The traditional repertoire of Lushu Opera: small plays, folding plays and this play

We all know that in the Lu opera culture is our country's intangible cultural heritage, in the old society, singing opera artists are highly discriminated against, and repeatedly suffered from the difficulties of external factors, making the theater culture step by step difficult to be able to save is not easy, so he needs is more attention and attention and save him to carry forward, the following I'll introduce you to the traditional repertoire of the Lu opera: the flower cavity small drama, folding and the play. The present play.

Lu opera's exact formation of the age, there is no conclusive evidence, but from its historical records, more than 130 years ago. 1985, in Anhui Province, Chaohu City, found a moment of stone tablets. On the top of the stele, there are four big words "Chenzhi in the main hall". The inscription of about 400 words, is the year in Chao County, the county governor of Chen Bing issued by the forbidden contract.

The forbidden covenant is counted as four articles, the second one is mentioned inverted seven theater. The discovery of this monument not only proves that the name of the play has appeared more than 130 years ago, but also provides a more reliable clue to the age of its generation: that is, the age of the formation of the play of the inverted seven can be traced back to around 1840 (the Qing Dynasty Daoguang, Xianfeng years).

Li Hongzhang, a native of Hefei, once used his hometown Lu Opera, commonly known as "inverted seven theater" instead of the Qing dynasty's "national anthem" it! That is the Qing dynasty Guangxu 22 years (1896), Li Hongzhang to the identity of the prime minister of the Qing dynasty visited six countries in Europe and the United States. In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II held a grand state banquet for him, and accompanied by a visit to the military drill, but also presented him with the Red Eagle Grand Cross First Class Medal.

The Kaiser celebrated the banquet, asked the envoys to sing their national anthem. At that time, the Qing Dynasty has not yet developed the national anthem, Li Hongzhang no way, sang a song of his hometown Hefei popular "inverted seven play" instead of the national anthem, muddle through the matter. Regardless of whether the matter is true or false, Lu Opera is also "inverted seven plays" in the popularity of the time, is indisputable.

The traditional repertoire of Lushu Opera is divided into three categories: opera, opera, and drama.

The small opera to reflect the working people's life and love as the main content, there are some satirical comedy and farce, such as "selling yarn", "put parrot", "on the bamboo mountain", "borrowed wife", "scolding chicken" and so on. In addition, there are some reflecting the people's struggle at the end of the Qing Dynasty life temporary plays, such as exposing the scandal of the opium ghosts of the "smoke lamp", reflecting the peasants defected to the Taiping Army of the "down to Guangdong" and so on.

The folded plays are mostly the "guts" (the wonderful part with independence) extracted from this play, such as "Pounding Pine" in "Zhang Sisters in Tokyo", "Breaking Curtain" in "Liang Zhu", "Zhang Taihe Hugh's Wife" in "Blue Shirt Tale", and "Teaching the Children" in "Three Yuan Tale". Although some of them are from Hui Opera, Beijing Opera or other kinds of operas, but through the Lu Opera artists have been performing in the countryside for a long time, the character, feelings and language of the people in the play are all from the point of view of the main audience - the peasants - to be reshaped, enriched and deepened, and thus have a strong flavor of life and vernacular characteristics.

The main content of this play is family tragedy, love, and public cases. In addition to the unique Chai Axe, Handkerchief, Drought, and River God, most of them are transplanted and adapted from Ming and Qing Dynasty sagas, drums, and other plays, such as Cai Lou Match, Pipa, Pills and Tea, Meng Jiang Nü, and Tian Bao Tu.

Conclusion of the masses is the foundation of the prosperity of opera, the development of Lu opera can not be separated from the soil of the people's life. The repertoire of Lu Opera is more expressive of China's history of anti-aggression wars, anti-oppression struggle or rich in the life of the subject matter. Dana once said that the origin and development of art is closely related to the region.