Chapter 115 Village Evening Preview
Village chief Li Jinyu also came to join in the fun, humming a classic Sichuan opera piece "The Empty City Scheme" and walking slowly over with his hands behind his back.
"Marching troops is like setting up a chess formation... If you make a wrong move, you will regret it..." The unique singing style is full of charm. It tells the story of Zhuge Liang who lost Jieting due to the misapplication of Ma Su, and had to set up the empty city plan to scare off Sima Yi.
Zhuge Wuhou's status in the hearts of the people of Sichuan Province is naturally self-evident.
In Sichuan Province, there are Ma Chao East Road, Ma Chao West Road, Huang Zhong District, etc., but Zhuge Wuhou is directly a large district, Wuhou District.
It is said that the Sichuan Provincial Government plans to build a road, and according to the planned route, it will occupy the Zhaolie Temple, which is the temple dedicated to Liu Bei. Because it involves historical relics, many people have raised objections. However, this is a major event that benefits the country and the people, so a dispute arose and the pros and cons were discussed.
While everyone was arguing, someone suddenly said, "But the Wuhou Temple is still in the Zhaolie Temple."
In an instant, the entire conference room fell silent. Eventually, the route was re-planned.
As for why the Wuhou Temple is located in the Zhaolie Temple, it also has historical origins. At the beginning, they were separated, but for more than a thousand years, the people of Sichuan Province basically only worshipped Wu Hou, which resulted in the Zhaolie Temple being deserted. Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang's son came to Sichuan Province to be the King of Shu, he saw this situation and moved the Wu Hou Temple to the Zhaolie Temple, saying that they could worship together and have fun together.
But even so, when people go to the Temple of Han Zhaolie, they basically offer sacrifices to Zhuge Wuhou.
As the village chief, Li Jinyu also had to queue up. While humming "The Empty City Scheme", he nodded to Li Xiang from a distance, then sat at the back of the line and chatted with the villagers.
The old people all liked to listen to opera. A few of them started to "act" with Li Jinyu and chatted with great interest. From time to time, a few words were heard, which attracted people in the distance to turn around.
Everyone feels sad, as there hasn’t been a stage for opera performances in so many years?
"Jin Yu, you are actually better at singing Peking Opera than Sichuan Opera. Why don't you perform a piece of 'The Case of the Chopping of the Beauty' for us?" someone suggested.
Li Jinyu was quite tempted. "The Case of the Chopping of the Beauty" was his specialty and he sang it the most when he was young. But he just waved his hand and said, "Alas, I can't sing it anymore now that I'm old. Besides, without the accompaniment of gongs and drums, it would be even worse without that feeling."
Being on stage with accompaniment is of course different. The intense music and the sonorous drum sounds push you up and enable you to perform to your full potential.
Li Xiang had extremely sharp hearing and heard it from a distance. He shouted, "Then gather everyone together and let's put on a show!"
Li Jinyu waved her hand and said regretfully, "We can't get enough people together."
Li Xiang said: "It's okay, there are still young people who can take over."
"Who among the young people nowadays is willing to learn?" Li Jinyu shook her head.
Indeed, most young people are not willing to learn this, and they all work in big cities. They seldom come back once a year and then leave home in a hurry again.
However, Li Xiang thought that he could try to set one up.
I can be counted as one, my grandfather can be counted as one, and then we can gather a few older people. The young people in Leijiagou are all good. We can ask them if they are willing. With the old bringing up the new, it should be no problem to gather a group of successors.
Lei Jiaming is also running his own media. What's the point of always performing martial arts? It would be more attractive to play some musical instruments and sing and pass on the classics.
Of course, the Lei family's inherited martial arts are also worth inheriting. They all belong to traditional culture.
The bands of opera troupes are often very large. Some strong and sophisticated bands may have dozens of musical instruments and dozens of people, or even a large band of a hundred people. That momentum, that scene...
But it is naturally impossible for a rural opera troupe like Lijia Village to be so particular. Li Xiang had also seen the gongs and drums in Li Jinyu's home when he went to his home as a child. There were no more than ten kinds of them. It should be possible to find someone to get them all.
If that doesn't work, three or five types can be performed.
This was being broadcast live, so the conversation between Li Xiang and Li Jinyu was naturally heard by the fans.
Fans suggested: "Let's have a game, let's have a game!"
"Let's start the show. There will definitely be a lot of people coming to support us!"
"If you really can't find anyone, you can just pay to hire one."
"Spending money should have lost its meaning. Brother Xiang should want to restore the rural heritage of Lijia Village."
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"Thank you for your support. I will try my best to organize it. Please take care of me when the time comes."
Li Xiang interacted with the fans for a few sentences and became more and more interested.
The villagers of Lijia Village were the same. They were also very excited when they heard that the stage would be set up again for opera performances. Especially Li Xiang’s grandmother and third grandmother, they were grinning from ear to ear and were looking forward to it very much.
Li Xiang used to think that his grandmother liked quietness, but now it seems that is not the case.
In her previous life, it was not that she liked quietness, but she was alone, had difficulty walking, and lived far away from the village center, so she had to live in quietness.
Then when Li Xiang called her and asked about this, she always said, "It's comfortable and quiet to live alone." Now that I think about it, wasn't that purely reporting good news and not bad news, to comfort her grandson? At this age, how can you not like to be lively? Li Xiang felt that his past life was really too...
But since I was reborn, wasn't that a chance for God to let me make up to my grandmother?
"Just singing may not be attractive enough, why not add something else." Li Xiang was cutting hair without stopping his hands, looking at the screen, interacting with fans, and his mind was racing, thinking secretly. He can be said to be multitasking without affecting his work at all.
The hair is still cut quickly and well.
Almost all of his fans are young people whose blood has not yet awakened and who may not be interested in opera. When he does a live broadcast, it is very likely that the popularity will not be high. Maybe it’s not even as popular as haircutting is now.
"How about holding a village party, with opera and other things."
So, Li Xiang discussed with his fans, saying that he wanted to hold the first village evening party in Lijia Village on the night of the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. At that time, not only would a video be recorded, but there would also be a live broadcast. He hoped that everyone would spread the word and come to support him.
Many fans were looking forward to it and were very enthusiastic. They said encouraging words and some even gave gifts to show their support. Of course, there are also some fans who are not optimistic. After all, it’s the Village Night?
I don’t even watch the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, so why would I watch your village gala? Can the Village Gala and the Spring Festival Gala be on the same level?
But Li Xiang didn't care. It was the first session, so whether it was successful or not was another matter. The key was that it set a precedent in Lijia Village and allowed the villagers to entertain themselves. Then we can also use this opportunity to create an opportunity for communication and bonding with young people from surrounding villages, thus bringing everyone together.
In fact, in previous lives, there were sometimes entertainment performances in the underground city, including operas.
Because the end times are already very difficult, if there is no entertainment to cheer people up and make them happy in suffering, it will be really hard to persevere.
Even in the military, there are art troupes performing consolation performances.
After the Gutian Conference in 1929, our army formed a propaganda team. In 1931, the "August 1st Troupe" was officially established. Afterwards, various art troupes and propaganda teams, both professional and amateur, sprang up like mushrooms after a rain.
The art troupe can boost morale, relieve everyone's psychological pressure and play a propaganda role, which cannot be ignored. These are all the experiences of our predecessors.
When Li Xiang thought of this, he made up his mind to hold the Lijia Village "Village Evening" year after year. As long as the race survives, this tradition will be maintained.
This free haircut benefit lasted for two days before the hair of everyone in the village, young and old, male or female, was cut.
It must be said that everyone in the village participated, and later even Aunt Jiang came over and asked Li Xiang to help trim her bangs.
But Li Xiang is the only exception, because he is a barber and he is so handsome. Others don’t have this skill, so they dare not cut his hair randomly. What if the hair looks like it was bitten by a dog, which will affect the temperament of the internet celebrity.
Then the villagers were also very enthusiastic about Li Xiang's idea of organizing a village evening party and asked what everyone needed to do.
Li Xiang said, "Anyone who wants to perform can go on stage."
But many villagers declined. Going on stage? Isn't that embarrassing? It would be fine if he was embarrassed in the village, but Li Xiang was going to broadcast it live. With his more than two million fans, there would be tens of thousands of people online almost every time he broadcast, all over the country. Wouldn't that be embarrassing for the whole country? Therefore, for the time being, only Li Jinyu and Li Yucheng have signed up, but both want to sing opera, one Peking opera and the other Sichuan opera, but the troupe does not have a band, so the two are very worried.
Li Jinyu said that he could go and ask, but there were probably only two or three old guys there, and they might not be willing to come. One of them had a leg injury and has been confined to a wheelchair. The body may not allow it.
Li Xiang said, "It's okay, leave it to me." If it really doesn't work, we can also do as the fans said, go to the county town and pay to invite someone. In the first session, we will always be able to find the soundtrack.
Of course, he would rather form his own band in the countryside, one with young blood joining in.
It is worth mentioning that when he was getting a haircut the next day, some fans from nearby actually drove over and lined up to get their haircuts. They also wanted to take photos with Li Xiang and get his autograph, so the second half of the haircut turned into a fan meeting.
But Li Xiang did a good job of cutting their photos, and the fans were quite satisfied. Originally, Li Xiang was joking when he said he would charge thirty yuan, so of course he didn't want any money at this time. But the fans were very enthusiastic, and since Li Xiang didn't want any money, they gave him gifts in his live broadcast room to increase his popularity.
In response, Li Xiang could only say: "Thank you all for your support and cheers."
On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people worship the Kitchen God, and on the 24th day, they clean the house.
In some northern areas, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the "Little New Year", while in the south, the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is usually the Little New Year. However, for the people of Sichuan Province, the New Year in a broad sense really begins on the 23rd day!
The Chinese New Year is from the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month. In some places, the New Year continues until the first month of the lunar year.
Many people working outside the city also began to return home. But some factories or companies have late holidays, and employees can only come back one or two days before New Year’s Eve. Some cannot even come back at all, and have to work overtime during the New Year. It’s all for living, it’s helpless.
The people in Lijia Village were busy, sweeping the dust and watering the trees, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, sweeping away the fatigue and worries of the old year and getting ready to welcome the new year.
Li Xiang was no exception. After he tidied up his house, he picked a place in the backyard and built a stage with stones, wooden boards and bamboo.
As for the audio equipment, lighting, etc., he called the digital store to inquire and made reservations.
That night, Li Xiang also took a "Thousand Whips" and set it off at the door of his house to drive away bad luck and welcome good luck in the new year. After all, it was only the Little New Year, so he didn't set off a big one.
It's just a sense of ritual. "Thousand Whip" means 1000 whips, which means "perfection".
The specifications of firecrackers set off on New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, the fifth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, etc. are different.
And there are special requirements. It must "ring all the way to the end" without being shut off or muted in the middle. Otherwise it is not a good sign and you will encounter "bad luck" in the new year. Because of this requirement, the ancients attached great importance to the quality of firecrackers and would not set off "broken-head firecrackers".
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