The custom of old Beijing generally requires good things to be done in the morning, and rarely in the afternoon. Including marriage, according to the custom of old Beijing, we have to get married in the morning, and those who get married in the afternoon are all second marriages.

Of course, this is a custom in old Beijing. Nowadays, many young people don’t care about this anymore. In addition, there are many foreign populations, so this old custom has gradually become rare.

However, for these people who work in traditional industries, they still care about this old custom, and it is also a good idea.

Including the direction of the stage, it cannot be directed east and west. This is the direction of the white tiger. If it is a big evil, something will happen. This is always a matter of attention. It is not bad to say that it is feudal superstition, but they all care about this. It is also considered that it is better to have less things than more things. Therefore, the performance stage that He Xiangdong must be directed north and south.

In the past, when the new garden was about to open, there would be a ceremony to break the stage the night before. This is true for all gardens, including opera troupes and crosstalk gardens.

The night before, at twelve o'clock at night, there was no need for the whole band to arrive. There were drums or two or three jobs.

Then find a few martial artists to play with spiritual officials, heavenly soldiers and generals, and then find an actor to dress as a hanged ghost.

Everything was ready. As soon as the drum master beat the drum, the heavenly soldiers and generals took the guy and started chasing the hanged ghost. The hanged ghost had to run around the front and backstage, upstairs and downstairs, and even the audience.

The meaning is also very obvious. This is to use this form to drive away and shock the dirty things in the garden so that they will not cause trouble after the garden is opened.

After the hanged ghost ran all over the garden, when he reached the back door, he opened the door, pushed the hanged ghost out the door, and then closed the door.

Then I made a big white rooster, twisted off the chicken's head, carried the chicken from top to bottom and sprinkled the inside of the garden with chicken blood, and from then on, the garden was very lucky.

This is called breaking the stage.

Of course, the boss of the Gardenzi wants to give people a red envelope, so that they can't just make a waste of work.

Especially for the actor who plays the hanged ghost, he has to give an extra red envelope because no one is willing to do this, and he thinks it is unlucky.

Sometimes artists take on this job because they have no choice. Including Mr. Ma Sanli, he wrote in his memoirs in his later years, saying that he did the job of hanging the hanger when he was young, and he needed money in urgent need of money at that time, otherwise he would not do this anymore.

He said that he had just been pushed out of the back door, and the moment he went out, he felt a cold wind blowing on him. He was obviously wearing very thick clothes and couldn't help but shivering.

After returning home, my high fever did not subside and I became seriously ill.

Perhaps a reasonable explanation can be given in medicine, but there are many such things, including such legends, so no one is willing to take such errands.

As for the contemporary era, no one has done this kind of old feudalism. The new garden is just a new garden, and the decoration is even better. After all, it has been an era of eliminating all monsters and monsters.

Tingshuxuan is actually not a new garden. There are many old gardens in Dashilan, including the branch of Xiangwenshe and Deqinglou. This is an old garden, and Sanqingyuan, which is opposite, with two face-to-face families.

Sanqingyuan was the performance location of the Sanqing class in the past. It was a year ago. Sanqing class was one of the four major Hui classes. When Emperor Qianlong celebrated his birthday, the four major Hui classes came to Beijing to celebrate their birthdays. So he stayed in Beijing to perform and stopped leaving. Later, the Peking Opera genre was also produced.

So Sanqingyuan can be said to be the ancestral place of Peking Opera.

However, the Peking Opera industry is more recession than crosstalk now, and no one listens to it. A little star of ninth grade is more well-known than a big Peking Opera celebrity.

I remember that Peking Opera was a real mainstream art back then. In the old society, there was a saying in the art world, which was called learning art in Beijing, becoming famous in Tianjin, and making money in Shanghai.

The most profitable place is in Shanghai. During that year, there was a female movie star in Shanghai named Hu Die. This is a top-tier female star in China and also earns the most.

It took her about two or three months to make a movie, and she could earn a thousand yuan acres, while other stars might earn hundreds.

This is a lot. For ordinary people, you can buy two good houses for a thousand yuan.

In the same era, there was a big horn named Yu Shuyan, the founder of the Yu School. It took two or three months for someone to sing opera. He earned 7,500 yuan. Can he compare?

During that year, Peking Opera was really brilliant and a real mainstream art, but it is not possible now.

On the first day of Tingshuxuan opening, many people also came, media friends also came, and hundreds of audience members came, crowding the seats, all of which came for He Xiangdong.

He Xiangdong is now the most popular artist in the traditional art industry. With his current popularity, he is not far from being a top star. The next thing is to accumulate, and his popularity depends on slowly accumulating.

Of course, there are also some people who fall down on the way to accumulate, which is normal, but in terms of He Xiangdong's current situation, his potential is still quite strong.

In the past, the old bookstore was calculated based on a year-round basis. Generally, the boss found four storytellers, one of them said a quarter, and basically this was the case. Then the four of you agreed that whoever came first and who would come later, including what book to say, had to be decided in advance to save the crash.

Then after the first gentleman opened the book, he had this face in this quarter. Without anyone else, he would keep talking.

A set of books with a large cost can be said for several months. Of course, he may choose two novellas, which are all up to others.

Of course, it won’t work now. This bookstore has to rely on He Xiangdong to attract popularity. It comes in one quarter after another. There are people who come to listen to He Xiangdong in that quarter, but there are no other times. This is endless.

Besides, He Xiangdong is busy, so he keeps watching him here every day for a quarter of a row. He doesn't have this time, so what he has decided to come here to talk about books twice a week, and others are staring at him at other times.

The actors in the garden include Du Yuefeng, and several very excellent storytellers from Storytellers. There are also several from Xihemen who are all storytellers, so they don’t care about their opinions.

In the evening, He Xiangdong went up to start the storytelling first. Tonight, three gentlemen were telling the storytelling. He Xiangdong opened the "Biography of Jigong", Du Yuefeng opened the "Journey to the West", and Xihemen's storytelling artist Ma Heibai opened the "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". This horse Heibai looked a bit ghostly and was suitable for talking about this kind of book.

These are all big pits.

Jigong, Journey to the West, and Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio are very common in film and television works and are familiar to people, but storytelling is created after a second creation, which is different.

It is said that if you are familiar with the opera, you will not get tired of listening to the musical arts. If you listen to the book, you have to listen to the fresh ones. No one wants to listen to it again.

So what is said here is definitely different.

The evening officially started, with many audiences sitting in the audience, about 200 people, and the bookstore was full.

He Xiangdong came twice a week, Du Yuefeng came five times a week, and Ma Heibai came all. This is like a TV series, and it must be updated frequently, otherwise people will easily forget the plot they heard last time.

Listen to the opera and listen to the big scroll, listen to the book and buttons. If you put the button on someone, it will make them itchy. This will take a certain amount of time. Otherwise, if you forget the buttons after the effort, then it will be gone. With He Xiangdong's wrist and ability, he will have to come twice a week.

"Bang."

The official book was opened, and the wood was awakened and the hole was dug endlessly.
Chapter completed!