Appreciation of boudoir

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The boudoir is the highlight of the Peony Pavilion. People often praise the beauty and exquisiteness of Tang Xianzu's poems. In fact, his artistic achievements go far beyond this. When Boudoir came out, it was enough to make people marvel at the handling of dramatic conflicts and the portrayal of characters and details.

After "Boudoir", it is called "Chunxiang Noisy School Hall". This word "noisy" can quite tell the comedy atmosphere of the play.

When the curtain opened, the author set a very unique scene.

There is no stage arrangement in China ancient operas, and the environmental atmosphere depends on the characters in the performance. At the beginning of Boudoir, the teacher Chen Liangliang came out, read four poems, and then shook his head to prepare lessons there. This is a rotten scholar who chewed a lot of poetry books, but fell into a situation of no food. To be grateful to know each other is to be prepared, strictly carry out the mission entrusted by Du Bao, and restrain the youth's body and mind. He played with Mao Shiqian, but he didn't see any movement of the students. He thought he was "spoiled", so he knocked on the cloud board and urged Du Liniang to go to class.

Chen Liangliang opened his mouth to talk about Confucius and closed his mouth to talk about poetry, which was ridiculously pedantic. This man is numb again. "I never knew the cold spring." The author asked him to play and hum first, which added a musty and sour taste to the study, making it difficult to breathe.

However, outside the study, it is a beautiful spring. "Ants are playing along the inkstone on the desk, and bees are sucking flowers through the window." Insects and ants are noisy in spring. Outside the window, the voice of "selling flowers" came from time to time, and the call of spring sounded. The author also let the audience know that there is a big garden next to the study, which is "winding water facing the rocks of Taihu Lake", "flowers are blooming, green is about to drip" and "really gorgeous". The heavy sky is separated by a wall, and the atmosphere inside and outside the study constitutes a sharp contrast.

I have seen a famous painting in which a widow dressed in all black stares at a bunch of colorful flowers. The disharmony of the atmosphere has produced an extremely wonderful artistic effect. The boudoir deals with the atmosphere in a similar way. Discordant scenes not only promote dramatic conflicts, but also better set off the inner contradictions of the characters.

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In Boudoir, the author describes Chunxiang's entanglement with school and her personality conflict with Chen Liangliang from the front.

Chunxiang is not interested in reading. She curses "past sages forbid people to kill" and mumbles to herself. Chen Liangliang severely reprimanded them, but Chunxiang didn't agree. She replied, "I see. Don't sleep tonight. Please write to your husband at midnight. " There was a thorn in the words, and the wooden Chen Liangliang was speechless. This paragraph is "noisy" before class. The suffocating atmosphere shrouded in the study began to be broken by naughty and sharp spring fragrance.

Chen Zui talked about the beginning of The Book of Songs, and Chunxiang paid attention to it. She didn't understand and asked, "What's the pigeon's voice?" ? Here, the script provides a wonderful detail:

(At the end, the pigeon's voice. Insist on the pigeon's voice)

Please hide the book and think about it. Isn't it funny that a serious old man subconsciously mumbles like a child? Chunxiang was overjoyed to see the teacher's stupidity and took the opportunity to make trouble. At this time, all the "birds" are screaming, which is amazing.

Chunxiang thinks it's fun to listen to books, and she is getting more and more serious. The teacher said something and wanted to ask something. She made a very interesting interpretation of In the River. When she asked those "leisure women" and gentlemen "why they begged him to be good", Chen Liangliang was so embarrassed that she had to drink her. Students are naive and husbands are embarrassed. In the laughter of the audience, the atmosphere of serious preaching in the study disappeared.

If Chunxiang met the teacher deliberately to give him some color to see see, then this time, her "trouble" was unintentional. She sincerely wanted to find out the meaning of this poem, but she made a series of jokes. Li Yu once thought: "I didn't mean to tell jokes, but jokes are fascinating and a wonderful environment for me." Because Tang Xianzu launched a comedy conflict according to the character's personality, he reached a wonderful situation of "naturally, the secret was revealed".

When the book is finished, it is necessary to model the words again. Chunxiang was bored, so she said, "Students get the convenience cards" and took the opportunity to slip away. When she came back from drowning, she told the young lady, "There used to be a big garden outside, and the flowers were bright green." Hearing this, Chen immediately went all out to fight; Chunxiang is rude and tit for tat. Gal, lively enough to see on the stage:

(Finally, don't be a matchmaker), (paste flash intermediary), (paste grab stab and throw it underground).

Although this scene is not like the "opening" of the martial arts drama, the teacher is waving a thorn and the girl is hiding, but a series of dramatic actions are very popular. Especially when Chunxiang handed over Chen Liangliang's weapon and threw it on the ground, the comedy conflict reached its climax. This throw fully showed Chunxiang's contempt for Chen Liangliang, and all the feudal etiquette and dignity of the teacher were thrown into the East China Sea by her.

Chunxiang's several quarrels have different motives and discretion. Through different "noisy", the author clearly outlines the pedantic spirit that Chen is best at and the provocative energy of little girls.

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Boudoir has only three roles. In the play, Chunxiang and Chen's best friend are at loggerheads and don't interrupt too much. At first glance, it seems to be mainly about Chunxiang. In fact, the author's pen is here and his intention is there. His real intention in writing this play is mainly to portray the image of Du Liniang, a seemingly bystander.

Du Liniang is not interested in reading. Chen Liangliang urged her to go to class, but she was still slow. "Put on a plain face and stand under the library. The clean windows look very chic." Spring comes late, and the meaning of spring fades. She walked into the study with the feeling of cherishing spring. Chen Liangliang talked about Guan Ju, and she suggested that "according to the instructions, students should learn by themselves."

Please don't ignore the word "students will learn from themselves", which shows that Du Liniang's calm heart has stirred up waves. Why do gentlemen ask women who live in seclusion in boudoir? Chunxiang is unclear, and the teacher can't say it, but Du Liniang "speaks for poetry". Later, she lamented that "the secluded pheasant dove still has the prosperity of rivers and continents, and people are not as good as birds!" (Su Yuan) Her mother is also sensitive to her daughter's change: "Blame her skirt for flowers and birds and embroidery." All these prove that Du Liniang was deeply influenced by ancient love poems. As we all know, Du Liniang's parents let their daughter go to school because they found her sleeping during the day, which violated family education. They think it necessary to restrain her body and mind with poems. Who knows that the first day of class, the first class, opened the lock on my daughter's mind. The prisoner becomes the enlightener. Such treatment is a great mockery of feudal ethics.

As a good family, Du Liniang's attitude towards teachers is respectful. However, after listening to Guan Ju's explanation, her mood changed subtly. She said to the teacher, "There are so many classics!" Gentle words are meaningful, revealing Du Liniang's impatience. Later, Chunxiang took out her eyebrow pencil as a writing pen. Chen Liangliang didn't know what it was, so she "played a joke". This smile includes a sour snicker at the teacher. Chunxiang even joked with the girl in front of the teacher when she said, "I will write a handmaiden and learn from her wife." " From the author's measured description, we can see the trajectory of the development of the characters' thoughts and feelings, and grasp the inner tremor of Du Liniang, who is calm in appearance.

Du Liniang always ignored Chunxiang's clamor before writing, even almost acquiesced. Later, Chunxiang went too far and had to intervene. Chunxiang refused to talk back. She launched a fierce attack, tugging at Chunxiang's hair and saying, "I'm also afraid of the French style of some women's classes!" "Left Chen Liangliang face.

Is Du Liniang really angry? Of course not. Because Chunxiang is too much, if the teacher complains to the parents, the consequences will be unimaginable. So she must quickly show the dignity of the young lady and curb Chunxiang. As soon as the teacher left, she quickly asked, "Where is the garden?" Seeing this, it suddenly dawned on people that what she cared most about was the sentence that Chunxiang was accused of, the garden she had never been to; It turned out that she just shook off the young lady's prestige, but she was "acting". Her vivid performance not only deceived Chen Liangliang, but also covered Chunxiang, so Chunxiang didn't say anything in a rage and made her beg for mercy again and again. As far as pretending to cheat the teacher is concerned, Du Liniang is actually fooling around. Compared with Chunxiang, she is only subtle and clever.

"Where is the garden?" It is interesting that a girl who has lived in a mansion for a long time doesn't know that there is a garden at home. At the same time, it also makes the human body aware of the degree of imprisonment of young people by feudal ethics. However, people found from Du Liniang's expression of pulling Chunxiang to ask where the garden was, that her sleeping soul had been awakened by a pigeon's cry from ancient times, and she began to look forward to the garden with purple flowers everywhere and a youthful life. The garden can't be closed in spring, and the moon moves to the balcony. Since then, Du Liniang has stepped onto a new step in his life.

As mentioned earlier, there are several groups of contradictions in the scene of Peony Pavilion, such as the contradiction between scenery and atmosphere inside and outside the study, the contradiction between naughty spring fragrance and pedantic Chen Liangliang, and the contradiction between Du Liniang's calm appearance and excited heart. Several groups of contradictions focused on the plot, and the so-called "noisy faction" appeared. Indeed, the author has done a lot of work on the word "noisy", but it should be noted that "noisy" is not just spring fragrance. Wang Siren said in Comment on the Peony Pavilion in Tang Yuming: Tang Xianzu's masterpiece, "The wind of pen and ink comes, and layers of emptiness", "all explore the vividness of his seven emotions from the joints of tendons and veins." A "boudoir", which revolves around the explanation of poems, is stirred up by girls, provoked by teachers, and noisy in spring, all prompting Du Liniang to make trouble in it. Worldly desires, the character in the play, is lifelike and spreads gracefully from the joints of bones and muscles.