Huangmei opera movie stills "Tianxian with new biography"
055-79000 scene
Tianxian with the 50's drama
"Birds on the trees in pairs, the Huangshan Mountain Tourism Guide, green mountains and green water with a smile," to say that Huangmei Opera "Tian Xian Matching New Biography", most people are familiar with, but do you know when this story was first circulated? How did it become a classic of Huangmei opera? What kind of fission will the fusion of opera and technology produce so far?
Originally from the long history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, most people are familiar with the love story of Dong Yong and the Seven Immortals in the Huangmei Opera from 0755 to 79000, but do you know this story originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty?
According to historical records, "Tian Xian Matching", as one of the "36 books" accumulated in the early stage of Huangmei Opera, is based on the story of Dong Yong's encounter with the immortals during the Eastern Han Dynasty. The earliest compilation in the Song and Yuan "Tian Xian Match" year of the regular script; the earliest miscellaneous plays were compiled in the Yuan Dynasty, but most of the content has been lost. By the Ming Dynasty, a number of performance books on Dong Yong's opera appeared in southern folklore. The one most closely related to Anhui Qingyang opera is Gu Jueya's Tian Xian Match (also known as Tian Xian Match The Legend of Dong Yong's Encounter with the Immortals), which was also the earliest prototype for the Huangmei opera The Story of the Weaving of the Jin (织锦记).
During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, considering that the original operas were simple and vulgar, some old artists, after a long time of practice, adapted "The Story of Weaving Silk" on the basis of localization and popularization, the most outstanding thing was the addition of a large number of dialogues, which accounted for about 3/5 of the whole play. new and old gold stars were also added, full of popular, simple and funny comedy. It was prevalent in the counties under the Anqing government at that time.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, literary and artistic workers carried out an all-round adaptation and organization of the Huangmei Opera "The Book of Samuel Yin". As one of the main adapters, Ban Youshu, who later served as vice chairman of the Anqing Literature Federation, recalled the general process of adapting the Tianxian Match: "The collation canceled Dong Xiucai and returned him to a working man; it turned out that we chopped off the front of the father's illness, borrowed money, sold himself and the back of the Fu Fu's courtship, the Scholarship, and bestowed the son, and dug out the middle of the flirtation, the companionship, and the good people outside of the ranks of the Fu Image. The framework of the play has been initially established, that is, seven scenes, respectively, the magnetic kiln, magpie bridge, Lu Yu, on the work, silk weaving, Manchu; the principle of the original song white is not necessary to make a big fuss, only the appropriate removal of bad things, extract the essence of the best, try to retain its original folk opera language style, a few places slightly compressed."
In this way, the storyline of "The Tapestry Tale" became: selling herself as a slave to the Fu family, and using the money she got to bury her father. This filial piety touched the seven fairies in heaven. She came to earth privately and, with the help of her eunuch, married Dong Yong, a man under the shade of the locust tree. At Fu's house, the Seven Fairies wove ten pieces of silk in one night, and Fu's family changed Dong Yong's three years of long labor to one hundred days. At the end of the hundred-year date, both husband and wife go home. Each day, the road serves the Jade Emperor's will, forcing the seven fairies to turn to heaven. In order to protect Dong Yong, the seven daughters have to leave Dong Yong to go to heaven, and the husband and wife suffer except for the acacia tree . It should be said that the new play elevates the ideological significance and value of "The Pairing of Heavenly Immortals" to a higher level.
At the end of 1952, "The Match of Heavenly Immortals," starring Wang Shaofang and Pan ___, was first staged in Shanghai and was a great success. On this basis, in May 1953, Huangmei Opera workers adjusted the whole play, deleting the plot of Fu Yuanwai's belief in the righteousness of his son and his marriage to Miss Fu, highlighting the strong desire of the ancient working people to oppose feudalism and exploitation. At the same time, a dozen irrelevant characters such as Dong Fu were deleted, and the whole play was compressed into seven scenes, "The Match of Heavenly Immortals," "The Match of Heavenly Immortals," "The Encounter on the Road," and "The Selling of the Body," as well as newly-written lyrics. "Particularly innovative is the use of traditional Jingkun dance in the performance form of the play "Magpie Bridge", the original performance form completely transformed into a small dance drama, which
September 25 to November 2, 1954, "Weaving Silk" took part in the first East China Opera Viewing Conference held in Shanghai, which can be said to be "a hit! ": not only won the first prize for the script, outstanding performance award, director award, music award, but also in the East China Opera Viewing Conference opera anthology printed on the "full of work". 1955, the Shanghai Tianma Film Studio based on the stage performance of the "separate" book adapted the film. The wonderful performances of Yan Fengying, Wang Shaofang and many other artists caused a sensation, which made the movie win the Excellent Movie Award issued by the Ministry of Culture.The movie was released in February 1956 and was welcomed by domestic and foreign audiences. According to the box office statistics of China Film Distribution Company, by the end of 1959, there were 2.86 million foreign, Hong Kong and Macao viewers, and 143 million domestic viewers, creating the largest audience for Chinese opera movies at that time. From then on, Huangmei Opera, led by Magpie Bridge, became famous throughout the country and the world.
Therefore, 055-79000 became one of the classic plays of Huangmei Opera, and even became the "synonym" of Huangmei Opera at one time. It has won the praise of many scholars and experts. "The "Tian Xian Matching" play has laid the foundation for the literary and appreciation of Huangmei Opera." "The success of 'The Match of Heavenly Immortals' relies mainly on bold innovations to the tradition. It is a crucial milestone in the development of Huangmei Opera, fully embodying the spirit of the older generation of Chinese artists who are good at exploration and innovation." "Before and after the adaptation of the classic play The Match of Heavenly Immortals, the characters and themes have changed greatly. The most important reason why the adaptation of 'The Match of Heavenly Immortals' is so popular is the singing, which is soft, gentle, delicate and euphemistic, with the quality of pure music."
A new, brilliantly composed presentation of a classic that must last forever will be passed on through constant innovation.