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? Jizan grabbed the ticket and looked forward to going to the concert hall to see the story of Xijing, a modern Shaanxi opera. It was quite shocking!

The stage background and prop scenes are well done, the costume lights are in place, and the actors' singing expressions are in place. The main idea is clear, and every scene is exciting!

As a Shaanxi native, I saw modern Shaanxi opera for the first time. When I was in high school, I saw a Shaanxi costume drama, which lengthened my memory. The only thing I can remember now is the feature of "roar". This "Xijing Story" puts aside the stage expressiveness, and what is even more shocking is the theme expressed!

The evolution of the whole story has been accompanied by a folk song.

Singing it with a unique accent in Shaanxi seems to be choking and deep, but it is full of blood after all. At the same time, it also coincides with the twists and turns of the characters in a sense.

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? The Story of Xijing tells the story of a group of ordinary people in Xijing.

Luo Tianfu moved his wife from the countryside to the Ximen Courtyard in Xijing Village. Both son Jia Cheng and daughter Jia Xiu were admitted to famous universities through hard work, which is the pride of Lao Luo and the pride of the whole village.

Daughter Jia Xiu teaches Simon Jinsuo, the son of East-West Door Lock, so that she can rent a house with aging and damp wires on the first floor of Ximen Courtyard.

In order to support Jia Xiu's brothers and sisters to go to school, my father and wife started the Melaleuca cake business. The only source of income is the profit of buying a cake of only 30 cents and the daily garbage collection and sale.

Of course, garbage can't be picked up casually. The owner, Mrs. Ximensuo (called sister-in-law Ximensuo for the time being), a super (provocative) woman, lost her slippers but blamed Teacher Luo. Of course, it is very rude for her to humiliate Teacher Luo with her garbage.

In order to save family expenses, my sister also collects garbage and sells money cakes on campus, which is called "doing public welfare". Unexpectedly, this matter was regarded as a great shame and loss of dignity by my brother Jia Cheng.

Simon Jinsuo (the silly son of the landlord's family) pestered Jia Xiu and was caught by his younger brother Jia Cheng, so he hurt him "intentionally" for the second time. However, this impulse can't get rid of the cowardice in Jiacheng's mouth, and naturally it can't stand up.

As a result, the family gave Simon a total of 10 thousand yuan, and the family was really worried about sorting out the bits and pieces of money they got from buying lasagna cakes. During the period, Jiacheng offered to sell the Lagerstroemia indica tree in his hometown for 600 years to lose money, but his father refused.

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As mentioned earlier, A is ashamed to be a scavenger of her sister, and her self-esteem is growing in college life. The following mistake regards the female classmate's "care" as "love", which makes him feel inferior again after being rejected. In order to defend his self-esteem, when he met his father and prepared to "cooperate" with the school stove, Jia Cheng finally couldn't help it.

Throw away my father's thousand-layer cake and scold my father for cowardice. In order to defend his self-esteem, he almost went crazy, abusing his father and saying that he was out of place in the city, had no future, could not get rid of poverty and family background, and could not stand being "sympathized". Faced with these, his only thought is to escape.

So, Cheng ran away from home.

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The father went to pick up the thousand-layer cake thrown away by his son, which is the most touching part of the whole story.

Lao Luo, with gray hair, never questioned his dream of Xijing, and began to doubt and feel nostalgic. Of course, before Lao Luo was sad, his son ran away from home and gave him a heavy blow. Migrant workers who rent Ximen Courtyard are all looking for their son Jiacheng, and they won't go too far or too close.

After all, in the seven-day hard search of Lao Luo, Jia Cheng was carried home from the coal mine, and Lao Luo was obviously too angry. But the son is still repeating his father's cowardice to his mother, who patiently explains the difficulties behind the old village head's cowardice as an old private teacher.

However, Jia Cheng, a teenager with bursting self-esteem, still refused to buy it. In the face of his son's stubbornness, Lao Luo finally "surrendered" to heaven, earth and the world!

Lao Luo said that he regretted not selling the old crape myrtle tree and not letting his son go to school decently, but two classes of crape myrtle trees in the village saved their lives and defended their homes in the flood!

In the face of Lao Luo's "Stop dreaming and surrender to Xijing", my son Jiacheng finally changed his mind with the encouragement of Grandpa Dongfang, who has been guarding Tang Huai for thousands of years.

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The ending of the story is in line with the aesthetics of China people, and it is perfect and beautiful. Acheng woke up and studied hard. Jia Xiu found a job and founded the "Melaleuca Cake" company, which was a lot of money.

When bidding farewell to Xijing Courtyard, Lao Luo lost the Italian leather slippers that Sister Simon lost four years ago, but it was Sister Simon's own dog who took them away. At this time, Sister Simon felt a little guilty.

Coincidentally, the Ximen Courtyard with aging wires finally caught fire. Ximen Jinsuo rushed into the fire to save the "cultural relics" in the mouth of his mother Ximen Sister-in-law. Jiacheng also went to the rescue, and with the help of the migrant workers who rented the Ximen compound, he finally put out the fire. Unexpectedly, the so-called "stable thing" is actually the private money of Sister Simon. At this time, Sister-in-law Ximen was also full of guilt.

Finally, another group of rural people with families like Lao Luo will live in Ximen Courtyard one after another.

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Throughout this story, it can be divided into three lines. Lao Luo's modest, practical and earnest personality should be learned by everyone. A Cheng's awakening after being lost in the gap between reality and ideal makes people think deeply.

Oriental grandfathers protect the Millennium ancient trees all their lives, and the Lagerstroemia indica trees protected by Lao Luo for generations, advocating the protection of cultural heritage and ancient cultural relics and caring for the environment;

The equality law for migrant workers put forward by Grandpa Dongfang raised the banner of equality for all to some extent.

The two-and-a-half-hour stage performance explained the character and fate of each character. In addition to the vocal expression of expressions and actions on the live stage, lines are also a highlight.

"Since you have a dream, you should try it if you cry", "Ah Q is your father", "Fish crossed the dragon gate or fish" and "You can't carry it back on a slender day" ...

As described on the front page of the brochure.

"Dreams are jumping and changing, and people are looking for and building them.

A thousand-year-old tree and its keeper are guarding the story in the story ... "

The story of Xijing is the story of Xijing people, as well as yours, mine and our own.

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