Tang Xianzu (1550— 16 16) was born in Linchuan, Jiangxi. Born in a scholarly family, he was honest and frank, and dared to speak out. He refused to attach himself to powerful people all his life, worked as a doctor and some lower-level officials, and abandoned his official position at the age of 49. Influenced by Wang Xue's left wing since childhood, he made friends with Li Zhi and others who were regarded as heresies by the rulers at that time. His thoughts of opposing Confucianism, affirming people's desires and pursuing personal freedom had a great influence on him. In terms of literary thought, Tang Xianzu echoed the repeated ancient prose thoughts of the public security school, and clearly put forward the idea that literary creation should first be "intentional" and put ideology first. These ideas are all embodied in his works. Although Tang Xianzu also wrote poems, the highest achievement was legend. He is another great dramatist after Guan Hanqing in ancient China. There are five kinds of his drama creations, namely, Four Dreams of Tang Yuming (or Four Dreams of Linchuan) and The Story of Zidi. Four Dreams of Tang Yuming are Purple Hairpin, Peony Pavilion, Handan and Conan. Among these four works, The Peony Pavilion is the most proud and influential one of Tang Xianzu.
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Liu Mengmei, a poor scholar, dreamed that there was a beautiful woman standing under the plum tree in a garden, saying that she had married him, and she often missed her ever since. Du Bao's daughter, the magistrate of Nan 'an, was named Li Niang, with both talent and appearance, and studied under Chen Liangliang. She was hurt by the chapter of The Book of Songs, looking for spring. When she came back from the garden, she saw a scholar with weeping willows in her sleepy dream. They met at the Peony Pavilion. From then on, Du Liniang became depressed and emaciated. He couldn't get sick. Before she died, she asked her mother to bury her under the plum tree in the garden, and asked Chunxiang, the maid, to hide her self-portrait under the stone in Taihu Lake. His father was promoted to Huaiyang, entrusted Chen Liangliang to bury his daughter, and built a "plum blossom view". Three years later, Liu Mengmei went to Beijing to take the exam, spent the night in Meihua Temple, and found a portrait of Du Liniang under the stone of Taihu Lake, and found that Du Liniang was the beauty he had seen in his dream. Du Liniang's soul wandered into the backyard, and Liu Mengmei met again. Liu Mengmei dug the grave and opened the coffin, and Du Liniang came back to life. They got married and went to Lin 'an. Du Liniang's teacher, Chen Liangliang, saw Du Liniang's grave being dug, so he condemned Liu Mengmei's grave robbery. Entrusted by Du Liniang, Liu Mengmei wrote home to announce the good news of rejuvenation after taking the exam in Lin 'an, and was imprisoned by Du Bao as a result. After the list was published, Liu Mengmei changed from a prisoner to a champion, but Du Bao refused to recognize her daughter's marriage and forced her to divorce. This argument appeared before the emperor, and Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei finally got married.
The Peony Pavilion was written in the 26th year of Wanli (1598). According to the author's understanding, there are many sources of its theme, among which the story "Du Liniang Muse Shen Huan" in the Ming Dynasty has the greatest influence. The processing and adaptation of Tang Xianzu's dialogue "Du Liniang Muse Revives the Soul" is mainly manifested in the following aspects: First, it highlights the guardian status of Du Bao and others; The second is to change the relationship between Du and Liu. The third is to change the color of Du Liniang feudal ladies into rebellious women; The fourth is to emphasize the difficulties and twists in pursuing free love. This traditional "rebirth" motif has a brand-new ideological content.
Peony Pavilion is a love drama. Du Liniang, a young girl, lived in a boudoir for a long time and was influenced by feudal ethics. However, she still feels homesick. In her dream, she had a tryst with scholar Liu Mengmei and died for love. After her death, she married Liu Mengmei, and finally came back to life and married Liu on earth. Through the unswerving love between Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, the script praises the indomitable struggle of young men and women for the pursuit of a free and happy love life, and expresses the hazy desire to break free from the feudal cage, smash the shackles of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties, pursue individual liberation and yearn for an ideal life. From the content, The Peony Pavilion still shows the ancient theme of "the conflict between love and civilization". However, in The Peony Pavilion, "civilization" has a special connotation, that is, Neo-Confucianism and ethics advocated by Ming officials. Du Liniang's longing for love is natural. Although she was taken care of for a long time, she still had a strong desire for love and finally got it. The significance of The Peony Pavilion lies in affirming the objectivity and rationality of love desire by visual means and strongly criticizing the unreasonable "civilization". The Peony Pavilion is similar in thought to The Romance of the West Chamber, but The Romance of the West Chamber focuses on the feelings before desire, while The Peony Pavilion focuses on the feelings after desire. The Romance of the West Chamber describes the natural development of emotions, and more expresses the good wishes of all sentient beings in the world, while The Peony Pavilion particularly highlights the conflict between emotion (desire) and reason (ceremony), emphasizing the objectivity and rationality of emotions. This difference is caused by the difference of the times.
The love description in The Peony Pavilion has the ideological height and characteristics of the times that some previous love dramas can't match. The author clearly regards this rebellious love as the breakthrough of ideological liberation and personality liberation, and no longer stays in the narrow sense of opposing parents' orders and matchmakers' words. The author let the young men and women in the play risk their lives for love, which not only has a strong romantic color, but also gives love great power to overcome everything and transcend life and death. The brand-new drama concept is expressed by brand-new characters, which is one of the most outstanding achievements of Peony Pavilion. Undoubtedly, it has shaped the image of Du Liniang and provided a glorious image for the China Literary Figures Gallery. The biggest feature of Du Liniang's personality is his persistent pursuit of love. She died for love, born to love. Her death was not only the real result of young women's pursuit of love in the real society at that time, but also a means for her to transcend the bondage of reality.
It's a movie.
Peony Pavilion (1986)
Director: Fang Ying Fang Ying
Screenwriter: Hu Jiji Hu
Actor: Zhang Zhang Jiqing ... Du Liniang.
Wang Hengkai Wang Hengkai ... Liu Mengmei
Xu Hua Hua Xu ... Chunxiang
Wang Weijian Wang Weijian ... Du Mu.
Type: China traditional opera
Length:130min
Country: China
Color: color
The plot of a play
Du Liniang, the daughter of Du Bao, the prefect of Nan 'an, was admonished by her parents according to feudal ethics. She only spent sixteen spring and autumn periods and never left the boudoir. One day, the maid Chunxiang happened to find a back garden in Du Fu's place, so she teased Miss Du Liniang to enjoy the spring. In the garden, Du Liniang witnessed the beautiful spring scenery, and deeply felt that he had failed the beautiful scenery. Back home, her pent-up desire for life and love sprouted. When she fell asleep, a dream god guided her to meet and fall in love with Liu Mengmei. But when she woke up, people have changed and become desolate. She was very sad because of the suffering of lovesickness. Du Liniang languished day by day and finally bid farewell to her short life in the autumn wind and autumn rain in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Production Company: Nanjing Film Studio [China]
What is huatiancuo and why is it called huatiancuo? Huatiancuo is a Beijing opera. The story is because of the Water Margin, and Huatian is wrong with the farmland where flowers were originally planted. Huatiancuo is a wrong story that happened in a flower planting town and a flower field festival, which means a wrong one-night stand in the moral field.
Hua Tian Cuo was originally written in 19 12, and was created by Mr. Xun Huisheng, a representative of Xun School. Xun Huisheng: I learned to play bangzi when I was a child. One is Xin Anyi, the other is Hua Tiancuo. These two plays were directed by Mr. Hou Junshan (thirteen years old), the teacher of Xun Huisheng. Hua Tian Cuo's traditional performance began with Hua Tian visiting her husband and ended with Zhou Tong robbing relatives. This story is incomplete. After Xun Huisheng changed to Beijing Opera, he moved to the stage of Beijing Opera according to "The Little Overlord Drunken the Golden Account, Mang Ruled the Peach Blossom Village" in Water Margin. 19 19, Mr. Yang Xiaolou, Mr. Tan Xiaopei and Mr. Shang Xiaoyun went from Beijing to Shanghai (Shanghai audience called them "three little ones and one white" because Xun Huisheng also used the stage name "Bai Mudan" at that time) and performed on the stage of the old toad. Xun Huisheng made a bubble with this play, playing Chunlan himself and Li Guifang as Ji Bian. After the performance, it was deeply loved by the audience and has been staged repeatedly for decades. It is called one of the representative works of Xun School.
In the original adaptation of Hua Tian Cuo, Ji Bian was first engaged to Liu Yuyan, and after Zhou Tong robbed her house by mistake, she was privately engaged to Zhou Mei Lou Yu for life. The maid Chunlan also secretly loved her, so polygamy appeared at the end of the play. After liberation, Xun Huisheng thought this ending was extremely undesirable, so he modified it during the performance. 1959 was revised and processed again, and inappropriate details were deleted. The ending was happy, which made the comedy more exaggerated, added relaxed and happy singers to Chunlan, and combined with the active and flowing dance figure, it further set off the happy atmosphere of the comedy.
The main plot of Huatiancuo Peking Opera
In the Song Dynasty, Liu Deming, a rich man in Taohua Village, Yanmen County, Shaanxi Province, had a daughter named Yu Yan, who was unmarried. On Huatian Festival, Liu's servant ordered Chunlan to accompany Liu Yuyan to secretly see her husband. Xiangyang juren Ji Bian went to Beijing to take the exam. Due to lack of money on the way, there will be stalls selling paintings in Huatian. Chunlan saw Ji Bian's talent and extraordinary appearance. After returning home, she told her father Liu Deming, and Liu Deming ordered her family to invite her. She didn't want to invite the bully Zhou Tong by mistake. Zhou Tong ordered Liu Yuyan to get married in three days. Chunlan designed Ji Bian to dress up as a man and meet Liu Yuyan. Liu Yuyan and Ji Bian secretly agreed to be together for life and get pregnant overnight, but Zhou Tong suddenly snatched Ji Bian by mistake. Xuan was accused of robbing the birth procedure and was taken to court; Zhou Mei Lou Yu found out that Ji Bian was faking and asked the truth, so she released Ji Bian and gave him money to take the exam. I went to my office to complain that my daughter was robbed, and I went with Dou Tou Leiheng, but Zhou was brought back. At this point, Chunlan mistakenly thought that the person who was robbed was, but explained that the person who was robbed before was, which made Zhou change his men's clothes and marry Liu Yuyan. On the night of flowers and candles, Zhou told the truth. Chunlan is afraid of coming back to haunt him in the future, and still stays in the village to deal with his brother. After his release, he informed and got married in Zhuang that night. Liu Deming was at a loss. Luda came to stay and was furious. He pretended to be a bride, hid in a tent, arrived in the evening, was beaten by Ruda, and ran away. On the way back to Luda, Jong Li, the tiger general, persuaded him and sent him back to Zhuang to confess his sins. Ji Bian won the first prize and went to Taohua Village. The truth came out as soon as everyone met. Finally, she married Liu Yuyan, and Zhou married under the matchmaking of Chunlan.
Hua Tian Cuo was once adapted into a comedy film "History of Hua Tian Xi"
So it can be seen that the two are basically irrelevant except for the title of the play.
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