Chapter Twenty-Nine: Riding a Horse and Leaning on the Bridge, Full of Red Sleeves (1)
"The wind and rain outside the Spring and Autumn Pavilion are stormy, where the sad voice breaks the loneliness. I saw a sedan chair through the curtain, presumably it was the newlywed crossing the magpie bridge. When the auspicious day is good, why do the shark beads turn into tears and throw ......"
"The ears heard the miserable sound and the heart was like a pound, why did the same people howl like this? Mo is not a husband who is ugly and difficult to harmonize with a woman, Mo is not a forced marriage with a crow to occupy the nest ......"
In the early morning, as soon as the sky was bright, there was a burst of drum music in the courtyard of the palace, which was obviously the beginning of the show.
Although in the third year of Qianlong, in order to rectify the imperial style, Emperor Qianlong once ordered that civil and military officials were not allowed to fight cards and watch plays, but this ban is obviously less binding on many relatives and nobles from far and near branches, not to mention Heshuo and Prince Hongday, the highest title in the title of Prince Heshuo - the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the direct blood relatives of non-emperors are not allowed to be titled - the son of heaven.
This prince is also a well-known absurd prince, and Qianlong has always been arrogant to this younger brother. This Aixin Jueluo Hongday was recognized as "superior tolerance", "sexual luxury" and "rich in other kings" in the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties. Its romance is extravagant, absurd and casual, which of the Manchu Dynasty does not know which one does not know?
As for his absurdity, some people say that it is used to it. Some people also say that he pretended to be obscene and indulged in beauty, in order to avoid the competition for the crown prince of the third elder brother Hongshi and the fourth elder brother Hongli, and to raise obscurity in exchange for his wealth, peace, and lust. But in general, this absurdity is very famous.
This prince even has a hobby of buying funerals. Good words funeral, always say: "There is no one who will not die for a hundred years, ridicule it?" "Every once in a while, I had to personally direct my own funeral, sit in the middle of the courtyard, let the family in the house mourn and mourn, and laugh and drink on the side for fun. Moreover, he made items such as spiritual vessels, elephant tripods, and Yi pan bowls, and placed them in front of his collapse.
In the first year of Qianlong, he was still clamoring to become a monk after his funeral. I found someone to shave my head, asked for a monk, and gave myself the name 'Fang Heng', and forced the Qingliang Temple of Wutai Mountain to accept his pending order. To this day, this person still maintains the image of a bald head, and there are many relatives and nobles in the Manchu Dynasty, but he is the only one who wears a fake braid when he goes to court.
As for this master Fang Heng, who is lustful and uninhibited, eats meat and drinks all day long, and does not abide by a single precept, it is another matter.
With such absurd behavior in the past, it is obviously not a big deal to get up early in the morning with the prince to listen to a play.
At this time, the one who sang in the prince's mansion was the famous 'Yijia Class' in the capital, and it was also the Peking Opera that became popular in Beijing in the past four or five years.
This Peking Opera is much easier to understand than the southern opera that the dignitaries liked before, especially Kunqu Opera. Peking Opera obviously absorbed the strengths of Han tunes, Kunqu opera, Qin dialect and so on, so once it was launched, a large number of enthusiasts were developed from the court to the ordinary children of the Eight Banners.
In the second year of Qianlong, under the recommendation of the seriously ill Prince Hongday, Peking Opera began to be performed in the court. From the sixth day of May of that year to the end of the month, it was performed by the Yijia class, the Wang family class, and the Qijia class, and the three major opera troupes. In the third year of Qianlong, in order to celebrate the birthday of the queen mother, Prince Zhuang Yunlu personally selected 18 people to enter the palace as errands, not only singing, but also teaching Peking Opera and teaching skills to the eunuchs. Since then, the Qing court has set up the "Shengping Administration", an agency in charge of performance affairs, and is preparing to select famous artists to enter the palace on errands year by year.
Prince Zhuang Yunlu, Prince Yi Hongxiao, and Prince Li Honghui are all the earliest Peking Opera fans. In the past two years, even the Queen Mother Lafayette in the palace and Prince Hongday have been fascinated by Peking Opera.
It's a pity that after the smash hit Hu family class owner died of a violent illness, the Hu family class suddenly scattered, and now the Yi family class, the Wang family class, and the Qi family class in Beijing have their own strengths, but they are no longer the grand occasion of the Hu family class back then.
However, this Peking Opera is not full of popularity in Beijing, such as those opera troupes that have failed to transform or collapsed after the transformation, as well as some old-fashioned old people, as well as some Fujin and side Fujin in the palace of pro-noble ministers, etc., all have a lot of complaints about this Peking Opera.
In particular, some female dependents did not return their knowledge to their teachers or read a wide range of books, knowing that this Peking Opera actually originated in the 55th year of Qianlong, in order to celebrate the emperor's 80th birthday, the four major Hui classes entered Beijing. Waiting for the skin to be yellow, the Peking Opera was completely formed until the Daoguang period. So they were both confused and suspicious about this troupe. Therefore, the troupe has been tempted by some side-by-side attacks from time to time, and there always seems to be people who are very interested in the people behind the scenes.
If the theater troupe, especially the people behind it, didn't care about these temptations before, but after the battle outside the Fushan Temple, the Changsheng Sect, which made the theater troupe, also became very concerned about this aspect. Today, the only thing that the three major opera troupes need to face is purely from the desires of the powerful. And among them, the Yi family class was contracted by the prince's mansion, and he had the experience of performing in the palace, so everything was worry-free.
On this day, Hong day stayed in a small attic in the palace garden called Tianxiang Building, because there was no one to sleep, so it was not dawn to get up, and after waking up in the morning, he had not yet passed the meal, so he let the troupe prepare. After Hongtian got dressed and got up, washed his face and rinsed his mouth, and used the maid to teleport to the Eight Colors Palace with a delicate breakfast, he began to listen to the play.
This viewing lasted until lunchtime.
After a group of eunuchs waited for him to have lunch, Hongtian lazily stopped. But it's not because of his understanding of the opera troupe - there are many famous characters in the Yi family's class, and taking turns to play is enough to arrange for three days and three nights - it's just that he has two errands, in addition to participating in politics, he served as the commander of Manchuria under the Zhengbai Banner, and was also ordered to manage the affairs of Lama Temple (Yongzheng Qiandi). In any case, I have to deal with errands every once in a while.
Changed into a court dress, Hongday left the maid, brought a few personal entourage, out of Xidan and the prince's mansion, turned the leaky street, entered the Yongding Gate, took the Yongdao, to the Longzong Gate, but saw seven or eight green wood low houses in one color, which seemed not very eye-catching, but it was the national pivot set up during the Yongzheng period: the Qing Dynasty Military Aircraft Department.
Hongday entered the inner hall of the military aircraft department, a group of military aircraft Zhang Kyoto got up according to the etiquette system to see, Hongday waved his hand inside, and saw three people around the desk in the wall, robes, boots and hats are all first-class uniforms, and when they saw Hongday, they all got up to say hello - and the prince once blocked the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces to beat the first-class duke, the minister of military aircraft, so there is no martial arts, even if he disdains this ridiculous prince in his heart, he has to be very respectful, lest he annoy this demon king of the mixed world.
After the greetings, Hongtian sat down next to a chair covered with fox skin warm cushions in the north, and listened to the Minister of Military Aircraft discuss things for a while. Before long, Prince He became impatient with what Miao Xinjiang changed and returned to the stream, and what the great drought in Shandong did not take to heart. Pulled over a military plane Zhang Jing, asked a few words, and learned that Qianlong had returned to the palace after the military plane was handled, so he also found an excuse to retreat.
However, he did not go home, but ordered someone to carry a sedan chair and walk around the street. And he himself sat in a sedan chair and enjoyed his happiness. And the prince, this palanquin is a royal gift, and it must be carried by sixteen palanquin men. The inside is large, and there are two maids inside, who are responsible for filling cigarettes and pouring tea, and there are more than 100 kinds of hot and cold snacks.