Artists of the national tradition start from the puppet show

Chapter 129 The perfect sword dance attracts everyone to accept disciples (please recommend, ask for a monthly ticket)

The "Farewell My Concubine" aria that Lin Mu will perform is the beautiful "sword dance" at the end.

In Mei Lanfang's private lessons, this "sword dance" is the most important part.

Moreover, while teaching himself this sword dance, Mr. Mei Lanfang also told the story of his "three changes to "Farewell My Concubine".

Speaking of the traditional repertoire of the Mei school, "Farewell My Concubine" is definitely a well-deserved top card.

Back then, "Farewell My Concubine" was not called this name, but "Chu-Han Struggle".

It is not a repertoire of the Mei school, but a masterpiece of martial arts master Yang Xiaolou.

Among them, the overlord Xiang Yu is the protagonist!
The role of Yu Ji is actually just the third character among them.

When watching "The Struggle between Chu and Han", Mei Lanfang heard some fans say that there are actually no attractive conflicts in this play. Yu Ji is very pitiful, she died a bit wronged!

After hearing this, Mei Lanfang made up her mind to adapt "The Struggle between Chu and Han", trying to reflect the contradictions and conflicts in it, and make it an attractive work.

Mei Lanfang said in person that the background of the era when he composed this play was the ten years of the Republic of China, when warlords fought. He wanted to use this play to express his anti-war purpose.

At that time, after Mei Lanfang had the idea of ​​this adaptation, he found Qi Rushan.

Qi Rushan can be regarded as Mei Lanfang's bosom friend.

Most of Mei Lanfang's new plays are written by Qi Rushan, and this time is no exception.

After some painstaking revisions, the play was named "Farewell My Concubine", and the No. [-] character, Concubine Yu, became the protagonist at once.The role of the scene has also increased a lot.

But like "Chu-Han Struggle", "Farewell My Concubine" also needs to catch up to two performances in a row to finish singing.

Finally, after finishing the polishing, Mei Lanfang invited many experts, fanciers, relatives and friends to watch the front part during the day and the back part at night. Make more comments.

However, when Mei Lanfang was secretly happy, he saw an old man in the corner breathing heavily.

This old man was not a friend Mei Lanfang had invited, but probably a fan of the movies.

However, Mei Lanfang didn't say anything, but walked over and asked the other party if he had any opinions on the play!
The old man said with a wry smile, "Your show is quite good, but I watched it twice in a row, and I was so tired that I couldn't breathe!"

After hearing this, Mei Lanfang knew where the biggest crux of the play was.

After another period of revision and polishing, "Farewell My Concubine" was finally condensed into a script that could be performed in one scene.

After the training is completed, Mei Lanfang intends to bring this play to the stage.

The premiere of "Farewell My Concubine" was very successful.

Consecutive performances for one month gave Mei Lanfang a great honor.

However, once, when Mei Lanfang was performing, during the last sword dance, he suddenly saw an old man in the audience showing disdain and shaking his head repeatedly.

This made Mei Lanfang pay attention to it. After the performance, Mei Lanfang didn't care about taking off her makeup, so she directly asked the old man to come backstage!

However, the staff was in vain, the old man had already left!

Fortunately, the old man was a "Mei fan". At the next performance, Mei Lanfang saw the old man again.

Therefore, Mei Lanfang returned to the backstage during the interval of the performance, and asked his follower Bao to go out to inquire about the old man's residence, and told him that he would visit when he was free.

When he learned that Mei Lanfang would visit him, the old man was also surprised.

Sure enough, a few days later, Mei Lanfang found the other party's home and came to visit.

After a few pleasantries, Mei Lanfang went straight to the point, asking why the other party shook his head in disdain.

It turned out that the old man was a master of swordsmanship.

"Your sword dancing skills are exactly the same as Shang Xiaoyun's, but Shang Xiaoyun is a martial arts student, so when he dances the sword, he is very vigorous. How can you compare? Besides, Yu Ji is a virtuous woman. You should overcome rigidity with softness, your entire sword dance was wrong from the very beginning!"

Mei Lanfang was deeply moved by these words, and finally asked the old man for advice sincerely.

Within a few months, whenever Mei Lanfang was free, he would go to the old man's home to ask him about swordsmanship, and it was only then that the Mei School's "Sword Dance" with both strength and softness came into being!
When Lin Mu heard these secrets told by Mr. Mei Lanfang himself, he admired this artist even more.

Seriousness, humility, and excellence, this is the most important reason why Mei Lanfang can become the Taishan Beidou in the Peking Opera world!
Propelled by gongs and drums, Lin Mu walked out from the gate of the upper arena, walking gracefully but not chaotically, and walked to the Jiulongkou, holding the sword in his left hand, pressing the sword formula with his right hand on the hilt, stepping forward with his left foot, and aligning his eyebrows with his right hand, leaning forward , lift your right foot back, turn your head and look at the raised right foot.

Seeing Lin Mu's series of actions, the judges below nodded slightly.

rule!

What is the most important thing in Peking Opera?
It's the rules!

What are the rules, that is, how the seniors acted, your juniors must follow the performances of the seniors, without any changes!
Some people don't understand why Peking opera is so rigid and cannot be changed at all!
In fact, it is not that Peking Opera is rigid, but that the predecessors have used countless stage experiences and experiences to tell you what kind of performance is correct and is recognized by the audience!
It is not impossible to change, but you must at least inherit it first, and then make fine-tuning according to your own body shape characteristics or habit characteristics.

However, that is all after you have worked on the stage for more than ten or twenty years.

However, at the stage of beginners, the best way to learn is to imitate.

Lin Mu has imitated every detail of Mei Lanfang's "Sword Dance"!

Whether it's the range of movements or the changes in eyes, if you look at Mr. Mei Lanfang's video, it's just like looking in a mirror!
Li Zhengsu squinted his eyes, with satisfaction in his mouth, watching his proud lover perform on the stage, he really liked it no matter how he saw it!

Chi Xiaoqiu on the side also nodded silently. Sure enough, there is no one worthy of fame. This Lin Mu is indeed amazing!
Yixia, he is your biggest opponent!
Zhang Yixia is actually standing at the side curtain of the exit gate, watching Lin Mu's every movement seriously, with a shocked expression on her face!

Still the same sentence, I am afraid of comparing goods!

Compared with Lin Mu's own movements, I feel as clumsy as a beginner, and I can't help but blush for a while!

Solve your worries and dance your mother-in-law.

"Jie Jun", slowly turned right with his right hand and turned to the "small side", holding the sword brightly.

"Depressed", put down the sword he was holding and turned it into a reverse handle, turned to the left and squatted down at the entrance of the "Dabian" platform.

"Wu Po Whirling", stand up and step back, turn to the right, face the front desk, hold the sword in both hands, point the tip of the sword up, left and right three times, and the sword head down, separate the swords, hold a sword in each hand, turn right to " "Small side", swirl half a circle.

The huqin sounded, and Lin Mu danced to the sound of the qin, but this sound was a little less interesting than Wang Wenhe just now.

"Persuading the king to drink wine and listen to Yu Song—"

The judges in the audience couldn't help but glance at Li Zhengsu, their envious expressions could no longer be suppressed.

For actors in Tsing Yi, the first thing to look at is the appearance, and the second is the voice.

Needless to say, Lin Mu's appearance is naturally more like a woman than a woman after dressing up.

This voice is even more talented, Dan Jiao's small voice is just right, and it is somewhat similar to Mei Zu's voice!

This is simply the material for natural singing!
The name of this section of Jinghu's tune is "Deep Night".

The music is based on the four lines of the Kunqu Opera "Si Fan Down the Mountain" and "The Wind Blows the Lotus Leaf".

The content of the libretto in "The Wind Blows the Lotus Leaf" is that the little nun lamented that she entered Buddhism and lived a boring life of loneliness and misery.

However, the authors of "Deep Night" used the techniques commonly used in folk music creation, such as adding flowers, shortening, shortening, filling at the end of sentences, and changing new ones, to change the original sad and resentful tune into a new type of vigorous and powerful music. , full of passion.

Lin Mu sang and danced in this piece of tune, and at the end, Lin Mu held the sword in both hands, and in front of him, like two white dragons, formed two white exercises.

The judges and audience in the audience burst into applause.

"Susu, this kid's kung fu is really amazing!"

Shi Hongyi on the other side leaned over and whispered in Li Zhengsu's ear.

Suddenly, Lin Mu squatted on the ground with his left foot in front and his right foot behind him, crossing his swords. Slowly, he turned to the right with his swords crossed on top of his head, and his whole body was as boneless. Completed a difficult lower back movement.

The wishful crown on top of Lin Mu's head has already touched the stage board!

In this scene, all the judges, who were so busy at first, couldn't help standing up, especially Li Zhengsu, who stretched out his hand involuntarily. I was really afraid that Lin Mu's waist would not be able to bear it!
Not to mention men, even women like them, when they were young, couldn't guarantee that they could do such a move.

Zhang Yixia who was standing at the gate couldn't help but cover her mouth.

Is this an action that humans can do?

Even if it was her, she couldn't lower her waist to such an extent!
Don't think it's easy to lower your waist.

For many people who have practiced gymnastics, it is really easy to lower the waist, but you have to be like Lin Mu, wearing a heavy costume, wearing a wishful crown weighing several kilograms on your head, keeping the sword in your hand crossed, and then, slowly Lower your waist slowly, and finally stand up slowly from the other side!
This difficulty is definitely not just talk!
Seeing Lin Mu complete the whole movement, Li Zhengsu also let out a deep breath, sat back on the chair, and looked at Lin Mu with an angry and satisfied look!
Chi Xiaoqiu on the side sighed, and said, "Susu, I'm really envious, this kid is really nice, otherwise, let him also join our Cheng faction?"

Li Zhengsu rolled his big eyes and said, "You think beautiful!"

Shi Hongyi on the other side also bent her phoenix eyes and smiled pretty, watching the wonderful performance of her little nephew, she couldn't help being tempted!
Not only Chi Xiaoqiu and Shi Hongyi, but the other judges are all salivating over talented actors like Lin Mu!
Finally, the three major gongs rang, and Lin Mu stood with one hand leaning on his sword with a look of powerlessness.

"it is good!--"

Li Zhengsu couldn't help applauding and shouting for his lover!
(End of this chapter)