Chapter 400: Strange Rules in Peking Opera (Ask for Recommendation, Ask for a Monthly Pass!)
Pei Yanzhi sighed and said, "Master Mei Lanfang is a real Peking Opera performance artist, and his greatness is not only reflected in his performance skills, but also in his noble character and pursuit of Peking Opera art. Especially in such an era of rampant materialism, swords and swords, such a quality is even more commendable, so there are so many masters in the Peking Opera industry, and only Mr. Mei Lanfang can become synonymous with Peking Opera. โ
The audience also nodded frequently, even those who have never listened to the opera, they all know Mr. Mei Lanfang's great name, not to mention that the highest award in the Peking Opera industry is named after Mr. Mei Lanfang, which shows that Master Mei Lanfang's influence on the Chinese Peking Opera industry is deep and far-reaching.
Pei Yanzhi's words changed sharply and said, "Actually, there is a very famous 'fan opera' in the Peking Opera industry, which is estimated to be clear to many opera fans and friends, called "Dragon and Phoenix"!"
Many viewers in the audience who know how to play are surprised, because this play is also very famous, it is about Emperor Zhengde's private visit to Weifu, that is, he went out to wave, met Sister Li Feng, who sold wine, and made a story of flirting.
Pei Yanzhi said with a smile, "There is a 'powder' word in this play, that is, Emperor Zhengde was molesting Sister Li Feng at that time, she was a big girl, of course she was shy, and finally pushed Emperor Zhengde out of the door, and then closed the door, after a while, this old student who played Emperor Zhengde came up again, stood in front of the door, pushed the door, couldn't push it open, and said, eldest sister, you are so tight!"
The gay men in the audience all had a bad smile on their faces, and the lesbians were all shy.
Li Dan, who was sitting in the corner, smiled so much that his eyes were gone.
Dong poured out the side curtain and snorted shyly, looking embarrassed.
Pei Yanzhi laughed and said, "Later, this word was changed to?" Ah, eldest sister, the gateway to Meilong Town is so tight!'Hey! You won't open the door for me? The gate in Meilong Town is so tight, this is what we have to do to keep the performance of this play after we gradually purify the stage, and we can't appear low-level and obscene? So? "The Drunken Concubine" and "The Dragon and the Phoenix" are the survivors of several 'fan operas' that can be passed down to this day!
Speaking of which, I would like to ask you a question, do you think there is love in traditional Peking Opera?
Pei Yanzhi's question made the audience begin to think deeply.
And Pei Yanzhi picked up the small teapot next to him, took a sip of water, and after talking for a long time, he was also a little thirsty, just looking for a chance to drink saliva, it was really witty.
Suddenly, a voice came from the audience, "Yes!"
Pei Yanzhi hurriedly swallowed this saliva, looked at the audience who spoke, and asked with a smile? For example?"
"Wang Baochuan!"
Pei Yanzhi smiled slightly and said? You think this is love!"
"Of course, she's been waiting for eighteen years!"
Pei Yanzhi smiled and asked, "Do you think Wang Baochuan has been waiting for Xue Pinggui for eighteen years to be love?"
"Yes, how romantic!" the little girl's eyes were sparkling with a look of longing.
Pei Yanzhi really can't bear to break the innocence and beauty in her heart, but she still has to let her know the sinister nature of the human heart, and let her experience the beating of society.
Pei Yanzhi shook his head and said, "This is not called love, I don't know if you have heard this play completely?"
The little girl nodded and said, "I've heard it, isn't this Wujiapo?"
Pei Yanzhi continued to ask, "Then have you heard of Cailou?"
The little girl shook her head blankly.
"Where's the Great Ascending Palace?"
The little girl continued to shake her head.
Pei Yanyi said with a wry smile, "In other words, have you only heard of Wujiapo in this play?"
The little girl said with a strange face, "Isn't Wujiapo just a play, what do you mean?"
Pei Yanzhi patted his forehead and said with a smile, "It seems that there is some misunderstanding here, by the way, everyone here, how many people know about the play "Red-Maned Horse", please raise your hand!"
More than a dozen people raised their right hands, two hundred, such a proportion is really not much.
However, Pei Yanzhi was also very pleased, after all, most of these people are young people, and it is normal that they have not heard of it.
Pei Yanzhi asked again, "Those who have watched "Red-Maned Horse", please raise your hand!"
At this moment, there was only one person left with his hand raised.
Pei Yanzhi's eyes showed a hint of surprise, he didn't expect that someone had really heard of it, so he asked someone to send the microphone over and asked, "You have heard it, then you should be a senior drama fan, your surname is Shi, ah, your surname is Shi, okay, Mr. Shi, why don't you popularize the relationship between "Red-Maned Horse" and "Wujia Po"!"
This is a middle-aged man in his thirties, wearing a pair of half-rimmed eyes, an elegant appearance, and a cultural person at first glance.
He said with a smile, "I'm not a senior opera fan, just an ordinary Peking Opera lover, I like Peking Opera, and it's only been the past two years, about the relationship between "Red-Maned Horse" and "Wujia Po", it's actually very simple, "Red-Maned Horse" is a whole play, and "Wujia Po" is one of the fragments, "Cailou Pei" and "Da Dengdian" that Boss Pei said just now are one of the folds!"
Pei Yanzhi nodded and said, "What this Mr. Shi said is very right, and the words are also very accurate, a fold, our Peking Opera jargon calls a play like "The Red-Maned Horse" this play, also called the whole play, that is, the whole play, and "Wujia Po" and "Da Dengdian" In the past, because some places in this whole play were very boring, very boring, and everyone didn't like to watch it, so now many Peking Opera actors only sing excerpts, because the excerpts are the most exciting folds in the whole play, and the audience also likes it, and the actors don't have to think too hard!
Generally speaking, we in the Peking Opera industry think that there is love in Peking Opera, but we don't talk about love, what is it, friendship, family affection, world feelings, that is, the state of the world, we classify this love into the world, because the past marriage is not on the basis of love, blind marriage and dumb marriage, that era pays attention to the right family, in order to reproduce offspring, for the sake of interests binding, for the honor and disgrace of the family, there is no love is not love, the so-called love in the opera is just a beautiful vision in the hearts of the people!
In fact, there is a reason why Peking Opera does not talk about love, starting from the first generation of Peking Opera man Cheng Changgeng to Mr. Tan Xinpei, this belongs to the first batch of Peking Opera people in the Peking Opera industry, we call it a bone old student, that is to say, in the first 150 years or so of the development of Peking Opera, most of the repertoire made up is this kind of old play, because they are all man-dominated plays, then don't pay attention to love!
Until the rise of Danjiao, represented by Mr. Mei Lanfang, Danjiao began to be on par with the old life, and a large number of female audiences began to enter the theater, everyone knows that female audiences let her watch plays, watch singing operas, she doesn't like to watch, so a large number of emotional dramas have been compiled, and the drama at that time is very close to the mentality of women in that era, I watched the play, how is the Danjiao in the play so similar to me, feeling nostalgic for her life experience, she likes to watch, she has a heart for the emotional incompleteness, in the process of watching the play, it is complete!
Because of this market demand, the 'Four Famous Dans' represented by Mr. Mei Lanfang began to have their own private dramas, and because of the emergence of these love scenes, Lao Sheng's this is not so important, you know, at the beginning of the Peking Opera industry, Lao Sheng was the protagonist, the only protagonist, the Dan roles of the year were all supporting roles, the earliest Dan Jiao was called 'holding his stomach and singing silly', that is, just sing, there can be no expression on the face, and any expression can be gone, just sing.
Besides, Lao Sheng's business naturally has nothing to do with love scenes, because Lao Sheng is a middle-aged and elderly man, no matter what kind of play, there is no such thing as a middle-aged and elderly man falling in love, except for those who flirt, then it doesn't count!"
The audience also laughed.
Pei Yanzhi picked up the mobile phone next to him and said, "Two days ago, when I was scrolling through Weibo, I saw a friend send me a private message, saying that some of the little stories I told in the first issue were very interesting, and he was full of curiosity about Peking Opera after listening to it, and he also heard that there are many rules in our Peking Opera industry, I hope I can talk about it in the program, then today, next, I will tell you about some rules in the pear orchard line!"
Not only the audience wanted to hear it, but all the audience at the scene were curious, because in their hearts, this Peking Opera industry is a very mysterious organization, and I heard that the rules inside are strict, which makes outsiders very curious.
Pei Yanzhi said seriously, "Do you know what we were most afraid of hearing when we were young?"
Everyone in the audience looked curious.
Pei Yanzhi said with a smile, "At last year's Spring Festival Gala, everyone should still remember the sketch I performed, the last one among my three teachers, the words boil down to the sentence, which is the sentence I am most afraid of, there are no rules!"
The audience in the audience remembered the funny scene on the stage at the beginning, and couldn't help laughing.
Pei Yanzhi said with a wry smile, "Most of the content I performed on the stage was a true thing, let's just talk about this Danjiaoer, you have to hold your strength, how to move your hands, how to look at your eyes, how to walk, how to sit, how to laugh, this is all played with a stick when you were a child." If you want to be noble in front of others, you must suffer in the background, this is the truth!
Everyone should have heard of this sentence, there is no size on the stage, there are rules off the stage, this sentence is the rules on our Peking Opera stage, on the stage, we play all roles, maybe you are an actor forty years old, but you are playing a young student, that is, a young man, but his apprentice is only twenty years old, an old actor, come on stage, play this father, this master should call Dad, you have to call Dad, after you get to the stage, you will slap your apprentice's mouth This is your business, but on stage, there is no seniority, age, these problems, but when you go backstage, the low seniority sees the high, you should bow the bow, kowtow to kowtow!
The backstage of Liyuan Line is very sacred, not what people say to let in, the backstage is the private forbidden place for actors, bands, and all these staff members, non-please do not enter, the rules here are the most exquisite, first of all, like saying that our courtyard, the play starts at half past seven, everyone gets it before half past five, the first thing before going on stage is to worship the grandfather, one is to ask the grandfather to bless today's performance, and the second is to ask the grandfather to bless today's performance, and the second is a holy place in the hearts of Peking Opera actors, we have the grandfather, we have the teaching, the heart must pretend to be the grandfather, the audience, tonight must be no problemใ In fact, many TV series, movies, and start-up ceremonies are all to be enshrined, which is actually to learn from our pear orchard. โ
The audience in the audience suddenly realized that there will be a start-up ceremony for movies and TV series now, and all the staff and actors are all holding incense, offering it, some are exquisite, and there are sacrifices, making it very formal.
Pei Yanzhi continued, "In our backstage, there is a very big taboo, the costumes of our Peking Opera actors are not hung up, but folded and put in the suitcase, and this coat box, in the backstage, is absolutely not allowed to sit, some young actors do not understand the rules, they are tired after singing, they want to take a break, and sit directly on the coat box, if there is an old man in the backstage, it will be a slap when they go up, this is a big taboo backstage!"
The audience in the audience wondered why the coat box couldn't be sitting, what kind of rule was this!
Pei Yanzhi said, "We have coat boxes, two suitcases, three suitcases, helmet boxes, boots and shoe boxes, and handle boxes, which contain different things, except for the coat box, other suitcases can sit people, after all, the backstage place in the past is so big, if you can't sit on the suitcase, it is estimated that you can't squeeze it, but there is only one kind of person who can sit on the coat box, and that is the harlequin actor!"
"Why?"
Some of the audience in the audience were also curious, and asked directly.
Pei Yanzhi likes this kind of actor very much, and with this kind of small interaction, he is even more motivated to speak.
Pei Yanzhi said with a smile, "Because our ancestor of Liyuan is no one else, it is Tang Minghuang Li Longji, the Tang Minghuang was an emperor who loved opera, he wrote plays, made up plays, and acted, what to play, play ugly, you look at the current fans, ticket friends, there are ticket Tsing Yi, there are ticket veterans, there are ticket faces, but there is really no ticket ugly, so Tang Minghuang can be regarded as a big ticket friend, a big drama fan, so the status of this ugly line is high, after all, the ancestor is doing this. โ