Chapter 2: Swinging -
Watching a play has to be like this, the actors have not yet struck the gongs and drums. If it's a corner, the shelf is even bigger, and behind the door curtain, I rinse my mouth and moisten my throat with a small purple clay pot. Although actors, famous actors, and are all ninth-rate, but the horns are the corners, they can't be in a hurry, they have to hang, and they will hang the audience's appetite.
Regardless of the "rapid wind" outside, the urging was tight, and the whistles of the audience shrieked through the gongs and drums. The important thing is to know how to applaud, to call when you should call, and to shake your head with your eyes closed when you shouldn't.
You have to know how to coax and provoke the horns to work hard. In this scene, on and off the stage, each has its own color and discusses its own life.
"Swing aroundβ"
Suddenly, there was a shout, and this voice shouted straight over the gongs and drums, suppressing the boiling voices of the audience. Sure enough, the audience applauded.
"Okayβ"
Today's play finally started, and the flowers exploded in an instant. Lao Kang and Lao Zhoutou stopped playing chess anymore, and began to listen to the play with their heads shaken.
Two yellow small door signs.
The Sixth House Lady holds the talisman festival.
As soon as the curtain moved, the sound of color rose again, and the horn appeared. What I want is this meeting lottery, picking up the curtain red.
"Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock ......"
Stepping on the drum, the lotus step moved lightly, and "Yang Yuhuan" walked out from behind the curtain. In a normal scene, there should also be a second palace female palm fan to follow. This place is not a formal place, so I will live on my own, and the audience will not care.
I saw that "Yang Yuhuan" was extravagant and compelling, and after the showmanship and pomp together, Siping began to sing: "The island ice wheel is beginning to turn, see the jade rabbit, see the jade rabbit and rise eastward early." The ice wheel is far from the island, and the sky is very clear. When the moon is empty, it is just like Chang'e leaving the Moon Palace, and the slave is like Chang'e leaving the Moon Palace. It's like Chang'e going down to the ninefold, and it falls coldly in the Guanghan Palace. β
The ticket holders heard that it was the classic representative repertoire of the Mei School "The Drunken Concubine", and naturally it was another applause.
Adapted from "The Palace of Eternal Life", also known as "Hundred Flowers Pavilion" and "Drunken Yang Concubine".
It originated from the Peking Opera repertoire of a local opera "Drunken Yang Concubine" in the Qianlong period, and was later carved and processed by Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang with her life's painstaking efforts. This script mainly depicts Yang Yuhuan's mentality of appreciating himself after being drunk, highlighting Yang Yuhuan's tenderness for the emperor. In the 50s of the 20th century, Mei Lanfang removed the essence and corrected its non-artistic tendency from an aesthetic point of view, starting from the emotional changes of the characters. It can be seen from the structure of the lyrics, especially the opening Siping tune is a treasure of Peking Opera.
The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.
The name of this Peking Opera character is divided into four lines, and the performing arts, singing, chanting, and playing are four skills.
A Peking Opera student has studied opera seriously for several years, and most of them are good actors. Even today's kung fu superstars are divided into martial arts and Peking opera, and the most famous representatives of the Peking opera school, Hong Kong's big stars Chen Long, Hong Jinbao and other seven little blessings are all from Liyuan. Singing is not only singing, but also acting. The performance is required to be delicate and delicate, and to enter the play everywhere; The singing is required to be melodious and euphemistic, and the voice is full of emotion; Martial arts is not to win with fire and bravery, but to "martial arts singing".
This young man plays the concubine, singing and dancing, because of her tall figure, skillful movements, flattering and charming, and her acting skills are also counted.
But the more Lao Kai looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, his brows were twisted together, his expression was suddenly excited, and he stood up suddenly. This stop startled a few old guys next to him. He didn't pay attention to it, and when he looked at it again, he couldn't help but laugh, "Good boy, good boy, hahahaha." β
Leng Buding made such a fuss, but a few old guys didn't know why, and they thought that Lao Kai suddenly had a convulsion. When Lao Zhang next to him took a closer look at the stage, he suddenly came to his senses, and laughed again and again, "Ouch, this is not the little chubby dun, this is a surprise for the big guy." β
Not only Lao Zhang, but also regular customers recognized Xiao Xiaokai.
Peking Opera is generally not easy to recognize when it comes to makeup, unless it is a regular customer. It's just that Xiaoxiaokai grew up in Dashilar since he was a child, and there are too many people who know about it. He is not as fat as he was when he was a child when he grows up now, otherwise he will not be able to play a concubine no matter how fat is beautiful in the Tang Dynasty.
The regular customers in the side naturally applauded and cheered, and there were also puzzled, and they found out that it was the young owner of the teahouse.
"Okay, the boss of the family will perform on stage in person, and no matter how strict the customer is, he has to give a few faces."
The gorgeous phoenix robe is draped on the body, and the movements are eye-catching, which adds a bit of heroism to this noble concubine.
"Ah~ In Guanghan Palace, the jade bridge reclines against the railing, the mandarin ducks come to play in the water, and the golden carp faces on the water. Ah~ On the surface of the water, the geese and geese fly in the sky, and the geese fly and the geese fly and the geese are flying. The geese and the sound of the slave falling into the shade of the flowers, this scenery is sultry and drunk, and I don't realize that I came to the Hundred Flowers Pavilion. β
"Okayβ"
No matter how well she sings, this performance is enough to make people applaud again and again: the change of appearance and movement is used to express the psychological change process of XiΓ n, a disgraced concubine, from inner depression and strong self-determination to inability to self-control and intoxication. Heavy dances are as light as weights, such as cupping, lying fish, drunken steps, fan dances, etc., which are very difficult, and the performance is stretched naturally, flowing through the lines and rhythms of beauty.
Upstairs, there happens to be a knowledgeable person on the third floor, who is a director of the CCTV variety show department, surnamed Cai Minghe. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and he specially brought his family out for dinner, and he happened to catch up with this trip.
Because of his work, Cai He usually listens to famous songs, listens to a lot, has a high taste, can listen to the details through the excitement, shake his head and comment: "This kid is still not up to the mark in some places, his voice is good, but the pronunciation is a little rough, he should have not practiced for a long time." β
"Dad, what do you say, how beautiful that sister sings. Golden clothes, a lot of flowers...... "My daughter doesn't care about this, she just watches the excitement." Cai He reprimanded, "What sister, I didn't see that people have Adam's apple." But now young people like to sing Peking Opera, and there are really fewer and fewer people. β
"Ah, man...... I don't know if it's handsome or not. β
Below, the concubine Niangniang suddenly threw out a water sleeve, her body danced and rotated, and the water sleeve more than ten meters long was thrown into a flower by him. Looking from the stage to the stage, it is all dazzling; Looking down from upstairs, a budding daisy is slowly blooming and fragrant.
"Okayβ"
This time, even the picky Cai He applauded enthusiastically, startling the daughter of Zheng Sichun next to him.
As soon as the play ended, the audience's feelings were also suspended.
Lao Kai couldn't wait for a long time, so he waited in the audience. As soon as the gongs and drums stopped, the concubine on the stage also jumped off the ground with a "swish", hugged an old man, and shouted "grandpa".
This one scared everyone a lot, and Cai He also smiled, "Hey, Yang Guifei Hongxing is out of the wall." β
"Good boy, but I surprised my grandfather. When you get home, you don't say hello, and you still carry out a surprise attack. "Lao Kai is not very accustomed to his grandson's Western etiquette, and he hugs people at every turn.
"Hehe, I just got home in the morning, and I sneaked over. happened to meet an acquaintance, so I borrowed clothes to have a good time. "Xiao Xiaokai still has the grace and luxury of a concubine at this time, and he is clearly a rough young man.
After the excitement, Lao Kai immediately put on the demeanor of his musician, and reprimanded: "How to teach you, you have to be the same in front of and behind the stage, you are too reckless to jump down in a hurry." Quickly remove the makeup, and then explain it to the big guy. β
"Huh."
Xiao Kai answered, and went backstage. After a while, he took off his makeup, changed his clothes and walked out. Standing with Lao Kai, he bowed to the audience first.
The audience saw that it was the young man who sang "Guifei" just now, and they all applauded enthusiastically. This young man has a pair of straight eyebrows like black charcoal, a straight nose bridge, deep eye sockets, a beauty tip on his forehead, and a beauty groove on his chin, he is clearly a handsome guy.
At this time, he took off his costume and changed into a blue coat, wearing black bloomers and black round cloth shoes. The old man next to him is also very particular, wearing a coat, bloomers, white socks, and round cloth shoes, these are all sets. Although half of the old man's hair was white, he looked red and energetic.
Lao Kai opened his mouth, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he showed that Jiang was still old and spicy: "Sun Tzu (zei)-"
Suddenly, the audience was inexplicable and unclear.
Xiao Xiaokai had a bitter face and hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong, big guy, it's me who is shouting." There is only one person in this world who can call me grandson, and that is the old guy next to me. β
Lao Kai: "Who told me to give birth to your father." β
Xiao Xiaokai: "You are just such a capable, you can't say enough." β
Lao Kai: "One is enough, it can hold you down." β
The audience understood this time, and then laughed again, he was really an all-rounder, how could he talk about cross talk in a blink of an eye.
Lao Kai smiled: "Let me introduce myself to the big guy first." β
Xiaoxiao opened her mouth very poorly, "You have to introduce yourself, otherwise who knows your rotten cabbage stinky tofu." A cat and a dog can also be a star when they wear a crown on the platform. β
"How do you describe it?" Lao Kai reprimanded with a grin, and gave himself to the audience downstairs: "I am the old shopkeeper of this 'Happy Teahouse', surnamed Kai, with a single name of the word 'Huai', and I am the one who is called 'Lao Kai' by the people of the rivers and lakes." Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to congratulate you on a happy holiday. β
The old gentleman's words are round, well-behaved and etiquette, and his mouth is full of flowers, which naturally wins the house.