When the simple and elegant capture the spiritual light of modern consciousness

The Xianxian opera (formerly known as Xinghua Miscellaneous Drama), who is cherished as "Song and Yuan Nan Opera Live Fossil", is indeed as Max ’s lamenting ancient Greek art and epic. Specifications and high models "(see" Political Economy Criticism · Introduction ").

In recent years, this is the newly edited by the Xianxian opera "Stepping Umbrella" performed by the Fujian Puxian Opera Theater, which shows the most precious "living" word in "living fossils". It is amazing, joyful, cherished with its simple and elegant artistic style, capturing the light of modern consciousness!

The "point" of ordering iron into gold

The material of the Xianxian opera "Step in the Umbrella" is derived from a very simple sub -line in "Shuangzhu Ji": the man likes a woman in the chaos, but does not know that this woman is the fiancee who has never met. When the woman heard the other party's name, she secretly surprised, but lied that her name was "Yu Huiyun" (her real name was Wang Huigu). Listening to the man said that he had never "married" and asked him to "divert as Qin Jin", the woman said, "Jun Ru really believes that the slave family should be ordered." So, "Together with the Golden Gold" (selling gold). Later, the truth was revealed (in fact, Wang Huagu had already known), and the woman clapped the man with a hundred knots. This story had no deep meaning, but it was just a schematic, and it was funny.

However, Zhou Chang, a well -known drama writer of the Xianxian opera, gave a strange drama thinking to perceive life. He was alone, and the cave had a small candle. In this sub -line of inserting a scoop, his eyes penetrated sharply, and he felt from the coincidence: A pair of men and women who originally fixed their relatives and did not know each other and did not know each other actually dried firewood. So, whose mockery did it? Thinking from the misunderstanding: Why do you want to create a misunderstanding (deliberately using the pseudonym), what is the purpose? So just like naughty cunning? From a Chinese lie (never married, that is, I haven't ordered a relative), I saw the impulse of men and broke through the line of defense? In this way, the male protagonist should only be a Bo Xinglang? Just as Mr. Li Zehou's analysis of the literary arts of the Ming and Qing citizens in "The Culture of Beauty": "Although it is full of vulgar, low -level, shallow, boring of small citizens here, although it is far from the artistic taste of the doctors of the upper class. It is a new sense of life with vitality ... "Since this" new consciousness "is" vitality of life ", it will definitely develop. Because "history never die, because it always connects its beginning with its ending" (Crozil: "Theory and Reality of History"). At that time, the "new consciousness", after a long period of twists and turns, and after the impact of various trends of thoughts, after the erosion of wind and rain, and the sunny cultivation of the sun, it could become the "modern consciousness" at this time. As the writer's drama writer, he uses the ancient and elegant thinking of the Xianxian opera to capture the spiritual lighting of the modern consciousness he has perceived.

According to this material, the newly compiled Puxian drama "Stepping on Umbrella", the core of the new drama story of its structure is: the private "yin and yang" that was originally included in the marriage of the marriage that was originally included in the marriage was involved in each other. Love at first sight. Yes, in all love stories, there is no more intoxicating and longing than at first sight. However, at first sight in "Step in the Umbrella" is not the burning when rhinoplasty meets the apricot eyes, but in the encounters of the disaster, the wind and rain, and the dependence of life and death. When the two finally went to a small guest shop for a long time, when they ate a full meal, the heroine Wang Huilan sang: "A glass of respect for gentleman wine/grace is like mountains/Ruodi (again) to help my mother and daughter reunion/grass The title ring/difficulty is half of the kindness. " In this way, the "other half" is the reverie of the "other half". At the same time, at the same time, Wang Huilan, who was kneeling and worshiped Xie En, the male protagonist Chen Shizhong only stared at him and immediately shocked: "She first raised Yun Ying/Light. Yingying Qianying/It is just like the peach blossoms and shake the morning/sighing that the escape is not able to recognize the beauty. " In other words, this "love at first sight" is the result of "wind and rain, life and death", not the search for idiots. Next, the emotions of the two protagonists suddenly heated up, and they were rooted in the soil of "wind and rain, life and death". What is particularly worthy of attention is the turning point of the whole drama -the heroine is caught in the self -fictional soul network, "Why try to try him/try him whether he is a gentleman", there is an endless imagination: since he fell in love with Gui (I), would rather retreat with Wang Huilan (I) who booked a relative, then he was unfaithful to me. It seems that this little woman still does not think about the logical training: he falls in love with life and death, and the real you (such as Gui). To this end, he is not afraid of you who has never met with a name (Wang Huilan). Dear, is this love or not? Loyalty is not loyal? To put it, you can't blame this little woman, all of which are hypocrisy of the old ritual and religion. The old customs that arranged marriage have deprived the emotional freedom and rational judgment of young men and women.

What wakes the heroine from the strange circle of paradoxes is that the heroine who has repeatedly blamed himself resolutely: accept Wang Huilan's accusations of "disregarding his marriage" and accept her backbone. "The Chen family would" send someone to retreat as soon as possible. " In this sentence, Wang Huilan suddenly woke up, "but the surroundings are empty, but the sound of water in the river is left." Another sentence, Chen Shizhong's determination: "After retiring, I will get up/Ru Gui to propose again." "Re -proposal is like Lei Zhen", and the true feelings are difficult to suppress the outbreak. She finally shouted the truth: "Bring a slave!" Please note that the male protagonist said to propose to the "Gui Gui" of life and death and the Communist Party, instead of The name "Wang Huilan" written on the wedding book. What he threw was the blind box given to him by the old ritual, pursuing the only one in his heart, my true and lovely person. This drama action of the male protagonist not only caused the entire drama situation to rotate the tsunami -like rotation, but also caused the light of modern consciousness to illuminate the whole drama.

The "birthmark" of living fossils "Chan Ruo Taohua

The newly edited Xianxian drama "Step in the Umbrella" is like a delicate, elegant and clear carvings on a living fossil, and there is a distant and ancient elegant charm everywhere. This charm is exactly the echo that the classical drama civilization hit the modern people.

How did this do it? It is worth our search.

Zhou Changfu, a playwright, said that he wrote this drama, which was the exquisite baby of Zhang Yangxian's drama, such as "walking rain" and "keeping an umbrella". However, in the material he found, there was neither "rain" nor "staying umbrella", but it was precisely that material, which requires both "rain" and "staying umbrella". As the British literary critic Bell said, only by organizing a meaningful form into a meaningful whole can it evoke profound aesthetic feelings. And how does this "meaningful whole" constitute? He said that the intentional form is corresponding to emotional images (see "Foreign Aesthetic Literature and Art of the 20th Century"). "The opera, the story of the song and dancing is also" (Wang Guowei: "The Source of the Opera"). If you leave the story, the song and dance are just kabuki, not the drama. In the story of "Step in the Umbrella", "Rain Rain" and "Keep Umbrella" are both exquisite tricks and techniques, but also the "emotional image" of the drama. "Rain" is the image of "chaos", but it is a strange situation, but the change of change, but also the mood of affection, is speechless, is a desire to silence ... Please see the end of the first fold. Wonderful performance-

After more than ten rounds of repeated begging and resignation, the concerns that the heroine repeatedly expressed the concerns of "fear of abduction", the heroine was finally forced to propose the idea of ​​"in troubled times, and otherwise": "Someone asked (you and me relationship)/ Quan said it is a husband and wife. " As soon as they exported, the two were shocked ... Is this the expectation of the two of them, or was it scared because of being too bold? At this embarrassing moment of helplessness, it was raining. The male protagonist contained endless pity words, "Let's go, go together" to open the umbrella for him. With the quiet single flute sound, slipping out of the rounded and clear pitch, just like the "Guan Guan Ying's Flower Fave" in "Pipa". As if disappearing, the male stretched out the umbrella to cover the rain, and the woman smiled ashamed. The two used wonderful shoulders and steps to show that they gradually entered the good realm of quiet and harmonious. Suddenly, the strong wind and rainfall fought, pushing the male and female protagonists, the man rotated with the wind, and the female rolled down ... The man dragged the woman hard, and the woman pulled the man's back disregard, followed. In the turn, the woman trembled and retreated step by step; and, in addition, the male was centered on the female, and the umbrella turned to the curved shape. The light -moving "step" of the two of them made them both of the "shoulders" and the endless secrets, just like the more green grass in the drizzle, just like the light on the tip of the pine needle after the rain was bright. The water droplets are shining, glittering, and burning in the audience's heart ...

Beauty, more than beauty? This is an important drama action, depicting the changes in the relationship between the character, and the subtle changes of the instantaneous changes in the psychological activity of the character. Isn't this "rainy rain" metaphorized by the fate of the two protagonists in the whole drama? Isn't this the emotional image of the main creators in the whole drama?

The "emotional image" of "staying umbrella" is also a symbol of the interpretation of the drama relationship, the externalization of psychological expression, and the symbol of the plot development.

Umbrellas, especially flower umbrellas with very different colors on the stage of opera, will always support the hazyness of Jiangnan smoke and rain, which is the largest and most beautiful flowers in the rain. "The cool umbrella reflects the red makeup noodles" (Yan Shuci), although it is a lotus, it is the most wonderful flash in the rain; "Hurry up, and suspect it is a dream" (same as above). If so, the "umbrella" in "Step in the Umbrella" is the emotional image of poetry and love. In the Xianxian opera, the classic drama method of "staying umbrella" gives the performance of poetry and love with more wonderful and deeper and more interested imagination. We might as well explore this "intentional form".

(1) Structural effect.

This umbrella is in Zhanghe, and its three times is precisely the three mileage of the psychological and emotional development of the male and female protagonists. The first mileage: In the first fold, the two became lonely in the war. In the vortex of military disasters, she succeeded after eight "with slaves to". When the two people raised their umbrellas, the audience was pleased that they finally stepped on the red line of the old ritual and old customs. The two simple hearts approached. Their fate intersects, looking forward to their beautiful future. The second mileage: After the strange circle of the second and third folding paradox, the fourth folding boat, the male protagonist accepted the heroine of the heroine, decided to retreat, cut off the paradox Luo.com woke up the hostess, "The meaning of the road/who is in the heart is like Jiangliu's heart." At this moment, "the world is affectionate/wind and rain is coming." The male protagonist hurriedly opened the umbrella, blocking the rain for the heroine, and frankly confessing the hot sincerity: "The spring breeze is not as good as you/except Wushan is not cloud." Retirement is to propose a marriage. Love, really blooming. The third mileage: the male and female protagonist raised an umbrella to accompany, "Shui Lugu/Mountain Yinyin/Wind and Rain". The heroine finally broke out and stopped doing the "unable to try" stupid things; the male protagonist was sober from the drunk, and firmly strengthened his special love. (2) Psychological movements.

The "stepping" of "Step in the Umbrella" is not a "stepping", but the origin of a legendary story. It is a hidden heart of a beautiful love, and it is a strange mystery of life. The relationship between the two protagonists turned out to start with the "grabbing" umbrella. The first action of the heroine was the "pull" umbrella -she asked the other party to "bring slaves". The male protagonist originally replied: "Go." But she hesitated. The troops were drumming, killing and robbery, and the heroine hurriedly "stepped forward to pull the umbrella in Chen Shizhong's hand." The word "pull" shows her eagerness and trust. Then, the "pull" umbrella in the back, the "connected" umbrella (kneeling and crying), the "back" umbrella (retreating ", the" throwing "umbrella (inadvertently touched the hand), the" stepping "umbrella (stepping on, not letting go, not letting go, Even if the other party is not put on the umbrella, it is more resolute), "grab" the umbrella. In this way, from "pulling" to "grabbing" seven consecutive umbrellas, step by step to strengthen the heroine, the weak woman, how pitiful and helpless is in the darkness of the dark and killing and robbery! The stronger the desire of her life and death of the male protagonist, the more prominent her inner panic. This is the opposite of the situation of "testing" the strange circle in the first half of the third and fourth discount. This dramatic comparison not only shows the treacherousness of personal destiny, but also shows the complexity, richness, multi -facetedness, and diversity of the people's inner world.

Whether it is "raining" or "staying an umbrella", the philosophy of changing the fate of the character is hidden. In the conception of "Stepping Umbrella", the playwright should turn a funny story that happened in coincidence and misunderstanding into ancient, clever, simple and elegant artistic products, establish "rain" or "stay umbrella" or "keep umbrella" or "keep an umbrella" "This" meaningful form "corresponding to the emotional image is true art creation.

Marx once said: "Why does the human childhood in history develop permanent charm as the most perfect place to develop?" ) During the long -term development process of Puxian Opera, many artists have accumulated and stored many "permanent charm" babies who have accumulated and stored in generations of hard creation and performance practice. They should be displayed creatively today. In "Stepping Umbrella", it is not only the creative techniques of "walking rain" and "keeping an umbrella", but also in the unique performance program "Shoulder" and "Step" mentioned earlier, showing The mark of the puppet performance (puppet show). In the annotation of Mr. Zhang Geng's thesis "The Law of the Art of Opera" (1), "Tokyo Menghua Records" Volume 5 of "Beijing Waqi Art" has such a record, "Moving the drama: Primary Three ... Hanging Silk Zhang Golden Line. The miscellaneous dramas mentioned here are all puppet shows, not played by people (turning from "Artistic Features"). As a Xinghua Miscellaneous Drama, this is also the case of the Xianxian opera that is the live fossil of Nan opera. In "Stepping on Umbrella", the shoulders we see (shake on the shoulders rhythmically), steps (fine steps or back and forth or left or left), although they are born from the show of the puppet show, but due to different theotions, different drama, different ones The characters and different psychological expressions allow the audience to feel rich artistic influence. "Shoulder" and "Step" can be leisurely, panic, uneasy, proud, humorous, understanding, and open -minded ... and all these shoulders and steps are all steps. It is beauty, which is both a simple and simple beauty, and is a straightforward expression of human heart; it is also elegant beauty. It is a unique dance style of the predecessor artist of the Xianxian opera from the performance of the puppet show. I admire the two starring actors, Huang Yanyan and Wu Qinghua integrate these unique performance programs and creative methods, and shaped these two quaint but simple but modern protagonists.

As the "birthmark" of the live fossils of the Song and Yuan Nan opera, and the opening and fascinating ancient theater, the surrounding area is equipped with a drama of the opera stories ... such a character is cherished. Looking at it again, the four pick -up fields in the newly edited Xianxian drama "Step in the Umbrella", the sound effect, the bandit soldiers, and the heroine of the male and female protagonists instantly changed the mind ... It looks very simple and simple, and it looks very modern. The most important essence of all drama art is its hypothetical essence "(see" Meyero Talk Records ") vividly revealed. And the mother -in -law who impressed people, her shoulders and steps were always filled with optimism and cunning, and showed the aura of Xianxian. Her line: "In this world ... there are some things that can't be tried", which breaks the mystery of emotions on earth. The simple and elegant stage presentation shows the director Xu Chunlan's pursuit of high -quality art, showing her admiration for the long accumulation of Puxian opera, and showing her enthusiasm for the good prospects of digging into the Xianxian opera. Her wisdom is to "write" the simplicity and modernity on the stage, but it is unable to distinguish which one is quaint and which one is modern.

If the Xianxian drama as a lantern, then, "After the Reunion" and "Spring Cao Chu Church" more than half a century ago, in the present, "Step in the Umbrella" is to light up its candlelight.

Content source: Literature and Art News July 27, 2022

WeChat editor: Lu Yimeng

- END -