Infrastructure masters in the red building

Jia Fang quickly cleared up his mood and returned to Taoyuan Village to work hard.

In another time and space, he is basically the same, adhering to professionalism, work is work, life is life, the emotions in life will not be easily brought to work, he will only concentrate on the problems encountered in work.

Regarding the issue of Liu Ying and the future development direction of Tuntian, Jia Xin already had a clear idea in his mind, and the rest was to put it into practice.

So he found the crew who were responsible for the arrangement of "A Tale of Joy" last time, and after a discussion, he began to promote it in Shengli New Village, telling these two villages that "A Tale of Joy" will soon be "condolences" in two natural villages. show".

"A Tale of Joy" is the most popular play in Wuyuan County and Taoyuan Village, but most people in Shengli New Village have only heard about it and never seen it.But because the original shape of the hero in this play comes from them, this play is even more curious.

In order to welcome the arrival of the crew of "A Tale of Joy".Both natural villages have started to build theaters.

Because it is in a mountainous area, the location of the theater is not complicated.Both natural villages chose shallow slope depressions to build theaters, flattened a piece of ground on the low ground as a stage, and erected a wall on the stage as a stage set.Behind the wall is a small row of houses, which serve as resting places for actors, as well as places for makeup and dressing.

Facing the stage, build a semicircular grandstand.The grandstand is built on a shallow slope, and steps are naturally built according to the slope.The audience sat on the steps to watch the performance.

This is very different from the stage set up by ordinary villagers when they sing social operas.The traditional stage generally raises the ground to build a temporary "platform", on which the actors perform on the stage.There are steps on the base of the stage to communicate with the backstage, which is convenient for actors to walk around.

When it comes to the new theater, the space for actors to perform is set at the lowest point.This time caused a lot of controversy.Someone heard about it and asked: "With so many people, can you see the performance clearly?"

But Jia Fang didn't care about these questions.For performance occasions with a large number of audiences, the theater structure effect he designed will be much better than that of the traditional rural stage.

With cement concrete, the construction of the theater is much faster than the villagers imagined.Soon the semicircular sunken theater will be ready for use.Jia Fang invited many representatives of villagers from Wuyuan County and Taoyuan Village, school officials from Pingnan Daying, and some "outstanding" reconstruction objects to visit the new theater.

The representatives of the villagers had never seen such a "stage" before, and they were very curious when they came in, looking around.

The school officials and the reformed subjects are familiar with this structure - they built it according to Jia Fang's instructions.It's just that everyone is not sure what the effect of such a stage will be.

After all the visitors arrived, Jia Fang appeared.He stood in the middle of the stage, and before speaking, he clapped his hands lightly.The applause was crisp, spreading to every corner of the theater, and all the visitors who were chatting heard the applause and turned their heads to look at Jia Fang at the same time.

"Can everyone hear me clearly?"

Jia Fang didn't use his brass horn, but stood in the center of the stage and spoke at a normal volume.

Scattered on the stands, the villagers in the east and west turned around and nodded together.Someone else said: "This Mr. Jia is talking, why do we listen as if he is standing opposite us?"

Jia Fang showed a little smug smile: That's right.

Acoustics are an extremely important consideration when designing theaters and theatres.If the actors can perform effortlessly and be heard clearly by all the audience, it will naturally make their performance more natural and engaging.

Most of the traditional theaters built in the villages around Taoyuanzhai are open structures. The high stage can be seen by many people, but it is not conducive to the gathering of sound waves. In addition, the environment of the scene is usually very noisy. Generally speaking, people mostly just join in the fun.To use the content and performance of the repertoire to attract people, this stage structure may not be the most suitable.

If you want to make the traditional stage into a closed structure, such as the Dehe Garden in the Summer Palace and the Changyin Pavilion in the Forbidden City, the cost is too high and the construction period is too long.Therefore, Jia Fang still chose the ancient Greek-style theater structure. Using the acoustic effect of this structure, the audience in the back row can also hear clearly the lines and singing of the actors on the stage.

In addition, this kind of theater structure has another advantage: the theater does not give up boxes, so class differences are smoothed out.Even if Yuan Hua, the magistrate of Wuyuan County, came here to watch a play, he would have to sit on the concrete floor of the stands like everyone else, and at most bring a cushion by himself.

"Guys, you are very lucky. Today is the day when the crew of "Tong Huan Ji" came to rehearse without makeup. Everyone can take a sneak peek and see if this new version of "Tong Huan Ji" suits your appetite."

As soon as they heard that they could watch "A Tale of Joy", the audience burst into great enthusiasm.The people applauded in unison, and the whole theater was surrounded by warm applause.

Jia Fang knew that his introduction work had been completed, so he quickly stepped aside.I saw that the accompaniment performers had come to the stage with musical instruments such as huqin and bamboo flute, and sat down on the side of the stage.

A little native girl from Taoyuan Village, dressed in homely clothes, came up and sang.She is the actor of "Feng Zhen" in the play, the girl who sings the best in Taoyuan Village, and is called the "Lark" of Taoyuan.

In this time and space, women are not allowed to act on stage—but this does not apply to Taoyuan Village.The girls in Taoyuan Village have the courage to sing the ballads in their hearts to the man they love, so why not dare to perform on stage?

Originally, some gentry in Wuyuan County believed that it was detrimental to dignity and morality for a woman to appear in public.However, in the previous process of Zhangtian and banditry, it was these gentry families who suffered the most.After two times, I was honest.When asked by others, they will also say: Since it is managed by Mr. Jia, there must be a reason for Mr. Jia!

Tonghuan Sanliu is among the representatives of the renovation targets of Shengli No. [-] Village.As soon as the girl came onto the stage, his companions hurriedly pushed him with their elbows: "Brother Sanliu, let's see if she looks like you."

Tonghuan Sanliu: ...Where did I find a good friend?

To be honest, Tonghuan Sanliu himself is very conflicted about "A Tale of Joy".Although more than one person has told him, it is probably because someone wrote "Team Huan Ji" that the people of the world are willing to believe that Tonghuan Sanliu is not the real "bandit leader".But Tonghuan Sanliu was more inclined to confess on his own initiative, and the county magistrate "confessed and lenient".What does it have to do with this show?

But once Tonghuan Sanliu put aside the prejudice that "the original shape of this drama is me" and watched the drama seriously, Tonghuan Sanliu gradually replaced himself.

How close is this drama to his previous life?Before he joined the gang, his family had such a hard life.

After joining the gang, wasn't he just being forced like that, making one wrong step, one wrong step?

"Ideological and Moral Education Reader" wrote: The reason why people are different from animals is a few.But what made him discard those precious differences between man and beast?Is it the greed in the heart, or the ignorance of the laws and regulations, or the many unsatisfactory things in the poor life? ...What is the driving force behind that?

If Tonghuan Sanliu is lucky enough to have offspring in this life, what kind of life does he hope they will live, and what changes does he hope they will have?And... what kind of world can be considered a good world?

The companions who woke up from the plot were surprised to find that Tonghuan Sanliu, who is the prototype of the male lead, burst into tears and couldn't hold back his tears after the performance of "A Tale of Joy".

The performance of Tonghuan Sanliu immediately increased the reputation of this play.Everyone is saying: After watching the drama, the prototype male lead mourns to the point of tears.

Jia Fang also watched the whole drama and was very satisfied with this new "Talk of Joy".

Before that, he asked the crew of "Tong Huan Ji" to polish the script again, which strengthened Tong Huan's role in the early years, and made it inevitable that Tong Huan would be forced to embark on the road of banditry. At the same time, it also caused people to think, after all What caused the tragedy of the same joy.

This is what Jia Fang wanted.

What's interesting is that it was a staff member of "Dicui Pavilion" who wrote the script of "Team Huan Ji".He had collected a lot of information about Tonghuan Sanliu before, interviewed most of the bandits, and asked them how they got into such a hopeless career as a bandit, and finally compiled these materials together to create the A "fun".

After this incident, Jia Fang suddenly felt that this staff member was very talented, and he could be singled out and found a few similar people to form a literary and art working group.

But the staff member himself was not happy, saying that he thought it was more interesting to do intelligence work in the "Dicui Pavilion".Jia Fang had no choice but to let him go.

Soon, two "theatres" in Shengli New Village were officially put into use.Before the first official performance, Jia Fang specially presided over a naming and ribbon-cutting ceremony - he named it "Yihong Cultural Activity Center".

Others also asked him why he chose the name "Yihong". Jia Fang smiled and didn't answer. He only said that this "Cultural Activity Center" will organize cultural and leisure activities that the masses like to see, enrich everyone's spare time life, and make everyone feel happy. When you are free, you will not be bored and have nothing to do.

Of course, he would never say that the original purpose of building this "cultural activity center" was to make everyone have no time to find Liuying in their free time.

After the ceremony, "A Tale of Joy" was officially staged.The performance was very successful. There are a group of men in the two villages of Shengli, and they all shed tears just like the women watching this show.

During the curtain call, the actors thanked them three or four times on stage, and the applause continued for a long time.

After the first performance, the "Yihong Cultural Activity Center" located in two natural villages was opened to the masses in Taoyuan Village and Wuyuan County respectively.The theater, which can accommodate 2000 people at a time, performed the new version of "A Tale of Joy" to audiences from Taoyuanzhai and Wuyuan County.The number of audiences from these places was higher, so that after all the scheduled performances were completed, the troupe performed four more performances, and the vigorous trend of "A Tale of Joy" came to an end for the time being.

At this time, Jia Fang held a meeting in the largest conference hall in the office building.He called people from various departments, saying that he was going to have a "brainstorming" to discuss how to get more ordinary people to participate in cultural activities——

To put it bluntly, he felt that just watching dramas was not enough, and the crews in the entire region did not have enough scripts.Just one "Happy Tale" is not enough to achieve the purpose of enriching the spare time life of the members of Shengli New Village.

The group of veteran staff in Taoyuan Village are no strangers to weird terms like "brainstorm", and they know that Jia Fang's meaning of saying this is to let them speak freely, and they can say whatever unreliable ideas they think of. Come out and inspire others anyway.

"What Jia Sanye means is to allow the audience to participate more in various activities in the cultural activity center besides watching the play." A staff member acted as the host on behalf of Jia Fang, "If you have any ideas, please feel welcome. It can be brought up."

"If just going to the theater is not enough, can they also participate in acting together?" A small employee who just joined the work not long ago asked timidly.

Jia Fang praised: "This is a good idea. Come on, let's discuss and discuss this idea first. How can ordinary people who have never acted before participate in it and try acting?"

"It's simple, whoever wants to try it?"

"If you say that, everyone will definitely wait and see."

"Why don't you recommend? Let the officers and soldiers recommend a crew, and the reformed subjects also recommend a crew, so that the two crews can compare their performances?"

Jia Fang continued to praise: "Joining the competition is also a good idea. Everyone continue!"

Although Jia Fang liked it, there were still voices of opposition: "There are 500 people in a village, and the number of people recommended for two crews is limited. Isn't it also impossible to achieve the goal of widespread participation?"

"Then nominate a few more groups, and everyone competes one-on-one. Each time a competition is selected, a winner will be eliminated, and a group will be eliminated. Finally, a champion will be determined."

Jia Fang thought about it: Well, it has changed to "the birth of an actor".

But as long as it can stimulate the enthusiasm of the masses to participate, and allow them to have a deeper understanding of the thoughts and emotions expressed in "A Tale of Fun", there is nothing wrong with such a competition.

After everyone discussed this result, the working group notified the two villages in Shengli, and the two villages were blown up.

"What, let us old bastards play "A Tale of Love"?"

"That's what it means! You don't need to act in the whole book, just act in a paragraph. You have to memorize the lines and singing, and then perform on stage. At that time, five crews will be selected, and they will compete with the opposite village to determine the best lineup."

"What about the best team?"

"Of course there are points rewards. Whether it's farming points or transformation points, anyone who thinks they have the talent can give it a try! The most important thing is that we must not lose to the 'opposite' village."

Shengli No. [-] and No. [-] villages call each other "opposite" villages.

"That's a must."

The competition mechanism has inspired the common enthusiasm of the two villages.A group of rough men from the two villages actually started to study the script and formed several teams to try to perform.In the spare time after every night, several temporary crews are trying to perform the characters in the play.Others are on the sidelines to help with reviews.

This kind of competition system also briefly broke the barrier between the officers and soldiers in the field and the reformed subjects. Several crews were composed of actors with different identities.

Tonghuan Sanliu is naturally the most sought-after performer, after all, everyone believes that the "prototype" can make the characters in this play better.

Unexpectedly, when Tonghuan spoke three or six times, the audience was dumbfounded: what a broken voice at this time.Any attempt to invite Tonghuan Sanliu to join the crew immediately went bankrupt.

In the end, Tonghuan Sanliu became the "consultant" of several production crews, and he instructed the crew members how to understand the state of mind of the characters in the play, and how to perform more brilliantly - this was considered by Shengli Second Village as their "killer weapon" in defeating First Village ".And Tonghuan Sanliu, as the "prototype", does have a lot of understanding of the character Tonghuan, and combined with personal experience to explain the character's motivation——

There were officers and soldiers in the field in the crew. After hearing Tonghuan's explanation, they all nodded with emotion: "So that's how it is!"

The officers and soldiers in the field who didn't know much about the bandits before, now they have finally taken the first step to understand.

The "Birth of an Actor" is being organized in full swing here, but Jia Fang has received a new proposal - it was put forward by the girls in Taoyuan Village, and they can organize a "singing party" in the cultural activity center.

Jia Fang was quite surprised, and asked: "You are talking about, yes, that kind, is there a duet song?"

According to the indigenous customs of Taoyuan Village, young men and women answer each other with songs at the antiphonal meeting and fall in love freely.At the antiphonal meeting, if you have a good eye, you can take it away directly, which is a good thing.

The girl from Taoyuanzhai replied generously: "Of course not!"

"In the southern region, there are quite a few elder brothers and sisters who can sing folk songs. Many of them have a good voice, but it's just useless."

"Besides, the entry threshold for this kind of antiphonal singing is not high. You don't need to memorize lines, you don't need to be able to act and sing, you just need to be able to speak. Even if it's a broken voice, it has the flavor of a broken voice." The girl continued.

"Sometimes even without a special arrangement of time and place, when the men are working in the fields, a group of girls come and they can match the songs."

This is indeed——Jia thought at ease, otherwise why the old saying goes that if a man and a woman match, work is not tiring?

The proposal of the girls in Taoyuanzhai is indeed in line with what Jia Fang said earlier, which will greatly increase the participation in cultural activities and stimulate the enthusiasm of the masses to participate.As soon as it was suggested, it started to be done bustlingly.

But Jia Fang still felt that something was missing.Until one day, when Jia Fang passed by Shengli No. [-] Village, he saw a group of generals gathered together to play a small game in the southern countryside - throwing stones.It's not a competition of who can throw the farthest, but a game of strategy, a competition of who can "knock out" other people's stones from the central area.The rules are a bit like those of modern curling, or petanque.

The few generals who got together to play rocks had neither an excellent voice nor a talent for dramatic performances, and they were not very interested in the various activities of the Yihong Cultural Center.On the contrary, they gathered together to throw stones, but they threw them with relish.

Jia Fang suddenly realized—why did he never think of this?

There is no distinction between style and style, in addition to cultural and artistic activities, he should also organize more sports activities for these guys!

Jia Fang rubbed his hands: It seems that the big signboard of "Yihong Cultural Activity Center" needs to be changed, and it is appropriate to change it to "Yihong Cultural and Sports Activity Center".