After some pleasantries, Joseph, who was on a tight schedule, took the initiative to ask, "Can we start negotiations this morning?" He was going to return to China in a week, and he was naturally in a hurry.

Duanmu Ci had other considerations, and just waved his hand when he heard the words and said, "Don't be in a hurry, there is still a lot of time, why rush this time?" We also have some welcome activities arranged on our side, as a guest, Joseph, do you want to refuse? As he spoke, he frowned, seeming to be a little displeased.

"Where, where?" Joseph hurriedly pleaded, "Let's just participate." He thought that this was another kindness from Duanmu Ci, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart again, his negotiation opponent was so personable that he would rather waste his precious negotiation time than entertain himself.

The innocent Australian seems to have forgotten that as guests from afar, their negotiation time is the most precious

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Although the development of Chinese drama is not as vigorous as that of ancient Greece, with a history of thousands of years, the variety is far more abundant. Following the pre-Qin Dynasty's Haiyou, Sui and Tang Dynasty's miscellaneous operas and Yuan operas, Chinese drama developed extremely rapidly in the Ming Dynasty, with Peking Opera, Yue Opera, Kunqu Opera and even Huangmei Opera emerging one after another.

Although Haishan is at the turn of the north and the south, its character charm is more influenced by the south of the Yangtze River, so Kunqu opera and Yue opera are more popular in Haishan, as well as local Shanghai opera, while Peking opera and other operas are slightly neglected.

Haishan Grand Theater is one of the largest theaters in Haishan, has a history of more than 80 years, in the Republic of China here has always been the favorite pear garden of Haishan ticket holders, at that time of course not called theater, but called theater. Since the troupe is in the concession, no matter how loud the guns outside are, they can't overpower the silk and bamboo orchestra here.

Ticket holders wearing long robes and carrying bird cages can also hum two sentences of jokes and pacing slowly, like the Eight Banners from Sijiu City.

Today's Haishan Grand Theater has undergone many renovations and expansion, but the flow of visitors has not been booming, and the art form of drama has finally declined in modern times after hundreds of years of glory, after all, young people now like enthusiastic rock and pop music, and naturally have no interest in sculpted dramas.

Today, however, this ancient art has been given a new lease of life.

In the past two years, the most famous Kunqu opera masters, Mr. Yi Jiru and Ms. Peng Xiaohong, will come here to perform the famous Kunqu opera "Peony Pavilion". Only three days after the news was released, the tickets were basically sold out, and the popularity shocked the person in charge of the theater, and after learning that many of the ticket buyers were students, even the security guards at the entrance of the theater couldn't help but sigh that this was a rare event in 30 years.

An unknown person once said that most of the good things in this world, like their gorgeous exteriors, generally hide hidden insiders.

The same is true of this matter.

Most of the students who came to buy tickets were students from Haishan University, and most of them were from the Faculty of Letters, and the highly respected (very popular) teacher Duanmu Ci publicly posted on the forum that as a student of the Faculty of Letters, he should strengthen his classical literary literacy, and then suggested that everyone go to listen to the Kunqu Opera for edification, and "by the way" mentioned that there was a wonderful Kunqu Opera performance at the Haishan Grand Theater on Saturday afternoon.

And among them, Teacher Wei Yue also contributed a lot, as the vice president of the Immortal Association, he almost mobilized all the people of the Immortal Association, which caused the grand occasion of today's Haishan Grand Theater. Otherwise, according to the past situation, for a performance like Kunqu Opera, it is already very good to sell one-third of the tickets, where can it still be popular today?

In the itinerary drawn up by Bu Tongxun, accompanying the FMG delegation to watch the play is also one of the contents, which can be regarded as promoting their own culture, so Duanmuci specially sent people to Zhejiang to invite the horn to perform. In this case, if there are few audiences in the theater, it will undoubtedly bring an extremely bad impression to the people of FMG, and in order to avoid this situation, a teacher can only "use his authority" to mobilize students to come to the play.

Luckily, it worked out pretty well.

After the ordinary guests entered the hall one after another, Duanmu Ci and Wei Yue led the FMG negotiation delegation from the staff passage into the central box on the second floor, which was the best position in the whole theater, with an unobstructed view. This theater has been chartered by Duanmu Ci since sunrise, and today he is the largest.

As a Japanese with Chinese ancestry, Wei Yue is also deeply immersed in Chinese classical culture, and the purpose of Duanmu Ci pulling him over today is to let him explain the general meaning of "The Peony Pavilion" to these white people, otherwise Joseph and others can only watch the actors in the stage "babble", and they don't know what to do at all.

Duanmuci took out a piece of tissue paper from the table in front of him and handed it to Joseph, on which was a synopsis of the story about "The Peony Pavilion" written in English. Duanmu gave these people this to show them so that they would have a shallow impression of this beautiful story first, so that they would have to work too hard to watch it later.

It was just a cup of tea, the lights in the theater were all turned off, the curtain slowly opened, and the show began.

Today's performance is a fold of "Dream" in "The Peony Pavilion", the first is the Danjiao, a woman dressed in white appears on the stage, with her water sleeves flicking, "Dreaming back to the warbler, the chaotic years are all over." People set up a small courtyard and a deep courtyard. "The tone is tactful and soft, like a whisper.

Just when the actors on stage were performing, the screen on the side of the stage also began to synchronize photography, not only the actors' figures on the screen, but also the translation of Chinese and English, which was prepared for the audience, after all, the words of the play are ancient, and they are sung, and it is difficult for the audience who are not deeply involved in this aspect to understand what they are saying.

As for the English, Duanmuci specially arranged it for Joseph and his party to make it easier for them to watch.

After "Du Liniang" finished singing, a maid-like person came to the stage, his pretty eyes flowing, "Burn out the smoke, throw away the residual embroidery thread, and this spring is like last year?" ”

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The audience watched carefully, many of them were students and old ticket holders of the Faculty of Arts, and these people could still maintain a serious and appreciative attitude in this regard, and even Joseph was attracted by this "novel" art form, staring at the English translation and listening carefully

Duanmu Ci also looked at it seriously, although he had seen this fold more than hundreds of times, but he was still willing to continue to watch it, especially he hadn't heard it for decades, the last time he listened to Kunqu Opera should have been in the 34th year of the Republic of China, when Japan announced its surrender, the Chongqing government in order to show that it was happy with the people and celebrated with the whole world, and invited the opera troupe to perform a big drama on the long street for a month, and Duanmu Ci also listened to it for a while.

At this time, the stage had already sung "It turns out that the purple and red are blooming all over the place, and they are all paid to the broken wells like this." The beautiful scenery of the good day is the day, and the joy of the courtyard is the house! The scenery is so beautiful that my grandfather and grandmother never mention it again. ”

"Flying in the morning and twilight, clouds and clouds; The rain silk wind film, the smoke wave painting the boat - Jinping people look at this Shaoguang cheap! ”

Duanmu Ci couldn't help but praise the festival, this singing is too good! Even Joseph, who couldn't understand the lyrics, couldn't help but smile, it can be seen that art is indeed the common language of human beings, regardless of borders and languages, just like a large number of young people in China who obviously can't understand English songs but prefer to listen to them, although the cultural attributes are different, but human feelings about beauty are the same.

Wei Yue closed her eyes even more, only caring about listening to the rhyme, and was not ready to use her eyes to see.

"It's like a beautiful flower for you, like a year of water" Duanmu Ci couldn't help but sing softly on stage, it was a tactful female voice. This sentence, which once made Daiyu cry and bury flowers, still sounds like it has the power to sway her heart.

At the end of the twist, Duanmu Ci smiled and said to Joseph, who was still reluctant, "In fact, there are good articles in the play, but unfortunately the world only knows how to watch the play, and may not be able to appreciate the meaning." This was originally said by Daiyu, but it is also appropriate to put it here.

Joseph smacked his mouth, as if this drama could also make his tongue fragrant, "I have been to many places on business trips, and most of the reception I get is in nightclubs, wine banquets, etc., and no company leader has ever taken me to experience the culture of their country, Duanmu, you are the first in this regard!" ”

Obviously, Joseph's evaluation of Duanmuci is another notch, and this is undoubtedly excellent for Duanmuci, because it can give him an advantage when negotiating.

Duanmu Ci asked, "Do you like it very much?" ”

"Of course!" Joseph nodded without hesitation.

Duanmu Ci said nonchalantly, "Then please do more publicity after you return to China." ”

Joseph agreed, "No problem!" ”

What Duanmuci didn't expect was that this Joseph really did what he said, and soon became a fan of Chinese classical culture, not only began to study Chinese hard after returning to China, but also vigorously promoted Chinese culture in China, and finally promoted Chinese drama on the stage of the Sydney Grand Theatre, which was popular with Australian audiences.

Of course, these are just afterwords, for the current Duanmu Ci, the benefit of this scene for him is not only to let him reminisce about the ancient style, but also to allow him to successfully delay for a day and postpone the time of formal negotiations, and this is the most important thing

Duanmuci's real idea was to make Joseph and the others have no time for formal negotiations, which was his most important purpose

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PS: Anyway, in order to write this fold, I specially listened to Mr. Mei Lanfang's singing rhyme, which is actually not easy to write

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