Traditional Peking Opera "Dragon Play Phoenix"

Event time: 19:30 on June 11

Venue: Yantai Peking Opera Theater

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"Dragon Play Phoenix" also known as "Meilong Town" is a well-known Peking Opera child's play, in the Qing Dynasty Shengping Bureau Drama Book Archives this play is called "Drama Phoenix", played by Hua Dan and Xu Sheng, it can be understood that the Zhengde Emperor is the dragon, And Li Fengjie is the phoenix. In the Peking Opera circle, basically all Danjiao actors and Xusheng actors have performed this play, which can be regarded as an enlightenment play. The most famous is master Mei Lanfang, master Yu Shuyan and master Ma Lianliang and master Zhang Junqiu, and in 1949, it was made into a multicolored movie starring Master Ma Lianliang and Master Zhang Junqiu.

The most popular excerpt of "Dragon Play Phoenix" is "Xipi Flowing Water" "The Moon Bends and Bends to Illuminate the World", which is familiar to Peking Opera fans. The drama is mainly about the Zhengde Emperor's micro-service outing, who came to Meilong Town to stay at Li Long's guest house. Li went out because of the incident and entrusted his sister Feng Jie to take care of it. The Zhengde Emperor saw that Sister Feng was beautiful and took the opportunity to flirt. Sister Feng wanted to refuse, and she was afraid of angering the visitors, so she had to ignore it. The Zhengde Emperor was helpless and revealed the role of the dragon robe he wore, and Sister Feng was shocked to see it, so she knelt down to ask for the story of the seal.

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