It can also be regarded as a representative drama in Sichuan Opera, "Five Sons Report to Their Mother".
This "Five Sons Report to Their Mother" is about five ghost children who were killed by their mothers.
He came to the underworld and complained to the King of Hell.
However, the King of Hell discovered that the accused woman was actually the woman he had fallen in love with when he was secretly working as an actor.
Because the other party refused, he used a little trick to trick him into sleeping with him. Later, he was raped by the village official and gave birth to five children.
As soon as the woman went to court, she recognized that the King of Hell sitting high in the court was the one who had defiled her in the first place.
In order to prevent his own scandal from being exposed, the King of Hell tried to bribe everyone by asking everyone to give birth to a good child.
However, in fact, in order to worry about his own scandal being exposed, the King of Hell directly arranged for several people to join the animal realm.
Unexpectedly, the King of Hell's strategy and sinister intentions were discovered by the woman.
This is a story about a woman who used a little trick to defraud the King of Hell into giving her a pass, and while the King of Hell was obsessed with acting, she took her five sons and reincarnated them into human beings.
The story is pungent and satirical, with a strong critical tone.
However, due to time issues, only the first half of the play will be performed today, and the second half needs to be watched in the afternoon.
Of course, for the old Chengdu people who are famous for their leisurely and slow pace.
This is not a problem at all. After all, most people who can come here can sit there all day long. It is too easy to see it all if they want to.
Several actors left the stage one after another, and the staff immediately brought up a mahogany carved square table.
On top of the 4-square table is a screen made of white cloth.
Along with the four-square mahogany table and white cloth screen, there were also two musicians from the left and four from the right, a total of six musicians.
The two musicians on the left are responsible for the soundtrack of wind instruments, plucked instruments, percussion instruments, and string instruments.
The four musicians on the right are responsible for the main music such as erhu, sheng, dulcimer, and pipa.
In today's technologically advanced era, many times even the soundtrack for concerts is directly recorded.
For a small shadow puppet show to have such a grand scene, it can be said to be quite impressive.
After all, labor costs are very high nowadays. It would be really expensive to hire so many people to perform a shadow puppet show.
But Li Xiao immediately discovered something was wrong.
I also understand why a shadow puppet show can involve so many musicians.
The clothes of these musicians are not uniform. Some are wearing Chinese tunic suits, some are wearing casual short-sleeves, and some are wearing new-style Tang suits.
This is obviously not a professional orchestra, but a temporary orchestra formed based on their own interests.
All the lights on the stage suddenly went out.
Due to the special design of the stage, the depths of the stage also became pitch black.
The crisp sound of gongs and drums sounded intensively, and then the white cloth that went dark lit up again.
The background of the shadow puppet painting has been printed on the white cloth.
Above the white cloth are red eaves with carved beams and painted beams, and on the left and right are towering peaks and green forests.
The music on both sides became slightly quieter, and then a powerful shout came from the middle.
"Child butterfly is brown and has no hairpin..."
The shadow puppet show is very simple and relies entirely on the craftsman's control of the shadow puppets and the music provided by six musicians around him.
Shadow puppetry can be regarded as the earliest film.
It's just that this kind of film seems a bit crude compared to modern films.
This traditional art has been around for more than 2,000 years, which is older than most countries in the world.
Many people believe that shadow puppetry is the origin of modern animation and modern comics.
Using the technology of light and shadow dislocation, different pictures are presented.
Shadow puppetry combines music, art, rap, and stage effects.
You must know that this is technology from more than 2,000 years ago.
Most of the scenes in shadow puppet shows are fixed, and some minor changes may occur only when the occasion changes.
This is the part with the lowest technical content in shadow puppetry.
The core essence of shadow puppetry is the action modeling of the characters.
The most common shadow puppet character structure consists of at least 11 parts.
Head, chest, abdomen, legs, arms, elbows, hands.
This is a different body tissue connected to three control rods of different lengths in a clever way.
The operator needs to control these three control rods of different lengths to make the shadow puppets perform various actions.
Usually, there are only two characters at most in a scene.
Because for ordinary shadow puppet painters, it is already the limit to operate two characters with left and right bows at one time.
Because these two characters are usually equipped with weapons and horses.
With one hand controlling 4 control levers, there is basically no other operation possible.
Of course, in some necessary scenes, three or four characters will appear.
But in a scene with many characters, one or two of them must have less action.
After a rather difficult opening statement full of ancient style.
The subsequent dialogue becomes easier.
Although it still has an ancient style, it is already in vernacular that most people can understand.
It's about a village where monsters are killing people.
A village boy narrowly escaped the massacre because he went up the mountain to cut firewood.
After burying his family, he determined to take revenge.
So he took his luggage and traveled all over the world to study and apprentice, and finally killed the monster.
The story is simple and clear, and the characters are very distinctive.
Whether it is weapons or different characters, the designs are very exquisite.
There isn't much reversal, and it can even be said to be a bit straightforward.
However, as a shadow puppet show with a duration of only more than 30 minutes and only one main performer.
The performance is also commendable and can be enjoyed by both refined and popular people.
The performance ended and the lights came back on.
Warm applause immediately erupted from the surrounding area.
Then amidst the applause, there was a burst of discordant laughter.
"This is the Han Dynasty, and the so-called traditional culture is nothing more than that!"
“It’s always said that ancient civilizations like to put gold on their own faces!”
“It’s just that, you’re no longer that old and you’re still performing with old-fashioned things. It’s really hilarious!”
The people who spoke were near Li Xiao, and they did not conceal their voices at all.
Although he was speaking in Chinese, he had a strange intonation and was obviously not from Han Dynasty.
Li Xiao followed the voice and saw that it was indeed a few blond and blue-eyed foreigners.
There were many people around, and I heard a few people making fun of them with deep malice.
Immediately, an old man wearing a light blue sleeveless vest stood up.
He pointed at several blond and blue-eyed foreigners and scolded:
"If you like watching or not, get out of here and make random comments in the audience, have you ever considered the feelings of the performers?"
Upon hearing the old man's scolding, several foreigners who were originally smiling suddenly showed unhappy expressions.
One of the women, wearing a tight tank top, a hip-length skirt, and heavy makeup, also stood up.
