During the National Day, I watched "Tang Xianzu and the Four Dreams of Linchuan" at the Fuzhou Grand Theater. The performance method of this play adopts the form of "crossing" and "play within a play", extends and expands the plot inside and outside the play, and skillfully combines the author's life experience, creative process and ideological process with his drama. Waking up is a dream, a dream is waking, and it is both true and illusory.
"Always wet the clothes of love and tears", Tang Xianzu's life - for the love of the willing, "dream" left in the world.
As we all know, the famous opera composer Tang Xianzu, known as the "Shakespeare of China", wrote "Four Dreams of Linchuan", and among them, the Peony Pavilion was the most important. As the writer said: "Four dreams in a lifetime, the only place to be proud is in "Peony". ”
The love in "Peony Pavilion" is strong and pure, so that "life can die, death can live", after "Peony Pavilion", no matter ancient or modern, there is no work to write that love can reach such a peak, and the purity and intensity of love shown in "Peony Pavilion" are still an unattainable peak in love writing.
"Peony Pavilion" is based on the Ming dynasty novel "Du Li Niang Mu Se Returns the Soul" and so on. Du Liniang, the daughter of Nan'an Taishou Du Bao, was inspired by the "Poetry Classic, Guan Ju", took the maid Chun Xiang to the garden privately to relieve boredom, hurt the spring and slept, met with the scholar Liu Mengmei in the dream, woke up and searched for a dream, and ended up depressed. Three years later, Mengmei went to Beijing to take the exam, stayed in the garden where Du Liniang's cemetery was located, found Li Niang's self-portrait, deeply admired, and met li niang's ghost. Liu Mengmei dug a grave and opened the coffin, Li Niang came back from the dead, and the two married and went to Lin'an. Unexpectedly, Mengmei's coffin digging incident was discovered by Du Liniang's teacher Chen Zhiliang, and Chen went to Huai'an Du Bao to report it. When jin soldiers invaded the south, Du Bao was trapped. After Liu Mengmei took the test, she went to Huai'an to tell Li Niang that she had survived and was detained by Du Bao. After Jin Bing retreated, the exam list was sent to Liu Mengmei, and Du Baojian should not allow the two to marry, forcing them to divorce. In the end, it was decided by the emperor that Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei finally became a happy marriage.
"Peony Pavilion" has a strong romantic color, and the author expresses the contradiction between ideal and reality through fantasy. Emotional depictions are sincere, delicate and unrestrained. The language of the works is brilliant and colorful, and the music is beautiful and moving. Through this seemingly strange and mysterious story, Tang Xianzu vigorously promoted Du Liniang's sincere feelings of "a lifelong hobby is natural", and effectively impacted the decadent concept of "saving heavenly reason and destroying human desires" of the theorists.
Along with the aftersound of "Peony Pavilion", it seems like a dream, and the whole artistic conception is pushed to the extreme in the gardens of Jiangnan. "The warbler wants to speak, and sees the spring as promised", "A few curves of the PingShan exhibition, the depth of the eyebrows." Haggard non-caring moon sleep sluggish, can cherish the flowers, towards the courtyard? Suddenly, dreams began to fall in love, and the daughter's heart was not clear. Sleepless night the lights went out, and the plum fragrance could not be changed to wake up. Yesterday's occasional spring trip, who saw the dream. Silk and hope, such as encounters in peace. Sitting alone and thinking, I feel sorry for myself. "Hate the west wind, a moment of gratuitous crushing green destroys red." "It can be said that the full of sorrow pours out, and the mottled colors in it also give people a great visual and psychological impact."
Beautiful and splendid words, portraying a character image that is tender as water. First look at nian bai "gallery gold powder half scattered, pool hall moss a green. Stepping on the grass is afraid of mud new embroidered socks, cherishing flowers and hurting small golden bells. If you don't go to the garden, how do you know that spring is as promised!" Listen to the singing section again, "It turns out that Zi Yan is red all over the place, and it seems that all of them are paid with the broken well." Good day beautiful scenery, enjoy the pleasure of whose yard!"" Morning Twilight Roll, Yunxia Cuixuan; Rain and wind flakes, smoke waves painting boats - Jinping people look at this Shao Guang cheap!" Listen to the dream again: "Dreams return to the warbler, chaotic years of light." Ren Li Xiao Ting Deep Courtyard. Burn away the smoke, throw away the embroidery thread, and feel like last year this spring? Xiao Lai looked at the broken plum off, plain makeup. You are holding the Bun of Yi Chun on your side. The cut is constant, the rational is still chaotic, and the stuffiness is unprovoked. The flower warbler swallow has been instructed to borrow spring to see. "Everywhere the scenery is a love language."
Li Niang's voice for the desire for love is mostly expressed in quite beautiful words. Such as "Spring heart everywhere flying." Flowers are like people's hearts. "Flowers, flowers, and grasses are loved by people, and life and death follow people's wishes, and they are sour and bitter and no one complains." It speaks of all the misery, helplessness and expectation in my heart. What a pity man!
However, in the whole "Peony Pavilion", it is definitely the most bold expression for the woman at that time. "Broken intestines spring color in the brow bend, Qian who is near the distant mountain?" Row hate stacks, cowardly clothes list, flower branches red tear bombs. Shu makeup rain painting is difficult, high Tang cloud shadow. ”
Of course, people often appreciate the beauty and delicacy of Tang Xianzu's words, in fact, his artistic achievements are far more than that. In the handling of dramatic conflicts, character confessions, detailed descriptions, etc., it makes people shoot cases. Moreover, in the performance, the author's pen is here and the intention is the other, and the true intention of his writing this play is mainly to portray Du Liniang, who looks like a bystander. Compared with Chun Xiang, she was just making a fuss and making a clever fuss.
Therefore, Fuzhou Tang Xianzu Grand Theater respects the original work without being rigid, dares to be new and not out of line, better handles the dialectical relationship between ancient and modern, shape and god, elegance and custom, mobilizes a variety of artistic means and modern packaging techniques such as guidance, table, sound, dance, beauty, lighting, effects, etc., and displays the classical beauty, human beauty and human beauty of "Peony Pavilion" so brilliantly! Dazzling, stunning, and becoming a beautiful scenery on the opera stage. This is not just a revival of a masterpiece, but a new choice, a transcendent return, a discovery, a creation. On the new opera stage: the love flows in the dream, the sex stretches in the dream, and the life burns in the dream. The gentleness, sweetness, happiness and freedom of dreams form a sharp and strong contrast with the coldness, bitterness, pain and repression of reality. Virtual and real, real and illusory, confused and trance. The integration of reality and romance should be the supreme state pursued by all art forms.