Red Mansion Jia Lan: Do you want to run away tonight to visit your relatives? Chapter 7 Jia Lan asks about the opera in the Grand View Garden. Officials who know their duties and their age will be rewarded
Chapter 7 Jia Lan asks about the opera in the Grand View Garden. Officials who know their duties and their age will be rewarded
Yuanchun praised Daiyu and changed the name "Huange Villa" to "Daoxiang Village" based on Daiyu's sentence "Ten miles of fragrant rice flowers". He also ordered Tanchun to transcribe the dozen poems just now on colored paper and order the eunuchs to pass them on.
Jia Zheng and others waiting outside the hall took it and read it, and they all praised it.
Later, Jia Zheng added "Ode to Returning to the Province", and in Yuanchun ordered to give Jia orchid and precious jade with Qiongsu, golden clams and other objects.
At this time, downstairs in the grand view in front of the main hall, Jia Qiang, the great-great-grandson of the Ningguo Mansion, who was in his twenties and responsible for managing the opera troupe, was leading twelve female opera singers and was waiting impatiently.
These twelve female actors are the twelve officials in the Red Mansion. They are the twelve girls purchased from Gusu by the Jia family to learn opera for Concubine Yuan's relatives. They are named civil officials, treasure officials, jade officials, age
After standing for a long time, Jia Qiang was waiting impatiently when she suddenly saw a eunuch running over from the palace. He quickly stood upright and waited, only to hear the other person say: "Quick! The poem is finished, hurry up and bring the play! The imperial concubine wants to play!" Jia Qiang hurriedly presented the brochure with her and a list of twelve flowers.
When she was young, the eunuch came out again, and Concubine Dao ordered four plays. The first play was "A Banquet"; the second play was "Shocking Ugliness"; the third play was "Chang Ban Slope"; the fourth play was "The Bed Full of Wat".
》. Jia Qiang hurriedly started to act. Each one sang with the sound of cracking rocks, and danced like a demon.
Although the description is staged, it depicts all the joys and sorrows.
Sitting on a side seat in the main hall, Jia Lan looked at the lively opera on the stage and was a little confused. As a modern person, except for a few hometown songs and some world-famous arias, he had no clue about opera.
I just remember that in the original work, the four plays ordered by Concubine Yuan to prepare for marriage all ended in tragedy, foreshadowing the tragic death of Concubine Yuan and the destruction of the Jia family in the future.
But today I heard the eunuch roll call just now, not to mention Zhao Zilong riding alone as the savior in "Changban Slope". Thanks to the hero Jin, there is a scene in "The Condor" where Yang Guo pays filial piety to Guo Jing sixteen years later.
This is the story of "Full Bed with Wat", which tells the story of Guo Ziyi's birthday and the birthday celebrations of his seven sons and eight sons-in-law.
During the two years since Jia Lan came to the Red Mansion, she had also attended several plays with her mother Li Wan. After all, Jia's mother was a theater fanatic, and she wanted nothing more than to listen to plays, so the house would always invite theater troupes from the south every once in a while.
Although the babbling Wu Nong's soft talk when he performed for Jia's mother was quite nice, at that time Jia Lan was busy studying and preparing for exams, and had various other chores, so he almost never listened to it seriously.
Fortunately, he doesn’t understand, but there are people around him who do.
"Aunt Lin, what's the story of "The Banquet" and "The Ugliness"?"
Daiyu raised her smoky eyebrows slightly and glanced at Jia Lan with her watery eyes. Seeing his confused look, she couldn't help but smile. She knew this poetry disciple quite well and was the same as Jia Baoyu.
, two extremes.
He specializes in poems for scientific examinations and is not at all arty, and he is not interested in opera at all. On the contrary, I heard him humming to himself in private about some strange tunes, but he refused to tell me if I asked him. So Daiyu gave a sweet smile and teased Jia Lan: "I can tell you, but you also have to tell me what song you sang outside my yard last time."
Jia Lan was stunned for a moment, thought for a while before he understood what Daiyu was talking about, and then smiled and said: "It's just a random tune. If my aunt wants to know, she should tell her everything she knows."
Daiyu nodded with satisfaction and then explained: "This "Feast" comes from the Kunqu Opera "A Handful of Snow". It plays the role of Mo Huaigu in the Ming Dynasty who was coveted by the treacherous minister Yan Song because of the priceless jade cup "A Handful of Snow" collected in his family.
The story of a broken family."
[Heavy treasure? Coveted? Family ruined?] Jia Lan’s eyes suddenly condensed, what do these words seem to imply?
He felt something in his heart, turned around and glanced at Baoyu next to him, and saw that he shook his head hastily, as if he was trying to hide it, but at this moment, Jia Lan didn't care to take a closer look.
[Could it be referring to the psychic jade?]
Before he could think about it, Daiyu's gentle voice sounded again: "This "Shocking Chou" comes from "Kite Wrong", and it talks about a man named Qi Youxian, who was uneducated and incompetent.
One day, he took a kite with a poem written by the talented Han Qizhong to fly, and it fell into the backyard of the Zhan family. It was picked up by the second lady Zhan Shujuan. The beautiful and talented Zhan Shujuan put the kite back on the kite according to the rhyme and poem.
Han Qizhong admired his talent after reading it, so he wrote a proposal poem with a kite theme, imitating his previous friend's practice, but it was picked up by the ugly and impatient eldest daughter Zhan Aijuan. Aijuan made a secret appointment with Han Sheng, but Han Sheng mistakenly thought it was Zhan Shujuan and was surprised when they met.
Ugly and retreated quickly. From then on, Han Sheng regarded beauty as ugly, and Zhan Shujuan mistakenly recognized Han Sheng, which led to all kinds of farce in the future."
【Do you think beauty is ugly?...】
Jia Lan was silent after hearing this. For a while, he couldn't figure out what Yuanchun wanted to imply.
He only vaguely remembered that the four scenes mentioned by Yuanchun in the original work combined with the judgment were used by Cao Gong to further predict the ending of Yuanchun and the Jia family. Some people analyzed that all these foreshadowings pointed to the plot after the 80th chapter. Unfortunately, after the 80th chapter,
The plot is too scattered and lost. Except for the version compiled by Gao E and others that provides some ideas for the ending, the truth has become an eternal mystery.
After Daiyu finished speaking, she saw that Jialan didn't respond for a long time. She looked at him in confusion and saw that he was in a daze again. She almost laughed. Fortunately, she was usually cautious and covered her mouth with a green embroidered handkerchief to stop her laughter. Thinking that she would show her talents tonight and overwhelm everyone, she didn't want Concubine Yuan to only compose one plaque and one chant, but it would be better to disobey the order and compose more, so she just randomly composed a five-character rhyme to suit the occasion. Later, seeing Baoyu bothering with it, she replaced her again.
He composed another song, not wanting to be sold out by this guy.
Fortunately, Jia Lan added some extra fuel to the fire and got himself out of trouble, so he cursed softly in his heart: "Idiot!" and continued to watch the show.
After the four plays were performed, a eunuch holding a golden plate of pastries came to Jia Qiang and asked: "Who is the Lingguan?" Jia Qiang knew that it was the gift given to the Lingguan by the imperial concubine, and she was so happy that she hurriedly accepted it.
, the appointed senior official kowtowed. The eunuch said again: "The imperial concubine has an edict, saying that 'the senior official is very good, just make two more plays, no matter which two are played.'"
Jia Qiang hurriedly agreed, because Lingguan was ordered to write "A Visit to the Garden" and "A Dream". Lingguan decided not to do the two plays because of this, and decided to write "Meetings" and "Excuse Me".
The second time she came out, Jia Qiang couldn't resist her, so she had to obey her.
Concubine Yuan watched it and heard the eunuch's report that the senior official refused to play, and her love for the senior official increased in her heart.
It turns out that Ling Guan was originally a Xiaodan performer, and "You Yuan" and "Jing Meng" were originally performed by Fang Guan of Zhengdan. If Ling Guan sang, wouldn't it mean that he was taking over the lead role?
It is said that actors are ruthless, and senior officials resigning from the opera, in Yuanchun's eyes, it is an act of law and etiquette, so he ordered: "The senior officials are very good, don't make it difficult for this girl, and teach her well in the future." He also rewarded two palace horses.
Satin, two purses and gold and silver clasps, food, etc., to show appreciation.