Yin Xueyan Forever is the first in a series of novels by Bai Xianyong's masterpiece Taipei People, which reflects the vicissitudes from the middle of the last century to the present. Since its publication, Yin Xueyan, a fictional novel character, has established a position in many people's hearts with her vivid and unparalleled image. It can be said that "everyone has a Yin Xueyan in his heart".
Hugh plays Xu Zhuangtu. The play was grandly staged in Shanghai Cultural Square on May 4th, 20 13, which kicked off the first performance of 18. Yin Xueyan hasn't shown her true colors yet, but Xu Zhuangtu, the most important figure of short-lived Yin Xueyan, has made a generous appearance. The reason why Hugh was chosen, director Xu said, not only the image and temperament fit, but also some selfishness was hidden: "Returning to the stage is Hugh's greatest wish now, and his persistent bookishness is also suitable for Xu Zhuangtu, so we hit it off." Hugh also said with a smile: "I am flattered to get such a performance opportunity after leaving the stage for eight years, especially to be able to perform in my hometown dialect." For me, it is always a test, but it is also a long-cherished wish of my' Shanghai girl'. " It is reported that for Yin Xueyan, an extraordinary woman, Xu Jun specially invited Zhang Shuping, a fashion designer of In the Mood for Love, to tailor cheongsam and other clothes for her. Zhang Shuping has finished the design and production of Yin Xueyan's first cheongsam. Xu Jun revealed: "The completed one is in line with Yin Xueyan's temperament. It can be said that it is a cheongsam that fell from the sky. "
Following the Kunqu Opera "Peony Pavilion" and "The Jade Hairpin", Bai Xianyong, a famous writer in Taiwan Province Province, once again took the lead and put Yin Xueyan, the most important woman in her heart, on the stage. 201219, Bai Xianyong and Hugh, the hero who plays Xu Zhuangtu in the Shanghai drama Yin Xueyan Forever, appeared at the press conference. Who is the heroine of this Shanghai drama? First, you should be able to speak Shanghainese. Second, you should look as old as Hugh. The final candidate, Mr. Bai Xianyong, is still under consideration.
Director adapted forever Yin Xueyan, and director Xu Jun was frightened. "When Teacher Bai wrote this novel, I was only 3 years old." After directing Qing Yu, he hopes to put Yin Xueyan on the stage. "She is hidden in the deepest part of m. leblanc's heart. Leng Yan's mystery is a symbol, as if in the sky, unconventional, and all living beings can't reach it. "
Hugh's classic old songs, which played the singer Xu Zhuangtu in the 1940s, will run through the whole drama "Eternal Yin Xueyan", and the fire of love and the haunting of old dreams will be presented one by one. Xu Jun hopes to integrate Shanghai dialect, Shanghai old songs and dances on the stage by absurd and symbolic means. "I want to reproduce history and recall past memories. Memory is very important. We often erase the memories of the past, and people seem to have amnesia. I think a person, a city, will lose a large piece if it erases the past. " Bai Xianyong said that the performance form of Shanghai dialect attracted him most when he was doing Yin Xueyan Forever, which kept a special memory of an era. If the language is forgotten, the memory of the city will also be hurt. There is no need to bear the heavy responsibility of inheriting Shanghai culture in this play, which is our exploration and practice. If the audience likes it very much, I think people will be impressed by Shanghai dialect and this new stage appearance when they leave the theater, and then more people will do it. In fact, nowadays movies also attach great importance to language. If "1942" is not spoken in Henan dialect, it will lose a lot of points. "On the other hand, how Yin Xueyan's symbolic role is presented on the stage is also his curiosity." There are still many Yin Xueyan's, don't you think? Yin Xueyan's descendants are alive again. So Yin Xueyan is forever. She will always be a woman's dream lover. "
Performance information performance time
Venue
20 13.05.04-05. 12 (premiere)
Shanghai cultural square
20 13. 10.09- 10. 13
Shanghai cultural square
Yin Xueyan Forever is one of Bai Xianyong's representative works. Today's Shanghainese yearn for the past, especially the elegance of the 1930s and 40s. Mr. Bai Xianyong once walked in the bustling streets of Shanghai, looking at the endless crowds and flashing neon lights, sighing that "Yin Xueyan is not old, and Shanghai is not old". This novel embodies a kind of "cultural homesickness" and can arouse people's old memories of Shanghai's century-old prosperity.
On the one hand, the authors of the leading men exaggerate her mysterious charm, on the other hand, they always make most of her fans end in tragedy. The author wrote, "Yes, Yin Xueyan has snow-white skin, exquisite figure, long face and a pair of pretty and sweet eyebrows, but these are not surprising places for Yin Xueyan." Her surprise stems from her "every gesture always has a style that the world can't match". She is soft and sweet, and there is a living room that makes people linger. What is even more puzzling and countless is that she has both the magic power to charm men and the kung fu to charm women, and she will never be old. ...
"Forever Yin Xueyan" is the first article in the series of "Taipei people". Through the depiction of Yin Xueyan's image, the work also reveals the decadent life of the upper class in Taiwan Province Province. The works in this collection, Taipei People, were all created after the author moved to the United States. Most of them take the life of the upper ruling class of the Kuomintang as the theme, showing the life features and mental state of nobles, bureaucrats, wealthy businessmen and other people after the Kuomintang regime retreated to Taiwan Province Province. As the author comes from the upper ruling class of the Kuomintang, he has a deeper understanding of the life and characters of this class. Yin Xueyan was originally a flower-like red * * * that "can charm all the men who have come into contact" in Bailemen, Shanghai, and was the object of pursuit of the nouveau riche in Shili Foreign Exchange. Coming to Taiwan Province Province, Yin Mansion soon became a paradise and a place of nostalgia for the upper class. "It seems that Yin Xueyan is an eternal symbol of the Bailemen era in Shanghai and a witness to the prosperity of Beijing (old Nanjing) and Shanghai (old Shanghai)." People who lost their official titles, whose official titles were abolished more than ten years ago, were greeted with soft words by Yin Xueyan and Wu Nong, and their sense of superiority was restored psychologically. In Yin Mansion, people suffering from rheumatism and poor eyesight do not forget to relive their golden dreams when they are down and out. The lady who is addicted to the card table fills the spiritual emptiness and collapse with fierce fighting. But Yin Xueyan didn't bring them any hope. She is enchanting and charming, and Leng Yan is also a threat; She watched a fight at the poker table and killed herself invisibly. She is like a "white star". "Those who touch it are defeated at home, and those who are serious are dead." At that time, the Shanghai cotton yarn chaebol was shot, and Director Hong of the financial sector was ruined. Now, Xu Zhuangtu, a upstart in Taiwan Province Province who fell in love with her, has also been assassinated. The upper class in Taiwan Province Province has become the social foundation of Yin Xueyan's parasitism, and Yin Xueyan's "emphasizing evil" means the inevitable destination of this aristocratic society.
Speaking of Yin Xueyan, Bai Xianyong said that the role was inspired by childhood memories. "I spent my whole life in Shanghai from the age of 9 to 12. 1945, I came to Shanghai from dusty Chongqing to see the world of flowers. I was just a child at that time, and I had never been inside.
Paramount gate, just passing by, looked around at the gate and saw a group of dancing ladies enter gracefully. The incomparable graceful figure is really nowhere to be found in the world. I am afraid that only in Shanghai, which has been infiltrated with the aura of Chinese and Western cultures for a hundred years, can we absorb, integrate and cultivate such exquisite beauty. "Many years later, when he was studying at the University of Iowa in the United States, he came up with the idea of writing about Taipei people. Yin Xueyan became an open book forever.
"Yin Xueyan is really charming. But no one can tell her true charm. Yin Xueyan never likes to wear rouge and powder, and sometimes she puts a little honey Buddha on her lips at most. Yin Xueyan doesn't like wearing red and green. It's very hot. One summer, she was all silvery white and beautifully dressed ... "Bai Xianyong described Yin Xueyan with delicate pen and ink in his novel. She seems to be the product of Zhong Ling Yu Xiu. "I think she is absolutely beautiful and versatile." Like a gust of wind, she belongs to the sky, not to the world. "Since the birth of the novel, countless people have guessed Yin Xueyan's prototype. Bai Xianyong replied with a smile: "She is just my imagination, a patchwork of people and things I saw, real manners and gestures. "Yin Xueyan is a paramount with a prominent history, beautiful, cold and powerful, always dressed in white, stationed in the core of the world of mortals. Her coquetry makes people around her crazy, which is the pursuit goal of the upstarts in Shili Foreign Exchange. The three men who fell in love with her were unemployed, bankrupt and dead.
Huang Liya plays Yin Xueyan. In the Dangdai inaugural issue of 1979, Forever Yin Xueyan became the first Taiwanese novel published in Chinese mainland since the reform and opening up. Today, Yin Xueyan is still the most worthy of analysis in Bai Xianyong's works. She always appears as a pure image of "a plain white cheongsam covered with cicada gauze" and "embroidered shoes with soft bottom of moonlight satin", and "like a silver-haired priestess", giving people a sense of desolation and sadness. "She is like a god of death. Death is the most attractive thing, because everyone has to jump into her arms and submit to her. My friend Ouyang Zi analyzed Yin Xueyan and Bai, and the analysis was very good. She is an elf, a person from the sky, different from the people around her. " Bai Xianyong admits that Yin Xueyan's immortal female image is symbolic. She seems to have the power of life and death in this world. The so-called immortality is actually a metaphor for the eternity and mystery of "death"
Yin Xueyan is always surrounded by many men. For her, Wang Guisheng committed a felony of collusion between government and business, and was imprisoned and shot. Director Hong brought her into the upper class, making her blossom a flawless jade pear in the upper class of Shanghai. Finally, Xu Zhuangtu was indirectly stabbed to death by workers because of suffocation. These are the places that Yin Xueyan was envied by other women, but it happened that she could evoke the homesickness of those rich women, which was an illusion. She was still prosperous in Shanghai that year.