Peking Opera "The Peach Hill" Plot Introduction

The Peking Opera Red Peach Hill tells the story of Zhang Yue'e and her husband Lei Yingchun, who occupy and guard the Red Peach Hill, making themselves honored. Lin Chong, on Song Jiang's orders, goes to seize the mountain, but is defeated by Zheng Yu'e. He is also defeated by Guan Sheng, who comes with food to welcome him. He was defeated by Zheng Yu'e. Guan Sheng transported grain to meet Zheng Yu'e, but failed to win the battle. In the end, Song Jiang sent Hua Rong to help him, and Lin Chong, Guan Sheng, and Hua Rong all went into battle to capture Zheng Yu'e alive and bring her back to Liangshan.

The Peach Hill is a Peking Opera, the plot of which is adapted from a simplified version of The Water Margin. It is a medium-sized martial arts play with Wudan as the main character, and this play is also called "Men's Three Battles", which plays the story of Liang Shan Po heroes annihilating the female invaders occupying the Peach Hill and Liang Shan as enemies. Three different types of boys fight a girl with great skills, Lin Chong - played by Wu Laosheng, Guan Sheng - played by Wu Huafang, and Hua Rong - played by Wu Sheng, first separately and then together.

Rather than leaning on more than less, it is a kind of arrangement of fighting changes, mainly to show that the female generals' martial arts are strong. The play says that the Peach Hill and the neighboring Liangshan Mountain are against each other, and Lei Yingchun, the lord of the village, robbed the grain and grass of the Liangshan Mountain, and then was killed by Lin Chong who came to the village. Lei's wife, Zhang Yue'e, led the troops to take revenge, defeating Lin Chong, Guan Sheng, and Hua Rong three generals in succession, and then Liangshan will be the three horses in a chain of rounds of battles before she was captured.

Performance Characteristics

The origin of the story of "Peach Hill" was once unknown and often thought to be made out of thin air, but in fact, according to the research, the story of the play should be adapted from the "Water Margin" in the simplified version of the story of the Liangshan Mountain heroes in the conquest of the Wang Qing, and the occupation of Peach Hill of the Aunt of the King's Lei Yingchun and his wife, Mrs. Bai, in the battle. Zhang Yue'e in the play is played by Wu Dan, and in the first half of the play, she plays a big leaning role, with heavy starting and fighting, and in the second half of the play, she changes to wearing a beating shirt and pants, with stunts of tumbling down from a high platform.

The Liangshan generals are Guan Sheng, who is in a tie, Lin Chong, who is wearing an arrow suit, and Hua Rong, who is holding a suit and pants. Costume has a long and short color variety, line of work in the net has a raw, dress up with a hook face has a vegetarian face, vegetarian face and have to wear no beard points. This kind of combination is also very novel and not often seen in other plays. Three people were fighting with Zhang Yue'e, using different weapons, knives and guns, and therefore different ways to fight swordsmen, the scene on the stage is very beautiful.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-"The Peach Hill"