1. Clay figurine Zhang
The person who pinched the clay figurine came first. Moreover, there is a first, no second, and the third is a hundred thousand miles away. Clay figurine Zhang's big name is Zhang Mingshan. There were two places that Xianfeng used to visit. One is the theater Grand View Building in the northeast corner of the city, and the other is the restaurant Tianqing Pavilion in the north pass. Sitting there, to see all kinds of people, but also to pinch all kinds of people. Go to Daguanlou to see all kinds of roles on the stage, and go to Tianqing Pavilion to see all kinds of roles in the world. This latter kind is more like it. It was raining that day, and he was sitting alone in the Tianqing Pavilion drinking, while paying attention to the appearance of the diners around. At this moment, three people came in from outside. In the middle, a well-dressed, big-headed, middle-sized man, with a belly and a cow posture, rampaged in. Standing on the table facing the door, the "tall man" glanced at it and shouted at once: "Mr. Zhang Wuye, who is in good condition, is a rare guest, a distinguished guest. There are always three of him here-please come inside!" Hearing this propaganda, the diners stopped talking and even put down their chopsticks to look at the famous Zhang Wuye. At present, Zhang Jinwen, who earned Jinshan by selling salt, is the most angry person inside and outside the city. In those days, he was accepted as his adopted son by Hai Daren, the general of Shengjing, ranking fifth. Therefore, it is also known as "Hai Zhang Wu". But people call him Zhang Wuye to his face and Hai Zhangwu behind his back. Tianjinwei is the boundary of business, and whoever has money will win three points. But except craftsmen, craftsmen rely on their hands to eat, who can they ask? Afraid of who? Therefore, the clay figurine Zhang only cares about drinking and eating vegetables, and looks around, completely ignoring Hai Zhangwu as a person. But after a while, I heard Hai Zhangwu talking about him. A small voice said, "People are watching a play while holding clay figurines in their sleeves. Take it out and take a look. It's like on the stage. He pinched it. " Then there was Hai Zhangwu's loud voice saying, "Where can I pinch it?" Pinch it in your sleeve? Pinch it in your crotch! " Then a burst of laughter, making fun of clay figurine Zhang. All the people in the Tianqing Pavilion heard these words. People are waiting to see how Zhang, a clay figurine with high skill and boldness, can "repay" Hai Zhangwu. A lump of mud cut through? I saw somebody else's clay figurine Zhang didn't listen to the game. His left hand reached under the table and hit the sole to dig a piece of mud. The right hand is still holding a cup of wine, and the eyes are only watching the dining tables on the table. The left hand is fiddling with this mud, and a few fingers are quickly pinched, which is more dexterous than Liu JVG, a juggler. Hai Zhangwu is still having fun, and clay figurine Zhang must have got all those words back in this mud in his hand. Then when his hand stopped, he poked the mud ball on the table and got up to check out at the counter. The diners stretched out their necks and saw that this clay figurine Zhang was really awesome! It's like cutting off Zhang Wu's head and putting it on the table. A ladle-like head, small bulging eyes, and a face of arrogance are more like Zhang Wu in the sea than Zhang Wu in the sea. Only the size of a walnut. Hai Zhangwu is over there, and you can see that it's him from two zhangs away. He shouted at the back of the clay figurine Zhang who was walking out the door: "This broken craft also wants to make money, and no one wants to sell it cheaply." Without looking back, the clay figurine opened his umbrella and left. However, Tianjin Wei's business didn't end like this ── the next day, rows of clay statues of Hai Zhangwu were put out on several grocery stalls in Yuyi Street outside the north gate, and a body was added, and they just sat there. Moreover, it is turned over and buckled, and it is produced in batches, with one or two hundred. There is also a white note on the stalls, which makes the pen and ink write: selling clothes at a low price, whoever comes and goes in the street will be happy. Look for acquaintances to see after the fun, and have another fun. Three days later, Hai Zhangwu sent people to buy all these clay figurines at a high price. It is said that they also bought clay molds. Clay figurines are gone, but the story of "selling Zhang Wu at a low price" has been passed down for more than 1 years until today.
2. Fast hand Liu
Everyone is a rich man of time in childhood. Spending recklessly is inexhaustible. Sometimes I feel bored at home, or my father thinks I'm too noisy and sends me out to play, so I can't help going to the street near my home to see Liu juggling. Liu Kuaishou is a fat man who sells sugar by laying a stall on the ground. He has a small wooden box painted green that he carries with him, and puts it where he stands. There is a horizontal board full of holes in the box, and rows of cheap and red candy bars are inserted in the holes. He did tricks to attract children to buy sugar. The trick was very simple, commonly known as "small bowl spike". A piece of yellow cloth like a silk handkerchief was laid on the ground, two small white porcelain tea bowls and four round and round red glass balls. These three ordinary props made him elusive. He holds a tea bowl in each hand. You clearly see two red balls buckled under each bowl. You didn't even blink your eyes. Hey! All four balls actually ran to the bottom of a tea bowl. Did this ball go through the ground? In this way, he turned the two bowls over and over, shouting, pointing to the east and blowing in the west, as if there were really some invisible gods to help him, and the four balls came and went, and he couldn't guess where they were. This kind of trick is more difficult to change than the magic on the stage. Only one side of the stage is facing the audience. The local tricks on the street are surrounded by people, and people's eyes come from all directions, so it is easy to see the flaws. Once, I saw his fingers move quickly and put a ball under the bowl, so I couldn't help shouting, "Under the bowl on the right, I saw it!" " "Did you see that?" Fast hand Liu Mingliang's big eyes flashed at me in surprise, and then he said to me with a serious air, "No way! You have to be right. If you guess wrong, you have to buy my candy. " "yes! I'm right! " I saw it with my own eyes, so I insisted. Confidence makes my voice very loud. Who knows that Liu, a quick hand, laughed and suddenly turned over the tea bowl on the right: "Look, where is it?" Hey, why is there nothing under the bowl? Only the mouth of the bowl is pressed against a round mark on the yellow cloth. Did the ball get under the bowl on the left from the ground? Fast Liu seems to know how I guess, reaching out and lifting the tea bowl on the left, and there is nothing! The balls are flying? I saw him put two empty bowls together, held them on his head and shouted, "Come!" When you shake the tea bowl with your hands, it actually rattles. When you open the bowl, four balls actually appear in the bowl again. Weird, weird, weird! The people who looked around gave a sigh of surprise. "How, you lose! But if you lose here, you will never be fined. Just buy a piece of candy to eat. This sugar is pure sugar, and it doesn't hurt to eat sugar alone. " I was so ashamed that my face burned, I bought a lollipop in the laughter of everyone and stood behind the circle of people. From then on, I just stood in the back and watched, and I didn't dare to squeeze into the front to talk. His tricks are really amazing in my eyes. This man is also a person I really admired in my childhood.
3. Su Qikuai
Dr. Su's real name is Su Jinsan. In the early years of the Republic of China, he started a medical practice in Xiaobailou, where he set a bone-setting ring and Tianjin Wei hung the top card. Even foreigners who raced horses and broke their arms and legs came to beg him. He is a man with a long robe and strong hands. He is in his fifties, with red lips and white teeth, eyes and a lock of goatee, and his chin is black and shiny with oil. When I opened my mouth to speak, my voice came out of my chest, and it was as loud as the distance. If I had entered the class to learn drama, I would have been Jin Shaoshan's bitter rival. His actions are even more "clean and quick". When someone comes to him with broken bones, what about him? When you touch your finger, you cut the meat through the skin. What's going on inside? You immediately have a bright eye. Suddenly, a white bird with both hands raced up and down, and the disease was like lightning. I only heard "click click", and before the patient felt pain, the broken bone was connected. Put a plaster on it, put a splint on it, and the patient will be fine when he goes back. If I come again, I'm sure I'll send a big plaque with a big bow and thanks. People have the ability, and their temper is accurate. Dr. Su has a formal rule that whoever comes to see a doctor, no matter whether he is rich or poor, must first put seven silver dollars on the counter before he is willing to see the doctor, otherwise he will never take a reason. Is this called a rule? That's his rule! People accused him of recognizing money but not people, and his ability was worth seven dollars. For some reason, he got a derogatory nickname called Su Qikuai. Call him Dr. Su to his face and call him Su Qikuai behind his back. No one knows that his name Su Jin is scattered. Dr. Su likes playing cards very much. One day he was idle. Two card friends came to play, and one was short of three, so he invited Dr. Hua, a dentist not far north of the street, to gather together for a table. I was having a wonderful time when Zhang Si, a tricycle driver, burst in and leaned against the door. His left elbow was supported by his right hand, and his head was dripping with sweat. The jacket around his neck was wet, and he obviously broke his arm, which was painful enough. But rickshaw pullers earn and eat every day. How can they get seven silver dollars? He said that he owed Dr. Su first, and then he would definitely pay him back. He even groaned when he spoke, which hurt. Unexpectedly, Dr. Su didn't listen to the game, so he touched the cards, looked at them and counted them, or was happy or worried or surprised or pretended not to be surprised, and his mind was all at the table. A card friend couldn't see the past and pointed his finger at the door, but Dr. Su still kept his eyes on the card. The nickname "Su Qikuai" is very firm. Dr. Hua, a dentist, is famous for his kindness. He said that he had to pee, left the card table and went to the backyard, drilled the back door and went around the front street. He quietly called Zhang Si, who was leaning against the door, and took out seven silver dollars in his arms and gave him. Without waiting for Zhang Si's gratitude, he turned around and went back to the original way, entered the house and sat back at the poker table, then casually played cards. After a while, Zhang Si walked into the room crooked, and "wow" seven silver dollars into the table for one yard, which was faster than ringing the bell. Dr. Su had already stood in front of Zhang Si, rolled up his sleeves, put Zhang Si's arm on the table, pinched his bones a few times, and pushed it left and right with his hand, pushing it from top to bottom. Zhang Si jerked his shoulders, narrowed his neck, closed his eyes and bared his teeth, ready to take a few heavy blows, but Dr. Su said, "It's connected." Immediately, I applied ointment, put a splint on it, and gave Zhang Si several packages of oral medicine for promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. Zhang Si said that he no longer had money to pay for the medicine, but Dr. Su only said, "I gave this medicine." He went back to the poker table. Today's cards have their own winners and losers, and it is endless. It was not until the light was lit that everyone was empty and shouted. When leaving the house, Dr. Su stretched out his thin hand and stopped Dr. Hua, leaving him with something to do. After the two card friends left, he took out seven pieces from the pile of silver dollars in front of his seat and put them in the palm of Doctor Hua's hand. Dr. Hua was amazed and said, "There's something I have to tell you. Don't think that I have a bad heart, but I can't change this rule! " Dr. Hua took this back and pondered it for three days and nights, but he didn't understand the meaning of Dr. Su's words. But he really admires Dr. Su for this matter and this person.
4. Kite Wei
Wei Yuantai was born in the eleventh year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, and his father Wei Changqing was a shoemaker, a shop assistant and a street vendor. He has three sons, one is a shoemaker and the other is a carpenter. Wei Yuantai is the youngest. He studied in a private school and dropped out of school because of family difficulties. At the age of sixteen, he went to Jiang Ji Zhacaipu as an apprentice and learned to make kites. After four years, his father set up a Zhacaipu for him and named it Changqing Zhai. Since then, he has been making kites. During the early years of the Republic of China, there were countless kite workshops and kite artists in Tianjin, forming a situation in which a hundred schools of thought contend. Kite artist Wei Yuantai's kite painters sold in Tianjin at that time were generally rough, and the skeletons were all tied with paper twists, so they could not be disassembled and folded, which was very inconvenient to store. Literati who like kites innovated the craft of folk kites with the help of Tianjin's cultural and economic prosperity and developed handicraft industry in the late Qing Dynasty. Several Tianjin literati, represented by Zhu Zhuxuan, studied and improved kites. One of the improvements is to use silk thread instead of paper twist, so that the kite looks beautiful. The second improvement is to connect the body, wings and head of the kite with a feather tube, so that it can be detached and stored when it is not flying. The third improvement is that the kites' heads are all buckled with molds, which is very stereoscopic. There are many kinds of kites in Tianjin, but soft wings are the main ones. Soft-winged kites are only supported by skeletons along the wings, and the materials such as soft cloth or silk are under them, which are suitable for making birds or insects, such as eagles, butterflies, swallows, cranes, phoenixes, dragonflies and so on. Many small soft wings can also be arranged together to form a big kite. For example, many butterflies surround the flowers to form a "hundred flowers blossom", and many birds surround the phoenix to form a "hundred-day phoenix". During the Republic of China, Wei Yuantai was the most outstanding representative of Tianjin kites. Wei Yuantai was born in 1872. Because of his poor family, he dropped out of school at a young age. At the age of sixteen, he became an apprentice in Zhacaipu and learned the good craft of tying kites with one hand. After the expiration of his apprenticeship, his father opened a colorful shop for him, named "Wei Ji Chang Qing Zhai colorful shop", and he has been making kites since then. Wei Yuantai learned from predecessors and innovated constantly, and reformed on the basis of traditional kite technology, forming five unique artistic styles, such as changeable shape, lifelike painting, smooth flight, exquisite stunt and easy to carry. His kite skills can be described as unique in Tianjin, and the title of "Kite Wei" has begun to become famous in the alley. Wei Yuantai also has a unique skill that has not been handed down, and few people outside know it. In the innovation of Kite Wei, there is also a unique skill called Pu Tension. Is to make a bow string out of cattail grass and put it on a kite to make a sound. This unique skill can only be done by him, and it has not been handed down. In 1912, eleven pieces of Wei Yuantai's works were selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce of Beiyang Government at that time and sent to San Francisco, USA, where they participated in the Panama Pacific World Expo and won medals, which won honor for the country. It was also the first time that China kite artists released China's kites into the world sky.
5. Brush Li
The people on the dock are all playing hardball. Craftsmen rely on their hands, and they must have unique skills. There are unique skills, eating meat, lighting up, standing in the middle of the street; The incompetent, vegetarian, wilting, stay aside. This set is not made by anyone, it is a living method on the dock. Those who come to sing big plays pay attention to breaking into Tianjin pier. Tianjin people are fascinated by opera and understand it, with sharp eyes and sharp ears, and clear praise and criticism. The play was well sung, and the audience applauded. Like seeing the emperor, many famous actors played Tianjin to sing red and purple. But if it's normal, there will be no place to go, and the singing will be ruined. The bottom is sure to boo and boo, and the tea bowl cradle will not be able to get up; Tea leaves are covered with costumes and beards. There is no place like Tianjin to watch a play. Don't say it's not good, and you'll train many capable people. In all walks of life, there are several living immortals who are skilled in staying in heaven. Brick carving Liu, clay figurine Zhang, kite Wei, machine king, brush Li and so on. Tianjin people like to associate the surnames of such people with the businesses they are good at. The name is long, but no one knows it. This is the only nickname, which is loud and loud on the dock. < br>
Brush plum is the master of a construction factory in Hebei Avenue. Do only one line of painting and do nothing else. If he paints a room for you, don't leave it in the room. Sitting alone will be as beautiful as ascension. The most amazing thing is that when he brushes the pulp, he will wear a black suit, and when he finishes his work, he will never have a white spot on his body. Don't believe it! He also made a rule for himself that as long as there are white spots on his body, white brushes don't cost money. If he didn't have this skill, wouldn't he have been hungry? < br>
but this is a legend. People don't believe everything. Those who have never seen it before don't believe it, and those who are angry in the industry don't believe it. < br>
One day in a year, Brush Li accepted an apprentice named Cao Xiaosan. The beginning of being an apprentice is to serve tea, light cigarettes and carry things behind your ass. Cao Xiaosan, of course, has long heard of the master's unique skill, and has always been dubious. This time, he has to see it with his own eyes. < br>
that day, I went out to work with my master for the first time, and went to the South Road of the British Concession to build a new house for Li Shanren.