Ren Song remembers very well that the play "Li Huiniang", when it came out in the late 80s and 90s, has always been the reserved program of the Luozhong Qin Opera Troupe. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 On the way home after reading it, I repeatedly told me: "In the middle of July, ghosts are running around, and after watching ghost shows, don't go out and run around at night!" ”

Because of this, Ren Song has a deep memory of this play, when he was young, he only remembered that the female ghost had a very magical fan, and she turned her white clothes green with a light fan, and she could also spit flames, which was terrifying.

When I went to middle school, I knew that this play was about a comic comparison named Jia Nidao in the Southern Song Dynasty, because there was a second-class scholar surnamed Pei, who saw the beauty of his concubine Li Huiniang, and was shocked by the goddess, and couldn't help but praise a couple of sentences. As a result, the person surnamed Jia was too jealous, so he immediately killed his concubine and prepared to kill the person surnamed Pei.

Pity just been praised as a goddess, and in an instant became a female ghost, this Li Huiniang's soul was unwilling, but the judge petitioned, the nosy judge was also drunk, and he didn't ask right or wrong at the moment, and gave a yin and yang treasure fan casually, so that the female ghost could go back to the yang world to solve it by herself. When she came back with a fan, just in time for the funny man surnamed Jia, he sent a flower-faced killer to cut off the head of the second scholar, and immediately rescued him.

And the plot of the white clothes turning green and spitting flames all happened here, the former is that the female ghost wants to see the scholar, afraid that her image is too terrifying, so she changed the white clothes to green, the latter, is the killer with a torch to cut people, as a result, the female ghost borrowed the torch in his hand, spewed out infinite flames, and finally burned it to death, and then Ren Song can't remember the plot clearly, because when the female ghost finished spraying fire, the plot behind him, he either fell asleep or went home early, and he never watched it all.

And now, he already knows that in fact, there are two actors who play Li Huiniang, according to his grandfather, one is called Li Sufen and the other is Huang Suqiu, who are sisters. Although they can't be compared with the real Qin dialect in Guanzhong, in Luozhong, this pair of sisters can be regarded as more or less famous.

I heard my grandfather say that it was Li Sufen who wore white in the first half, and when she went to see the scholar halfway, the smoke was together, and Huang Suqiu, who was dressed in green, came out of the backstage, and Li Suqiu, who started at the beginning, took advantage of the smoke to rush back to the backstage, so there will be an instant change of clothes like a movie special effect.

In fact, this flaw is still obvious, because the two sisters do not look similar, then Li Suqiu's thick eyebrows and big eyes are even louder, and Ren Song, who doesn't know how to do it, only feels ugly, but it is his grandfather who cheers again and again. And that Huang Suqiu is quite beautiful, coupled with a tactful and beautiful singing voice, once the singing starts, there are more people cheering than when the white-clothed female ghost in front of him sings.

Therefore, when he was in elementary school, Ren Song had already discovered the secret of the exchange of these two actors, but the adults didn't seem to care. In fact, I didn't even care much about this cowardship later. Because there is a more brilliant and magical trick in the back that attracts him to continue watching, that is, Spitfire.

Speaking of fire-breathing, there is also an interesting thing, a Peking Opera troupe in other provinces also performed "Li Huiniang" in Luozhong, and the grandfather and uncle who love Peking Opera also went to watch the performance together, it is said that the previous performance is extremely brilliant, plus the actress looks sweet and sings mellowly, a group of fans are really drunk and obsessed, and the plot of changing clothes adds to the surprise, the actress doesn't know what mechanism is in her clothes, I saw that as soon as she turned around, the white clothes turned into emerald green, and there was no need to change people at all, and the audience below all cheered.

When she came to the fire, everyone was waiting for this woman to shine, who knew that after she came on stage, she took two handfuls of powder such as suspected rosin and sprinkled it on the torch, and the boom ended with two puffs of smoke, and suddenly the audience booed, and she didn't dare to play "Li Huiniang"? This woman was too bold, and as a result, on the first day of the troupe's performance, the Peking Opera Company was still crowded with traffic and lined up for a long time, and the next day it was crowded.

Later, I remembered that my grandfather and uncle chatted and talked about it, and my uncle, who had been away on business for many years and had a wider range of knowledge, once said that he couldn't blame the Peking Opera actor, because at that time, other dramas were mostly performed like this, and this spitting fire was actually Qin Yan's unique skill back then.

The so-called spitting fire is actually the actor holding a rosin bag wrapped in special paper in his mouth in advance, and then controlling his breath and spraying the rosin onto the torch one by one, forming a huge flame. I heard that there was a time when gasoline was used, but it was very dangerous, and it would burn in the mouth if you were not careful, so it was all changed to rosin, which looks simple, but without years of practice, it really can't be done.

In terms of Huang and Li of the Luozhong Opera Troupe alone, Li Sufen spit out 28 mouthfuls of fire with a pack of rosin, while Huang Suqiu can spew out 32 mouthfuls with a pack of rosin, which is much more powerful than the Peking Opera actors. But it's not that great. It is said that on the Chang'an side of Guanzhong, a real top Qin dialect master, a pack of rosin can spit out seventy-two mouthfuls of flames, and finally can spew out super ghost fire that lasts in the air for more than ten seconds.

It's just that Aunt Jin sang Li Huiniang, Ren Song really hasn't heard it. Although she has been coming to the Luozhong Qin Opera Troupe for decades. However, since she was a child, she was forced to follow the adults to see Qin Yan Ren Song, and I really haven't seen her on stage a few times. At most, sometimes when there are many people, she takes a flag or something and stands behind the stake. I heard that what this old woman is best at seems to be applying makeup to actors, especially those big flower faces, this old woman is very good at drawing.

However, singing ...... It's really nothing wrong with her, and when her mother took her for treatment, Ren Song also heard her sing, just that broken gong voice, Li Huiniang may not be like it, and it may be more appropriate to sing that big-faced Jia Xiangdao......

"It seems that everyone has a star dream in their hearts! Even Aunt Jin, who is a ghost, is the same......" When entering the theater, Ren Song said to the old monk Jueming beside him with a look of emotion. According to grandpa, the famous actors of the Qin Opera Troupe in the past are actually similar to the current stars, and the fans are no less crazy about them than they are now.

Ren Song also believed this, remembering that it was an evening when we first talked about this topic, and the family was sitting on the steps of the street to enjoy the shade, and while they were talking, Grandpa suddenly turned over and sat up, pointing to an old man on the street who obviously had Parkinson's and trembled all over his body and shouted: "Zhao Huaxu!" Zhao Huaxu! Seeing that the old man turned his face and waved his hand at himself, he shouted at the grandmother in the kitchen behind him and said, "The old woman come out quickly, Zhao Huaxu, Zhao Huaxu!" ”

Grandma, who was busy in the kitchen, threw off her apron and rushed out, also shouting with a crazy face, "Zhao Huaxu, Zhao Huaxu!" Then the old couple followed the old man and brought him home before turning back. Later, I learned that the old man was a famous male dancer in the Qin Opera Troupe, and when he was young, he was definitely the top star in Luozhong......

It seems that this Aunt Jin also dreams of being in the spotlight one day, but letting the Picket Venerable clean the street and the Jizo Bodhisattva sell tickets, this old woman's idea is too bizarre.

When Master Jueming entered the theater, the female ghost inside was spitting fire frantically, but when she turned her face, Ren Song and Venerable Jueming were all in the same place, and it was not Mrs. Zhao who was standing on the stage at all......

(To be continued.) )