"Qin Xianglian" (秦香莲) [English Subtitles]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- My amateur translation, original video from the good people at operabeijing.com. Feel free to leave any translation corrections/suggestions in the comments.
The story of Qin Xianglian and her unscrupulous husband is quite well-known in China; this is a slightly abridged production of the Beijing opera adaptation of the tale. For some interesting insights into the story's background, please see: watersleeves.bl...
Random notes:
-Lord Mengchang: en.wikipedia.or...
-Zhuangyuan: The top scoring candidate in a given round of the imperial examinations; an incredibly difficult achievement, which is why it has its own title. In addition to this term, there are several other words of imperial-exam-lingo throughout this play that I've tried to render as understandable as possible.
-Manor: Anytime this appears, the word is 府 (fu). There may be a standard translation for 府, but I don't know it. It's not really a country estate, but rather the official mansion/office of a minister.
-Nanke dream: en.wikipedia.or...
-Ink Pool Palace: A term sometimes used for the home of a great scholar
-"We," "Us," etc.: Shimei refers to himself using 本宫 (bengong), a term reserved for royalty. I've tried approximating it with the royal "we."
-"You've found a bride but forgotten your wife": Here and elsewhere, I tried to keep the wordplay between 新人 and 旧人. 新人 means "bride", but can literally be broken down into "new person." 旧人, by contrast, doesn't typically refer to anything in particular, but literally means "old person."
-Chaff: The word is actually 糟糠 (zaokang), the distillers grains left over after making alcohol. In Chinese, the word has been extended to mean "discard something as worthless."
-Birthday: Chinese has a number of words for "birthday" (including "thousand-autumns"), of varying formality and literariness, which have no English equivalents
-ten-li pavilion: at one point, pavilions were erected every ten li (a traditional unit of length) along major roads, to provide resting spots for travelers
-Baili Xi: www.tasteoflife...
-Chancellor Wang: Chancellor Wang uses a large number of 成语 (chengyu), Chinese idioms that are difficult to translate. 成语 are usually 4 or 8 word phrases that allude to various historical or legendary stories to express messages that would normally take a paragraph to explain. So, I don't have space to explain each one...
-"hot-and-cold, unfaithful husband": Wang uses two chengyu that use heat and cold to describe inconstancy and how people will abandon those they can no longer use to their own advantage.
-"Great men have short memories": This chengyu usually refers specifically to how successful people forget all those who helped them along the way, but Wang is hiding his intentions behind its literal meaning
-"Yapei!": This along, with "du," "zou," etc. are somewhat untranslatable exclamations. My dictionary suggests "Fie!" but I prefer "Yapei!"
-"A wolf in a tiger's skin...": Two chengyu referring to people that borrow authority to make threats
-Soldier Han Qi: Han Qi is actually a 家将 (jiajiang), a warrior in the private employment of a wealthy bureaucrat in olden times.
-"Purity will remain in this world": A line from Ming poet Yu Qian's poem "石灰吟" (Song of Lime), which uses limestone, which leaves behind a pure white powder after being subjected to mining and burning, as a metaphor for how one should live
-"Bright Mirror On High": A phrase often associated with the legendary Bao, who would expose evil like said mirror. This and several lines in Bao's self-introduction refer to famous episodes from his life
-"I eat on an imperial salary": Literally, "I eat an imperial salary." This was a not unknown way for ministers to express their loyalty to the emperor, though, so I modified it to avoid making Bao's speech seem affected
-Wang Chao's entrance: This production omits a scene (probably for the sake of time) in which Wang Chao goes to the prince consort's manor to investigate Han Qi's murder, so this part is extremely confusing
-Thirty six stratagems: en.wikipedia.or...
-"Today, you are human in appearance only": A colorful phrase in Chinese. Literally, "you perversely wrap yourself in human skin" (枉披人皮)
-"I'll behead this treacherous man, then inform the emperor": A reference to how Bao was said to be so trusted that he was allowed to act without first consulting the emperor
-"Look not at the monk's face...": i.e. overlook the situation at hand and act on behalf of a third-party
-"reunite a broken mirror": couples that have separated are sometimes called "broken mirrors"
-"Oh, murderous heavens": Although Xianglian has faced murder, this is also a more general oath or curse.
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0% nudity
0% dirt word
0% autotune
100% drama
100% fire at 1:49:34
100% chance to spin you
No dirt words indeed
恭喜你获得一百个社会学分
100 percent KITCHEN IN THE DUNGEON
" Today, you are human in appearance only. "
Ouch, what a good roast
Keep in mind, the Chinese literally translates to "you perversely wear human skin." Though, no doubt, this phrasing likely has equal or more impact in Chinese
1:49:35 I was looking for this after listening to Jin's Chinese rap.
Merci BEAUCOUP
Me too, never would thought it's a legit reference to some sort of classics
Same lmao
Same but I ended up watching it all lmao
You put my search to a rest! ty for that
Came for the memes, stayed for the whole story
X2
+200 Social Credit 😃👍
+100000000000000000 social credit
Fucking same, this is ching cheng hanji lore
Left bat shit crazy...
2013: This opera was so nice
2020: *SPINNING TOM*
1:49:35 This is the meme part
But the opera is from 1955
@@Basil_liy what is the o5 council doing watching a chinese opera
2021: SOCIAL CREDITS
2021: social credit levelup
I feel so bad for Qin Xianglian, homegirl deserves better
Kitchen in the dungeon aside, this is lowkey such a good opera production, I watched the entire thing in one sitting
thank you, it's nice to hear appreciation for Chinese culture, they had these running 24/7 on the opera channel when I lived in China as a kid, didn't know their beauty then but now I think they're great
@@bdstudios6088 wait, there’s a whole tv channel for this? that’s really cool!
Of course, frederic chopin is a man of culture.
Indeed
I just wanna say that I absolutely LOVE your Black Keys Etude.
You're amateur translation? This is an insane translation, "profaned your mortal worth" is such an epic line
The notes in the description really helped to give more context to everything.
They thought it's amateur bcuz they probably never seen a formal translation before
Amateur doesn’t mean “bad” just that they are not professionals.
And yes I agree they did a professional job after all
Yeah, can you imagine how much work this took? It's amazing.
My favorite translated line was "Today, you are human in appearance only"
1:49:35 you know, people memed this scene and shit posted it, and my first reaction was also to laugh at this "weird guy", but after learning the context of what is being said, knowing it is about judge Bao finally formally indicting a corrupt royal family member of all of his crimes and posting it on every household on top of that, and all of that he's saying right to the accused's face like "look at all the shit you done. you're fucked, pal", it's pretty epic and worthy of the "mic drop" and applause this always get in every single public performance you see posted on youtube, must be pretty epic for chinese audiences seeing the commoner Xianglian finally getting justice and seeing a politician getting effed
Bao Zheng is a badass
包拯 is his name in Chinese lol
Maybe people shit-posting things is good, otherwise I would never be here and many others wouldn't either
Not only is the context behind it pretty badass, but the performance is actually really, really damn impressive. It's a really long verse and the performer says large chunks of it without stopping to breathe
@@GregoryMom Ikr Bao Zheng stood up for Xianglian
1:25:34 Good that they showed him, the orchestra is half the performance, and an amazing one
Those dudes are working hard 😂
Prince consort, come closer and read the specifics. It is written: Qin Xianglian, 32 years old, issues a complaint against the imperial family’s Prince Consort, deceiving His Majesty, misleading the emperor. This man broke a marriage vow to become his son-in-law by attempting to murder his wife and extinguish his heirs, he abandoned his conscience, he drove Han Qi to his death within a shrine. Have this accusation posted on every public building.
so much meaning contained within "ching cheng han ji..."
@@bdstudios6088 That is just how Chinese works to be honest
Epic
Thx sir
@@bdstudios6088 it’s “Jin qian kan qi, zhuang shang xie zhuo”
46:51 Me and my friend after not seeing each other in 1 day
Lmao
It's fact lol
Wholesome
True
this is so funny lmfao
1:32:56 this is one of the greatests moments where we can see what true honor used to be. "I have but one death for Heaven and Earth to observe. Purity will remain in this world" and then, Han Qi gives his own blood to satisfy Chen Shimei desire and yet save Qin Xianglian. This moment almost brought me to tears.
At first I thought he would use animal blood to cover up. But, I was beyond surprised to see the outcome is greater.
@@men_del12 me too...
The Opera: Qin Xiang Lian is 32 Years Old.
Those who watched it on TH-cam: Kitchen in the Dungeon.
wow, that was quite a time ago, i didnt expect this would be that old...
I thought it was much older, like hundreds of years old at least
Only 32? That's way recent
They meant that Qin Xiang Lian is 32 years old like the character’s age. Of course the play is old already and it was only like idk 2 years I guess that the consort prince left her and their children in the play.
My Name is Qi Xiang Lian. I am 32 years old. My House lies in the north east section of Beijing.
You expected a yoshikage Kira meme but it was i Bao Zheng!
1:49:35 GUYS! Call me crazy guys, but I think that part would be awesome with another background music, something in the line of a Hip-Hop beat featuring a Pop Rock song in English performed by an all-female Romanian band.
And for memability add a gif of a cartoon character. Tom maybe.
@@1brytol wait, you mean Tom from the popular cartoon show featuring a cat and a mouse first published in 1965 "Tom & Jerry"?
@@witherambush yes. He would be great
@@1brytol wºªh
Imagine if someone set it to a spinning cartoon cat
The way they synchronized the fan opening with the wooden clapper clicking at 52:18 was just 👌😩
Great
Even the guy in the red was surprised
Opera: Chinese
Subtitles: English
Peoples in comments: Brazilian
Kitchen: in the dungeon
Hotel: Trivago
@@grvajhccjehtbk5083 kkkkkkk zuo o gringo
@@fredericchopin4821 no.
JAJAJAJAAHA
Opaaaa escutei a palavra brazilian 👀
Thank you so much for your translation. You did a wonderful job!
The story of Qin Xianglian is famous amongst Chinese because it tackles a deep societal problem of China. For thousands of years, Chinese people lived under the supreme emperor’s reign, and any connection with government officials matters. Ministers are enticed and coerced into looking out for another, and the justice system is no different. People believed that no high-ranking officials can be punished by law, unless someone of equal or higher ranks wish to bring him down. This mentality continued to this day. People empathized with Qin, because like her, they were also overlooked and fucked over by people on the top. And just like Chen, some people would do anything to get to the top. Bao, on the other hand, becomes a well-known hero, and is the aspiration of many people.
The love for a hero that brings justice to the upper class, even the most powerful among them, is a very relatable feeling in the west, too! Judge Bao seems really cool, using the system to root out corruption. I'm really glad that I've been getting more into foreign productions like this.
I imagine this play was not popular among the aristocracy then. Thanks for the writeup
@@willyeeton4390Judge Bao, whose name was Bao Zheng, was respected by the common folks in the Song dynasty as Bao Qing Tian (Literally, Bao, The Upright Blue Sky (Overseeing Injustices) which was translated into "Justice Bao" for westerners to better relate ), the highest possible commendation and admiration (albeit the exggeration) a politician could get from the common folk communities. His name has been synonymous with justices in Chinese culture for 1000 years (as he lived from 5 March 999 - 3 July 1062).
Back in the 90s and 2000s, Bao Zhong was one of the most popular and memorial Chinese TV characters in my country. He legit existed in China at least a thousand years ago serving as a politician (or in my country, we use the word "quan chức") that basically fought against corruption and injustice. He even at times dared squaring up with higher-ups and people in the royal family just to call out their crimes. Dude was loved and respected by his people because of that. If you look it up, there's an entire series dedicated to this absolute badass.
Multiple series and plays have existed for quite awhile about Justice Bao.
And I’m pretty sure about four hundred towns made him their Saint.
🔥Any recommendations? I wanna watch some series or movies about Justice Bao
@@TedWiggins there’s an entire tv series from the 90s called Justice Bao. There’s a playlist on TH-cam with over 200 episodes. Unfortunately no English subtitles. Here’s the first episode which is a retelling of this play. th-cam.com/video/WYQEK43HukE/w-d-xo.html
Do you know Bao Zhong's Vietnamese name? Or at least the tale of it?
When they did a shot of the audience and there where only old people I really felt that.
Well majority of young ppl don’t really like old stuff much, so it’s not surprising
@@scholarbevi6396 that's not true, children love fairy tales
@@birthdefectthehedgehog3461 young children, anyone above 12 starts to think it's too "childish" or nowadays "cringe"
@@hauntr416 I didn't😨
😔😔😔
They're very talented.... Remembering all the script while doing crazy notes for 2 hours straight
fr. they really hit those notes perfectly!
The instrument that goes BOING really holds this together.
Kitchen in the Dungeon
I knew I was at the right place in my youtube investigations when I saw this comment
You glorious madmen!
🤣🤣
“Qin Xianglian, thirty-two years old”
Transliteration (from a script of this I found online. Might be slight different)
Fùmǎ yé jìnqián kàn duānxiáng:
Shàng xiězhe:
qínxiānglián sānshí'èr suì,
zhuàng gào dāng cháo fùmǎ láng.
Tā qī jūnwáng mán huángshàng, huǐhūn nán'ér
zhāo dōngchuáng; tāshā qī
miè sì liángxīn sàng, tā bī sǐ hán qí
zài miàotáng. Jiāng zhuàngzhǐ yā
zhì zài yé de dàtáng shàng,
1:50:00 people even applauded because they knew it was pure fire
1:48:08 you can read his mind. "So you're not going to confess? okay , it will be the hard way then" you can see he is really discontent
Thank you so much for posting the captions in English. I was able to show it to my students who are currently taking Mandarin Chinese for the 3rd year. Thank you again.
קיך אין די דונגעאָן
Now it is a meme
@@Lucasmziv what
Kitchen in the dungeon go brr
Now your students will cooking in the kitchen in a dungeon
If you find a woman as faithful as this keep her for heaven's sake. No title is worth casting aside your family. Wow look at me getting right into this. This is great. I appreciate this performance.
Thank you for posting this! As a beginner Mandarin learner, this truly widens my eye on Chinese art and literature, and the language truly amazes me with such diversity. Thank you!
@Charles Chang ？
@Charles Chang lol have you been in Taiwan? Rather than China Taiwan its USA Taiwan, on average they speak English way better than on the mainland. Have you never been in the countryside either?
@@benjaminwasitschek4410 He appreciating the video
Wow, a comment back when it still wasn't a meme.
Haha kitchen in the dungeon
You came for the meme. I came for a 2 hours and a half Chinese story. We are not the same.
We are the same
We are the same
We are one
You came for the meme and stayed for the story, we are all the same
wait this was a meme???😨
I was curious due to the memes but I actually stayed until the end! The story is intriguing! I love the part where Xianglian was spilling the tea about her cheater husband through a song. xD
Some lowly commoner and the prime minister scheming together was funny.
@@Techn9cian123 timestamp
@@RayFog1 Starts at 39:09 and follows through to 41:23. The rest is just the plan being put into practice.
Peking opera is so fascinating, the voices, the mannerisms, the story itself and how Judge Bao absolutely roasts Chen Shimei.
1:49:35
Thanks everyone
Thanks
The characterization on these traditional opera productions is off the charts. All the characters are extremelly memorable and alive
Never thought I'd be watching a Chinese opera at 4 am
Judge Bao is such a champion. Also I love all the metaphors of honor too.
This is one of my most favourite Peking operas. Seen it for at least 20x. If I want my heart to be touched and be awashed with the beauty of Peking opera, Qin Xianglian is my go-to. I hope to catch a live performance of it someday in the near future.
Wish i could understand you lol
@@end.olives ditto lol
When he said: 🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲, I felt that 😔
the best part is, those emoji words were probably actually used in the play
@@bdstudios6088 nah its utter nonsense
i felt it when he said: kitchen in the dungeon
什么 the fuck
Thats like typing 🅱️🆑️🅾️🆖️🆒️🆗️🅿️🆓️🆘️🆔️🆙️🅰️🆎️🅿️🆙️🆚️🆕️🆓️🆒️🔠🔡🔤🚾 for people who speak mandarin 🤣😅
I am just... 😭... This story...
Story: 😢😢😭😭😭😭
Memes:
Meme:🤣
Story: 😧
kitchen in the dungeon
Haha chingchenghanji
Normies
I wish I knew Chinese so I could get a better grasp on the context of this story. I came here from a meme video but Chinese culture is truly fascinating to me as an American.
From what I can gather from wiki, it's one of the famous cases of Bao Zheng (a real magistrate from 1000 years ago) that got dramatised for Chinese Aka The Case of Executing Chen Shimei
Yeah it’s better if you understand the full context it’s way more beautiful than the translation lol but the translation is still good enough
All jokes aside, this was actually an amizing play
You should translate more of these operas.
Chin chen han chi
*_Y e s p l e a s e ._*
I’m so impressed with the actress Qin Xianglian roll. She is a legend!
The most fire criminal indictment in history
the dude betrayed his wife and still expects her to look after his parents.....the f!!! the arrogance of this dude!!!
the tea is immaculate. I am immersed in the entire thing
I watched the whole thing through. Im gonna be honest, it’s actually a pretty good story
I unironically fell in love with this opera.
there is much talk about chinese government propaganda in youtube but they should really pay you or reward for this, absolutely terrific work captioning all of this in english, thank you, may you live ten thousand years
ah yes, the origin of cheng cheng hanji can't touch me at all kitchen in the dungeon
Hahaha lol 😂
I swear I didn’t bang paul
I love this so much, I almost cried while watching it. It seems everyone who came from the meme ended up invested in the story
This is the first time I can say I actually sat down and watched Opera and it’s definitely the first time I enjoyed it. In another commenter’s wise words, “came for the meme, stayed for the story”
I'm so happy you've subtitled an entire opera production. I honestly feel much like shakespeare taking on a modern context this story could be as well represented in modern times. That is one petty husband that needed to be kept in line. As an overseas chinese I had loved opera from afar but never watched a full show since I could never really fully understand the Chinese that got pulled out of tune and sustained for long notes and didn't quite like the idea of bugging my parents to watch and explain it to me. So this is amazing
I heartily thanks to all the artists for such wonderful opera act. I came through a small viral clip and now I'm watching the entire 135 minutes opera show. I'm really glad to uploader he had put English translation.
Thank you.
in the 1:50:12,
We can see there was a Billboard on the top
It says,“悬高镜明”
it means is that“The Mirror on the sky , dont forget what you have done ,dont abandon your conscience”
"with a single step, you pierced the clouds and now follow dragons and accompany phoenixes" Chen Shimei does not deserve that epic of a complimemt
38:42 that run was exquisite
Did you know that if we translate your comment into literal spanish it would be: "esa corrida fue exquisita" So spanish speakers would see translated your coment understanding this: "that CUM was exquisite"
Increible verdad
This had me ENGROSSED the whole time. I loved the story, the characters, the execution, the live instrumental music, singing and acting, literally everything was perfection! ❤👏👏
"In a moment, I will part you from your soul." I don't care if that's a potential mis-translation, that is a ridiculously badass line.
Vine por los memes de crédito social, pero me quedé por lo interesante.
Pd: Ese juez es un crack, literal se pasó el hecho de que la princesa podría mandarlo a matar u otra cosa por hacer justicia. Ojalá en latinoamerica algún día tengamos esa justicia
y al final mando a matar al juez ? o el juez murió de viejo ? o por alguna enfermedad ?
@@habinadadsadelsilvadiaz8700 fue sentenciado a muerte
Que pro, viniste por el meme y te quedaste con tremenda opera China. Los memes son cultura
Ya somos algunos xd
Y si, el juez llamado Bao Zheng es toda una leyenda en las historias folclóricas chinas por ser garante de la justicia.
You must fight and take justice in to your hands. To kill the tyrant.
I love how creative they are with the costume design!
37:07 -- the aria which inspired Beijing Rock from Sleeping Dogs. Amazing.
Also, people are mentioning it inspired a chinese rap song. How awesome is it that an Opera could inspire a rock and a rap songs? :D
search kitchen in the dungeon on youtube
@@Val_mrn Temos um homem de cultura aqui.
@André Costa thank you for the information
I fuckin love Sleeping Dogs
That moment when you’ve endured 10,000 hardships to reach the city and your husband won’t recognize you:
And try to murder you lol
Thank you so much for translating this! It's so beautiful and even though I've just recently started learning Mandarin, I found it really amazing even with my lack of knowledge about the language. I'm so glad you put this up here.
who knew Ching Cheng Hanji was actually about betrayal. And ngl it sounds kinda cool
What an amazing play. I came here for the meme and left with this wonderful experience.
I wanted to know how much 1 li was in this play, but the value of 1 li had changed throughout the eras (today 1 li is 500 metres). After looking at Wikipedia, I found out that this play is based on a true story that happened in the Song Dynasty. The length of 1 li in the Song Dynasty was around 323 standard international metres. 10,000 li was the distance that Qin Xianglian traveled, so multiplying 323 by 10,000 gives 3,230,000 metres traveled. In metric, that's 3230 kilometres. For the Americans, that's around 2007 miles.
I have no one proofreading my work so if I managed to get something wrong, correct me in the comments and I'll fix it.
Also I came here through Ching Cheng Hanji
Edit: The play was from the Song dynasty, not the Qing. Fixed it
Ok now do the silver measurements
In fairness, IIRC 10,000 li was a metaphor for a really long distance.
The story of this play does take place in the Song Dynasty, but Peking Opera was a form of performance that only became popular in the Qing Dynasty. One theory is that the original version of the play was recorded as a clapper opera, Ming Gong Jian (明公断). The original version of the play was the clapper opera Ming Gong Jie (明公断), which was adapted in 1953 by the Chinese Academy of Opera with reference to a local theatre play, and with the addition of the first and last parts.
@@LordRalphingtonPukesmythe Just look opposite-of-down "tael" on ..
@@LordRalphingtonPukesmythe .. W. pee dee ah.
Thanks so much for subtitling this play, it was quite enjoyable.
12:31 "halt pauper!"
*said pauper is wearing a giant diamond on her forehead*
Based off my understanding the diamond like headgear is to denote the gender of the character. As u can see from the princess’s headgear, the blue crown is much more fancier and thus denoting her status and wealth, while xianglian’s head is mostly bare and lacking jewellery, showing that she is poor
幾位主角都演唱的很棒，青衣也很不錯，看起來都是實力派資深的演員，好好看哦~讚！
Yes
"Of the 36 stratagems, fleeing is best!"
Could easily be played for comedic-villain effect even in English, like have him rev up his legs to try to run away but they just grab him there
1:49:39: Kitchen in the Dungeon
It is amazing as the shake and tone of actors let people watching from a long distance can feel the character’s rage, shock and sadness
did i watch a 2 hour chinese opera because of a meme: yes
did i enjoy it and glad i found it: hell yes
300 taels of silver would be 18.75 jin, in Song dynasty 1 jin = 640g, so that's 12kg of silver
Xianglian is strong indeed holding that much of silver
Wonder Woman
she grew her muscles carrying shumei all those years
I, too, came here through following funny internet videos, and stayed with the realization that this is the kind of China I've always wanted to see.
That was great, I just watched all of it.
Thank you for the upload and incredible translation.
rewatching this now. still brilliant and underappreciated.
The Prime Minister and The Prince Escort seemed to have strong buddy energy
I have ALWAYS wanted to sit in and enjoy a Chinese Opera but the language barrier always stops me so THANK YOUU!!
Imagina ouvir 1 hora só pra depois descobrir que tinha um marcador nos comentários
Kkkk
Eu vim pelo tropia
Isso me parece cheiro de experiência própria
Ksksksksk pqp
@@Z.A.G.O tropia que o diga
i like how i landed here because of a video game character, but now i’m soo into chinese opera lmao
YunJin?
@@worm2976 yep..
Oh boy, Genshin Impact at it finest
It's amazing how a fan can translate these wonderful operas and helps spread the art worldwide, while the official channel offers no translation at all!
I'm very ignorant to this type of opera but I am very intrigued by it. I'm just a simple American from Alabama so I know very little about the designs and vocals 😆. I really enjoyed this regardless!
Roll Tide
It's fine, I'm a Chinese myself yet I cannot understand a single word if not reading the subtitles
A warmhearted uncle, a heartless villan, softhearted assassin, a helpless weak woman and a righteous hero - not much difference from Snow White so I'm sure it's enjoyable
@@cochan7347 That helped me greatly! Thank you!
@@tylertheleper8468 I mean, you can even convert this story easily into an American one: a poor man decided to leave his wife and home, sailed to the new world. No letter has arrived to her since then. After his parents died, the wife decided to go to America and search for her husband. Then she found out that he is living in a big estate, married the daughter of a slave owner. He's afraid to lose his trust from father-in-law because he lied to them, so he decided to assassinate his ex-wife.
Cheating the emperor is a death sentence in ancient China, Chen Shimei cheated the emperor (and the whole imperial family) by lying that he was single and marriage-looking so that the emperor married his sister princess to him (as Chen achieved the top performance in the imperial exam, which would guarantee a high-ranking officialdom in ancient China) , when in fact he was married with wife and two kids in his hometown. So in order to keep his wealth and titles as well as avoiding potential executions if the imperial family knew the truth, he decided to assasinate his ex-wife and children.
I really like how the chancellor looks at the audience and camera. He makes a lot of good expressions
this was a beautiful play made me cry
Spanish subs!! The world demands it!!!! Also, awesome working translating it to English!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I got worried near the end, he choose wisely.
This is my favorite story in Chinese opera.
Impressive translation. Accurate both in literal meaning and poetic quality of language.
can't believe i didn't realise judge bao changed his outfit from black and gold to dragon fruit crimson and gold when xianglian beated the drum to summon him until the 3rd rewatch
i am Vietnamese and don't understand the language. But i stay and watch the whole video.
I used to go to the Vietnamese opera when i was around 5-8 year old and watched these Chinese opera : Lu Bu hy Daichan, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, San Hau, .....in Vietnamese languages. We threw the money on stage instead of clapping as a token of appreciation. The best spectator was allowed to drum if he please after a scene and he had to throw the most money to the stage. i am not sure this art still exist and popular in Vietnam anymore.
Later, i read Chinese literature, history and and poem too.
i went to China in 2008 and most of immigration workers don't know much of China and world culture. only University student know some....
超爱超爱!!!!! 太喜欢他们的语气和音乐，配的好! 牛牛牛牛牛牛牛!!!!
If someone replaces every gong sound with a vine boom it'll be a a complete masterpiece
I will sell my left nut for that
@@turcanudan9386 lol
And every wooden clapper with the among us noise
I always saw the memes about it but decided that I should see where it all truly began. This entire play was absolutely phenomenal, I loved the story and was satisfied by the ending! I'm definitely going to watch this again soon!
Can’t believe I watched that entire opera. The notes in the description really helped me understand more of the context. I have one question though… is the dowager the emperors mother or wife?
The dowager is the emperor's mother while the princess is his younger sister. The dowager was envolved in another case call "The Wild Cat for Crown Prince" (狸猫换太子)
"Dowager" literally means “royal widow” so it can't be emperor's wife
she's the wife of ex-emperor tho
A dowager is emperor's mother. A famous one was Empress Dowager Cixi from 1800s.
its amazing that the meme as actually started making me look up these traditional shows, and i'm noticing, do they have a specific way of walking? it seems intentional, like at 1:49:57 , look at the dude in the red on the right, when he turns to the left he seems to do a manuever, you expect his right leg is gonna move forward first but its his left leg, the same happens at 1:50:28 , it seems almost intentional the way they move, even their clothing seems to be made for it, almost as if it's meant to represent you can't expect anyone's next move, idk maybe i'm over analyzing but seems interesting to me
It's just the opera style
Peking Opera movements are very interesting. They seem to move with a bit of stiffness but they do it with finesse. Their costumes are also interesting because the white sleeves seem to represent something. They sway their white sleeves when they express emotions such as anger or anything really.
@@joshcymon22 yea very intriguing indeed
And also how they'd always spend a few seconds just getting their hand to the tip of the sleeves. This stuff got me feeling like discovering favourite new cartoons as a child.
Definitely, like any art form. It’s just the mannerism of the art
I feel bad for those who came here to get better at mandarin as I a native speaker don't even grasp it fully. And this is partly because they talk in what can be compared to shakespearian English
After watching the memes, only now did I remember Ive watched this opera during my ninth grade. Loved the days im in love with chinese folk music i even listened to opera. Now that its famous and well appreciated, I feel proud knowing I appreciated this music not for it being funny in the first place, but because of the actual meaning of the play.
I would love to see this kind of opera live! This is beautiful I really enjoyed it!! The only downside being that I don't understand Chinese so I wouldn't understand watching it live, which is really sad.
Nowadays many theaters would show subtitles on the screen. Some theaters also show English subtitles for Beijing Opera. It's very different expierence to watch it live. Hope someday you can watch a live show😊
@@alyssa1364 that's such a relief! Thanks for sharing this info!
Yes, just like western operas it is hard to make out the words even if you understand the language, when it is sung in operatic voice. Often native speakers will also read subtitles.
Even native Chinese speakers don't understand most of the singing without reading subtitle. Two reasons: 1.tonal language loses intelligibility in music 2. the scripts are very poetic
i am starting to become intrested in chinese culture because of this video. very nice translaiton i just cant imagine the time it took you to make this video. udnerated and sad that people don't understand the meaning of this. came here from the memes, stayed here for the gem!
I'm brazilian, i'm watching the video, you did a good work!
eu vim pelo tropia!