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The monk viscount Liutian Suxiong, like a lonely ronin, fled to Penglai like a ghost. Penglai has Taoist crane Weng, woodcutter Liu Yuan, fairy boy Wan Xue, demon king Lu Ji, and some ghosts. The world is a suffocating dark world, but Penglai also has demons. Liutian Suxiong had a sharp conflict with the Great Devil.
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The big devil appeared again.
Demon, why are you so sad?
I saw the terrible state of the world.
Demon, what's so sad about?
I didn't understand until Sue left.
The world is not what I hate,
I really can't forget it.
The Great Devil laughed.
The great devil is stupid! The world passed away in laughter and will never come back.
Only what you said has not been forgotten,
I can't forget it.
Don't you know,
Supreme power has long since ceased to exist in this world?
Sue is there, there,
The fire there is burning,
Maybe there is no God,
There may not be no Buddha.
The devil may not say nothing, idiot.
Don't you know the man who is stronger than God?
The one who defeated God and gained great power?
Who's that? What kind of goods is it?
Devil, will you bow your head?
If you know the powerful one.
Respected as the King of your,
what do you think?
Needless to say.
Demon, that's me.
I'm going to burn the world,
It ignited the fire of sin, white, black, red and blue.
I want to turn people into ashes and the world into ashes.
Let it return to the dust of the past.
I mean wind, fire, thunder, electricity,
Floods, oceans, mountains,
Everything can be arranged at will.
I said I would hire death,
Let the darkness spread,
Playing the world from beginning to end.
On your knees, now!
Head down, Dustin!
Su Xiong was silent.
There are thousands of people under the Great Devil,
Walking through the rain in the high sky, riding clouds,
This is me.
Bow down, bow down, aren't you satisfied?
Su Xiong remained silent.
The big devil still refuses to accept it?
I asked you to come here,
Is to see your courage,
I want you to be the leader of my subordinates.
Do you still want to follow?
Su Xiong remained silent.
You still don't accept the big devil?
Then let my magic destroy you,
Throw it into the fire and turn it into ashes.
Do you believe it or not?
Su Xiong stood up excitedly.
Su Pei! Demon!
Crazy! Crazy!
Although you live in the cloud,
The magic of your flight,
You use all your strength,
You can be friends with me,
However, your countless cursed sins,
Countless acts of sabotage,
In the past and in the future,
Will always be my enemy.
The big devil is still alive when he talks big!
Do you believe it or not?
What do you say or not?
Hehe, until there is no clean place between heaven and earth,
I won't have a moment's peace with you.
Go, go, otherwise,
How about treating mine as a sword?
What's interesting is your ability to destroy everything,
Just try it. Now use my bones.
Although it is easy to destroy the great devil,
Although destruction disappears faster than bubbles,
But I really don't want to ruin you.
Surrender, surrender,
Think again.
Sue also said that he could not surrender,
Why don't you go away quickly?
Dirty devil, bah, devil,
Let me see what you can do.
The Great Devil laughed.
Oh, my eyes,
Unconsciously blind,
Whether in the light or in the dark.
My eyes that don't blink.
The devil's voice knows my power!
Suha, devil, devil,
Has the destruction of me started now?
Come, come, hit with my iron fist.
Oh, strange, I can't move my wrist.
The devil's voice knows my power!
Really annoying, really annoying,
Are you trying to humiliate me?
Then let me lift my feet.
Oh, my feet are numb and I can't stand still.
Devil's voice, poor thing,
You've tasted it this time,
You can show me my strength this time!
Hey, let's go,
It's a waste of time here.
Dust! Goodbye!
Su Xiong blinked.
What's wrong with Sue? What's going on here?
The gate of heaven, blocked by thick clouds, opened,
There is a clear galaxy flowing.
What's going on here? What's going on here?
My eyes can tell the difference again,
My feet can stand again,
My arm can also move,
It really makes me happy.
That damn devil is long gone,
Magic, magic, where have you been?
Regret goes deep into my bone marrow,
Keeping out the snow keeps me warm,
There is frozen blood spouting from my chest.
Chagrin, chagrin,
Still not a god, not a spirit, this me.
For the stupid trivial life of death,
It still bothers me.
Ask this "I",
What's your destination?
Is it secular? Is this the way home?
What can you do to get back to the dust house?
Oh! On my way back.
There are tigers and poisonous snakes.
I'm not afraid of tigers and snakes,
However, fighting is really not my pleasure.
Actually, what bothers me is not the war,
Just because I'm not used to it by nature.
Floating world, can I have a home when I go back?
Floating world, what can I do when I go back?
Floating world, you gave it to me.
Under the rotten wall of that ancient temple
The bat's nest,
Although it is enough as a "lonely" accommodation place,
I sleep in this dark place,
But this is not a good night.
I do not call the floating world my home,
Hey, don't wait for me.
Where is my home?
Where is my way?
Duh! Duh! Magic,
What's my destination?
Looking down, it is a bottomless valley.
A strange fire has climbed up.
Where, where, where is Naraku,
It should be my return trip.
Where, where,
The water of death flows quickly,
My boat of life,
Where do you row a boat? The road to the underworld.
This body is not necessary to exist, and it is useless to live.
I've figured everything out,
Hey, jump,
Go to the center of hell.
Like wind, like fire,
Like thunder, like a falling meteor.
Let go, let go,
Turn to dust, turn to dust.
Jump! Jump!
Want to be safe, it turned out to be dust.
Those who disturb the customs and habits of the floating world and break the rules of the floating world,
Don't follow me.
Leave immediately, disappear,
Disappear from the floating world.
When you jump off a cliff,
Woodcutter Liu Yuan came running and hugged him.
Who are you? What person?
Why are you blocking me?
Wait, traveler.
Sue, isn't this the woodcutter?
How did you get here?
What prevented my death?
Source danger, danger, danger there,
If it falls, ...
Come here. It is safe here.
No, the world torments me,
Deceived me,
This makes me fidget.
I'm already disheartened,
How can it stop for a long time?
Look, the fire in the floating world.
What should I do?
Now is the time,
Should be dead relatives and friends.
Look, there,
Interesting things are flying high in the air.
There, there,
That bird, that vulture,
This me, what can't be better than it?
Come on, man bird,
On the way to hell, hurry ahead.
Liu Yuan seized Su Xiong, making him unable to move.
Poor traveler,
You are really crazy.
How terrible,
Jump off the top of this mountain.
People in Beijing, please wait,
Be quiet for a while.
Terrible, terrible,
Why are you working so hard?
Don't comfort me,
It's no use comforting me.
You must be one of the children,
Look at your hypocrisy.
Who is not a ghost in the world? If you tell the truth.
Whether it is a beautiful face or a gentle appearance;
Whether it is clever words or noble actions;
Whether it is a serious theory or a comment on special effects;
Whether it's elegant manners or pure love.
It's full of ghosts,
The only appearance of god.
If the world is full of ghosts,
The thing that was taken away in the ashes.
Are you a spirit or a human? Maybe a ghost?
Said it looked like a ghost and a man,
Said it was ghost.
Go ahead, woodcutter,
I don't want to go back to the ghost world
In the unknown hell,
It might be comforting.
Liu Yuan went from Xian to Jidong.
Take out the discarded pipa.
The source traveler is really crazy,
Have you forgotten this pipa?
I am not a ghost. I can understand it with this pipa.
Sue, isn't this my pipa?
Why, isn't your bosom friend in my heart?
A tear falls sadly. )
Why, why,
My pipa, for me,
What kind of music do you want to play here?
Pipa, my confused mood has surpassed your comfort.
..... a fantasy.
Look, heaven will accept me,
See the vast gray, high and infinite.
I kept crawling, crawling,
However, I can enter the door.
Still far away from me.
Listen, where I'm about to leave,
I saw the surging waves soaring like dragons,
Push me, push me.
Bury me,
Trying to swallow me up,
In that dark cave.
Pipa, how can I be with you?
How can I trust you?
My soul, my best friend,
Pipa is of no use to you now.
I want to take you to Jinglianju,
Enjoy the pleasure of pure land for a long time,
However, this may be wrong,
It's actually fake.
Now you should leave quickly,
In the deep prison of this world, I will be buried,
Is there any way to get you through,
It's still questionable.
Go ahead, go ahead,
With those who are not afraid of the night and soar in the air.
Fly with me, the vulture.
You are also a free man!
Pipa, you are free, too!
Heaven and earth are merciless, and there are no tears for you.
Go ahead, go ahead,
Be my pioneer.
Where are you going? Go ahead,
No matter where it is!
Want to be with me? Go ahead,
There may be your goods ahead,
And mine doesn't know yet.
(Throw the pipa into the deep valley)
Interesting, interesting, my pipa.
Rolling in the air, let the wind fondle.
Is that anger? Is it hate?
Is it a smile? Is it crying?
Is it sadness? Is it hi?
Touched by the hand of nature,
Your heart and I are ringing.
It fell! It fell!
Uh-huh-listen to that voice,
Hum-hum-listen to the pipa,
Hum-hum-my pipa sound
Urge my last moment to come!
Come on, let me jump, jump,
Whether in a fire or on hot iron.
Okay, okay, I should go, too.
Yo, there are tiger teeth gnawing at me on the ground,
In the sea, the crocodile opened its mouth to eat me alive.
Alas, alas, in my own body,
Life is also struggling to escape from me.
Su Xiong earned six desires to jump.
Source cough, what a strange traveler.
Danger. Danger.
Strange, only life in the world is strange.
Past experience is a mirror. ...
Only death is the end of everything,
Only death, only death,
Is the beginning of a new life.
Come on, go to hell!
Come on, go to hell!
Even if you jump off a cliff,
My last strength is also comparable.
The essence of filling the world is comparable,
It's hard to kill me.
Hey, listen to my command. ...
Hey, listen to my command. ...
Hey, listen to my command. ...
Listen to my call ...
Listen to my call ...
Go to hell! Come on, you!
Greedy guy! Come on, you!
Come on! Come on!
Stab you with that needle!
At this point, my life has begun to weaken.
At this point, I can finally distinguish things.
Die now,
Go to hell.
Go to hell.
Damn it, I love you,
Nothing is easier to die than you.
Farewell!
(landing)
The source is terrible, terrible,
Didn't you tell me before you jumped? Strange!
Ah, that's cruel!
Traveler! Traveler! I can't stand up anymore,
Where can the soul wander?
Terrible, terrible,
Pity, pity,
Dead, gone.
(Translated by Ming Lan)
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"Penglai Qu" by Takuya Kitamura was published in May 188 1, which is the first full-length poetic drama in the history of modern Japanese drama. Here, the conflict between the hero and society is the external structure, and the "binary" conflict of the hero himself is the internal structure.
Penglai, like a poem and drama title, was originally a sacred mountain where immortals lived in Bohai Sea in China myths and legends, or a fairy land where immortals lived in seclusion. In the penetrating poems, Yue Fuji was specially named. The genre of Penglai music is unique. Tougu explained in the preface to Penglai Qu that although Penglai Qu can be called a genre of traditional Chinese opera, it is impossible to imagine that it can be put on the stage. He added, "It doesn't matter whether my messy poetic style can be called poetry."
The biggest feature of Kitamura is that he is a thinker and poet. He expressed his life thinking through visualized poems, and showed all kinds of attempts in literary life, while the real modern "self" in his creation was in the creation of Penglai Qu and the subsequent creation. Although some people think Tougu's Penglai Qu is a failed work with many shortcomings, more critics give it high praise-that poetic drama represents Tougu's literary representation, and some people say Tougu showed "existentialism" for the first time in the history of modern Japanese thought or literature. It is worth noting that in modern society, the devil is in charge of material prosperity, and behind this material prosperity, there is still destruction and destruction under the control of the devil. The devil is the driving force of material prosperity and the force of destruction.
The following crying of the protagonist Yanagida Suxiong in the play has typical symbolic significance:
"There are two contradictory temperament in my life. One is divinity and the other is humanity. They fought endlessly in my heart ... until the end of my life. "
This contradiction or eternal struggle between "divinity" (spirit) and "humanity" (body) exists objectively. The awakening of this consciousness or the expression of this theme in literature is something after modern times. Tomoko Kitamura's thinking on divinity and humanity seems to be biased. He seems to worship divinity too much and consciously deny human nature. He can't tolerate any blasphemy against divinity. In order to solve these "duality" contradictions, Tomoko believes that only by destroying the body can the spirit be preserved. This is also the author's intuitive understanding of the supreme ruler of Japan at that time, expressing the author's true feelings about the strong opposition between "self" and society.
Obviously, Tomoko Kitamura has thoroughly observed the interaction between the prosperity and destruction of capitalism.
Through reading the poetic drama, it is not difficult to find that the suspicion of the protagonist, Liutian Suxiong, is not pure doubt, and his doubt retains the hope of justice and creation. Su Xiong believes in God and opposes the destruction of the devil. The great devil is a devil, whether he is calm or not, the devil brings disillusionment or destruction. Some people say that Tomoya Kitamura has intuitively realized "the economic and political laws of capitalist society" since he was eighteen, but he can't expect such a crushing rescue in the growth of the socialist party and the proletariat. In his mind, there is some kind of doomsday expectation-"flood" or "plural Christ". In a sense, in the face of that personal inner opposition to reality, Penglai Qu only pursues a fundamental criticism or denial of reality. The former "leftist" spirit of freedom and the civil rights movement became the spiritual pillar in the form of variation. Some people think that "subjective meditation is really a weakness that penetrates the valley". On the contrary, the idea that "only death can bring new life" or "throwing your soul into the canyon of life" led to the later theory of inner life (1898).
In a word, the strange world like Penglai Qu refuses to climb like a slacker. At the end of the poetic drama, Kitamura depicts the arrogance and great power of the Great Devil, and his self-response or awakening-
"Yes, I want to burn the world and light the evil fire of white, black, red and blue. I want to turn people, turn the world into ashes, and let it return to the dust of the past ... I want to hire a god of death, let the darkness spread, and play with the world from beginning to end ... Then let my magic destroy you and throw it into the ashes ... "
However, the hero Liutian Suxiong did not succumb to the * * * of the Great Devil. He retorted, "dirty devil, bah, devil, let me show you what you can do ... ah, demons, do you want to destroy me now?" Come, come, fight with my iron fist ... "After the devil left, all the abnormal feelings disappeared. Liutian Suxiong finally realized: "Still not a god, not a spirit, this me. The trivial life that became stupid in death still haunts me. "
Su Xiong's long confession strengthens the helplessness and confusion of the characters, and reveals his confusion into a strong and shouting poem. Obviously, he can't completely get rid of the contradiction and entanglement between divinity, humanity or spirit and flesh, which is the fate that human beings can't solve at any time. This is a bottomless canyon or Naraku (Sanskrit "Hell"), but this should be his return trip. "... jump and run to the center of hell. Like wind, like fire, like thunder, like a meteor. Let it go, let it go, turn to dust, turn to dust. "Su Xiong cry and choice, is TouGu helpless choice. Since he can't get rid of that kind of entanglement, then destroying himself may be the only way out?
Tougu has completely despaired of the world: "Who is not a ghost in the world? ..... whether it's a beautiful face or a gentle face; Whether it is clever words or noble actions; Whether it is a serious theory or a comment on special effects; Whether it's elegant manners or pure love. The interior is full of ghosts, only the shape of god. " Such a complete despair or awakening occurred in the Meiji Restoration era in Japan more than 100 years ago. No wonder people call Tougu the pioneer or soul of modern Japanese literature, and he is also the first practitioner of such extraordinary thoughts in the history of modern Japanese literature.
(Wei Dahai)