The lyrics "combing a head of oil what flower fragrance" are from the Peking Opera "selling water".
Selling Water - Liu Changyu
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Lyrics
Let's walk in the Phoenix Pavilion, in December of the year
Listen to my table of the names of the flowers of the month of October, in the first month of the year, there are no flowers
Only the flowers of the Spring Festival bloomed, and I have the heart to pick one and wear it on my head
I remembered that the narcissus bloomed like snow. In February, the dragon raised its head
Three sisters went up to the colorful building, and there were thousands of kings and grandchildren
Pinggui was hit by a red embroidered ball, and in March, it was the Ching Ming Festival
The peach blossoms were red in color, and I don't know where to find them
The peach blossoms still smiled in the spring breeze, and the tops of the wheat were yellow in April
The prickly prunus blossomed on the roadside, and the wooden incense blossomed on the pavilion.
Rosebuds blossomed, and the 5th of May was the day of the Dragon Boat Festival
Pomegranates blossomed, and the young lady hoped for her husband
My husband, my husband, come to the orchid room
June was a day of ambrosia, and the master and his servant enjoyed the white lotus by the pool
It was clean in the mud, and the lotus stood between the water
July was the 7th month of the 7th lunar month, and the cowboy and the weaving girl had a good time
A magpie took a ride with the magician and the weaving girl.
Magpies build bridges over the Milky Way, and the sunrise spreads its wings
August is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the osmanthus blossoms are fragrant
Chang'e is unwilling to stay in the Cold Palace, and she has come down to the earth to ask for happiness
September is the Nine Suns of the 9th month, and the lady is on the rocky hill
Yellow leaves are falling in the west wind, and the five-colored chrysanthemums are resisting the frost
October is the Cold Weather, and Meng Jiangnu sends her clothes to the Great Wall. The Great Wall is a place where Meng Jiangnu sends her clothes
Thousands of tears are on her face as she searches for her husband, and the hollyhock blossoms and leaves are fresh
There are no flowers in the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, but only the pine and cypress can be plucked
Chen Xiongyuan and Fan are outside of the border, and the plums blossom out of the snow
What kind of a mirror does one use to look in the morning, and what kind of flower does one use for a combed head of hair
What kind of flower does one use for a face of powder, and what kind of flower does one use for a rouge of mouth?
What kind of mirror do you look in when you get up early in the morning, what kind of fragrance do you smell when you comb your hair
What kind of powder do you wear on your face, what kind of rouge do you wear in your mouth, what kind of red flower do you smell when you look at your face
What kind of flower are you wearing on your face?
The bed of ivory flowers
The bed of pillows of mandarin duck flowers, the bed of mattresses of mignonette flowers
Extension
Selling Water
"Selling Water" is based on the first section of "Flaming Ponies" in the Puzhou Clappers. It tells the story of Li Shou, a minister of the Ministry of War in the Song Dynasty, who was falsely imprisoned by a treacherous minister. His second son, Li Yangui, was engaged to Huang Guiying, the daughter of Huang Zhang, and went to his fiancée's house.
When Huang Zhang sees that the Li family is in trouble, he wants to withdraw from the marriage. Li Yangui was forced to sell water to feed his family, but Huang Guiying refused to withdraw from the marriage because she saw that her father had become a powerful man. The two met in the garden of Huang's house, with the help of Mei Ying, a maid, and they were able to make a hundred years of goodwill.
In the play, Mei Ying is played by Liu Changyu, and the lyrics are also sung by her. Liu Changyu, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, was born in January 1942 in Beijing, and was formerly known as Zhou Changyu. He is a famous Peking Opera artist, a national-level actor, and a Dan actor of the China Peking Opera Theater.
The former vice president of the National Beijing Opera House of China. Later, he became the artistic director of the National Peking Opera Theater, the director of the Artistic Steering Committee of the National Peking Opera Theater, and the vice-chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association. She was a deputy to the National People's Congress and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Her husband, Bai Jiyun, is the deputy director of the China Youth Peking Opera Troupe.
May 24, 1993, the fourth day of the fourth month in the year of Kui You on the lunar calendar: the tenth performance of the Chinese Peking Opera Theatre's first trip to Taiwan, with the play Xin'an Yi (Liu Changyu as Zhou Fengying).
May 30, 1993, the tenth day of the fourth month in the year of the Dragon's Lunar Calendar: the sixteenth performance of the Chinese Peking Opera Theatre's first visit to Taiwan, the sixteenth and last performance, jointly performed with Taiwan's Fuxing Theatre Troupe and Haikuang National Theatre Team. The performance of the play "Four Langs Visiting Mother" (Liu Changyu as Tang Wenhua).