After dreaming of getting rich, I dressed up as a collapsed idol

Chapter 316

Now comes the focus of this issue.

The program team brought these people here, of course, not just to let them take a quick look at the Peking Opera culture. If that were the case, it would obviously be more appropriate for them to stay in Yanjing.

"Tomorrow, a place called Xiayao Village nearby will be rebuilding its ancestral temple. They've invited the Narcissus Peking Opera Troupe to perform. We need to assist Captain Xiong in completing this performance."

After everyone finished their tour, they gathered in the center of the rehearsal room, director Xu Yan announced.

"Ah, we have to go on stage too?"

Si Hanyun widened her eyes

"Don't worry, Captain Xiong will guide everyone before we go on stage."

"The roles assigned to some of them are small roles with only a few lines. It won't be difficult to get familiar with them."

Xiong Jingfang also said with a smile.

The performance to be sung is "The Legend of White Snake". Unlike the TV series, the whole play is only more than two hours long and there are not so many characters.

For example, Xu Xian's brother and sister-in-law do not appear in the opera. The plot mainly revolves around the four characters of the White and Green Snakes, Xu Xian, and Fahai.

More important characters are the boatman, the South Pole Immortal, the crane boy and the deer boy.

The first role Xiong Jingfang assigned to the five people was the boatman. This role is very important in the story of "The Legend of White Snake", but he actually doesn't have many scenes on stage, and his lines and lyrics only add up to a few lines.

Then there were the guardian monks of Jinshan Temple and the helpers summoned by Bai Suzhen when the water flooded Jinshan Temple.

This is a group scene, just join it as background.

The last relatively important character is this little monk who asked Xu Xian to let him go after he was detained by Fahai.

Among the five roles, Liu Qianya and Si Hanyun are easy to choose, as they play the role of Bai Suzhen's assistant. The other three, Lu Qingfeng, Li Yinan and Tong Jin, are all very humble.

I want to give up two important characters and fight for the last background monk.

Mainly because I’m afraid of losing face.

In the end, the role was given to Tong Jin because his Mandarin was not good enough to play these two characters with lines.

The last two characters had similar roles. The team leader looked at them carefully and finally gave some advice.

"Let Mr. Li play the boatman. Qingfeng is too tall to play an old man."

So, once the role is decided, we can start applying makeup directly.

Professional opera actors would draw their faces in front of a mirror by themselves, so Lu Qingfeng and the other temporary actors naturally needed help from people in the troupe.

Xiong Jingfang brought them to the backstage and arranged for someone to come over, while she herself was responsible for Lu Qingfeng's makeup.

"Teacher Xiong, what kind of character is my brother?"

Lu Qingfeng sat on the chair and asked the head of the Peking Opera Troupe who was looking at his face.

She had never seen the Peking Opera "Legend of the White Snake", so she was quite curious.

Xiong Jingfang lifted all his bangs up, revealing his entire face, and said with a pleasing and satisfied expression.

"It's a buffoon."

"what?"

Lu Qingfeng knew a little about the roles of Sheng, Dan, Jing, Mo and Chou. In his impression, a clown had a white tofu block painted in the center of the face, which was called a Sanhua face or a Xiaohua face for short.

Lu Qingfeng still cared a little about his image and felt a little resistant.

"However, each version is different. Opera is similar to the classical music you perform. The core of the classics remains unchanged, but each actor has a different understanding of opera and will have a different performance style."

As if she had guessed his thoughts, she let down his hair, lowered her head and said with a smile.

"Your image is so outstanding that it would be a waste to use it to play a clown, so let's change your image."

He patted his shoulder and went to prepare things.

Lu Qingfeng breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he wasn't a clown.

After a while, Xiong Jingfang came back with a bunch of things and started to create Lu Qingfeng's makeup.

She first wrapped all of Lu Qingfeng's hair with a hairnet, then put a skin-colored wig on the outside, and after some modification and gluing, Lu Qingfeng became bald.

Next, Xiong Jingfang used a brush to draw the eye sockets, eyebrow sockets, and nose sockets on his face, and then skillfully took out bottles and jars and began to apply them on his face.

"The cosmetics we use for costumes are different from those used in daily life. These are called oil paints. After buying them, we mix the colors ourselves. These are also the basic skills of opera actors."

While drawing, he introduced it.

Lu Qingfeng would also ask some questions of interest.

As questions were answered, time passed slowly. Lu Qingfeng looked in the mirror and saw that his face had an extra layer of stage makeup.

Finally, Xiong Jingfang used red paint to draw a flame-like mark between his eyebrows.

"Perfect."

Putting down her pen, she stepped back and admired her handiwork.

Finally, I changed my clothes and walked out.

……

Since they didn't need to pretend to be bald, Liu Qianya and the others kept their makeup much simpler and were already joking with each other outside.

Li Yinan's image as an old man is the object of everyone's ridicule.

"Grandpa, do you want me to help you cross the street?"

Si Hanyun smiled and pretended to support him.

Li Yinan touched the beard hanging on his ears and smiled bitterly.

In Peking Opera, this is called a beard, and there are differences. His is called a full beard, and those with three strands of beard are called black three or white three.

This is also what the actor who did his makeup told him.

"You two female demons shouldn't be so complacent."

He shot back.

According to the character setting, Liu Qianya and Si Hanyun play Bai Suzhen's helpers and are indeed goblins.

"That's also a beautiful female fairy, right, Sister Sissi?"

Liu Qianya smiled and held down the lively cello girl, telling her not to mess up her clothes.

"Is Qingfeng still not feeling well?"

"Haha, Comrade Xiao Lu is going to play a monk. I wonder what he'll look like without hair. Will he become ugly? Let's go and take a look now."

Si Hanyun urged everyone.

"agree."

"Agree."

Li Yinan and Tong Jin reunited, and Liu Qianya was also persuaded

"what are you guys saying?"

Before they could do anything, they heard voices behind them and all four of them turned around at the same time.

Lu Qingfeng, wearing a white monk robe, walked towards them

Stunning!

Wisdom and kindness, poetic and Zen, pure and detached, what is the ascetic system? This is the real ascetic system.

Monks are forbidden from having any emotions, but if you put such a monk in a temple, and the female donor is tempted by him, tell me whether she would desire it or not.

The bald-headed boy's appearance did not diminish as they thought. Instead, this look gave him a huge bonus.

The stage makeup was very thick, and normal people couldn't see his true appearance clearly, but the boy's outstanding facial features were not obscured by the thick makeup.

On the contrary, compared to usual, it has a different kind of charm.

Xiong Jingfang used eyeshadow to smudge a circle of peach blossom color around the tail of the upturned fox eyes, which enhanced the invisible attraction to an epic level.

The flame pattern between the eyebrows and the pure white monk robe on the body.

The body is like glass, extraordinary and otherworldly.

This monk is amazing!