The film "Three Phoenixes Seeking Phoenix" was filmed in 1962, a costume comedy directed by Zhu Shilin, with Zhu Hong, Gao Yuan, Wang Xiaoyan and others participating in the performance. The play tells the love story of a talented woman who took place in the Ming Dynasty. The plot is tortuous, tightly paced, and has a beautiful soundtrack. Although the aesthetics of that era were still curious about the story, some were contrived, but the director's grasp of the rhythm, the portrayal of the characters, and the arrangement of the entire film layout were much purer than the commercial blockbusters that are now full of silver screens. In particular, the film is on the character portrayal, implicit but not revealed, each character is rich and three-dimensional, flesh and blood soul are present, giving people a rich imagination space. At present, the play is still active on the theatrical stage, which can be described as enduring and newer.
The main plot of the allusion is: Xu Wenxiu, the Ming Dynasty Xieyuan, met Cai Lanying by chance, and the two sides fell in love at first sight. After Lan Ying returned to Yangzhou, Xu Wenxiu inquired and learned, and also arrived in Yangzhou. Coincidentally, Cai's mother wanted to hire a book boy for Lan Ying's brother, Xu Wenxiu disguised himself and went to Cai's house to be a book boy, and helped Lan Ying's unlearned brother to write poems and deal with the teacher. Because the teacher praised his homework, the brother went to his sister to brag, Lan Ying did not believe that he suddenly had literary talent, and he had a pair of dreams, and the brother ran to the study to find Wen Xiu to help, and Wen Xiu asked for help. Lan Ying instructed Her Sister Cuizhu to follow her brother, and was discovered by Cuizhu that the book boy was writing articles for her brother, and suspected that he was the student who played Feng QiuHuang for Miss Feng a few days ago. Lan Ying personally went to the study to meet Wen Xiu, and suddenly his brother returned to the study, wen Xiu, as a cover for Miss, lied that he had come to sleep, and was beaten by Lan Ying's brother with a jade spoon, and Lan Ying quietly shed tears.
Lady Li made a matchmaker for Chang Yifan, the son of Chang Taishou, to marry Lan Ying, lan Ying said that she was ill and did not go to Lady Li's house with her mother, at the same time, realizing that her mother might have to arrange marriage for herself, she was busy looking for Cuizhu, made an appointment with Wenxiu to his attic, and arranged for Cuizhu to watch downstairs. The two agreed to use the gold and jade as a souvenir, and privately decided to live forever. It just so happened that Lan Ying's brother passed downstairs, and when he was entangled with Cuizhu, he found that there was a sound upstairs, and he must go to see it, but Cuizhu had been blocking, just as Cai's mother passed by, suspicious, and went upstairs together, resulting in Wenxiu being found by Cai's mother. In order to avoid the ugliness of the family, Cai Mu blasted her brother downstairs. After reprimanding Wenxiu, he immediately rushed to Lady Li's place, and accepted a pair of pearl earrings from Chang Yifan as a dowry gift, and gave Yifan a jade bracelet.
Lan Ying did not escape from the disguised scholar, and then lan ying's package was stolen at the pavilion, just happened to visit Yushi Lu Chaolong passing by, learned that Lan Ying's package was stolen, and the family had no relatives, took Lan Ying with him to Beijing, and accepted it as a righteous son, named Lu Ying. Wen Xiu, Yi Fan, and Lu Ying participated in the examination held in Beijing and won the first prize, the eye and the tanhua respectively. The chief examiner, Cai Shangshu, the father of Lan Ying, was dazed and did not recognize Lu Ying as his daughter, but instead planned to recruit Lu Ying as his son-in-law. Cai Shangshu and Lu Yushi have always been good friends, personally going to Lu's house and saying peace, Lu Yushi agreed for Lu Ying. Cai Shangshu gave Lu Ying a pair of gold and jade medals as proof. Later, Wenying also came to the Lu family, and it happened that Yushi sent Cai Shangshu out. Lan Ying received Wen Xiu, and his words tested his heart for himself. After Wen Xiu learned that Cai Shangshu had given Lan Yingxu to Lu Ying, he begged Lu Ying to give way to him, and when he was pestering, Yi Fan happened to come over and wanted to resign with them and go to Yangzhou to marry Lan Ying.
When Wen Xiu learned of this, he was surprised and quietly looked at them to marry before them. So the 3 flower palanquins went to Cai Mansion together to greet their relatives. Mother Cai did not dare to let Shangshu know that her daughter had left home, only to say that Lan Ying was ill, and insisted on recruiting a concubine, the parents argued, and the three people also argued with each other, and all showed their respective relics. Lu Yushi also rushed to the Cai family and was entrusted by Cai Shangshu to help deal with the dispute over the kiss. In fact, they didn't know that Lu Yushi came this time to help Lan Ying marry his sweetheart. Lu Yushi ruled that Lan Ying, that is, Miss, should make her own decision and let Lan Ying come out, and Mother Cai was in a hurry to let Cuizhu dress as a young lady, and held up a red flower behind the bead curtain to indicate which one to marry, and let Cuizhu definitely point to Yi Fan. As a result, Cuizhu did not lift Lu Ying nor did he raise an example, but held up Wen Xiu. Cai's mother angrily called Cuizhu out, and found that it was her own daughter, and it turned out that Lu Ying took the opportunity to leave and replace Cuizhu. Lovers eventually become dependents.
"Three Phoenixes Seeking Phoenix", classical Chinese humor, may now seem like a farce to young people, but it is still quite funny. If you take a moment to cross into the frame of a stage play, you may get another taste that has been missing for a long time. Comedy, and "lovers eventually become dependents", the feelings of the ancients, are still worth savoring and learning. (Text/Cai Si reading history Picture/From the Internet)