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Early in the morning, King Yu, who had been awake all night, hurriedly got into the sedan chair and rushed all the way to a house in the outer city.
This house is very large, with two front and back yards and fifteen rooms.
When King Yu came in, there were already twenty or thirty men and women starting daily practice in the two courtyards of the big courtyard.
¡°There are those who sing loudly, those who practice the four shouts, those who practice basic skills, and those who practice the four special skills of turbanetc., it¡¯s so lively.
In a place on the east side of the back yard, a beautiful and beautiful woman in her twenties was also practicing her posture. Watching her move and turn, her orchid fingers faintly faint, Prince Yu felt a heart-warming feeling of comfort.
"Master Xiao is worthy of being Master Xiao. Every time I watch her practice, I will feel full of charm."
King Yu is also an elegant man.
He stopped the doorman from informing the woman until she finished practicing a paragraph before walking over.
"Master Xiao!" King Yu said with a smile and cupped his hands.
"Ah, Prince Yu, why are you here?" A hint of joy appeared on the woman's plain face.
"I have something good for you, go in and tell me!" King Yu said in a coquettish way.
"Okay~~"
The woman gently placed her hand between Qiong¡¯s nose and Cherry¡¯s mouth, smiled slightly, ¡°Please come in!¡±
She is indeed a person who is good at acting. Every move and every move she makes is full of charm.
The two of them sat in the living room, and the servant immediately brought two cups of tea.
"They have been very flustered recently, right?" King Yu looked through the door at the group of actors practicing.
Everyone Xiao dabbed some powder, blinked their beautiful big eyes and said, "I'm not too anxious."
When she sings, her voice is very soft, but when it comes down, it has a clear and beautiful voice. It sounds like an oriole, which makes people feel very comfortable.
"Xiao's full name is Xiao Suqin. She lost her parents when she was a child. She joined the theater troupe as an oddball when she was five years old. A few years later, she started her acting career. It wasn't until she was twelve that she really got her own role.
Since then, he has been out of control and has become one of the Nine Immortals, known as Boss Su.
With such a big reputation, Xiao Suqin naturally earns a lot.
"The performances of top celebrities like her usually rent the theaters themselves and are responsible for their own profits and losses.
Normally, after a performance, the cheapest seats of 300 are only one tael of silver each, and the most expensive VIP seats cost 50 taels per table, and can only seat four people.
So out of more than a thousand taels of silver, Xiao Suqin must get at least five hundred taels, no matter what time it is.
This is not where she earns the most. Xiao Suqin earns the most from the flower baskets she receives in every performance.
A basket of flowers cost ten taels of silver, and the most she received was more than five hundred for one scene - of course, that was when there were a few rich kids playing in the ring, and usually there were about a hundred for one scene.
Xiao Suqin will get another 80% of this money. Altogether, Xiao Suqin will get about 1,300 taels per play.
¡°It¡¯s just that this happened after Xiao Suqin became the Nine Immortals in the past two or three years. Before, she could get two to three hundred taels of silver per scene, which was considered very good.
"Besides, Xiao Suqin didn't spend the money alone. After she became famous, she formed her own opera troupe to serve her alone and only rehearse the plays she wanted to sing.
This provides the greatest convenience for her performance, but it also requires a lot of effort. She must be responsible for the living expenses of these fifty or sixty people.
????????????????????? Food, drink and toilette, plus monthly salary, rewards during the New Year and festivals, etc., all fell on Boss Su.
Moreover, these people are all young people. In the opera industry of the Kang Dynasty, except for some special actors, few people can sing after the age of 50, especially female actresses, who do not decline at the age of thirty-five. are simply rare.
Therefore, everyone wants to earn more when they are young, so as to avoid being homeless and having no money to live when they are old.
Everyone is very satisfied to be able to follow one of the Nine Immortals like Boss Su.
Even if you are a handyman, you can earn just five or sixty taels a year, and some can earn hundreds of taels. After five or six years, it is a lot of income. You can buy land and build a house in your hometown. More than enough for a small landowner.
That¡¯s why Xiao Suqin said they were ¡°not too anxious.¡±
"But the vast majority of people are not dissatisfied by nature. Once they have food and clothing, they want to be well-off and have good food and clothing."??His! He can write a love story with such ups and downs and touching people's hearts that it makes people want to die He is really a god! "
"Hehehe." King Yu smiled reservedly, "This author is not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."
"Not worth mentioning?" Boss Su was angry, forgetting the identity of the person in front of him, "I have never seen such a good book, even if it is "Mandarin Duck Fan", "Zhuang Fei", "Flower Lantern Night", "Yu Tang" "Spring" These books are completely incomparable No, they shouldn't be compared at all! Stories like "Butterfly Lovers" don't need to be changed into operas, they can be famous throughout the ages!
With such a book and such an amazing and talented author, Your Majesty, you actually say that it is not worth mentioning? Your Majesty, have you forgotten the plight of our opera industry? He is the god who created the world for us! ! "
" Xiao Suqin was so angry, but King Yu was not angry at all. He was still smiling.
This made Xiao Suqin a little uneasy.
If King Yu hadn¡¯t always had a good temper and taken good care of her, maybe she would have felt upset.
No matter how much the prince of the clan has no real power, it is more than enough to punish her with the crime of disrespect.
There is no need to question the determination of the royal family and the court to maintain the dignity of the clan.
"Your Majesty" Xiao Suqin's tone lowered, "Are youam I too excited?"
"No, no, no." King Yu smiled and waved his hand, "Okay, don't worry! I actually don't mean what you think, because the person who wrote this story is my son!"
"ah!?"
No matter how smart Xiao Suqin was, she never expected this to be the answer to the mystery.
Boss Su, who opened his mouth wide, looked indescribably charming and cute.
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Note: People often say that before the Civil War, there were no women on the stage in opera. This is a very wrong statement. Even if the scope is narrowed down to "there are no women on the stage in Peking Opera", it is not accurate.
Qi Rushan, an opera theorist at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, said: "In the pocket alley of Xicheng City, there used to be two Kun troupes. They were originally called women's troupes, and they often performed Tang Hui. I have seen it several times, and it was not bad. Guangxu Gengzi After that, they dispersed, and many of them went to Tianjin to make a living As a result, the number of female actors in Shanghai and Tianjin swelled."
The kun troupe here refers to a theater troupe with all women as the team. In 1918, the "Sunchon Times" presided over the public voting for the male actor king, Mr. Mei, and the kun ling king was Liu Xikui (a very beautiful female actor), so " "Kun" can be regarded as a synonym for "female" in the opera slang of that era.
A simpler and more straightforward example is that in the winter of the seventh year of Tongzhi, Lafayette gave permission for Xiao Anzi, also known as Andehai, to marry a wife named Ma Saihua. The nineteen-year-old Ma Saihua was a famous actor in the opera world at that time. dawn.
In fact, in the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, there were more female prostitutes and famous artists - such as Li Twelve Niang, the protagonist of Du Fu's "Watching Gongsun's Disciples Dance with Swords". If she were placed in modern times, she would be a typical Daoma Dan and Hua Shan.
Therefore, this book adopts the setting of female actors singing operas. I really can¡¯t bear the fact that Zhu Yingtai, Du Shiniang, Cui Yingying, Seven Fairies, Mu Guiying and other strange women are played by men. I hope you will understand. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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