Famous play
 
   
   
   
   
 
Lantern Opera in Northern Sichuan-->Famous play-->Repertoire 1

"Naohuanghui" is also adapted from an old traditional Lantern Opera. It is said that County Shi competed with Chenghuang, he disguised himself as Chenghuang and went to Huang market from the county government, and he wondered why people would rather only worship Chenghuang Bodhisattva than celebrate his birthday, so he ventured to go to Chenghuanghui by bamboo pole even without sedan chair. Performances of walking with bamboo and crossing the Tiaodeng River were borrowed from "Ao laoye game" which was Folk Festival of farmers in Northern Sichuan Mountain Area (Bodhisattva was carried by a bamboo stick, box and funeral stick was carried by another bamboo stick which was standing weddings and funerals, also borrowed acrobatics and folk Festival, folk likes make Pavilion with paper such as the people in “White Snake” were standing on one foot in the pavilion, in order to show the difficulty of crossing river, previous actors performed Tiaodeng River on a stage edge or in bench performance, actors were using various thrilling actions: exploring the sea, pulling legs, splits, rotating, sliding in the bar, "Hanging half pig" and a series of difficult moves. It's a narrow escape.

In Lantern Opera of "Naohuanghui", the county magistrate came to the temple, he couldn’t help taking off his robe and toga and playing children games including "Clapping" and "into City hole" with sisters after seeing all wonderful performances, they didn’t stop sing and dancing until they were sweating, then he took off the toga and boots, baring chest and foot, playing "meat Lotus" rhythmically (tapping every part of own body, to send "Pa Pa Pa" sound) which is generally a begging way of beggars, the Lantern Opera had been borrowed and prettified, lively scene in later part was "Horse lantern" which was an unique expressing form in Lantern Operas, more people, more lively. Magistrate was educated in the end of the play, we would abandon him if he did not do good deeds for masses, so that he would become "Polished rod Commander", he later realized that to exclude the difficulty and anxiety for the people is not trivial, building bridges and roads and solving sufferings of common people were the major events, finally county Shi agreed to took money to build bridge, solving the people’s problem of crossing Tiaodeng River, finally rejoicing with the people, all the people were playing "clapping" and "meat Lotus" as exciting end, it was fully demonstrated the civilian property of Lantern Opera "dam play", what they want is a good officer for the common.

 
 
 
Cangxi Vocational High school, Sichuang Province        Email:cxmhk@sina.com