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Author // Liao Ben Liao Linda
Publisher // Elephant Press
Chinese have a habit: watching theater.
From ancient times to the present, from the south to the north, from the mountains and forests to the wilderness, from the countryside to the cities, from ordinary people to literati and inkers, from high-ranking officials and nobles to the royal family of the court, the five elements and eight works, the three religions and nine streams, the elite celebrities, and all the sentient beings, most of them are good at this mouth.
It is strange to say that many people are born without loving to watch dramas, and they grow up, and they may not be able to watch a play one day, Xu is listening to a voice singing, and suddenly he is fascinated. There are also people who are annoyed when they see singing when they are young, get tired when they hear the hanging of their voices, turn around when they encounter the clamor of the gongs and drums and strings, and then turn around and leave, and then they go through things, they are frustrated, they are despised by white eyes, they have experienced the ups and downs of the ditches, they have tasted the ups and downs of the countryside, they have tasted the sorrow and joy, and when they turn back to look at the play, they have heard the folk songs that they were familiar with when they were young, and for a while they have seven meats and eight vegetarians, turning over the river and pouring the sea, bitter and sour, five flavors and miscellaneous Chen, "a sound of He Manzi, two tears before the king" (Tang Zhanghu's "Palace Words"), and finally drowned in it.
As a result, the people who love drama accumulate more and more. Saving day by day, year by year, generation after generation, China has become a country that loves to watch drama.
In the early years, this was not the case, in the era of Zhou Gong and Confucius, the hard-working people had difficult years and difficulties in making a living, and only when the agricultural work was busy in one year, qingfeng engaged in the Yingshen Saishe, playing and singing to relax and relax. Later, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, and Su Shi played poetry, and suddenly turned the Tang and Song Dynasties into a country of poetry, "the boy dissolved the long hate song, and Hu'er could sing the pipa chapter" (Tang Lichen's "Hanging Bai Juyi"), "where there is well water to drink, that is, he can sing willow words" (Southern Song Dynasty Ye Mengde", "Summer Retreat"), so that poets and singers and peddlers and pawns can sing poems, so that foreign guests are envious and jealous, and the culture of the Heavenly Dynasty is rich.
Who knows that since then, the wind has changed, people have begun to favor gongs and drum strings, the Ming and Qing dynasties are everywhere on the stage, the dramatists walk and pick up the burden and take a boat to rush around, running around all day, to a place to flatten a theater box and unload, evenly face hook eyebrow powder puff ink painting, the overlord Yu Ji Lübu Sable Cicadas will appear sonorously, sing, sing your heart swaying, hot ears, singing you miserable, tearful, singing you are miserable, tearful, singing your tongue, blood veins. At that moment, thousands of people were happy with sorrow, the earth was laughing and crying in unison, and Kyushu was full of emotion!
Xiqu is a unique cultural phenomenon in China, which has been interpreted and circulated in the land of China for a long time, giving birth to the folk culture of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Therefore, the people of the country were all trapped inside.
The chinese people are stuck in the drama, is it a good thing or a bad thing? It would have been a good thing, pleasant sex, rest and relaxation, life one by one, in order to adjust the tense rhythm of life. Moreover, after watching the play, people who were illiterate also understood some tang yao yu shun, water margin three kingdoms, loyalty and righteousness, filial piety and filial piety, knew some historical and life principles, and improved their cultural level. Ordinary people also get aesthetic pleasure from the tune of the song.
The difference between people and cats, dogs, cattle, horses, pigs and sheep is that people have a desire for entertainment, aesthetic needs and spiritual pursuits, and people want to gain knowledge and insights. These can be obtained from the stage, so the Chinese context extends on the stage.
However, if you blindly indulge in emotion, immerse yourself in the drama, forget the true purpose of life, and even like the old and the young in the late Qing Dynasty, the artillery fire on the coastline cannot be heard for days, the Qing government does not do my business after cutting the land and paying compensation, and only knows to soak in the garden all day long to find happiness, then it will become the most hateful thing.
As a result, the new youth of the May Fourth New Culture Movement regarded opera as a degenerate art, and once wanted to destroy it quickly. Of course, the people's art will not be annihilated, and the Chinese cultural context will not be broken, so people have tried to explore the improvement of opera, and it has been developed until the later reform of opera, but it has achieved a lot of success, creating many new plays that people love to watch.
In any case, watching a play is the most familiar thing for Chinese.
【 Contents 】
Primer 1
SingIng 7
Drama History 35
Acting 73
Watch Drama 121
Drama class 165
Drama 203
Stage 239
Write play 269
Dou E'er Grievances 301
The Tale of the West Chamber, 311
The Book of Pipa, 329
Peony Pavilion 341
The Hall of Eternal Life, 357
Peach Blossom Fan 369
Mei Lanfang 381
Epilogue 433
【 Introduction 】
This book is led by Mr. Liao Ben, a famous researcher in the history of drama and a cultural scholar, from the history, geography, culture, folklore, art, stage performance, stage, actor's life, opera stories, famous characters, singing voice, trade, costumes, faces, vocal cavity dramas, rural music nostalgia, world communication, extraterritorial influence, artistic value, survival status and other aspects, all-round and detailed interpretation of the in-depth impact of opera on people's lives, the pace of going to the world, the difficulties of survival and the way out. By showing the culture of opera, tracing its origins, touching its bones and bones, and exploring its spirit, this book strives to mobilize people's feelings of home and country and cultural pride. Let readers feel the extension of the Chinese context on the opera stage.
Chinese opera | there is a play here