The True Story of Orchid FlowerWhen it comes to northern Shaanxi folk songs, people first think of "Orchid Flower" and other excellent folk songs. Orchid Flower" is a very touching anti-feudal love song, and is one of the most widely circulated and exemplary works of northern Shaanxi folk songs. This beautiful folk song, sung from the 1930s to today, has been loved by several generations of Chinese people, and has been a household name for a long time. Orchid Flower Flower" is based on a true story of love and tragedy in Linzhen, Yan'an.
Orchid Flower Flower, formerly known as Ji Yanling, nicknamed Ye Ye, was born in 1919 in Linzhen Street, Nanchuan, Yan'an, a peasant family. She grew up from a young age, long handsome, to twelve or sixteen years of age has been out of the right water, pavilion, such as a lotus flower, like the rain after the Malanja as a favorite, people gave her a nickname code called "Orchid Flower". There is a soldier in the Red Army, he and the orchid flowers at first sight, secretly love each other, vowed to live and die with each other for life, and soon the two will have a relationship. Because the Red Army was ordered to cross the Shanxi East, the Red Army soldiers had to say goodbye to Orchid Flower for the time being.
Lan Hua Hua's parents thought their daughter had corrupted their own style, so they asked the matchmaker to marry the 17-year-old Lan Hua Hua to Ren Xiaoxi, the youngest son of Ren Laowu, a rich family in the backstreets of Linzhen, and Lan Hua Hua refused to do so, and was forced by her parents to carry her into Ren's home under the pressure of the blowing of fine beatings. Ren Xiaoxi ate, drank, whored and gambled, and was later executed for robbery and murder in Yichuan. The next year, Lan Hua Hua was forced by her parents to marry a rich family surnamed Shi in Linzhen. Shijiazhi family's boy was born very ugly, full of marijuana, he fell in love with the beauty of orchid flowers, not hesitate to spend money to buy orchid flowers to his wife. Orchid flower in the stone family suffered a lot, she misses her Red Army lover. Because of the spirit of too much bitterness, finally in the first month of the month of 1942 died of illness, died at the age of 24, leaving a woman and a man two children.
Red Army soldiers returned to Shaanbei after the victory of the Eastern Campaign, learned that the orchid flower was forced to marry, very sad, but afraid of bringing trouble to the orchid flower, so did not dare to visit the orchid flower, only the bitter in their hearts. Later heard the death of orchid flowers, grief, a sick. In the hospital treatment, he secretly conceived the song of nostalgia for Orchid Flower. After being discharged from the hospital, he happened to be transferred to the solid Lin County (now Yan'an City, Linzhen) as a clerk in the Department of Literature and Education. He was soon transferred to the elementary school in Guilin County as the director of teaching. He also thought about orchid flowers, so he compiled the orchid flower song he made up when he was hospitalized (all 84 lines long), and changed Ren's family to Zhou's family. Teaching students dolls and villagers sang and recited. Orchid Blossom Flower" was soon sung in Gulin, Yan'an, Yichuan, Suide and other places. Later collected and organized by Yan'an Lu Yi music workers, quickly spread throughout the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border area and the north and south of the Yangtze River. After the liberation of the country, it was sung throughout the new China and also spread overseas.
Folk Song "Orchid Flower" A traditional folk song of Shaanxi. In simple, vivid, sharp and powerful language, it enthusiastically glorifies a rebellious woman of the feudal era -- Blue Flower. This good girl, known as the smartest and most beautiful in the world, was forced to marry a "monkey old man" of the Zhou family, who was "like a grave". However, Blue Flower did not give in, and in order to pursue happiness, she risked her life and firmly resisted feudalism. The folk song is sung in a beautiful, smooth, open and powerful Xin Tian You tune, and absorbs the narrative technique, using the form of a sectional song to y express the content of the lyrics and successfully portray the image of Blue Flower. The lyrics of this excellent traditional folk song with a strong spirit of resistance have been varied in circulation, and singers such as Guo Lanying, Wang Kun, Li Bo, Liu Yanping and others usually sing eight stanzas. It has been adapted into a solo piano piece and a large-scale opera. Green line line (that) blue line line, blue geyingying (of) color, gave birth to an orchid flower, solid love death.
In the five grains (that) field seedling, counting on the sorghum high, thirteen provinces of the daughter (yo), counting (that) orchid flower flower good.
The first month of the year is the month of matchmaking, the second month is the month of booking, the third month is the month of payment, the fourth month is the month of welcoming.
Three groups of people blew, two groups of people hit, leaving my brother in love behind, carried into the Zhou family. Orchid Flower I got off the sedan chair, looked east and west, and saw the Zhou family's monkey old man, as if a tomb.
You want to die to you early death, in the morning you die to the morning I Lan Hua Hua go.
With the lamb in my hand and the cake in my bosom, I ran to my brother's house with my life on the line.
When I saw my brother in love, I couldn't stop talking about him, and the two of us have been together ever since.
Opera "Lan Huahua"
Chinese Name: Lan Huahua
Foreign Name: Lan Huahua
Category: Ballet Performer: The Central Ballet Company
Creator Choreographer: Shu Junjun. Composer: Liu Tingyu. Choreographer: Zheng Yueyang (set). Li Keyu, Zhou Feng (costumes), Zhang Fengtong (lighting).
Performers: Main Cast: Wang Shan and Peng Dan (as Orchid Flower A and B), Xu Gang and Wang Quanxing (as Yang Wuguo A and B), Song Sum Sum (as Landlord's Wife), Li Fengqi (as Landlord's Son). Orchestra: Central Ballet Orchestra. Conductor: Hu Bingxu.
Performance history : The play was adapted and created according to the intention of the famous Shaanxi folk song "Orchid Flower". It was performed in the 1989 New Talent and New Work Competition organized by the Arts Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, and won the First Prize for Outstanding Creation, and the lead actors Wang Shan and Xu Gang were awarded the Outstanding Performance Prize.
Reviews: The ballet "Orchid Flower" is a new exploration of the use of Western ballet art forms to express the image of Chinese people. The whole drama is complete in structure and fresh in style, integrating ballet, Chinese folk dance and modern dance into one, and is a beautiful folk song-like work. Shu Junjun's exploration is fully supported by the new ballet talent Wang Shan. In the third scene, the modern dance movement of Orchid Flower struggling and crawling with Yang Fifth Brother before her poisoning and death is combined with the ballet duet to show the disillusionment of love and the desire for life. Wang Shan's portrayal of this rural girl from northern Shaanxi, who is brave enough to resist the evil forces of feudalism and endeavors to pursue pure love, is rich in passion and poetry, and is a tear-jerker. Some viewers cried once they watched it. Director: Li Keng
Playwright: Chang He
Genre: Fine Arts
Region: Mainland China
Production House: Beijing Science Education Film Studio
Photography: Zhang Xueguo
Recording: Xu Qizhen
Composer: Wang Fujian
Art Designer: Xun Dong Zhongxun
Background Designer: Xun Dong Zhongxun p>Backdrop Designer: Xun Dong Zhongxun
Movement Designer: Li Geng, Yang Dengyun, Dai Shengying