The best cultural center in the county is the cinema. A few days before getting the movie tickets, people have begun to discuss the plays excitedly. Old people are familiar with them and can even narcissistically hum a few classic lyrics. It is not enough to execute them again and again. The artistic conception of the lyrics, the basic skills of the actors, the roundness and fullness of the singing and the perfect ups and downs of the story are not just the problems of the actors. It is necessary for the audience to take time out to talk about it, just like a piece of iron, which burns red and breaks.
On the day of the drama, people ate dinner early, and women hurried to clean up the dishes. They made an appointment with the neighbors like a fair and walked to the cinema together. It's not dark yet, and on the road near the cinema, everyone is talking and laughing in small groups, as lively as going to a grand party.
Because of the need to accommodate many people, two back doors marked "entrance" were opened early, and people filed in with narrow movie tickets in their hands and sat down accordingly. The big cinema is dimly lit. Teenagers volunteered to run ahead to find the number for the family. When they walked past a long row of wooden chairs with folding chairs, they found the family's seat. The children looked around again and greeted their friends and classmates loudly. While getting permission from their parents, they recited the seat number (in case they couldn't find a seat in the dark) and played with their friends before the play started.
The lights went out and the gongs and drums rang, which drove the children back to their seats. People sit up straight and hold their breath. After the big screen was opened, the actors with heavy makeup appeared:
The most exciting is the martial arts drama. Lyrics don't torture the eardrum like babbling, and the words are concise. Even a child, you can guess three or two sentences: China's army was promoted, the marshal appeared in the crowd, handed it to the north, conveyed the emperor's will, and after a few words, he threw the arrow out steadily; The generals stood majestically on the left and right sides, each with four flags on his back. Two Zhang Yu Hua Ling rose into the sky (the generals played Hua Ling and women's sleeves), wearing scales and holding fireworks and spears, which gave the audience enough confidence. Holding the direction, holding hands, using a ring to fasten the cuff arm, pulling the reins handed by stable boy, holding the gun in one hand, lifting the hem of the armor in the other, turning over and getting on the horse, the red tassel of the helmet flashes, giving the audience a wonderful front, clenched fists and firm eyes. On one side, Henaan bent over and bit between his teeth, winning the applause with the confidence of winning. The general's face is very simple, but red is painted around his eyes and gradually spreads to his cheeks. When I was young, I always guessed that the heroic spirit before going to war must be high-spirited, so I blushed.
Wan's soldiers detoured around the stage, quickly rushed from the left side of the stage to the right side, and then disappeared behind the scenes. On the left, there are endless soldiers running out from behind the scenes, and this is repeated several times, supporting the general to move forward all the way. The opposing generals came to the forefront of the confrontation between the two armies and announced their names. As if they were lovers, they immediately raised fireworks or spears, you stabbed left, I blocked a move right, and went back and forth. There is another style on the stage. The general of one side wrapped fireworks around the back flag of the other side and turned around with all his strength, as if stirring a lake. The general of the other side turns around the axis made of fireworks like a top, and also plays around himself. After a burst of cheers, the children also whispered like Japanese. Just waiting for the last moment, a general crossed his legs and landed, indicating that he was picked off the horse.
I couldn't help but get sleepy when I met this literary drama of teasing my baby, so I just played with my friends in the corridor. The change of gong sound reminds the appearance of important people, staring at the stage from time to time. Before, I was small and buried in my seat, and I could only see the actor's face through the gap in the front row. When I stand in the aisle, I can see everything clearly: maids, ladies, housewives, knee-length dresses, and loose skirts cover my feet. Stepping on the broken steps is like flying in the clouds. The steps are broken quickly, and from time to time, embroidered shoes with a colored ball under their skirts are exposed and hurried by. Soap boots with black face and white background, officials and ministers strolled out with measured steps, and the general flew on horseback with a clear view; The short-legged man who plays the clown squatted on the ground and winked at the audience from time to time. ...
I like to see blue or red women's clothes. There are always two palm-wide ruffles on both sides, extending from the neckline to the hem, embroidered with complex patterns. On the day when I came back from the cinema, my friends and I pretended to be girls in the play, and it was inevitable to bring my mother's cloth to cover the quilt. There is beautiful lace crocheted by my mother on it, and it is deliberately tilted to imitate the orchid finger in the play and touched the lace. ) Two white "sleeves" are "long" at the end of the sleeves of the gown, which can be thrown far away and folded on the forearm. Adults say that playing sleeves well is an actor's "housekeeping skill": Qin Xianglian, who is miserable, throws out two long sleeves that shake the rope and tells his misfortune to the sky. Travel-stained people came with a pair of children, throwing out a long sleeve with one hand and putting it on with the other, flying helplessly to the edge of the stage, taking back the long sleeves, folding them neatly in an instant, becoming a square towel to wipe tears and stained with endless rouge. When the bossy housewife turned away angrily, she gave the servant who answered the message a white sleeve with disdain and disgust. When you turn around and talk to your host happily, put your sleeves in your hands in a proper way and arrange them carefully to show your respect and obedience to your host. A woman with a snake head tied to her head must have been beaten by a prisoner. She had to dance with two long sleeves and form a circular circle, spinning between Gan Kun and crying about the injustice between heaven and earth.
Female characters don't have much paint on their faces. Pink rouge extends from cheeks to eyes, and the color is getting worse and worse. They draw extremely thick shadows around their eyes, and their eyes are hung up. From time to time, I learned from adults that we should wrap up the face layer by layer with a long strip of white cloth, tighten the skin on our face, and at the same time deliberately pull up the corner of our eyes, so that under the illumination of stage lights, we can look around and fly around to achieve a vivid effect. Every time I look at it, I always think of what adults say, and my scalp tightens and I can't help sweating. From the forehead to the sideburns, there is a circle of more than a dozen oval patches, the outermost black, wrapped in oval colorful beads. Under the stage light, every turn, sideways and little gesture will be skipped by tiny flashes.
When I was seven or eight years old, Golden Branch, starring Wang Aiai, a famous Shaanxi opera actor, became a hit and became a household name. On the stage, surrounded by ladies-in-waiting, Princess Shengping wore a beautiful red gown, embroidered with luxurious moire patterns, and covered with pearls, which shone brightly on the rockhopper. Princess Shengping wanted to spend the night with her husband * * *, but I didn't expect Ai Guo, who was embarrassed at the birthday party of Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang, to get drunk and play the golden girl, and interpret the later story. Guo Ziyi tied up his son and went to the temple to confess his guilt. The emperor was generous and said, "Don't be stupid and deaf, don't be a family man.". In turn, he invited Guo Ziyi to drink, persuaded his daughter and sealed Ai Guo.
On the stage, Princess Shengping was beaten back to the palace, crying in pettish and choking with grievances (I will ask for leave to think about Wang Aiai's good performance when I am wronged in the future); The woman wearing a hat wants to pair up with the woman who came from the other end of the phone at the birthday party. When I kowtowed to my father, I found that it was neither a sister-in-law nor a sister-in-law. When I was embarrassed, I was laughed at by my brothers and sisters. King Tang declared his sense of justice. The yellow dragon robe with a long black beard is distinguished and understands the important principle. He is responsible for his daughter's husband. Guo Ziyi, a veteran, is dignified, holding a ribbon symbolizing his identity, expressing himself with humility and dignity ... The characters have distinct personalities, and the Phoenix Tower, dragon robe fans, luxurious stage effects and gorgeous costume props set off the characters more incisively and vividly.
Beating the Golden Branches is talked about by mothers and neighbors, which runs through their belief in educating children: wealth can't encourage arrogance.
Plays are frequently staged, and people are willing to draw conclusions before the characters appear to show their erudition and correctness: a white-faced traitor with a broad forehead, despite wearing a majestic long-winged official hat, a gold and black embroidered robe and a ribbon symbolizing power, is still naively and disdainfully classified as a "bad guy" by children; The old minister wears a velvet ball octagonal hat with white hair and beard, which reminds people of the word "loyalty"; Red-faced Guan Yunchang, "loyalty" was publicized; Yuanmen beheaded, and Mu Zhiyong were both married, and all's well that ends well, which became a generation of stories. ...
Drama helps people to choose unique events in history and enlarge and strengthen them again and again until people remember them word for word, and the expectations and values of society are condensed on a small stage. Through careful choice of words and polishing of singing, the most popular audio media form before the popularization of TV movies was achieved. Today, when people sadly realize the decline of China traditional opera art, the first thing they think of is the increasingly perfect techniques accumulated in the development of drama, while ignoring the value orientation that art should guide.
Many years later, Xie Jin sang "Speaking of Singing Face", which reminded me of the scene of watching a drama when I was a child: whether the eyes under heavy oil paint can still see the outside world clearly, and Master Xu's hat feather wants to rival the princess's rockhopper; Vivid historical stories and full stage images; At the end of the drama, the sleeping child was lying on his father's shoulder, the sun was setting, and the old man in Chinese double-breasted gown was carrying his hands, making baby, enjoying himself and humming classic lyrics ... back to his memory.