Section 12 Singing and dancing
Every time the eunuchs brought food, the courtiers, including me, had to stand up and give thanks, and the whole banquet was repeated in the constant getting up, saluting, and returning to the seat, and no one could eat steadily. So from the third light onward www.biquge.info s, along with the Baiguan wine, there will be a variety of singing and dancing performances, this humanized arrangement is not only for the sake of the beautiful scene, but also for everyone to eat, so that everyone can eat and drink peacefully. We were amazed by the variety of dance-assisted performances. It's really beautiful, and the long sleeves are good at dancing. The dancers are all beautiful, the dance is light, elegant, soft, wonderful, breathtaking, the dance of the Song Dynasty shows more simple, elegant and restrained style, ancient, leisurely, slow, wonderful, beautiful. In addition, the royal family and nobles attached great importance to the pleasure of feasting, so the court music and dance performances were grandiose, and the dancers competed to show various dance skills, which was dazzling and dizzying. Many of these dances have been lost in modern society, which is a pity, and I secretly took a few videos in my mobile phone to make a souvenir in the future.
The first performance is a popular court dance in the Tang Dynasty - "Ni Dress Feather Dance", that is, "Ni Dress Feather Dance", which is really rich and unforgettable.
The Queen Mother is knowledgeable and well-informed, and calmly explained on the side: "This "Song of Ni Clothes and Feathers" describes the Taoist mythological story of Tang Xuanzong yearning for immortals and going to the Moon Palace to see fairies. Singing, dancing and instrumental music are integrated. There are a total of 36 sections in the whole song, which is a fine song and dance of the Tang Dynasty in the previous dynasty, a masterpiece of masterpieces, and a bright pearl in the history of music and dance. It was composed by Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and was lost after the Anshi Rebellion. But fortunately, during the Southern Tang Dynasty, the great genius Li Yu and the Great Zhou Hou made up most of it, but when Jinling City was broken, it was burned down by Li Yu's order. Therefore, the great poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty praised the exquisiteness of this dance: thousands of songs and dances are innumerable, and I love the Ni Dress Dance the most, and what we see today is Li Yu's work. ”
I saw that the dance, music, and costumes of "Neon Clothes and Feather Clothes" are all trying their best to render the ethereal, dreamlike scene of fairyland, and the graceful images of the thin cicada silk, the gorgeous neon clothes and feathers and the dancing girls give people an immersive feeling. A large number of court bands also have a lot of things to play on the side, the bells and drums are ringing, the music is even more wonderful and moving, like the sound of heaven, it can be described as a gluttonous feast for the ears, the sound of silk and bamboo is endless, it can really be said that the aftermath is lingering, three days are endless, the music is like jumping beads and shaking jade, it is intoxicating. Take a closer look, it turns out that there are a lot of playing devices, most of which use unique Chinese folk instruments to play music, such as guzheng, erhu, pipa, chime (Tang Dynasty refers to copper bowl), flute, flute, gonghou, zhen, sheng and other golden stones, silk and bamboo, as well as chime, flute, zheng, flute and other musical instruments solo or round playing. The beginning of the song is the lyrical section of the adagio, with a slight change in the middle, naturally turning from slow, the song is broken and also known as dancing all over, which is the climax of the whole song, mainly dance, complex and urgent, sonorous music, the speed from the loose board to the slow board and then gradually accelerate to the sharp beat, and the end of the slowdown.
All the dancers are dancing, long-sleeved and good at dancing, they are uniformly wearing yellow embroidered peony flowers Bixia Luo, pink smoke gauze skirts, wind bun fog sideburns obliquely inserted beaded flowers, a piece of purple and red, the content of the dance actually has a variety of elegant dancing shapes in the murals of Shaanxi and Dunhuang, which makes people feel familiar. Those antique, wide robes with wide sleeves, flowing and chic, full of poetic beauty. It really reminds me of dancing to figure out the shadow, what kind of poetry in the world. The long black hair of the dancers with bright eyes and bright teeth is tied with colorful ribbons at will, singing and dancing lightly under the moonlight as clear as water, dancing, colorful silk clothes fluttering with the wind, smart, elegant, elegant, arrogant like flying with a pipa, elegant like a light snowflake in the sky, elegant like a fairy who gives birth to a lotus step by step. Sometimes they move slowly like light clouds, sometimes like a whirlwind and rain, their long eyebrows are frowning, their eyes are wonderful, they are looking forward to the brilliance, they have beautiful hands, their waists are like willows, their dancing skills are outstanding, they are exquisite, and they can see everyone applauding one after another.
Then came a group of beautiful palace maids, about more than ten people, Qianqianyu stood beside her with a crystal clear silver plate, Ying Ying was silent, everyone saw the clouds, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do next, or the Queen Mother said happily: "The next performance is the palm dance, this is the famous song danced by Zhao Feiyan in the Han Dynasty, it is the dance in Yuefu, the most difficult thing is that its dance steps are very special, also known as the step, because it is difficult to master, it has long been lost, if you walk up with a flower branch in your hand, trembling——" I thought to myself: "This is a catwalk, it can't be a catwalk, anyway, it's the same thing." ”
The Queen Mother then said in a strong voice: "Everyone knows that Zhao Feiyan is the queen of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty in the Western Han Dynasty and the queen mother of Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty. Especially famous is her palm dance, the Tang Dynasty poet Xu Ning's "Han Palace Song" - the water-colored flute in front of the jade frost, Zhao Jiafeiyan served Zhaoyang. The sound of dancing in the palm of the hand is overwhelming, and the autumn night of the thirty-six palaces is long. Today, our dancers are going to perform this dance, and they are going to dance on these ten plates, let's wait and see-" As soon as the Queen Mother's words fell, she sighed and praised her, looking at the stage with her eyes long.
There was no one on the stage, but there was a wisp of guqin sound behind - the autumn wind rose and the sky fell frost, the gentleman was unforgettable, and he was grateful for the generosity! The sky was falling and the frost was soaring, and the immortals wanted to go to Xifeiyun Township, and Wei Zhi left the jade palm - a young girl Qianqianyu stroked the strings with her hands, walked to the front of the stage, and sat down, it turned out that she was not a dancer, but an accompaniment, it turned out that this track was more special, and she must dance with the guqin, and this poem was composed by Zhao Feiyan "Returning to the Wind and Sending Far Away". Then came up in turn, Yuhuan hit the beat, and several girls accompanied by the sheng came up, but none of them were the protagonists.
Immediately afterwards, a girl with a beautiful national color, slender waist bones, and outstanding demeanor appeared in the silk satin like smoke, she was beautiful, with a graceful figure, wearing a green emerald smoke shirt, a pleated skirt with scattered flowers and mist and green grass, wearing a thin smoke veil of emerald water, if the shoulders are cut into a waist, and the skin is like a condensed fat and if the orchid. Coquettish and boneless. She sang and danced gracefully on the stage, her dancing posture was really sultry, slender and slender, and her demeanor was fluttering, especially the pair of black eyes like a lake of rippling water, which made people suddenly seduce the soul and feel haunted by dreams, such as the wind blowing willows, and like swallows flying and fluttering, the wind is in its prime, the style is varied, the style is excellent, and the beauty is beautiful. I was deeply attracted by her dancing, thinking that even if she went to the modern society where thinness is beautiful, she would still be a star in the limelight, and fortunately Xiaofei did not enter the palace, otherwise he had not seen anything on the market, and his little eyes didn't know how to keep spinning. Everyone was intoxicated with the dance of "fluttering, like feathering and ascending to immortals", and watched her turn and turn and smile oblivionly. Even the ten palace maids who were curling and graceful, beautiful and dignified, holding crystal plates with crystal plates in their hands, also watched with relish.
The dancing girl jumped and danced, Qianqian's thin legs jumped up, the corners of her skirt flew up, her wide sleeves couldn't stop dancing in the air, but she suddenly unexpectedly gently soared into the air, then jumped up lightly, and landed firmly on the crystal plate of one of the palace maids, and continued to dance skillfully on the plate, everyone was stunned, and they couldn't help but applaud after sobering up. She jumped lightly on this tray and sang and danced, her wonderful dancing skills were amazing, and she really could be called unprecedented, unprecedented. However, I have studied martial arts, I know that in the end, her light skills are really good, and there must be some martial arts cultivation, but the most striking thing is her graceful, soft as a boneless dance, light as a swallow, soft as a cloud, not everyone who knows martial arts will.
The heart-wrenching guqin continues to rise lightly, and countless delicate petals fly between the sky and the earth, and the refreshing fragrance of flowers is intoxicating. Her dancing posture is like a hollow valley orchid, like a blooming peony petal, with her light and graceful, ethereal dancing, wide sleeves open and close to cover, but also set off her beautiful posture. Everyone watched it as if they were fascinated and dreamlike. The sound of the guqin turned sharply, and the girl stretched her sleeves lightly, and then spun, turning faster and faster. The posture also danced faster and faster, such as the jade's plain hand tactfully lingered, the skirt fluttered, and suddenly flew up from the silver plate just now, the jade hand waved, the ribbon was lightly raised, the slender feet were light, and the moment the clothes were fluttering, she had already flown to one of the crystal silver plates, and she was like a lotus flower like a limbo fairy, hazy and ethereal, like smoke and fog,
She continued to dance lightly, like a fluttering butterfly, like gurgling water, like the bright moon in the deep mountains, like the crystal dew on the lotus leaves, so beautiful that people were fascinated. She is smart on the silver plate held by each back and forth, shuttle, jumping, like a fluttering swallow, and like a fluttering butterfly, sometimes raise the wrist and lower the eyebrows, sometimes light Shu Yun hand, let the pen walk the dragon painting Danqing, jade sleeves wind, elegant and vigorous. Turning, throwing, opening, closing, twisting, it is such a flowing cloud, fluent and free, it is really a dancing phoenix, and the waist is softer. Gently move the lotus step, the Han Palace Feiyan old romance. Urging the drum to taste Liangzhou, the partridge flew up the spring sleeves. The brocade was entangled, and Liu Lang mistook the willow before the wind. This innovative dance is better than Zhao Feiyan's only dancing back then, and the applause in the hall is endless.
The sound of the guqin is also very elegant and melodious, and the palace maid who plays the piano plucks the strings with her slender jade fingers, which complements each other with the dance, and plays a beautiful tune like flowing water. Like a phoenix chanting softly, like a big bead and a small bead falling on the jade plate, gradually the tune is free, the soft and beautiful sound of the piano is like smoke and rain, such as silk and bamboo, gentle and soft, sometimes like gurgling water, sometimes like butterflies and cranes dancing, sometimes like a wild eagle flying in the sky, sometimes like a yellow warbler crying valley, sometimes like the wind blowing wheat waves, sometimes like a small bridge flowing water, sometimes like rain hitting plantains, slender jade fingers dancing under the strings. The sound of the piano is like the enchanting clouds and mist, like a hundred birds singing in unison, fascinating, dream-like, intoxicating, high mountains and flowing clouds, the ancient sound is long, and it is transformed into a capital ink landscape map.
Then the next dance performance is the court dance of the former dynasty. It is the famous dance of Concubine Mei, the favorite concubine of Tang Xuanzong in the early days. "Amazing Dance" focuses on the use of freehand techniques, through dance movements to express the beautiful image of the wild goose soaring in the air, full of beautiful charm of the dance, the dance posture is light, elegant, and soft. Indeed, as Tang Xuanzong said, "Blowing the white jade flute, making "Amazing Dance", a brilliance". Indeed, as the poem of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Qunyu described, the dance is beautiful and beautiful - there are beautiful women in the southern country, and the light green waist dances. The feast is in the autumn twilight, and the clouds and rain are flying. It is as graceful as a dragon and as graceful as a dragon. The more Yan strikes the Qianxi, Wu Ji stops the white silk. The slow state cannot be poor, and the complex posture is curved to the end. The low lotus breaks the waves, and the messy snow lingers in the wind. When it falls, it wanders, and the repair wants to go back to the void. I couldn't catch it, so I flew away to chase the shock. The Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi also described it - long temples like clouds and mist, and Jin Yin Luo recommended light steps. Dance learning is shocking to the water pavilion spring, and the song is passed on to the Lantang twilight.
Next, there is the performance of "Sword Dance", which is a performance dance of the Jian dance category that was widely circulated in the Tang Dynasty, and is a solo dance in women's uniforms. The great poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty wrote "Watching the Disciples of Gongsun Lady Dance Sword and Weapon Walking" to describe the feeling he gave him when he watched this dance: "In the past, there was a beautiful woman Gongsun, and a sword dance moved in all directions. The spectators are depressed like mountains, and the heavens and the earth are low for a long time. If Yi shoots nine sunsets, it is like a group of emperors and dragons. Come like thunder to restrain anger, and let it be like the river and sea condensing the light. The lips and beads are lonely, and there are disciples who pass on the fragrance in the evening. The beauty of Linying is in the White Emperor, and the wonderful dance of this song is promising. There is both a question and answer with Yu, and the feeling of soothing things increases sadness. There were 8,000 maids of the first emperor, and Gongsun was the first in the sword. In the past fifty years, it seems that the royal family has been fainted by the wind and dust. The disciples of the pear garden are scattered like smoke, and the female music is reflected in the cold day. The south wood of the golden millet pile has been arched, and the grass of the stone city of Qu Tang is bleak. The tortoise feast is over, and the moon rises in the east. The old man didn't know where he was going, and his feet turned into a barren mountain. "This dance has jumps, whirls, changes, rapid advance and retreat, crisp start and end, distinct rhythm, or suddenly, or abruptly stopped, moving like thunder and lightning, the sky and the earth cracked, the tide of Qiantang, amazing, stop like the river and the sea waves, clear light and condensed, calm and calm.
The fascinating "Hu Xuan Dance" is a folk dance from Kang Guo in the Tang Dynasty, and the dance is mainly swirling, so it is called Hu Xuan Dance. Bai Juyi's poems are vividly expressed - Hu Xuannu, Hu Xuannu, the heart should be stringed, and the hands should be drummed. The strings and drums are raised, and the snow is fluttering and dancing. Left and right rotation are tireless, thousands of turns and thousands of cycles are endless. There is no comparison between the things in the world, and the wheels are slow and the whirlwind is late. "The dancers swirled with their sleeves up, as light as snowflakes, and like fluffy grass dancing in the wind. They are like a rhata that is constantly spinning, sometimes left, sometimes right, and never tired. In the thousands of rotations, it is difficult to distinguish the face and body. The speed of rotation, like a speeding wheel and a whirlwind, was as fierce as a whirlwind, and I suddenly remembered a song by Jolin Tsai - "Dancer", which can more appropriately describe my feelings at that time: "Spinning and jumping - moonlight, presumptuous by the dyed window." In the blink of an eye, all the visions of magic, and another glass, the ancient and mysterious Ganges water, the cat's eye I set on my forehead unveiled the celebration. The joints that have been imprisoned for thousands of years for love tell the love of forgetting. Listen to all the joys and sorrows tied around my waist, and let those images reappear, back to the past. I close my eyes when I spin and jump, and I can't see you drunk, snow, summer nights, I don't stop—"
However, the next song and dance in the backdrop of these outstanding dances, it seems a little commonplace, not worth mentioning, seeing that it is almost over, suddenly everyone let out cheers of joy and long-lasting applause, what is going on, what is the next program that makes everyone so hopeful? I can't help but rise a big question mark in my heart.