As I estimated, it was indeed the era when the historical events I found out took place, that is, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Xiaoyu Laogu and their ancestors abandoned their families and businesses and came all the way from their hometown of Yunnan to today's coastal city.

But the process of their coming was extremely difficult, they ate grass roots, dug wild vegetables, caught insects, hunted wild beasts, and even begged, and persevered.

There really wasn't any means of transportation, and everyone had to move on their own feet alone.

In fact, the lack of transportation and food is secondary, the main thing is that they initially do not know where their destination is, or even whether there is a destination.

Many of them felt that they might spend the rest of their lives in this wandering migration, and no one knew where they would die in the end and what kind of accidents they would die from, and no one even dared to think about it.

Deaths are common, with starvation and disease being the most common causes of death, as well as occasional casualties from struggles with other migrants over limited resources.

When they finally arrived at Marina City, only half of the original number of people were still alive.

In fact, they were originally a group of people who knew how to live and enjoyed life, if they were not forced to leave their homeland, in their time, their original living state could simply be described as "perfect".

Sending love to the landscape, poetry and distance, poetry is in the mouth, and the distance is at the feet.

But since you have been forced to choose this path, you must find a way to take this path well. After all... After all, they are not a single individual, and they can even choose to kill themselves in the most desperate times. They are a people, they have their beliefs, they have beliefs that they need to pass on.

As soon as they left their homeland, they arrived in Sichuan.

Accustomed to the idyllic life, they were already good at singing and dancing, so after they began to migrate, they quickly mastered a life skill, which was "performing arts".

Of course, if you want to make money by performing arts, you must first be in a crowded place so that you can have an audience, and secondly, you must perform some shows that appeal to the locals in order to make money.

For a variety of reasons, they had to hide their special abilities from the beginning and not show them to the public at all.

In fact, if they don't need to hide their abilities, they can make money by casually performing a chest crushing boulder, holding a big tripod with one hand, etc. But at that time, they really couldn't show these skills, so they had to think about other ways to perform as they went.

The first thing they learned was the local opera performance unique to Sichuan Province, where they first arrived, "Sichuan Opera".

They have a strong learning ability, and they have nothing else to do, so they all concentrate on learning opera, and soon master most of the skills of this form of performance, which can be used as personal skills to survive.

Usually when they are in a hurry, they encounter mostly deserted wilderness, and there is no need to perform in that kind of place, let alone people, there is not even a monkey in that kind of place, and the performance is for ghosts? But as soon as they arrive in a prosperous area, they will start to make money by performing arts.

Sichuan, the land of abundance, is not rich, as long as they don't encounter several days of wild travel, they will basically not go hungry, and they can eat real food.

After all, when a person knows that the craft he has learned is a life-saving craft, he will definitely learn it very hard, and he will learn this craft as much as possible, and even stimulate some potentials that they themselves have not expected, and get twice the result with half the effort.

So their performances have always been popular.

After that, it was their second stop, in Hunan.

When they arrived in Hunan, they started a new round of performing arts to survive with the Sichuan opera they had just learned.

Thanks to the fact that they are walking on foot and walking slowly, the two provinces next to each other have a lot in common in terms of dialect characteristics, and there is no problem with basic communication at all, which provides great convenience for them to survive.

Moreover, at that time, there were not many people who left Sichuan and traveled to Hunan for a long time, so many people in the local area had never heard of Sichuan opera, which was not very different from the local opera.

Fortunately, their superb performances not only helped them make a lot of money, but also allowed them to meet some local folk artists.

Because they have already tasted the sweetness of local performances of foreign operas, through exchanges with local artists, they have quickly mastered the flower drum opera with local characteristics of Hunan, and they are ready to perform two types of music in turn when they arrive at a new location, which will definitely make more money.

Their third stop was Hubei, where in addition to the rotational performances of Sichuan Opera Flower Drum Opera, they learned a new form of performance: Hubei Chu Opera.

So when they arrived at the fourth stop in Anhui, in addition to Sichuan opera, flower drum opera, and Chu opera performing in turn to make money, they also learned local local opera, Lu opera.

After that, the fifth station is Henan, the sixth station is Shandong, and the last station, Binhai City.

In this process, they were not only forced to learn local operas in various places for their livelihoods, but also fixed the order of opera performances according to the order in which they studied.

From only one Sichuan opera, to the addition of the second and third kinds, until the end, so many years have passed, and their performance order has always been: Sichuan Opera, Flower Drum Opera, Chu Opera, Lu Opera, Henan Opera, Shandong Bangzi, and finally learned, Binhai City Willow Dialect.

Xiao Yu said that it is not of special significance for them to maintain this fixed order of performances, this is not to commemorate that journey, nor to commemorate their martyrs, but purely because the order of learning drama is like this, and there is no need to change it.

So this order has been maintained for more than 600 years, until today, if it were not for Wang Yang's discovery, even they themselves did not realize that the order of performance of these operas unintentionally pointed out where they came from.

In the end, they took root in the coastal city, and although their lives gradually became richer, this opera performance has become a tradition for them, or a way for them to remember their homeland, as long as there is a party or any group activity, they will take it out.

This opera performance, which has remained unchanged for 600 years, has become a necessary tradition for them, just like the dumplings and firecrackers that we will eat during the New Year or major festivals.

Xiaoyu told me the secrets hidden in the order of this opera performance, I couldn't help but feel a little emotional, Wang Yang is really amazing, no wonder her videos continue to emphasize the importance of community opera performances to me, indeed as Chen Zhonghai said, knowing the secrets in the opera, and maybe even knowing the true identity of the old guys.