Chapter Twenty-Six: Continue to Watch the Play

Li Chen bypassed the crowd, went to the periphery of another crowd, turned around, found a corner with a relatively low average height, and watched the performance through the crowd.

Li Chen came by chance, one dancer finished performing, and another dancer came on stage. This place is a dance, and I saw the dancers who had just left the stage, dressed like a hundred flowers blooming. The new dancer, on the other hand, was dressed in what appeared to be a dress embroidered with a bird's finch pattern, and he also held two long strips in his hands, which seemed to be fans.

"Oops, it's over, I missed the Flower Dance, but fortunately I didn't miss the Crane Dance." At this time, Liao Fan also squeezed over, and as soon as he came over, he loudly regretted, "Thirteen Lang, I'm going to go inside to see a little." , and after speaking, you have to squeeze inside.

"Wait, wait, what kind of flower dance and crane dance are you talking about?" "No, Thirteen, haven't you seen the Flower Dance and the Crane Dance? Okay, okay, don't knock me on the head, just tell you.'" Seeing that Li Chen was about to do it again, Li Fan hurriedly nodded and said.

"The dancer who just came down performed a flower dance, like a hundred flowers in full bloom. Then the dancer performed the crane dance, which is one of the more common dances in the temple during the New Year's holidays." A little adult, wrong, a little bhikkhu said with an expression.

"Crane Dance? Let's see.'" As soon as Li Chen's hand was released, Lifan squeezed away from the crowd and went inside, not going inside, he was short, unlike Li Chen, who was steadily taller than most of the crowd, and could see clearly no matter where he was.

Waited a little until the crowd was almost over. To walk away, to come in to squeeze in, the dancer, dressed in embroidered bird patterns, began to move.

I saw that she first opened the two large fans, as if they were the wings of a crane, and then turned them around a few times, and then began to swing the big fan that looked like wings, and suddenly left and right, and sometimes raised it to her head.

After a few minutes of performance, the dancers were drenched in sweat, and although the weather was cold and snowy, the dancers performed hard, and people could see the heat around her body.

The performance process is very boring. Li Chen thinks so, probably born from the very popular Hu Xuan dance in the Tang Dynasty, and the dancers have movements in circles from time to time. The surrounding audience was very happy to see it, but Li Chen didn't think it was good, and felt that turning over there and swinging the fan was really a bit monotonous.

(I don't know what it looks like to dance with Hu Nu.) Li Chen gave a few rewards and went to other places, but Li Chen also thought that there would be no good-looking dances in the Tang Dynasty.

Then he remembered the more common ones in historical sources, the Ta Song and the Hu Xuan Dance. Singing is very simple, anyway, a few people, or dozens of people, hand in hand, and then according to a certain rhythm, while pedaling, singing.

Although I haven't seen the Tang version of the song, Li Chen has read some information, and some aborigines are also very good at singing, holding hands around the fire ring, singing and dancing. It wouldn't be far off. But I really have to dance Hu Xuan, I haven't seen it, although I just turn around in my imagination, but it must be more than that.

And probably because of the relationship between the performances in the temple, the dancing girls are very hot without trying them on. Li Chen is a little looking forward to it, I don't know when he can watch the Hu Xuan dance performed by the real Hu Nu, it must be amazing.

Li Chen bypassed the crowd again and walked to a place where a crowd gathered. The performer is a monk, a monk of the Longevity Temple, and he is now giving a layman. The layman is that Wuming, and unfortunately, now that he is halfway through his speech, Li Chen can only start listening from half.

"The six masters are not as good as twice, and their expressions are gradually becoming more ashamed, and they force their naughty faces to be turned out of the pool. The seven treasures of the four shores are solemn, and there is a golden sand cloth land inside. duckweed, full of green water and competition; Soft willow hibiscus, the spirit swamp and the atmosphere. When the relics (Buddha) saw that the pool was wonderful, they were not amazed. The king of the white elephant has a vast body, eyes like the sun and the moon, and a mouth with six teeth. Each tooth spits out seven lotus flowers, there are seven heavenly girls on the flowers, the hand pinchs the string pipe, the mouth plays the string song, the sound is elegant and fresh, the posture is beautiful and beautiful. The elephant is slowly moving, straight into the pool, stepping on the east and west, and turning north and south. When water is sucked through the nose, the water dries up, and the shore falls into dust, and becomes dry land. At that time, the sixth division was discolored, the fourth was shocked, and the United States bureaucrats sighed in unison.

Its pond is the shore of the seven treasures, and the agate coral competes for splendor. The fish in the pond leaped to the top of the crown, and the turtle was a turtle competing in the valley. The hibiscus in the water shines ,......

Li Chen is a big listener, his level of ancient literature is not very good, when he used to read history, when he read these ancient texts, he had to calm down and read slowly to understand.

As a result, Wu Ming said that he actually sang it, sang it well, and the tune and singing voice were not bad, but the problem was that Li Chen couldn't understand it at all.

(It's strange who can understand this way, and it's strange that there are still full people who can't understand it.) Li Chen complained secretly. However, after a while, Wu Mingkai used to explain the content just now, which made Li Chen understand, when he went to the countryside before, there were also common sayings, but the monk used to speak directly, and there was no need to sing, so Li Chen couldn't understand.

After listening to it for a while, Li Chen probably knew the content of Wuming's vulgar discourse, what this text was about, as if it was saying that Sariputta and the "outer way", that is, other sects other than Buddhism, fought with those six masters of the outer way.

The six divisions successively turned into Baoshan that "invaded the heavens", the buffalo that "shook the sky", and the poisonous dragon that "spit smoke and clouds", and so on, and the results were destroyed one by one by the vajra, lion, and bird king that Sariputta transformed.

If it is modern, Li Chen will definitely not waste time listening to this change, compared with the rich online literature of the 21st century, the change of text in the Tang Dynasty is far less exciting, and it is not enough YY. But there are also strengths in it, and many strange depictions still make Li Chen listen to it with relish.

Wu Ming speaks dryly, in addition to explaining some content in detail, sometimes he will change his tone and imitate others to speak, which is quite exciting. The people in the audience were also very popular, and when they talked about the wonderful points, they would cheer loudly, and then threw money at the copper basin in front of them.

Wu Ming talked for a while, and then he was done. After the mermaste, he went down and was replaced by another monk. Changed a monk and continued to preach, but the content of the plurk has changed.

"In the middle of spring in February, the two horses are soaring, and they want to build a house. Husband and wife are in peace, walking from east to west, and north and south are detailed, but avoiding the general is too much, and it is natural to be blessed. … But there are yellow finches, with sharp heads, leaning against the streets and alleys, and bullying the weak,...

"Then I went to the edge of the phoenix, went down to analyze, the mandarin man was poor, and he built a house ,...", this monk lay said, so he did not sing a paragraph first and then explain a paragraph like just now, but spoke directly and then began to explain.

This variation seems to be called Mandarin Fu. Li Chen sounded a bit like Aesop's fable, comparing birds to people. Li Chen was very interested, and he always thought that these sayings were just about telling some Buddhist scriptures or related stories. As a result, this mandarin man fu doesn't seem to have anything to do with Buddhist scriptures.

The content is roughly that the mandarin husband and wife want to see the house, and it is very hard to look around. It was measured from east to west, carefully examined from north to south, and selected the auspicious day of the zodiac, and lived a peaceful and happy life. This made Li Chen raise his eyebrows slightly, it turned out that the Tang Dynasty also had a saying about Bi Tai Sui.

After that, there was a yellow finch, a likened rogue, who took advantage of the mandarin mandarin's absence, forcibly occupied his house, and took possession of his wife, boasting of his courage, and if the mandarin man came back, he would drive him away. When the mandarin man came back, he couldn't theorize, but he was beaten up, and went to the phoenix to complain in a fit of anger.

The phoenix was discerning, received the mandarin duck paper, and sent a wren to catch the yellow finch in the hall. Among them, it tells how Huang Que bribed the errand and tried to avoid the trial, saying that he should not go to court at night.

In the end, despite his cunning, in the end, the phoenix still interrogated the evil yellow finch and wanted to punish him. Huang Que denied it, but finally asked for hard work to deny.

In the end, the phoenix found out that the yellow finch had made war exploits. In the end, Phoenix sentenced him to confiscate his merits and return the house to the mandarin couple.

After the text was changed, the audience enthusiastically rewarded the money. In all fairness, the content is simple, but the simple content reveals some of the social habits of the Tang Dynasty. For example, it seems that the prisoners are more respectful of their rights, and Huang Que asked not to pass through the hall at night, and he agreed. In addition, it is possible to use the merits of war to offset the sins, and the merits and demerits can be offset.

The content is simple, but it's boring, so simple to find out by the phoenix, the yellow finch villain deserves to be too failed. In the end, I didn't get the benefits, and I gave me the credit.

If it's an ordinary online novel, how can it be so simple... The mandarin man was not allowed to be knocked out of the cell, and then found out that the phoenix had received the benefits of the yellow finch, or that it was the yellow finch at all.

Then the mandarin man had an adventure in the cell, and met an old man, otherwise there was some peerless martial arts waiting for him to discover, and then he broke out of the cell, killed the yellow finch, and finally overturned the phoenix or something... Well, with such a stimulating idea, Li Chen put it away for the time being and continued to watch the performance.

However, at this time, Li Chen's stomach was growling, and he realized that a long time had passed. He no longer listened to any changes, and walked like a corner of the square.

In this corner, there are also a lot of people, what kind of performance to watch? It's not a show, it's a snack. Originally, there were several stalls selling all kinds of food. smelling the fragrance from afar, Li Chen's saliva almost flowed out.

Touching the money bag on his body, Li Chen walked over there. In fact, he can go back to the dining hall to eat, and many people do this, as long as they donate some sesame oil money to the temple, they can easily mix a meal and eat. It's just that Li Chen has to eat food in the temple, and he is tired of eating, and now he wants to change his taste.