Recently, I watched Ye Guangqian's Jingweier novel "Zhuangyuan Media", the story starts from the Peking Opera "Zhuangyuan Media", and is cleverly connected with Beijing Opera, which is very interesting to read. This book also aroused the interest of the editor to watch the play "Zhuangyuan Media", so he found Peking Opera and Qin Cavity "Zhuangyuan Media" respectively.
This look made me a little confused: the same Cheshire Lord, but the dress is different. There are those who wear large phoenix crowns, those who wear two phoenix crowns (large bridges, large beams, and half phoenix crowns), and those who wear costume buildings, and so on! This sparked a strong interest in me as a "true lover". So how should the Cheshire Lord in "Champion Media" dress up? Which actor is the most reasonable to wear? To understand this problem, we must first understand these helmets.
Ming · Empress Xiaojing's phoenix crown
The phoenix crown on the stage is derived from the phoenix crown of the Empress of the Ming Dynasty, but our clever predecessor artists have refined and created the phoenix crown in life, blurring the specific dynasty and emphasizing the artistic effect. The unique "three no distinctions" (regardless of dynasty, region, and season) of opera costumes can not only make the viewer clear at a glance, but also save a lot of money.
Let's get back to the point and talk about the phoenix crown. The crown usually refers to the large phoenix crown, the front hat is fan-shaped, and there is a large phoenix in the middle of the brain, with a beaded spike in the mouth, short in the middle and long on both sides. The two sides of the phoenix and the left and right hanging ears are decorated with partial phoenixes and three-dimensional phoenixes, full of light beads and trembling whiskers, phoenix tail ears hang tassels (the queen's phoenix crown hangs yellow silk spikes, other noble ladies or brides can hang pink or various colored silk spikes) hanging tags, there are baffles behind the crown to hang ears, the bottom end hangs a large row of spikes, and the back of the head hugs and hangs the rear spikes. It is a large crown used in the play to play the queen, princess or official lady in the marriage. The crown of the great phoenix is divided into five crowns, three crowns, butterfly crowns, and hundred butterfly crowns.
Due to the level on the stage, in addition to the "big phoenix crown", there are also lower grade "half phoenix crowns" (two phoenix crowns, big bridges, big over beams). The semicircle of the large bridge is like an arch bridge, worn on the top of the head, and the crown has a double phoenix beam, and the large baffle of the emerald butterfly is hung. Decorated with a bit of cuili phoenix or pearl phoenix, phoenix mouth bead drops, hanging next to the row of spikes or flower basket spikes, for concubines and princesses.
Since there is a big bridge, of course, there is a small bridge, and the identity of the person worn by the two kinds of headdress is very different. The small bridge is also called the poor female beam, embellished with pompoms and spikes, which are used by palace women and must not be worn by mistake.
In the Peking Opera "Zhuangyuan Media", the cheshire lord wears a palace robe in the front and a big phoenix crown in the last one. It is said that cheshire lords have always dressed up in this way in this play, but the color of the python is used as a green python, which is different from the color used by other royals.
Stills from the Peking Opera "Yuanyuan Media"
And we have several ways of wearing the Qin Cavity: we see in the performance materials of many old artists that most of them wear erfeng.
In the star version of "Champion Media" in the 1990s, the Cheshire Lord in the play used a costume building. It is said that this is the product of a reform of the Qin Cavity to the Qin Dynasty. We won't explain too much.
Some actors, like Peking Opera, use large phoenix crowns.
Zhang Lili Cheshire Lord stills
In order to find out what the identity of Cheshire Lord should be worn, we consulted several professionals and veteran theater fans. Several explanations were also given on how the Big Phoenix and the Second Phoenix were used.
1 Da Feng said
Wang Yan, an outstanding young makeup artist in Qin Province, Tang Rongrong, an outstanding young makeup artist in Xi'an Sanyi Society, and Wang Jiahao, an outstanding young makeup artist, believe that Dafeng should be worn. They believe that the big phoenix is used by royal women in formal occasions, and the second phoenix is worn at home. Teacher Tang Rongrong believes that what to wear also depends on wearing a python or a palace coat, and if you wear a python, you must match it with a big phoenix. Wearing palace clothes is to match the two phoenixes. For example, Sun Shangxiang wore Dafeng in "Book Hall Marriage", and wore Erfeng in "Breaking into the New House".
2 Erfeng said
Xiao Yuling Cheshire Lord stills
Sanyi Society Chang Yufang Cheshire Lord stills
Xi'an Yi Folk Society Huang Chaoyang and Zhao Xiaoliang teachers, drama fans Fan Yichen, Qin Han believe that Erfeng should be worn. They believe that the Cheshire Lord is the lord of the county, whose identity is still lower than that of the queen and princess, and the story takes place in the camp, and it is not appropriate to use the big phoenix when fleeing. Here, Xiao Meng also helped us search the Internet for an article titled "The Great Bridge and the Erfeng" in Mr. Feng Zhimo's 1943 "Drama Spring and Autumn", which mentioned that the empress had a public hat and a civilian hat. The queen's official dress is a python and a phoenix crown, and the beanie is a bridge, which is a thing second to the phoenix crown. It is common for concubines to wear it, shaped like a bridge... The name is "Big Bridge", to distinguish it from "Small Bridge" (small bridge is brought by palace women)... However, the name of "crossing the bridge" is incomprehensible, and the name of this object in Qin Cavity is "Erfeng", and princesses in addition to concubines also wear it. Such as junrui of "Hitting the Golden Branch", Shangxiang of "Back to Jingzhou", and Cheshire Lord of "Yuanyuan Media". Its meaning is second only to that of "Phoenix Crown". I remember chatting with Qi Rushanjun when I was in the old Capital, talking about the word "Erfeng". If the mountain is a treasure, it is gratifying to have the name and application of this object.
3 identities say
In the interview, we also collected a saying: whether Dai Dafeng or Erfeng depends on the identity of the characters on the stage, if there is only one female character, such as only one royal woman in the Cheshire Lord in "Zhuangyuan Media", then you can wear Dafeng, which is a cultural identity symbol. But if there is a higher grade than her, there must be a difference, for example, in "Chopping Qin Ying", Concubine Zhan can only wear Erfeng, because there are empresses and princesses on the same stage!
Stills from "Chopping Qin Ying"
I don't know if anyone will read this article and say that we are nitpicking: "What does it matter what you wear and what you wear?" As long as the play is well performed, watching the play is the actor's four skills and five methods rather than what to wear..." Seriously, every time I see such a message, I will feel sad, the forest on the stage is always the embodiment and crystallization of the artistic wisdom of the previous generations of artists, long-term stage practice and national aesthetics and the formation of the synthesis, virtuality and procedural nature of Chinese opera art, this exquisite refinement and sublimation, resulting in an unparalleled convincing freehand beauty! It is these characteristics that give opera the life and unique charm of art and can continue to move forward. I would like to borrow a sentence from Wang Jiahao, a young makeup artist after the 90s: "There are few things left of the old ancestors, and we need to actively work hard to rescue, protect and inherit"!
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