What are the characteristics of Dai drama?

The performance of Dai opera is enriched by absorbing the performance skills of Han opera on the basis of refining various dances of the nation, which has distinctive national characteristics. Dai drama repertoire is rich in content and wide in subject matter.

There are small song and dance dramas that directly reflect the life and customs of the Dai people, plays adapted from Dai folk legends and narrative poems, and hundreds of plays adapted or transplanted from Hui novels. Among them are Thousand-petal Lotus, Meng Xiang and Mansa Cloud Gate. Originated from Dai folk stories, narrative poems or Buddhist stories.

A Thousand-petal Lotus is a drama of God. It's about the king's trip. The elephant he rode was accidentally stoned to death by a young farmer, Yan Kun. The king wanted to kill Yan Kun, but later, due to the intercession of the minister, the king sent him to find a thousand petals to atone.

Under the guidance of the water fairy, Yan Kun went through many hardships to find a thousand petals lotus. It turns out that the thousand petals lotus is the seven fairies flying from the sky. Seeing that Yan Kun was fearless, honest and kind, the seven fairies promised to see the king.

Unexpectedly, after seeing the beautiful seven fairies, the king turned his face and denied it. He not only wants to kill Yan Kun, but also wants to marry seven fairies. The seven fairies used fairy magic to make the king faint and die. The subjects unanimously elected honest, brave and capable Yan Kun as the new king. Since then, the local peace, people's lives are getting better and better.

Meng Xiang is also known as the warm Meng Xiang. The young king of Mongpoza, Sha Aoli, held a stone to hold a by-election for his beautiful sister Lang Zhan. After Meng, the prince of Mongganta, wanted to win, Sha Aoli thought Mongganta was poor and betrothed the princess to Prince Hansole, a powerful country.

Just as I was about to get married, a sudden gust of wind took Lang Zhanbu away by the devil. Meng Xiang saved the princess from the den regardless of her safety, but was framed by Sha Aoli as a death row.

Late at night, the princess went to the prison to visit Meng Xiang after hearing the news. Their true feelings touched the gods, making them integrate with Jia Xi, and the gods released Meng Xiang from the cage. After returning to China, Meng Xiang decided to turn hatred into friendship and go to find relatives. On the way, I was attacked by Shaaoli and Hunsuolai Coalition forces.

He and his good friend Nan Low Credit Treasure Box got rid of the mixed rope and were ashamed of Sha Aoli. Finally, they married Lang Zhan and inherited the throne of Meng Boza.

The characters in this play are gods in the sky, demons on the earth, kings on the earth and people on the earth. There are many characters and different spirits. Clean ups and downs On the basis of basically maintaining the main plot of the original script, the adapted script is compressed. The characterization, emotional description and plot setting all conform to the psychological requirements and appreciation habits of the Dai people. Therefore, this drama has been staged for a long time since the 1980s of 19, and it is an excellent traditional play of Dai drama.

The script "Mansa Cloud Gate" is based on some plots in Dai folklore and the story called "Wuding". Mansa, Prince of Yunmen City, asked his father's permission to go out to study. Mansa's stepmother Langlai and minister Meng Peng are jealous that Mansa will inherit the throne in the near future, and secretly send servants to murder on the way.

Later, Mansha was saved in the forest by a villager named Gu. Later, Mansa discovered that her stepmother Langlai not only persecuted him, but also persecuted her mother and sister. He managed to find his mother and met her in a small house on the mountain. Then, the mother and son returned to the palace and finally clarified the right and wrong in the palace.

The plot of the play developed smoothly. In the performance, the peacock dance of the Dai people is combined with the bang bang dance, which has distinct national characteristics.

The traditional repertoire of Dai opera is Meng Huan in Beijing. "Meng Huan, Beijing Province" is about the marriage of Princess Meng Banna Naxi. In order to win the beautiful princess, two resourceful and brave princes, Jing Province and Meng Huan, each showed their magical powers. They fought with each other, begged for rain, hit the Heavenly Palace from underground, and even broke into the Heavenly Palace.

Later, Jing Province won the competition and finally won the princess's love and got married. The drama has always been a regular performance of the Dai drama class and has always been loved by local audiences.

Influenced by shadow play, Beijing opera and Yunnan opera, Dai opera naturally transplanted and sang Han opera, some of which were adapted from Han opera and novel romance, such as Mo Po cherishes ghosts, Tao and Zhang Sijie.

The Chinese name of The Devil's Woman Missing Ghost is Ximen Bao. The enchantress in Dai language is the witch in Chinese. The play was circulated in Ganya and Zada. The script is based on "Ximen Bao's ruling power" in Historical Records and Funny Biography.

Somewhere the river swelled, the witch took the opportunity to play tricks and defraud the property, and even ran to the officials, claiming that the river swelled and needed to give the beautiful girl to the Dragon King as a concubine before the water could recede.

When the housekeeper knew about it, she immediately ordered the servants in the government to inform the officials, the squire and the people to gather by the river, throw the wicked women and officials into the river, and then lead everyone to control the water.

Tao Tao, a scholar of Tao, is studying in his study. The fox, who broke the dogma and was about to be struck by lightning, jumped into Tao's desk from the window to hide in the storm and escaped the lightning. In order to repay Tao's kindness, the fox led Tao's soul into Mr. Qiao's garden and met the beautiful young lady Joe, and they became attached to each other.

Later, Tao went to Joe's house to propose marriage through the media, but Joe opposed it, forcing Joe to die with bitterness. With the help of the fox, Tao came to Joe's grave and prayed that he would not get married in the underworld, and he would get married in the underworld after his death. This is a sudden crack in the grave. The fox sucked Joe's soul out and they finally got married.

This drama is full of romanticism, compact structure, appropriate metaphor and beautiful language, which is deeply loved by the Dai people. It is a successful translation of Han novels into Dai dramas.

"Sister Zhang" tells the story of Cui and his mother, Mrs. Rui, living in a foreign land because of the war and begging for a living. The fourth sister among the seven fairies saw that Wen Rui was a dutiful son, begging for food, and she suddenly fell in love with him. Then she stole the jade emperor's soul bottle and other treasures, and went down to earth to marry Wen Rui.

Sisi used magic to build a tall building on the flat ground, and a cash cow grew in the yard. Since then, Wen Rui has lived a rich life. Another rich man in the village, nicknamed "Wang", was jealous of Fourth Sister's beauty and wanted to seize his wife, so he bribed the government to make false accusations, which led to a series of bizarre stories.

Zhang Sijie followed the structural characteristics of Dai drama scripts, which included both sadness and joy and martial arts. It also better shaped the image of Zhang Sijie. 1982, Mangmanzhai was invited by some Dai villages in Ruili and Longchuan counties to perform. At the performance site, there were few people watching movies, but there were a sea of people watching the performance.

Since the 1960s, Dai drama has been adapted, created and performed a large number of plays, such as,, and Zhu Shen.

The plot of the Dai drama Han Hai is that Han Hai, the adopted son of King Jingshe, falls in love with the Jade List of Princess Jingshe. King Grantwind attacked Jingshe for Yu, but he was defeated, so he set a plot to capture Han Hai alive. Jade mussel vowed not to marry King Grandwind and threw herself into the river.

During the first expedition, Prince Han Hai sang a song to bless the people. His lyrics are: "Knock the happy elephant foot drum louder and let the festive incense wax add flowers to the bright moon. Flowers, open tonight, golden peacock, please come here and fly freely. "

The chorus of the people is: "Hundreds of flowers are in full bloom tonight, and the golden peacock is flying freely here!"

Yu Yi sang: "Your singing attracted peacocks to fly in pairs, and the festive incense wax lit up the hearts of those who lacked cloth. What a pity, how the peacock in the palace spreads its wings, and the flowers in the golden vase are hard to show fragrance. "

The third "capture". When his father, the Buddhist who wrote about King Gelangfeng, pretended to be cloth and used coconut juice with anesthetic to arouse him to drink it, he sang, "Prince, praise the peacock not because of its noble appearance, but because of its gentle temperament. The prince is in a high position and has repeatedly made outstanding achievements. Maybe he looks down on humble people! "

In the fifth Song of the Soul, when beheaded by King Guangfeng, the people in the refined house, Dad Nong and his granddaughter Han, cried and offered sacrifices to him. Sister Han sang: "Pity you, like Jin Lu falling into a ditch, and like a peacock being pierced by a poisoned arrow."

King Feng hung Han Hai's head on the Erythrina tree. Han Hai died unsatisfied, singing loudly, denouncing Feng Wang and awakening the people. Loyal Yu Yi got a token from Feng Wang, stole her head with a sacrifice, and returned to Nestorianism. When Feng Wang learned that he was chasing troops, Yu Yi couldn't escape and jumped into the river with her head in her arms. Jingshe Buddhist troops rushed to the river, angered the enemy, defeated Feng Wang and defended his hometown.

This story is widely circulated in Dehong area. After the play was adapted into A Dai's play, it was deeply loved and appreciated by the audience. From 65438 to 0984, the play went to Kunming to participate in the national minority drama video viewing performance and symposium and the second national drama performance in Yunnan Province, which was well received by the audience and experts in Spring City. 1985 The play won the "Unity Award" for the first national minority script creation.

E and luo sang wrote about a handsome young man, luo sang, who came to Meng Gen to do business. The girls dressed up and went to the market to see him. Luo sang danced the peacock dance with the girls. E and luo sang is a love tragedy, in which the hero and heroine fall in love but are opposed by feudal parents.

Finally, Sanluo's lover E was rejected by Sanluo's mother and was humiliated and abused. E was forced to go home. Unfortunately, the baby miscarried on the way home and died when he got home. Sanluo was heartbroken when he learned all this. He drew his sword beside E and cut himself. After their death, the lovers turned into peacocks and danced under the big green tree.

"Zhu Shen" tells the story of a soldier who died heroically in the frontier battle. Company commander Liu personally went to the martyr's hometown to deal with the aftermath. When her mother learned of her son's death, she was heartbroken and at a loss, and she mistook Liu for him. In order to comfort the old man, Zhu Han kneeled down to recognize his wife, regardless of his fiancee Hu Wei's opposition, and wrote a report, asking Rongbang border guards to take care of the martyr's mother.

Hu Wei didn't understand and broke up with him. After her mother was conscious, she felt deeply guilty about the present situation and insisted that Liu's mother take her son away. Liu's mother thought she died for protection and took it for granted. The two mothers were at loggerheads about it. In the process of taking care of his mother and girl, Liu developed mutual affection.

In order to solve the "contradiction" between the two mothers satisfactorily, Liu Xiang proposed, and the two loving hearts merged together, and the "contradiction" between the two mothers was also alleviated.

The play focuses on revealing the noble sentiments of the frontier soldiers and civilians. Language has national characteristics, and the setting of characters reflects national unity. The play is a useful exploration for the author to reflect the theme of contemporary military life. The script was published in Yunnan Drama No.6 1986. 1989 won the silver prize of the second national minority theme script.

And later wrote A Dai's drama Zuo Yannong. It is about the people of the quasi-dyed country being killed by the snake demon and the innocent women being humiliated. Many people entered the palace and asked the king to exorcise the demon. The king ignored it. Later, the snake demon entered the palace to haunt the princess, and the king invited the unmarried prince of Xushe to exorcise the demon. The prince of Jingshe was frightened by the snake bite and broke off his engagement. The king was forced to make a list to recruit talents and scholars, wishing that whoever could get rid of the snake demon would recruit Xu.

Iwasaka was determined to save the princess after learning about it. He got the support of the old hunter and went to the palace to get rid of the snake demon. However, when the king saw that Zuo Yannong was an ordinary man, he broke his promise. The kind and loyal princess learned that the king had broken his word and was determined to abandon the rich and help the poor. With the help of the maid-in-waiting, she disguised herself as a maid, fled the palace and became a companion with Zuo Yan.

The plot of the play is mixed with sadness and joy, the music is lyrical and beautiful, the stage art is full of national colors, and the costumes are bright. In addition, the actors absorbed the combination of Peking Opera, Yunnan Opera and Dai Dance, showing the joys and sorrows of the characters in the play, which was very popular among the audience. 1962 The drama participated in the Yunnan Provincial National Drama Exhibition Conference, and 1984 was collected for Yunnan Provincial National Drama Plays.