Quintessence Peking Opera, Three Inch Golden Lotus Shoes

Mention "SEG Gong"

"Fans who love Beijing opera will surely recall the" stunt "performance stunts for many years.

In recent years, there has been no more sensation on the stage of Chinese opera than the three inch Golden Lotus, which was created by Wuhan Peking Opera Troupe.

First of all, the three inch Golden Lotus is based on the controversial novel of the same name by the famous writer Feng Jicai, who adapted the story of a little woman into Peking Opera. Secondly, the opera resumed the "stunt" stunts of traditional Peking Opera, and put women's feet on the stage.

Ge Jinlian, the hero of Beijing Opera "three inch Golden Lotus"

On the evening of September 22, 2004, on the stage of the seventh China Art Festival venue, Lucheng cultural center in Wenzhou, there were 15 women walking on the "feet" of the "stilts". The youngest was 15 years old, and the youngest was more than 60 years old.

They have their feet on the ground, dressed like Yulan leaves and three inch long seesaw shoes.

This is the exhibition of Peking Opera Troupe of Wuhan, the Peking Opera "three inch Golden Lotus". People have the honor to enjoy the skills of being "Oriental ballet".

In the past 9 months, three inch Golden Lotus has performed more than 50 games in all parts of the country.

Sedan Gong, also known as "stepping on the stilts", "tied up", opera performance stunts.

Mainly for Dan jiao (Hua Dan, Dao Ma Dan, Wu Dan) in the performance of the ancient foot binding women's walking posture.

Stilt (Qiao pronunciation, "silent"), the word meaning: lifting feet, standing on the heel.

In traditional operas, the "stilts" are wooden false feet, which are tied to the feet of the actors, wrapped around the seesaw belt, and set up "seesaw shoes" outside, and cover the real feet with big colored trousers.

According to legend, stilts began in Shaanxi.

In the Han and Tang Dynasties, stilts were called long stilts. At first, they did not pretend to be feet. They disguised themselves as women. They showed their slender figure and beautiful appearance. With the lengthening of trousers to the real feet and the setting of Golden Lotus shoes on the lower side, the performance of a pair of beautiful feet on the stage was very vivid. It was the imitation of the traditional opera, and it gradually became the trend and spread from Xi'an to Sichuan.

During the Qianlong period, Wei Changsheng, also known as Wei San, took him to Beiping.

People who play the flower show are effective and are popular with audiences.

Since then, he has been accepted as one of the stunts in the Peking Opera.

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In the old stage in China, in order to shape women's image, Peking Opera women (mostly male Dan) need to practice "skills".

But this pair of shoes is not easy to wear, and must undergo strict training and painful training.

SEG Gong can be divided into two kinds: hard stilts and soft stilts, so the seesaw shoes are also divided into "hard stilts shoes" and "soft stilts shoes".

Hard stilts shoes usually use red, white and blue tassels, multicolored lines embroidered patterns, shoes with colored silk spikes, upper heels sewn with a piece of about 10 inches of white cloth, commonly known as "shoe belt".

The sole of the hard stilts is half shoe sole, that is, the front hand is made of white needles, and the bottom of the palm is hollow.

Wearing these shoes requires multiple procedures.

1, bind wood sew: the wooden end is chiseled into the lotus foot shape of the foot binding female, about 3 inches long, the front and the back are round, and the arch of the foot is arched.

The upper end is bovine tongue shaped, with a length of more than 5 inches.

Put your toes down in the stilts when you tie them.

Bind your feet firmly with wooden stilts.

Then put it into wooden stilts and still tie them with a sew.

2, wear shoes: pull the shoes and put them into the shoes, then tie them down to the bare ends, then tie them up tightly.

3, with a set of seabed: sedan jacket for blue satin multicolored embroidery, commonly known as "trouser legs."

It is broad, narrow, cylindrical, with two bands attached to the knee.

Finally, putting down your trouser legs can cover the seesaw and reveal only the shoes.

The soft stilt shoes are also embroidered with red, white and blue satin five color lines, ordinary thousand needles, and the length is about 4 inches in length according to the footage of the actor's feet.

The left and right sides are set up with white cloth tapes, and the shoe tips are lined with cotton wool.

Unlike hard stilts, it uses insoles, which are made of high slope wooden shoes (wrapped in white cloth) in stilts.

The following steps are taken:

1, first foot binding: soft seesaw shoes do not use wooden seesaw, first use the foot binding cloth to wrap up the feet.

2, set soft soft shoes: use shoes to pull into soft shoes, then tie the two shoes around to the instep and tie them tightly.

3, wear pants on the top of the trousers: put on the blue color silk embroidered flower sew, and use big colored pants to cover the real feet.

No matter whether you wear hard stilts or soft stilts, when the actors stand up, the foot and the ground are all divided into 75 degrees.

The earliest actors in the class started training from an early age.

Mr. Li Jinhong, a famous Peking Opera, recalls that when he studied skills, he spent only three or four years practicing alone.

When Wu dances perform, beat, flutter or fall, they step on each other.

Wooden feet are tied to wooden feet, and they must be practiced as well as real feet.

Wu Dan can only put on seesaw shoes and start learning formally.

Many programs in Peking Opera are based on sedan work.

Liu Wei, the leading actor in the three inch Golden Lotus, spent more than a year practicing in order to perform his work. In the first few days, his toes were so swollen that he could not fit in his shoes. He stood, walked, ran and jumped from school to school. He could only put in a formal rehearsal after a year.

In the two hours of the play, she tiptoed on the ground, skillfully ran round the court, walked on the stage, fell down, turned over, turned around, and danced. She was steady and agile, but not satisfied with her feet.

The seesaw performance is like a ballet dance on the foot. It is graceful, vigorous, and vigorous. Therefore, it is called "Oriental ballet", but it is more difficult than "ballet".

According to the director of Peking Opera Troupe in Wuhan, ballet dancing shoes have a cork on the toe of the shoe, and the actors only use the power of tiptoe when they are rotated on the ground.

And our tipgong requires the actors to be wrapped up in wooden stilts, legs and ankles should be stretched, and the whole feet are off the ground. It is entirely dependent on the strength of the wrist. When the weight of the whole body is pressed on the toes, it will be difficult to train.

It can be seen that the Chinese seesaw is indeed better than the ballet of the West.

The famous Peking Opera players in China are skilled in performing seesaw skills.

For example, Yu Lianquan, a famous actress in Beijing Opera (Xiao Cuihua), has an excellent performance. In his performance of "drunkenness of the imperial concubine", the imperial concubine drunkard, to step on to finish the "Cup" waist down, "lie fish", smell flowers, fan dance, cloud walking, drunken steps and so on, all kinds of body and footwork are more difficult.

SEG Gong is a special skill in Chinese opera performance. The traditional Dan dance shows its excellent performance. But the actor must master this skill, but training is very painful.

After the founding of new China, due to various reasons, seesaw gradually withdrew from the stage.

The performance of Beijing Opera "three inch Golden Lotus" is again raised.

Today, is there any reference for the basic skills training of the actors? Can we remove the dross and extract its essence? We still need to discuss and study the experts. We will wait and see.