Zhang Lian sells cloth operas

Sixie (singing): I was coaxing dolls in the house, and I took time to put flowers. Suddenly I heard someone calling Sixie, and opened the door to see that it was her big (dad) who had turned home. Here's a cigarette and a cup of tea. I wonder what price our cloth sold. I brought you a towel to wipe your sweat, and asked Shengwa why he didn't change the flowers.

Zhang Lian (singing): You go to Mo Wen first and get me the rice quickly, so you won't be upset when we do things.

sijie (singing): as long as there is no hemp, my heart will be put down. If there are no flowers, please get me the money. I will use it to support our family.

Zhang Lian (singing): What are you doing?

sijie (singing): I want to take the money.

Zhang Lian (singing): Don't be afraid to give it to you after dinner.

Fourth Sister (singing): Don't stay at my house until you give me food.

Zhang Lian (singing): At first, I called my mother, hey, I lent the money to Wang Laoba.

sijie (singing): we are running out of rice at home, and we have to weave and buy cotton. You must have been playing with money outside. I ask you if you lost to Wang Laoba.

Zhang Lian (singing): Lao Ba needs money urgently, so I can't force him to lend us money.

Fourth Sister (singing): How to say, pointing to Zhang Lianfu and swearing, you must have played the money (I said robber) and lost it to others. My wife cooked for you, carried water and firewood, and my wife took care of the dolls in the morning and evening. I made three zhangs of cloth and told you to change flowers. After selling the cloth, I went home empty-handed. I didn't change my old habit of playing the money and lost all my family business.

Extended information

Story background

Zhang Lian, a farmer with a well-off family, was infected with gambling habits and lost gambling repeatedly, so that he bought all his family's land and possessions and lived on his wife and four sisters. One day, his wife ordered Zhang to go to the market to sell cloth, but he couldn't resist the clever words of his gambling friend Wang Laoba, and Zhang gambled and lost the money to sell cloth. When I came home, my wife asked questions, and she was glib and sophistry.

Fourth Sister was desperate to divorce Zhang Lian, but after being dissuaded by her neighbor Wang Ma, Zhang Lian realized that gambling was boundless and vowed to go back to farming with peace of mind and live a serious life, and the couple got back together. It is said that during the Republic of China, folk gambling prevailed in Shaanxi, and many descendants of wealthy businessmen lost their homes because of gambling.

A man of insight adapted the lyrics of "Zhang Lian Selling Cloth" according to the true story of the local people, which was widely sung to persuade the local people and played a very good role.

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