Have there really been female ponies in history?
Recently, the classic Huangmei opera repertoire "Female Pony" has exploded on the whole network, but even without this wave of popularity, I believe that most people will not be too familiar with the scene of "Female Pony". After all, there are TV series, pop songs, and the singing voice itself is also catchy, and anyone can casually say two sentences.
But after hearing it, there are not many people who may know what a person who can casually hum two sentences about this play.
Let's talk about it today, the classic of this yellow plum drama - "Female Pony".
And women, can not be examined, and be a horse.
As we all know, the horse generally refers to the emperor's son-in-law, that is, the princess's husband.
In addition to the emperor, the sons-in-law of other imperial relatives were called county horses, county horses, yibin and the like.
Did there really ever be such a creature as a female pony in history?
Of course not.
If there is really such a thing, before you do it, just die your lover, after you do it, your lover will die!
Of course your whole family is finished. Waiting for the princess to help you intercede? Don't dream, this kind of shame, she has to move a 40-meter-long machete, and she doesn't bring a 39-meter-long one.
Even if the princess herself has this orientation, in ancient society, she will naturally not come out in public.
So how did the story of "The Female Pony" come about?
It may subvert many people's inherent cognition that the play "Female Pony" is not a traditional track, but a fold play that has only appeared in modern times.
"Female Pony" was created by Wang Zhaoqian, a famous opera writer in China after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and premiered in 1959, and the first person who performed this play was Yan Fengying, a famous Huangmei opera performance artist in China. It's only been more than 60 years.
The story blueprint of "Female Pony" mainly comes from another folding play of Huangmei Opera, "Double Rescue", also known as "Double Savior".
However, it is not a well-known play, and few people perform it.
The story is also more cheesy, probably the content is that there are such two families such as Feng and Li who have a deep friendship, and the Feng family initially mated their daughter Xu to the Li family as a daughter-in-law. However, before people had passed through the door, the Li family suffered a change, and the parents of Li Zhaoting, the son of the Li family, died, and the family became poor. The Feng family was more snobbish and forced the Li family to withdraw from marriage. However, Feng Suzhen, the daughter of the Feng family, already had feelings for Li Zhaoting, so she asked Li Gongzi to have a private meeting, but the private meeting was unexpectedly broken, Li Zhaoting was framed as a thief and sentenced to death, and Feng's father also wanted to marry Feng Suzhen to someone else. Feng Suzhen escaped from the Feng mansion overnight in order to save her lover, and then went to Beijing to take the exam with Li Zhaoting's name, and was summoned as a donkey in high school. On the wedding night, Feng Suzhen told the princess the truth, and the princess not only did not get angry but also went to the emperor. Later, the emperor not only fished Li Zhaoting out of prison, but also let Li Zhaoting make a donkey, and let the fake Li Zhaoting, that is, Feng Suzhen, make Li Zhaoting a small one.
So this listen is a down-and-out book business thing, lying in the cell in the sky can fall a princess wife, but also a married couple, a powerful and powerful one has a sentient intention, the champion has a daughter-in-law to help him take the exam, it is simply an ancient cool text.
If the author of the earliest writer of "Double Rescue" had traveled to modern times and not written dramas, but written online articles, perhaps even IP adaptations of TV series would have been filmed earlier. It's just that the plot is about to change from a fake lily to a real lily. Just think about it and stimulate.
In fact, in the traditional folk tales of our country, there are not many stories of women dressing up as men. There are not only Mulan's substitute father to join the army, but also Zhu Yingtai's love and hatred. However, women dressed as men to go to the exam, this story is fresh.
Therefore, this not-so-famous play was favored by Mr. Wang Zhaoqian and adapted into the now familiar "Female Pony".
To this day, "Female Pony" has also become a representative song of Huangmei Opera, and later transplanted to Yue Opera.
Thinking about it this way, the lyrics in the "Female Pony Horse" that everyone has been singing with the wind recently, that is, the words in Murong Xiaoxiao's song "Huangmei Opera", have a little flaw.
Yes, in fact, everyone is singing not a play, but another "love sale".
The first sentence in the song "Since I was a child, my parents have told me that Huangmei opera is not very good to sing..."
This parent who took "Female Pony" to tell you how to sing Huangmei opera depends on how old they are, considering that "Female Pony" debuted on stage in 59 years, if your parents are older, then you really can't learn this when you were a child.
However, Murong Xiaoxiao, who was born in 81, should have no problem with his parents' grade being able to teach this. But people are really Huangmei opera actors, others should not learn it.
Let's go back to another issue mentioned at the beginning.
In addition to being a donkey, another focus of this play is Kao Zhuangyuan.
As mentioned earlier, the rebellious thing of a woman dressing as a man and marrying a princess will naturally not be done by anyone.
So in ancient times, could women come out as women to take the exam?
Actually, there really is.
According to a book called "Miscellaneous Records of the Dynasty and the Wild Since Jianyan", during the reign of the Second Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, the second emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Song's adopted son Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Zhao Xuan, there was a girl named Lin Youyu who took and passed an examination called "Tong Zi Ke". She became the first recorded woman in Chinese history to take the imperial examination.
The so-called Tongzi family is one of the ancient Chinese imperial examination sequences, which has appeared as early as the Han Dynasty.
Different dynasties have different age rules for candidates for the virginity department, but listening to the name, it is basically teenagers who take this kind of examination, that is, the selection of prodigies. Those who pass will be given direct official positions.
The Tongzi family of the Song Dynasty was still very much valued by the imperial court at some times, or it was very much valued by the emperor himself.
Song Taizong, Song Shenzong, Song Gaozong, etc. have all personally tried candidates in the Child Branch.
Those who have participated in the TongZi Department have also produced many important ministers, such as the representative figures of the Song Ci Wanyue Sect, the teachers of Wang Anshi, Fan Zhongyan and others, and the generation of famous Xiang Yanshu is one of the most famous.
And this little girl named Lin Youyu can stand out among the prodigies, which shows that her talent is outstanding.
Although the title of the book sounds a bit like "Wild History", the author Li Xinchuan is a famous historian of the Southern Song Dynasty and participated in the compilation of many official revision history books, and his credibility is still very high.
There is also a corroboration that a Southern Song Dynasty official named Yu Liangneng also wrote a poem for Lin Youyu, called "Gifting prodigy Lin Gongzi Gongze Goddess Tong Youyu".
The Gongzi zī and Gongze mentioned here are two brothers of the same ethnic group of Lin Youyu, and the three of them took the examination of the tongzi department in the first year of Chunxi (1174) at the same time, and Yu Liangneng should have seen a good story of the three prodigies and wrote this poem.
The year Lin Youyu took the exam, Yu Liangneng also happened to live in this era, when he was 54 years old, when he was the mayor of Rongzhou Zhizhou, that is, a mayor in Guangxi. So the credibility is also very high.
But even if you take the exam, you have also made a reputation, and you still don't want to be an official.
Not to mention being hand-picked by the emperor and then coming out with the princess in a high profile.
It is impossible for a female leader to be a donkey, is it not very common for a male to be a donkey?
Not really.
Moreover, the matter of marrying a princess is far less than we think.
In addition, another knowledge point that may subvert everyone's inherent cognition is that even the word "donkey horse" did not refer to the emperor's son-in-law at the earliest, but an official name.
What did the word donkey refer to in the first place? How did it later become synonymous with the emperor's son-in-law?
The good story of the champion and the princess, which seems to be taken for granted in many people's perceptions, really rarely appeared in the dynasties and dynasties?
We'll continue to talk about these things in the next issue.
bibliography:
"From the < Double Savior > to the Classic Repertoire of Huangmei Opera< Female Pony > - A Comparative Study of the 8 Adaptations of the < Female Pony > of Huangmei Opera" Zhou Hui
"< Female Horse > Zhongdanjiao Character and Political Ethics" Yan Yan
"A Few Questions about the Song Dynasty Tongzi Family" Zu Hui/Zhou Jia