After dinner, the news spread like wildfire that the Yin Mansion was going to perform an opera in the outer courtyard.
The people of Bachuan Villa immediately became excited after learning the news.
The Qu family and the Fan family didn't even bother to eat dinner. They carried a few steamed cakes in their arms, carried folding stools, and took a place in the courtyard early.
Qiu Yong's opera performers no longer looked as lazy as usual. They were all in high spirits, sitting under the tree just waiting for the opera to start.
Even Hua Yue sat with Rou Xing, the daughter of the Qu family, eating a handful of fried beans and chattering away.
After listening to Yin An's introduction to Tang Dynasty opera during the day, Zhou Jun was not interested, but he didn't have much expectations.
After sitting in the courtyard for a while, Zhou Jun saw that the stage was still being prepared, so he stood up and planned to take a walk to eat.
After walking a few steps, Zhou Jun saw Yuping walking out of the archway of the Central Garden. He was stunned for a moment, then stepped forward and asked, "Pang Gong is coming too?"
Yuping shook her head and said, "My master watched too many operas in the palace. It was a cold night and he didn't want to come out. He just read in the room. Knowing that I was born in a troupe, he insisted on letting me come out to watch the opera."
After Zhou Jun heard this, he thought to himself that Mr. Pang really took good care of Yuping.
Seeing Yuping enter the table, Zhou Jun looked around and found that the head of the Yin Mansion, Yin Darong, was not present either.
Maybe something is wrong.
Zhou Jun didn't think much and returned to the auditorium, quietly waiting for the opening of the opera.
After a quarter of an hour, with the sound of a gong on the stage, an actor wearing a futou and green clothes came up to the stage. He first bowed in all directions and said a few nonsense words, attracting the attention of the audience.
There was a round of applause.
After a while, another deputy with a falcon hairstyle came up. He asked and answered questions, sang and harmonized with the actor. He used words and actions, and the themes were stupid, which made the audience burst into laughter.
Among all the people, only Zhou Jun looked embarrassed and smiled bitterly.
He originally thought that the drama about joining the army was similar to the cross talk in his previous life, which focused on talking and singing, but after a closer look, it turned out to be more like a farce.
Zhou Jun, who had watched too many entertainment programs in his previous life, felt quite embarrassed after seeing this kind of opera again.
Finally, amidst the cheers that echoed through the entire garden, the drama of joining the army finally came to an end.
Next, there was a drama and dance performance called "Xihe Swordsmanship".
Eight dancers wearing five-color embroidered ruts and red embroidered forehead scarves. Each holds a three-foot green sword. The sword shines like weaving and moves in all directions.
There is a movable device between the hilt and the body of the sword, and the maiko swings it freely, making regular sounds.
The eight people advanced and retreated well, their dancing postures were vigorous, their hearts were fascinated and their minds were relaxed.
Zhou Jun watched intently and thought to himself, this dance drama of the Tang Dynasty is much better than the Youxi drama.
Just as he was sighing, perhaps the candlelight was dim and the stage was uneven. A dancer suddenly stumbled while running, and the long sword in his hand fell off the stage.
Seeing this, Zhou Jun quickly stood up and walked up.
Fortunately, no one was there where the sword fell.
And Yin An, the steward of the Yin Mansion, also came up from the backstage and loudly rebuked the dancer who made the mistake.
Zhou Jun came to the stage and saw the sorrow of the dancer who made a mistake and was scolded. His tears kept falling and he advised Yin An: "People make mistakes and horses make mistakes. It's good to know that you made a mistake."
Then, he asked the dancer: "Is there any serious problem? Can you still perform?"
The dancer glanced at Zhou Jun secretly and nodded quickly.
Zhou Jun walked to the side of the stage and said to the people below: "Get the sword and let the dance continue."
Aunt Gongsun, who was closest to the sword, stared at her feet and hesitated for a moment, then stretched out her hand and picked up the sword.
With the long sword in hand, the originally rough and heroic Aunt Gongsun suddenly seemed to have changed into a completely different person.
There was an inexplicable aura emanating from her whole body, which shocked the viewers and made them all moved.
She held the sword in her right hand, and it was just a habitual gesture, but it gave off an aura that was indomitable and unstoppable.
Zhou Jun, who was directly opposite her, looked at Aunt Gongsun and was startled for no reason. He opened his mouth and forgot to speak.
At this moment, among the audience, Yuping suddenly stood up and exclaimed: "It turns out to be you!"
Half an hour later, the Yin family troupe's performance ended.
Although there were some hiccups in the middle, overall, the performance was very good, and the audience's continuous applause at the end spoke for itself.
Zhou Jun, Yuping and Aunt Gongsun were sitting in the pavilion in the courtyard, talking.
Yuping looked at Aunt Gongsun and said in disbelief: "My wife is very different from before. When we first met, I didn't dare to recognize her after hearing her name."
Aunt Gongsun shook her head and said with a smile: "Back then, the daughter of the Zhou family in Liyuan was very famous in Chang'an and was unparalleled in the limelight. I didn't even recognize her."
Yuping lowered her head and said softly: "It's been many years."
Aunt Gongsun also said: "Yes, it has been many years."
Seeing that the two men fell silent, Zhou Jun asked Gongsun, "Is the head of the Fan family really the number one dancer in the Tang Palace?"
After hearing this, Aunt Gongsun said quickly: "Erlang Xen said that the first dancer is going to break my body."
Zhou Jun could see the legendary characters and couldn't help but blurt out: "In the past, there was a beautiful lady named Gongsun, who danced with swords and moved all directions; the viewers were as depressed as the mountains, and the heaven and earth were depressed for a long time; Huo Ruyi shot the nine sunsets, as straight as a group of people
The emperor flies like a dragon; it comes like thunder to calm down its wrath, and it ends like the clear light of the river and sea."
When Yuping and Aunt Gongsun heard this poem, they were both stunned.
Yuping tasted it carefully and then said: "Erlang Duan is very talented in literature, but he doesn't like to show off his talent."
Zhou Jun immediately realized that Du Fu's song "Watching Gongsun's Disciples Dance with Swords" was written on October 19, the second year of the Dali calendar (768), and it has not yet been published.
Zhou Jun first said: "I did not write this poem."
Seeing that Yuping and Aunt Gongsun didn't believe it, he added: "Aunt Gongsun's sword dance back then was unprecedented and unprecedented. This poem was written by an observer at that time."
Aunt Gongsun was stunned: "Is this happening?"
Zhou Jun thought to himself, it's more than that.
Aunt Gongsun was the number one dancer in the Tang Palace during the prosperous Kaiyuan period, and she even established the Three Saints of the Tang Dynasty with one dance.
Painting sage Wu Daozi learned how to use brushstrokes from the dancing posture of Gongsun Gongsun, and formed a circular stroke. The characters' clothes and belts in his paintings seemed to be blown by the wind, which was called "Wu belts in the wind" by later generations.
Zhang Xu, the sage of grass, understood the charm of calligraphy from Gongsun's free gestures and spinning and jumping postures when dancing with the sword, and created the cursive script with indulgent brushstrokes.
Du Fu, the sage of poetry, watched Gongsun's sword dance and wrote a famous Tang poem - "Watching Gongsun's Disciples Dance with Swords", which was named a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation.
Yuping asked: "If I remember correctly, when Auntie entered the Liyuan, she should have been promoted to the Leying General in the Jiaofang. How come she became the Youfang Po?"
Aunt Gongsun smiled casually: "A flower cannot be red for a hundred days, and a person cannot be good for a thousand days."
"Although I have been praised for my sword dance, I cannot help but age and beauty, my hands and feet are slow, and I have to teach many apprentices."
"There is no need to perform in palace performances. What should be taught in the classroom has been taught. I have nothing to do all day long, but I have become like an idler."
"I have a fierce temper, and I don't want to live like this all my life, so I begged for my life with General Tian Gong, left Chang'an, and went to Jingyang."
"Married to Fan Lang, and decided to seal the sword from now on and never play again."
Zhou Jun sighed with emotion when he heard this.
When Aunt Gongsun made her debut in Yancheng, she was just a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old.
Du Fu was present at that time, and he also recorded that in the third year of Kaiyuan, Yu was still a child. He recorded that when he was watching the Gongsun family in Yancheng, he danced with swords and weapons, and his strokes were frustrated.
To worship, Xiao is a dancer, Shengwen Shenwu Emperor Chu, Gongsun is just one person.
At that time, Mrs. Gongsun was dressed in gorgeous clothes and had a beautiful appearance. Everyone looked at her and admired her.
However, no woman in this world can escape the twilight of beauty.
Decades have passed, and Mrs. Gongsun's appearance has changed drastically, her figure is burly, and she is no longer as heroic as before.
This is why, even though they have the same name and surname, Zhou Jun could not recognize Aunt Gongsun's true identity at first.
