"Peach Blossom Fan" was produced in 1963 by The Xi'an Film Studio in China, and caused a sensation because of "Peach Blossom Fan", which occupies a very high position in the history of Chinese theater.
When I was a kid, I had a comic strip of Peach Blossom Fan, all of which were movie stills. After so many years, the scene of Li Xiangjun angrily tearing the peach blossom fan is still fresh in his memory. Although I seem to understand the story, leaving aside the loyalty and righteousness of the kings and princes in the story, I have long understood from it: love is the majority of tragedies at the end.
As we all know, the drama "Peach Blossom Fan" is different from the previous "West Chamber" and "Peony Pavilion", and it is also different from Hong Sheng's "Hall of Eternal Life" that was comparable to Kong Shangren at that time, and Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan" is to borrow the clutch feelings of Li Xiangjun and Hou Chaozong to write about the rise and fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Its ideological nature is rare in the previous children's style plays. In particular, the ending, which does not fall into the trap, breaks the ending of the reunion, making the work far-reaching and unique, and indeed an eternal classic.
Before watching the movie "Peach Blossom Fan", I had not read the legendary script "Peach Blossom Fan" by the writer Kong Shangren in the early Qing Dynasty, but I had only heard that the author had worked hard for ten years to complete the creation of the script. In the era when words were popular at that time, it is not easy to imagine.
The story behind the drama is very heavy, and the film itself, the protagonist's encounter is more intriguing than the original. Starring Wang Danfeng and Feng Zhe - the artistic charm and personal sadness of the male and female actors and actresses are more memorable than the film itself!
The subtitles make it very clear that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the turbulent social situation and complex political struggles in Jiangnan were truly and vividly reflected through the love story of Hou Chaozong and Li Xiangjun.
"Peach Blossom Fan" can be praised to this day, and what really makes people sad must not only be that painful history, but also the love tragedy of the hero and heroine who really touches the heart.
From the encounter of poetry on the Qinhuai River, the feelings of these two people were based on the common concept of patriotic feelings from the beginning, and the two sides admired each other in talent and appearance, but also influenced each other in political attitudes.
Businesswomen also have integrity, and Li Xiangjun feels that it is simply written according to Liu Ru - Qin Huai's famous prostitutes, zhenlie shoujie, even though they are exploited and despised in the country they love, but the people who define them are more resilient.
In contrast, in "Peach Blossom Fan", Li Xiangjun is the protagonist of an absolute position, and the reason why she is portrayed as such and such is mainly the author's deep feelings about the rise and fall of the country and the change of dynasties.
Feng Zhe (1921-1969) played hou Chaozong, one of the "four princes of the late Ming Dynasty". This is an "angry youth" with only superficial splendid articles, which is definitely not comparable to the pride that Li Xiangjun was born with. When he was about to recite poems on the Qinhuai River, I was afraid that he did not even think of the heavy responsibility he would shoulder.
When Feng Zhe played this role, years of artistic accumulation made his acting skills reach the stage of pure fire - but this film still led to his later persecution and death in "wg" - no matter how many revolutionary progressive films Feng Zhe starred in: "Railway Guerrilla", "Southern Expedition and Northern War", "Yangcheng Dark Sentinel", "Jinsha Riverside", in this opera film, playing such a talent, his artistic life ended forever at the age of 42.
Feng Zhe threw a folding fan, Wang Danfeng threw a cherry, this clip is innocent and beautiful, let me remember for many years. Only because Hou Chaozong rebuked ruan Dacheng, who was a traitor to the court, he won the admiration of Li Xiangjun in one fell swoop and became a confidant from then on.
As a female character, Li Xiangjun has obvious characteristics of the tool man written by male literati: reading Yue Fei's biography also requires yue fei's name to be circled red, Qin Juniper's name to be blackened, and even later scolded, and even desperate. She loves only Yi Anjushi's "Summer Sentences", and she worships Xiang Yu "born as a master, and died as a ghost male!" ”
It can be seen that although she has become a merchant girl, she is lonely and self-congratulatory and concerned about state affairs everywhere, she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she is not indulged in pleasure, but used to distinguish between loyal and adulterous - she also loves talents and also provokes style, but she loves sincerity and courage!
A woman, only eight buckets tall, beautiful, still need the love of a man, the simplest is to marry her home - Li Xiangjun is a prostitute, and does not escape this law, so she met Hou Chaozong, secretly admired, and soon became a family.
Feng Zhe and Wang Danfeng together can be called talented and beautiful, which cannot be more appropriate, and it is also a combination of golden boy and jade girl. At the same time, Wang Danfeng played 18 at the age of 38, which is really served!
However, Li Xiangjun's marriage has another layer of meaning than that of the average prostitute Congliang- because Hou Chaozong was a righteous man who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty, and the Chinese people all admired him. Li Xiangjun loved him, not without this reason. The chivalrous man is like a pearl in the dark night of the chaotic world, shining brightly, and Li Xiangjun loves him, naturally because he has common hobbies, ambitions, ideals and views on how to deal with him.
Qingxi is full of Xinyi trees, not as good as the east wind peach and plum flowers.
The quick-witted Hou Chaozong naturally wrote love poems, and the title on this love folding fan rendered the beautiful and strong feelings of the two people.
Li Xiangjun chose to become a good couple with Hou Chaozong and did not care whether this person had money and power. However, the shy Hou Chaozong was able to successfully marry Li Xiangjun, and Ruan Dacheng played a key role in it.
Because of his intention to bribe Hou Chaozong, he entrusted his brother Yang Longyou, who had contacts with the Fushe literati, to give Hou Chaozong three hundred taels of silver for the purpose of combing Li Xiangjun.
Hou Chaozong did not know the details, but there was no doubt that he would accept it. He met Yang Longyou Pingshui, but he easily used other people's silver, and the weakness of this scholar was actually evident from his attitude of only enjoying love and not asking where the silver came from.
Throughout the play, the couple only has such a short and sweet time, but people laugh at it.
They don't have all kinds of intimate scenes, and the two of them can see the emotions in them with only one look. Of course, the movies of the 60s did not allow intimate action.
I am thinking, perhaps "raising eyebrows together" and "foaming at each other" are only suitable for past love, unrestrained and advanced modern people just lack a trace of reticence, and the gentleness derived from the slow brewing of good feelings is the most long and delicate.
But the turning point soon came. Li Xiangjun, who was born with a bird-like face, has an ambition that can scare men.
When she heard that the silver came from Ruan Dacheng, whom she hated, she immediately took off the jewelry and shirt on her body and strongly demanded that her be returned to herself- the greatest charm of Li Xiangjun's character was that although he fell in love, he could stubbornly rule his own thoughts, understand loyalty and adultery, and would not be lost because of love, and it was this that set off Hou Chaozong as obscene and fickle.
Therefore, Hou Chaozong was immediately ashamed and speechless. About the character of Henan people is the first mouse at both ends.
Li Xiangjun's toughness and persistence were also manifested in the fact that at the critical moment when the situation was becoming more and more turbulent and deteriorating, and she needed the most care, she urged Hou Chaozong to flee with gold and silver. This does show her love for Xianggong, but it also highlights her position: always put the home country first.
When Emperor Hou was forced to bid farewell to Li Xiangjun, Ruan Dacheng took the opportunity to offer the governor Ma Shiying to buy Li Xiangjun as a concubine for another favored courtier. Li Xiangjun was sad and indignant, holding a folding fan, generously stated, and his love scene was really the peak of her acting career.
Li Xiangjun vowed not to marry and touched the table with his head—a qualified Communist Party member was no more than that.
What does Li Xiangjun say on the splash blood fan?
She is not a victim of Women's Day, but as a combination of intellectual women and famous prostitutes in Qinglou, she actively chooses to observe the National Festival, reflecting the spiritual atrophy and infidelity of the Ming Dynasty scholars!
Yang Longyou sketched out a few peach blossoms on the blood stains on the fan, and the name of the peach blossom fan originally came from this.
The character of Yang Longyou is left and right, flexible and flexible. The characters in this movie all have an old-school grace, especially Yang Longyou, who is exquisite in all sides but can stick to his position, brings out a classical China that is suspected of being lost but accidentally unearthed, and there is a moderate and elegant beauty in his interpersonal relations, which is much more interesting than the national confrontation in the second half, left and right loyalty.
Li Xiangjun held the peach blossom fan painted by Yang Longyou with his own blood, and sighed that "the peach blossom is thin, and the bottom of the fan is drifting zero", which is a thought for Hou Chaozong and an emotion for his own fate.
Hou Chaozong finally came to find Li Xiangjun, and Meixiang Lou had already been empty--Li Xiangjun was captured by Ma Shiying and used as a prostitute.
In the context of such an era, in the face of such a "tall and complete" woman, he seems to be destined to become a supporting role in the entire tragedy.
When Li Xiangjun was pulled to the Appreciation Pavilion to rehearse the play, he temporarily changed his words and learned you Zhengping to scold Cao Cao, although this paragraph in the movie sang Beikun, but the actors did not put on heavy makeup, some facial micro-expressions were really outstanding, especially "Donglin Bozhong, I know respect in the Qinglou", that slight eyebrow-raising and glaring at the adulterous courtiers, let people shoot the case and be amazed.
Playing Li Xiangjun, if there is no good literary accomplishment, the chanting and chanting of those poems and songs in the play cannot produce moving power.
Li Xiangjun scolded the traitorous minister Ma Shiying with no regard for his life, and finally his flesh was red with blood. Seeing people's hearts and minds unconsciously moving--the righteousness of the family and the country is never a rhetoric, and how many wise and weak scholars and doctors will defend with their lives? But Li Xiangjun's temper is not just lip service, she wants to scold the seat in court, even if she wants to be beaten to death, she has no fear.
Soon, the Qing army entered the customs, Ruan and Ma Canghuang fled, and Li Xiangjun took refuge in the nunnery.
The Taoist Temple is in the middle of the mountains, and the green smoke is everywhere. The chaotic world accommodates the sisters.
Li Xiangjun in the illness is still beautiful and beautiful, full of affection, light and elegant. Her beauty (Wang Danfeng's beauty) is difficult to summarize in short words, not gorgeous and unrestrained, nor high and cold, but kind and lovely.
When Hou Chaozong went to the nunnery to visit Li Xiangjun, as soon as she heard Hou Chaozong's voice, she rushed to meet him.
Next to her were her good sisters, all of whom were witnesses to the union of Li Xiangjun and Hou Chaozong.
Hou Chaozong opened the blood-stained fan, and both of them felt a thousand emotions -- who could have imagined that two people who had truly loved each other had experienced a thousand tribulations in the present world, and the deep feelings of thinking of the fan and learning from blood had finally disappeared, no matter in what social background, it could not be said that it was a tragedy!
Hou Chaozong took off his cloak, revealing a robe and a horse coat and a ruyi hat—needless to say, the anti-Qing righteous soldiers who had been just and righteous in the past had changed their clothes and defected to the Qing court.
The intellectuals in this film are portrayed very badly, not as blatantly and shamelessly as Ruan Dacheng; not as left and right as Yang Longyou; or as weak and incompetent as Hou Chaozong, who only shows courage, but is actually unearned.
This modification is no different from a thunderbolt on a sunny day for Li Xiangjun - you must not be that kind of person - I didn't expect you to be such a person!
Originally, the two met and talked, but one side suddenly changed color.
Hou Chaozong quickly explained, and like Yuan Dacheng, he found an excuse for himself to "change the dynasty and change the generation".
Chao is gone, but Xiangjun is still the original Xiangjun, and Hou Chaozong has broken his original belief. How many times in history have the "knowledge of the times" of the literati speculators after the national break been repeated, but in fact, they have reneged! And the Qinglou woman is not "virtuous" but "strong". It all stems from the fact that the hero and heroine are not the same person.
Contrasting the two, the collision of idealism and utilitarianism, the contrast between the cowardice and infirmity of the reading boy through the wind and dust prostitutes, the inherent conflict of classes is truly reflected here,
The most wonderful scene in the whole film - the love of the tearing fan - is impressive, and the use of the camera is very good.
The Tao is different and does not conspire with each other--born as a master, and death is also a ghost.
The old actor did play a sad and indignant scene to the fullest, Li Xiangjun grabbed the fan with his hand, took a look, and then resolutely tore it up, breaking off from it.
It turned out that the end of love was like this, not only ended, but also ended in such a magnificent and fierce way, and the great mockery of fate came to the face without mercy.
Li Xiangjun's strength exceeded my expectations for her - in this paragraph of great joy and great sorrow, Wang Danfeng showed rich and profound emotions, and the treatment of the soothing passage also concealed the emotional agitation of the protagonist.
The lower classes, even if they are despised prostitutes, can have affection and righteousness, talk about the great righteousness of the nation, and abandon their personal love for the sake of great righteousness. Li Xiangjun's righteous and awe-inspiring rebuke swept the ancient and modern literati who had suffered from hypochondriasis.
A lover does not eventually become a family, although I do not agree with this concept of love, but I sincerely admire her integrity.
The bright red peach blossoms fell into mud, reflecting the face of Hou Chaozong next to him, which was like earth ash.
This character may have flaws in his own personality, but such a character seems very real.
If people have their own aspirations, they cannot demand of others with their own values, nor can they test human nature. It seems that Hou Chaozong was quite wronged--although his position was not firm enough, it did not mean that he did not understand love. He was just too naïve, thinking that going with the times and making some fine-tuning on his beliefs would not affect the relationship between the two people. But that refers to ordinary people, who is he? He is Li Xiangjun's admiration for the beloved righteous soldier, so long time without showing up, really gone is gone, and then appeared, changed his clothes, changed the oil paint, how not to make people feel cold? Insisting on resisting the Qing Dynasty and martyring the country with one's own body cannot be accomplished, but on the contrary, it vividly shows what is called "empty talk to mislead the country and surrender and apostasy."
At the end of the film, Hou Chaozong was refused to leave helplessly, and Li Xiangjun, who was infinitely hurt, finally said, "Even if I borrow the water of the Xijiang River, it will be difficult to wash my face full of shame this morning", and then fainted on the ground. This is another complex mixture of disappointment and loss of love—a deep emotion that can only be felt in that era.
However, with the passage of time, slowly people can no longer even understand Li Xiangjun's arrogance and persistence of being proud and ashamed - she said that she hated him, hated that era, and did not know whether Li Xiangjun would be more disappointed and hate more in today's era.
Hou Chaozong's back when he finally descended the mountain was very lonely. The deep love and honey of the peach blossom fan together can not resist the change of time between you and me - and Hou Chaozong continue the frontier, then what she did before, this blood-stained peach blossom fan love story, has become a joke, she can not follow a cartilage of the second minister.
The children's affection was sold, and the bottom of the peach blossom fan was sent to the Southern Dynasty; unfortunately, the peach blossom fan, which was originally a legend of a generation, was torn to pieces. It is really peach blossom life thin, the bottom of the pen drifts zero.
The drama Peach Blossom Fan and the movie Peach Blossom Fan are obviously literary works with political overtones, especially this film, which was originally a nostalgic drama, and the emotional expression showed a state of harmony, but all the hard work failed to exchange for the success of the film. In 1963, when the political struggle was thick and dark, the evaluation of a film's quality was not aesthetic or entertainment standards, but political standards.
In fact, although the film itself is a bit too opposed to good and evil, it is precisely in line with the cultural atmosphere at that time, and it has the intention of pandering but bearing the name of poisonous grass, which is inexplicable and absurd.
Such far-fetched analogies can only arise in the boring game of red political struggle. Unfortunately, the fate of the male and female protagonists in real life is really sad for the fate of this movie and the main creators.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="311" > Fushe Gongzi and Qinhuai Mingyuan have now disappeared, only those poems and songs, the peach blossom fan, and these wonderful art forms will always exist. </h1>