From February 1, 2022 (the first day of the Lunar New Year), it enters the Year of the Nongyin, that is, the "Year of the Tiger". "Year of the Tiger" to say "Tiger Drama", there is a lot of fun. The tiger is the familiar "king of the beasts", commonly known as the "tiger". Tigers have two major characteristics, one is brave and powerful; the other is to be fierce and hurt people, and to harm one side.
Xiqu is an artistic reflection of social life, in a variety of traditional plays, and the repertoire related to "tiger", according to my limited knowledge of opera, I also know that there are thirty or forty, and most of the people embedded with the word "tiger" in the title of the play are mostly. This type of drama is divided into 4 situations: First, the word "tiger" is embedded in the title of the play for place names, such as "Crouching Tiger Pass", "Tiger Prison Pass", "Sanjiang YueHu City", "Muhu Guan", "Evil Tiger Village", "Duhu Camp", "Tiger Hill Mountain", "Tiger Howling Mountain", "White Tiger Pass", and "White Tiger Hall". The second is used as props, such as "Jade Tiger Fall", "Dragon Tiger Jade", "Tiger Head Card", "Tiger Wolf Bomb", "Tiger Rune Saves Zhao" and so on. The third is to make personal names or metaphors, such as "Chopping Bear Tiger", "Rouge Tiger", "Five Tigers Pingxi", "Dragon and Tiger Fighting" and so on. The fourth refers to real tigers, such as "Flying Tiger Mountain", "Divine Tiger Newspaper", "Wusong Fighting Tiger", "Tiger Milk Flying Immortal Biography", "Tiger Hunting" and so on.
Gai Call Tian"Wusong Fighting Tiger"
Li Shaochun,"Wusong Fighting Tiger"
Place names, props, and people's names have the word "tiger" in the word "tiger", "tiger" is just a "symbol". The most interesting thing is the appearance of the "real tiger" (called "tiger shape") in the play. The repertoire of "real tigers" ("tiger shapes") generally uses "tigers" as pests. The audience is most familiar with "Wusong Fighting Tiger" is a famous Song Dynasty story play. The storyline of this play is very simple, mainly to watch the martial arts performances during the "fighting tiger". The 23rd time in the "Biography of Water Xu" writes that Jingyang Gang Wusong beat the tiger, writing: "That big worm takes people, just a swoop, a lift, a cut." When the three generalities cannot be lifted, the qi nature first loses half of itself. The section on Wu Song's "Fighting the Tiger" on the stage must be accurately expressed in accordance with the depiction in the novel, and the "one swoop, one lift, one cut" of the "tiger shape" must be accurately expressed, and Wu Song fights with it according to these three levels, which is quite exquisite and full of life.
In this play, it is generally a short-form martial artist dressed as a martial artist. In the early years, the famous Zhang Ruiyun and Chen Guibao were very famous as Wu Song, and the subsequent Gai Mingtian and Li Wanchun dressed as Wu Song were even more popular. Gai Called Tiantian learned art since childhood, deep skill, and was well-known in the north and south, he was a famous short-strike martial artist in the Peking Opera circle, known for acting in "Wusong Opera". He played "Fighting Tiger", and the flip and fall of "Tiger Shape" was exquisite and became a classic of the performance of "Wusong Fighting Tiger". Chen Yi once wrote a poem praising Gai As "Yanbei is really good, Jiangnan is alive and loose".
Duan Zhaonan's painting "Eliminating the Three Evils"
There is also a situation, although the title of the play does not have the word "tiger", but there are real tigers ("tiger shaped") in the plot, such as "Removing the Three Harms" and "Pauline Lantern".
In "Removing the Three Pests", Zhou Chu had courage when he was young, ran rampant in the countryside, did no evil, and was called "Three Pests" by people at the time, along with the Nanshan Tiger and the Long Bridge Jiao. Later, under the teachings of an old man (Yixing Taishou Wang Jun disguised), he converted to evil and righteousness. In the play, he sang: "Man who is not kind is a beast, like a tiger falling into a pit." I was originally a man with blood, why is it fiercer than a beast. First he removed one of his own "harms", and then, he went up to the mountains to fight tigers and went down to the sea to kill jiao, and then removed two "harms". Later, he also became a high official. In this play, "Tiger" is an indispensable "person in the play".
As for the "Pauline Lantern" in which Agarwood is on the way to save his mother from splitting the mountain, he smells the tiger roaring in the mountain forest, and bravely and witfully catches and eats the tiger ("tiger shaped") that "slides" down from the "mountain", which is more real and interesting. The famous opera performance artist Pei Yanling dressed as Agarwood, unique in the theater world, when catching a tiger ("tiger-shaped"), she shouted "I will swallow it" with rhyme, which made the audience stunned.
Peking Opera "Wise Tiger Mountain"
Peking Opera "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Troupe"
There is also no shortage of "tigers" in modern dramas, which are also described as enemies and bad people. For example, at the beginning of the "Accept the Task" of "Red Lantern", which reflects the theme of the War of Resistance, Grandma Li sang "Xipi Scattered Board" to "Original": "People who fish can withstand strong winds and waves, and those who hunt even tigers, leopards and jackals." Look how long you can be in the dark, the flames of the revolution must shine brightly! The "tiger, leopard, and jackal" here refers to the Japanese invaders and traitorous lackeys. Another example is the "Determination plan" of the People's Liberation Army's "Wise Tiger Mountain" that showed the People's Liberation Army's deep mountains and bandits during the Liberation War, and the chief of staff calmly sang "The Second Yellow Guide Plate" in the opening ceremony, "Shuo Wind Blows Lin Tao Roaring Canyon Concussion", turning [Huilong], "Looking at the flying snow dancing in the sky, the majestic bushes and mountains wearing silver clothing, a good northern scenery", and then turning [slow board] "The mountains and rivers are magnificent, thousands of weather, how to tolerate tigers going to wolves to be traumatized again!" The "tiger" here refers to the Japanese invaders, and the "wolf" refers to the reactionaries in the United States and Chiang Kai-shek. In the same drama "Fighting the Tiger on the Mountain", Yang Zirong sang the "Guide Plate" song "Through the Forest And Sea Across the Snow And The Qi Rushing Xiao Han" after the "guide plate" turned into a multi-layout singing voice, he listened to the distant tiger roar, he pulled the horse off the field and then spun on the field, pulled out the gun, twisted the "spinner", appeared, alertly observed the tiger's movements, turned around to hide under the tree, aimed at the timing, fired several shots in a row, and the tiger suddenly cried out and died. Although the audience only heard the roar of the tiger and did not see the "tiger shape", this scene paved the way for Yang Zirong to be a bandit without fear of hardships and dangers. (Author/Shi Jie)
The Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger is coming
First of all, I wish all my friends a happy Chinese New Year
At the same time, we invite everyone to join us
"Year of the Tiger" Talk about "Tiger Drama"
There is a "tiger" in the play
The title of the play has "Tiger"
The lyrics contain "tiger"
Everything you've seen and heard
I've even heard it said
Even if it has a little relationship with the "tiger"
Hurry up and leave a message to share with you
Today we should first take a scene
Arrange a paragraph for everyone
"Tiger's Mouth" in "Three Drops of Blood"
Zhou Tianyou Jia Lian Xiang Hukou bonded
I wish you all good things in pairs
Chen Miaohua & Quan Qiaomin", "Tiger Mouth Edge"
Editor/Liu Jun Review/Yan Wei Final Review/He Jun