A Dream of Red Mansions is not a very stuffy book. It has a strong vitality. Food and architecture decorate its structure, poetry enriches its connotation, and drama makes it full of rhythm, as if it were singing instead of writing a book. Kunqu Opera is more common in A Dream of Red Mansions, which enriches people's lives, especially Baodai's love. It seems that everything is closely related to Kunqu Opera, and Kunqu Opera plays a very important role. First, Kunqu opera is the source of their understanding of love, and many people learn to rebel against ethical codes and pursue free love.
There is nothing about love in ancient feudal ethical codes. Baoyu and Daiyu only know that they like each other, but they don't know what it is. Only when they watch The West Chamber together do they understand that this is love. In ancient times, men and women got married according to their parents' orders and matchmakers' words. They were never masked, and it was very difficult to have love because of the constraints of rules and regulations. It would be very good to be able to become family and respect in later life.
in Kunqu opera, the love theme accounts for the vast majority, such as The West Chamber, The Peony Pavilion, The Palace of Eternal Life, The Scared Dream and so on. In fact, the performance of Kunqu opera is very similar to that of TV and movies now. At that time, young people understood love through watching plays, and so did Baoyu and Daiyu.
When she listened to the song again, she only heard: "It's as beautiful as a flower for you, like water flowing for years ..." Lin Daiyu was moved by these two words. Hearing the words "You feel sorry for yourself in the secluded boudoir" again, I was so intoxicated that I couldn't stand, so I squatted down on a mountain stone ... I thought about it carefully, but I didn't feel heartache and tears in my eyes.
Daiyu usually doesn't like go to the opera very much, but once in a while, she stops to listen carefully, and finds that there is a lot of interest in traditional Chinese opera, especially when she is ignorant of love in adolescence. This lyric seems to touch a chord and make people feel sad.
This is a aria from Peony Pavilion, which tells the story of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei falling in love with each other. They finally got together for their feelings, and the story is very touching! In fact, there is a famous saying, which is still often quoted as "I don't know what happened, but it went deep". It is conceivable how deeply this drama influenced everyone at that time.
I unconsciously remembered the saying in The Story of the West Chamber that "people can walk in secluded places, and the moss is pale and the dew is faint", and I sighed secretly: "Double writing, double writing, is really a poor life. However, although your life is thin, you still have a widowed mother and a weak brother. Today, Lin Daiyu's life is thin, and there is no widowed mother and a weak brother. The ancients said that' a beautiful woman's life is thin', but I am not a beautiful woman. Why is a thin life better than a double article! "
If she hadn't heard or seen such a statement, Daiyu wouldn't be so sad or so touched, but because she knew these words, she would involuntarily stay in her heart, and she would be touched by the scene and personnel. Daiyu's mind is very delicate and sentimental. Whenever she thinks of the unfortunate beauty in books and plays, Daiyu's heart will be doubled. A beautiful woman can still be accompanied by her family, but she is not only in love with twists and turns, but also has no one who can make decisions for her. Maybe it is inevitable to be sad when she is in the position of Daiyu!
The Peony Pavilion and The Romance of the West Chamber, two classic operas of Kunqu Opera, have appeared many times in this article, because they have had a lot of influence on the emotional lines of Daiyu and Baoyu, making them begin to understand love, and they also want to dare to resist feudal ethics and pursue free love and sincere love like the people in the play. Second, Kunqu Opera was popular music at that time, and it was a very important way of entertainment in life.
Every era had its own unique way of entertainment and leisure. In ancient times, there were go to the opera, drinking and visiting brothels, and so on. Only go to the opera was the only place where everyone could enjoy the elegant and popular tastes, because other girls could not go. Kunqu opera was very influential at that time, defeating other troupes and becoming the official opera.
According to "Drama Plays", "Kunqu Opera has dominated the traditional Chinese opera for more than 2 years, during which no drama can compete with it. From the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, from the princes and nobles to the people of Limin, they all fell for it. "
In A Dream of Red Mansions, there are often scenes of singing opera. When Baochai, Wang Xifeng and Jia Jing celebrated their birthdays, they specially invited a troupe to sing opera. Lai Mammy's family also treated her to dinner to celebrate her grandson Lai Shangrong's becoming an official, and also invited Liu Xianglian and others to sing opera. Feng Ziying, Baoyu's good friend, invited Baoyu and others to have dinner outside, and also invited Jiang Yuhan, an actor, and Yuner, a prostitute, as well as music. When Jia Fu went to Taixuguan to play Ping An, he also specially sang for a few days. In a word, opera is a common form of entertainment.
In this way, the Jia family, as a noble family, can't lag behind others. Usually, go to the opera wants to go outside or invite a troupe to his home. They don't need it. They have a troupe at home, so they can be summoned to sing at any time if they want to listen.
When Grandmother Jia took Granny Liu to visit the Grand View Garden, she occasionally heard the young performers in pear fragrance court of Jiafu performing music, so she let them go into the yard to perform. They could visit the garden, and Grandmother Jia and others could also listen to the music, killing two birds with one stone.
Because of its popularity, Kunqu opera is closely related to people's lives and has many connections. Third, Kunqu promotes the plot development of A Dream of Red Mansions
The reason why Kunqu has a deep connection with people's lives and Bao Dai's love is that Kunqu promotes the plot development step by step. Without deliberately emphasizing, I inadvertently made a lot of preparations.
In order to welcome Yuan Chun to his hometown, he set up twelve little performers and teachers in pear fragrance court. When Yuan Chun came home, he ordered four plays: Hao Yan, Qi Qiao, Xian Yuan and Away from the Soul, which had a very important implication for Jia Fu's fate and her own ending. The development of Jiafu is like a tree full of flowers, which will flourish and decline; Yuan Chun's life rose high and fell heavily, and finally he died in a palace fight, which was virtually displayed in the opera.
On Xue Baochai's 15th birthday, three more tracks appeared: The Journey to the West, Lu Zhishen Drunken Wutai Mountain, and Liu Erdang Dressed. There was also an episode in the middle of this time, saying that the young official who played Xiao Dan looked like Lin Daiyu, so there was also a storm. Baoyu offended Daiyu and Xiangyun at the same time. Later, because he heard Baochai's explanation of "coming and going naked without care", he wrote a poem, which also hinted that Baoyu would become a monk in the future. If Daiyu's careful relief had not made Baoyu give up this idea, it might have come true long ago.
On another occasion, Baoyu knew that Ling Guan's singing was very good, so he begged to sing one for him, but Ling Guan refused to take a reason. She was so arrogant that she had a soft spot for Jia Qiang. Baoyu was very disappointed, but when she saw the scene where they got along, she realized that love should be single-minded, and everyone could only get one person's tears. Here Baoyu also wanted to understand to give up fraternity and love Daiyu wholeheartedly.
In short, because there are many places in Kunqu Opera that tell about love, it plays an important role in promoting Baoyu and Daiyu's understanding of love, so it has a deep connection with their love, and because Kunqu Opera always appears in people's lives, it naturally promotes the development of the plot, so Kunqu Opera is an important part that cannot be ignored when reading the Red Chamber.
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