Kunqu brand "Fifteen Guan see the hillside sheep" from the album "Chinese music map to hear Jiangsu Jiangsu music collection"

Fifteen Guans. Seeing the Capital. Mountain Sheep. Fifteen guans. Seeing the capital. Mountain sheep

Opera Kunqu Qu Nationality: Han Nationality: Jiangsu Province

Flute: Zou Zhongchao

Kunqu Opera, which has been circulating for more than 600 years, was originally created by Gu Jian from Kunshan in the middle and late Ming Dynasty on the basis of the Southern opera, developed by Wei Liangfu's reform of "Water mill tune", followed by the creative input of countless outstanding literati and composers, and has become the most complete performance system, the most extensive and profound foundation, and the most far-reaching influence. With the reputation of "the ancestor of all operas" and "the mother of Chinese opera", its singing is extremely delicate, the singing and reading are careful and subtle, the stage setting is simple and perfect, the text of the lyrics is elegant and graceful, and it has reached the extreme of the traditional opera art in all aspects, and has nurtured a series of later operas.

In Kunqu opera, there is a saying that "a play saves a drama", that is, "Fifteen Systems", in the 1950s, Kunqu opera declined, and the art world faded, until "Fifteen systems" was performed in Beijing, causing a sensation.

"Fifteen Guan" with fifteen Guan copper coins as a quote, tells the story of the virtuous official Kuang Zhong, who found that Su Shujuan and Xiong Youlan, who were convicted of colluding with an adulterer to kill their father for money, were wrongfully convicted, and tried to slow down the killing, secretly investigated, outwitted the real culprit Lou Rat, and finally arrested him and summarized the case. This is the "Fifteen Guan Jiandu" a compromise, played by Kundi "hillside sheep", the clearer the flute sound, the clearer the melody, "Jiandu" a compromise, it is Kuang Zhong petition for the people, not hesitate to resist Shangguan, and strive to give a few months, to find out the plot of the case.