The Creative Prototype of Hosta
Hosta Hosta is an excellent work that is well-known and loved by everyone. Many Yue opera troupes regard it as a repertoire and make it into an art film. But no matter the version or the color film, only the name of the arranger is arranged, and there is no name of the script creator. So who was the original creator? They are Ma Chaoshui and Zhang, one of the founders of Yue Opera. 19 18, Ma Chao took famous actresses Wang Yongchun, Duo and Zhang into Shanghai. He felt that it was impossible for the repertoire to be updated and not meet the public's taste in the big Shanghai of Shili Yangchang. To this end, he bought back "Li Xiuying Bao Juan" and read it in one breath, feeling good. On the other hand, he thought that he had seen the performance of Dongyang Wu Opera "Three Musts" in his hometown, and that Li Xiuying Baojuan could be adapted into a good play. In order to make full preparations, he went to the bookstore to buy the complete biography of Hosta, discussed it with his younger brother Zhang and began to adapt it. After careful arrangement and adaptation after their performance, The Jade Hairpin was finally born and officially staged in Shanghai Huaxing Theatre on July 20th, 2008. After the performance of Hosta Jade, it caused a sensation on both sides of Pujiang and was a great success. This is not only a wonderful performance, but also the roles played by several main actors are vivid and touching. More importantly, the script is well adapted. First, change the great tragedy "Three Masterpieces" of Dongyang Wu Opera Class into a great comedy. The original plot is that Li Xiuying was wronged and left out by her husband on their wedding night. The injustice was hard to stretch, and her father Li Tingfu kicked her to death without asking questions. Gu Wenyou wrote love letters privately, framed others and sent them to the government for interrogation. Yulin was killed on the spot with remorse after the truth came out. Li, Wang and Gu are all bachelors, so they lost three when they died, hence the name "Three Lost". The first achievement of Ma Chaoshui and Zhang is that after the truth came out, they changed the tragic death of three people into a comedy ending of a happy couple and were ordered to go to Beijing to try out high school. This is known to all women and children as "sending rockhoppers". Yulin knelt down in front of Xiuying, which is the author's amazing pen. In feudal society, it was an earth-shattering thing for a man to kneel in front of his wife. Besides, it is a unique miracle that Wang Yulin, a carefully selected top scholar and pupil of the son of heaven, is kneeling in front of his first wife, wearing an official hat, palace flowers, official clothes and boots, begging for mercy and apologizing. This kind of kneeling is good, which greatly violates the feudal traditional ethics. Second, it has its unique artistic effect. Harmonious love and family reunion have always been the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. The author changed the tragedy into a comedy and ended up with a happy ending, which was in line with the people's wishes, so it was greatly welcomed by the Shanghai audience. Third, rich in the spirit of the times. The Jade Hosta was written and performed on 19 18, just before the May 4th Movement. The content of the play coincides with the new cultural movement trend of women fighting for liberation, equality between men and women, freedom and independence at that time. The Jade Hairpin, which was created in line with the trend of the times and performed in line with the spirit of the times, was a rare play on the stage of Shanghai Opera at that time. Yue Opera is ahead of the traditional opera circle, so it has been affirmed and welcomed by all walks of life. It is precisely because of the success of "The Jade Hairpin" in Shanghai that the Yue Opera, which first entered Shanghai less than two years ago, consolidated its performance site and firmly occupied the stage of Shanghai Opera. The birth and performance of Hosta is a qualitative leap in the history of Yue Opera.