Writing a zaju is difficult as well as simple.
For someone like Cui Xie, who can't even hear the words in Beijing sentences, writing a play is simply more difficult than learning Bagu and poetry at first. It can be done by ordinary musicians, so I can't say how difficult it is.
Nowadays, Beixi Opera is still dominated by 40% off. To write a Zaju, I just choose a set of palace tunes according to the content. Each palace tune has its own set of tunes: the lesser ones, such as Zhonglu Palace tune, are divided into twelve chapters of introduction, There are fifty chapters of Kuoqu, four chapters of slow words, seven chapters of recent words, and one chapter of common tune-related recent words, with a total of sixty-two chapters. A simple prescription will do.
At the time of writing, according to the role and plot, fill in the appropriate song cards in order, and interspersed with some idioms and gags in the middle, and then you can build a book that can be read.
The difficulty is not in filling in the words, but in writing fresh plots that some people love to watch, and writing vivid characters with words.
After listening to his story, Li Dongyang felt that the play had already completed three points. For the rest, as long as you ask people to compose and sing lyrics and write Bin Bai, it will be a good show.
But in order to make it into a high-quality product, it is necessary to work hard outside the play. Li Dongyang persuaded him earnestly: "Nowadays outside the courtyards are following each other, and there are opera lyrics in one book, and all books have it. When those musicians and actors perform on stage, they don't care what you write in this play, first I make jokes and say some lewd words—you, the third wife of the king, are going to hold a pipa to show off, and they don’t know what words to add. To arrange this drama well, you have to find not only serious people who write the drama, but also a good one. Team, according to your play words, it is not easy to put out every word."
Cui Xie nodded: "This story is just a prototype, I originally wanted to write a script for them to revise. Since Mr. said so, then I will try to write some essays myself, and I will show Mr. ."
Their family has cooperated with the troupe who sang Wumei Opera, and several of them respected them during rehearsal, and they were meticulous in special effects. It is estimated that when filming a new play, tell them carefully, and the actors will not go to the stage to change the words of the play.
Li Dongyang responded "naturally" and asked again, "This is the first time the student is writing a play. I don't know if there is anything that is taboo here? For example, writing the imperial censor, the emperor making the king a virgin girl..."
Li Dongyang smiled indifferently: "As long as you don't make it clear that it's your dynasty, it's fine. In these kind of loyalty and filial piety dramas, there are often blessings from the emperor. However, since the imperial dynasty, there have been very few dramas about Jin Yiwei, I'm afraid Jin Yiwei You have a bad reputation and few people watch it. Would you like to change the identity of Xie Qianhu, and change to a prefect, a minister, etc.?"
That's not good, we have to wash Bai Jinyiwei! We are going to tout Xie Qianhu!
Cui Xie stubbornly said: "This is the current affairs of the moment. The people outside say so. We are doing it according to the facts. Why do we have to change our identities?"
"Is it true that the people outside said so?" Li Dongyang looked at him with a smile: "I also heard a story in a restaurant outside where a Jinyi Weizhi captured a black-clothed thief, and the pipa-playing Wang Sanniang was not a virtuous woman, right? I don't know where you heard the story of a righteous woman?"
Cui Xie said confidently, "I use this Wang Sanniang as the main character, isn't it just to rub off on the name of "Zhao Wuniang's Pipa Story"? If you think it is not good, let's change the play to "Wang Miangniang's Pipa Story", and use the name of Wang Sanniang. It's changed, and everyone else uses a pseudonym, so no one else can talk about us."
In the play, he did not name Xie Qianhu Xie Ying, but directly called Xie Qianhu. There are not a few Jinyiwei households with the same surname as Xie in this world
He spoke so confidently that Li Dongyang had nothing to say, so he simply asked him to write the original book for himself - he went to find a talented person he knew to write the lyrics of the song, which was better than those musicians who only copied routines in the classroom.
Cui Xie has found a job for himself, but he is full of love for art, and he is not too hard at all. When he got home, he asked someone to prepare sturdy thick paper, sharpen a row of pencils, and start drawing the storyboard script.
It's not a serious script, it's just like the time when Gao Baihu was rehearsing the play, the background and transition rhythm were designed.
It was the first time he wrote a script, and for fear of not doing it well, he compared the stacks of courtyard books that Cui Liangdong had moved in, and first drew background pictures of different scenes. After drawing the set, estimate the performance time according to the number of words of others, allocate time according to the scene, design the characters to play, write the central content of the narration, and reserve space for the lyrics in the dialogue.
When it comes to the final passage, because the common women only have a few sets of jackets and skirts, and there is no Jin Yiwei's passage in the previous dramas, he simply overthrew everything, opened the hard drive and started it by force.
In a big heroine, what does the heroine look like with so many outfits from start to finish? The male No. 2 Xie Qianhu is a soul character, and he must have changed his clothes last time. Even the useless male protagonist must have a set of dating clothes, otherwise he will really be drowned in the background of Jin Yiwei!
Anyway, he has money now, and if he keeps the money in his hands, he has to worry that Senator Cui will find fault and spend it.
He didn't put a lot of effort into writing the script, and he really devoted himself to designing the clothes for the protagonists. The eldest mistress, Wang Yaoniang, always had to prepare a dozen or so clothes to change. Her head and face were covered with gold, and she needed two sets of filial piety clothes! One is the linen and filial piety that his parents wore when they died, and the other is a plain white dress when playing the pipa and entering Beijing, dressed like a little dragon girl, if you are not immortal, you have to change the starring role!
The Jinyiwei generally wear the reformed and red clothes. The male protagonist and the background board Jin Yiwei wear red red, black gauze hat, and thin-soled boots. Xie Qianhu has several scenes where he needs to show his official body. According to his grade, he should wear emerald green, with a white cloak with a brocade edge or a black ink cloak. . When it comes to the scenes that don't wear official uniforms, the male protagonist will change into a romantic (cheap) white attire. Xie Qianhu should dress more dignifiedly, wearing red and blue drapes or stickers.
However, in order to conform to the original character of the characters, Xie Mouqianhu's boots had to be remodeled and asked the shoemaker to secretly add a heightened shoe root inside.
He has been working on this script for over a month, without writing a few thousand words in the outline, and only drawing design drawings. Mr. Li has even found a young official who can write songs, and he is waiting for the manuscript of his outline to be handed in, but the left and right are not coming. .
This was dragged on little by little, and all the romantic talents that Mr. Li contacted went to pick up other playbooks. He couldn't wait any longer, and asked Cui Xie: "How much have you written? It's not just a script. , are you still waiting for someone to change it? Looking at your enthusiasm, it is almost like writing a novel! I think you simply don't make any dramas, your writing is not bad, and you can find a place to print it out, but it's more difficult than you If you write a story, you can’t count yourself as a better writer if you leave the hospital.”
To say that legendary novels are quite popular nowadays, they published a romance novel from Zhirong Study, which is still pirated and sold. However, he has been writing argumentative essays for several years from before to after the time-travel, and he was afraid that his major would not be correct when writing novels.
Besides, this play sings praises of the fish and water between the army and the people. Just asking the big guys to see what is the use, they have to make the ordinary people like to watch it, and make them think of Xie Qianhu, who is just law enforcement and loves the people like a son!
Cui Xie comforted the boss: "It's really getting better, the disciple just wants to think about the characters again."
"Are you afraid that people can't write well?" Li Dongyang laughed and said, "What are you afraid of? First, bring the book you wrote and teach people to write. If you feel uneasy, I'll change it for you!"
Yet he... can't change.
After Mr. Li got Cui Xie's script outline, he realized that what he was thinking about was not the dialogue of the characters, but the portraits of the characters. There are only a dozen or so pages of outlines in a thick manuscript, and the rest are all kinds of drawings. The edges of the script are only bound with a few stitches with shallow lines, and drawings can be added at any time.
The patterns are all drawn with graphite pens, not colored, only thin lines are drawn on the side to specify which part to use what color. But even in such a simple line draft, the faces of the characters in the painting are still lifelike, the clothes are ingenious, and the scenery is exquisite and beautiful, which is breathtaking.
At first glance, the characters are a bit like the thin and vulgar painting style of those who imitate Cui Meiren, but when you look closely, you feel that the complexion is more vivid. Although the women in the play wear different clothes and have different hairstyles, it can be seen that they are the same person; and although the brocade guards on the stage are all dressed in the same style, their faces are slightly different; such as the emperor and the imperial censor may not be the same. He also carefully drew pictures and matched clothes for the characters who appeared on the stage.
The one who drew the best was Xie Qianhu, but he was exactly the same as the one he had seen, Xie Qianhu who had invited the imperial inspector to inspect the treacherous people in the capital!
Mr. Li couldn't help but wonder once again, who should sing at the end of the troupe when performing this play.
Cui Xie saw that he was staring at Xie Ying's people with good eyes, so he went up and asked: "Is it the disciple who doesn't draw it? The disciple is afraid that the official uniforms of the court will not appear on the stage, so he roughly changed the shape, otherwise I would Take it back and change it?"
"This is a picture you drew? Didn't you ask a painter to draw it?" Li Dongyang glanced at him suddenly: "I never heard of it before, but you still paint?"
Early... Didn't someone pass on a "Cui Meiren", don't dare to expose it without washing it up.
Cui Xie lowered his head and replied, "The disciple feels that painting is just a small skill and is not worth mentioning, so he never mentioned it. The disciple learned to draw boneless lotus flowers with Mr. Lu when he was young, and later he only used it as a pastime when he was tired of reading. Occasionally draw a few strokes, and the drawing is not very good.”
If this painting is not good, Cui Meiren should be ashamed to death!
Big Brother Li put his notebooks together, and said heavily: "Well drawn! Even this manuscript has been added to the color! It's not a loss for you to work hard these days, such a manuscript is enough for anyone to write a college manuscript for! "Those who can't wait for today to write dramas for others, just run away. With such a script, are you afraid that everyone who can actually write dramas won't want to write them!
He felt that this apprentice was too good, and he couldn't appreciate it alone, he had to ask others to know about it: "I think your book is so thoughtful and the pictures are good, as long as you write the script, it is no better than Keyitang. What's the difference between those scriptures and playbooks? When the person I'm looking for has written the academy book, the teacher will print this book with you, and teach you to print your name high on the top."
Cui Xie touched his face, bowed his head shyly, and said, "This is exactly what my disciple means... I'm afraid the scholar who wrote the academy won't agree. In fact, it's very easy to print this book. The proprietor and I are like brothers, and are now living in our guest house, and our hospital was supposed to print it out, but it was just a matter of one sentence."
Big Brother Li listened to him with a smile at first, but when he said that Shaodong of Ju'anzhai lived in his house, his expression changed slightly and he asked, "... Ju'anzhai?"
Cui Xie nodded and answered honestly, "It's Ju Anzhai, the one who wrote the book "Three Kingdoms" by Six Talents. Outline and color, transfer to color plate.”
Li Dongyang's lips pursed slightly, his expression solemn.
Ju Anzhai is not only the Six Talents to comment on the Three Kingdoms, their family also held a Three Kingdoms Beauty Conference, and he wrote the first Xiao Qiao Shi at the meeting. He also took out that picture and gave it to Cui Xie as a welcome gift that everyone in the world could ask for—
Since that Shaodong lives in Cui's house, wouldn't Cui Xie be able to draw in front of Xiao Qiao every day
He has such a painting technique himself. Ju Anzhai's printing is similar to his painting, but not as agile as his painting. Could it be that there is actually his instruction in that painting...
Li Dongyang put away the hospital book, changed the subject stubbornly, and asked Cui Xie to do the new topic he came up with two days ago. It wasn't until it was getting late that Cui Xie left, he stood at the door of the study and sighed a few times, and said to his sons, "You brother Cui is really a romantic person..."
Li Zhaoxian looked at him in confusion: "Where is Merry?" Looking at clothes, poetry, and singing... Except for a face, you can't see Merry anywhere!
Li Dongyang didn't explain it to his son, let him wonder, and rolled the manuscript back to the study.
Turning to the world, he rolled up the manuscript and tucked it into his sleeve, went directly to Yang Tinghe, and said confidently: "Brother Yu has a manuscript for a zaju here, and I want to ask the husband to write it into the courtyard."
Yang Tinghe asked subconsciously, "Isn't it time for Beiqu to find Master Qiu, my brother can only write Nanqu..."
Li Dongyang patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "You and I are in the Hanyuan, I don't want to look for you, what is Lord Xunqiu doing? There is not much difference between southern and northern operas, and King Zhou Xian often mixes southern and northern operas with In a play, if you ask Sheng to sing a northern song, do you compose a southern song? Jiefu, you are very talented, but you just change the tune and words, how can you be better than you. Besides, I didn’t ask you to make it out of thin air. Here is a background …”
He took out the book "The Pipa Story of Wang Yaoniang" from his sleeve, and shook it in front of Yang Tinghe: "Aren't you good at 'all the Fajia words'? This play is written about a brave and righteous daughter. The story of sacrificing your life to help the Jinyi Guards capture the robber is just right for you!"
The author has something to say: I wanted to find a famous master of Zaju and Sanqu during the Chenghua period, but the result was either too young or in the south, so I could only play it with Mr. Yang