The traditional repertoire of Hunan Flower Drum Opera in various regions, totaling more than 400 plays, mainly reflects folk life, mostly based on production and labor, love between men and women, or family conflicts, with vivid language and a strong sense of local flavor. 1949, the art of Flower Drum Opera has seen a great development, which not only collated the traditional plays such as "Chopping Woodcutter in Liu Hai" and "Fighting Birds", but also created a number of modern plays, such as "Delivering Grain to the Double", "Busy Aunt and Sister-in-Law", and "Sanliwan". The company not only organized traditional plays such as "Liu Hai Chopping Wood" and "Playing Birds", but also created "Double Delivery of Grain", "Busy Aunt and Sister-in-law" and "San Li Wan". And "playing gongs", "mending pots", "delivery road", "Wild Duck Island" and so on have been made into a movie.
After the liberation, under the guidance of the Party's literature and art policy, Hunan Flower Drum Opera, under the efforts of old artists and new literature and art workers***, has excavated, collated and adapted a lot of traditional repertoires, among which the ones that have a greater influence on the whole country are Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter and Liu Hai Playing with the Golden Toad. Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter
"My family lives in Changde Wuling, and I live in Liu's house by the well of Silkmelon". These are two lines of Liu Hai's lyrics in the Hunan flower-drum opera Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter. In Changde Wuling District, some of the old people circulating among the Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutting legend of another "authentic version": in ancient times, Changde City, Wuling District, next to the well of Silkmelon, lived Liu Hai mother and son. Liu's mother cried herself blind because she missed her late husband. Liu Hai was very diligent and filial, and went up the mountain every day to cut firewood to feed his mother. In Liu Hai chopping wood in the big high mountain, small high mountain area, there is a many years of cultivation of the fox spirit, she refined into a pearl, in the mouth can be incarnated in human form. At this time she has become a half-immortal, and if she cultivates for a few hundred years, she will become an immortal and go to heaven. She admired Liu Hai's behavior, so she took the name Hu Xiuying and insisted on marrying Liu Hai. But the simple and honest Liu Hai, afraid of involving Hu Xiuying suffer, several times to decline, and then see Hu Xiuying a sincere, before agreeing to marry with Hu Xiuying. After returning home, Liu Hai told his mother, who also liked it and agreed to their marriage. Liu Hai then went to the center of the city of chicken goose alley to buy things to get married. There was a small temple next to Chicken and Goose Lane, and there were eighteen Luohan in the temple. Ten of the Luohan with a group of disciples (Golden Toad) also practiced in secret.
He refined a string of money, has also become a half-immortal, if you can get Hu Xiuying's pearl, you can instantly become an immortal ascension. Ten Luohan saw Hu Xiuying and Liu Hai get married, so he started to have bad intentions, he led his disciples to steal Hu Xiuying's treasure pearl. When Hu Xiuying lost her pearl, she had no choice but to tell Liu Hai the truth. When Liu Hai found out, he didn't blame Hu Xiuying, he picked up the stone axe he used to chop wood at home and went to fight with the ten Luohan, and finally, with the help of the axe god and Hu Xiuying's sisters, Liu Hai defeated them and got the precious pearl. From then on, they lived a happy life of farming and weaving.
The legend of Changde's Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter had already taken shape during the Northern Song Dynasty, and by the middle of the Qing Dynasty the main version of the Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter legend circulating today had been formed. Today in Changde can still find the legendary silk melon well, but now the mouth of the well slate weathering flaking, well wall stone brick broken broken, overgrown weeds around the mouth of the well. Legend has it that the "Liu Hai Temple" where Liu Hai fought the ten Luohan has long been destroyed. The legend of Liu Hai Chopping Wood is still of profound practical significance today, and the virtues of diligence, integrity, filial piety and the pursuit of loyal love, the pursuit of a happy life embodied in Liu Hai and the Fox Fairy, truly expresses the aspirations of the laboring people to beauty and goodness. The characters in the legend are full of rich images and distinctive personalities, which can be regarded as the fine works of Hunan folk oral literature. The legend of "Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter" has preserved the living condition and folklore of the people of Changde at a certain stage of history, and the values it expresses will be passed on with the circulation of the story. In the play, "Liu Hai brother, then I will be good to you than ...... I here will be big sister good than ......" Hu Xiuying and Liu Hai's duet is lively and joyful, which makes the two of them get married and return home. The duet between Hu Xiuying and Liu Hai is lively and cheerful, showing the joy of their marriage and their return home in a funny and lovely way. It is one of the most characteristic singing sections of Hunan Flower Drum Opera, which has been sung for a long time.
The famous section of Hunan Flower Drum Opera "Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter", which has been sung all over the motherland, is sung by famous Hunan Flower Drum Opera actors Ye Hong as Hu Xiuying, Li Zuo as Liu Hai and Li Xiaojia as Liu's mother.
Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter (Bigu Tune)
(Female) I will be here Hai a good comparison ah!
(Male) Hu Da Sister,
(Female) Hey
(Male) My wife,
(Female) ah
(Male) What do you compare me to!
(Woman) I compare you to a cowherd.
(M) Then I can't compare to you!
(Woman) You are more than him,
(Man) Hu big sister you are my wife,
(Woman) Liu Hai brother you are my husband.
(Male) Hu Da Sister, you go with me,
(Female) Hai Brother, you lead the way forward,
(Male) Go LuoHao,
(Female) Walk LuoHao,
(Male) Go LuoHao,
(Female) Walk LuoHao,
(Together) Get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to get the child to come to come to come to come to come to me.
(M) I'm comparing you to my sister,
(M) Liu Hai,
(M) Hey
(M) My husband,
(M) Ah
(M) What do you compare me to,
(M) I'm comparing you to the weaving girl, it's not even close to being the same,
(M) I can't compare you to the weaving girl,
(M) I can't compare you to the weaving girl,
(M) I can't compare you to the weaving girl,
(M) I can't compare you to the weaving girl. I can't compare with you!
(M) I think you are just like her.
(Woman) Liu Hai, you are my husband,
(Man) Hu Da Sister, you are my wife,
(Woman) Hai brother, you lead the way forward,
(Man) my wife, you along with me to line up,
(Woman) to go,
(Man) to line up,
(Woman) to line up,
(Woman) to go,
(Man) to go,
(Woman) to go,
(Woman) to go,
(Woman) to go,
(Woman) to go,
(Man) to line up.
(Together), I'm going to come to you.
Mending pots
Liu Da Niang, a pig farmer in the production team, wants to find a cultured and skilled young man with a good career and a great contribution to make as her son-in-law. However, her daughter Lan Ying hides the fact that she has found a pot mender as her date. Danniang Liu and her daughter have different views, thinking that mending pots and pans is a profession of "squatting under the eaves and squatting in the dust", and there is no prospect of success. One day, Mrs. Liu accidentally broke a large iron pot of driving rain, and in a hurry, she took the rice pot as a driving rain pot, so she had to ask her daughter to ask the pot mending master to mend the pot. Lan Ying and her boyfriend Li Xiaocong agreed on a plan to take this opportunity to enlighten and educate her mother.
Small Cong came to Lan Ying's house, Liu Da Niang did not know that Small Cong is Lan Ying's boyfriend, and urged him to hurry up to mend the pot. Xiao Cong is not in a hurry to tell his mother-in-law looks down on the pot maker, Liu Auntie also expressed her approval of his mother-in-law's thinking, then, Xiao Cong to Liu Auntie's old thinking to give severe criticism, educate her revolutionary work is the whole, 72 lines are important, each other can not be separated. Listening to Xiao Cong's reasoning, Liu Da Niang said that not only do they have to change their old ideas, but also to help Xiao Cong persuade his mother-in-law to accept this son-in-law. Seeing that his mother-in-law has changed her mind, Xiao Cong quickly reveals his identity to her. Liu Danniang accepted the son-in-law with a smile of satisfaction.
Li Guyi, who played Liu Lanying and later changed her name to Li Guyi, entered the vocal hall from singing flower-drum opera and became a famous soprano singer today.
The popular classic Hunan Flower Drum Opera "Mending Pot" is performed by the famous soprano Li Guyi as Liu Lanying, the famous Hunan Flower Drum Opera national actor Peng Fuguang as Li Xiaocong, and Zhong Yichun as Liu Daniang.
Mending the pot (backhanded cavity)
(Woman) Hand pulls the bellows, whistling loudly
The stove burns red hot
(Man) The son-in-law comes to mend the pot, hiding it from the mother-in-law
(Woman) Pay attention to the operation, and watch out for the burns on the hand
(Man) It's okay to get burns on the both hands
(Woman) I am afraid of that
(What is it?). (Male) What to be afraid of
(Female) Say you don't like my mother's mother, Xiao Cong my comrade brother
(Male) Don't be afraid of the mountains when you run a horse, don't be afraid of the beaches when you sail a boat
(Together) Help my mother's mother to reform the old mindset
(Female) The bellows pulls loudly
(Male) The fireplace burns hot
(Female) I'll pull the bellows
(Male) I'll patch the pots. I'll mend the pots
(Female) Pull the pots
(Male) Mend the pots
(Female) Pull the pots
(Male) Mend the pots
(Male) Educate my mother-in-law, Lanying my comrade sister
(Female) Educate my mother, Xiao Cong my comrade brother In addition to organizing and adapting the traditional operas, the Hunan Flower Drum Opera pays special attention to creating and performing modern operas, which are widely used in the province and the country. In addition to organizing and adapting traditional operas, Hunan Flower Drum Opera pays special attention to creating and performing modern operas, which have a great influence in the province and the country. In 1965, the Hunan Flower Drum Opera House alone recorded the following statistics: "Of the 94 plays of all sizes, 69 were modern plays, such as Sanliwan, Playing the Causeway, Mending the Pot, Double Delivery of Grain, Red Salesman, Guo Liang Takes Troops to Catch Guo Liang, My Family, Returning the Cow, On the Way to Delivery, Two Drawings, Veterinarian of a Mountain Village, Duck Island, Objects, and Niu Duo Xi Sits on the Cow, which is the first play of its kind in Hunan Province. Objects", "Niu Duoxi Sitting in a Sedan Chair" and so on. Among them, "Playing the Causeway", "Mending the Pot", "Two Drawings", "On the Delivery Road" and "Wild Duck Island" were made into color stage art films, and "Sanliwan" and "Objects" were awarded the Creative Prize for the 30th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China in 1979 by the Ministry of Culture for the creation of a performance dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the founding of the country."
The mention of "Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter" can't help but mention Chen Beifang and He Dongbao. 1947, He Dongbao came to Changsha from Dongting Lake, and after the liberation, he and Tian's brothers, Tian Qionglin and Tian Yunlong, worked **** in the People's Flower Drum Opera Troupe. He Dongbao came from a poor background, was active and willing to work, and was famous. Chen Beifang, a cadre in the Changsha Cultural Bureau, adapted the original "Da Chopping Woodcutter" into the scripted "Xiao Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter" in 1951, which was originally a "hitchhiking opera". In the past, there was no script for this opera, just a story, and the actors made up their own lyrics on the stage.
Chen North will be "Xiao Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter" script to He Dongbao, due to too many performances at that time, no time to take care of rehearsals, He Dongbao will be thrown in the script on the top of Tian Qionglin's bed tent, a throw is several months, and later, Hunan Province to engage in the opera repertoire, which recalled the script, the script to be compiled, He Dongbao to the people's theater group of drums Tian Qionglin, zither Tian Yunlong, we sat down together on the We sat down together and put it together. A few of the sections could be set to old tunes, which was no problem. The opening paragraph, we are thinking hard, Liuyang-born Tian Yunlong inspiration, proposed to use Liuyang's Cailian boat tune, the original lyrics are "Liuyang's firecrackers chops LiPaLa ringing clothes so LaZiYo fire, chops LiPaLa ringing clothes so LaZiYo fire", the script of the new words "wind and sun warm good scenery" set on it, very good, very good. The new words of the script, "Wind and Sun, Warm, Good Scenery", were put on the set, which was very good, and the mood was also suitable, and a few people were very happy. The last paragraph of the words, He Dongbao proposed to use the ground flower drums of the "October Wanglang" set of new words, we found that this is very suitable, except for the middle paragraph of the new words "I here will be a good brother of the sea than" we have some difficulties, why? Why? The words are not neat, all of a sudden nine words, all of a sudden eight words or six words, three words, one word, everyone is silent. Tian Qionglin pondered for a long time, and suggested that we could sing it in "An Tong Tune". The original lyrics are "Zhang Laosan is busy (ah) cleaning up at home", with nine words, and "I'm here to make a good comparison with Hai". The first line is out, but how to sing the next line? Or He Dongbao turned fast, called out "Hu Da Sister", Tian Qionglin, Tian Yunlong two brothers immediately answered "Hey", He sang "Liu Hai brother", this side and answered "ah", "you compare me to what people Luo ho ho" naturally sang the next line of the "Antong tune", so back and forth, will be the new words all sung, have not left the "Antong tune". The new words were sung in this way, without leaving the basic melody of the "An Tong Tong", but it was a new tune. Tian Yunlong, a qin master, proposed to put together the upper and lower passages of the "Flower Stone Tune" to make the passages of this new tune. Because the words were compared to the ancients, the new tune was later called "Bigu Tune".