Let's talk about Cixi first. Not only that, Cixi asked these people in the harem to form a class, specially invited teachers to train, and eunuchs and maids sang two songs for me. This matter belongs to the Shengping Department. To put it bluntly, the Ministry of Education is now in charge of the popularization of traditional Chinese opera, so let's go to see some big eunuchs. The movie Li, played by Jiang Wen, and Empress Dowager Cixi went to the west when Eight-Nation Alliance was there. Li was driving and singing Peking Opera. When Guangxu finished singing, she shouted. Later, the eunuch was young. Why could he serve Queen Jade Dragon? Just because Zhang De sings Beijing Opera well! Let's take a look at the "big house door". Is there a passage about the second grandma's birthday, the church meeting and the eunuch entering the palace? At that time, Wang Xiguang had not been played by Lei Kesheng. At that time, Wang Xiguang was a eunuch and came here to fight Bai Jingqi. Let's sing a song. You must get to that corner. I will wait on you. Eunuchs can sing. The better the name, the worse it is. The whole Qing palace uses it for business.
Of course, I said that this is a point that Cixi particularly affirmed for Peking Opera, and it is not without negation. Cixi likes Beijing opera best. I said earlier that she learned some tactics from it, and even regarded Beijing Opera as a moral education. She often shows it to people around her. Cixi is very strict with Beijing opera. For example, Cixi doesn't like listening to sheep. Why? She is a sheep. She hates it. There is a corner named Wang Fushou who runs a mutton shop in partnership with others outside the palace. Cixi originally gave him money, but later gave it to him. Why? He goes out to cut mutton every day. How can I give him money?
Cixi is a sheep, so she hates this saying that sheep is not good, so in Beijing opera, she later changed the word "bring sheep". A friend of ours heard from Yu Tangchun that Susan had a saying, "I'm like a sheep in a tiger's mouth who can't go back to Beijing this time." Cixi didn't like it. What sheep got into the tiger's mouth? I belong to the sheep! Later, this sentence has been changed to-"I'd better go to Beijing, just like a fish goes into the net and doesn't return it ..." You see, she hates it.
There is another one, Cixi doesn't like Zhen Fei, saying that Zhen Fei and Guangxu are whispering, saying that Zhen Fei encouraged Guangxu's Reform Movement of 1898. Later, she hated Zhen Fei. When I knew Eight-Nation Alliance, she pulled Zhen Fei out of the harem and put him in the well to kill him. She watched more Peking Opera, but this Nishinomiya Empress Zhen Fei didn't play any good role, so she can see the general Nishinomiya Empress in Peking Opera. So take a closer look. You are familiar with these traditional Beijing operas. The empress dowager is a good person on the whole. For example, when I watched the Second Palace, a young master and I were in charge of the Queen Mother. Well, Li Taihou got down on his knees as soon as he saw the emperor's son Ai Chen. Finally, her in-service wife changed the purple and gold stick, played the heartless king for Ai Jia, played the dragon robe, and fined her son ... Li Taihou is a good man. You know, Empress Dowager, three in and three out, seven in and seven out? I know that Wu Guotai is a good man in "Dragon and Phoenix Becoming Lucky". He married Sun Shangxiang to Liu Bei. It is said that the empress dowager is generally good, but the queen of Nishinomiya is not so good. Therefore, this Peking Opera circle is equivalent to the Empress Dowager Cixi's reciprocated and completed the Empress Dowager Cixi. Therefore, Empress Dowager Cixi's influence on this Peking Opera is subtle, and many things have been done with Peking Opera, almost textbooks. For example, there is a play called Lower Hedong. What is it about? The protagonist is Ouyang Fang, who was just established in the Song Dynasty. Ouyang Fang, a general under Zhao Kuangyin, conquered the Northern Han Dynasty with another general, Hu Yanshou. As a result, the two armies formed an array. Ouyang Fang killed Hu Yanshou Pavilion and trapped Zhao Kuangyin. Later, Hu Yanshou's son, Huyan Zan, king of iron whip, was the protagonist of Hu Jiajiang. Huyan Zan came back to catch Ouyang Fang, which is to solve Zhao Kuangyin. Then whenever this play was performed here and Ouyang Fang was captured, Cixi ordered me to call! Beat this Ouyang Fang to 40 boards and say it's Ouyang Fang. Isn't that an actor being beaten? Whoever plays is beaten, so after the play is over, the troupe should pay more money to this person and be beaten. Why? Cixi shows everyone, look at this traitor, this is the end! She used this to educate the masses.
Not only that, she also put aside Peking Opera to clean up Guangxu's mess. How come? We all know that Guangxu Cixi raised him, but he is not her own son. He was brought up. Later, Guangxu was demoted by Cixi, so it was not Guangxu who understood the western constitutional thought and intervened in the reform thought when the Reform Movement of 1898. It is not complete. Guangxu also wanted to take this opportunity to suppress the post-Party through the power of the imperial Party, and he was finally suppressed. Guangxu was breathless when he was emperor these years, but this matter was unforgivable to Cixi. This is a great unfilial thing! How can you cooperate with the outside world to deal with me? Make fun of me with the Hundred Days Reform. I'll make fun of you first. After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Cixi sang opera in the palace. What play is she singing? Thunderbolt