Chapter 15: The Temple Fair of the Red Chamber (2)
The ice in Qinfang Creek is just beginning to melt, and there are some small red carp swimming in the water. Crossing the Cuiyan Bridge across the water, they came to the famous Yihong Courtyard. The garden of the flower owner of this cave is crowded with people, who come to visit, sell trinkets, and follow the excitement to surround the door. There is a sedan chair in the remaining open space at the door, and there are several people standing next to it who are engaged in the costume photography business.
"This Jia Baoyu's mansion is so lovely?" Liang Jing shook his head, "Let's go to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion next to it first." ”
is probably set up according to the character of the characters in the work, and there are no businessmen in Lin Daiyu's yard. Passing through the Moon Gate separated by a wall from Yihong Courtyard, you will see a somewhat withered yellow bamboo forest. There is a winding path paved with bluestone slabs on the dirt floor that leads to the entrance of the main house in the courtyard. The pillars and seats of the corridor here are painted in light green, which matches the color of the curtain at the entrance.
"It's a little colder here, and it's a little different than I thought." Chen Ying lifted the door curtain, and the two came to the house together. The situation in this room is similar to that in the TV series, with a guqin by the window and an unfinished chess game on the square table in the middle. Next to the screen, Dobberg symbolically sits a box of books bound in thread. There are two wax figures sitting and standing inside, and you can barely guess that they are Daiyu and Zijuan through the costumes. When the two girls saw this, they couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Liang Jing looked down at her watch. It's already 10:50.
"We've got to hurry to the Tatefuzen Pavilion - there's a show there at eleven o'clock." With that, she walked briskly outside the house and looked around.
They followed the crowd through the garden pavilion and walked past a stall selling fried cakes and sugar gourds, temporarily paying respects to the five internal organs temple that had already been gurgling. Then the two girls took each other's arms and followed the crowd to the water pavilion that was about to begin. When they walked to the main road in front of the water pavilion, they were driven to both sides by the patrol in charge of security, and they were forced to stand against the white marble railing at the water's edge like everyone else, making way for the middle.
"Here we are." Chen Ying said.
In fact, she didn't say that she could hear it from afar. In the noisy atmosphere of gongs and drums, the lion dancers in front of them are jumping forward. The golden lion and the big red lion blinked their eyes and led the procession forward one by one, and the person who played the lion's tail also put the person dancing the lion head in front of him on his shoulders from time to time. As they marched forward with such vigor, the two lions in front of the Shangshui Pavilion stood up again and spat out a couplet from their mouths. Several colored balls hanging on the archway in front of the water pavilion were cracked together, and the colorful shredded paper that spilled out flew in the wind. It is followed by several large red sedan chairs. At the front of the sedan chair procession, there are people who play suona, gongs and waist drums, and each performer has an exaggerated color of fat powder on his face, and walks forward slowly and leisurely.
By the time all the people in the group walked up to the water pavilion, it was exactly eleven o'clock in the morning. The people standing next to him just now rushed forward like a swarm, filling up the road that had been so hard to get out. Everyone craned their necks to look forward, and many people held up colorful selfie sticks and clicked to take pictures.
This is a self-written and self-directed play. The general content is to take advantage of the New Year, Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang are in charge to arrange for Baoyu and Daiyu to officially get married. The steps of the wedding are carried out in a completely traditional Chinese way, in addition to the master of ceremonies, there are some maids and maids serving tea and water. Zijuan and Raider are of course indispensable, and Aunt Xue and Baochai naturally did not appear. There are also some people on the side, who play Jia Sanchun, or Jia Zheng and Jia Amnesty, standing far away in the back row, like a background, without a single line.
"You say, how could such a play be arranged?" Chen Ying asked in a voice that covered the suona.
"I don't know. I guess it's the New Year.,I hope to perform some plots that everyone wants to see.。 Liang Jing shouted and replied.
Together, they looked at the prime minister and began to introduce the characters. Whoever says their name walks to the center of the stage and bows. The actresses walked lightly with long white water sleeves. The actor bowed and gave the audience a New Year's greeting. After the introduction, the wedding ceremony officially began.
"Worship heaven and earth—" the master of ceremonies shouted loudly through the microphone. The audience raised their cameras and mobile phones one after another.
"Erbai Gaotang—" The two main actors turned around in response, and the two actors next to them helped them to tidy up their kneeling mats.
"Husband and wife—"
After this time, all the actors once again came to the stage to greet everyone for the New Year. Some of the stereos on the sidelines have been playing the music "Family Portrait". After a while, the live band began to perform again, and the gongs and drums sounded in unison. Many viewers were overjoyed as if they had actually attended a wedding, and even a few children sitting on their father's shoulders laughed along.
"I really don't understand, according to the official partners in the book are Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai. Now that everyone sees the combination of Baoyu and Daiyu, they are even more appreciative, and even have the mood of getting what they want, and people's understanding of feelings is really a bit elusive. Chen Ying said.
"It's not official matching, it's true love. Isn't one of the main themes of the novel "Dream of Red Mansions" to reflect the love tragedy of Jia Lin and his wife? Most people still want to see a lover end up married. Liang Jing explained, "If polygamy can still be implemented, I think many people would rather let Daiyu be Baoyu's second room than let her die with hatred." ”
"Whether it is to stop his wife and remarry, or divorce his wife and continue his string, Lin Daiyu can't get around Xue Baochai after all." Chen Ying groaned.
"Baochai can't hide from Daiyu's relationship." Liang Jing said.
"'But when you see the new person laughing, how can you hear the old person crying' - it can be seen that if the original relationship between the two people wants to change the story of the three people, it will be a tragedy after all."