Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. It means that when something happens, neighbors are more helpful than gold ingots.
1. As the saying goes: "A good neighbor is worth a fortune" means that neighbor relations are very important, that is, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. The value of "Neighborhood Watch" is based on the five words "harmony, respect, help, service, and management" and builds a bridge to communicate with neighbors.
2. From the second chapter of "Wu Song" by Wang Shaotang: "Wow! Mr. Wu! Good neighbor, a gold treasure!" Also written by Ke Fei (Good neighbor, a piece of treasure) "Spring Tide" 35: "As the saying goes, good neighbors are a treasure. Nowadays, 'mutual aid' and 'cooperation' are getting along a lot, just to exchange hands and scratch the back, and to have a friendly relationship."
< p>3. Wang Shaotang (1889~1968), a commentary artist and a representative of the "Wang School of "Water Margin"". At the age of 20, he became one of the four famous writers in Yangzhou Pinghua circles. Representative works "Wu Song" and "Song Jiang".4. The representative figure of "Wang School's "Water Margin"" is Wang Shaotang. His ancestral home is Jiangdu County, Jiangsu Province, and he was born in Yangzhou. Both his uncle Wang Jinzhang and his father Wang Yutang studied under famous teachers and were good at speaking and performing Yangzhou Pinghua "Water Margin". Wang Shaotang learned art from his father at the age of seven, performed on stage at the age of nine, and officially started performing at the age of twelve. In his long-term artistic practice, he not only inherited his father's calligraphy skills, but also inherited his uncle's advantages and absorbed the strengths of his peers. First, based on the art of family transmission, it mainly narrates the story of Wu Song in the Chinese classical literature "Water Margin" and improved it into ten chapters. Later, it also narrated the story of Song Jiang in "Water Margin" and made it ten chapters. , and compiled and published the two volumes in the 1950s. At the same time, he compiled the stories of Shi Xiu and Lu Junyi in "Water Margin" into Yangzhou Commentaries, thus making "Wu Song", "Song Jiang", "Shi Xiu" and "Lu Junyi" four "ten-chapter books" ", became the representative work of Yangzhou Pinghua art represented by him, and was known as "Wang School's "Water Margin"".
5. The characteristic of "Wang School's "Water Margin" narration is that it uses characters to structure the story, and connects the entire "Water Margin" content through the four main characters; especially those that are not in the original work or The briefly explained deeds are enriched and the calligraphy skills of the predecessors are expanded to make them more complete and full. Wang Shaotang inherited the legacy of his ancestors and extended the family's calligraphy skills. His performances are exquisite in expression, both physical and spiritual, relaxed and elegant, and his art is said to be "detailed but not cumbersome, magnificent but not rough." His son Wang Xiaotang and granddaughter Wang Litang are both famous Yangzhou Pinghua performers. . In particular, his granddaughter Wang Litang directly inherited her grandfather's calligraphy skills. Based on her grandfather's "sweet, sticky, sharp, and spicy" artistic style, her speech is more crisp and elegant, her language is more refined, and she has "showy" and " It has the reputation of "a string of beads pouring out of the open basin and bucket". This makes the owners of "Wang School "Water Margin"" become a veritable "Wang School "Water Margin"" artistic family.
6. "Wang School's "Water Margin"" not only has successors of art, but also has a relatively complete collection and preservation of art materials. Following the compilation and publication of Wang Shaotang's performance versions of "Wu Song" and "Song Jiang" in the 1950s, in 1989 and 1995, China Quyi Publishing House and Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House respectively published Wang Litang's performance version of "Wu Song" (volumes one and two** *10 chapters) and "Song Jiang" (10 chapters in the first and second volumes), "Shi Xiu" (10 chapters), and "Lu Junyi" (10 chapters). It is known as "the 'Four Ten Chapters' of "Water Margin" of the Wang School of Yangzhou Pinghua".