GezaiXi @ Cheng Huang Temple,明华园天字戏剧团，29.05.10 - 未央宫雄泪

Jennifer say:


29.05.10 - Second time watching Tragic performance for Ming hua Yuan. I am a bit sian to watch tragic performance for the second time. In fact, i agreed with what the aunties behind me are saying, this time round, the opera showing are not as good as last year.

Below is the storyline:


Han Emperor and Chu Emperor were fighing a war


Han Emperor finally won the war



All the ministers are invited to the palace to celebrate their victory


吕后


A dance was performed


Many Ministers contragulated General 韩信 whom helped Han Emperor to win the war. As a result, Han Xin was very drunk




Han Xin offended the Emperor when he talk the wrong things in his drunken state. Lu empress advised Han Emperor to take away Han Xin military power by pretending to promote him as a lord



Tan - Han xin local follower whom quit the palace to follow Han Xin


Han Emperor was not able to keep Tan from going away



Han Emperor was assassinated but was able to escaped unharm. A sword and a jade that belong to Han Xin cousin were left behind. Han emperor believed that Han Xin was behind this. The emperor send General Tan Ping to check on the outcome


Han Xin


Han Xin and wife 徐姬


Tan Ping come to find Han Xin. Han xin was told to ask his cousin to come to surrender or face the consequence


Han Xin tricked his cousin to attach the Han Emperor




The Cousin was eventually captured and died. Han Xin was demoted for his suspected involment in this case


Han Xin and his follower decided to turn against the Han emperor by declaring war on him


The war was in the form of a chese - as in how the battle actually take place


Han Xin followers are defended


Xu Ji


Xu Ji and her son and her maid, 語焉


A minister tried to ask the family to tell Han Xin whereabout


After Han Xin lose the war, he tried to rush home


Han Xin met the minister and managed to chase him away


The family are finally together


Yu Yan and He Ping are in love with each other.However as both are servants in the Han family, their love were strongly opposed by Xu Ji.


However, He Ping tried to oppose against Han Xin. Eventually Han Xin killed Yu Yan accidentally. He pin vowed to take revenge



Emperess


She decided to trick Han Xin to come into the palace by planning a plot with her evil minister. They will said that Tan had died


The evil minister show Han Xin the fake Tan's head. Han Xin was sad and tried to leave. The empress accuse Han Xin of trying to kill The emperor


He Ping betrayed his master by becoming the Empress witness that Han Xin was the mastermind


Han was captured




Han wife and son were captured as well


The wife and son were killed on the spot under the order of empress


Han Said that the empress cannot kill him as Han Emperor had said that he cannot be killed with the head under the sky and the feet on the ground. However, the evil minister said that he can be killed inside a bell by hanging in the air


Han Xin was killed

歌仔戏 - 大盗王九@Cheng Huang Temple, 27.05.10 - 明华园天字戏剧团

Jennifer say:


27.05.10 - Decided to go to Cheng Huang Temple to watch Getai. 明华园天字戏剧团 is really a very good opera troupe. Their performance is 没得比. Every much enjoy their performance althought i do not like the story plot today.

Today is a tragic show....

Below is the story:



Opera performing today


Wang and Gao each had a daughter and son whom fall in love with each other but the daughter is pregnant. Wang son is called 枝玉（I will called him shortform in 'Yu'). Guo daugher is called 芸堂 (i will called her shortform in 'Tang').

Both wang and gao are very angry and strongly disapproved the marriage.

Yu and Tang begged their parents' to give them the blessings for their marriage. They failed sadly.





Offial Du paid Gao a visit as he is interested to ask Tang to be his daughter in law but Gao said that Tang was already pregnant. Du suggested Gao to let Tang abort the baby


Gao tried to force his daughter to drink the abortion medicine but Tang ran away




Tang and Yu decided to elope as they are opposed by their parents to be together




Gao appeared and a fight happened between Yu and Guo




Meanwhile the emperor and his mum were visiting the country on a citizen dressing visit.




The Imperial family are met with robbers


Gao and Yu whom happened to be in the same area managed to save the emperor




The emperor decided to play matchmaker and arrange for the marriage of Tang and Yu. Tang had a jade Guan Yin whom the Empress Dowager loved very much. So Tang gave her jade Guan Yin to the dowager.


Du ah Duo and Gao other daughter


Tang Cried in her mother tomb when she heard a voice. The voice belong to 王九。Wang Jiu revealed his secret in his dead wife tomb. Tang then realised that Wang Jiu was her birth father and she is just a adopted child




Father and Daughter are finally together after 18 years. When Wang Jiu heard that the jade Guan Yin was missing, he was very angry and vowed to steal it back from the Imperial Family. Wang Jiu asked Ah Dou to take his father offical rode to wear.


Meanwhile Ah Dou went to find Wang. Wang revealed a black secret. She is actually the first wife of Wang Jiu. Tang's mum was Gao wife where Wang Jiu had a affair 18 years ago but Gao raised Tang when his wife died. This meant that Both Tang and Yu are siblings with different mums but same father


Emperess Dowager birthday where all the officers came to give blessing to her. Wang Jiu took the chance to sneek in wearing Du robe


Each officals take a chance to admire the Jade. When Wang Jiu turn to hold the jade, he revealed his true identity and ran away




Ah dou was eventually captured


Wang Jiu gave the jade to Tang when Yu suddenly banged in


Wang Jiu was captured when he was overpowered


The emperor ordered the trial to began


Wang Jiu was lead to the trial area


Ah Dou was sentenced to death. His dad also died on of a heart attack on the spot when he learnt that his only son was to be dead




Wang Jiu was sentenced to death too but Yu asked if Jiu had any last requests. Wang Jiu wished to see Guo whom had been kind enought to raise Tang. Wang Jiu also requested Yu to find his first wife and son. When Wang Jiu revealed his wife name, Yu realised that below man is actually his birth father. He had sentenced his own father to death


On the way out, Wang Jiu kneel down to thank Yu. Yu immediately vomitted a fresh blood out


Yu blamed his mum for not telling him about the truth of his birth fahter news


Yu was heart broken when he know he had commited incest with his own sister. But he did not tell Tang the truth. Tang was already 5 month pregnant. Yu promised Tang to bring her to see her father


Trial Time



Wang Jiu turned crazy when he learnt from Wang that Yu was his son. But sadly Wang Jiu was killed on the spot


By the time, Yu and Tang arrived, Wang Jiu had died. Tang was told the truth but she also learnt that Yu had gave her poison to drink. When she died, Yu committed suicide also