Lantianyu, a playwright who once stirred up the city of Nanjing, turns into a corrupt and moldy Mrs. Qian when she shows up at the public house of her old friend, Mrs. Dou.
Mrs. Qian's old dreams about glory and wealth, love and hate, leaving the country, the vicissitudes of the world, recalled, such as the entrance to the wine, knife broken throat.
An old dream of glory and wealth.
At the beginning of the article, through the perspective of Mrs. Qian, the article shows a busy scene in front of the luxurious and powerful door.
Mrs. Qian's eyes are like a detector, peering into every aspect of Mrs. Dao's mansion. Small to Mrs. Dou on the body of the lotus seed diamond ring, big to rosewood tables and chairs, Western-style sofas, and that seems to be on fire as bright as the public house. Mrs. Qian on a variety of furnishings, artifacts, as if she were a family friend, narrated.
The aristocrats do not necessarily have material. But the aristocrat appreciation of the eye must have an abundance of material piles. Bai Xianyong emulated the "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the Daiyu into the Jiafu. A grass, a tree, a table and a chair, exquisite, taste, elegance, wealth and nobility with the eyes of Mrs. Qian unfolded one by one.
She can see "a rectangular table in the middle of a two-foot-high green fine magnetic gall bladder, the bottle bubbling with a large puff of golden bone red flesh of the dragon beard chrysanthemum". If according to the view of Liu Lou Lou, can only be described in terms of "playing the bucket cabinet sieve noodles" and so on.
Her days in the past is how generous, but also in this prosperity naturally emerged.
But all of Mrs. Qian's anachronisms suggest that prosperity has passed.
With the help of the mirror in Mrs. Dou's mansion, she pursed her slightly disheveled hair and picked at the bottom of the box of clothing material made of cheongsam that was not bright enough. Surveying the short cheongsams of the ladies present, she suspected that her long cheongsam was already out of fashion.
Power is the best aphrodisiac in life. Mrs. Qian, who is used to sitting in the first place at banquets in Nanjing, is now invited to the second place as a guest at her best friend's mansion in Taipei. The husband of the high-ranking official has passed away, and the name of Mrs. Qian can only be dusty with time. Old friend Mrs. Dou, who was a concubine to someone else, had to take advantage of her to host a banquet on her birthday. Nowadays, Mrs. Dou in this splendid, brightly lit public house contrasts with Mrs. Qian's helplessness and sadness.
The wealth and glory of the world has become empty in the blink of an eye.
Cao Xueqin did "Dream of the Red Chamber". Zhang Dai has done "Taoan Meng Rumor", "West Lake Dreaming". Their wealth and prosperity and their families are closely linked. Because of the decline of the family, has long tasted the hardships of the world. Mrs. Qian has not yet completely fallen, the world and human warmth has come to the surface. The banquet was dispersed, she looked at a special car to pick up the crowd, he even said a word to call the car have to wait in the last opening.
Bai Xianyong is the son of senior KMT general Bai Chongxi. Because of his father's political position and the power of the family, the ushering in that he saw was commonplace.
Through what Mrs. Qian sees and hears and what she encounters, Bai Xianyong vividly expresses the image of the change and fall of prosperity. Once the broad-minded, the reality of the downtrodden, intertwined into a difficult to distinguish the old dream, as the more you drink the stronger the wine to stimulate the sensitive nerves.
An old dream of love that is still in turmoil.
Mrs. Qian, at the age of seventeen or eighteen, with a good voice, plugged up all her youthful years to marry a senior official husband of nearly sixty, in exchange for the richness and glory.
Cheng's handsome and considerate, tender and attentive to her heart. Her husband's decline and death, the rich and leisurely life did not kill her heart. A moisturizing jujube easily makes her heart ripple.
However, Mr. Cheng was just playing along. He and Mrs. Dao's sister, Jiang Biyue, have long been together.
History repeats itself again. Mrs. Qian was also in love with a young officer named "Yanqing". But her own sister, "Yue Yue Hong", even intervened in the middle of it, in the name of family love, and took away the love. The former lover "Yan Qing" drink eyelids with peach blossom ", a sound of" Mrs. Qian "flow of power to the sycophant.
Today's Mrs. Qian was once a leading singer. She was once known by the dreamlike name of Lantianyu. Her best plays were "The Garden Tour" and "A Dream of Fright". Du Liniang in the play was infected by the beauty of the garden, "but it turns out that the beautiful purples and reds bloomed all over the place, but it seems to be like this to be paid to the broken well and decaying wall", thus she felt that her life and youth were suppressed and destroyed. She bravely pursued love, and Liu Mengmei composed a love story.
Du Liniang in the play and the play outside the blue Tianyu form a sharp contrast. Du Liniang died for love, because of love, for life and love have obsessive passionate pursuit. Blue Tianyu sang a touching love on stage, but lost the pursuit of love in life.
Years ago, the singing of the opera Lantianyu and today's Mrs. Qian is another contrast. Her opera was a sensation in Nanjing, and Mei Lanfang is not far behind. Now, she is watching the people on stage, not singing a word.
In the visual transformation of being watched and seeing, Lantianyu's life has undergone a drastic transformation. An old dream about love, the brutal reality of the bond, love and hate the entanglement, recalled, such as spirits into the mouth, knife broken throat.
An old dream of leaving the country to find one's roots
The Hua Diao wine that cuts the throat is a spark that triggers the resentment of Mrs. Qian's heart and her attachment to the past.
The time, the place, the people, the things and the things of "A Dream in the Garden" have all changed dramatically. Mrs. Dou from the separation of thirty years old to meet again, "forty-something". The banquet has moved from Nanjing to her official residence in Taipei. Mrs. Qian's decrepit husband and Mrs. Dou's sister's husband had died. Others, such as the cheongsam, have become shorter and the number of skyscrapers has increased. Even the main character in the article talks unconsciously about change.
Change is used to set off the unchanging. Human nature remains unchanged, and there is still a fascination with power and wealth. The years that have gone by are lamented. The pursuit and loss of exquisite beauty and art. The memorialization of the homeland country has not changed.
In the change and unchanged, a mouthful of cut-throat Hua Diao wine also pierced the heart of Mrs. Qian.
Bai Xianyong used a wonderful stream of consciousness to show the complex psychological activities of Mrs. Qian. She has experienced the changes of the world. Her past and reality, regret and longing are heavily intertwined.
Once upon a time, Madam Qian was a person on the stage who sang Du Liniang's play in exchange for the audience's touch and affection. As a playwright, she was viewed, bought, toyed with, savored, loved and bored on stage.
Now, she is sitting on the stage, looking at the flow of curls, spicy and tricky Jiang Biyue to show off, and the people under the stage holding coaxed to make all kinds of scandal. As a guest, she watched her old friends ushered in and out, drinking and mingling, another prosperous dream.
The people are unpredictable, and they never are. On the surface, she is picking on Taipei's flower-diao wine cut throat, cheongsam fabric is uncomfortable; in fact, she is nostalgic and reminiscent of her hometown. Mrs. Qian has seen the prosperity and despair, the hometown is also more miss. This is the eternal theme of poets over the centuries, but also out of the traveler's unchanging worries.
A play like life, life as a play of the vicissitudes of the old dream.
Mrs. Qian's old dream is complex, mixed with her personal encounters and feelings about life, permeated by the changes of the times and the vicissitudes of life.
Li Bihua's Farewell My Concubine is also a story about people and theater. Although Cheng Dieyi has experienced great changes of times, his life is more pure. He loved his senior brother, Duan Xiaolou, and loved the theater as if he were obsessed with it, living his life as a play. Because he was playing a woman who had a clear love-hate relationship, he held himself to the standards of the women of that era. The play is a perfect example of this.
The blue Tianyu in "Dream of the Garden" is not. The same is the playwright, she is even more unable to decide their own fate. Theater and the reality of life, she tried to distinguish very clearly. All the flavors on the stage, love and hate, belong to Du Liniang. In real life, there are many people who will tell her something about fate. She would accept, practice, and even pay the price. Confusion and pursuit alternated. She is not a theater nerd, she is a commoner living in the world.
From a playwright whom everyone despises, to a noblewoman who hangs out in high society, to a widow whose husband has died, Lantianyu's life is as tumultuous as a play.
The Dream of the Red Chamber has also quoted lines from The West Wing and The Peony Pavilion to imply the love between Baodai. Jia mother in the Qingxu Guan jiao-festival in front of the gods and Buddhas point of the three scenes: White Snake, full of bed watts and Nanko dream. These three scenes also imply that the Jia family has gone from strength to strength and gradually declined. The point of the rich and powerful, the reason of the smoke clouds.
People like to watch theater. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
Bai Xianyong has made great efforts to protect kunqu, through the youth version of the Peony Pavilion, so that the kunqu once again into people's eyes. This piece, "A Dream in the Garden", also implies his cherishing and love for kunqu.
His life was also quite legendary. His family origins, homosexual tendencies, literary creations, and respect for classical Chinese literature are all highly publicized. For the reader to appreciate a good article, it is not necessary to appreciate the author. However, the author's knowledge is beneficial to the understanding of the creation of the article.
Dreams can help people imagine and soothe the soul. As for the old dreams, the past truth, goodness and beauty, enough to be worth remembering. The past can not be traced, but the future can still be seen.
Drink the old dreams this cup of wine, even if the knife breaks the throat.