Chapter 24 two ugly art

Abundance In a troupe in eastern Zhejiang, there is a character called "Erhualian", which translates more elegantly, so "Er Chou" is.The difference between him and the clown is that he does not pretend to be an unscrupulous playboy, nor does he pretend to be a servant of the prime minister blindly. Instead, he plays the role of a boxer protecting the son, or a purveyor who serves the son.In short: the status is higher than the clown, but the character is worse than the clown. A righteous servant is disguised as an old man, who first remonstrates and then ends up being a martyr; an evil servant is disguised as a clown, who can only do evil and perish in the end.But Er Chou's skills are different, he looks like a gentleman, he also knows some piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he can play orders and guess riddles, but he relies on the rich and powerful, and insults the common people, whoever is oppressed, he will come Sneered a few times, had a good time, if someone was framed, he went to scare and yelled a few times.But his attitude is not always like this, he usually turned around and pointed out his young master's shortcomings to the spectators, shaking his head with a grimace and saying: "Look at this guy, this time he's going to be unlucky!"

This last move is the characteristic of Er Chou.Because he is not as stupid as a righteous servant, nor as simple as an evil servant. He is an intellectual class.He clearly knows that what he is relying on is an iceberg, it will not last long, and he will go to other houses to help in the future, so when he is being supported and sharing Yu Yan, he has to pretend that he is not with this noble young master. Of course, there is no such role in the playbooks made up by the clowns, and he would never agree to it; clowns, that is, playbooks made up by playboys, will not have it, because they only see one side, and they can't think of it.These two painted faces are the roles that the ordinary people have seen through this kind of people, put forward the essence, and formulated their roles.

As long as there are powerful families in the world, there must be evil forces, and if there are evil forces, there must be Erhualian, and there must be Erhualian art.We only need to take one publication and watch him for a week, and we will find that he hates the spring, praises the war, translates Shaw's speeches, and talks about marriage; Use the last hand to come. This last trick, on the one hand, is also covering up that he is not helping, but the common people understand that he has already made his type appear on the stage. June fifteenth. [1] This article was originally published in "Shen Shen Free Talk" on June 18, 1933.