Chapter 163: Done Quickly
Wang Defu came up with "The Legend of the West Chamber", naturally it didn't take too long, because he didn't need to revise and create it, he only needed to copy out all the content about "The West Chamber" in his mind.
A work like this, he will not use it for his own benefit, he just hopes that such a classic work can also shine in this world, and he believes that Mei Xiaoyu's interpretation will definitely not disappoint him.
Mei Xiaoyu is of course very suitable for playing the heroine Cui Yingying of "The Legend of the West Chamber", Cui Yingying was born in a famous nobleman, is a beautiful and talented girl, and her father Cui Xiangguo had married her to Zheng Shangshu's son before his death.
In the severe constraints of feudal etiquette, she strongly pursued love and happiness in her heart. She and scholar Zhang Junrui met in the Pufu Temple, Zhang Sheng's infatuation and talent won her love, but Miss Xiangguo's identity and her upbringing made her feel the distress of not being able to express her love freely. Zhang Sheng relieved the siege of the Pufu Temple and was supposed to marry her, but the old lady's change of fortune dealt her a heavy blow, and the consciousness of resistance began to awaken. She gradually freed herself from hesitation, cowardice and scruples, and finally broke through the shackles and married Zhang Sheng.
Gifting "The Legend of the West Chamber" to Mei Xiaoyu can be said to be a sword with a hero, if it weren't for Mei Xiaoyu, maybe Wang Defu wouldn't have remembered "The Legend of the West Chamber", no way, there are too many classic works in his mind, but there needs to be an opportunity to get it out and show it in front of the world.
It's a pity that Wang Defu has not met any male actor so far who makes him feel that his performance is particularly good, after all, Zhang Sheng in "The Legend of the West Chamber" is also a male protagonist who can shine.
Zhang Sheng's name is Zhang Junrui, the first father of the official Ministry of Rites, it can be seen that he is also a scholarly family, since he was a child under the influence of this environment, he studied diligently, and learned to write articles full of articles in order to seek the title of the gold list. Bad luck, creation makes people, many times should be lifted, all of them are named Sun Mountain, so "the book and sword float zero, swim in the Quartet".
It can be seen that Zhang Sheng's wish is: but to seek fame and fame, and to glorify the ancestors. But when this well-educated man met Yingying by chance, he threw his fame and fortune out of the clouds, put 23 years of hardship and hard work in the eighteenth layer of hell, and put the pursuit of free love as the first priority without hesitation.
So the subset of the history has become a cover for his pursuit of love, in the years that followed, he was lovesick, let alone studying, in the universal rescue temple hero rescue, racking his brains for love, finally love is hopeful, but Mrs. Cui refused, on the grounds that "I don't recruit a son-in-law in white for three generations", Zhang Sheng had no choice but to go to Beijing to catch the exam, but he didn't expect that his love was built on the basis of fame, "Get an official, come to see Mrs. Cui; "Indeed, the power of love is great, when he did not meet Yingying, Zhang Junrui "failed to make a name for himself with a book and sword, and swam in all directions", after meeting Yingying, he was confident and won the victory, and finally "won the first place in one fell swoop".
In Wang Defu's view, "The Legend of the West Chamber" is undoubtedly a work full of positive energy, which simply hints to the audience that it is absolutely not wrong to study hard every day, otherwise, even if you meet a girl who is happy with each other, you may be disliked by the sister's family.
But if you study hard and work hard to enrich yourself, then your own excellence will definitely make your sister's family look up to you and think that you are a very motivated man, then you will definitely be happy if you marry your sister.
In the process of copying out "The Legend of the West Chamber", Wang Defu can also be said to have experienced the attraction of this classical classic drama, and then he also discovered that the spokesperson of Wang Shifu, the author of "The Legend of the West Chamber", in the full text is the matchmaker who matched Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng.
The matchmaker is not only a girl, but also a liaison inside and outside the play, as the author's spokesperson, she directly reflects the author's intentions, the author adds his own thoughts and consciousness to her, she influences the development of the plot, and plays an important role.
The old lady maintains the feudal program and the interests of the family, and maintains the etiquette of "the life of the parents, the words of the matchmaker", to break it, it needs the matchmaker to have a bold spirit of resistance and a chivalrous character with a sense of compassion and justice.
The matchmaker has such a character setting, which is actually related to the life experience of the author Wang Shifu.
Wang Shifu, the author, once served as the county magistrate of Shaanxi and the superintendent of Shaanxi Xingtai. Later, because he was dissatisfied with the filthiness of the officialdom at that time, he resigned in anger, and decided to express his frustration by writing plays. So he returned to his birthplace, Zhongshanfu, and began to create miscellaneous plays. A scholar surnamed Dong in the Jin Dynasty adapted the legend "The Legend of Yingying" from Yuan Zhi in the Tang Dynasty into "The Legend of Zhugong Tunes to the West Chamber", and wrote the protagonist of the original story Yingying as a native of Boling County. Dingzhou was called Boling County in the Sui Dynasty, so the stories of Yingying and Zhang Sheng in the Boling area were quite widespread. According to legend, there was a tomb of Cui Yingying in the area of Cui Yanshi in Dingzhou. It was on this basis that Wang Shifu began the writing of his miscellaneous drama "The Legend of the West Chamber" in Zhongshan Mansion.
The rationality of the classic drama "The Legend of the West Chamber" is also very good, even the "villain" old lady in it is not a brain-dead villain, she opposes Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng, of course she has her reasons.
Because the old lady is the head of a hard-working, decayed feudal family. Her husband has just died, and the youngest son who can take on the support of the family is still young, and the illustrious Xiangfu family has become only "three or four close relatives" in a blink of an eye, and she doesn't know what trouble she will encounter in the future when she lives in Xiao Temple.
The old lady's grief and the unpredictable pain of the future world are not something that Miss Yingying, who does not eat the fireworks of the world, can understand and understand.
The old lady is the first character to appear in "The Legend of the West Chamber", and her lyrics of "The Mother and the Lonely Frost are Poor" reflect her sentimentality about the cold in front of the door and the hot and cold world, which is very important for the formation of the old lady's character.
It is precisely because she feels cold and desolate that she especially wants to find a marriage for her daughter that can not only maintain the social status of the Cui family's aristocratic family, but also bring happiness to her daughter, so a person like Zhang Sheng is definitely not an ideal candidate for the old lady.
"The Story of the West Chamber" has a total of about 70,000 words, and Wang Defu spent a week to get it, and then took the initiative to send an invitation to Mei Xiaoyu and asked her to watch "The Story of the West Chamber".