Chapter 124: Dragon Boat Race Tap Dance
'What time is it now?' 'It's not noon yet, uncle, let's go to the river, today's dragon boat race, but the last final.' The puppy urged.
It's finally over, Li Chen thought that a long time had passed, and he didn't know if it was because the **** ceremony in the Tang Dynasty was not complete enough, or because people cut corners and were sloppy. Li Chen didn't care, he had already negotiated the conditions anyway. The method will, in fact, is a meaning, and it is not that there is something wrong with the blissful innocence.
As for the way to do this kind of thing, will it tell people in turn that there is a problem here? It's as if the police suddenly come to your house, even if it has nothing to do with you, the neighbors will not guess what happened to your house. This shouldn't be, the Dragon Boat Festival is an evil day, which can be said to be a disaster and a blessing.
What's more important is that no one will bother him with this matter in the future, Jingkong has already said that there will be people in several big temples nearby, so the benefits are all lost. No one will come to trouble him in the future.
Li Chen thought, this can be regarded as passing the test of Buddhism, he is not hostile to Buddhism, and he is willing to assist in the promotion of Buddhism. He would play a few talking scenes, puppet plays, and arrange time slots for the monks to preach some Buddhist stories.
This is a win-win situation, the monks get a chance to preach the Dharma, for Buddhism, the income of the theater is not the most important, relying on the sesame oil money and believers to be worshipped, plus the temple property, is their income a few large quantities, the theater? It's all about achieving the first two methods, and as long as this method continues to be effective, Buddhism doesn't mind changing it.
And Li Chen can also let Wang judge the main speakers of them, have time to rest, and can also increase the diversity of the content of the speech in the scene. In general, Li Chen's roots are still not enough, so he needs manpower so much.
As for the puppet theater, the bhikshus can also help, as I said before, there is no separate puppet theater yet, and many times it is used as an auxiliary when the monks speak. In other words, in fact, some monks also have experience in performing puppet shows, and now they come in handy, allowing a few children to get out of the puppet theater and concentrate on the lessons.
'Caught up, caught up. After the end of ****, Li Chen also talked a few words with several monks who participated in the ****, complimenting the profound Dharma of the two masters, reciting the scriptures for three days, endlessly, like a twilight drum and morning bell, making people feel as if they had been baptized.
A few children jumped up first, and soon had to help put everything away, take back the tables, futons, and the like, and bring the offerings back to the temple. After packing up, the children rushed to the Surabaya River.
At this time, on the banks of the Surabaya River, the two sides stretch for miles, and at a glance, it is all black and pressing, and the crowds are surging, rubbing shoulders. Li Chen lost interest as soon as he saw it, he really didn't want to go to crowd people inside on this hot day, maybe some disciples would like it very much, but he would only feel very annoyed.
It's not that there are no empty places, but the problem is that they are all temporary buildings or sheds built by the deputy nobles. You can't get in if you want to.
Li Chen didn't want to get in, and there was no good place to look left and right, on the tree? There are already people, looking at the appearance of that tree, Li Chen deeply feels that the tree in the Tang Dynasty is really healthy, and it has not broken when it has been bent like that. It's broken... Li Chen almost laughed, is he a crow's mouth?
'Uncle, we're over. Li Chen didn't want to squeeze, and he couldn't find a place, so he could only look at the height in the distance, but a few children didn't care, except for Ah Xiang and Datou who stayed, the rest of the children squeezed into the crowd one after another, relying on their minority, and flexibly pushed forward.
'Knock knock. The three-way drum sounded, and the ten dragon boats at the tip of the Surabaya River moved in response to the sound and began to work hard to operate the oars. As soon as the drum sounded, the oarsmen immediately pierced the oars into the water and pushed forward with all their might, and the crowds on both sides of the strait cheered and cheered, and immediately became intense.
On the Surabaya River, ten dragon boats decorated with colorful decorations and different characteristics are moving forward rapidly. The oarsmen on board each worked their way. The audience on both sides of the strait thundered with joy, and the dragon boats on the river shouted enthusiastically and rhythmically.
Everyone knows the origin of dragon boats. It is said to commemorate the Chu period and cast Miluo River Qu Yuan. After he threw himself into the river, in order to find his body, many people went up the river to search for it, and there was a dragon boat. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from eating his body, many people threw their practices into the river water, forming a zongzi tradition.
Li Chen doesn't know how it was in previous years, there are a lot of dragon boat registrations this year, this game is the second final, and the preliminaries have been held yesterday. But even so, the audience is still enthusiastic. With the difference in strength, the dragon boat gradually separated the gap between the front and back, and the audience became more and more eager to cheer.
Thousands of people cheered up, the sound was like thunder, the oarsmen shook more and more hard, the trumpeter was also hoarse, and the dragon boat almost took off, flying like a real dragon. Finally, with the sound of a gong, the bow of a dragon boat struggled to pull down the red flag standing in the heart of the river, declaring that it had won the first place and won the victory.
The audience by the riverside, some cheered loudly, and some were angry, such as mourning, Li Chen knew that this was a gamble, but unfortunately he had some concerns and did not dare to gamble, otherwise the corner was a very good gambling project. Well, speaking of the horns, he has some ideas, if he goes back, he can do this...
'Uncle, uncle. The puppy ran over panting and took Li Chen's hand, "What's the matter, I'm panting and talking, and my uncle won't run away." ’
'We just watched the race, and the dragon boat was rowing fast. 'Oh, you're just a.' Xiaohu pushed him away and continued, "Let's get a dragon boat next year, let's participate in the competition." I was about to say that. The puppy was not satisfied with Xiaohu pushing him away, "You are too rambling, you like to start from the beginning." ’。
"Okay, okay, let's go back and eat zongzi first, Uncle heard Xiaohong say that there is an interesting way to eat zongzi." Seeing that the two children began to quarrel, Li Chen mediated, otherwise these two would keep arguing, "It's okay to row a dragon boat next year, you can ask how to sit and talk about it first." It shouldn't be difficult to get a dragon boat, Li Chen thought.
When I got home, I started to eat zongzi, which I had prepared in the kitchen. Zongzi can be divided into sweet and salty zongzi. Li Chen actually doesn't have any special preferences, but he didn't travel to the Tang Dynasty, so there were more opportunities to eat salty dumplings.
Li Chen broke a few sweet rice dumplings, made them into pieces, and then asked a few children to shoot with a special small bow, and if they hit it, they could take it down and eat it. Sweet dumplings don't taste so sweet, they mainly have to be eaten with sugar, which is a chance to eat sugar openly after a short time, and the children are happily queuing.
Lose the middle of the elation, not angry and ruined. Xiaohu is very powerful, every shot must hit. The fat ball was unlucky, he loved candy the most, every time he missed, he almost cried, but Xiaohu gave him a piece before he broke into laughter.
After eating zongzi, Li Chen went to Paradise in the afternoon, and today kick dance appeared for the first time in Datang, and even in the world, Li Chen wanted to see the reaction.
When I arrived at the theater, there were also people in the theater, and many people were curious to see what kind of performance was called the premiere of the Tang Dynasty, and even Chang'an had never performed. There was no place, Li Chen picked a place where he could see the audience's reaction and stand.
Soon, the performance began, and the first thing to do was intense music that Tang people rarely heard, and Li Chen and Yang Er spent a lot of time discussing how to play this new style of music with all the instruments.
Everyone has never heard of ancient Chinese songs, and they should think about it, warm and soft. Tap dance, on the other hand, has a fast rhythm and is very different from Tang opera and even traditional Chinese music. Li Chen had only trained a few dancers before, but he was worried that the Tang people would not be able to accept it, and only after Yang Er was sure that such a fresh style was no problem, he began to vigorously cultivate.
After the agitated and fast music has passed, the dancers take the stage. All of them are bearded clothes, strong suits, narrow sleeves, and long trousers, both men and women. Originally, Li Chen still wanted to use shorts, Riverdance dancers, and female dancers were shorts and stockings, to be honest, it was quite shaking. It's a pity that Li Chen didn't dare to take such a big step at once, for fear of hitting the egg.
As soon as the dancers came on the stage, they immediately grabbed the hearts of the audience, they stepped on strange dance steps, this kind of dance steps have never been seen before, mainly based on footsteps, why is it obvious that they just step on it, but there are several sounds? will have such an effect, in addition to boots, Li Chen also laid iron plates on the stage.
They were even more shocked, as soon as they came on the stage, there was a row of more than a dozen male and female dancers, shoulder to shoulder, with the same movements, neatly and uniformly, with a short drum beat, and the sound of iron boots stepping on the ground, as if every blow knocked on people's hearts. This is something they haven't accepted or experienced before.
After a short period of dancing together, there were a few people who had a solo show, and a few dancers with good physical fitness and fast learning showed off their skills on the field, fully showing the characteristics of tap dancing, and then there was another dance in unison, and finally the dancers left the stage and the curtain ended.
After the curtain ended, there was a short silence, applause like raindrops, and Xi Xi fell into the sound, more and more, and finally the sound of rain converged into thunder, and the people in the theater applauded and cheered for this unprecedented performance.
Xu Zhimo said that counting is beautiful. Although in Li Chen's opinion, there are fewer than a dozen dancers, but there is not enough time, so they make do with the stage. But the Tang people, who had never seen it, were still conquered by such a performance.
Li Chen's heart fell to the ground, and there was finally no problem. In fact, he has always been a little worried, Yang Er is an expert, but so many experts and scholars in modern society have still done a lot of stupid things. In other words, if you are not an expert or a scholar, you must be able to grasp the taste of the public.
Now, the audience is so enthusiastic, although it doesn't mean that everyone accepts it, but at least the vast majority of people can accept it and like it, and that's enough.
During the intermission, he changed to another performance and let the dancers rest, Li Chen left, he had to be busy with a lot of things, and others could have a holiday today, but he couldn't.