Five Blessingg's game.

The first picture "The Eight Immortals' Birthday" shows that the Eight Immortals went to Yaochi to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West, highlighting a birthday word. The final stage picture must be matched with the word "longevity".

The second play, Xian Ji Song Zi, plays Seven Sisters, a fairy who marries a fairy. After being forced to return to the Fairy Palace, they gave birth to scales, so they rushed Xiangyun to earth and sent the baby to Yong Dong.

The third is "jumping the crown". "Crown" is "official". The performer wears a mask and holds a jade pendant in his hand, like a celestial official; Some people say it's Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth. The congratulatory messages on the unrolled scrolls are "Rising Sun", "Congratulations on Getting Rich" or "Environmental Peace" and "Harvest of Grains", all of which are selected according to the festive content and the different identities of the owners.

The fourth play, Beijing Fair, was performed in a high school in Lv Mengzheng, and his wife, Liu Cuiping, was invited to meet him in Beijing. This is not only closely related to the word "fame", but also reflects the good wish of happy reunion.

Of the four plays, this last one is the most complete, with a small discount in the main play "The Story of the Coloured Building". The opening drama "Peng Jing" is a legacy of the introduction of Southern Opera into the family or the theme, and it is not an independent play. Therefore, the whole group of opening plays is also called "Four Outlets", and the so-called "Five Blessingg" is only the content of these four outings.

This traditional opening scene was abolished after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the 1980s, with the rise of Chaozhou Opera and Rural Square Opera, in order to comply with the wishes of farmers, the old rules were restored.

In China's traditional opera performances, there is a custom of opening a stage to perform auspicious plays; There are different kinds of auspicious dramas. The auspicious drama of Chaozhou Opera belongs to Five Blessingg Company. Five Blessingg Company includes 50% off cleaning shed, jumping crown, fairy's birthday, capital market and Eight Immortals' birthday. This 50% discount performance has the meaning of blessing, auspiciousness and wishes. "Ji Xian Pine Nuts" is based on a passage in "The Fairy Couple" and plays Ji Xian Ji (seven sisters) Pine Nuts and. There are only four lines in the whole performance, which means "blessing" (as the saying goes, having a son is blessed). "Beijing Club" is taken from a passage in "Tales of Colored Buildings". In the play, Lv Mengzheng met his wife Liu Cuiping in Beijing as the number one scholar, and shared prosperity. This discount is also called Bao Sanyuan, which means "land". Celebrating the Eight Immortals' Birthday is taken from the Flat Peach Club. In the play, Dong Fangshuo invited the Eight Immortals to a banquet to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday, which means "longevity". Together, it is "Fu Lushou" Sanrui. If you subtract the jump and crown (jump and crown can be done separately), Five Blessingg Company is called Chef Union.

"Clear shed" Chaozhou opera was originally produced by an actor disguised as Li Shimin, and read four lines: "There are thousands of pears in the garden, and the makeup on the building is gorgeous. Every sentence is made by Hanlin, and it is a parting of joys and sorrows. (White) Newcomers are passed down from generation to generation. " Then, he made a performance at the four corners, played music and left. These four sentences are rhyme-free, and the tradition of Chaozhou Opera is to pronounce them with positive tones (commonly known as Confucius Zheng).

The Chao Opera Netshed is also called Netshed, but according to historical records, the ancestor of Liyuan was Tang (). Many operas in China regard Tang as a drama god, that is, a god. When Tang was in power, they set up a left and right teaching workshop in Chang 'an to manage excellent performances, songs and dances and acrobatics, and became an independent official school department. Don Huang Ming likes music, singing and dancing very much. He once selected 300 outstanding musicians to personally guide in the pear garden. These musicians are called Liyuan disciples. The net shed of the old version of Chaozhou Opera should be the fault of the net shed of Tang Dynasty, because when Taizong was in power, there was no pear garden, and some troupes had changed it to Tang Dynasty.

Tiaoguan is an auspicious drama that gives the audience 10% blessings. There is no stage, only physical performance. Beijing opera also has this kind of performance, called "jumping and adding officials" The actor wore a veil, a mask on his face, official robes (red, yellow and green robes), and a satin banner with the words "God Bless the People", "Rising Sun" and "Crowning Jin Lu" written on it. He danced and displayed auspicious words on the banner to express his wishes and welcome to the audience. In addition to male crowns, Chaozhou opera also has female crowns, that is, when the dignitaries present come with their wives, they are also nobles. After the male crowns, they jump in the female crowns, and the actors in the female crowns wear red robes and phoenix crowns. The banners on the crowns have the words "Mrs. Yipin", "Fu Lu Shou Quan" and "Prosperity and splendor". After the crown-raising performance, the dignitaries attending the drama should reward the audience with red envelopes. The red envelopes obtained by the troupe are called crown money, which is kept by the troupe manager as the expenses for offering sacrifices to Marshal Kanda or other activities offering sacrifices to gods on June 24th and February 24th of the lunar calendar every year.

The mask worn by the actors in Jump to the Crown is called "Crown Shell" by artists, with a white smile and a small black beard. A walking stick is placed horizontally on the back of the mask. When the mask was released, the actor bit it with his mouth, because the performance didn't say anything, so there was no need to speak. More importantly, in the past, in the middle of a performance, if there were dignitaries present, the performance on the stage would stop and the performance would be crowned. In this case, the actor bites the mask and it can be released. After the performance, it is also convenient to take it off. Chaozhou opera, a mask that you bite with your mouth instead of wearing, is exactly the same as Beijing opera.

According to Yan Changming's "A Brief Record of Qin Yun's Taking English", the origin of "Tiaoguan" is as follows: "In the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, there was a library book, and one person sat in the venue to sing, and the other person should celebrate the festival. This drama will be directed by the Heavenly Palace, and its legacy is also. " Celestial officials jump and add officials. This form of performance originated from quadrangles in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties.

Celebrating the birthday of the Eight Immortals is the most popular activity of Five Blessingg Company. Because this analysis is often added before the performance of a drama, the actors in the drama are usually putting on makeup to prepare for the performance. This kind of folding drama is mostly performed by the actors with miscellaneous brands in the troupe; In the past, some troupes were too few to cope with, and often made a lot of jokes. The costumes, crowns and hats of the Eight Immortals in Chao Opera "The Eight Immortals' Birthday" are fixed in color and exquisitely made. These eight sets of clothes are called "Eight Rivers and One Hall".

In the past, when celebrating the birthday of the Eight Immortals, the audience paid great attention to the ostentation and extravagance of the word "longevity". There was an anecdote that the word "shou" is usually the inch of the head and the inch below the word "shou"; However, if the monitor's surname is Fang, or if he performs in a big village called Fang, it will be the other way around, meaning "longevity" and "inch". The reason is that there is a "square" in the name. If the fairy with the word "Fang" condescends to an inch, it is an insult to the dignity of Fang. Therefore, to perform in this big village called Fang, you have to condescend to an inch. During the' 93 (Shantou) International Chaozhou Opera Festival, the auspicious drama "Five Blessingg Lotus" was staged at the 6th Spring Festival gala in Chaoshan. On the basis of retaining the traditional theme of "auspiciousness and pretending to be blessed", there is a major breakthrough in the form of performance. The first is to break the framework of the stage performance form and change it into the hook column form of early opera performance to adapt to the audience watching from all directions. For example, in "Seeing the Children in Ji Xian", the traditional performance is that Ji Xian comes out from the left door and performs in the gymnasium, instead of the fairies coming down from the highest place in the gymnasium along the steps of Ran Ran. The second is to create an illusory environment between heaven and earth by using stage techniques such as lighting and clouds. For example, the Eight Immortals' birthday celebrations, or riding clouds, or riding cloth donkeys, or coming by boat, are all rendered through stage stunts. Third, the scene is spectacular, 50% off. There are more than 170 actors on the stage, such as "Beijing Fair" with a 10% discount. Traditionally, there are only two protagonists, Lv Mengzheng and Liu Cuiping, while there are 26 pairs of Lv Mengzheng and Liu Cuiping, that is, all the troupes participating in the International Chaozhou Opera Festival send a pair of Lv Mengzheng Liu Cuiping to the stage. There was only one person in the tradition of "jumping the crown", and it was changed to 16, with 8 men and 8 women. Fourthly, it is an unprecedented feat for Chaozhou opera actors at home and abroad to jointly perform and gather artists at home and abroad.