Eight Traditional Plays of Peking Opera

1. Chang Ban Po

The Peking Opera play Chang Ban Po is a traditional Peking Opera play based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The story goes as follows: Liu Bei, having withdrawn from Xinye, was pursued by Cao Cao's troops at night on Chang Ban Slope, and was separated from his troops and their families; Zhao Yun sacrificed himself for his life and entered Cao Cao's camp single-handedly, wading through dangers, and finally rescuing Jian Yong and Mi Zhu from the army of 10,000 horsemen; he then fought hard to protect Lady Gan and Liu Bei's youngest son, Adou, and stood out from the encirclement.

2. "The Meeting of the Three Kingdoms"

The Peking Opera play "The Meeting of the Three Kingdoms" is a traditional Peking Opera play based on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

The story goes: Jiang Gan, a strategist of Cao Cao, is a former friend of Zhou Yu and asks to cross the river to persuade him to surrender. Zhou Yu, in response to his request, invites all his generals and close friends to a grand banquet, called the "Meeting of the Heroes". During the banquet, he invited Jiang Gan to **** sleep, and then he pretended to be drunk, and secretly put the forged surrender letters of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun on his desk.

Jiang Gan failed to persuade him to surrender, so he had no choice but to take advantage of Zhou Yu's "deep sleep" to look through the paperwork and "stumbled upon" the letter, which horrified him, and he returned to the north of Jiangbei overnight to inform Cao Cao of the incident. Cao Cao immediately beheaded Cai and Zhang. Zhou Yu was delighted that Cao Cao had been caught in the act and had removed his generals, who were skilled in water warfare.

3. The Empty City Scheme

The Empty City Scheme is a classic play of traditional Peking Opera, which recounts the story of Zhuge Liang's loss of Jieting due to Ma Su's self-possession of his talents, and the Wei general Sima Yi taking advantage of the situation by leading an army of 150,000 men to attack Zhuge Liang's residence in Xicheng. At that time, Zhuge Liang's elite have been sent out, the western city is empty, only the resident old and weak soldiers, outnumbered, very critical.

Zhuge Liang set the empty city of the plan, to the city gate is wide open, calmly, as if nothing happened to the city tower to watch the mountains and enjoy the scenery, drinking wine and playing the piano. Sima Yi soldiers under the city, see Zhuge Liang sitting on the city floor, smiling, burning incense and playing the qin, doubtful, y afraid of the plan, suspected of ambush, not to retreat. Once again back to attack the city, met Zhao Yun resisted and withdrew.

4. Farewell My Concubine

Farewell My Concubine

Farewell My Concubine

Farewell My Concubine

It is one of the classic Mei-Pai dramas performed by the master of Peking Opera, Mei Lanfang.

The story recounts: at the end of Qin Dynasty, the Chu and Han Dynasties were at war, and Han Xin ordered Li Zuo Che to swindle Xiang Yu into advancing his troops. He ambushed Xiang Yu on all sides of Jiu Li Mountain and trapped him in Gaixia (southeast of Ling Bi County, Anhui Province). Xiang Yu could not break out of the siege and heard the song of Chu on all sides, so he suspected that all the Chu troops had surrendered to Han and drank wine with Yu Ji in the camp to say goodbye. Yu Ji killed himself, Xiang Yu killed out of the siege, lost his way, and went to Wujiang River, and felt that he had no face to see his father and mother in the east of the river, so he killed himself by the river.

5. "Fishing and Killing a Family"

"Fishing and Killing a Family" is a famous play in Peking Opera. This play is the two folds of the "Qing Dingzhu", also known as the "fishing tax", seems to take the "Water Margin" in the Li Jun thing adapted from the Peking Opera, one of the outstanding plays.

I like the Peking Opera "Farewell My Concubine", the story and the characters contained in the traditional Chinese values and moral system, for thousands of years, has been in the long river of history shine, and continue to promote the Chinese nation's progress, is the promotion of traditional Chinese virtues, but also one of the reasons for its enduring. The characters in the story are unique and therefore intertwined with the love-hate plot embodied in the concept of love, the concept of life and death to a certain extent gives people new feelings and interpretations, the death of the love of the repression of love so that the love of love burst into a more brilliant light, releasing the more valuable energy.

In a nutshell, "Farewell My Concubine" is the reason for its enduring popularity. In addition to the changes in the character image, the art of "Farewell My Concubine" has been growing in the modern soil, and it has become a bright and shining gem in the history of Chinese literature! That is, the classic Peking Opera scripts become classics, is and characterization, the actor's singing, and the story itself and the degree of attraction.