Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Marionette

Berlin is one of the most famous international cities in Gaia, where there has been a Nazi Führer who shocked the world, Hitler, and the most famous Gothic revival master of modern times, Carl Friedrich Schenkel. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is also the pacifist of the group, the romantic poet Erich Misam.

The city has witnessed the abyss of war, but also experienced the caress of humanity, the famous Berlin Wall, let people for half a century reflect, the fall of the Berlin Wall, witnessed an end of the history of human war.

As a result, in this city, the most prosperous literary and artistic spirit of modern times appeared.

When you think of Berlin, you will think of art, which is the first impression of most people, and Wang Yao has also heard of it, this is a relatively important city in the history of Western literature and art.

But as Wang Yao, who went abroad for the first time and entered another space and another country, the foreigners with different skin colors around him were really new to him.

The unfamiliar language in his ears made Wang Yao feel uncomfortable, although he could understand it, he still felt a little strange.

When I got out of the airport, there was a person who came to pick up the plane, a middle-aged woman in her fifties who was the vice president of the Berlin Opera Association, named Wu Xiu.

Wu Xiu is Xu Feng's student and Wang Yao's senior sister, so he enthusiastically introduced Wang Yao to Berlin along the way, and deliberately took a detour, so that Wang Yao could take a look at the famous Brandenburg Gate and Berlin Cathedral.

Although the process was pleasant, Wang Yao could still feel that Wu Xiu seemed to be deliberately not mentioning the real purpose of this time.

had a Western meal in a well-known Western restaurant, and Wu Xiu took Wang Yao and others everywhere.

"Who are the judges this time?" Xu Feng suddenly asked.

"Erich Jami. Wu Xiu replied.

Xu Feng nodded, "Carlisle didn't come?"

"Mr. Carlisle is sick, so this time it was Yami who presided. Wu Xiu smiled.

"Yami likes Peking Opera very much. Xu Feng smiled.

Wu Xiu raised her eyebrows, "This time it was Li Zhuo who led the team, Mr. Mei is quite relieved, is he going to let go?"

"Li Zhuo is doing well now. Mao Weitao chuckled.

"In two months, the United States will have an art exchange meeting, do we have any ideas for the troupe?" Wu Xiu said with a smile.

"At present, there is none, we are developing a new type of Yue Opera in China. He Saifei glanced at Wang Yao.

"Is there a document coming down in China?" Wu Xiu was stunned.

"They made a book of their own, trying to expand their influence. Xu Feng said.

"Oh, it's not easy, but I think of promoting. Wu Xiu smiled, "I just said that Mao Mao must have an idea." ”

Mao Weitao also glanced at Wang Yao and smiled.

Wang Yao listened to the conversation of several people, and felt that he could understand a little, but he couldn't fully understand, so he shook his head, didn't think so much, and concentrated on looking at whether the moon abroad was relatively round.

The residence is a manor house that looks like it is a few years old, and it is said that it was purchased privately by the first generation of opera masters, and the Berlin Opera Association was founded, which is responsible for receiving some domestic guests and performance troupes.

The ancient buildings of the West and the East are completely two feelings, from the material, the stone building looks like it gives people a sense of stability, but it is a little rigid, but it is a Chinese-style wooden building looks more beautiful, but each has its own merits.

This time it was not only the Peking Opera Troupe that came, but also other traditional art troupes, one was a marionette, led by an old man named Sun Tianming, with six apprentices who were about 20 years old.

The old man Sun Tianming is honest-looking, and he speaks Mandarin with an accent, which is the dialect of southern Fujian.

Marionette is an ancient Chinese folk acrobatic culture, which began to rise from the end of the Tang Dynasty, five dynasties and ten kings judged and entered Fujian to claim the king, and the folk craftsmen and artists brought from the Central Plains rehearsed a kind of play in order to celebrate the king of Fujian.

Later, the puppet show blossomed in southern Fujian, and became a kind of folk puppet theater troupe to perform every grand ceremony, such as marriage, funeral, baby first birthday and other important ceremonies.

The puppet show pulls the puppet with silk and makes various movements, a puppet will have at least 16 threads, which can be superimposed to make a lot of actions to express emotions and plots, and the most complex puppets can be controlled by 30 threads, which is extremely difficult to perform.

It is a huge challenge for the mental and physical strength of the controller.

In ancient China, wood was the most important, so the attainment in wooden carving was very high, and the puppets were also very well-made.

But that's all the glory of the past, Sun Tianming is currently one of the only three remaining puppet masters in China, and the puppet troupes that were originally all over southern Fujian are now only a part of the lonely wood.

With the impact of the new culture, the traditional Chinese culture has suffered an almost extinct impact, not only opera, but even these folk arts rooted in the local area are difficult to survive, because now the wedding has gone to invite Western bands, who will invite the troupe?

Sun Tianming is a very kind old man, and he is also familiar with Xu Feng, and he actually went out to perform on behalf of the country, relying on subsidies to maintain the troupe of less than 20 people who only have him and his apprentices left.

The old man is the same age as Xu Feng, but his face and body are not as good as Xu Feng's, and he has serious malnutrition, but his spirit is extremely good, and his eyebrows flutter when he performs a puppet show for Wang Yao, and his face is full of pride.

Puppet shows are dubbed, so they are inseparable from opera, and Sun Tianming is still a serious old student.

Wang Yao was very interested in this kind of puppet that could make human movements with more than a dozen threads, and he didn't understand it after learning from Sun Tianming for a while, because it was difficult to control the strength of the thread with several positions on a stick.

"This stuff is really high. Wang Yao exclaimed, fiddling with the marionette in his hand, which was a small image of Liang Shanbo.

"Have you ever seen a puppet cartoon when you were a kid? He Saifei squatted on the ground and played with Wang Yao.

"I seem to have an impression. Wang Yao recalled carefully.

"You really don't have a child. He Saifei glanced at Wang Yao pitifully.

"There are still a lot of children who like puppets now, but they just can't promote it. Sun Tianming smoked a cigarette and sighed, "Now the young people in the family have gone out to work with their children, and the rest are old people." ”

Wang Yao fiddled with the puppet, "Didn't you want to develop into cartoons?"

"It's too difficult, and the cost of filming is too high, and I can't make ends meet. He Saifei said: "Now it is difficult for the troupe to maintain its expenses. ”

Sun Tianming smiled helplessly, "In order to teach students, I sold my family's house a few years ago, lived in the troupe, and made another drama, I really don't have the ability." ”

"There is no relevant policy?" Wang Yao frowned.