"Ming GongJuan", also known as "The Case of Gongmei" and "Qin Xianglian", its script originated from the northern Wuzi drama, and there are also transplants of the repertoire in Peking Opera, especially represented by Cheng Pai.
The story of "Ming GongJue" is widely circulated in the folk, telling the story of the Northern Song Dynasty, Bao Zheng was not afraid of power, enforced the law like a mountain, brought Chen Shimei, the horse master, to justice, and beheaded under the dragon head.
The bridge section of "Han Qi sacrificing her life for righteousness" in the play takes place in the fold of "Killing the Temple", saying that Chen Shimei, the husband of the heroine Qin Xianglian, entered Beijing to take the exam, and after three years, there was no news. When there was a catastrophe in the land of Huguang in his hometown, he was hungry, and his in-laws were starved to death one after another, and Xianglian cut her hair and changed her reeds to bury her parents, and she took a pair of children to beg for thousands of miles and went to Beijing to find a husband.
In the capital, Qin Shicai was shocked to learn that her husband had already been in high school and recruited as a donkey, so he broke into the horse house to recognize her husband. Who expected that in order to enjoy the glory, Chen Shimei ruthlessly abandoned his virtuous wife, abandoned his own children, and drove them out.
Helplessly, the mother and son had no food, clothing, and poverty, and lived in a broken temple. And that's not all, Chen Shimei actually sent his confidant Han Qi to track him down to the temple, intending to kill the three qin mothers and sons. When Qin Xianglian cried to Han Qi about her tragic situation, Han Qi listened to it and felt great pity and sympathy for him, and finally decided to let Xianglian's mother and son leave quickly to escape. But Han Qi felt that he could not go back and could not make a difference, so he drew his sword and killed himself.
Since it is a rambling conversation, the editor saw the Pu opera version of "Ming Gong Judgment", so it is necessary to briefly talk about pu opera.
Pu opera is a very old drama in China's opera Hundred Flowers Garden, and it is also the hometown drama of the editor. She originated in the area of Puzhou (present-day Yongji City, Shanxi Province) in southern Jin, formed in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and has a history of more than 500 years, also known as "Puzhou Zizi", "Random Bomb", etc., is the first of the "Four Great Zizi" in Shanxi, known as the "Originator of the Cavity", was listed as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, popular in jinnan, western Henan and northwest and other parts of the region. It is characterized by impassioned, bright rhythm, high and urgent cavity, and the performance style is both rough and bold, but also elegant and delicate, especially good at showing the character plot and the fierce contradictions and conflicts of "loyalty, filial piety, chivalry, righteousness" and other contents, which are well received by the local people.
According to the design of the plot, the first half of the whole play belongs to the first half of the whole play, not the climactic scene of the second half of the whole play, such as "Ten Complaints" and "Three Faces" and other important plays. But why can it be picked out separately as a folding play? And it is also loved by the majority of audience friends, and can still perform on the stage for a long time?
The editors believe that there are two main factors that have made this classic repertoire.
<h1>On the one hand, it's because of two "good". One is that the plot is well designed, and the other is that the actors perform well. </h1>
The performance in front of the head is more flat and straightforward, and the waves are not alarming. With the development of the plot, when Chen Shimei assigned Han Qi to result in the lives of the three Qin mothers and sons, this should be the first big contradiction flashpoint in the whole drama. When Han Qi entered the temple and interrogated the other party's name and surname, oh! It turned out that this person was the enemy that his master Chen Qima wanted to kill and then quickly killed, so without saying a word, he raised his sword and committed murder. In the entanglement of the four people on both sides, sometimes there was narration, sometimes there was dialogue, after Qin's details, Han Qi knew that he was aiding and abetting abuse, helping Chen Shimei, who was ruthless and unrighteous, inferior to animals, to kill innocents indiscriminately, almost causing an irreparable mistake.
Now that I know the truth and the ins and outs of the matter, the question is also coming, that is, what should I do now? On the one hand, the mother and son of the Qin clan, who were almost in a desperate situation, cried bitterly, and they were burdened with a major grievance and could not be extended, which really taught people to sympathize with it and was really pitiful, but they still chased after the lives of others; On one side is the pony master who has the grace of knowing him and is also threatening. To kill or not to kill? In the face of this situation, the protagonist really has ten thousand contradictions in his heart, and there are ten thousand contradictions! Kill it, sorry for your conscience; Don't kill it, the knife edge of the donkey horse master should be tested red, and he can't go back to make a difference, and his family is still hostage in the hands of the horse master! The design of this plot is really ups and downs, gripping.
When Han Qi killed himself, Qin Shi held the blood stained with Han Yishi and the steel knife marked "used by the Horse House" as iron evidence of the murder of Chen Shimei' master to block the way, which was two of the ten major crimes against Chen Shimei in the future: one was to kill his wife and kill his son and lose Tianliang; Eryue Li forced Han Qi temple to lose his life, which also provided a powerful evidence for Bao Zheng's anger against Chen Shimei, and in the end, it was the heavenly path that showed and justice was upheld.
The second is that the fold of "Killing the Temple" can also best show the basic skills of an excellent actor, especially the two professions of Xu Sheng and Qing Yi, Han Qi belongs to the Xu Sheng (Sheng Jiao) industry in the play, and Qin Xianglian is the Qing Yi (Dan Horn) industry. The middle also contains a large section of singing cavity, Confession, fighting and other performance programs and scenes, requiring actors to bring lyrics in the fight, there is dialogue in the singing cavity, in addition to the expression of the characters' thoughts and feelings, psychological activities of the Danjiao Qingyi "Water Sleeve Gong", the "stand up and fall back" and other stunt performances in the horn line, these are very testing of a Pu opera actor's "singing, reading, doing, fighting" and other basic skills, only with such a solid foundation, as well as the unique enthusiasm of Pu opera, the cavity is high and urgent, such as the blessing of the singing voice of crying, It is only when people appreciate it that people feel that they are full of breath and the aftersound is around the beams, so that there is a strong resonance between the audience and the actors on the stage.
Now, take the character of Han Qi as the starting point, dig a little, to explore some things that people are accustomed to, or even turn a blind eye to, and eat with the kings.
In the play, Han Qi, as a small character, ended his young life in an extreme way of self-destruction. Although he died, he fell into the word "righteousness", the "righteousness" of sacrificing himself for righteousness. So what is "righteousness"? How should this word "righteousness" be interpreted? The editor believes that the word "righteousness" here should be understood in accordance with the meaning of "justice or moral norms, as the foundation of a person's character and the ethical principle of dealing with the world, to be just and appropriate" to understand it.
As a low-level military attaché, Han Qi should not have read many books, and his education level is not very high, even if he has read a little book, but it is definitely 18,000 miles worse than the cultural level of the people's horse Zhuangyuan Gong, and it is not in a grade at all. But it was such a small person who did not recognize many words and did not have a high level of education, but he made such a shocking and chivalrous act, and people could not help but ask in their hearts, what was Han Qi doing this for?
The reason is that although he is a low-level small person, he can still adhere to the truth and justice, distinguish between right and wrong, keep the bottom line of his own life, and do not fear the powerful, to help the more vulnerable Qin, extremely compassionate, in order to achieve the goal of "righteousness" in his heart, even at the expense of giving up his precious life.
In the earlier agrarian society, opera, as a form of cultural and artistic expression, was mostly used to punish evil and promote good, purify the social atmosphere, and have the merit of indoctrination, most of its content originated from real life, and then after successive generations of artists continued to process and temper, and finally formed today's classic repertoire.
Only by examining and understanding it with the eyes of history, chewing on the slow taste, will be suddenly clear.
In connection with reality, from ancient times to the present, one after another, batch after batch of benevolent people, they
In order to pursue the truth, we will personally uphold morality and ethics, and we will not hesitate to throw our heads and spill our blood.
Distant such as Qi Taishi's Jane, Jin Donghu's Pen, Tang Yangaoqing's Broken Tongue, Song Wen Tianxiang's Righteousness, etc.; In recent times, there are heroic deeds such as Deng Shichang, Zhao Yiman, Yang Jingyu, Zhao Shangzhi, Dong Cunrui, Huang Jiguang, etc., and there are many more.
Although they all sacrificed the "small self", they eventually achieved the "big me", and they were all characters who were "majestic in the qi and survived in eternity", and their names went down in history, so that the latecomers Jing Xing Weixian, they died worthwhile, and they died where they deserved.
Therefore, as early as two thousand years ago, Tai Shi Gong said: "Man is inherently dead, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than Hong Mao, and the use of what is different," the ancient saying.
Undoubtedly, the death of the "Han Qi" must belong to the former. This is not a great irony and ruthless flogging of those "Chen Donkeys" who are full of poetry and books, who are morally upright, and who have been taught by the so-called saints since childhood!
Isn't this the epitome of the character of our great nation?
It is precisely because of the thousands of "Han Qi" who uphold justice, adhere to the bottom line, are not afraid of power, and are righteous, that our great nation, which has lasted for five thousand years and has never stopped living, has the character traits of being righteous and awe-inspiring, sympathizing with the weak, opposing the powerful, and not afraid of bullying, and always maintaining a long-term prosperity, always standing among the nations of the world, which is rare in the world. These are all things that are carved into the bones.
At the end, as a ticket holder, I used a picture of the stage as the closing remarks of this chapter:
The community is safe and comes to the stage to see the end
The honor and disgrace of life often go to the play to ask from