Guo Ai: Xipi 2.6

Don't think that the wealth of the Guo family depends on you,

Listen to me, I'm going to tell you the old story.

An Lushan's army has started to violate the capital city,

who can stop the fire and the smoke?

Your father moved to the land of Jiange,

and the thieves came in force and no one was able to defeat them.

We saw the Tang dynasty turn to dust,

My father fought for three years to put the smoke of the wolf to rest.

The fallen kingdom has been rebuilt,

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Thanks to Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang.

The king of Fenyang, Guo Ziyi, who fought in the south and the north to reorganize the countryside,

captured the thieves and the sycophants and chopped them under the sword.

If it weren't for my father and son, who fought in the south and the north and blocked the west and killed in the sand, how could your father be the emperor?

Extended information:

"Playing the Golden Bough" was originally a famous Jin Opera drama, which has a hundred-year history. It tells the story of the royal "golden branch" Princess Shengping of the Great Tang Dynasty, self-reliant royal status, not for the eunuch's 80th birthday birthday wishes, causing conflicts between husband and wife, after the family mediation and the story of reconciliation. The play was born a hundred years ago, had been adapted for Anhui opera, Yu opera, Han opera, Sichuan opera, Hunan opera, opera and a series of local theater, also has a "drunkenly playing the golden branch" "Fenyang Fortune" "Fushoushan" "Hundred Shouzu" and other varied names.

In Beijing, it was through the opera of Evaluating Opera and Hebei Opera that most of the audience learned about the play. The Peking Opera version of "Playing the Golden Bough" is a Wang Hat Lao Sheng play, a masterpiece of Zhang Erkui and Xu Yintang, which was co-starred by Shang Xiaoyun and Wang Fengqing; it is also a representative play of the Yan School, which has been performed by, among others, Yan Jupeng, Yan Shaofeng, Zhang Shaolou, and Yan Xingpeng, but has not been staged for a long time, and has nearly been lost.

Liang Xi, vice president of the Beijing National Quintessence Art Inheritance Promotion Association, believes that letting the classic old plays back on stage is a way to promote the national essence, and this traditional play has a realistic educational significance for modern young people's view of marriage and love. In order to restore the look of the Peking Opera version, Beijing Peking Opera Theater, Beijing Opera Art Vocational College and other units are actively involved in the creation of the play, and invited to the Shanxi Jin Theater, the national level director Cui Xiangying as the general director. "I am directing a Peking Opera production because I want to integrate the characteristics of Jin Opera into Peking Opera."

Cui Xiangying explained that his role is mainly to thread the needle between the heavyweight veteran artists and the outstanding young performers, "Each actor has their own different singing style, and their individual abilities are very outstanding, so I hope to work hard to make this production better."

Taking the old with the new is the hallmark of this revival's cast. Shang Huimin, a performing artist of the Shang School who plays the Empress in the play, is the eldest granddaughter of the Peking Opera master Shang Xiaoyun and the daughter of Shang Changchun, a famous martial artist, who has devoted herself to spreading the art of the Shang School over the years. Young Peking Opera artist Jiang Yishan, who plays the Princess in the play, studied under two artists, Mei Baojiu and Xue Yaping, and studied the Mei and Zhang schools. "In my past performances I mostly focused on literary theater, and in this play I have a lot of performances across a little bit of lineage such as Boudoir Dan, so I hope you, the audience, can see another side of me."

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