Fuan curtain drama in Fujian: an artist and a play
2022-03-07
On March 6, in Tangxi village, Tantou Town, Fu'an City, Ningde, Fujian Province, a vivid curtain show attracted many villagers to watch. The curtain curtain opera in Fu'an City, also known as "cloth bag opera", began in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It is an ancient folk art in China. It has a single line of puppets and light opera tools. It is popular in villages and towns and has an original performance mode. Lei Futuan, the inheritor of Fuan intangible cultural heritage curtain opera, told reporters that the uniqueness of curtain opera is that it is a solo opera, which integrates blowing, pulling, playing and singing. An artist has a play load, regardless of the big play, small play, literary play and martial arts. He has a clean life and ends in ugliness. He plays, plays, plays, sings and plays. All rely on the artist's hand, foot, mouth and tongue. He can flexibly adjust his ten fingers and form his own school. At the age of 16, the 60 year old Leifu regiment began to learn curtain curtain drama with his master. Leifutuan said that the most important part of curtain curtain drama is story, puppet and dubbing; If a good play wants to be attractive enough, it must first have a good story. As far as the repertoire is concerned, its source is either to learn from local repertoires, or to absorb storybooks, or to make up life dramas. According to its theme, there are human drama, historical drama and mythological drama. The theme content generally preaches loyalty and filial piety, benevolence and justice, punishes evil and promotes good through the interpretation of chivalrous love and hatred and the game between loyalty, evil, good and evil, so as to instill the concept of good and evil into the audience, but also has strong entertainment. In the stage less than one meter wide and less than half a meter high, the Leifu troupe sat between the stages, using both hands, feet and tongue, interpreting the ups and downs of the plot in the authentic Fu'an dialect. His dramatic singing is sometimes cadenced and sometimes prioritized. On the stage, with the skills of fingers, palms and wrists, the puppets of different characters in the hands of Leifu regiment show stunts such as the whole crown, appearance, horse running, fighting, turning over and pouring tea, which are lifelike, interesting and flexible. "The traditional stage is a big play, while the puppet show is called a small play." Leifutuan said that the puppet is the soul of curtain curtain opera. Different costumes and different eyebrows distinguish the puppet from the five corners that are ugly at the end of life. The reporter noted that the step stool of the stage was self-made by Leifu troupe and "controlled" the sound of curtain curtain play. In the performance, Leifu group's two foot percussion instruments produce different sound effects, holding drumsticks to tap the drum surface, and stepping on small bamboo pieces to make the impact of various instruments, including loud cymbals and clear and pleasant cloud gongs. Leifutuan said that after a long cultural accumulation, today's curtain opera has a strong national style and strong flavor of life, and has also become a treasure of Chinese local art. It is reported that although Fu'an curtain opera has been preserved in its "original" form so far, and has completely preserved its artistic authenticity and become one of the "living fossils" of puppet opera, it has also become the regret of old artists that "there is no successor". "Curtain curtain drama is not my main business, but it is also an inseparable part of my life." Leifutuan said that out of his love for the performance of curtain curtain opera, he has insisted so far and hopes that more young people will join in the inheritance of curtain opera and let curtain opera pass on from generation to generation. (outlook new era)
Edit：Yuanqi Tang Responsible editor：Xiao Yu
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