Watch the Huangmei Opera with lanterns
Watch the Huangmei Opera with lanterns. Many people like to watch Huangmei Opera in life. Among them, there is a Huangmei Opera with couples watching lanterns during the Lantern Festival. "Couples Watching the Lanterns" said It was the Lantern Festival, and young farmer Wang Xiaoliu took his wife into the city to watch the lanterns. Next, watch the lantern and Huangmei opera. Watching Lanterns and Huangmei Opera 1
The Huangmei Opera classic "Couples Watching Lanterns" tells the story of the Lantern Festival. Wang Xiaoliu, a young farmer who lives in Daqiaotou Town, Huaining, Anqing, took his wife to the city to watch the lanterns. The city is constantly crowded with people, and various lanterns - dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, crab lanterns - come and go with different lanterns, making it very lively. Interesting episodes happened during the lantern viewing process, and the whole play was filled with singing and dancing. It expresses the farmers' joy and interest in life after a good harvest. After watching the lanterns, the couple went home happily.
1. Lively Characters
The characters in "Couples Watching Lanterns" are very simple, they are "Wang Xiaoliu (26 years old) and Wang's wife (24 years old)". However, both characters are vivid and vivid. Wang Xiaoliu is a typical young farmer, enthusiastic ("Hey, my wife, please give me a gift"), humorous ("If your wife comes to see the lights, would you like me to keep my eyes on your wife?"), and even bring a smile to your face. A bit of sly "wilt bad" ("Oh, oh, it's bad, my wife's trousers are on fire"). As for Wang’s wife, she is straightforward (“Look at that old lady, she is looking at the lamp without looking at the lamp. She only looks at me with her two eyes”) and shrewd (“Why are you laughing when you are beheaded? If you don’t look at the lamp, you are just making a fuss, almost... "Scared my soul out"), and a bit rustic "stinky beauty" ("I just opened the combing box, combed my hair with an ebony comb, wore two red and green flowers, smeared rouge and gouache on my face. A red coat embroidered with blue flowers , red embroidered shoes with green leaves"). Due to the accurate grasp of the characters, the audience naturally accepted the characters in the play, because they are so similar to the images of farmers we are familiar with. Any plot, lyrics and even the performance of the characters in the play are subordinate to and serve the character's personality. For example, Wang Xiaoliu and his wife went out to look at the lanterns. They walked to the door and sang: "Lead the leader out of the house and close the two doors with him. People who go up to the house, people who come down from the house. My husband and I go to look at the lanterns. Can you please look after the door?" "Look at the lanterns and come back to have feelings again." It is not only a typical rural life scene, but also very consistent with the generous and cheerful personalities of Wang Xiaoliu and his wife.
2. Vivid Language
Looking at the whole play of "Couple Watching the Lantern", almost all of it is simple and even unpretentious vernacular. This is not unusual, because it is a "peasant play" in itself. What is really rare is that the playwright maintains the farmer's perspective and mentality (the original author is probably a farmer artist). Today's sketches and TV dramas also feature farmers, soldiers, and off-duty workers. Screenwriters also try to make the characters speak plain language and use foul language, thinking that they are farmers and workers. However, their estrangement from real life makes it impossible for them to understand and embody the perspectives and mentality of ordinary people. In this way, no matter how they are edited, the language will be pale and pretentious. Like "Couple Watching the Lantern", it is completely written by farmers about farmers, and it is not only written for farmers, which is the most remarkable thing. For example, the couple described the situation of various people looking at the lanterns:
The language is indeed vulgar, but the vulgarity is vivid, the vulgarity is fresh, and the vulgarity is wonderful. Another example is the Wang's Wife dragging out essays, showing off allusions, and singing about Zhou Dynasty Lanterns, Three Kingdoms Lanterns, and Tang Dynasty Lanterns. The content is not historical. They are all popular novels such as "The Romance of the Gods", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and "Journey to the West" that ordinary people love to read. content.
Another example is when Wang Xiaoliu looked at the lamp and suddenly lost his temper: "Let's go, let's go home, I won't watch." When Wang Xiaoliu asked, he found out that there was a guy who was always staring at him. The wife looked at it, and Wang Xiaoliu walked up and pointed to the audience and said: "You old man looks at the lamp but doesn't look at the lamp. What are you watching my wife do? If your wife comes to look at the lamp, I will keep my eyes on your wife." , are you willing?" The audience followed Wang Xiaoliu's gestures and gazes. The audience who was pointed at was often very embarrassed and couldn't laugh or cry, while other audience members burst into laughter and were overjoyed. The atmosphere in the theater immediately reached a climax.
3. Lively music
The melody of "Couples Watching the Lanterns" clearly reflects the characteristics of Huangmei Opera's traditional music, mainly with "color tune" and "Guan Deng Tune". One section is "Colorful Tune", the second section is "Guan Deng Tune", and the third section returns to "Color Tune", with the focus on the second section's "Guan Deng Tune".
The "Guan Deng Tune" in the second paragraph is not simple and repetitive, but has clear levels. For example, Wang's wife's "On the tenth day of the lunar month, it's the 10th day of the lunar month, it's the fifth day of the lunar month, it's the Lantern Festival, it's the time", which is the formal pattern of "Guan Deng Tune". , lively and festive; and after Wang Xiaoliu and his wife went out, human voices and gongs and drums alternated, like a question and answer, and it was relaxed and humorous. Huangmei Opera music workers Fang Shaochi and Hu Yunzhao both have special articles on it. Watch Huangmei Opera with Lanterns 2
A classic of Huangmei Opera, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Wang Xiaoliu and his wife, who live in Daqiaotou Town, Huaining, Anqing, and their neighbors went to the street to watch the lanterns. They saw a sea of ??people with different lanterns. It was very lively, and interesting episodes occurred during the process of watching the lanterns. The whole play was full of singing and dancing, showing the farmers' joy and interest in life after the harvest.
"Couples Watching Lanterns" tells the story of the Lantern Festival, when young farmer Wang Xiaoliu took his wife to the city to watch the lanterns. The city is bustling with people, and all kinds of lanterns—dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, crab lanterns—come and go. Walking over one by one. After the couple watched the lanterns. Went home happily.
Plot Appreciation
"Couples Watching Lanterns" was originally called "Having Lanterns", and the original author is unknown. It is based on a folk activity during the Lantern Festival, a traditional folk festival, and was compiled and adapted in 1952. It turns out that the plot is that during the Lantern Festival, lanterns are set off along the long street. Farmer Wang Xiaoliu and his wife both go to see the lanterns. They pass by the Empress Temple and burn incense and worship Buddha to make wishes for their children. Next, we saw the colorful lanterns: there were flowers, birds, insects and beasts, and there were historical legends that started from the Zhou Dynasty and passed through the Three Kingdoms, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and other dynasties. It turns out to be a two-part show between a clown and a dandy, who can make jokes at will to amuse the audience.
The performances by Wang Shaofang and Pan Jingli are simple and enthusiastic. In particular, Wang Shaofang is good at creating a stage atmosphere, and his virtual characters, animals and other images are all real, humorous and interesting. Occasionally deviating from the prescribed plot and using the art of distance to organically combine stage performance with audience communication. The audience is emotionally involved in it unconsciously and is very excited. Wang Shaofang's singing has a rich and pure charm, and Pan Jingli's singing is cordial and smooth. One song after another, the lanterns of various dynasties were sung one by one. Following their enthusiastic performances and vivid singing and dancing, the audience seemed to have seen those various, exquisitely shaped and colorful lanterns, immersed in the joy of the festival. In the atmosphere.
"Couples Watching Lanterns", like "Watching Pigweed", has no storyline, but its opera structure is more exquisite, its connotation is richer, and it has a strong folkloric color. Its performance form is lively and lively. Through the singing and dancing of the actors, it fully embodies the optimistic life of farmers, the love and harmony of husband and wife, displays the rich folk culture, and depicts the joyful scene of the harvest festival. Watch the Lanterns and Huangmei Opera 3
"Couple Watching the Lanterns" is a classic Huangmei Opera work starring Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang, the great masters of Huangmei Opera in 1956.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying of "Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month". Farmers and their wives from the suburbs, neatly dressed, go to the city to watch the lanterns. The couple happily walked into Bianliang City and saw a huge crowd of people with different lanterns and it was very lively. The colorful lanterns made the young peasant couple feel refreshed and fascinated, and they never forgot to leave.
"Couples Watching Lanterns" is a famous traditional Huangmei Opera play. Through the stylized performances of the hands, eyes, body, steps and techniques of young peasant couples, people can see the colorful lanterns on the streets on the Lantern Festival night. Appreciated the beautiful scenery of the lantern display custom in the adjacent areas of Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui. Anhui People's Publishing House published the edited version of "Lamp Making" by Zheng Lisong, Wang Shaofang and Wang Shaomei. In the newsreel "Congratulations on the New Year" shot by the Central News Film Studio in 1956, there was "Couple Watching Lanterns" performed by Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang. 》. In 1983 and 1984, Anhui TV Station put on-screen stage TV films performed by Anhui Huangmei Theater Troupe and Anhui Huangmei Theater School respectively.
Award-winning records
In 1954, Wang Shaofang and Pan Jingli starred in "Couples Watching Lanterns" and won the Acting Award at the first opera viewing competition in East China. In 1956, China News Documentary Film Studio filmed a stage documentary starring Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang.
Creative background
In January 1953, the play was compiled by the Anqing People's Theater, and the original jokes about the artist's self-humiliation, boring confessions, and large sections of singing about historical figures were deleted. , making the structure of the whole play more compact.
In July of the same year, Zheng Lisong compiled the play again based on Ding Zichen's oral version and renamed it "Couples Watching Lanterns". He restored the details of Wang Xiaoliu's wife being peeked at while watching lanterns that had been deleted during the previous compilation, adding to the interest of life. . The revised version was performed by the Huangmei Drama Troupe of Anhui Province. Director Wang Shaofang also made many useful suggestions on the script arrangement and choreography. In 1956, China News Documentary Film Studio filmed the stage documentary "Couple Watching the Lantern" starring Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang.