He was the first genius in China to establish a systematic drama theory. He wrote "Accidental Love", which is the first truly directed work in the history of world drama. He is the earliest professional writer in the history of China literature. He is the publisher of China's first painting, Biography of Mustard Garden. ...
Li Yu, an artist who has been circulating for 400 years, is influencing us through time and space.
Set up a stage to sing in an opera
That night, in the fresh and melodious sound of the flute, the rehearsal curtain of Love in the East, a literary evening in Lanxi to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Li Yu's birth, was gradually opened-in the center of the stage, the light beam falling from the sky fell on the statue of Li Yu, and he came to us like a dream with a fan in his right hand and Love with Fate in his left hand. ...
Autumn wind, pulling open the curtain of overlapping time, takes us to visit this artist 400 years ago with the plot.
In this world, who will put the stage on the top of Huashan Mountain to sing?
"In addition to playing crazy!" Cai Libiao, Li Yu 1 1 Dai Sun, vice president of Lanxi Liyu Research Association. In the summer of 20 1 1, he once again visited the highest stage in the world-Huashan Black Dragon Ridge, which was the "premiere stage" of Li Yu's family drama career. In the sixth year of Kangxi (1667), 57-year-old Li Yu did something special-running a troupe. That year, on his way back to Nanjing after a trip to Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, he and his family climbed Mount Huashan in Xiyue with great interest and sang "High Songs" in Heilongling.
The "singing" at the top of Huashan Mountain can be said to be the "first performance" of Li Yu's family troupe. Before climbing Mount Huashan, Li Yu had written nine plays, such as Xiang Xiang Companion, Kite Wrong, Jade Grabbing the Head, Flying in the Tower, Flounder and Phoenix. It has been Li Yu's long-cherished wish for many years to set up a family troupe and rehearse his own drama. "Huashan provided an unprecedented platform for Li Yu's family to perform Kunqu opera, and it also became the beginning of a new era of Li Yu's opera career." Li Caibiao said that Li Yu has been a screenwriter and director of the troupe and has been performing all over the country. "However, the members of the troupe, no outsiders, are all his family."
In the ups and downs of Li Yu's life, the years when she lived in the mustard garden were the most prosperous and happiest time for Li Yu. In Nanjing mustard seed garden, Li Yu often makes friends by playing in the form of home class performances.
Li's class often goes out to perform. Sometimes along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, we go north to Anhui, Shandong, Hebei and other places to sing songs and celebrate the birthday of dignitaries. Sometimes, Li Yu's family traveled all the way west along the Yangtze River, and went to Wuhan, Hubei, Changsha, Hunan, Jiujiang, Jiangxi and other places to perform while walking, covering more than 10 provinces and cities. The repertoire of the performance is mainly ten kinds of songs such as Naihetian, Flounder and Lost Bell Tower by Li Weng. These works were close to the social life at that time and had a far-reaching influence in various places.
The living soul in the play seems to be hidden in the play box. On August 5th, 20 1 1, in Li Xia village, Lanxi, we found the No.7 theater box, which has been moved from one place to another. It says:,,, hall luggage, storage suitcase.
The village director proudly said that in addition to his hometown, Suzhou is also an important tour place for Li Troupe. Li Yu has settled in Baihua Lane in Suzhou for many times, and bought an apartment, which became a place for the artistic exchange of famous opera artists at that time.
Li Yu wrote countless novels and plays in his life. However, the most beautiful and bizarre scene in his performance may be himself, a dramatic genius who shows his talents on the stage. Now his life experience is also reproduced on the stage in the form of drama. Lanxi Wu Troupe performed Biography of Li Yu, which put the image of Li Yu on the stage for the first time. Beijing People's Art presented a drama "Boundless Windy Moon", starring famous actors Pu Cunxin and Xu Fan, which recreated Li Yu's drama career. The opera Mustard Garden, written by Nanjing writer Zhao Jingyang, will be staged in June+10 this year.
In fact, I'm afraid Kunqu opera is Li Yu's favorite and most emotional thing in his life. A generation of gifted scholars, though disappointed, left behind ten legends of Dai Li Weng, a collection of words, a casual remark, a novel company and the twelfth floor. ...
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During the Shunzhi period in the early Qing Dynasty, Li Yu once retired from his hometown. In the eyes of Li Xia villagers, Li Yu, a life expert, is still a person who pays great attention to the quality of life. We can see that he wrote "Random Feeling" after he founded the troupe, and he has a lot of research on diet and health. Li Xia Village still uses the carp dam he once invented to irrigate more than 65,438+0,800 mu of fertile land. Use the indigenous tap water he developed, attract mountain springs with hollowed-out bamboo, install a switch and you can use it; He used his own designed and manufactured desk for heating in winter and reading at night. It is conceivable that Li Yu lived a leisurely life at that time. No wonder more and more people in modern times regard him as an example of life.
Modern people read Li Yu's famous saying and learn to be a petty bourgeoisie: "The aroma of cooking is really gratifying; Hibiscus blooms in the morning and withers at night. It's really sad that life is so short. According to legend, a woman loves a person in her heart, tears spilled all over the floor, and begonia, a heartbroken flower, grew; People you love all your life can take medicine. "
"This guy Li Yu seems to have a morbid love for beautiful things." For example, Li Caibiao likes daffodils. One year, his family was running out of money for the Spring Festival, but he also asked his wife to buy a lot of daffodils. His wife said she didn't have enough to eat, so she didn't have any flowers. He was furious and said, Narcissus is my life, which is more important, my stomach or my life! My wife was so scared that she had to buy it. He also pays great attention to the details of enjoyment, from how to decorate the structure of the house to how to put a pot of flowers in front of the bed when sleeping.
Li Yu wrote a book "Essays", which talked about his study of life interest, including the tips of women's eye makeup, how to make a petty bourgeoisie mood when cooking, how to design a climax when writing a script and so on. Li Caibiao revealed that Li Yu is also an outstanding master of couplets. In Nanjing Confucius Temple, we met Mr. Xie, a scholar with nearly 200 Li Yu couplets at home. "Li Yu wrote as many as 5 million words in his life, but the handwriting handed down from generation to generation is still rare." Xie said that Li Yu is good at official script, and his handwriting is very flat. It seems to be a metaphor for the heaviness of society and life, and he wants to crush people. He is easy and dignified.
Looking back, when we stopped in front of the "stop pavilion" built by Li Yu for Li Xia Village in Lanxi, our hometown, we read that "the famous road is busy, and people coming and going stop quietly-and stop the pavilion!" But the villagers know in their hearts that Li Yu's life is always a necessity to make a living, but he can always take it lightly. This genius with unique personality has used his life to explain a different meaning of life for us-the so-called happiness is that you can live happily even in adversity.
Make money by publishing books.
You have seen people who can recite poems when they are eight or nine years old, but you have never seen Li Yu who published all his early poems on a buttonwood tree in the backyard. "He scraped a piece of skin from the trunk of the buttonwood tree with a knife, then carefully carved a poem he had written, then dipped it in ink with a brush, redrawn the lines, and carved it once a year." Li Caibiao said that what we can see now is Li Yu's poem "Continued Engraving Wu Tongshu", which is also the earliest extant work of Li Yu. Li Yu's behavior of carving poems on trees seems immature, but it can be seen that Li Yu has a strong desire to publish works.
His poems carved on the plane tree are metaphors of Li Yu's youth and frivolous, and also the sustenance of his lofty ideals.
According to Li Caibiao, Li Yu's trip in Nanjing is generally like this. When the weather is fine, he goes in and out of the theater. If the weather doesn't match, he stays at home and writes books, which fully shows his strong business intuition about the publishing industry and concocts a series of popular bestsellers. For example, the collection of ancient and modern celebrity letters, the first series of letters, letters, letters, letters, letters, letters, letters, letters, letters The first sentence means: a letter, write a letter, write a letter, write a letter, write a letter. For example, the new book of Zizhi, a collection of eccentric criminal cases in China, is unprecedented in creativity and planning.
Writing books can sell well, and doing business has strange tricks. 165 1, Li Yu met another hurdle that was crucial to his life. He had an argument with his neighbor, who threatened to kill him. Li Yu quickly fled his hometown and moved his family to Hangzhou. Seeing Hangzhou's prosperity and strong cultural atmosphere, he developed a strong interest in drama and novels. From gentry and nobles, bachelor of arts to ordinary citizens and pawns, he decided to make a living by his own writing expertise. In just a few years, Li Yu has written six opera scripts such as Xiang Companion and the Mistakes of Kites, and two collections of novels such as Mime and The Twelfth Floor, all of which are well-known love stories and street legends. Thus began the creative career of the first "best-selling author" in the history of China. In that era when the traffic was extremely inconvenient, his new work could be seen 3000 miles away in a few days. At the age of 50, Li Yu simply moved his family to Nanjing, built his own apartment "Mustard Garden" and opened his own bookstore in the garden. Among them, the most representative series are Biography of Mustard Garden and Footprints handed down from later generations. Mustard Seed Garden will be the pioneer of China publishing industry in the future.
The other day, when we pushed open the wooden door of Lanxi Mustard Garden, in the elegant office building of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles, 20 volumes of Complete Works of Li Yu were quietly published by disciples and grandchildren 400 years later-fresh and attractive, full of ink. ...