Chapter 25: Watching the Theater
"Good ice." , Li Chen picked up a pile of snow with his hand, very interestingly, swapping left and right hands and playing. Snow is very rare in Li Chende's memory, born in the hot area, it is not easy to see snow, Li Chende remembers, that is, when he was a child, his father took their whole family to skiing in the snow, and then he had no impression, so he saw this snow, he was very rare.
"Thirteen Lang, hurry up." Seeing Li Chen holding a handful of snow in a daze, he shouted dissatisfiedly, "Hey, I said, for the people who came to help you sweep the mountain gate, shouldn't you be polite, otherwise if the friendly people are not happy, maybe they won't help you sweep." "Rare, I can sweep it myself." Lifan shouted at the waist.
Today, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Chen and Lifan were in the mountain gate, and yesterday afternoon, the two of them went to the town to watch the drive. And then he lived in the town. I rushed back early this morning. Then he was sent to sweep the mountain gate with the other monks.
"Look at the snowman." The mountain gate was quickly swept out of a road, and the road was paved with sawdust to prevent slipping. Li Chen saw that the work was completed, and he was very interested in playing for a while, but he had just not played with enough snow, so he piled up the snow on both sides and built a snowman. Fan looked at it, and there was a kind of learning, and he also piled up one.
"Thirteen Lang, you're so ugly about that snowman." , Fan laughed, "Yours is not very good-looking, fifty steps and a hundred steps." "Who said, this is like a Buddha, like a Buddha?" "It's not a snowball rolling round, it's uneven, it's a Buddha. Ah~, you dare to throw me" "Come to Ah Lai, I can't beat it."
The two of them had a snowball fight, and you went back and forth, throwing snowballs at each other, and the other monks shook their heads, and after doing their work, they went back to their resting place. Suddenly no one was watching them from afar.
"It's too unusual, in the pure land of the Buddha Gate, two people are playing like this in front of the mountain gate, it's too unconventional." A middle-aged monk who was so thin that he said, "Let them sweep the mountain gates, not let them make trouble in the lake again." ,
"It's okay, it's okay. It's not all gone, and after the New Year, it's nothing to be happy. However, this is indeed indecent. Enlightened, let them wash up first, and the good believers will probably be there soon."
"Thirteen Lang, don't play, it's not good to see it for other good believers. Go take a hot shower, don't cool down.'" As soon as he realized with a smile on his face, he came out in response to his orders, and loudly called back the two people who were supposed to go to the mountain gate, but started to play in the snow.
"No, Brother Wuming." , Fan stopped and turned back to respond. Li Chen also shook off the snow on his body, and patted the new leather skirts on his body, made of sheepskin. He wore a sheepskin shirt that he had bought himself, and a coarse cloth winter coat underneath, which was very thick. However, this garment was not as warm as the sheepskin shirt.
In the Tang Dynasty, cotton cloth was very valuable, and cotton cloth flourished until the Song Dynasty. It was only after Huang Daopo taught the cotton textile technology she had learned from the Hainan region to others that cotton cloth began to be cheaper. Otherwise, although cotton cloth is easy to use, the price has remained high.
Li Chen returned to the room, first went to the incense kitchen to ask for some hot water, and then returned to the room to start washing. In winter, when it was cold, Li Chen did not maintain the habit of taking a bath every day, and washing his face and burning his feet was over.
After washing up quickly, Li Chen flew as fast as a corner of Changshou Temple. This place, nothing, is just a big and flat place. Usually there is nothing here, and many times it is used for the good faith to stop the car. When the autumn harvest is harvested, it becomes a grain yard, and in order to avoid the grain from becoming wet, although it has been a day in the farmers' homes, it will be harvested once before entering the warehouse.
But now, before Li Chen got closer, he heard music. The sound of music, the sound of people, the laughter of adults and the screaming of children, and the sound of children crying when they accidentally fall, make a Buddha door clean and make it look like a market.
When Li Chen got closer, he only saw this huge and vast field, divided into four parts. In the first part, there are several people. This part is playing a variety of tricks, smashing boulders on the chest, stepping on high kicks, swallowing fire, and stepping on high kicks. The people gathered around these performers and watched with great interest.
The second part is hot. Singing girls and dancing dancers filled the crowd with all kinds of sounds of bamboo, making this corner so lively. It's just that Li Chen has a black line, isn't this a temple? How could there be so much female music.
In one corner, there is a great monk of this temple, who is preaching. Li Chen didn't get closer, and he didn't know what he was talking about. However, it was also very popular, and from time to time there were applause from the audience.
There were two tables in one corner, and the level of excitement was not lost to the women's pleasure. Li Chen was so curious that he went over to see that there were two people on one platform, and on the other platform, shouting, isn't this a puppet play?
Li Chen was so curious that he walked over to the two platforms first and took a closer look. Sure enough, it was a puppet play, and I only saw a few puppets performing on the stage, and there was a lot of room for the audience to see that someone was dubbing and playing. Li Chen watched with great excitement.
After watching it for a while, the audience cheered endlessly, and the play reached a climax. Then some people came out with pots and asked for money. Li Chen gave a few copper coins and was about to continue watching. However, there was a burst of laughter from the platform next door, and Li Chen was very curious so he left the puppet stage and went to the next stage.
On this stage, the two people on the stage, with a few musicians next to them, sat on the Hu Dun, holding musical instruments in their hands, and accompanied the two of them to perform, playing corresponding music from time to time. Li Chen looked at it, and laughed out loud, only the two people on the stage said.
A: 'Since you say that you are proficient in the teachings of the three religions, then you say, 'Who is Shakya's Buddha?'
B: 'It's a woman.'"
A (shocked): "How can you be a woman?"
B: "The Vajra says, O Shakya should sit down before speaking, and if it is not a woman, how can a husband and a son sit before they are seated?"
A: "It seems to make sense, but who is the Taishang Laojun?"
Already: "It's a woman, too."
A (even more puzzled): 'How so?'
B: "The Tao Te Ching says, I have great trouble, but I have a body." Now that they have bodies, of course they are women.'"
A: 'Oh my God, you said Confucius.'
B: 'It's still a woman.'"
A (almost collapsed): 'How can you be a woman, don't you all say Master?'
B: 'If it is not a woman, how can I wait to marry.'
Li Chen really laughed, this play is so interesting, is it difficult to talk to each other? Li Chen wiped his tears with a smile, and when he saw that Fan was also present, he laughed heartily. At this time, the performers on the stage were also tired of acting, and they took a break in the middle of the break and walked over.
"What kind of play is this?" Li Chen asked, "Join the army." , replied to Lifan. "Joining the army?" At this time, another group of artists came to power, and there were many people in this group.
I saw one person come to the stage and stand in Taichung, and a few children fell to the side. Looking at it carefully, those children were actually monkeys, not human children, and Li Chen thought at first glance that such a small child was about to perform on stage.
I saw that the artist on the stage first commanded the monkey group, did a lot of wonderful smashing skills, won the applause of the audience, and then came to the official performance. The group of monkeys, scattered on the stage, first performed eating and getting drunk, staggered, and then dressed drunk and fell to the ground. At this moment, the artist shouted
"The history of the street is here." The monkeys did not respond. Street History... You can understand that it is the urban management of modern society, and then you will suddenly realize that China's political habits are really passed down from one to another...
"The Imperial Historian is here." Seeing that the monkey did not respond, the artist said so. As a result, the monkeys still did not respond. What Cheng did in the imperial history, I think everyone knows very well. Eventually, the artist was gone, and he shouted in a whisper, 'The waiter has come.'
At this moment, the monkeys reacted, jumping up and panicking. Some trembled in place, looking around. Some of them pretend to look around looking for places to hide, where did the monkey waiter come from. made the audience laugh.
Li Chen didn't understand who the marquis was, but he also knew that this was a stabbing play, so he laughed up. After rewarding the little monkey, a new artist has come to the stage again.
After watching a few episodes, Li Chen found that the Tang Dynasty had to participate in the military drama, which was actually a bit similar to each other, but it was not exactly the same. To say that this is a mutual statement, you can't say that it is all right.
If you want to say that the part is the same as Xiangsheng, it is mainly funny, often a satirical play, and many times it is a group of two, not counting the words of those musicians, the content is mainly funny and funny.
Joining the army, joining the army, in other words, is joining the army. The two actors, one called the Army, were ridiculed. One is called a bone bird, and he is responsible for taunting and taunting the army.
There were two of the first enlistment games, originating from the Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms period, and one was arrested for corruption. Someone ridiculed the enlister, and deliberately discharged such a game to ridicule the enlistment.
It's just that in the later stages, let's say that Huichang is now a year old, and the military is no longer extended to abide by the norms, and many times it is a group of people, like that group of monkey actors. This is not the same as the other word, and many times the military participation is a continuous performance, and at the same time, it will also lead the performance, and the number of people gradually increased in the later stage.
Take the group of monkeys that just got off the stage, and then the performers came on stage, both men and women. The content of the performance is no longer humorous, but also sings and dances, and tells a story. This is also a kind of military play.
So, if you want to treat him purely as a mutual voice, there is still a little bit of a difference. After figuring this out, Li Chen shook his head, tired of seeing, and signaled to Fan that he was going to go to several other platforms to have a look, and then left the military theater.