Episode 43 in the TV series "Water Margin", the 19th episode shows that Wu Song is chasing Ximen Qing in the Lion Tower, which is exciting. This play comes from the 26th chapter of the novel "Water Margin". As an opera, this festival has been performed long ago, and the legend of the Qing Dynasty's palace drama "Zhongyi Xuan Tu" is. After that, all those who performed this section of novels, TV series and Peking Opera are similar.
On the Peking Opera stage of all dynasties, there are many people who play Wu Song, but the most famous and influential one is Gai Jietian, who is known as "Living Wu Song in Jiangnan".
Gaiyao Tian original name is Zhang Yingjie , from Xiyan Village, Gaoyang County, Hebei Province. He has been accustomed to art since he was a child and specializes in martial arts. In 1934, when Gai Jietian was forty-seven years old, she co-starred in "Lion Tower" with Chen Hefeng in , in Shanghai. Gai Jietian played Wu Song and Chen Hefeng played Ximen Qing. When Wu Song chased Ximen Qing, he unfortunately broke his right leg. At that time, the leg bones came out through the boots, and the pain was unbearable, but Gai Zhitian endured the severe pain and stood in the "golden rooster independent" posture with his left leg, and stood up until he closed the curtain. During treatment, the quack doctor connected the leg bones incorrectly, and the right leg became deformed. Gai Zhitian asked the doctor, "Is there any way to correct it?" The doctor said, "There is no other way, only the broken bone is to connect again!" Gai Zhitian heard it, and in anger, he punched his fist and broke the right leg that had just been connected, and then asked another doctor to re-receive it. Two years later, Gai Zaotian returned to the stage. Gai Xuetian's perseverance is really amazing and has been a good story in the Liyuan world for many years.
Regarding this matter, careful audiences will inevitably ask a question: Can the profound opera martial arts skills be easily broken? What exactly causes this situation?
The actual situation is: Gai Zaotian in the performance caused his own misfortune for the safety of others.
According to the general performance of traditional opera, one table and two chairs are enough to place a table and two chairs on the stage. This can be used to represent mountains and cities, as well as buildings and walls, and there is no need to set up a system and a system. However, in order to attract audiences, the theater owner actually set up a "restaurant" on the stage that day. When Wu Song avenged his brother and went to the "restaurant" to chase Ximen Qing, the "restaurant" began to shake. When Ximen Qing saw Wu Song chasing the stairs, he was so scared that he jumped out of the window and landed on the countertop. Wu Song chased the window upstairs, so he should naturally jump down. However, there is a row of window railings under my feet, and there is an eaves on it. There is only a few feet high window hole in the middle. I jump high and hit the eaves; I jump low and I can't jump over it. Despite this difficulty, it is not difficult for Gai Xiaotian, who has superb acting skills. Following the opera style, he jumped, and a "swallow sweeping water" action jumped out of the "restaurant" more than two meters high.
However, when he jumped into the air, he suddenly saw Ximen Qing still lying on the ground (according to the performance requirements, after Ximen Qing jumped downstairs, he should quickly roll to the side and jump down to Wu Songteng's place immediately). Gai Zhitian was afraid that he would jump down according to the original acting and hurt Chen Hefeng who played Ximen Qing, so he quickly flashed in the air during an emergency. Since this flash was no longer a play, I used too much force and broke my right leg when I landed. This shows how Gai Jietian’s artistic ethics and sentiments are. To this end, Chen Yi once wrote a poem for Gai Zhitian: "There is a hero in Yanbei, and Wu Song is alive in Jiangnan." Tian Han also praised Gai Zhitian's poem: "It is common to break limbs and arms, and I have trained the Zhang family to 18 guns."
excerpt from "The Past of Liyuan" | Author: Zhou Jianduan
