The first scene, "The Eight Immortals Celebrate Their Longevity", plays the eight immortals going to Yaochi to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West, highlighting the word "longevity". Its final ending scene of the stage picture must also be matched to form a "longevity" character.
The second show, "Immortal Ji Sends Her Son", plays the seventh sister of the Heavenly Immortal, who was forced to return to the Palace of Immortality and gave birth to a scaly child, so she rode the auspicious clouds down to the earth and sent the baby to Dong Yong.
The third show is "Jumping and Crowning". The third performance is "Jumping on the Crown", which is also known as "Adding Officials". Performer wearing a mask, holding a jade tablet, like a heavenly official; some say it is the god of wealth, Zhao Gongming. Its open hand scrolls on the toasts are "high in the sun", "congratulations on wealth" or "peace in the territory", "five valleys and a bumper harvest "and so on, all depending on the content of the celebration and the host of different status and selected.
The fourth "capital will", acting Lu Mengzheng won the high ranking, received Mrs. Liu Cuiping to the capital to meet. This is not only close to the word "merit", but also reflects the good wishes of the reunion.
The last of the four plays is the most complete, and it is a small part of the main play "The Colorful Building". The opening play "net shed" is the southern opera "vice end of the stage" introduction of the family or the plot of the main idea of the remaining form, not an independent play, so this whole group of opening play is also known as the "four out of even", the so-called "five blessings! The so-called "Five Fortunes" is just the content embodied in these four plays.
This kind of traditional open-stage play was abolished after the founding of the PRC, and the old rules were restored in the 80's with the rise of Teochew Opera's rural square plays in order to respond to the wishes of the farmers.
China's traditional opera performances, there is the custom of opening the stage to perform auspicious plays; the auspicious plays of each type of opera are different, and the opening of the Teochew Opera's auspicious play is the "Five Fortunes Company". Five blessings even" including "net shed", "jumping crown", "fairy send son", "the capital will", "Eight Immortals celebrate life" and other five folds. These five performances have the meaning of praying for blessings, good luck and wishes. The performance of "Send off the Son by the Fairy Concubine" is taken from a passage of "The Pairing of Heavenly Immortals", in which the fairy Concubine Ji Ji (the Seventh Sister) sends off her son to Dong Yong. There are only four lines in the whole performance, and this piece is meant to be a blessing (commonly known as having a son is a blessing). The Capital Meeting" is taken from a section of "The Colorful Building", in which Lv Mengzheng was awarded the Scholarship, and took his wife Liu Cui Ping to the capital to meet and **** enjoy the glory. This fold also known as the "report three yuan", meaning that the "Luk". Eight Immortals Celebration of Life" from the "Peach Party", acting Dongfang Shuo invited the eight Immortals to go to the meeting with the Queen Mother to celebrate her birthday, implying that "life". Taken together, it presents the Three Rays of Fortune, Luck and Longevity. If "Five Fortunes" is subtracted from "Jumping for the Crown" (which can be performed separately), it is called "Four Fortunes".
The old Teochew Opera book is the actor dressed as Li Shimin came out, read four lines of rhyming dialogue: "high colorful building clever makeup, the pear orchard has thousands of children. Sentences are made by Hanlin, playing the clutch **** sad and happy. (White) The coming one will be passed down through the ages." Next is to the four corner of the stage for the performance of the body, the music played, exit. These four rhyming lines are traditionally recited in Chiu Chow Opera in Zheng Yin (commonly known as Kong Zi Zheng).
"Net shed" Chaozhou opera is also known as "Li Shimin net shed", but based on historical facts, the ancestor of the pear orchard is the Tang Minghuang (Li Longji), many of China's plays are worshiped by the Tang Minghuang for the play God, known as the old Lang Shen, because the Tang Minghuang reign, set up in Changan, around the workshop, management of wandering, singing and dancing, acrobatics, and has become independent of the official office; the Tang Minghuang is very fond of music, singing and dancing, had selected the outstanding musicians of the three hundred, in the pear orchard These musicians are known as the pear orchard disciples. Chaozhou opera old Li Shimin net shed, should be Tang Minghuang net shed of the error, because Li Shimin (Tang Taizong) reign, there is no Liyuan set up, there are some troupes, has changed Li Shimin to Tang Minghuang.
The Jumping Crown is an auspicious play of blessing to the audience, with no Taito, but only body performance. Peking Opera also has this section of the performance, called "jump plus official". The actor's costume is wearing a veil on his head, a mask on his face, wearing an official (衤莽) (red, yellow, green robe), holding a satin banner with words such as "Heavenly Officials Provide Blessings", "Rising Higher in the Day", "Adding Crowns and Promoting Luck", etc., while the audience is blessed with the performance. "They dance while displaying the auspicious words on the banner to express their wishes and welcome to the audience. In addition to the male crown outside the Teochew Opera there are female crown, that is, in the event of the arrival of the dignitaries along with his wife, Mrs. is also a noble figure, then in the male after the crown, and then jumped female crown, female crown actors wearing red (衤莽) robes, phoenix crowns, holding the imperial tablet, the crown banners with "a lady" "Fuk Luk Luk Shou Quan " "glory and wealth" and other words. Watching the theater of the dignitaries in the jump after the performance of the crown, to reward the field with red envelopes. The red packet obtained by the troupe, known as the crown money, handed over to the troupe's manager for safekeeping, as the annual lunar calendar June 24 and December 24 to worship the god of the theater Tian Yuanshuai or other God of the expenses of the activities.
"Jumping Gaguan" The mask worn by the actor is called "Gaguan Shell" by artists, with a white smile and a small five locks of black beard; the back of the mask is placed horizontally on a rattan bar, which the actor bites when he comes out, because there is no lyrics and no need to open his mouth for this performance, and what's more, the main thing is that in the middle of past performances, in the event of the presence of dignitaries, the performance will stop and the actor jumps Gaguan, which is called Gaguan Shell. More importantly, in the past, in the middle of the performance, if a dignitary came to the stage, the performance would stop and the actor would jump and crown, in which case, the actor would bite the mask on it and it could be introduced, and it would be easy to unload it after the performance. The production of this mask, which is bitten by the mouth rather than put on, is exactly the same as that of the Peking Opera.
The origins of the "Jumping Crown", according to Yan Changming, "Qin Yunying Xiaolu" cloud: "between Jin and Yuan began to have a courtyard, a person sitting in the field singing, a person should be section to go to the Yan. Today's theater appearance, must play the Heavenly Palace to guide, its legacy." Tiangong is jumping Gaguan, this form of performance, originated in the Jin Yuan courtyard.
The "Eight Immortals Celebrate Longevity" is the most introduced character in the "Five Fortunes Company". Because this analysis is often added before the performance of the main drama, the actors in the main drama are usually in make-up to prepare for the performance. This performance is mostly performed by actors and actresses of the troupe; in the past, some actors and actresses of the troupe were few in number and were unable to cope with the situation, which often led to a lot of jokes. Chaozhou opera "Eight Immortals Celebration of Life" in the eight immortal costumes, crowns and hats, a fixed color matching, beautifully produced, the eight sets of clothing, known as "eight Chuan a hall.
In the past, the audience of the Eight Immortals birthday celebration in the word "birthday" in the row, is very concerned about, there is a story, said the word "birthday" of the hao field, generally Iron Crutch Li for the "birthday" head, Dongfang Shuo for the "inch" head. Dongfang Shuo for the "inch", that is, the word of life under the "inch"; but if the class master surnamed Fang, or to the performance of the large township surnamed Fang, it is to be reversed, by the Dongfang Shuo to do the "birthday" head, Iron Crutch Li The reason for this is that in the name of Dongfang Shuo, there are two main characters in his name. The reason is that Dongfang Shuo's name, there is a "square" word, if the immortal with the word "square" condescends to inch, degrading the dignity of the surname Fang, so to the performance of the large townships surnamed Fang, had to let Tie Qiao Li condescend to make "inch". During the '93 (Shantou) International Teochew Opera Festival, "Wufu Lian" was performed as the opening auspicious opera at the cultural evening of the opening ceremony of the Sixth Chaoshan Spring Festival. On the basis of retaining the traditional theme of "auspicious feints and blessings", there was a significant breakthrough in the form of the performance. Firstly, it was to break the form of the stage performance in the frame and change it to the form of the hook and bar of the early opera performance to adapt to the audience's viewing from all sides, for example, in the "Immortal Fairy Delivering the Son", the traditional performance was that the fairies came out from the left door and performed in the gymnasium. All the fairies from the highest part of the audience seat in the stadium, along the steps Ran and descending, cloud step to the stage, and then the fairy girl from the upper floats down, the performance area to the high altitude and all around the stretch. Second, the use of lighting, clouds and other stage holding techniques, creating an unreal environment in heaven and on earth, such as "Eight Immortals Celebration of Life" in the descent of eight Immortals, or clouds and fog, or riding a cloth donkey, or riding a flatboat to come, are the use of stage stunts to be rendered. Third, the scene is spectacular, five-fold play, on stage actors amounted to more than 170 people, such as the "capital will" a fold, in addition to the traditional entourage and Mei Xiang, only Lu Mengzheng and Liu CuiPing two protagonists, on stage Lu Mengzheng and Liu CuiPing *** 26 pairs, that is, all the troupes to participate in the International Chiu Chow Opera Festival, each troupe has sent a pair of Lu Mengzheng Liu CuiPing on stage; jumping crowns" traditionally only one person has been changed into a 16-person, 8 men and 8 women, and fourth, the Chaozhou Opera actors at home and abroad joint performance, set at home and abroad artists in one, is an unprecedented feat in the history of Chaozhou Opera.