Rebirth of Rural Literary Life

Chapter 546

Saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and giving birth to children every year.

On the first day of the new year, there were many more people on the streets of Hantun than usual, and they all came out to pay New Year's greetings.

However, compared with the previous years, these people walk much faster now, and they come out in a few minutes after entering the door. The previous scene of New Year's greetings is gone.

Of course, apart from the fact that everyone has become busy in the past two years, there is another important reason.

This year, the village invited a troupe to play a big show, and the venue is in the cultural square of the village.

The stage was set up as early as the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and the troupe arrived early this morning.

The morning is when the villagers go out to pay New Year's greetings. Naturally, they don't know how to sing, and the afternoon is the opening time.

The villagers in Hantun hurriedly finished their New Year's greetings in the morning, and hurried home to have a good lunch. Before 12 o'clock, a lot of people had gathered in the cultural square, waiting for the troupe to play gongs and drums.

When He Ping arrived with Mao Chunhua and Xiao Zhu'er, the square was already full of people. If there were only villagers from Hantun, it would certainly not be able to fill the thousand-square-meter square, but there were still villagers from the surrounding villages inside.

I heard that Han Tun invited a theater troupe this year, and the villagers from Shili Ba Township paid New Year's greetings in a hurry in the morning. They didn't even eat lunch, and came to Han Tun with some dry food.

Xiao Zhu'er stood outside the crowd and complained to He Ping: "Tell me about you, the more anxious you are, the less you will be in a hurry. Then you won't be able to eat at any time. It's good this time, I don't even have a good seat, how can I go to the theater?" ah?"

He Ping gave him a brainstorm, and now this kid is not big or small, "How can we make the big show in our village so that you can't watch it?"

As he spoke, he led his wife and children to the edge of the square, where there was a road leading to the backstage.

Seeing their family of three coming, Han Zhaoshe said, "Go in quickly, the benches are ready for you."

He Ping proudly said: "How is it? This is called planning for a rainy day."

After speaking, the family of three passed the crowd to the best place in front of the stage, and a long stool was left empty, which was obviously prepared for them.

The three sat down, the luthiers on the stage were tuning the strings, and the square was extremely noisy, but the voices of the performers in the background could be heard clearly in their ears.

The big show in Northeast China naturally has to be Errenzhuan. There are many names for this thing, such as Shuangbai, Bengbeng, Xiaoyangko, whatever you call it.

The history is not short. As the saying goes, "Yangko is the foundation, and the lotus falls are bordered." The Erren Zhuan, which combines the Northeast Yangko and the Beihe Lianhualuozi, has a history of two to three hundred years. There are also many arias, but it is difficult to be elegant.

However, it may also be because of this unrefined temperament that Errenzhuan is extremely active among the people and has become the favorite entertainment method of Xialiba people.

There are several forms of Errenzhuan performances, such as "Singing Big Car Shop", "Singing Yangko Club", "Singing Tea Club", "Singing Tunchang", the most common of which is "Singing Tunchang". Time is a good time to sing Tuenchang, and today's performance in Hantun is to sing Tuenchang.

"Boom boom boom! Clang clang clang!"

The luthiers of the troupe tuned the strings, communicated with the backstage, and watched the audience gathered together, all young and old, picked up the instruments and started tuning.

This is called "Dao Tong". After the first drum, second drum, and third drum are played, the audience is attracted, and when almost everyone comes, the actors will start to appear on stage.

It doesn't need to be so troublesome today, the villagers have blocked the square for a long time, so there is no need to recruit them.

After the sound of the drums, a diminutive actor with funny makeup appeared on the stage. Needless to say, he must be a buffoon.

The clown came onto the stage, first bowed to the audience, and then raised his voice and shouted: "If you want to sell, turn your head outward, and the boatman paddles over."

The voice was high-pitched and crisp, even the audience at the back of the square could hear it clearly.

He Ping found it very interesting. This opening scene was much more interesting than the Erren Zhuan he had seen in later generations.

At this time, a danjiao with eyebrows and phoenix came out from behind the scenes. It turned out that what he said just now was to draw out this danjiao.

As soon as the main character appeared on the stage, today's play will be considered as the beginning.

The duo of later generations has basically become a collection of jokes + low-difficulty acrobatics + a large collection of popular songs. The elements of opera are almost invisible. In many cases, it's not because the actors don't want to act, but because no one really wants to watch it.However, among the duo actors of later generations, it’s okay if you let them sing a little cap. There are really not many who can sing big plays, including those who often appear on TV. The quality of actors varies.

The audience in the audience watched the actress come out, booing and whistling, and the square was very noisy for a while.

The two actors on the stage called themselves "Shoushitou" by reporting their families, which is similar to the opening poem in cross talk. It has nothing to do with the main drama, and it is mainly for quiet scenes.

Sure enough, after the two actors spoke, the audience fell silent.

Then there was a talk, which was magnified in later Errenzhuan performances, and it took up at least half of the time in a performance.

For a person like He Ping, who has been baptized by Internet jokes in later generations, the jokes and jingles of the actors are really nothing funny, but this is where the skills are displayed.

Even though he didn't think it was funny, he still found it very interesting watching the clown's every move on stage.

The audience in the audience was amused by the clown's few jokes.

After the talk is over, once the clown on the stage sings the little hat, this is the most sung thing on the duet stage in later generations, and the folk tunes are sung as if they were a serious play.

At this time and this scene, of course, the song "Little Happy New Year" that is familiar to audiences across the country is sung.

"It's the new year in the first month~ the first day of the new year~"

The little hats in Errenzhuan performances usually have bright and catchy tunes, which are not only for the actors to sing and warm up, but also to enliven the atmosphere on and off the stage.

The audience in the audience was too familiar with this little hat. The actors on the stage sang, and many people sang along in the audience, and the atmosphere was fired up all of a sudden.

When the main show kicked off, the audience cheered for the face.

Today the pair on stage sang "The Great Western Chamber", the most classic part of the duet.

What ordinary people like to watch is this kind of vulgar love story of a scholar lady.

After nearly an hour of performance, the audience applauded and applauded continuously.

The two actors on the stage leave the stage, and then the next pair of actors enters the stage. After you sing, I will enter the stage.

Until sunset, the street lights on the square were all lit up, and the performance continued.

The severe cold in winter could not dispel the people's love for the performance until the main actor finished singing the last scene.

The theater troupe manager came to the stage to take a curtain call, and the audience in the square still couldn't get enough of it.

At this time, the old captain had no choice but to stand up, "Okay, let's leave early, it's getting late. There will be a movie in the village tomorrow night, everyone come here early."

As soon as they heard about watching a movie, the villagers in the square burst into a commotion. Who would watch Erren Zhuan when there is a movie to watch?
Within three to five minutes, the crowd in the square disappeared without a trace.

(End of this chapter)