source Qilu Evening News
where there are famous stars to Ji'nan, the most popular saying is: "to the theater to listen to some and so!" Focusing on listening is enough to prove that the old Jinan people enjoy a high level of appreciation of Beijing opera.
everyone has a famous class to perform in Ji'nan. It is a "opera list" of a large piece of paper posted on the busy road. It can not be called. The key lies in the "cannon play" in the first scene. Regardless of health, denier and net business, they must produce a drama that is famous for their singing skills. For example, "Dongfeng" and "empty city plan", Tsing Lin's "lock Lin bag", "life and death hate", "hammer case" of copper hammer, "Yin Shan" and so on. If the match is complete, it will first appear in the White Snake, the four Lang's mother, and farewell my concubine.
take the "four Lang" as an example, from the opening of the "Palace" to the immediate "robber order", all in order to sing Gong, whether the two plays can conquer the audience, the performance after this is crucial. The fans who are familiar with this way will spend a lot of money to buy the best seats in the front rows down the floor. When they enter the theater, they hold a small pot with a good tea water, sit down and pay attention to the performance on the platform. The scene most stimulates the nerves of the actors on the platform, because they know that in the face of these "hearings", they must be singing in line with the rhyme and words, and if there is a slight omission, it is disgraceful to bring the "color back" out. For example, the opening of the "four Lang probe" of "the palace" takes about an hour, and the next "robber" is Shang Xiaoyun's first "old lord Jinshatan, early death". A total of seven sentences of ten words and Allegro, less than ten minutes later, some of the audience began to leave, and the jargon was called "draw lots". Because of the following "pass", "see Niang", "return to the order" are all the play of the plot, no large section of singing, to see the part of the drama in the drama fan.
in the summer, once the theatre is sold and the air is dirty, the theatre must open the air and ventilation. The scene on the stage can be known out of the theatre. This brings the gospel to the old Jinan who likes to listen to the play without paying the ticket and listening to the play in the cool environment. In the Beiyang Grand Theater on the one latitude and three road, the north wall of the north wall will be filled with a lot of Peking Opera fans on both sides of the north wall and on both sides of the road. The residents who live nearby will take a table, Ma ZA, a pot of good tea, the family or friends and friends to sit together, and chat and listen to the play during the breeze. Because there are not many vehicles in old Ji'nan, even the horse's teeth are full of people.
the opera fans are very familiar with the Peking Opera plays that are often performed, as long as they come to a big play, such as the broken bridge ninety percent off of the White Snake, the machine room of "life and death" ninety percent off, the Zhu Lou ninety percent off of the lock Lin bag, the sin of Xiang He, and the package of the guillotine case. The Dragon map is sitting in... " The people who talk at the same time will immediately calm down, even the naughty children will not quarrel and listen quietly.
the Jinan called the radio a "opera box". After the fall of the summer night, people living in the quadrangle, even if the only one has a "opera box", will be put out on a stone table or on a small bench to listen to the men, women and children of the whole hospital. The older people will also sing with their hands and the rhyme, and the wagging spirit is a kind of elegant spiritual enjoyment.