20年代前后蜚声京剧剧坛的老生演员是金叔岩、言菊朋、高庆奎和马连良。曾被誉称为京剧前“四大须生”。 20年代初,少年的余叔岩就在天津初露头角,他学习谭鑫培,用功不懈,并经常与梅兰芳、陈德霖等名家合作,终于获得了“谭派”老生继承人和“余派”老生创始人的美誉。 言菊朋原是谭派票友,他刻苦钻研,先后得到曾与谭鑫培合作的王瑶卿、钱金福的指点,颇得谭派神韵。他主张“腔由字生,字正腔圆”;在宗谭的基 Around the 1920s, the famous actress of Beijing opera was Jin Shiyan, Yan Jupeng, Gao Qingkui and Ma Lianliang. Has been hailed as Beijing Opera “four major students.” In the early 1920s, Yu Shurun, a teenager, started to emerge in Tianjin. He studied Tan Xinpei and worked hard. He often cooperated with famous artists such as Mei Lanfang and Chen Delin and finally gained the reputation of “Tan School” heirs and founder of “Yu School” . Yan Jupeng Tan was originally a farewell party, he assiduously studied, has been working with Tan Xinpei Wang Yaoqing cooperation, money Jinfu’s advice, quite Tan School charm. He advocated “cavity by the character, the word is round”; in Tan Tan’s base