{"id":6386,"date":"2013-04-28T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T03:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2013-04-28T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T03:44:53","slug":"the-wayang-in-the-tombs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/2013\/the-wayang-in-the-tombs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wayang in the Tombs (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Wayang in the Tombs (2)<\/h5>\n
by Ang Yik Han<\/h5>\n

The Wayang in the Tombs 1<\/a>\u00a0 continues, as Yik Han unravels more iconic scenes\u00a0 from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other popular stories.<\/p>\n

“Temple of Sweet Dew” (Gan Lu Si – \u7518\u9732\u5bfa)<\/span><\/p>\n

Zhou Yu, Sun Quan’s viceroy, wanted to lure Liu Bei over to the kingdom of Wu and then incarcerate him, on the pretext of marrying Sun Quan’s younger sister to him. Liu Bei’s advisor, Zhuge Liang, saw through this and ordered Zhao Yun, one of Liu Bei’s generals, to accompany him for protection. At the same time, he sent word to Sun Quan’s father-in-law to get Sun Quan’s mother along so that she can view her prospective son-in-law at the Temple of Sweet Dew. With the old lady around, Zhou Yu’s mischief came to naught and Liu Bei and his lady successfully got hitched.<\/p>\n

Bowing man on left is Liu Bei, seated lady in the centre is Sun Quan’s mother, man on the right is probably Sun Quan’s father-in-law.<\/p>\n

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“Temple of Sweet Dew” (photo Ang Yik Han)<\/p><\/div>\n

Editors note: An insight on how Yik Han deciphered this panel.<\/p>\n

“The costumes especially the head dress are clues.\u00a0 If you look at what the man on the left is wearing, you can tell he is not just another official. For some tine I thought the figure in the middle is a male till I looked more closely at her headdress which is what you will expect a more senior lady of high social status to wear. Put these two together and you have a high ranking older male, probably some lord, paying respects to an old woman also of high social status. All the other identified panels from this tomb are based on the Three Kingdoms, and there is one famous part of the novel which has this setting, so that’s how I identified the scene. If you area Chinese opera fan, you may also recognise it easily.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s an\u00a0 animated excerpt<\/a> from the opera<\/p>\n

Lui Bei’s Farewell\u00a0 to\u00a0 Xu Shu<\/span><\/p>\n

Compared to his warlord contemporaries, Liu Bei was handicapped by the lack of an able advisor. Fortunately for him, a brilliant strategist named Xu Shu joined him and helped him achieve some small victories. Just when things seemed to be going well for Liu Bei, his rival Cao Cao found out about this and he managed to get someone to send a forged letter to Xu Shu, purportedly from Xu Shu’s mother. The letter claimed she was in Cao Cao’s custody and her life was in danger unless Xu Shu abandon Liu Bei and join Cao Cao’s camp. The filial Xu Shu had no choice but to obey and the inevitable farewell came. On the day Xu Shu left, Liu Bei saw him off with his retainers and followed behind him for part of his journey. Upon reaching a forest, Liu Bei exclaimed “I want this forest to be cut down!” When his retainers asked him why, Liu Bei replied that this was because the trees blocked his view of the departing Xu Shu.<\/p>\n

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Lui Bei’s sends off\u00a0 Xu Shu\u00a0(photo\u00a0 Ang Yik Han)<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s an opera<\/a> you can view on the sending off.<\/p>\n

The panels are from the tombs\u00a0 of\u00a0 the Teo Family<\/a> located in Hill 2<\/p>\n

The Third Madam teaches her son (\u4e09\u5a18\u6559\u5b50)<\/span><\/p>\n

During the Ming Dynasty, there was a businessman by the name of Xue Guang who had a wife Mdm Zhang and two concubines, Mdm Liu (who bore him his only son Xue Yi) and Mdm Wang. Xue Guang conducted his business far from home. One day, he asked a man from his hometown to deliver five hundred taels of silver to his family. Instead of doing so, the man took the silver for himself and told the Xue family that Xue Guang had died. As they believed the report to be true and there were no news from Xue Guang, Mdm Zhang and Mdm Liu remarried after some time due to the family’s slide into poverty.<\/p>\n

Only Mdm Wang chose to remain and take care of Xue Yi even though he was not her flesh and blood, together with an old servant Xue Bao. She weaved cloth to support Xue Yi through school. Xue Yi was however mocked by other children in school as the boy without a mother. Losing his temper, he took it out on Mdm Wang when he got home, saying that she had no right to punish him as she was not his mother. In fury, she slashed the cloth on her loom into two, signifying the serverance of their relationship, shocking Xue Yi and Xue Bao who hurriedly interceded on his young master’s behalf. Xue Yi came to his senses and promised to apply himself to his studies diligently, and even offered the cane to Mdm Wang to punish himself. In years to come, Xue Yi gained honours in the imperial examinations.<\/p>\n

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The Third Madam teaches her son (\u4e09\u5a18\u6559\u5b50) (photo Ang Yik Han)<\/p><\/div>\n

A movie based on the opera can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n

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