Mei Lanfang's Memoirs: Journey to the East (XVII)

Kyoto Premiere "Kisokai"

Kyoto is an ancient city with a long history of extremely developed literature and art, and I used to stage Kunlu operas such as "Sifan" here, which was welcomed by the literary and art circles. This time we only had two days to stay, and I played two night scenes in three scenes. The first night's program is the same as the opening ceremony in Tokyo, and the second night is "Thief Immortal Grass", "Autumn River", "Yandang Mountain" and "Odd Double Meeting". "Odd Double Meeting" is a blowing cavity, and in our traditional program, it is extremely refined and dramatic. I have made many changes over the years. This time, after several discussions with Mr. Ouyang Lao and Mr. Jiang Miaoxiang, I made some necessary minor changes in terms of lines and performances, including the "Writing Form", we deleted a paragraph of Confession - the original script when Guizhi said her name, Zhao Pet left her position to the stage, there is the following paragraph of confession:

Zhao: Ah, madame, the subordinate officer remembered a matter of concern.

Gui: What's on your mind?

Zhao: When my wife and I were married,

Gui: Mid-Autumn Festival in August.

Zhao: In the mid-autumn of August, it is the fragrance of osmanthus flowers on the occasion of the autumn wind! Incense pours incense, but some are not expensive.

Gui: Which ones are not expensive?

Zhao: Madame's order is obedient, that is, these children are not expensive.

Gui: Xianggong you have a mouth to talk about others, not to talk about yourself, you can remember the time when you came to my house to surrender that year, and it was also the situation of waiting.

Zhao: Each other,

Katsura: Same.

We feel that this seems to be blindly funny, too far from the topic, and at the same time, in the previous dialogue, the atmosphere of boudoir laughter is enough, although the end of this play is the comedy finale, but at this critical juncture of writing, Zhao Pet has no need to make another gag. Therefore, with everyone's consent, I went to this dialogue.

I have a little concern about the performance of this play, because the story content is complex, especially some plots, which rely on lyrics, repetitions and retrospectives to explain, I am afraid that the audience is not easy to understand. On June 28, the premiere of "Odd Double Meeting" was held in Kyoto's Minamiza, and the mood in the audience was very enthusiastic, and the applause and applause places were also in line. From the time guizhi and Li Qi met in "Crying Prison", the audience can concentrate on appreciating it, and Guizhi's heartfelt cry of saving his father when writing the form, as well as the boudoir laughter after Zhao Pet agreed to write the letter, and the silly appearance of Zhao Pet when pulling three times, can resonate with the audience. In short, Japanese audiences' appreciation of classical Chinese theatrical art is acceptable and interested. A few days later, Mr. Okazaki Toshio, a reporter from the Asahi Shimbun who wrote a commentary on the drama, asked me: "I am very satisfied with watching "Odd Double Meeting", because I can understand it, and I can't understand it a little, why does Zhao Pet not know his wife's name until the time of writing the letter?" I replied with a smile: "This question is not only incomprehensible to Japanese friends, but there are also many young viewers in China who have written to me to ask me, in fact, in the old days of China, it was extremely common for husbands not to know their wives' names." Needless to say, when I was young, the names of my family relatives such as grandmother, aunt, and aunt were easily not mentioned. Of course, between husband and wife, after all, will know. Zhao Pet and Gui Zhi are newly married couples who have recently married, so it is natural to take the opportunity to write a complaint and ask her name. In China, some people once advised me to revise this dialogue, but I did not do it according to their opinions, and I felt that there was nothing wrong with letting the current young people know about the living habits of some ancient people through drama. ”

Lake Biwa yachts

Although there were only a few short stops in Kyoto, the members of the delegation were deeply impressed: the streets there were straight, and the names of the roads were two, three, and five... The architecture of the houses of ordinary citizens is quaint and simple, and almost every street can see an ancient temple hidden deep in the dense woods, and we can also smell a quiet and calm atmosphere of cultural life. These impressions have many similarities with our city of Beijing, so when we are about to leave this ancient city, we cannot help but feel sorry for each other.

On the day of departure, we collectively took an airboat tour of Lake Biwa, a famous scenic spot where I used to visit. The lake is shaped like a lute, hence the name. There are eight views of Xiaoxiang and eight views of Lake Biwa in China. A Japanese friend pointed to the island in the center of the lake and said, "This is Takeshi Island, and there is a place dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva on it." There is a beautiful folk legend: Guanyin is good at playing the pipa, hoping to touch the hearts of the wicked, but the bad people in the world are indifferent, she sadly threw the pipa on the ground, tears like rain, fell on the strings of the pipa, suddenly thunder and lightning, overnight, it became this beautiful Lake Biwa. ”

The steamboat sailed to the heart of the vast lake, and everyone looked around on the deck, feeling refreshed and the heat was gone. The actors of the delegation took this opportunity to learn the body and pronunciation from the Japanese teachers who were invited to teach the "Noh" and "Kyogen" dances, and two of them recited the lines aloud, and the Japanese friends could not stop nodding their heads, which meant that they had learned a little bit. The deacons on the ship prepared a note to ask Mr. Ouyang Yuqian to take a commemorative note, and Mr. Ouyang moved the poem to the lake and the mountains, and a person wrote a pen in the cabin and wrote it to them.

I read the Asahi Shimbun on a wicker chair on the deck, which had Mr. Yoshikawa Kojiro's Chinese poem: "The Absolute Sentence of the Nanza Theater". Mr. Yoshikawa is a professor at Kyoto University and a well-known sinologist, and he is very deep in the kung fu of the Northern and Southern Operas, and the recently published "Notes on the YuanQu "Han Palace Autumn" has attracted the attention of chinese experts in the study of classical opera. Before I went to Japan this time, Mr. Fu Xihua asked me to buy this book. His poems are several poems, japanese and Chinese contrast, each with a Japanese annotation underneath, and after returning home, he asked a friend to translate it and introduce it to the reader.

Gongs and drums sing around the beams, repeat the three islands to ask the vicissitudes,

The people of China are clean and clear, and a hundred flowers and flowers are blooming.

Without hearing the sound of gongs and drums for a long time, Mei Lanfang, the head of the regiment, far away from Japan, more than thirty years. In the meantime, the three islands have experienced the Songhai, while mainland China has seen the sky. Chairman Mao Zedong's great theory of "a hundred flowers blooming, pushing out the old and bringing out the new" is also seen in the innovation of Peking Opera.

The song went through the clouds that day, and the old dream Xuannan could still be recruited,

The Copper Di kanmo people are not old, and the envy of the emperor is getting more and more roundabout.

Yu Shiguan Mei's "Roselle" drama, in a theater outside the Xuanwu Gate in Beijing, has been twenty years ago, around the Liang Yuyun, still remember Weicheng. And the world changes like a dream. Mei Shi came here, his demeanor did not diminish that year, and he believed that he was a person outside the sixties?

As in the Tang Dynasty, the fish lying cup is also good at the scene,

The lotus step was particularly bold, and poor Fei Yan was drunk with incense.

Mei's "Noble Concubine Drunk", and how the ancient dance of the Tang Dynasty, is unknown, but such as "lying fish", "hanging hands", "cup", "drunken step", all kinds of postures, people are fascinated by Li Taibai's clear tone "poor Feiyan leaning on the new clothes" and "Agarwood Pavilion leaning on the railing dry" also.

From the beginning of the hundred plays Han Kyo Neng, Pingzi was endowed with the Foot Sign,

Shoki extends the years after the people, jumping pills squandered and soared.

Ouyang Yuqian's deputy regimental commander Yun, the source of martial arts opera is from the Han Dynasty Hundred Plays, Zhang Pingzi's "Xijing Fu" has reached it, but Li Shaochun's "Three Forks", leaping and colorful, li Yannian's Miao descendants.

Good thing that year remember Pin Mei, Dongshan tombstone longberry moss,

The Zhenyuan dynasty withered away, and the Chen Daoist sentence was cut.

Taisho's first visit to Japan in the eighth year of the Taisho era. Scholars and celebrities from Naito Hunan, Kano Junzan, Hamada Qingling and Kyoto competed for the text of the opera, which was compiled by the Huibundo Bookstore for the publication of "Pin Mei Ji". After the death of the old owner of HuiwenTang, it was taken over by Chen Daoren, and this time he was also a guest of the South Seat Theater, and he did not review whether he could inherit his predecessors and publish the PinMei album again?