A
Mulan Tale with Difference (3)
越剧:
孟丽君 Story of A
Chinese Cross Dresser
An episode before the
garden trip in which the young general
invited Lijun to his home to fing out if
the Prime Minister was in fact his fiancée
An episode before the
garden trip in which the young general
displyed Lijun's self-portrait and
claimed she was a cross-dresser
An episode after the
garden trip in which the emperor
sentenced Lijun to life in palace though
eventually released her to marry her
fiancee
Post Scriptum:
The
opera drama was based on a story written
by a woman novelist of 18th
century. The writer chose the Mongol’s
Yuan dynasty as the backdrop setting for
her fictional tale, which made the fable
even less credible, since under the
segregated Yuan society, a Han Chinese
would not be allowed to be a prime
minister. And it is also worth to point
out, that almost all Mongol emperors were
obsessed with Tibetan Lamaism, and
according to the historical records, they
spent most of their time lingered in the
inner quarters of the palace, totally
naked, along with equally naked lamas and
court ladies, playing double-cultivation (元顺帝太子爱猷识理达腊说:“李先生教我儒书许多年，我不省书中何义，西番僧教我lama经，我一夕便晓.”). The historians generally
attribute the quick collapse of this
short-lived dynasty to, among many other
factors, the wicked voodoo sex they
practiced, which included group sex,
incest and sex with animals. A blatant
sexholic is a hostage to his own beast
instinct thus incapable of being romantic
which though isn’t an enlightened state
of mind but is, nevertheless, a delicately refined
temperament.
Judging
by the hopeless romanticism displayed by
the emperor in the play, who was young
and was reckless and was unassuming and
was well-versed and was martially
competent, the profile of Lijun’s boss
is very close to a real historic figure -
Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty (明武宗), one of the most, if not
THE MOST, interesting character among all
Chinese monarchs.
*It is not to
follow but to lead; not to lead without
followers but to convince people to
follow.
