Chapter Seventy-One: The Trick is Good to Play and Fight the Wolves
All the people flocked to the auditorium to see the opera.
In order to make the wedding of Mixi and the magpie grand and face-saving, Fan Ren chose a full-hall opera, which was performed by 24 people, each of whom wore a different mask. There are civil and military horns, harlequins, and Dan horns.
The difference between Wu opera and Peking Opera is that women cannot be used to perform it, and all men are performed. Playing the female role is reversed by a man. Even the props they use to act in the drama are made by themselves, and women are not allowed to do it.
The most special thing is that the masks they wear are made of tincine wood and aspen.
The specific production is purely handmade. The craftsmanship is rustic and religious.
The production process is as follows: Dai Lin, that is, a net tree is cut into a section of 40 cm long logs; Cutting in half, that is, cutting a piece of log into two; Blank, that is, peeling, hollowing out the surface, in the peeling side of the center of the vertical ink line, with this line as the benchmark, mark the helmet line, nose line, mouth line, and then carve out the mask prototype; White face, that is, the blank is carved and polished to complete the basic shape of the figure; Coloring, that is, using various relevant pigments to paint the white face into the image of the characters in the play; Finally, attach a beard, lenses and other decorations. A lifelike puppet mask is complete.
There is a poem in Shi Daolong's "Quotations of the Great Jue Zen Master": "There is a shed of Sichuan miscellaneous dramas, and there are many ghosts and faces; In the middle of the night, the lights are very bright; There should be no one laughing on the railing. This poem is about the Southern Song Dynasty in the Fuling area of Sichuan, which was popular with masks. It can be seen that the opera is widely spread in Hu, Wu, Guangzhou, and Yunnan.
Tonight's performance is "Mu Guiying". The interception was Mu Guiying's wisdom to Yang Zongbao.
I can see that the actor who plays Mu Guiying is pretending to be a female character, wearing a female role, the mask is gorgeous and pretty, and two long peacock feathers are tied on his head, and the whole looks heroic. She holds an embroidered velvet knife in her hand and rides a peach blossom horse (the body of the horse is one with herself). The hands, methods, body, and eyes are fast and changeable, and they do not lose their beauty and charm. A few back-and-forths won a full house. The second to appear was Yang Zongbao, riding a white dragon horse, from soaring, moving, jumping, jumping to the full whirl, all showing his dancing skills, and the audience was applauded. The appearance of the female and male characters made the atmosphere of the scene white-hot, and the applause and applause were one after another.
Followed by Mu Guiying's wisdom to capture Yang Zongbao, Mu Guiying's embroidered velvet knife is poked in place, fierce and resolute, then Yang Zongbao began to return to the tiger's head and tiger to be powerful, facing the battle, how could Mu Guiying design a fraudulent retreat, lead Zongbao to take the bait, and finally capture back to Mu Kezhai.
The two actors acted very wonderfully, and everyone was drunk and fascinated.
But there were times when the young people had seen enough, and they clamored to go to the cave house.
More than two dozen young men giggled and rushed towards the wedding room with their shoulders hooked.