Genealogical introduction At the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the world is in chaos. My ancestors from the army, save the country to save the country. Ming Emperor Hongwu, clean up the remaining remnants, a unified four seas, the world peace. My family, the Son of Heaven, the meritorious. Today, the two southern branches of our clan, Dong Guantun from Yongping Government in Zhili Province and Sun Guantun from Hongdong in Shanxi Province, have moved to Dong Guantun and Sun Guantun, 30 miles southwest of Juno County in Shandong Province, because of their meritorious military campaigns. There were six brothers from the northern branch, the eldest branch loved to protect their homeland, and the second branch moved from Hongdong, Shanxi Province to Chun County, Tongzhou, and then from Chun County to Changyi Tun, 90 miles west of Juno, which is now the Dongjiamiao Temple in Jancheng. To the sixth ancestor Zuo Gong moved to Yuncheng south 18 miles Ding Li Chang. Fifth ancestor Wenzong Gong moved to Juno County, west eight miles Dongjiazhuang. Three branches moved to Jiayi city south of Shandong Dongjiazhuang, to the ninth ancestor Jinggong moved to Jiaxiang East 12 miles Dongjiazhuang. The sixth branch was moved to Qixia County, Dengzhou Prefecture in the second year of the Yongle era by the Wang Clan's mother, who led her six sons to Dongjialou, 35 miles south of Jiayi City. The eighth ancestor, Mr. Xiaolou, moved to Donglou Village, also known as South Donglou, 60 miles southeast of Juno County during the Ming Dynasty. The second branch moved to Dezhou from Pingyang Prefecture in Shanxi Province, and then to Dingtao in Shandong Province during the reign of the Yongle Emperor in the Ming Dynasty. One branch settled in Pingfang Village, one branch moved to Dongjiamiao in the north of Caozhou, and later moved to Dongzhuang in front of both sides of National Highway 327 in 60 miles southwest of Juno County. All of them have been there for more than six hundred years now. In the meantime, due to the change of the sea and the land, each of them went their own way. Today, the same family discussion, my north, south, west three branches of the origin of Zhili, Shanxi Hongdong Pingyang Province, although far apart, but all belong to the uncle brothers, flesh and blood family. Should be stored in the branch genealogy, and then renew the joint spectrum, so that everyone knows, household. Not to the same family meet do not know. Is the order. Anhui Dong's a character generation: "its hair the state Anye Keqin Yu Xiang". Anhui xiaoxian dong's character generation: "positive yixiang ke yong ming daofu kai chang poetry book hong economy loyalty filial piety honor article". Anhui Dingyuan Dong's character generation: "four open learning forever positive evergreen". Anhui taihu dong bending dong's generation: "the division following to good long hair its strong". Anhui LiXinZhangCunZhen DongYingDong's character generation: "MingZongZhuWenBaoXingHua". Anhui Wuwei Dong Clan one character generation: "Changzhao first training Weide Ke Ming". Anhui Wuwei Dong Clan one character generation: "generates has the big capital diligently learns will be wide before passes on the family Xing cause accumulates the virtue traveler envies". Anhui anqing dong's character generation: "must text for yan heir heavy cypress have ten thousand spring Honglie pass wide inheritance show ancestor virtue bright learning jade by state ze had high Huan Guo Cai □□□□□ Jing Yun from day open". Anhui Huaibei Dong's character generation: "Wanhua Jingyun Hongchang Cuduan inspired by virtue of righteousness, faith and respect Chengyi Mingdao training to keep the first saint Liangyu Biqing Jun Zhenminfeng Jinlong ascending morning. Suixi County, Anhui Province, four store Township Dong's character generation: "bright Junxiu Fushou Hengchang Chuanjiaobao good".
Then Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals:
Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals are legendary characters in our ancient history, as well as classic roles in the Huangmei Opera's "Match of the Immortals," how did they move from history to reality? How did they move from history to reality? And how did they move from ancient word-of-mouth rumors to the stage of opera? For thousands of years, the story of "Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals" has evolved into countless local versions, which have been regarded as historical and cultural treasures by various places; everyone competes for the "original registration" of Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals, with the public saying that they are "family members" and the women saying that they are "family members". "family members". Everyone understands clearly that this is a piece of history and culture of the gold signboard, but also to carry the local intangible cultural heritage in a strong brigade, which led to endless years of diverse opinions. For such a cultural flower and opera show, who do not want to take advantage of the old man's hand in history, plant her in their own garden? A hundred schools of thought contend, who will be the winner? This article is about Dong Yong and the seven fairies is how to go through the smoke and dust of the millennium history, from a hundred competing to a unique, and ultimately settled in the hometown of Huangmei opera Anqing story.
Over the past two thousand years, the story of Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals has been widely circulated, and passed through the hometown of opera, Anqing, where it was adapted into a Huangmei opera, which was successively brought to the stage and the screen; since then, "the story of Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals" has been called the Yellow Plum Opera "Match of Heavenly Immortals" by people all over the world. Throughout the ages, from the Yellow River basin to the two sides of the Yangtze River, how many words of mouth have been passed down for its praise! From the oral tradition to the written record, from off-stage to on-stage, how many writings have been processed for it, and how many songs have been sung for it! From the legends of the Han Dynasty, the poems of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the variations of the Tang Dynasty, the lyrics and fugues of the Song Dynasty, the prose compositions of the Yuan Dynasty, all the way to the legends of the Ming Dynasty, the miscellany of the Qing Dynasty, the illustrations of the Republic of China, and up to the modern times, the story of Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals is the most prevalent one in which field today? The contemporary authoritative social science toolbook Dictionary, "Dong Yong", records: "The story is also performed in the local opera "The Pairing of Heavenly Immortals"." In local theater, the most influential and enduring drama of its kind is "The Pairing of Heavenly Immortals"!
The story of Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies is a matter of historical rumors, but nowadays there are a hundred different stories:
The Dictionary says that Dong Yong is a literary story character.
The opera lyrics of Tianxian Match say, I (seven fairy) originally lived in Penglai village.
Cao Zhi (192-232) said that Dong Yong and the goddesses appeared in the Lingzhi Chapters, the earliest written record of the story of "The Match of Heavenly Immortals".
Gan Bao of the Eastern Jin Dynasty said that the story was recorded in the Book of Searching for Gods and Goddesses, which became the material for the creation of folktales for later generations.
Tang Shi Daoshi said in Dharma Garden Pearl Forest that Dong Yong, who lived with his father and when his father died, he sold himself to a rich public official to pay for his funeral, and Daohong met a woman who was willing to be Yong's wife --- however, this story is a quotation from Liu Xiang's Diagram of Filial Piety in the Han Dynasty (Diagram of Filial Piety has been proved to be a pseudo-trust by modern historians, and pressed on --- author's note).
The Taiping Yuban says that Volume 4 of this book similarly cites the Diagram of the Filial Son, much the same as the Tang.
The Collection of Dunhuang Transformations says that Dong Yong's son's name was Dong Zhong.
The Introduction to Eight Hundred Classical Literature Writings says that there are records in the Dong Yong Sinking Incense Collection and the Song and Yuan Opera Texts Collection and Unknown; while the Yongle Dazian Catalog compiles thirty-three Song and Yuan operas, and the Nanyu Shulu compiles sixty-five old Song and Yuan texts, and I am afraid that there is a slight record of Dong Yong's body and family.
Du Guangting of the Fifth Dynasty said that the birth of a child by Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals is described in his book "The Record of the Spirit".
The Dictionary of Chinese Personal Names says that Dong Yong was a man from the Later Han Dynasty, and his son's name was Dong Zhong. They moved from Qianxian to Runan and then to Anling.
The Qing Dynasty's Record of Filial Piety in Ancient and Modern Times says that Dong Yong was a native of Qingzhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
---The above statements are quotations from the present day, and are found in contemporary journals and newspapers all over the world.
In addition, the Tang Li Han "Meng seek", Ming "Weaving Mian record", Yuan Guo Juye "twenty-four filial piety", Qing "generations of filial piety record compilation" and the Republic of China "twenty-four filial piety charts" said, Dong Yong is indeed a person, for the Han Dynasty, a thousand by the (today's Shandong Gao Yuan) people. There are also various types of local histories, but also each stick to one.
Shandong Tongzhi said, Boxing County, the old tomb of Dong Yong.
Bo Xing County Records, said Chen Tuo Town, the old Dong Yong Ancestral Hall.
"Xiaogan County Records," said the city built Dong Yong Park and filial piety shrine. The area was once known as "Anlu" and "Xiaoyao", but was named after Dong Yong's "filial piety that moved heaven".
The Zhi of Ru Ning Prefecture says that there is a tomb of a fairy in the area, where the son Dong Zhong buried his mother's clothes.
Runan County Records says that there is Dong Yong Tomb and Dong Yong Shrine in the county.
The Dongtai County Record says that Dong Yong was a native of Xixi in Dongtai, and there are tombs of Dong Yong and his father in the town.
The Yutai County Record says that there is a tomb of Dong Yong thirty miles southwest of the county.
The Le'an County Record says that there is a tomb of Dong Yong fifty miles southwest of the town.
The people of Jiaxiang, Shandong Province, also say that there are stone carvings of Dong Yong, Yong's father and a fairy in the county, in the Wu's shrine. According to evidence, the shrine was completed around 200 AD.
The above is the author's incomplete statistics, I believe that there are still a number of statements have not been recorded.
Today, in the country's three hundred and sixty-five types of theater, and the "Tianxian match" sung the loudest and which local opera?
Or "Dictionary of Chinese Mythology" gives the answer: "After liberation, the Huangmei Opera was organized and processed, and had a greater impact." The Dictionary of Chinese Mythology gives a more detailed account: "(Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies) Huangmei Opera and Sichuan Opera are all based on the Yuan Dynasty, with a brief description of Dong Yong's family's poverty and the fact that he sold his body to bury his father. The Jade Emperor's daughter seven fairy love and compassion, private mortal world, under the acacia tree and Yong married, with the same to the home of Fu outside the weaving of silk to pay off the debt ...... ".
Throughout the ages, the story of Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies has been inherited, derived, and evolved into many similar themes, including "Matching of Heavenly Fairies", "Dong Yong Sells Himself", "Seven Fairies and Dong Yong", "Seven Fairies Go Down to Earth", "Seven Fairies Send Their Children", "The Road Encounter", "The Record of the Sophoras", "The Sophoras", "The Sophoras", "The Record of the Weaving of the Brocade", "The Hundred-Day Edge", "The Second Descent of Seven Fairies into the Earth", "Three Descends on Sophoras", as well as "The Record of the Meeting of the Immortals with the Xiu Cai Dong ", "Pictures of Filial Piety", "Pictures of Twenty-four Filial Piety", "Lingzhi Piece" and so on. Among them, the Huangmei Opera "The Pairing of Heavenly Immortals" had the greatest influence. After the liberation, a large number of Huangmei Opera artists led by Yan Fengying (1930-1968) and Wang Shaofang (1919-1986) sang "The Match of Heavenly Immortals" all over the country, on the screen, in Asia, and out of the country, and the lyrics of the excerpts were once a household name. Even today's hottest TV program "Spring Festival Gala", there are always stars singing or singing "birds on the tree in pairs" and other folding small sections, a song "husband and wife to return home" dumped hundreds of millions of viewers ......
As early as 250 years ago, in the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese opera was the most popular opera in the world, and it was the first time that the Chinese opera was sung. As early as 250 years ago in the Qing Dynasty, during the Qianlong period, there were records of performances of "Tianxian Matching" in the countryside of the Anqing area. In today's Anqing City, Yuexi County, Shenqiao Township, there are three halls and two compartments of Zhu Sun's ancestral hall, built inside the ancient theater (commonly known as "Wannian stage") a. The stage is a pavilion-style brick structure. The stage for the pavilion-style brick structure, eaves flying corner, 2.3 meters from the ground, 7 meters wide, 6 meters deep, an area of 42 square meters, around the dressing room, backstage 1.5 meters channel, the stage of the columns, beams, screen doors, railings with carving decorations. According to "build ancestral monument", the ancient stage was built in Qianlong eighteen years (1753), there are often theater in this performance, stage screen door more than a theater class wall record, still clearly distinguishable are:
Guangxu wushen year (1908) the sixteenth day of the first month of the Yingzhi with the ascension of the class here;
Xuantong first year (1909) Sanyuan class in the ancestral temple to the people here with the music, the class master Chu Jiacai, the master of the class, Wang Wang Wang Yuan! (The following list is omitted) (performances) the first book Ropa book two Tianxian match three ......;
Another ancient stage in the present day Anqing countryside Qianshan Longtan Wanjian village, was built in the early years of the Qing dynasty fate (1618 years ago or so), in front of the stage of the Yang's ancestral hall can accommodate the audience of more than 700 people. Ancient theater Square board, vaguely visible some of the performance transcripts:
Division Order: Wang Ying Entertainment ...... Xuantong three years Hong Haibo title (to this) performance ......;
Renyitang: Republic of China 30 years May 11th opening performance, actor Xu Renyi, Lin Hong Ying (the following name is omitted), performed "Tian Xian Match";
Qianshan County Entertainment Group: and head of the group Jiang Wenfang; Republic of China, August 28, 33 years (the list of actors is omitted) performed "Tian Xian Match" .......
In addition, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period of military life, there is also a fixed troupe singing Huangmei opera.1968 spring, Nanjing Qinhuai District housing management department in the south of the city Jinshajing Lane refurbishment of old houses, in the former Yingwang House wall cracks, found a number of intact and tattered Huangmei opera singsong books, certified to be the nine years of Xianfeng (1859), when the relics of the Taiping Army.
Originally the King of England Chen Yucheng wife Jiang Guiniang, because of the love of Huangmei opera, suggested that her husband recruited more than a dozen actors in Anqing, forming a troupe based in Tianjing (Nanjing) performances, in the case of the famous actors in Anqing Qiu Zailiang and so on.
Old Huangmei opera performances are often reported. Such as Shanghai "Declaration" in Guangxu five years (1879) on August 16, there is a record:
"Anhui Province (Anqing) outside the North Pass, every year there are singing Huangmei opera, a class of more than 20 people, and no novelty, enough to move people's eyes and ears. But after the official, there are always one or two small plays ......, teenage children and women in the countryside are happy to listen to."
Old Anqing Huangmei opera singing hundreds of books, the so-called "big book thirty-six, small book seventy-two" refers to these traditional repertoire (including the whole book "Tianxian match" and folding opera "Dong Yong sells his body", "road meets", etc.). There are more than ten bookstores and printing workshops in the city which rely on the printing of opera books for their business. After the founding of the country, only the Kunji bookstore a, will be submitted to the Huangmei opera woodblock more than three hundred (mostly pear wood, a few cypress), divided into today's Anhui Provincial Museum and provincial and municipal cultural departments.
Today, in Anhui Province, Huangmei opera school (school site in Anqing), in Anhui Province, more than 36 professional troupes of Huangmei opera and uncountable amateur performance team, Huangmei opera hall, in the countryside, "grass-roots class" and spontaneous family, parks, street concerts, in Anqing weekly installment of the "Huangmei Pavilion". Attracted by the weekly Anqing "Huangmei Pavilion" TV performance contest, and with the unremitting efforts and conscious participation of countless men, women and children, the story of "Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals" has been sung over and over again, with a kind of wholehearted dedication. The story of "Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals", the kind of wholehearted commitment to the people, women and children know the popularity of the whole people, making Anqing become a veritable hometown of Huangmei Opera.