The Peking Opera "Five Flower Cave" is an absurd and bizarre divine and strange play, and the artists usually do not perform much. Although its content is absurd, the cast arrangement is ingenious. For example, if the protagonist Pan Jinlian is copied by a goblin on the road, you can arrange several, you can arrange one true and one fake two Pan Jinlian, you can also arrange four Pan Jinlian, of course, there are more arrangements.
In the past, it was generally one true and one false, two true and two false. Mr. Mei Lanfang later found that this was unreasonable, and he had different opinions on the old acting method, so he said something like this: "In the past, Pan Jinlian was two truths and two falses, which was not very reasonable, there should really be only one, and no matter how many others there were, they should be fake." ”
From Mr. Mei's analysis of the characters of this play, it can be seen that he has thought about it, and his treatment in this way is also more reasonable and in line with the actual situation.
Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang
In 1946, mei lanfang and Cheng Yanqiu, two of the most outstanding Danjiao masters of that era, gathered in Shanghai. Because the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had just ended, the government at that time also contacted many artists and performed a lot of big volunteer plays. There was a volunteer play that was led by President Jiang's wife, Soong Mei-ling. She explicitly asked Mei Cheng to cooperate with the two masters, and called out the play "Five Flowers Cave" by name.
Cheng Yanqiu, as a disciple of Mei Lanfang, since his fame has become more and more famous, he is actually not very impressed with his teacher from his heart, of course, people with ability are also proud, this can also be understood, but the superficial respect is still there.
Mei Lanfang and Cheng Yanqiu
Because this play usually does not play, you have to go to the play, but let Cheng Yanqiu personally go to Mei Lanfang's home, it seems that Cheng Yanqiu still feels quite humiliated, so he sent his newly acquired apprentice Zhao Rongchen, to run on both sides, to Mr. Mei's home to listen to opinions, and then come back to report, now that I think about it, I think they don't know what to think, Chinese this face seems to be reflected in all aspects.
So Hu Rongchen ran over and passed on the words of the two of them. In fact, it is a waste of time, but it is that style, here it is still Cheng Yanqiu stingy, but this is also a personal personality, not easy to change.
They discussed and discussed, and there was a disagreement on two issues, the first question, the problem of the scene, whose violinist was used for the accompaniment? Of course, Mr. Mei wants to use his violinist Xu Lanyuan Wang Shaoqing, and Mr. Cheng also wants to use his violinist Zhou Changhua, which is not easy to coordinate. Later, Mr. Mei said: "Let Xu Lanyuan and Wang Shaoqing take it down with their hands, don't change it, chaos." The words passed back to Mr. Cheng, who was a little unhappy, paused for a moment, and finally said: "Then try to talk about it." ”
Mei Lanfang and his pianist Xu Lanyuan (right) Wang Shaoqing
The second problem is their dress code. Because Cheng Yanqiu is very fat, he doesn't want to use the traditional old-fashioned dress, which makes him fatter, so he wants to change, how to change it? Mr. Cheng wanted to dig two holes in the sides of the pleats so that the waist towel passed through the middle, tied in front of the pleats, and tied in the pleats behind. This way it doesn't look waist-thick.
Zhao Rongchen, a little runner, passed the words back to Mei Mansion, and Mr. Mei was not happy when he heard it, and Mr. Mei said curtly: "The fourth elder really has a set, I can't rely on him on this matter, how ugly this appearance is, he can be so tied, casually, I can't manage it, I can't do that." ”
Young Mr. Zhao Rongchen
The result became two appearances, Mr. Mei and his apprentice Yang Yunong still came according to the old appearance, Mr. Cheng and his apprentice Zhao Rongchen, according to Mr. Cheng's own way of getting it, but Mr. Cheng looked thin like that, Zhao Rongchen himself is not fat, and he does not know what it looks like, and today we can't imagine it.
Finally, after several back-and-forth consultations, today it was the same as the negotiation, and finally it was discussed, Mr. Mei took his newly acquired apprentice Yang Yunong, Mr. Cheng took his newly acquired apprentice Zhao Rongchen, and four people came to perform a play of "Four Or Five Flower Caves". Mr. Mei plays the real Pan Jinlian, Mr. Cheng and Yang Qinong, and Zhao Rongchen plays the fake Pan Jinlian.
Peking Opera Six Famous Dan co-starred in "Six Five Flower Cave"
This drama is sensational in Shanghai! The great obligatory play "Four Five Flower Cave", cooperated by mei lanfang cheng yanqiu, two of the most famous peking opera danjiao masters, finally performed on the Shanghai Tian toad Grand Stage from June 1 to 3, 1946, and it is said that a ticket price ranged from 2,000 to 30,000 yuan, but the play was very exciting, and the Tian toad stage was also crowded with water and full of pits and valleys. The actors are Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, Yang Qinong, and Zhao Rongchen, playing the real and false four Pan Jinlian, Ma Lianliang playing Zhang Tianshi, Ma Fulu playing Hu Dacang, Yuan Shihai playing Bao Zheng, Jiangnan famous ugly businessman Si Liang and others playing the real and false four Wu Dalang, and Li Jinhong playing the goblin who started to fight later. This performance had a great impact, and there was a headline news in "Declaration" that "Old Plum with Xiaomei, Old Cheng with Xiaocheng", which became a good story.
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