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Preface
The curtain call on the stage and the lights are extinguished, which is both an epic and a legend.
This sentence is very suitable for both Cheng Dieyi and Leslie Cheung, how many years have passed, and that "Yu Ji" has always lived in people's memory.
A man's body becomes a woman's Jiao'e
"The little nun is twenty-eight years old, and her hair was cut off by the master in her youth, and I am a man, not a woman. ”
A sentence "I am a man, not a woman." "Let Xiaodouzi suffer a lot, and the head that was beaten by the master broke the blood.
But the weak little bean still stubbornly insists that she is a "man" rather than a "female Jiao'e".
In fact, Xiaodouzi's persistence is not wrong, what is wrong is just his situation.
Why do you have to persist despite all the suffering?
It's probably like a bottom line that one can't touch.
Xiaodouzi is a child born to a prostitute, and has been dressed as a girl by her mother since she was a child and hid in a prostitute.
After Xiaodouzi was a little older, his mother knelt and begged the theater in order to give him a way to live, but unfortunately Xiaodouzi was born with six fingers, and the theater did not accept it.
The mother ruthlessly cut off one of Xiaodouzi's fingers before the theater accepted Xiaodouzi.
The gender that has not been recognized since childhood, as well as the ruthless abandonment of her mother, makes the weak little bean have no choice.
After entering the theater, he was bullied and cursed by his peers because of his identity, and he suffered great mental torture, he endured these, but it was a major matter related to gender, Xiaodouzi couldn't bear it, he was a man, not a woman.
He made mistakes again and again, and he just refused to change his words.
In fact, this kind of "wrongness" is not really wrong, but a kind of persistence, resistance to gender misalignment.
However, the only brother who cared about him in the theater asked him to change, and he had to make a change.
After suffering several beatings, Xiaodouzi pronounced the right words and changed from a man to a "female Jiao'e".
This change also doomed him to a tragic fate.
True Yu Ji, fake overlord
Xiaodouzi, who is helpless, met the benevolent and righteous senior brother in the theater troupe, and the senior brother will not bully him and will take care of him, which makes Xiaodouzi have more attachment to the senior brother.
Since then, the two have been working together.
Xiaodouzi took the stage name Cheng Dieyi and sang Danjiao, and the senior brother took the stage name Duan Xiaolou to sing Shengjiao.
Cheng Dieyi is obsessed with drama, as if in the play, he can find his true self.
And Duan Xiaolou also sang opera, but he enjoyed the fame and fortune brought by singing and becoming famous.
The two are close and cooperate tacitly, and the song "Farewell My Concubine" has become the corner of the troupe.
In the play, Cheng Dieyi is the infatuated girl who died for love and ended up from the beginning, and her senior brother is the "overlord" in his heart.
This made Cheng Dieyi's feelings for Duan Xiaolou be interpreted freely, but obviously Duan Xiaolou did not accept it.
After Duan Xiaolou stepped down, he would change his costume, and he couldn't wait to go to the brothel to find Juxian, living a secular life that everyone envied, and Yanran didn't have the attachment of the "overlord" to "Yu Ji".
But Cheng Dieyi has repeatedly tried to protect this "overlord".
In order to keep Duan Xiaolou safe and sound, he was forced to follow Father-in-law Zhang and experienced a transformation in his life.
In fact, the part where Cheng Dieyi was taken away by Father-in-law Zhang is not only telling what happened to Cheng Dieyi, but also hinting at Cheng Dieyi's dramatic attainments.
In traditional Peking Opera, the highest state of Danjiao is that the male and female remain the same, and this plot just points out the identity of Cheng Dieyi.
Even after suffering such treatment, Duan Xiaolou did not care more about Cheng Dieyi, and he had even made the decision to marry Juxian.
When Cheng Dieyi asked Duan Xiaolou if he wanted to play the "Overlord Yu Ji" with him for a lifetime, Duan Xiaolou even said angrily: "Dieyi, you really can't live if you're not crazy, you can't live if you sing crazy, it's true, but if you want to live, you're crazy, in this world, in this mortal pile, how can we live." ”
After that, Duan Xiaolou even said: "I am a fake overlord, you are the real Yu Ji." ”
Then he shook his sleeves and left.
And Duan Xiaolou not only failed Cheng Dieyi, but also lived up to Juxian.
Ju Xian was originally the top brand of a brothel, but he was moved by Duan Xiaolou.
In order to be with Duan Xiaolou, she not only took out all her private money to the bustard, but also married Duan Xiaolou upside down.
thought it was a happy marriage, but after all, it was slapped hard by reality.
After Juxian married Duan Xiaolou, although she was poor, she was very happy.
In Juxian's consciousness, Duan Xiaolou is her "sky", as long as the "sky" is there, she is not afraid of anything.
The only thing that worries Ju Xian is that Duan Xiaolou no longer loves her and dislikes her identity.
During the Cultural Revolution, Duan Xiaolou and Juxian were both criticized, but what did Duan Xiaolou do when they were in trouble?
He shouted at Juxian: "I draw a line with him, and I resolutely divorce!"
When Juxian heard this, she was disheartened, poor and sad.
She is not afraid of fighting, not afraid of humiliation, not afraid of thousands of people stepping on thousands of people to sleep, she wants to be an ordinary wife, but she tried her best to pay by mistake after all.
Mental breakdown
After Duan Xiaolou left the drama, Cheng Dieyi put all her thoughts on the drama.
At that time, he also became a big name in the opera troupe, and he was also cultivating disciples who could inherit Peking Opera.
But his hard work was fed to the white-eyed wolf after all.
The fourth child was picked up by Cheng Dieyi, at that time, Cheng Dieyi was violated by Zhang's father-in-law, and on the way back to the drama class, the disheartened Cheng Dieyi saw the abandoned Xiaosi.
Perhaps it was fate that made Cheng Dieyi feel sympathy for Xiao Si, so he raised Xiao Si back.
After Cheng Dieyi's master passed away, Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou disbanded the troupe after wearing linen and filial piety for the master, and everyone else left, but Xiaosi did not leave, he has been following Cheng Dieyi's side, serving tea and pouring water for him, and saddle before and after the horse.
Xiao Si's actions moved Cheng Dieyi and made him Cheng Dieyi's closed disciple.
What is surprising is that Xiao Si's obedience and loyalty for so many years are all disguised.
The real-life version of the story of "The Farmer and the Snake" was actually staged on Cheng Dieyi.
The junior who has achieved success in learning and art took advantage of the gap between Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou to frame Cheng Dieyi, and after he had the power in his hands, he reformed the quintessence of the classic Peking Opera.
This made Cheng Dieyi, who made a living from drama, have no spiritual sustenance, and even the opportunity to go on stage was deprived.
The kind of "from the beginning" bosom friend that can only be found in the story of "Yu Ji and the Overlord" has been completely broken.
When Duan Xiaolou persuaded him to give in, Dieyi's sentence "How did Yu Ji die" showed his ideals and determination.
After that, Cheng Dieyi burned the clothes he relied on to survive and chose the same way to die as Yu Ji.
It can be said that Cheng Dieyi, like Yu Ji, chose to start from the beginning.
Cheng Dieyi's life is sad, but also singable and crying, his pursuit of art and his inner persistence are admirable.
If anyone can understand Dieyi's "idiot", then this person is none other than Yuan Siye.
Many people say that Yuan Siye has a deep homosexuality towards Dieyi, but these are just performances.
Strictly speaking, Yuan Siye is not obsessed with Dieyi, he is obsessed with the Peking Opera character Yu Ji played by Dieyi.
Yuan Siye once said such a sentence about Dieyi's singing skills: "Many famous artists have sung and planted in this play, and you are the only Boss Cheng's Yu Ji, enter the realm of pure love." ”
"In the world, the male body is immolar, the female body is filthy, and the Guanyin alone combines the essence of the two, and the joy is immeasurable. ”
Yuan Siye's evaluation of Cheng Dieyi shows his Peking Opera level.
After all, Yuan Siye is a big man in the pear orchard in Beijing, he has been a fan of drama since he was a child, and he was born noble, he has received a good education since he was a child, and he has a good artistic recuperation and cultural literacy.
The evaluation made from his mouth is more representative of Cheng Dieyi's drama level.
Yuan Siye regards Cheng Dieyi as a confidant of Hongchen, and it is not excluded that there is ambiguity in it, but it is more of a sympathy.
Out of pity, Yuan Siye would come to the rescue when Cheng Dieyi was arrested for traitor.
When he was in the court of the Republic of China government, Yuan Siye once again defended "Yu Ji" Dieyi, and he guarded Cheng Dieyi with practical actions.
epilogue
In "Farewell My Concubine", it is not only the story of Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou that deeply attracts people's attention, but also the changes of the times, Peking Opera culture, and the loneliness of the aristocracy that it reflects are intertwined.
used the perspective of "Shengdan and the end of the ugly" to act in a drama of "drama is like life, life into the play".
Anyone who has seen it will have mixed tastes and stirring!
But the stage is closed, the lights are extinguished, but it has become a legend!