragon and Horse, Story of Pear Flower, Flower Boat Side, Biography of Red Fu, Jade Mirror Terrace, Romantic Bar, Yuanyang Tomb, Earn, Jade Lion Fall, Peacock Screen and so on.
Luo Yinggong was born in an official family in Daliang, Shunde. His name is vagrant, filial piety, celebrity, celebrity, and night male. When I was a teenager, I studied in Guangzhou Wanmu Caotang, and I was a disciple of Kang Youwei with Chen and Liang Qichao. Later, he transferred to Guangya College, and his talent was appreciated by Zhang Baixi, a Guangdong academic officer (who was convicted of recommending Kang Youwei in the Reform Movement of 1898). 1899 At the age of 27, he was selected by You Gong and sent to imperial academy for further study. At the age of 33, he took an examination of the economics specialty (the specialty selected by the court in the late Qing Dynasty to be proficient in Chinese and foreign affairs) and got excellent results. He was awarded an officer in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. After the revolution of 1911, he served as secretary, senator and consultant of the presidential palace. On the eve of Yuan Shikai's proclaimed himself emperor, Jia Gong withdrew from the officialdom and made a living by selling articles and words. He died in the late autumn of 1924 at the age of 52. He made a will before he died, forbidding his family to write his life's official position into the epitaph. The tombstone only says "the tomb of the poet Luo Yinggong".
In his later years, Jia Gong was down and out. Later, his adopted son and student Cheng took care of himself. It is said that Jia Gong wanted a tombstone to be erected after his death, so Cheng went to see the old man the year after Luo's death, begging for the words "Tomb of the Poet Luo Yinggong" to be engraved and rewarding him with 500 gold, which made the old man feel his friendship. He refused to moisten gold and presented a poem: "The lake is still sick and full of coughing and vomiting." I want to cultivate my spirit. I see peerless people at the bottom of the house. Qin Qing was heartbroken, so I began to think about this topic. Finally, the friendship between wind and life and death, for the sake of Xishan put a few lines of tears. "I remember McCullough's friendship, who can say that players are ruthless!
Later generations often remember the story of Jia Gong's Chrysanthemum Garden, but they don't know that it is brilliant in literary talent, full of poems and books, and historical stories. Luo Yinggong, known as a celebrity in the late Qing Dynasty, is inseparable from his extensive knowledge and versatility. He is proficient in Peking Opera and is good at writing plays. The existing "Ju Bu Cong Tan" is not only a collection of essays introducing the changes of Peking Opera and the life of artists, but also has high historical value for the study of Peking Opera. What Jia Gong himself values most is poetry. He was a famous poet in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. He, Liang Dingfen, Zeng and Zeng are also called "the four modern Lingnan schools", and he has Zen temple poems. In his early years, his poetics, Li Shangyin, later joined the styles of Bai Juyi and Lu You, which made the environment unique and unique.
His calligraphy, which is also very famous, is transformed from the inscriptions in the Tang Dynasty and has the charm of Mi Fei in the Song Dynasty. His strength is restrained, his style and style are uninhibited, which is contrary to the long-term popular "pavilion style" and is deeply loved by the art world. Qi Baishi's poem "Heaven can't bind a chicken, a snake is frightened into the grass" vividly shows the characteristics of grass.
Jia Gong also paid attention to collecting and compiling contemporary historical materials. He opened a column in Yan Yong Bao, edited by Liang Qichao, and published a text about recent stories. Monographs such as The Kingdom of Gengzi, Private Notes of De Zongcheng Tong, Sino-Japanese Military History, The Story of the Cut-off Province, The Story of Boxing Change, The Beginning and End of Sino-Russian Negotiations in Ili, and The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War. They are all famous for their elegant writing, informative materials and clear arguments. Now they are all included in this note, which has attracted the attention of modern history researchers. Jia Gong's notes focus on historical events rather than anecdotes, and most of them are anecdotes of the late Qing Dynasty, mostly personal anecdotes, so the words are painful, especially the story of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, the story of the boxer rebellion, the story of the boxing rebellion, which is simply a history of the decline and fall of the Qing Dynasty.
Jia Gong is elegant and likes to make friends. After arriving in Beijing, his talent quickly stood out and became famous in Beijing. He has been in and out of celebrity gathering places for many years, saying that "the seat is always full, and the wine in the cup is not empty". He, regardless of rank, "speaks with one voice and seeks for the same spirit" and is particularly enthusiastic about supporting young talents. People at that time were called "celebrity agents". Besides Cheng, Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong got his help.
Qi Baishi entered Beijing from Hunan in the early years of the Republic of China, but his popularity was still not high. Qi Huangong Jia appreciated his painting skills very much, became close friends, became famous far and wide, and often wrote poems for Baishi's paintings. There is a sentence in the poem "White Stone Flower and Bird Atlas", which is highly praised by Xu Wei and Badashan people. Qi Baishi was also full of praise for his calligraphy. He wrote in "Deliao Office Book Fan Xi Fu": "When you are heartbroken and smile, you will get an old friend's book. There is no joy in the sky, and there are snakes in the grass. " The friendship between Luo and Qi is also a much-told story in the history of modern art.
When Xu Beihong was 22 years old, he went to Beijing for help with Kang Youwei's recommendation letter. When he saw these paintings, he appreciated them very much. He immediately wrote to Fu Zengxiang, the chief of education, praising Xu as a material that can be made, and suggested that he be allowed to study in France at public expense. Fu Zengxiang believed in Jia Gong's eyesight and understood his love for talents. He personally met with Xu Beihong and approved Xu's application after examination. During Xu Beihong's stay in Beijing and waiting to go abroad, Jia Gong often invited him to talk about art in Shangxi, and made him famous by writing poems.
After the Republic of China, Jia Gong was ashamed to call himself an old man. Although he is an old friend of Yuan Shikai, he is always unwilling to be an official in Beiyang. He just became a senator and secretary, and got a dry salary. Finally, he died of poverty.