The opera "The White-Haired Girl" mainly consists of six excerpts, the details are as follows:
"The North Wind Blows" is selected from Act 1, Scene 1 of "The White-Haired Girl";
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"Ten Miles of Snow" is selected from Act 1, Scene 1 of "The White-Haired Girl";
"Tie the Red Tie" is selected from Act 1, sung by Yang Bailao and Xi'er;
"Crying Daddy" is selected from the first act of "The White-Haired Girl";
"I Want to Live" is selected from the third scene of the third act of "The White-Haired Girl";
< p>"The Sun Has Come Out" is selected from the chorus and unison song in Act 5, Scene 2 of "The White-Haired Girl"."The White-Haired Girl" uses folklore from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area as its main material, and it is refined and processed based on the reality of the revolutionary struggle at that time. The main plot is: the bully landlord Huang Shiren forced the kind and honest tenant Yang Bailao to death, took away his daughter Xi'er and raped her, and finally forced her to flee into the mountains.
Xi'er survived tenaciously with a strong will for revenge. Due to the lack of sunlight and salt, her hair all over her body turned white, and she was called the "White-haired Fairy" by nearby villagers. The Eighth Route Army liberated this place, led the farmers to defeat Huang Shiren, and rescued Xi'er from the mountains. Xi'er got a complete turn over and started a new life.
Through Xi'er's experience, the whole play profoundly expresses the theme of "the old society forced people to become 'ghosts', and the new society turns 'ghosts' into people", truly reflecting the semi-colonial society. The contradiction between the poor peasants and the landlord class in the semi-feudal rural areas proves that only the people's revolution led by the Communist Party can smash the feudal shackles and bring peace to Xi'er and the millions of farmers who have the same fate as Xi'er. Be liberated.
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The theme of "The White-Haired Girl"
Through the tragic experiences of Yang Bailao and Xi'er's father and daughter, it profoundly reveals the relationship between landlords and The sharp contradictions among farmers angrily accused the landlord class of the sins, enthusiastically praised the Communist Party and the new society, and vividly illustrated that "the old society forced people to become 'ghosts', and the new society turned 'ghosts' into The theme of "people" points out the only way for farmers to stand up and liberate themselves.
The art form of "The White-Haired Girl":
The plot structure of the opera draws on the scene division method of traditional national opera, and the scene changes are diverse and flexible.
The language of opera inherits the fine tradition of Chinese opera that combines singing and speaking.
The music of the opera is based on northern folk songs and traditional opera music, and is developed and created. It also absorbs some expression methods of Western opera music, giving it a unique national flavor.
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