Wu Song Fights the Tiger

Introduction

The Jingyang Ridge section of the long Shandong kuaishu Wu Song story, usually performed on its own

Wu Song Fights the Tiger is the Jingyang Ridge section of the long Shandong kuaishu story of Wu Song, and it is usually performed on its own as the part audiences like best. The full story runs to sixteen episodes and follows Wu Song from his early life until he goes to join the outlaws of Liangshan. In the 1930s Gao Yuanjun, Yang Lide, Fu Yongchang and other performers urged that coarse material be dropped, which helped the art grow and reach wider audiences, and the form was formally named Shandong kuaishu only in 1949, when Gao made records in Shanghai. Gao, born Gao Jinshan, began learning at fourteen in Nanjing under Qi Yongli, and his performance of this section is hailed as a classic. The section calls on nearly every technique of Shandong kuaishu and demands great skill from the performer. Shandong kuaishu is on the first national list of intangible heritage, and the script of the full story was published by the China Quyi Publishing House in 1987.

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