Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 510
The next performance is a Sichuan Opera repertoire.

It can also be regarded as the representative drama "Five Sons Tell Their Mothers" in Sichuan Opera.

This "Five Sons Tell Their Mothers" is about five ghost children who were killed by their mothers.

Came to the underworld and sued the king of Hades.

However, Hades discovered that the defendant's woman was actually the woman he fell in love with when he went down to earth as an actress privately.

Because the other party refused, he tricked him into bed with a trick, and was raped by the village officials before giving birth to five children.

As soon as the woman went to the court, she recognized that the King of Hades sitting high in the court was the one who had defiled her in the first place.

In order to prevent his scandal from being exposed, Yan Wang suggested that everyone should cast a good pregnancy and try to buy everyone off.

But in fact, in order to worry about his scandal being exposed, Hades directly arranged several people to join the animal way.

Unexpectedly, Hades' tricks and sinister intentions were seen through by the woman.

The story of a woman who cheated the King of Hades by tricking her into tricks, and brought her five sons to reincarnate as human beings while the King of Hades was obsessed with acting.

The story is pungent and satirical, with a strong critical color.

However, due to time issues, today's performance is only the first half of the show, and the second half needs to be watched in the afternoon.

Of course, for the old Chengdu people who are known for their leisurely and slow pace.

This is not a problem at all, after all, most of the people who can come here sit and sit for a whole day, and it is too easy to want to read it.

Several actors left the stage one after another, and the staff immediately carried a mahogany carved square table.

Above the square table is a screen made of white cloth.

Along with the mahogany 4-square table and the white cloth screen, there are six musicians in total, the second from the left and the fourth from the right.

The two musicians on the left are responsible for the accompaniment of wind, plucked strings, percussion and strings.

The main music such as erhu, sheng, dulcimer and pipa are performed by the four musicians on the right.

In this era of advanced technology, many times even the soundtrack of the concert is directly recorded.

For a small shadow puppet show, it can be said that it is quite powerful to have this kind of ostentation.

After all, the cost of manpower is still high now, and the cost of recruiting so many people to perform a shadow puppet show is really high.

But Li Xiao immediately noticed something was wrong.

I also understand why a shadow play can invite so many musicians.

The clothes of these musicians are not uniform, some are wearing Chinese tunic suits, some are wearing casual short-sleeves, and some are wearing new-style Tang suits.

This is obviously not a professional orchestra, but a temporary orchestra formed according to their own interests.

Suddenly all the lights on the stage went out.

Due to the special design of the stage, the place deep in the stage also became pitch black.

The crisp sound of gongs and drums sounded densely, and then the white cloth that had darkened was lit up again.

The background of the shadow puppet painting has been printed on the white cloth.

Above the white cloth are red eaves with carved beams and painted buildings, and on the left and right sides are towering mountains and green forests.

The soundtrack on both sides was a little quiet, and there was a middle-of-the-road yelling sound in the middle.

"Tongdie Su has brown hair and no hairpin..."

Shadow puppets are very simple, relying on the craftsman's manipulation of shadow puppets and the soundtrack of 6 musicians around.

Shadow play can be regarded as the earliest film.

It's just that this kind of film is a bit crude compared to modern films.

This traditional art has been around for more than 2000 years, longer than most countries in the world.

Many people think that shadow puppetry is the originator of modern animation and modern comics.

Using the technology of dislocation of light and shadow, different pictures are presented.

In shadow puppetry, music, art, rap and stage effects are integrated.

You know, this is a technology from more than 2000 years ago.

Most of the scenes in shadow puppetry are fixed, and only minor changes may occur when changing occasions.

This is the least technical part of shadow puppetry.

The core essence of shadow puppetry is the action modeling of characters.

One of the most common shadow puppet character structures consists of at least 11 parts.

Skull, chest, abdomen, legs, arms, elbows, hands.

This is a different body tissue, connected in ingenious ways to three control rods of different lengths.

The operator needs to control the three joysticks of different lengths to make the shadow puppet perform various actions.

Usually in a scene, only two characters will appear at most.

Because for ordinary shadow puppet artists, it is already the limit to operate two characters at once.

Because of these two roles, they are usually equipped with weapons and horses.

With one hand controlling 4 joysticks, there is basically no way to do other operations.

Of course, in some necessary scenes, three or four characters will appear.

But in this multi-character scene, there must be one or two of them with less action.

After a rather difficult opening remark full of ancient style.

Subsequent dialogue becomes easier.

Although it also has an ancient style, it is already a vernacular that most people can understand.

It is about a village where monsters slaughtered.

A boy from the village narrowly escaped the massacre because he went up the mountain to cut firewood.

After burying his family, he determined to take revenge.

So I took my luggage and traveled all over the world to learn art and apprentice, and finally kill the monster.

The story is simple and clear, and the characters are well drawn.

Whether it is weapons or different characters, the design is very delicate.

There are not too many reversals, and it can even be said to be a bit straightforward.

However, as a length, it is only more than 30 minutes, and there is only one shadow puppet show with one main performer.

The performance can be regarded as remarkable, both refined and popular.

When the show was over, the lights came back on.

Immediately there was warm applause all around.

Then amidst the applause, there was a burst of discordant laughter.

"This is the Great Han Kingdom, and the so-called traditional culture is nothing more than that!"

"I always say that ancient civilizations like to put gold on their faces!"

"That's right, it's so ridiculous to come out with old-fashioned things in what age!"

The people who spoke were near Li Xiao, and they didn't hide their voices at all.

Although he spoke Chinese, but with a strange intonation, he was obviously not from the Han Dynasty.

Li Xiao followed the voice, and it turned out to be some foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes.

There were also quite a few people around, and I heard a few people ridicule with deep malice.

Immediately, an old man in a light blue sleeveless vest stood up.

He pointed at several blond foreigners and reprimanded:
"I like to watch and don't watch get out, have you considered the feelings of the performers when you make random comments in the audience?"

Hearing the old man's reprimand, several foreigners who were originally smiling suddenly showed displeasure.

One of them was wearing a tight vest, a hip-length skirt, and a woman with heavy makeup also stood up.

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