Box 2
Container
Contains 86 Results:
The Spring River Flows East 一江春水向东流 Yi Jiang Chun Shui Xiang Dong Liu
File — Box: 2, Folder: 21
Identifier: 2009.015.161
Scope and Contents
The Spring River Flows East 一江春水向东流 Yi Jiang Chun Shui Xiang Dong Liu. All music manuscripts were stamped by 莲花曲艺社 Lotus Art Club of Singing. The song is adapted from a 1947 Chinese film The Spring River Flows East. The story tells that in Shanghai a cotton mill worker named Sufen was in love with a night school teacher Zhang Zhongliang. Zhongliang left Shanghai and joined the anti-Japanese rescue team. Sufen had to go to the refugee camp with her kid and mother-in-law. Zhongliang gave...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
A Pedestal of Rouge Fragrance or Sweet Dew on a Beautiful Flower 一枝红艳露凝香（生）Yi Zhi Hong Yan Lu Ning Xiang (Sheng)
File — Box: 2, Folder: 22
Identifier: 2009.015.162
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A Pedestal of Rouge Fragrance or Sweet Dew on a Beautiful Flower 一枝红艳露凝香（生）Yi Zhi Hong Yan Lu Ning Xiang (Sheng) All music manuscripts were stamped by 曲艺苑 Arts and Performance Center. The story tells Shan Yanwen, a singing girl who is married to Meng Qiao of the Wang family. Their relationship is loving at first, but Meng Qiao had a jealous streak and suspected his wife of having an affair with his brother-in-law. Later, Meng Qiao was poisoned by his ex-lover Jiang Mengxia, who left a murder...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
A Song of Pipa Lures Han Emperor (Part I) 一曲琵琶动汉皇（上）Yi Qu Pi Pa Dong Han Huang (Shang)
File — Box: 2, Folder: 23
Identifier: 2009.015.163
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A Song of Pipa Lures Han Emperor (Part I) 一曲琵琶动汉皇（上）Yi Qu Pi Pa Dong Han Huang (Shang) The story tells the beautiful Wang Zhao Jun who is passed up for an opportunity to be selected as Han Emperor's concubine for not bribing a palace official in exchange for a royal audience. She instead becomes a maid in the palace, living a life of drudgery. Wang expresses her sorrow in song through the pipa. One day, Emperor Han passes by and overhears her singing and melodic playing. Moved by her beauty...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
A Song of Pipa Lures Han Emperor (Part II) 一曲琵琶动汉皇（下） Yi Qu Pi Pa Dong Han Huang (Xia)
File — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Identifier: 2009.015.164
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A Song of Pipa Lures Han Emperor (Part II) 一曲琵琶动汉皇（下） Yi Qu Pi Pa Dong Han Huang (Xia) The story tells the beautiful Wang Zhao Jun who is passed up for an opportunity to be selected as Han Emperor's concubine for not bribing a palace official in exchange for a royal audience. She instead becomes a maid in the palace, living a life of drudgery. Wang expresses her sorrow in song through the pipa. One day, Emperor Han passes by and overhears her singing and melodic playing. Moved by her beauty...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
The Mournful Melody 琵琶血染汉宫花 Pi Pa Xue Ran Han Gong Hua
File — Box: 2, Folder: 25
Identifier: 2009.015.165
Scope and Contents
The Mournful Melody 琵琶血染汉宫花 Pi Pa Xue Ran Han Gong Hua. All music manuscripts were stamped by 曲艺苑 Arts and Performance Center. The story tells the Ming Emperor of Han Dynasty and his empress love each other for eighteen years. However, seeing the emperor becomes arrogant because of his achievements and does not care about the life of his subordinates, the empress wants to play a tune of pipa to persuade him. The empress asks a pipa musician Zhao Weiyi to teach her all night. However, the...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
The moonlight and Pipa of the borderland 万里琵琶关外月 Wan Li Pi Pa Guan Wai Yue
File — Box: 2, Folder: 26
Identifier: 2009.015.166
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The moonlight and Pipa of the borderland 万里琵琶关外月 Wan Li Pi Pa Guan Wai Yue. The story happened when the singing girl Rong Yan Ling is about to give birth of Qing Jian Xia's child. Han Emperor assigned Rong Yan Ling to marry the Prince Chun Hui. Rong Yan Ling gives her child to a princess, but Prince Chun Hui still finds out that she is not virgin so he escorted her to the west. In the end, Rong Yan Ling finally meet up with Qing Jian Xia and their child.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
Holding Pi Pa with Tears of Blood 恨抱琵琶血泪丝 Hen Bao Pi Pa Xue Lei Si
File — Box: 2, Folder: 27
Identifier: 2009.015.167
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Holding Pi Pa with Tears of Blood 恨抱琵琶血泪丝 Hen Bao Pi Pa Xue Lei Si. The story tells a wife who plays pi pa and sings for living along the street, because her husband is sick and her child is still young. Her husband feels guilty of not being able to support the family despite he read a lot books. He also feels grateful that she abandoned her previous occupation as a sing song girl and married with him. Before he dies, he asks his wife to remarry to another guy. However, the wife is resolute...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
Hen Bu Xiang Feng Wei Jia Shi (Dan) 恨不相逢未嫁时（旦）Hen Bu Xiang Feng Wei Jia Shi (Dan)
File — Box: 2, Folder: 28
Identifier: 2009.015.168
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Hen Bu Xiang Feng Wei Jia Shi (Dan) 恨不相逢未嫁时（旦）Hen Bu Xiang Feng Wei Jia Shi (Dan). The story tells a widow who lost her husband when she was very young. Her husband asked her to preserve her chastity before he died. However, she felt in love with her son’s teacher whose talent attracted her. Reminding herself of her husband’s words, the young widow did not what to do but regretted to marry too early.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
Romance and Hatred 三夕恩情廿载仇 San Xi En Qing Nian Zai Chou
File — Box: 2, Folder: 29
Identifier: 2009.015.069
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Romance and Hatred 三夕恩情廿载仇 San Xi En Qing Nian Zai Chou. All music manuscripts were stamped by 曲艺苑 Arts and Performance Center. The story tells that towards the end of the Yuan dynasty, the imperial government is inefficient and corrupt. Fan Bocheng, a Han, plots to overthrow the dynasty, but his plan is brought to light by Yuwen Zhihao. Consequently, the whole of Fan's clan is wiped out, with the only exception of Bocheng's youngest son, Wenqian, who has been lodged in the residence of Fan...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009
Palace of Eternal Life on the Seventh Day of July 七月七日长生殿 Qi Yue Qi Ri Chang Sheng Dian
File — Box: 2, Folder: 30
Identifier: 2009.015.170
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Palace of Eternal Life on the Seventh Day of July 七月七日长生殿 Qi Yue Qi Ri Chang Sheng Dian. All music manuscripts were stamped by 曲艺苑 Arts and Performance Center. The story tells that beauty Yang Yuhuan, who is charming and good at music, is Emperor Ming’s most cherished concubine. However, the rebellion breaks the sweet love between them two; Beauty Yang suicides in Slope Mawei. After suppressing the rebellion, Emperor Ming misses Yang day and night, and Yang’s spirit haunts around him, too....
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1996-2009