Chinese Yueju Opera: Four Beauties

The four ancient chinese beauties:
DIAOchan:She was a beauty in dynasty of three kingdom.In order to overthrow the imperious minister DONGzhuo she was willing to seduct him with beauty.
WANGzhaojun: She was a beautiful maid in an imperial palace but never see the emperor due to supplant.In 33 year bc,the king of Hungu asked the Han emperor to marry a daughter of the Han imperial family him for peace.WANGzhaojun would go voluntarily.When the emperor saw her in palace he was surprised at her stunning beauty and tried to change her mind.But she finally decided to go with huns
YANGyuhuan:Most beautiful imperial concubine in Tang dynasty.The emperor indulged in her beauty and ignored the nation.Finally his regime was overthown and YANGyuhuan was killed by hanging.
XIshi:She was a beauty in YUE State in spring and autumn dynasty when China was splitted in several states. The YUE State was defeated by WU State.King of YUE decided to revive his country and contribute XIshi as a gift to the King of WU.For the interest of her country,XIshi seducted KIng of WU and lead him corrupt.Due to XIshi's help YUE State finally defeated WU State.

Lyric is:
DIAOCHAN(Cast:ZHANG Yongmei(张咏梅),LV School(吕派)):
八月十五九州同Today is Mid-autumn's festival
秋凉橘黄露华浓 The day is cool and humid
衣裾飘欲腾空 Long dress is flowery
美貂禅话呢浓 and DIAOchan is delicately pretty
想当年我一片虔诚香炉设 remember I set an incense burner with devout
峨眉紧蹙诉苍穹 and prayed to the sky with sorrow
董卓专横乱朝政 DONGzhuo was so despotic and overbearing
我虽是女流愿尽忠 I'm a woman but I would like to pay my loyalty to my own master

WANGzhaojun (Cast:JIN Jing(金静),QI School(戚派)):
巧昭君闻言思潮涌Zhaojun worry a lot about
皇家边关烽烟浓 the border peace bween Han and Hungu
怪只怪汉皇多昏庸 The Han emperor is fatuous
无奈是匆匆和番送娇容and I am volunteer to marry the Hun king
我称明妃叹明月 I pray to the moon
明月盼圆望月中 that my nation will in peace forever
月缺月圆年年有Years and years past
我却无日回江东 It's sad I couldn't go back to hometown again

YANGyuhuan (Cast:HUA Yiqing(华怡青),YUAN School(袁派)):
娇玉环脸绯红 Yuhuan is elegent and beautiful
姐妹们都是千古流芳女英雄
明皇他三宫六院左右拥 The emperor has so many beauties
玉环我后院专权坐西宫but I'm the most fovourite
赏月只为相约黄昏后I pray to the moon only for love
叹月只为春宵一刻太匆匆 whish the happiness would stay longer
只到那马嵬坡前白绫赐 Not until the time I was hung at Mawei slope
恰似那一弯冷月刺心中 did I feel so cold and dread
原以为荣华富贵伴终生 I thought that I would have wealth and rank for good
方知晓国家天下民为重 but now I know that the nation and peace are the most important

XIshi (Cast:WANG Zhiping(王志萍),WANG School(王派)):
美西施沉鱼落雁第一容XIshi is the most beautiful among the four beauty
与范蠡双双隐归太湖中I withdraw from society with my beloved Fanli and live at Taihu Lake
月似银盘江心扣 The moon is in the water like a sliver plate
像千斤重担压当胸 as thousands of burden in my heart
战火若不断 The war was not end
百姓灾难重 People would suffer
千年风云尘土蒙 All the past glory would go to dust
眼前是江山秀美盛世逢 Whereas now it's a new society with prosperity
怎不叫人喜上眉梢泪朦胧 I feel so proud of it
花好月圆人长久 I pray to the moon
盛世华张醉苍穹 that the peace will last for good

Category:

Music

Tags:

• China
• Chinese
• Opera
• Yueju
• opera
• culture
• 张咏梅
• 金静
• 华怡青
• 王志萍
• 越剧
• 越劇
• 戲劇
• 戏剧
• 戏曲

[roacherz]

If you know anything about asian culture, there is the story of the four beauties, and its really cool to see the story and it played out :P with their costumes and everything. Just like how us American's have the story of the Old West and cowboys/ indians, im sure they think the same of us " those americans, this is too much" xD

[femalephantomdimes5]

I love the story of the four beauties. It has always been somewhat of an inspiration!

[mattsmoot]

COMMUNISTS!!!!! haha im just playin I love asian people, but seriously....when is it too much?

[yaroukh]

WTF