"White Snake" appreciation: Demons are also affectionate when they are human

Although he did not create a genre of bullet words, he was able to sing the traditional genre with new ideas and unique style, Zhu Huizhen also.

Zhu Huizhen

　　Zhu Huizhen was born in 1921 in Suzhou Artists' Home, learned to sing Su Tan since childhood, learned to play lyrics at the age of 15, privately shu predecessor artists Jiang Ruting and Zhu Jiesheng played and sang "Yu Tune", and pipa learned from Zhou Yunrui. She sang "Yu Tune" rounded and sweet, lingering pity, and at the age of 17 won the reputation of "Golden Voice" with the opening of a "Yu Tune". In 1954, he partnered with the famous lyricist Jiang Yuequan to perform "Jade Dragonfly" and "White Snake" all over Jiangnan. According to legend, there are 90 recordings of "Jade Dragonfly" performed by Jiang and Zhu, but the author has only heard Jiang and Zhu's "Jade Dragonfly" 6 times, and the "White Snake" spoken by the two has 18 times, from "swimming in the lake" and "saying kisses" all the way to "He bowl" and "weeping tower".

　　"White Snake", also known as "The Legend of the Righteous Demon", was first performed by Qing Jiaqing artists Chen Yuqian and Yu Xiushan. In the nineteenth year of Guangxu, there was a lithographic copy of the Shanghai Bookstore "West Lake Edge", which talked about the cultivation of white snakes into essences, named Bai Suzhen; The two beauties met Xu Xian, a pharmacy partner, in the West Lake, and had a love affair with the same boat, and Xiao Qing acted as a matchmaker, and became a relative that night. Bai Suzhen gave two silver ingots to Xu Xian, but it was unexpectedly the silver stolen from Qiantang County, so Xu Xian distributed it to Suzhou. Wang Yongchang, the owner of Dashengtang, saw that Xu Xian was extraordinary in appearance and skilled, and kept it to the pharmacy. Later, funded by Bai Suzhen, Xu Xian opened another Baohetang Pharmacy. The Dragon Boat Festival is the day to drive away the five poisons, Xu Xian mistakenly thinks that his wife is suffering from wind and cold, and persuades him to take xionghuang wine, and the white snake appears, scaring Xu Xian to death. Bai Suzhen loved her husband and went up to the Kunlun Mountains to steal the immortal grass, save Xu Xian, and forge a snake to dispel doubts. When the Maoshan Daoist priest saw Xu Xian, he said that he had a demon qi and put into the spirit rune, and Bai Suzhen defeated the Maoshan Daoist. Xu Xian moved Baohetang to Zhenjiang, and the abbot of Jinshan Temple, Fahai, lured Xu Xian into the temple and told Qing and Bai liren that they were demons. Xu Xian was afraid and entered the monastery as a monk. Bai Suzhen went to the Golden Mountain Temple to plead with the Fahai, but the Fahai would not allow it, and Bai and Qing cast the Fa, and the water flooded the Golden Mountain. After Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing retreated to the West Lake Broken Bridge, they met Xu Xian, xiao Qing angrily rebuked Xu Xian, and Xu Xian was remorseful. Because Bai Suzhen was pregnant, she was waiting to give birth at Xu Xian's sister's house. After Bai Suzhen gave birth to the Dream Jiao, he was used by Fahai to use a golden bowl to settle under the Leifeng Pagoda. Nineteen years later, after dreaming of Jiao Zhongyuan to the Leifeng Pagoda to sacrifice his mother, just when Bai Suzhen was out of the tower, his parents and children were reunited.

　　In the play, there are wonderful books such as "Dashengtang", "Duanyang", "Rogue Immortal Grass", "Broken Bridge", "Hebao", "Weeping Pagoda" and so on. Yang Renlin, known as the "Snake King", said "White Snake", which was later sorted out by Chen Lingxi, and "White Snake" was the most wonderful with Jiang Yuequan and Zhu Huizhen. Jiang's grace and generosity, mellow charm and euphemisms of Zhu Huizhen's "Yu tone" are beautiful, idyllic and elegant, which can be described as a combination of pearls. Zhu Huizhen's slow Yu tune is dignified and generous, full of flexibility, and gradually retracts when it is gentle, as if bypassing countless bends, sounding soothing and relaxed, and the aftersound is around the beam. Zhu Huizhen sang the female Jiang tune eternal and gentle, such as "Shoutang Singing Song", "Knife Society", "Crying Agarwood", and then like her singing "Broken Bridge", using a few small Yang tones, it sounds like a different taste.

　　"White Snake" writes throughout Bai Suzhen's tender affection for Xu Xian, considerate and meticulous, she inadvertently scared Xu Xian to death, in order to save Lang Jun's life, sacrificed her body Kunlun to steal immortal grass and fight with her life. Bai Suzhen went to Jinshan to plead with Fahai for a while, endured humiliation and burden, sincerely and sincerely, and moved people's hearts. Even if it is a demon, the love is as deep as the sea and more charming.

　　Zhu Huizhen also left behind popular bullet words to open "Palace Grievances" and "Si Fan". "Palace Grievances", also known as the "opening of Tang poems", has countless singers, but the first of the best is none other than Zhu Huizhen. The first two sentences are Wang Changling's sentence "The night of the West Palace is quiet and fragrant, and the spring hates the bead curtain is long", helpless, jumping on the paper. Later, when Gao Lishi played The Tang Ming Emperor stayed at the Zhaoyang Palace, Yang Guifei sighed to herself: "Even left the slave aside" and "short sighs and long tears" in two lines. Instead, he sang "Cold pillow, cool pillow, a round of bright moon on the palace wall", and loneliness and sorrow blended between the lines. Singing directly to "the king was originally a thin lover, it is better to marry a merry man", which makes people sigh. The sentence returns to Bai Juyi's poem: "Ziwei flower to Ziwei Lang", which is really endless. Such exquisite words, gently chanted and sung by Zhu Huizhen, wouldn't it make people indulge in them and have a thousand thoughts. (Cao Zhengwen)