Early in the morning, the elders and grandmothers go to the stage with their stools, pick the best seats and wait for the show to start.
At five or six o'clock in the afternoon, after eating and taking a bath, they would get together with three or five friends and go to the theater with great enthusiasm.
Take the parents to give one or two dollars of change, buy a popsicle or buy a packet of chili sticks, end of the end of the run all over the theater, play and play.
The most favorite to run to the backstage to see the playwrights make-up, tracing eyebrows and painting face, pick up the vermilion paper, lips in the top sip, bright as blood.
The stage is set up, the personnel make-up, ready, will start the main play
"Eight Immortals", this is our children's favorite, but also an important reason for us to come to the theater.
The gongs and drums, the suona, and the erhu sounded, and a festive music was played. The Eight Immortals came on the stage, and then there was a man with a basket of rice and paddy, and some small change of 10, 20, and 50 cents.
Then began a magnificent and auspicious rhetoric, roughly this " ...... pick up the money, business is to do more and more big; reading is to study progress, the examination of Tsinghua University; the old man picked up the body well ...... Grain and rice to take back to feed chickens and ducks, the more they grow more fat ...... ", after finishing, they hand grabbed a handful of thrown down the stage.
This time is the most exciting time for our children, the mood, as now in the group to grab red envelopes, grab a penny feel happy.
At that time, when you grabbed a penny, you were so excited that you took the money with good wishes, studied hard, and thought about the future of Tsinghua University, in fact, you didn't know what the concept of Tsinghua University was at that time.
After the "Eight Immortals", they began to sing opera.
At that time, I also like to watch the opera, watching the subtitles. Then listen to them sing, but also watched with great interest, into the theater three. (A lot of Hainanese words are also learned from)
On the stage of the theater, babbling singing, a hand of orchid fingers, a raised eyes, eyes flow.
Coupled with the sound of gongs and drums, suona, erhu and other musical instruments, sound into the ear, the classic melody, in the heart of the endless.
The play was so emotional that the audience was in tears.
But there will also be some clowns, teasing action, speech, but also let people laugh to the stomach ache. And after chatting with their friends, they always discuss parodies to find fun.
After the end of the show, it will take the memory of the thoughts, into the dream. Then look forward to tomorrow night. （In some villages, there are seven consecutive nights of theater, and in others, there are two or three nights.
When you play house with your buddies, you often put on a bed sheet or a quilt cover and pretend to be an opera singer, mimicking the style of the body, making the orchid finger, and humming a little bit, which is also decent. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
The favorite is the orchid finger, think special show women's beauty and shyness.
In a flash, many years have passed, leaving home to study, and then work, has been many years have not watched Qiong Opera. Although there is a TV to watch, but there is no sense of immersion in the past. I love the live ones.
But thankfully, over the years, the custom has not been broken.
But I have also heard that other places are now changing to square dancing, and rarely invite the troupe to sing opera.
I'm also afraid that few people will choose to specialize in opera. After all, fewer and fewer people like to watch the theater, looking at the stage decreasing audience, is the stage on the theater is also decreasing? Whether it is Qiong Opera or Beijing Opera.
Still hope that such intangible cultural heritage is not lost is, until I am old, can still take a stool to sit on the stage, watching the play.
I hope that this intangible cultural heritage will not be lost.