The story of orchids

Lanhuahua was originally named Ji Yanling, a native of Linzhen Town, Yan 'an County. Smart and handsome since childhood. Stealing forbidden fruit with a local. 1936, the red army liberated Lin town, and men were recruited to fight. Lan Huahua's parents forced her to marry some old villain. The villain died in an accident soon, and her parents married her to a rich man with a pockmarked face. Lanhuahua Day was abused and finally died in 1942. It should be said that the story of Lan Huahua staged a vivid secular tragedy, revealing the tragic life fate of women in the lower classes in the old society, and reflecting the reality that the old ethical code harmed human nature and hindered people's free emotional life. At that time, events like this often happened. However, people's pursuit of freedom and happiness still exists, and they have to take practical actions to try to break through the barriers and achieve transcendence. This kind of practical action is often spontaneous, blind and reckless, which will inevitably lead to tragedy. The tragedy of Lanhuahua has been interpreted since her birth. 7 "Blue Line, Blue Line, Blue Ying Ying Mining". This lyric poem contains a very strong folk meaning. China is a typical small-scale peasant economy society, where men plow and women weave and are self-sufficient. It is in this material life that China people's thoughts were born. Maybe there are accidental factors. It is indeed the reality of women's inferiority under the rigid system that has doomed her tragic fate. Please allow me to imagine that orchids were born when her mother was spinning and weaving. Children's first impression of the habitat is that the long cotton thread is pulled up and down; Black shuttle, left and right trance; The weaving of life began. The orchid flower was born. In addition to the tragedy caused by the cultural country that she has to shirk, another fault that cannot be ignored is that she "really loves the dead". Some people will ask, "Is it wrong to be beautiful?" Yes, there may be. In a specific historical period and cultural atmosphere, any aspect of human nature can be convicted. Lan Huahua's life track is practiced in such "original sin". With the growth of age, orchids can participate in productive labor, and the excitement has also shifted from home to the field. "Jade millet, field seedling, is sorghum." One of the attributes of labor is the socially acceptable quality of the subject. The implication here is that orchid flowers are not only beautiful, but also good in workmanship. It is definitely a good "family style". This is simply a stunner in the ideology of taking labor as beauty. Therefore, the social evaluation of orchids is: "The daughter of thirteen provinces, just count orchids." Such a good talent is naturally a rare "object" in society, so it is not surprising that the matchmaker is too excited. The arrangement of marriage is so compact that there is probably the participation of literary construction. Let's leave this alone. What I want to pay attention to is the value recognition and institutional tension embodied in many folk marriage ceremonies. Here, I'd like to focus on the matchmaker. There is a tradition in China that six kinds of women are untouchable in society, and so is the so-called "three aunts and six grandmothers". They are glib, gossiping, running all over the street, gossiping, cheating and endangering society. The matchmaker is such a person. 10 I also want to emphasize that "three aunts and six grandmothers", as the transmitters of information, have done a lot of meticulous social communication work. 165438+ Unfortunately, in a short period of time, men enjoy too much social rights and interests, while women enjoy too little, which creates a golden opportunity for the emergence of "three aunts and six grandmothers" in China. What deserves our modern people's sorrow is that these phenomena in a specific historical period actually show an institutional social distortion. 12 Moreover, due to the historical activities of the matchmaker, there are formatted media customs and words such as "Ming media is marrying", which is a value folk power that cannot be ignored. There is such a sentence in the lyrics, "I left my brother and carried him into Zhoujiamen." If you don't explain the background of the story, you won't be impressed. In fact, there is an extremely rich content behind it. Just from Xintianyou itself, this content contains a lot of tracks. In a sense, folk songs are love songs, which has almost become a science. So is Xintianyou. The vast majority of love songs should reflect the pure feelings of unmarried men and women, and most of the irrational and neutral sublimation of human beings are stored in these "real" pure men and women. I can also imagine that in the vast and steep mountains, Lanhuahua and her "love brother" are condensed in the emotional gossamer of the field at work, gathered in the pure spirit of potato bumps, and in the spiritual fit of sorghum ears. 13 In addition, it should be noted that there is a farewell scene with my brother before the orchid enters the "Zhoujiamen". The lyrics are unclear, but there are countless such tracks, most of which are the essence of historical concentration. China people are world-famous for their delicate feelings, and parting is the most typical performance. 14 The letter tour that best embodies this theme should be "Walking to the West". Almost all the traditional China people's psychology of yin and yang being in harmony and "unfamiliar" is contained in this sad and touching journey of heaven. From here, we can see the unique aesthetic "prism" in ancient China and the colorful light placed in the sun. 15 "Lanhuahua got off the sedan chair and took pictures all around". Strangers, strange things, and the voyage of Lanhuahua's life will eventually drop anchor here. "Big girl in a sedan chair-the first time!" ! The anxiety, shyness, impatience and anxiety of marriage can be imagined beyond words. In this miscellaneous mentality, there is one emotion that I can't let go of most, and that is her love brother. "Seeing the monkey Lao Zi of Zhou family is like a grave." This is the most realistic blow. The feeling of lovelorn, two different personalities, disappointment and regret, suddenly became the most vicious curse in the universe: "You are going to die, you have already died, you died the day before, and it will take me an afternoon." 16 The last two sentences can be written in real words. Writing Lanhuahua is an excuse to go back to my parents' house and elope with my brother's house, to tell my heart, to express my will and to tell my determination. It can also be understood as imaginative writing, that is, orchids fantasize that they will take food to see their brothers and tell their intimate feelings. In fact, we know that her beloved brother has gone to the army, which is more practical to understand as virtual writing. 17 What I want to focus on here is the great courage inspired by the love between men and women. Whether the orchid flower only has such consciousness or has turned it into practical action can show the fatal weakness exposed by ethics in the face of "true expression of temperament" 18 is the most typical phenomenon in China, one of the reasons is the constant lack of tension between mature ethics and free humanity in China history. Of course, in a sense, it is essentially a "forbidden behavior" for Lanhuahua to find a love brother. If she continues this behavior, she will only produce another "obscene song" that "hits her buddies". Regardless of the value factor, it is not a long-term solution to simply "show your true nature" in this way, and you are not at ease with yourself, which will eventually lead to a tragic ending. The most ideal plan is to put forward the revolutionary program of freedom of marriage and carry it out unswervingly. In the historical power reserve at that time, the conditions were quite mature, and in fact, it finally merged into the torrent of the agrarian revolution led by the China * * * Production Party. We know that Lan Huahua's lover joined the army to fight, which in itself gives us a signal that the fate of women in China will start a new chapter. Looking back at "Lanhuahua", it is at the turning point of historical changes. The death of orchids represents the end of old things and indicates the emergence of new things. It can be said that Lan Hua Hua is the last tragedy of married women in China history, and its existence value lies in this.

Introduction to orchid content

The rich peasant's daughter, Lan Huahua, is as beautiful as a fairy, and she is engaged to be young with Shi Youcai, the son of the company commander of the national army. In northern Shaanxi, Wei, a Red Army soldier in charge of monitoring his mother and daughter, fell in love with orchid flowers. Qian Laixi provoked the contradiction between Ji's family and Lan Huahua, but she married the idle Qian Bao Xiao. Some people accused money of undermining the United front, the Ji family resumed their engagement, and Lan Huahua remarried Shi Youcai. On the way to the wedding, the bride was robbed. Lan Huahua and Wei met unexpectedly in the last nine days. After nine days of encirclement and suppression by Yichuan National Army, Lan Huahua and Wei were captured. With the mediation of Vice-Chancellor Shang, Lan Huahua and Wei were transferred to Yan 'an for interrogation, and were later absorbed as students. Shang secretly loved orchids, so he sent his rival Wei to Lintao to make excuses. Lan Huahua's father forcibly took her home on the grounds of asking for leave. Shi Youcai seized the handle of Lan Huahua's association with Wei and forcibly took possession of her. Lanhuahua entered Lu Yi, but she was pregnant and had to go home again. Shi Youcai found Shang's letter and killed Lan Huahua. Wei missed Lan Huahua and wrote a song, which was the folk song Lan Huahua in northern Shaanxi. This song quickly spread all over the country, and also spread overseas, bringing glory and disaster to Lan Huahua's relatives.

The story of orchids

The love story of a landlord's maid and a young laborer. Unable to stand the cruel exploitation and oppression of the landlord, one day they decided to escape by night. Unfortunately, the cruel landlord found out and secretly poisoned the dry food they carried. When the two unsuspecting people fled to the top of the mountain where they usually played, they happily thought they had escaped from the clutches of the landlord, so they sat down to rest and took out dry food to satisfy their hunger. That steamed stuffed bun, you push me and let them both. The man finally beat the woman and bit the steamed stuffed bun. I swallowed the first bite, but before I could take the second bite, I suddenly fell down. . . The woman was shocked and shook the man who fell to the ground, but she still didn't respond for a long time. She knelt beside Iraq and shouted for help. Tears danced in her eyes, and when she saw the distant landlord coming here with his family, her heart was crossed. Looking at the man with tears in his eyes, I grabbed the steamed stuffed bun and took a bite, lying quietly beside the man. . . Sad music sounded, and when the frustrated landlord led the crowd to arrive, blue florets growing all over the mountains and plains had sprung up like mushrooms after rain. A large blue flower cloud floating in the air gently lifted the bodies of the two men and floated away from the top of the mountain and into the distance.

A Brief Introduction to The Story of the Blue Flower

Blue Flower Ballad is a traditional folk song popular in Shaanxi and parts of Qinghai, Gansu and Shanxi. Lanhuahua, according to folklore, is a woman from a village in Linzhen Town, Gulin County, Shaanxi Province. She is beautiful and eager for happiness, but she is forced to marry a landlord named Zhou, "Monkey Lao Zi".

Unwilling to be oppressed by feudal forces, Lan Huahua wanted her "love brother" and dared to declare that "we will live and die together". Folk songs not only castigate the destruction and persecution of women by feudal buying and selling marriage, but also praise Lanhuahua's rebellious spirit of bravely breaking through feudal ethics and boldly pursuing marriage autonomy.

Extended data

According to the development process of the story, music is divided into five parts: introduction, blue flower, bringing into Zhou family, escape and ending.

It shows Lanhuahua's strong character of bravely resisting feudal forces by shaping a typical image of a beautiful, kind, innocent and simple rural girl and her unfortunate experience in love. The work draws lessons from the musical structure of Chinese and western sonatas, and combines some performance characteristics of China opera music, which has a strong artistic appeal.

Among them, the "introduction" is used to open the curtain of the story and play a transitional role; "Postscript" is used to reproduce the theme and further express the nostalgia for blue and white flowers and the hatred for feudal ethics in the old society. These two parts are not long enough to be repeated in the analysis. The three parts of "blue flowers and good flowers", "bringing into Zhou family" and "fleeing" are the main plots described in the ballad and the main contents of the analysis of the works.

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The story of orchids

Bluegrass is a beautiful flower with a strange fragrance, which usually grows only in the deep forest of Shan Ye.

According to legend, in ancient times, a woman named Alan married her husband named Li. On the third day of Allen's visit, my husband went to Beijing to catch the exam. From then on, only Allen and her mother-in-law lived together.

In the first half of the year, my mother-in-law knew little about Alan, but after half a year, her mother-in-law suddenly became vicious and abused Alan every day. To what extent is it large? Allen kneels on a stone by the river to wash his mother-in-law's clothes every morning. When she rubbed hard, her mother-in-law came up with a stick and said, "You want to wash my clothes so hard that I can't wear them, right?" ; Rub lightly, mother-in-law kicked again and said, "You haven't eaten in prison for ten years? Can you wash it so lightly? "

Finally, Allen finished washing clothes and wanted to dry them on the rope. Mother-in-law slapped her and scolded: "There is dust on the rope and the clothes are dirty. Why do you want to wash them?"

The vicious mother-in-law made Allen kneel in the scorching sun and hold his clothes in the wind until they dried. There are so many examples that even the neighbors can't stand it. However, Allen was just patient and didn't complain at all.

February 2 next year is the day when the dragon looks up. Early in the morning, my mother-in-law said to Alan, "I'm going to worship the Bodhisattva in the temple today, and I won't be back until evening. There are two steamed buns in the pot. Please be careful not to let the dog eat it, and save it for me to eat at night. "

Alan sent his mother-in-law away, but he couldn't resist the smell of steamed bread and secretly opened the lid and smelled it. She hasn't eaten for three days. She is really hungry.

Steamed bread is in front of you. Just take a bite. With this in mind, Allen couldn't help reaching for the steamed bread and took a bite. He quickly put the steamed bread into the pot, covered the lid and savored the fragrance of the steamed bread. Alan couldn't help but open the lid and ate the second bite, bite, bite, until Alan ate both steamed buns.

At noon, my mother-in-law came back and opened the lid, and her face turned green.

Allen is an honest man. He can't lie. He immediately knelt down and admitted that he had eaten steamed bread.

"I let you eat, let you eat you lazy bitch. You want to starve me. " Mother-in-law couldn't help purring. As she spoke, she found out the needle for sewing clothes, punctured Allen's mouth, pulled out Allen's tongue, and poked the eye of the needle on Allen's tongue until a drop of blood came out. Then she stabbed a needle in another position, saw Allen's bright red blood, and gradually smiled.

In this way, her mother-in-law kept poking and poking, and Allen was so painful that she didn't even have the strength to cry. Allen fainted when her mother-in-law finally left.

In the evening, Allen found a bottle of rat poison and committed suicide.

The vicious mother-in-law looked at all this and smiled happily.

It turned out that it was only because Alan's "xianggong" won the first prize that the princess took a fancy to him and ordered the emperor to marry him.

Unexpectedly, this Li Gongzi fell in love with Alan and refused the princess's kindness. When the princess knew that Li Zhuangyuan refused herself only because of the dross at home, she couldn't help but become angry from embarrassment. Is it really a country princess, not as good as the village aunt?

The princess asked Li Zhuangyuan to write a divorce certificate, but Li Zhuangyuan refused on the grounds that Alan had not violated the Seven Rules.

The princess was so humanized that she had a plan at once. On the one hand, he asked his father to detain the champion, on the other hand, he sent someone to the champion's hometown to explain it to Allen's mother-in-law.

My mother-in-law thinks that as long as Allen breaks the seven rules, my son can write a divorce certificate, marry a princess in Beijing, live in a big house and have servants to serve him. So my mother-in-law has been abusing Allen. Unexpectedly, no matter how she beat and scolded, Allen never struck back and was very filial to her. Helpless, she had to starve Alan, and then went out under the pretext of worshipping Bodhisattva to let her steal vegetables. In this way, Allen committed a crime of disrespect.

As her mother-in-law expected, Alan not only ate steamed bread, but also confessed the crime. The overjoyed mother-in-law immediately told the princess staff who had been waiting for the answer.

The princess thought that this time, Li Zhuangyuan had no reason to refuse him.

After learning that his wife died of illness, Li Zhuangyuan had to agree to marry the princess. But he made a request to the princess, that is, let him go back to his hometown to worship his wife and then get married.

The princess thought, you want to be my man, I'm afraid you won't play any tricks. I agreed as soon as I was happy.

Li Zhuangyuan returned to his hometown and went to Alan's grave to worship. The autumn wind swept away the leaves, and in an instant he had been away from home for two years. What did Allen suffer before he died?

Li Zhuangyuan couldn't help crying at the thought of Alan. Even the wind seems to be sad, and the more it blows, the sharper it becomes.

Li Zhuangyuan was tired of crying and sat in front of the grave, holding Allen's tombstone and staring ahead. Suddenly, he found small yellow flowers everywhere in Allen's cemetery! These little yellow flowers are wildflowers that have never been seen before. With the breeze coming, there is a faint fragrance, much like Alan's fragrance.

Li Zhuangyuan brightened up at the moment, grabbed a wild flower and watched it bloom brilliantly, gently and delicately. However, this flower is a little dark red, like blood.

Li Zhuangyuan looked at it and suddenly became suddenly enlightened. This is Allen's expression of his grievances through these flowers! It turned out that Alan didn't die of illness, but Li Zhuangyuan was so angry that he shouted that Alan vomited blood and forgot.

The magic of the story is not over yet. After learning of the death of Li Zhuangyuan, the princess angrily ordered that anyone who could destroy these wild flowers would be rewarded with 12 thousand silver.

Strange to say, these wild flowers, like mediums, all disappeared overnight.

Since then, these wild flowers have only grown in uninhabited places in the deep mountains and wild forests. Whenever the troops sent by the princess found them, they saw the wild flowers in front of them, but when they reached out, the wild flowers disappeared in an instant. People who try to pick wild flowers often die. The princess doesn't believe in rumors, but she must see them with her own eyes. When she saw a wild flower disappear in front of her eyes, she became crazy and lonely.

Later generations called these wild flowers "orchids" to commemorate the love between Alan and Li Zhuangyuan. Because it is no different from weeds when it is not flowering, it is also called "orchid".

Orchids, in my eyes, are noble flowers and good flowers. Her fragrance blooms only for the right person; Her beautiful figure is only dedicated to those who appreciate her. There are many flowers in the world, including lively, lonely, prosperous, beautiful and unique orchids. They just want to bloom in that desolate place and keep company with green mountains and white clouds.

Even if you get one by chance, it will wither quickly if you don't take care of it. This flower is as fragile as love. No matter how dazzling love is, it also needs the careful care of two people. Otherwise, it is easy to come to an end.