It seems that after a certain age, I can suddenly unlock the drama, and I suddenly fell in love with the singing of the opera. I want to sort out the thousand-year-old context of Chinese opera, I want to find the ins and outs of traditional Chinese drama, I want to know the hidden and great beauty of Chinese opera, and I want to appreciate the unique charm behind the singing, reading, and playing of Chinese drama at a deeper level.
The single word "drunk" in the Drunken Pear Garden perfectly interprets the style of the opera stage performance, which can interpret the ups and downs of life between square inches, the tactful and beautiful singing voice lingers for three days, and the exquisite costumes and headdresses appear on the stage like a dream, how tempting the traditional opera is.
I was fortunate enough to watch Bai Xianyong's "Youth Peony Pavilion", which was really captivating at a glance, an unforgettable song, and a sunny silk blowing into the idle courtyard.
Swinging spring like a line.
It turns out that the purple and red are blooming all over the place, and they are all endowed with broken wells and decay, and the beautiful scenery of a good day is a day!
Appreciate the new Lay's Whose Yard".
Not to mention the melody is tactful and resonant, just the freshness and brightness of this song is pleasing to the eye, and the poetic scenery is right in front ......of you, and the tickling of people's hearts is unbearableThe beauty of opera is indescribable, and people are eager to understand the whole of this remarkable quintessence.
"Drunken Pear Garden" can be said to be a popular opera reading, starting from the origin of Chinese drama, the ancestors of the pear garden and the belief in the god of opera involved in music and dance, the culture of Wu, the rise of the horn and the spread of a hundred operas, the reason for the exchange of male and female actors in "Shake the Lady", the changes brought about by the subtle difference between military opera, Song and Yuan miscellaneous operas, and southern opera, the legend and Kunqu opera of the Ming Dynasty, "Yuan Qu Selection" and "Sixty Kinds of Songs" ......The author Li Qiang quoted the classics and came one by one, with a clear context and unique insights.
The first chapter of "Thousands of Weathers" provides an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the origin and development of opera, so that readers who love opera can further understand the origin and genre of opera, and then the second chapter, "Viewing the Garden of Opera", gives a detailed description of each genre, including the performance skills and differences of different types of opera on stage.
The third chapter, "Opera Literature", gives an all-round explanation of the rising literary waves due to opera. For the classic dramas that are usually familiar, such as Guan Hanqing's "Dou E's Injustice", Wang Shifu's "The Legend of the West Chamber", Tang Xianzu's "Four Dreams of Linchuan" and other masterpieces, from the background of history, the author's personal experience, the process of script to drama stage interpretation, and how to appreciate and analyze, a very professional appreciation guide is given.
How is the conflict waged? How to portray the characters, how to present the plot, how to express the theme? How does the song card come from? The answer in this book is clearly described.
Regarding the creation of drama scripts, in ancient times, the ideal structure was called "leopard head, bear waist, and phoenix tail". The leopard head said that the beginning of the drama needs to be short and concise, opening the way for the subsequent development of the story; The bear waist is the development part of the drama, which must have substantial content, and it must be plump and strong. The phoenix tail refers to the end to be as beautiful and beautiful as the phoenix feathers of the phoenix bird, leaving a deep impression on the audience and evocative."
This paragraph summarizes the special systematic, exquisite, and comprehensive, for the readers who are now engaged in self-improvement, there is a great reference and practicality, the reason why the drama performance can be exciting in just one or two hours, a good script definitely knows how to capture the audience's heart and eye rhythm.
If opera can survive for thousands of years and never decline, and even the digital age has appeared on the world stage as the quintessence of the country, it must have a unique taste and uniqueness. The opera is full of emotion, subtlety, and connotation, with refined language, distinct rhythm, and musicality. If you understand the connotation and historical origin of opera, you can have a better sense of substitution when watching the opera, and at the same time, you can better immerse yourself in the beauty of the singing voice of the drama, appreciate the beauty of makeup, stage background, props and other services.
In the fourth chapter, "The Art of Practice", the author Li Qiang wrote: "The so-called singing skill is the first important expression technique in theatrical performance. The most basic requirements for singing are that the words are pure and pure, the rhythm is accurate, and the words are born and the emotions are spoken. The highest standard of singing is not to sing for the sake of singing, but to achieve the artistic conception of eloquentness
Don't even give people the feeling of singing, but use singing to strengthen the tone of the lyrics, express the emotions of the characters, and naturally integrate the rhythm, melody, feelings, and tone to express the same scene in life. ”
In this passage alone, we can find the essence of appreciating drama singing, and understand the difference between the level of the horn and the non-horn. As a popular professional reading book of Chinese opera, "Drunken Pear Garden" basically explains the characteristics and overall picture of the entire Chinese drama. The author uses a professional perspective, a wide range of references, and a simple explanation in popular language, and eclectic to popularize China's unique drama knowledge to readers.
"Drunken Pear Garden" is an indispensable book for opera lovers. Like opera, appreciating opera is not only to know what it is, but also to know why it is, so that enthusiasts can appreciate it to the realm of the ultimate player.