Since ancient times, folding fans have not only been cool things, but also regarded as symbols of traditional Chinese culture. Especially on the opera stage that pays attention to "virtual" and "freehand" techniques, it can be seen everywhere, which can play an auxiliary role in the actor's body, action, personality, emotions, etc. The small fan has a lot to do.
A play named after a fan
The repertoire named Fan is the first to promote the Ming and Qing opera volumetric works "Peach Blossom Fan", which organically runs through the history of the rise and fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the love tragedy of Hou Chaozong, a member of the Fu Society, and Li Xiangjun, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai.
Kunqu opera "Peach Blossom Fan" stills ▲
The playwright Guo Qihong's adaptation of "Peach Blossom Fan" wrote a "Fan Desong" in the compromise of "Visiting Xiang":
Hou Fangyu: Xiangjun, come and see!
The fan surface is bright, and the fan bone is zhengzheng.
The face is clear and the fan is vibrant.
Li Xiangjun: The fan surface is stainless, and the fan bone has a spirit.
The face is fractured and the fan is destroyed by the wind.
Zheng Yi played the stills of "Butterfly Fragrant Chai Fan"
Fujian Min opera "Bai Di Xiang Chai Fan" is a representative play of The Fujian opera performance artist Zheng Yisheng, who is known as "Fujian Mei Lanfang", and the Yingjie he portrays in the play is delicate and sincere, the image is plump and perfect, and the influence is far-reaching.
Yue opera "Agarwood Fan" stills ▲ ▲
Shanxi Pu opera "Yin yang fan", the content of which is Bao Gongqiao's judgment of a marriage case between Zhang Dingfang and Liu Fengying; Anhui Huangmei opera "Agarwood Fan", through the iron jade, Zeng Yuhuan, peach blossom girl, apricot branch between the fan to show love, because of the fan misunderstanding, the fan became the cause of the contradiction, resulting in the love entanglement between them (them); the Peking opera "Borrowing Fan" is a fold in the play "Flame Mountain".
Peking Opera "Borrowing Fan"▲
A fan show of the trade
There are many types of fans in opera performances, including folding fans, tuan fans, feather fans, banana fans, pu fans and so on. The most commonly used is the folding fan, and the four major trades of life, dan, net and ugly have routines and techniques for performing with fans.
Danjiao fans are divided into two categories: one is the concubines in the palace, and the folding fans used by everyone are bridesmaids, such as Yang Yuhuan in "Noble Concubine Drunk", Du Liniang in "Dreaming in the Garden", Li Huiniang in Qin Cavity's "Ghost Grudge", etc.; one is the silk tuan fan, such as Huang Guiying in "Flame Foal", Cui Yingying in "West Chamber", etc.
Peking Opera "Noble Concubine Drunk" stills ▲ ▲
Kunqu opera "Garden Dreams" stills ▲ ▲
Stills of Qin Cavity's "Ghost Grudge"
Stills of Qin Cavity's "Flame Foal"
In the Xiaosheng drama, the line of "fan students" is also exclusive, and they are generally Confucian scholars who dress up as knowledgeable and polite. For example, Fu Peng in "Picking Jade Bracelet", Zhang Sheng in "The Tale of the West Chamber", etc., with a fan in hand, they are personable.
Stills of Qin Cavity's "Picking Up Jade Bracelet"
Stills of the Peking Opera "West Chamber"
Hebei Zizi "Butterfly Cup" stills ▲ ▲
In the Xusheng drama, the most used fan can be said to be Zhuge Liang. As long as there is a scene where he appears, he can't do without the goose feather fan in his hand. This not only shows Zhuge Liang's elegant and strategic image, but also reflects his various emotions. For example, in the "Baitai" fold of "Huluyu", in the face of Sima Yi's three prayers and nine knocks, he showed full of anger through the shaking, shaking, trembling, and shaking of this fan.
Stills of Qin Cavity's "Huluyu"
Stills of the Peking Opera "Lost Space"
More tune "Harvest Jiang Wei" stills ▲
The folding fan used by the big flower face of the net corner is generally slightly larger, and some characters also use extra-large folding fans that are more than two feet long, such as Yan Nian in "Zhou Ren Huifu", Gao Deng in "Yanyang Lou", and Hua Delei in "Xi Huangzhuang". Their large folding fans are painted with large peonies, which not only show the grandeur of the powerful, but also imply that they love women.
Stills of Qin Cavity's "Zhou Ren Huifu"
Stills of the Peking opera "Sunny House"
Stills of Hebei Zizi's "Zhong Kui"
The clown small flower face also has a folding fan, especially the "square scarf ugly" and "robe with ugly", the former such as Zhang Wenyuan in "Oolong Yuan", the latter such as Xu Jiujing in "The Record of Promotion". Literary ugliness is like the folding fan that Qin Cavity "Three Drops of Blood" uses softly for self-use, the line of martial ugly, and some use slightly smaller black-faced folding fans, such as Liu Lihua in "Three Forks", Zhao Fei in "Black Dingben" and so on.
Stills of Qin Cavity's "Three Drops of Blood"
Stills of Qin Cavity's "Black DingBen"
Stills of Qin Cavity's "Three Forks"
Peking opera "Oolongyuan" stills ▲ ▲
In addition to lupines and folding fans, there are also dragon and phoenix fans held by the palace women when the queen and concubines appear in court dramas. Banana fans are more common in mythological dramas, such as the iron fan princess in "Flame Mountain", Han Zhongli in "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and so on. The round broken banana fan is used by clowns, such as Ji Gong in "Zhao Jia Lou", the crazy monk in "Sweeping Qin", and Wu Yin in "Drama Fan Biography", etc., which are used to express the humor and funny of the characters.
Qin Cavity "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" stills ▲ ▲
Stills from "Eight Immortals Across the Sea"
Sichuan opera "Sweeping Qin" stills ▲
It can be seen from this that Vincent uses a fan to show his elegance, Dan Horn uses a fan to cover up his shyness, a flower face adds to its might, and a clown fan makes it more funny. The fans are freely wielded in the hands of the actors, turning the air to the air, and doing their best to add icing on the cake to the stage performing arts.
EDIT: Mingming
Review: Yang Yao
Final Judge: Wang Mei