Rehearsals begin.

Everyone started to get busy under the arrangement of the on-site director.

It was also when it was time for the official rehearsal that Cheng Xiaolou knew that he was the last person invited to come over to help.

In other words, inviting him was an impromptu decision by Liu Fengying.

Because tomorrow's 10th anniversary performance, it will be about 2 hours and 30 minutes in total.

In the two and a half hours, only three plays were originally planned.

The first is called "Green Silk Buckle", and the second is called "Flying Snow".

These two plays are very typical Tsing Yi dramas, and they are also one of Liu Fengying's most popular famous works.

The time of the two plays "Green Silk Button" and "Flying Snow" is about the same as the "Sifan" sung by Cheng Xiaolou, which is also about half an hour.

The two plays add up, and it's almost an hour.

The question of time is not only a problem faced by Cheng Xiaolou in Chinese Peking Opera in his previous life, but also a problem faced by the Chinese countries in this world.

A pop song is usually three or four minutes long, and a little longer is about five minutes at most.

More than six minutes of songs, almost nothing.

Peking Opera is different, a whole play is casually an hour or two.

The shortest, shortest, very special whole play, such as Cheng Xiaolou's one-man show "Sifan", which also lasted half an hour.

Quietly, holding a mobile phone in a proper manner, or sitting in the theater garden to watch a play for an hour or two. In this era of faster and faster pace of life, I am afraid that few young people have that kung fu or that mind.

Even if it is an excerpt, the complete fold usually takes more than ten minutes.

Three- and four-minute excerpts like pop songs are basically non-existent.

Even if there is, it is cut out by pinching the head and removing the tail.

In this case, only real old fans who have heard the whole play many times can understand it.

Otherwise, it's just a bit of a show.

In addition, Peking Opera is very complicated in terms of appearance and modeling, and it takes at least more than ten minutes just to sketch the face, plus the pan, the patch, the change of clothes, etc., and there is no half an hour to make a complete appearance.

In other words, if you condense Peking Opera into a mini version of three or four minutes, not to mention whether you can do it or not.

In order to sing a three- or four-minute play, you have to spend half an hour putting on makeup and getting dressed. After the performance, I have to spend another ten minutes to remove my makeup and undress, and then put on makeup and clothes for the next performance.

If that's the case, the theater will be the first to disappear.

Because each play requires different looks and appearances, and even different faces, it is obviously unrealistic to need 45 minutes to dress up and remove makeup just to sing a three-minute play for the fans.

Moreover, there is such a long interval between each play, even if the singers are willing, the listeners are not willing.

You can't keep an ordinary theater at the same time, so many people are needed for a party, and the theater owner can't bear it.

Peking Opera also has a very significant feature, that is, the horns.

Each theater has its own pillars to press the stage, and many theater fans go to that theater, basically for the corner.

This special form of getting along with opera fans also dooms Peking Opera to be unable to compress the time to three or four minutes like pop songs.

Cheng Xiaolou has also carefully studied this way of compressing time, and the final result is impossible and unrealistic!

The special performance time is indeed a flaw in the art of Peking Opera.

This form is destined to not become the fast-food art of the current pop songs, and the familiar communication ability of the streets.

But that doesn't mean anything.

Because in terms of time alone, the time of an excerpt is about the same as a sketch or a cross talk.

Why can sketches and cross talk have a second spring, but not Peking Opera?

The time of the whole play is not far from the time of a movie.

Since movies can develop more and more popular, why can't Peking Opera?

In terms of performance time, there is no difference between Peking Opera and sketches, cross talk, and movies.

Not to mention TV series, a TV series has as few as twenty or thirty episodes, and as many as more than a hundred episodes, and some cartoons have even filmed thousands of episodes, and there are still so many people chasing them.

Therefore, time is not the crux of Peking Opera's gradual decline.

In Cheng Xiaolou's view, the most fundamental reason why Peking Opera is declining more and more is that the art of Peking Opera itself cannot keep up with the times and trends, and no longer conforms to the aesthetics and pursuits of young people.

It is also nearly two hours, why are young people nowadays willing to buy tickets to go to the cinema to queue up to watch a movie, but not willing to buy tickets to enter the theater, this is the problem.

There are even older generations of Peking Opera people calling for Peking Opera to return to the era of one table and two chairs, only that kind of Peking Opera is authentic Peking Opera, and now such a form of performance is already a waste of the cultural treasures left by the ancestors.

I'd rather let Peking Opera be arrogantly moldy, rotten, and die than become sycophancy, flattery, and flattering bewitching sluts.

Every time he heard such remarks, what Cheng Xiaolou wanted to do most was to spit a mouthful of thick phlegm on the other party's face.

Whoever he is!

No matter who it is!!

Such a person, in his opinion, is typical of selfishness and irresponsibility. In order to pretend how noble he is, he would rather die a proud death in Peking Opera.

What the hell, Peking Opera is your dog, if you ask it to pick up a bone, it has to pick a bone.

Such a person is also qualified to say that he likes Peking Opera, that he is thinking about Peking Opera, and that he is good for Peking Opera.

The most feared thing in this world is to satisfy your own unseemly selfish desires under the banner of being good for you.

Whether it's a friend, a relative, a parent, or a child!

That's right, even parents are the same, they let you do this and that, let you learn this and that, and carefully analyze its essence under the banner of being good for you, just to satisfy their own selfish desires.

That's right, it's selfish desires!

Nowadays, many people in the pear orchard industry regard themselves as the inheritors of Peking Opera, and even in their hearts, they regard themselves as the parents of Peking Opera.

They are often satisfied with their various selfish desires under the guise of being good for Peking Opera in many cases.

If you go out every day to perform and perform, and persist for a lifetime without seeking fame and fortune, how many people can do it? !

In this way, many people may immediately refute, so why don't we all go to drink the northwest wind in our family?

People are starving to death, how can they inherit Peking Opera?!

In order not to drink the northwest wind, in order to survive......

Isn't this selfish desire?!