There are six main excerpts in the opera "White-haired Girl", the details are as follows:
"The North Wind Blows" from "White-haired Girl", Act 1, Scene 1;
"Ten Miles of Wind and Snow" from "White-haired Girl", Act 1, Scene 1;
"Tying the Red Head Rope" from "Act 1" sung by Yang Bailao and Xie'er;
"Crying for Father" from "White-haired Girl", Act 1;
"I Want to Live" from Act III, Scene III of White-haired Daughter;
"The Sun Comes Out" from the chorus and unison song of Act V, Scene II of White-haired Daughter.
The White-haired Girl takes the folklore of the Jinchaji Border Region as its main material, and then refines and processes it according to the reality of the revolutionary struggle at that time. The main plot is that the evil landlord Huang Shiren forces the kind and honest tenant Yang Bailao to death, steals his daughter Xier and rapes her, and finally forces her to flee into the mountains.
Xi'er survived with a strong will for revenge, and because of the lack of sunlight and salt, her hair turned white, and she became known as the "white-haired fairy goddess" by the villagers nearby. The Eighth Route Army liberated the area, led the peasants to defeat Huang Shiren, and rescued Xier from the mountains. She was able to turn over a new leaf and start a new life.
The play y expresses the theme of "Old society forces people to become 'ghosts', and new society turns 'ghosts' into people" through the encounter of Joy, and truly reflects the reality of the rural areas in the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. It truly reflects the contradiction between the poor peasants and the landlord class in the rural semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and proves that only the people's revolution led by the ****-producing party can smash the feudal yoke, and liberate Xie'er as well as millions of peasants who have the same **** destiny as Xie'er.
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The art form of "The White Haired Girl":
"The White Haired Girl" is a new national opera that is a fusion of poetry, song and dance.
Firstly, the plot structure of the opera draws on the method of dividing the scene of traditional national opera, and the scene changes are diversified and flexible.
Secondly, the language of the opera inherits the fine tradition of Chinese opera, which is the use of both singing and white.
Thirdly, the music of the opera is based on the northern folk songs and traditional opera music, and it is played and created, and it has absorbed some of the performance methods of Western opera music, which has a unique national flavor.
Fourth, the performance of the opera, learning the performance means of traditional Chinese opera, pay due attention to the dance figure and the rhythm of reading, at the same time, but also learn the reading of the lines of the drama, both beautiful and natural, close to life.
And the lyrics are from the beginning of the story, when Lao Yang buys his daughter a red headband, and Joy sings and dances with joy.
As far as literary structure is concerned, "The White-haired Girl" is one of the rare examples in the history of modern Chinese literature that perfectly and harmoniously blends the strong spirit of romanticism and the bold technique of romanticism into one. The transition from the realism of the first half of the play to the romanticism of the second half shows the collective wisdom of the authors, and also reflects the tendency and basic tone of The White Haired Daughter in the process of processing and revision.
The opera adopts the tunes of northern folk music, absorbs the music of opera, and draws on the creative experience of Western European operas, and is the cornerstone of China's new national opera developed on the basis of the new rice-planting song movement. The author used the cheerful tune of the Hebei folk song "Qingyangzhuan", "The North Wind Blows, the Snowflakes Float", to express the innocence and expectation of Xi'er.
The deep and low Shanxi folk song "picking wheat root" is used to shape the musical image of Yang Bailao; the Hebei folk song "little cabbage" is used to express the repressed emotions of Joy when she is oppressed by Huang's mother in Huang's house; and the soaring music of Shanxi Opera highlights Joy's indomitability and longing for vengeance, and so on, all of these artistic treatments are the timeless melodies born on the soil of folk music.
The outstanding feature of the play is that it draws on the classical opera tradition of combining singing, chanting and speech. Characters introduce themselves through singing, and in many places they also narrate the course of events in monologue, while the dialogues of the characters are presented in the way of drama.
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