Listening to such a mournful and lingering miserable and sad singing voice, your eyes will certainly appear in front of the image of a woman dressed in elegant clothes, gently moving lotus steps, come in style. At least, it should be a woman, tall, dignified face, clear voice, twisting and turning, walked by.
In fact, it is not, such a singing voice, from the mouth of a pure man. He is Saul, a dry and thin figure, a dry and clean clothes, a dry and crisp faction, a dry and crisp style. When he walks up to you and takes a good look at him, you would never associate the singing you just heard with him. Because he was still smoking a cigarette, and his mouth would be rambling and complaining about something. When he left, his every move was a bit womanly. The figure, indeed, was light-handed and a bit squirmy.
"Fake mother-in-law" is the initial name people call him, the reason is that he does things to speak and work a little feminine. I like to cook, and later became the village on the red and white wedding ceremony of the high rate of appearances of the chef. He could knit sweaters, and the patterns he prepared were so unique that they became styles that many young daughters-in-law competed with. When she speaks, she is often slow and gentle, but sometimes she rambles and speaks fast. False mother-in-law call, with a certain degree of derogatory rejection or even mockery, but Saul does not think. He did what he had to do, as if the title had nothing to do with him.
His skin is rough from years of work in the fields, but a little more delicate than the average man's, and a little darker than a woman's. His eyes are long and thin, but he has the ability to look at a woman's face with a sense of humor. A pair of slender eyes, but not so willing to open wide, light black eyebrows long and thin a little upward. The hair, though now neatly combed, was a little gray. These are the kind of footnotes that people who live in the same village as him can associate with him and opera singing.
He also does what men do, marrying and raising children. His daughter-in-law is a stout and sturdy rural women, work in the field into the kitchen cooking, washing clothes clean up housework, all can afford to put down. Saul smoking and drinking, the voice is still clear and loud, Saul eat meat parboiled noodles, the body is still thin and long. Business orchard, he can prune branches digging fertilizer, spraying herbicide thinning between the fruit bag picking. Planting crops, he can also yell oxen plowed the land and shake the sow sow sowing, cutting wheat and threshing field to break corn. Of course, he also likes to do housework, sweeping and wiping the table, laundry and furniture, burn the bed and repair the TV. All of this, men and women's work, he did, the only difference is that to do these, he will sing the Qinqiang opera while doing the side singing, at least will also be humming out some of the song card to.
Because he loves to sing opera, especially like Qingyi role. The guillotine beauty case in the abandoned by Chen Shimei Qin Xianglian, "Catch the slope", "visit the kiln" in the cold kiln of Wang Baochuan, "Three Women Teach Their Children" Wang Chun'e, "Four Yin book" Zhao Yue'e, "Pipa on the road" Zhao Wu Niang, etc., these very tragic role makes him particularly fond of obsession. He could recite the lyrics of the roles backwards and forwards, and even knew almost all the parts of the roles in the original opera by heart. These, often the village people quite surprised.
Saul, who is a little younger than me, has the same poor and troubled background as me. The family has many sisters, three brothers, two sisters, he is the youngest. The first thing I'd like to say is that I'm not sure I've ever seen his father, but I'm sure I've seen his father's father. His mother died when he was about seven or eight years old. He followed his elder brother and sister-in-law, and then stumbled and stumbled into adulthood. My eldest nephew was about the same age as him, two years old. When we were in elementary school, the Cultural Revolution ended and the ban on traditional opera was lifted. So the village began to rehearse the opera on New Year's Day, especially on New Year's Day, playing social fires, rehearsing the Qinqiang, beating the drums, the village once dead atmosphere became active and lively. I remember the winter vacation, a bunch of us kids had no place to play, so we went to watch the people in the publicity team rehearsal.
The location of the theater was in the Crouch yard. This is the bottom of the village frame plate Zhuangzi, wide yard, facing five kilns, the middle kiln is the night actors rehearsal place. During the daytime, usually in the courtyard, the site is large enough to rehearse the whole play. During the winter holidays, the village folks have nothing to do, so just rehearsing a play, the hew yard is filled with many people to see it. Older theatergoers would hum along with the high-pitched banhu. We didn't know anything about it, but we were so curious and amused that we went to watch it all day long. At night, the space inside the kiln was too small, so basically no one was allowed to watch. The propaganda leader even drove us away with a long wooden bar. Later, three or five children stayed in the kiln to watch the theater, because Saul's brother was a board player. I then enjoyed preferential treatment with a few of Saul's. At first, I lay down outside the window to watch, but later, when I was shivering from the cold, I pushed the door in secretly with a salivating face. In the winter night, the bone-chilling wind, thinly clad, we froze to the snot long flow. Seeing that we were so pitiful, the propaganda captain stopped rushing us. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
Thinking about this, perhaps Saul initially accepted the enlightenment of the opera. Because often watch the rehearsal, so a lot of folds of the opera sings the whole plot of the play we know by heart. Three drops of blood, guillotine-guillotine case, the flaming pony, Mu Guiying hanging marshal, we can tell about eight or nine times, the folded opera is even more head of the road, the lyrics can be memorized word for word. Saul, is one of the most obsessed. Every night, when the rehearsal finished, close to twelve o'clock at midnight, we step on the broken moonlight home, the stars in the sky accompanied by our bumpy footsteps, although the night is quiet and all the music is silent, the north wind whistling and sometimes snow flurries, but the satisfaction of our hearts that kind of joy makes us happy and can not stop. Saul also began to play some children's roles in the theater, such as Qin Xianglian searching for Chen Shimei when the child with.
After graduating from junior high school, Saul didn't go back to school and went home to help his older brother. However, from then on, even if it was hard and tiring, his love for Qinqiang was unquenchable. Perhaps because he grew up without parents, or because he took on the burden of life too early for his age, or because some of the characters in the opera were similar to his own experience, Saul gradually fell in love with these tragic female characters. Collecting opera books and memorizing the lyrics were his favorite things to do when he was not working. Until he got married, and still does. Later, after he separated from his elder brother, he got married and had children, and his family's conditions slowly improved, and the first home appliance he bought was a record player. Because of following the tape, he could practice those famous Qinqiang singers over and over again. He was also one of the first people in the village to buy a TV set, and from then on, the weekly Shaanxi station's regular program, Sound of Qin, became the exclusive Friday show for him, the head of the family. He listened and watched and learned to sing along. At the end of a Sound of Qin, the first topic of conversation with the village the next day was that last night's folded opera was so enjoyable, and then there was the thinly-voiced qingyi singing that echoed over the village. People's applause, Saul is so obsessed with Qinqiang.
Of course, when there is a performance in that place, he is bound to go and enjoy it. The town has a temple fair on March 3 every year, and there will be actors from the county troupe at the temple fair. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey. Run so far away, eat so much suffering, just to see a Qinqiang theater. One year, Baizigou Coal Mine invited the famous actors from the Provincial Opera Research Institute to perform for the workers, and the neighboring townspeople were the first to know the news from Saul's mouth. A group of theater fans, more than ten days in a row, traveling between the village and ten miles away between Baizigou, that is needed to go over the mountains to see ah. During the day, he worked on the land, and at night, Saul led a group of theater fans to go. It was a real hardcore loyal fan of the theater, only he wasn't very star-crossed, just focused on their singing. He knew the actors by heart, the way they raised their hands and sang and played. When he comes back, he is bound to replicate it once. This experience has greatly improved his singing.
People are impressed with Saul is the town held a mass opera concert, curtain call off the green costume of the man Saul let people surprised, that time, not only the voice conquered the townspeople, make-up after he was like a female body possessed, no one heard that he was singing. Usually know that he loves to sing opera, also know that he likes Danjiao singing. But that one stunning debut, but many people did not expect, disguised Saul, even more than a woman woman ah! Then he participated in the county-level Qinqiang singing competition, and without any doubt won the first prize. The most brilliant was the performance scene in 2007 when the Heart to Heart Art Troupe came into Xunyi, and he performed on the same stage with those national artists. Since then, he has been popular all over the countryside, and has become a countryside celebrity.
Nowadays, Saul, in his forties and fifties, is still obsessed with the Qinqiang. No matter in the red and white wedding ceremony to help sing, or formal stage make-up performance, when you hear a song of the melancholy lingering Qingyi singing, in all likelihood, that is Saul's dedication to the performance. Of course, he is a guest performer at village celebrations, and does not charge money, but when he goes out to follow the troupe, he has to charge money. And the money, he basically spent on singing again, the purchase of costumes and props, is said to be quite large. Spring Festival home, know that he was busy village literary propaganda team, formed a more than ten people since the music class, are fond of Qinqiang opera fans spontaneous voluntary participation, Saul rightfully became the person in charge.
Singing opera is as natural as eating and sleeping, and it's a part of life that can't be separated. Vacation and Saul talked about these, he said so, and a face of pride, asked why he was so obsessed with Qingyi, he shook his head and nodded, probably like, and my voice, I will continue to sing until I enter the coffin, huh. His thoughtful eyes, at the moment the eyes so bright, and then, a Qin opera "White Snake Broken Bridge" in the words sung from his lips gently spit out - West Lake landscape is still the same, haggard and difficult to full of autumn, frost stained maple cold forest thin, can not look back to remember the old tour -
The past is not a good place to look back, so let him go far away. In the lyrics of Bai Suzhen, I can hear that he is not willing to look back at the memories of the past. The fact is that the company has been able to provide a wide range of services to its customers, and the company has been able to provide a wide range of services to its customers. Qingyi Saul, I wish you the best of luck in my heart.