Zhou Kongkong (formerly known as Dapeng) was born in 1887 in Changshou County, Chongqing. Grandfather Zhou Zeyu, who traveled abroad in the Qing Dynasty, was a teacher of a "royal relative". Returning home in his later years, he presided over Changshou Fengshan Academy after Peng Fenghe, a county native. There are many empty fathers, and his father's name is Zhou Zhongyu. He is an official son who can read his father's book. His mother, Han, is also a noble family, young and knowledgeable. She founded the Longevity Women's School in her early years and served as the first principal. At that time, she was a rare talent in the longevity women's world. Kongkong studied in a teacher's school when he was a child. He was intelligent and gifted, especially interested in all kinds of arts. He can write good paintings, especially in music and performance. He is good at running script and official script in calligraphy, and he can write with a brush in his mouth. For painting, landscapes and figures, I can do something, and I can also paint with my fingers dipped in ink. He writes and paints for others, and often uses the alias of "fostering truth". He can play and sing in music, and he knows everything about the classical instrument lyre and the imported accordion at that time. I can sing Sichuan Opera and Beijing Opera in drama, especially like Sichuan Opera. It is as famous as Fu Shuzhi and Zhang Kaixian, the famous Sichuan operas with long life at that time. Fu sings a role, Zhang sings a niche, and he is good at clowns when he is empty, and sometimes he sings "Small Throat" (Dan Jiao). At that time, in Neihe Street, Changshou Town, no matter whether the rich or the common people were well-off, whenever there was a red (wedding) or white (funeral) happy event, they all made fun of it (Sichuan Opera). Fu, Zhang and Zhou are invited to the concert every time. When they arrive, onlookers (listeners) are blocked. In addition to singing "playing with friends", they occasionally have a troupe to perform for a long life, and they also perform on stage. Many artistic hobbies in air and space laid a good foundation for him to become a professional artist later.
the Qing dynasty ruled the last leaf, intensified internal exploitation, political corruption, and made the people miserable; Externally, it will cede territory and pay reparations, and it will humiliate the country. The national situation is at stake and people are in constant fear. At that time, some aspiring young people who lived long, such as Tu Defen, Zuo Shang and Yang Chongzhi, joined the Alliance led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen as early as when they were studying in Japan. Since the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement, the people of Sichuan have waged a heroic and fierce armed struggle against the reactionary rule of the Qing Dynasty. In 191, Liao Ziya, a member of Jintang, went to Sichuan from Shanghai to be hired by Yin Huating, the president of Changshou School, as a physical education teacher of the school, and Shi Zhoukong also taught music in the school. Because Liao Zao knew that Linzhuang School had a batch of ammunition and weapons, he had the purpose of plotting to organize the revolution when he was hired to live longer. After coming to the school, he secretly developed organizations with Tu Defen and Zuo Shang, and Zhou Kongkong, Yin Lu and Kong Qingzong all participated in the revolutionary organizations led by Liao. The horn of Wuchang Uprising in 1911 blew all over Bashan and Shushui. In the early morning of November 18th, the same year, the dawn was waiting for the dew, and the moon and the moon were in the sky. Liao Ziya made an appointment with Zhou, and called several able-bodied students to break into the county government with a few muskets. At that time, Shen Zhaoxiang, the county palace, was just dreaming. Liao, Zhou and others rushed into his bedroom, woke up the county palace, and flashed out their "bombs" made of gold powder coated with mud balls in advance. They said to Shen:. Hand over the seal quickly, or you will be treated to a bomb! " The master of the county was terrified out of his wits, so he had to bow and obey, saying "pay, pay ……" and immediately handed over the county seal. Soon, the banner of "Commander Liao" was hoisted at the four gates of the county and the main street. A few days later, Chongqing declared its independence, and the longevity situation became increasingly stable. In order to celebrate the success of the revolution, Zhou Kongkong and others staged a fashion civilization play in the city, and he also played a female role.
In Zhou Kongkong's scholarly family, he is the cleverest of the five brothers and sisters. His parents wholeheartedly expect him to study hard and make progress in his studies, and he will be able to receive books and shine on the lintel one day. Who knows that he specializes in blowing, playing, playing and singing, and does not do business. Therefore, he has long been greatly dissatisfied with him and has been severely reprimanded many times. Now Kongkong has secretly joined a "revolutionary party" behind his family's back. If it is not done well, it will harm the whole family. Moreover, a son of an official family, who is seven feet tall, has openly painted on the stage and dressed up as a woman, which is simply a big violation. Since then, his parents have been estranged from him day by day, and his emotional distance from his family has been lengthened day by day. Empty original match, an old-fashioned woman, wholeheartedly respects three obedience and four virtues, and has always stood on the side of Weng Gu, and the husband and wife have long been at odds. One day, his mother called him to him and said, "Dapeng, what a black sheep you are!" Kongkong replied with his inherent humor: "Since Dapeng, you must fly high, what a black sheep!" Next to the father, already frustrated, "pa" is a slap in the face, "fly! Let you fly high and roll for me! " From then on, Kongkong resolutely left home and went to Chongqing alone.
If a wanderer leaves home, it is inevitable that he will not feel sad if he loses his flock. At the same time, the thought of his relatives being so heartless to himself gave him a deeper understanding of the world and human feelings. After he arrived in Chongqing, in order to make a living, he officially went to the sea to sing Sichuan Opera and changed his name to "Kongkong". Soon after entering the sea, it gradually became famous. Go in and out in arch-pole sedan chairs. There are two big lanterns hanging on the curtain of the car, and the word "empty" is written on it. In Chongqing, he also accepted two apprentices, one named "Mimiao" and the other named "boundless". After several years, one feels that he can't get along with some old habits of artists in the class, and the other feels that ticket theater used to be free and unrestrained. Now, by singing opera for a living, he often has to deal with some warlords, bureaucrats, local ruffians and hooligans, and sometimes he has to condescend and pretend to be a snake. He deeply feels that it is by no means a good policy to go on like this, so he wants to find another way out. In about 1922, Kongkong resigned from the theatrical troupe, bought his own clothes, broke through Kuimen, left the Three Gorges, enjoyed the scenery on both sides of the Yangtze River, and arrived in Hankou in a few days. What are you going to do before you leave Sichuan? There is no plan in the empty heart. After I arrived in Hankou, I only raised business with others, and with part of my savings from singing opera, I partnered with my friends to do business in Hunan. Kongkongben was born as a playboy, loved art all his life, and was completely a layman in the way of businessmen's economy. Soon his business collapsed, and after several attempts, he moved to Shanghai.
I lost my money in doing business in Hunan, and I spent almost all the money I accumulated in singing opera in Chongqing. When I came to the gorgeous world of Shili Foreign Exchange, I had no choice but to consider my way out. At the beginning, he played the sign of "prophet" and made a living by reading faces and fortune-telling at Huangpu Beach. At the same time, he used his own specialty to sell words and paintings in hotels. At that time, there was a Japanese named Matsumura, who appreciated his oral calligraphy and finger painting very much. He once funded travel expenses and helped him to go to Japan. After returning from Japan, he sang a one-man show and juggled in the roof garden of Shanghai Hai 'an Company. He could play a one-man show by himself, by himself and by himself, with his left foot hitting the bowl, his right foot hitting the drum on the floor and playing the huqin with both hands. In addition, I hit the gong with a mallet in my right armpit and sang by myself. The content of the program often changes, and it is all made up by myself in the hotel at night. He will sing a monkey show in vaudeville, barefoot, in shorts, wearing a red jacket on his back, imitating monkeys opening boxes, closing boxes and doing somersaults. Holding a small gong to ask the audience for money and other actions, winking, lifelike, like a small monkey. His somersault like a monkey is particularly wonderful. Every time he flips, the audience will keep shouting "One more, one more!" Performing in Yong 'an Company, twice a day in the afternoon and at night. Soon, it became famous, and many people in Shanghai knew that Yongan Company had a weekend. At this time, he received many sons and daughters, about dozens of whom learned acrobatics and one-man shows from him.
After he became famous, he filmed Zhu Zhishan (1926) who produced "Tang Bohu Dianqiuxiang" (San Xiao karma) by Shanghai Haitian Film Company. Zhang Shichuan, the boss of Shanghai Star Film Company, took a fancy to him. In 1924, Kongkong was pulled into a star company to make a movie. He has starred in more than ten films, such as Jigong Living Buddha, Pan Si Leakage, Peacock Flying Southeast, Qianlong Traveling to the South of the Yangtze River, Tang Minghuang Traveling to the Hell, and Granny Liu Entering the Grand View Garden. From then on, he became famous in the film industry and became a national famous funny movie star, and was called "Chaplin of the East". Kongkong, like Hu Die, was regarded as a cash cow by the boss of the company.
in p>193, he went back to Sichuan to set up an early moth-eyebrow film company. At the same time, he wanted to take his mother to Shanghai for foster care and return to his hometown of Changshou. After leaving home for more than ten years, my parents have been infected with A Furong addiction, and their family fortune has fallen. Unexpectedly, he was dismissed as a "black sheep" who was disobedient and unfilial. He did not study or become an official, but now he can also "make a name for himself". Of course, his parents changed their views on him. A family reunion is very cordial.
After living in Changshou for a while, I went to Chongqing in early May of the same year. He returned to Sichuan from Shanghai this time, with a group of apprentices such as Chen Futong, Song Wanquan, Li Xiaohui (female) and singers Jin and Huang Hou, who are famous for singing "Song of the Beauty" (once recorded). As soon as he arrived in Chongqing, he rented a theater to perform his new fashion play. Zhou Kongkong reached the golden age of maturity in art from the middle to the end of the 192s. Due to the historical limitations of the semi-feudal and semi-colonial society at that time, it was inevitable that Zhou Kongkong had formalistic traces of bourgeois commodity art and mixed some low-level and vulgar performances. On the other hand, he was influenced by bourgeois democratic revolution in his early days. At the same time, he has personally experienced many tortures from his family and society, and his performing arts can absorb some nutrients from real life, which is basically in line with realism. This is the biggest difference between him and the ordinary comedians who only rely on gimmicks to cater to the ordinary citizens in the early film industry. Most of his new plays, written and performed by himself, are cynical works, which mercilessly lashed out at the injustice of the society at that time, so that he could get to the heart of the audience and see the bitterness in his laughter. He edited and performed a new play in Chungking called "The Slaughter of Zhao Erfeng". Borrowing the ancient to satirize the present, the spearhead is directed at Liu Xiang, the great warlord of Sichuan at that time (Liu Xiang was appointed as the supervisor of Sichuan at that time). So Liu Xiang sent someone to assassinate him. Fortunately, Fan Shaozeng and Chen Lanting, the teachers of Liu Department whom he met (Chen Ye is a "playmate" of Sichuan Opera), sent ten short guns to protect him every day; While trying to mediate in front of Liuxiang, things will stop. Empty can't stay in Chongqing, so we have to move the troupe to Hechuan.
He is slim and empty, humorous by nature, with a sense of humor in every move, and he often laughs and surprises everyone on any occasion. And quick thinking, eloquence, can improvise singing words. When the star company filmed "Granny Liu enters the Grand View Garden", she decorated Granny Liu in an empty space, and all the conditions were settled. When she started filming makeup, she didn't shave her beard in an empty space (he usually left a beard on her upper lip). Everything is ready except the east wind. I was so anxious that my boss Zhang Shichuan walked around the room and said to him, "No granny Liu has a beard. Are you kidding?" Empty primly said: "the body hair skin, by parents, is no joke!" " As a result, Zhang Shichuan paid another 3 silver dollars, only to shave his beard in vain.
Zhou Kongkong, as a talented folk artist, could have fled into the golden avenue of realism. However, on the eve of his 43-year-old life, the director shot a film "Confession" in Chongqing, which slandered the people's revolution, which was a big stain left in his artistic career. On August 12, 193, Zhou Kongkong died of an acute illness!