Chapter 770: Matchmaking
Ruan Lingyu looked at Meng Xiaodong with admiration, she can sing Peking Opera so well, and she is still a girl singing an old student, how she hopes that she will also be the center of the stage and make the audience applaud loudly!
Li Ruofan smiled and poured tea for Meng Xiaodong personally, and pushed the snacks over and said with a smile: "It's gold that always shines!"
Meng Xiaodong took the tea with some trepidation: "I still think Mr. Mei sings better than me." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Li Ruofan smiled heartily, because of his arrival, it was difficult for Meng Xiaodong to follow the old path. Thinking about it, if it was just her and Sun Laoyuan, who were not familiar with each other, they would naturally have a good impression of the characters who had just been played.
Later generations of actors have done a lot of fake dramas when they act! Therefore, Mr. Cao Xueqin is a prophet: when the fake is true, the truth is also false!
Seeing Ruan Lingyu's courteous look, Li Ruofan smiled and said: "You are also a piece of gold, your stage is a drama and a screen." ”
Ruan Lingyu smiled: "Can I really do it?"
Li Ruofan smiled: "I believe in you!"
Although the performance on stage continued, and Feng Shu did not just invite the Peking Opera team, everyone's hearts were still reminiscing for a long time about Shiro's mother who had just been quite-for-tat.
You know, you don't want to see Mei Lanfang's Peking Opera if you want to see it. And if it weren't for a church meeting or a charity performance, Mei Lanfang would be a well-deserved protagonist. Mr. Qi Rushan's Peking Opera book tailored for Mei Lanfang is all green leaves except for Mei Lanfang.
Just like the well-known "Drunken Concubine" and "Roselle", these are basically one-man shows of Danjiao, and it is impossible for other characters to be compared with Danjiao in terms of lyrics.
Not only Mei Lanfang, but the four famous Dans all have their own signature plays, and they are all completely tailor-made books. Like "Shiro Visits the Mother", these are long-lasting scripts, and it is not often possible for these Beiping celebrities in the audience to have such a wonderful performance.
Li Ruofan was sitting here, and there were Lan Yuxuan, Song Yunting and others at the table, and Qi Rushan and Feng Gengguang were not good at discussing things like matchmaking. After all, a discerning person can see that Meng Xiaodong, who suddenly appeared and almost made a stunning appearance, must have a close relationship with Li Ruofan.
Meng Xiaodong didn't think that this Peking starter would make her a blockbuster, of course, the surprised eyes that looked around made her heart extremely useful.
Although everyone from the emperor and president to the peddlers and pawns like Peking Opera and play the role, the family will not send their children to learn opera unless they can't survive.
Of course, at that time, there were not as unscrupulous unspoken rules for Peking Opera actresses as in later generations, and even President Yuan Da's son would not forcibly snatch his favorite female drama home.
A building with a few broken windows, for example, may have vandals destroy more windows if those windows are not repaired. Eventually, they will even break into the building, and if they find it unoccupied, they may settle there or set it on fire.
On one wall, if some graffiti is not washed off, it will soon be covered with messy and unsightly things, and a sidewalk with a little scrap of paper will soon have more garbage, and eventually people will take it for granted and throw it on the ground.
This is known as the broken window effect, and if undesirable phenomena in the environment are allowed to exist, they will induce people to imitate or even exacerbate them. In a very clean place, people will be embarrassed to throw garbage, but once there is garbage on the ground, people will have a herd mentality and do not hesitate to litter everywhere without feeling ashamed.
In Li Ruofan's view, the general quality of people at this time has a bottom line, and this bottom line in later generations has been completely broken. In fact, this bottom line is the gentlemanly style that Confucianism, Taoism, and Shijia all acquiesce. In later generations, because the three religions were shattered, they were taken advantage of by Jesus and the other religion. It is also feng shui that has taken turns, and there has never been an emperor in China who has been afraid of religion in 5,000 years.
Li Ruofan didn't want to let go of Qi Rushan, as for Feng Gengguang just being rich, what Li Ruofan was not afraid of was wealth, but talent, he admired Qi Rushan very much. To be precise, Qi Rushan is a living Peking Opera textbook.
After the meeting, Li Ruofan invited Qi Rushan to sit in the tearoom, and Qi Rushan was also very curious about why Li Ruofan, a rich and noble son, was interested in him, a person he had never met. However, for the face of Meng Xiaodong and Lan Yuxuan, he was actually very curious.
A few people came to a nearby tearoom and asked for a private seat to sit down, Qi Rushan said with a smile: "Look at me, although I also heard that there is a Meng Xiaodong in Shanghai, now I know that it is really a woman who does not let her eyebrows." Sun Laoyuan, I said why I can't even live in my son-in-law's house in Shanghai, it turns out that I found the afterglow of the Tan faction!"
A few people said a few polite words, and Qi Rushan said with a smile: "I don't know what happened to Young Master Li, could it be Mr. Mei?"
In Qi Rushan's thoughts, it is estimated that it is for Meng Xiaodong's affairs, Li Ruofan wants to ask himself to match up and introduce Meng Xiaodong to the Mei family's class. This is a good thing, although it is said that the history of Peking Opera began from the four major Hui troupes entering Beijing, and each team is also watching and helping each other, but the competition between them has not stopped.
In fact, this is not only a matter of money, but also about silver, and there is really no team that is short of money. Just like Mei Lanfang, it can be said that only in terms of wealth, that is Beiping, which can be said to be the top ten richest people according to later generations.
But fame is more important than money, and everyone wants to be a boss themselves. For Qi Rushan, if Meng Xiaodong is willing to enter the Mei family's class, it will be a good thing that fell from the sky, this old girl is a natural advertisement, and she sings so well.
Li Ruofan smiled: "It's not what Mr. Qi thinks. It's Lan Yuxuan, she imagines you asking for knowledge in Peking Opera. I'll just say it clearly, I must have heard about the drama with Shi Shuyun on my side, and Mr. Qi must have heard about it. Lan Yuxuan is not suitable for showing up, so I asked her to be a director. ”
Li Ruofan briefly talked about the meaning of being a director, and said that the stage art was figured out, and hoped that Qi Rushan would not hesitate to advise.
Qi Rushan can't be said to be a layman for dramas, but he doesn't look down on dramas, also because there are really no really good dramas. Unlike Peking Opera, it is already a mature genre.
Lan Yuxuan said with a smile: "I hope that Mr. Qi can let me watch from the side when he talks about the play, of course, I hope to have a teacher like Mr. Qi." ”
At first, Lan Yuxuan was reluctant to do this, after all, in her eyes, Qi Rushan was just Mei Lanfang's fan and creation, so her status was not as good as Mei Lanfang. As the beloved daughter of the Deputy Minister of the Interior, what she is really convinced of now is Li Ruofan.
Qi Rushan was even a little flattered, he was the last generation of intellectuals in China to receive a complete and systematic old-style education, and since he was a child, he has studied Kunshan dialect, Yiyang dialect, Bangzi and other local operas, and later studied in Western Europe, studying and inspecting European drama attentively. After returning to China, he briefly served as a professor at Beijing Normal University Hall and Beijing Women's College of Arts and Sciences.
Since 1912 in Beiping, he has often proposed revisions to Mei Lanfang's performances and scripts. For more than 20 years after 1917, Qi Rushan has been willing to live behind the scenes, only for Peking Opera and for Mei Lanfang.