thank you, it's nice to hear appreciation for Chinese culture, they had these running 24/7 on the opera channel when I lived in China as a kid, didn't know their beauty then but now I think they're great
1:49:35 you know, people memed this scene and shit posted it, and my first reaction was also to laugh at this "weird guy", but after learning the context of what is being said, knowing it is about judge Bao finally formally indicting a corrupt royal family member of all of his crimes and posting it on every household on top of that, and all of that he's saying right to the accused's face like "look at all the shit you done. you're fucked, pal", it's pretty epic and worthy of the "mic drop" and applause this always get in every single public performance you see posted on youtube, must be pretty epic for chinese audiences seeing the commoner Xianglian finally getting justice and seeing a politician getting effed
Not only is the context behind it pretty badass, but the performance is actually really, really damn impressive. It's a really long verse and the performer says large chunks of it without stopping to breathe
Prince consort, come closer and read the specifics. It is written: Qin Xianglian, 32 years old, issues a complaint against the imperial family’s Prince Consort, deceiving His Majesty, misleading the emperor. This man broke a marriage vow to become his son-in-law by attempting to murder his wife and extinguish his heirs, he abandoned his conscience, he drove Han Qi to his death within a shrine. Have this accusation posted on every public building.
1:49:35 GUYS! Call me crazy guys, but I think that part would be awesome with another background music, something in the line of a Hip-Hop beat featuring a Pop Rock song in English performed by an all-female Romanian band.
Keep in mind, the Chinese literally translates to "you perversely wear human skin." Though, no doubt, this phrasing likely has equal or more impact in Chinese
1:32:56 this is one of the greatests moments where we can see what true honor used to be. "I have but one death for Heaven and Earth to observe. Purity will remain in this world" and then, Han Qi gives his own blood to satisfy Chen Shimei desire and yet save Qin Xianglian. This moment almost brought me to tears.
Thank you so much for your translation. You did a wonderful job! The story of Qin Xianglian is famous amongst Chinese because it tackles a deep societal problem of China. For thousands of years, Chinese people lived under the supreme emperor’s reign, and any connection with government officials matters. Ministers are enticed and coerced into looking out for another, and the justice system is no different. People believed that no high-ranking officials can be punished by law, unless someone of equal or higher ranks wish to bring him down. This mentality continued to this day. People empathized with Qin, because like her, they were also overlooked and fucked over by people on the top. And just like Chen, some people would do anything to get to the top. Bao, on the other hand, becomes a well-known hero, and is the aspiration of many people.
The love for a hero that brings justice to the upper class, even the most powerful among them, is a very relatable feeling in the west, too! Judge Bao seems really cool, using the system to root out corruption. I'm really glad that I've been getting more into foreign productions like this.
@@willyeeton4390Judge Bao, whose name was Bao Zheng, was respected by the common folks in the Song dynasty as Bao Qing Tian (Literally, Bao, The Upright Blue Sky (Overseeing Injustices) which was translated into "Justice Bao" for westerners to better relate ), the highest possible commendation and admiration (albeit the exggeration) a politician could get from the common folk communities. His name has been synonymous with justices in Chinese culture for 1000 years (as he lived from 5 March 999 - 3 July 1062).
They meant that Qin Xiang Lian is 32 years old like the character’s age. Of course the play is old already and it was only like idk 2 years I guess that the consort prince left her and their children in the play.
My Name is Qi Xiang Lian. I am 32 years old. My House lies in the north east section of Beijing. You expected a yoshikage Kira meme but it was i Bao Zheng!
If you find a woman as faithful as this keep her for heaven's sake. No title is worth casting aside your family. Wow look at me getting right into this. This is great. I appreciate this performance.
Thank you for posting this! As a beginner Mandarin learner, this truly widens my eye on Chinese art and literature, and the language truly amazes me with such diversity. Thank you!
@Charles Chang lol have you been in Taiwan? Rather than China Taiwan its USA Taiwan, on average they speak English way better than on the mainland. Have you never been in the countryside either?
Thank you so much for posting the captions in English. I was able to show it to my students who are currently taking Mandarin Chinese for the 3rd year. Thank you again.
Back in the 90s and 2000s, Bao Zhong was one of the most popular and memorial Chinese TV characters in my country. He legit existed in China at least a thousand years ago serving as a politician (or in my country, we use the word "quan chức") that basically fought against corruption and injustice. He even at times dared squaring up with higher-ups and people in the royal family just to call out their crimes. Dude was loved and respected by his people because of that. If you look it up, there's an entire series dedicated to this absolute badass.
@@TedWiggins there’s an entire tv series from the 90s called Justice Bao. There’s a playlist on UA-cam with over 200 episodes. Unfortunately no English subtitles. Here’s the first episode which is a retelling of this play. ua-cam.com/video/WYQEK43HukE/v-deo.html
I was curious due to the memes but I actually stayed until the end! The story is intriguing! I love the part where Xianglian was spilling the tea about her cheater husband through a song. xD
This is one of my most favourite Peking operas. Seen it for at least 20x. If I want my heart to be touched and be awashed with the beauty of Peking opera, Qin Xianglian is my go-to. I hope to catch a live performance of it someday in the near future.
there is much talk about chinese government propaganda in youtube but they should really pay you or reward for this, absolutely terrific work captioning all of this in english, thank you, may you live ten thousand years
I'm so happy you've subtitled an entire opera production. I honestly feel much like shakespeare taking on a modern context this story could be as well represented in modern times. That is one petty husband that needed to be kept in line. As an overseas chinese I had loved opera from afar but never watched a full show since I could never really fully understand the Chinese that got pulled out of tune and sustained for long notes and didn't quite like the idea of bugging my parents to watch and explain it to me. So this is amazing
I heartily thanks to all the artists for such wonderful opera act. I came through a small viral clip and now I'm watching the entire 135 minutes opera show. I'm really glad to uploader he had put English translation. Thank you.
in the 1:50:12, We can see there was a Billboard on the top It says,“悬高镜明” it means is that“The Mirror on the sky , dont forget what you have done ,dont abandon your conscience”
Thank you so much for translating this! It's so beautiful and even though I've just recently started learning Mandarin, I found it really amazing even with my lack of knowledge about the language. I'm so glad you put this up here.
This had me ENGROSSED the whole time. I loved the story, the characters, the execution, the live instrumental music, singing and acting, literally everything was perfection! ❤👏👏
I wish I knew Chinese so I could get a better grasp on the context of this story. I came here from a meme video but Chinese culture is truly fascinating to me as an American.
From what I can gather from wiki, it's one of the famous cases of Bao Zheng (a real magistrate from 1000 years ago) that got dramatised for Chinese Aka The Case of Executing Chen Shimei
37:07 -- the aria which inspired Beijing Rock from Sleeping Dogs. Amazing. Also, people are mentioning it inspired a chinese rap song. How awesome is it that an Opera could inspire a rock and a rap songs? :D
This is the first time I can say I actually sat down and watched Opera and it’s definitely the first time I enjoyed it. In another commenter’s wise words, “came for the meme, stayed for the story”
Based off my understanding the diamond like headgear is to denote the gender of the character. As u can see from the princess’s headgear, the blue crown is much more fancier and thus denoting her status and wealth, while xianglian’s head is mostly bare and lacking jewellery, showing that she is poor
Vine por los memes de crédito social, pero me quedé por lo interesante. Pd: Ese juez es un crack, literal se pasó el hecho de que la princesa podría mandarlo a matar u otra cosa por hacer justicia. Ojalá en latinoamerica algún día tengamos esa justicia
I wanted to know how much 1 li was in this play, but the value of 1 li had changed throughout the eras (today 1 li is 500 metres). After looking at Wikipedia, I found out that this play is based on a true story that happened in the Song Dynasty. The length of 1 li in the Song Dynasty was around 323 standard international metres. 10,000 li was the distance that Qin Xianglian traveled, so multiplying 323 by 10,000 gives 3,230,000 metres traveled. In metric, that's 3230 kilometres. For the Americans, that's around 2007 miles. I have no one proofreading my work so if I managed to get something wrong, correct me in the comments and I'll fix it. Also I came here through Ching Cheng Hanji Edit: The play was from the Song dynasty, not the Qing. Fixed it
The story of this play does take place in the Song Dynasty, but Peking Opera was a form of performance that only became popular in the Qing Dynasty. One theory is that the original version of the play was recorded as a clapper opera, Ming Gong Jian (明公断). The original version of the play was the clapper opera Ming Gong Jie (明公断), which was adapted in 1953 by the Chinese Academy of Opera with reference to a local theatre play, and with the addition of the first and last parts.
I always saw the memes about it but decided that I should see where it all truly began. This entire play was absolutely phenomenal, I loved the story and was satisfied by the ending! I'm definitely going to watch this again soon!
Fun fact: The guy named Chen Shimei is a real-life official in Qing dynasty. He is a successful man who never commit crimes. But one of his old neighbors who hated him wrote this opera, in which Chen is potrayed as a bad guy in Song dynasty who betrayed his wife, etc. The neighbors' family was an opera troupe, so the performed this opera everywhere. When Chen's descendants knew about it, a hand-to-hand fight broke out between two families.
"Of the 36 stratagems, fleeing is best!" Could easily be played for comedic-villain effect even in English, like have him rev up his legs to try to run away but they just grab him there
It's amazing how a fan can translate these wonderful operas and helps spread the art worldwide, while the official channel offers no translation at all!
2:15:16 To do justice, you got to have power/strengh to back it up. Without Wang Chao and Ma Han, the two supercops to get Xianglian's children back, Bao Zheng won't be able to continue his justice.
Did you know that if we translate your comment into literal spanish it would be: "esa corrida fue exquisita" So spanish speakers would see translated your coment understanding this: "that CUM was exquisite" Increible verdad
its amazing that the meme as actually started making me look up these traditional shows, and i'm noticing, do they have a specific way of walking? it seems intentional, like at 1:49:57 , look at the dude in the red on the right, when he turns to the left he seems to do a manuever, you expect his right leg is gonna move forward first but its his left leg, the same happens at 1:50:28 , it seems almost intentional the way they move, even their clothing seems to be made for it, almost as if it's meant to represent you can't expect anyone's next move, idk maybe i'm over analyzing but seems interesting to me
Peking Opera movements are very interesting. They seem to move with a bit of stiffness but they do it with finesse. Their costumes are also interesting because the white sleeves seem to represent something. They sway their white sleeves when they express emotions such as anger or anything really.
And also how they'd always spend a few seconds just getting their hand to the tip of the sleeves. This stuff got me feeling like discovering favourite new cartoons as a child.
i am starting to become intrested in chinese culture because of this video. very nice translaiton i just cant imagine the time it took you to make this video. udnerated and sad that people don't understand the meaning of this. came here from the memes, stayed here for the gem!
I would love to see this kind of opera live! This is beautiful I really enjoyed it!! The only downside being that I don't understand Chinese so I wouldn't understand watching it live, which is really sad.
Nowadays many theaters would show subtitles on the screen. Some theaters also show English subtitles for Beijing Opera. It's very different expierence to watch it live. Hope someday you can watch a live show😊
Yes, just like western operas it is hard to make out the words even if you understand the language, when it is sung in operatic voice. Often native speakers will also read subtitles.
Even native Chinese speakers don't understand most of the singing without reading subtitle. Two reasons: 1.tonal language loses intelligibility in music 2. the scripts are very poetic
Can’t believe I watched that entire opera. The notes in the description really helped me understand more of the context. I have one question though… is the dowager the emperors mother or wife?
The dowager is the emperor's mother while the princess is his younger sister. The dowager was envolved in another case call "The Wild Cat for Crown Prince" (狸猫换太子)
i am Vietnamese and don't understand the language. But i stay and watch the whole video. I used to go to the Vietnamese opera when i was around 5-8 year old and watched these Chinese opera : Lu Bu hy Daichan, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, San Hau, .....in Vietnamese languages. We threw the money on stage instead of clapping as a token of appreciation. The best spectator was allowed to drum if he please after a scene and he had to throw the most money to the stage. i am not sure this art still exist and popular in Vietnam anymore. Later, i read Chinese literature, history and and poem too. i went to China in 2008 and most of immigration workers don't know much of China and world culture. only University student know some....
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1:49:35 I was looking for this after listening to Jin's Chinese rap.
Merci BEAUCOUP
Me too, never would thought it's a legit reference to some sort of classics
Same lmao
Same but I ended up watching it all lmao
You put my search to a rest! ty for that
You're amateur translation? This is an insane translation, "profaned your mortal worth" is such an epic line
The notes in the description really helped to give more context to everything.
They thought it's amateur bcuz they probably never seen a formal translation before
Amateur doesn’t mean “bad” just that they are not professionals.
And yes I agree they did a professional job after all
Yeah, can you imagine how much work this took? It's amazing.
My favorite translated line was "Today, you are human in appearance only"
0% nudity
0% dirt word
0% autotune
100% drama
100% fire at 1:49:34
100% chance to spin you
No dirt words indeed
恭喜你获得一百个社会学分
100 percent KITCHEN IN THE DUNGEON
Kitchen in the dungeon aside, this is lowkey such a good opera production, I watched the entire thing in one sitting
thank you, it's nice to hear appreciation for Chinese culture, they had these running 24/7 on the opera channel when I lived in China as a kid, didn't know their beauty then but now I think they're great
@@bdstudios6088 wait, there’s a whole tv channel for this? that’s really cool!
Of course, frederic chopin is a man of culture.
Indeed
I just wanna say that I absolutely LOVE your Black Keys Etude.
1:49:35 you know, people memed this scene and shit posted it, and my first reaction was also to laugh at this "weird guy", but after learning the context of what is being said, knowing it is about judge Bao finally formally indicting a corrupt royal family member of all of his crimes and posting it on every household on top of that, and all of that he's saying right to the accused's face like "look at all the shit you done. you're fucked, pal", it's pretty epic and worthy of the "mic drop" and applause this always get in every single public performance you see posted on youtube, must be pretty epic for chinese audiences seeing the commoner Xianglian finally getting justice and seeing a politician getting effed
Bao Zheng is a badass
包拯 is his name in Chinese lol
Maybe people shit-posting things is good, otherwise I would never be here and many others wouldn't either
Not only is the context behind it pretty badass, but the performance is actually really, really damn impressive. It's a really long verse and the performer says large chunks of it without stopping to breathe
@@GregoryMom Ikr Bao Zheng stood up for Xianglian
46:51 Me and my friend after not seeing each other in 1 day
Lmao
It's fact lol
Wholesome
True
this is so funny lmfao
Prince consort, come closer and read the specifics. It is written: Qin Xianglian, 32 years old, issues a complaint against the imperial family’s Prince Consort, deceiving His Majesty, misleading the emperor. This man broke a marriage vow to become his son-in-law by attempting to murder his wife and extinguish his heirs, he abandoned his conscience, he drove Han Qi to his death within a shrine. Have this accusation posted on every public building.
so much meaning contained within "ching cheng han ji..."
@@bdstudios6088 That is just how Chinese works to be honest
Epic
Thx sir
@@bdstudios6088 it’s “Jin qian kan qi, zhuang shang xie zhuo”
1:25:34 Good that they showed him, the orchestra is half the performance, and an amazing one
Those dudes are working hard 😂
The man was going off on that string instrument! Fire performance!
1:49:35 GUYS! Call me crazy guys, but I think that part would be awesome with another background music, something in the line of a Hip-Hop beat featuring a Pop Rock song in English performed by an all-female Romanian band.
And for memability add a gif of a cartoon character. Tom maybe.
@@1brytol wait, you mean Tom from the popular cartoon show featuring a cat and a mouse first published in 1965 "Tom & Jerry"?
@@witherambush yes. He would be great
@@1brytol wºªh
Imagine if someone set it to a spinning cartoon cat
" Today, you are human in appearance only. "
Ouch, what a good roast
Keep in mind, the Chinese literally translates to "you perversely wear human skin." Though, no doubt, this phrasing likely has equal or more impact in Chinese
@@whatno5090 I'm gonna say that to people in English now
2013: This opera was so nice
2020: *SPINNING TOM*
1:49:35 This is the meme part
But the opera is from 1955
@@Iris-riv what is the o5 council doing watching a chinese opera
2021: SOCIAL CREDITS
2021: social credit levelup
Came for the memes, stayed for the whole story
X2
+200 Social Credit 😃👍
+100000000000000000 social credit
Fucking same, this is ching cheng hanji lore
Left bat shit crazy...
1:32:56 this is one of the greatests moments where we can see what true honor used to be. "I have but one death for Heaven and Earth to observe. Purity will remain in this world" and then, Han Qi gives his own blood to satisfy Chen Shimei desire and yet save Qin Xianglian. This moment almost brought me to tears.
At first I thought he would use animal blood to cover up. But, I was beyond surprised to see the outcome is greater.
@@men_del12 me too...
The way they synchronized the fan opening with the wooden clapper clicking at 52:18 was just 👌😩
Great
Even the guy in the red was surprised
@@kevinthekid9623you mean chen?
I feel so bad for Qin Xianglian, homegirl deserves better
Thank you so much for your translation. You did a wonderful job!
The story of Qin Xianglian is famous amongst Chinese because it tackles a deep societal problem of China. For thousands of years, Chinese people lived under the supreme emperor’s reign, and any connection with government officials matters. Ministers are enticed and coerced into looking out for another, and the justice system is no different. People believed that no high-ranking officials can be punished by law, unless someone of equal or higher ranks wish to bring him down. This mentality continued to this day. People empathized with Qin, because like her, they were also overlooked and fucked over by people on the top. And just like Chen, some people would do anything to get to the top. Bao, on the other hand, becomes a well-known hero, and is the aspiration of many people.
The love for a hero that brings justice to the upper class, even the most powerful among them, is a very relatable feeling in the west, too! Judge Bao seems really cool, using the system to root out corruption. I'm really glad that I've been getting more into foreign productions like this.
I imagine this play was not popular among the aristocracy then. Thanks for the writeup
@@willyeeton4390Judge Bao, whose name was Bao Zheng, was respected by the common folks in the Song dynasty as Bao Qing Tian (Literally, Bao, The Upright Blue Sky (Overseeing Injustices) which was translated into "Justice Bao" for westerners to better relate ), the highest possible commendation and admiration (albeit the exggeration) a politician could get from the common folk communities. His name has been synonymous with justices in Chinese culture for 1000 years (as he lived from 5 March 999 - 3 July 1062).
The Opera: Qin Xiang Lian is 32 Years Old.
Those who watched it on UA-cam: Kitchen in the Dungeon.
wow, that was quite a time ago, i didnt expect this would be that old...
I thought it was much older, like hundreds of years old at least
Only 32? That's way recent
They meant that Qin Xiang Lian is 32 years old like the character’s age. Of course the play is old already and it was only like idk 2 years I guess that the consort prince left her and their children in the play.
My Name is Qi Xiang Lian. I am 32 years old. My House lies in the north east section of Beijing.
You expected a yoshikage Kira meme but it was i Bao Zheng!
If you find a woman as faithful as this keep her for heaven's sake. No title is worth casting aside your family. Wow look at me getting right into this. This is great. I appreciate this performance.
Thank you for posting this! As a beginner Mandarin learner, this truly widens my eye on Chinese art and literature, and the language truly amazes me with such diversity. Thank you!
@Charles Chang ？
@Charles Chang lol have you been in Taiwan? Rather than China Taiwan its USA Taiwan, on average they speak English way better than on the mainland. Have you never been in the countryside either?
@@benjaminwasitschek4410 He appreciating the video
Wow, a comment back when it still wasn't a meme.
Haha kitchen in the dungeon
Thank you so much for posting the captions in English. I was able to show it to my students who are currently taking Mandarin Chinese for the 3rd year. Thank you again.
קיך אין די דונגעאָן
Now it is a meme
@@Lucasmziv what
Kitchen in the dungeon go brr
Now your students will cooking in the kitchen in a dungeon
They're very talented.... Remembering all the script while doing crazy notes for 2 hours straight
fr. they really hit those notes perfectly!
The instrument that goes BOING really holds this together.
Back in the 90s and 2000s, Bao Zhong was one of the most popular and memorial Chinese TV characters in my country. He legit existed in China at least a thousand years ago serving as a politician (or in my country, we use the word "quan chức") that basically fought against corruption and injustice. He even at times dared squaring up with higher-ups and people in the royal family just to call out their crimes. Dude was loved and respected by his people because of that. If you look it up, there's an entire series dedicated to this absolute badass.
Multiple series and plays have existed for quite awhile about Justice Bao.
And I’m pretty sure about four hundred towns made him their Saint.
🔥Any recommendations? I wanna watch some series or movies about Justice Bao
@@TedWiggins there’s an entire tv series from the 90s called Justice Bao. There’s a playlist on UA-cam with over 200 episodes. Unfortunately no English subtitles. Here’s the first episode which is a retelling of this play. ua-cam.com/video/WYQEK43HukE/v-deo.html
Do you know Bao Zhong's Vietnamese name? Or at least the tale of it?
1:48:08 you can read his mind. "So you're not going to confess? okay , it will be the hard way then" you can see he is really discontent
1:50:00 people even applauded because they knew it was pure fire
When they did a shot of the audience and there where only old people I really felt that.
Well majority of young ppl don’t really like old stuff much, so it’s not surprising
@@scholarbevi6396 that's not true, children love fairy tales
@@birthdefectthehedgehog3461 young children, anyone above 12 starts to think it's too "childish" or nowadays "cringe"
@@hauntr416 I didn't😨
😔😔😔
Kitchen in the Dungeon
I knew I was at the right place in my youtube investigations when I saw this comment
You glorious madmen!
🤣🤣
“Qin Xianglian, thirty-two years old”
Transliteration (from a script of this I found online. Might be slight different)
Fùmǎ yé jìnqián kàn duānxiáng:
Shàng xiězhe:
qínxiānglián sānshí'èr suì,
zhuàng gào dāng cháo fùmǎ láng.
Tā qī jūnwáng mán huángshàng, huǐhūn nán'ér
zhāo dōngchuáng; tāshā qī
miè sì liángxīn sàng, tā bī sǐ hán qí
zài miàotáng. Jiāng zhuàngzhǐ yā
zhì zài yé de dàtáng shàng,
I was curious due to the memes but I actually stayed until the end! The story is intriguing! I love the part where Xianglian was spilling the tea about her cheater husband through a song. xD
Some lowly commoner and the prime minister scheming together was funny.
@@Techn9cian123 timestamp
@@RayFog1 Starts at 39:09 and follows through to 41:23. The rest is just the plan being put into practice.
Opera: Chinese
Subtitles: English
Peoples in comments: Brazilian
Kitchen: in the dungeon
Hotel: Trivago
@@grvajhccjehtbk5083 kkkkkkk zuo o gringo
@@fredericchopin4821 no.
JAJAJAJAAHA
Opaaaa escutei a palavra brazilian 👀
1:49:35
Thanks everyone
Thanks
The characterization on these traditional opera productions is off the charts. All the characters are extremelly memorable and alive
This is one of my most favourite Peking operas. Seen it for at least 20x. If I want my heart to be touched and be awashed with the beauty of Peking opera, Qin Xianglian is my go-to. I hope to catch a live performance of it someday in the near future.
Wish i could understand you lol
@@end.olives ditto lol
there is much talk about chinese government propaganda in youtube but they should really pay you or reward for this, absolutely terrific work captioning all of this in english, thank you, may you live ten thousand years
Peking opera is so fascinating, the voices, the mannerisms, the story itself and how Judge Bao absolutely roasts Chen Shimei.
I'm so happy you've subtitled an entire opera production. I honestly feel much like shakespeare taking on a modern context this story could be as well represented in modern times. That is one petty husband that needed to be kept in line. As an overseas chinese I had loved opera from afar but never watched a full show since I could never really fully understand the Chinese that got pulled out of tune and sustained for long notes and didn't quite like the idea of bugging my parents to watch and explain it to me. So this is amazing
Judge Bao is such a champion. Also I love all the metaphors of honor too.
I heartily thanks to all the artists for such wonderful opera act. I came through a small viral clip and now I'm watching the entire 135 minutes opera show. I'm really glad to uploader he had put English translation.
Thank you.
You came for the meme. I came for a 2 hours and a half Chinese story. We are not the same.
We are the same
We are the same
We are one
You came for the meme and stayed for the story, we are all the same
wait this was a meme???😨
I’m so impressed with the actress Qin Xianglian roll. She is a legend!
the tea is immaculate. I am immersed in the entire thing
in the 1:50:12,
We can see there was a Billboard on the top
It says,“悬高镜明”
it means is that“The Mirror on the sky , dont forget what you have done ,dont abandon your conscience”
You should translate more of these operas.
Chin chen han chi
*_Y e s p l e a s e ._*
Never thought I'd be watching a Chinese opera at 4 am
Thank you so much for translating this! It's so beautiful and even though I've just recently started learning Mandarin, I found it really amazing even with my lack of knowledge about the language. I'm so glad you put this up here.
This had me ENGROSSED the whole time. I loved the story, the characters, the execution, the live instrumental music, singing and acting, literally everything was perfection! ❤👏👏
All jokes aside, this was actually an amizing play
I am just... 😭... This story...
Story: 😢😢😭😭😭😭
Memes:
Meme:🤣
Story: 😧
kitchen in the dungeon
Haha chingchenghanji
Normies
I wish I knew Chinese so I could get a better grasp on the context of this story. I came here from a meme video but Chinese culture is truly fascinating to me as an American.
From what I can gather from wiki, it's one of the famous cases of Bao Zheng (a real magistrate from 1000 years ago) that got dramatised for Chinese Aka The Case of Executing Chen Shimei
Yeah it’s better if you understand the full context it’s way more beautiful than the translation lol but the translation is still good enough
Thanks so much for subtitling this play, it was quite enjoyable.
I love this so much, I almost cried while watching it. It seems everyone who came from the meme ended up invested in the story
I love how creative they are with the costume design!
37:07 -- the aria which inspired Beijing Rock from Sleeping Dogs. Amazing.
Also, people are mentioning it inspired a chinese rap song. How awesome is it that an Opera could inspire a rock and a rap songs? :D
search kitchen in the dungeon on youtube
@@Val_mrn Temos um homem de cultura aqui.
@André Costa thank you for the information
I fuckin love Sleeping Dogs
This is the first time I can say I actually sat down and watched Opera and it’s definitely the first time I enjoyed it. In another commenter’s wise words, “came for the meme, stayed for the story”
The most fire criminal indictment in history
I watched the whole thing through. Im gonna be honest, it’s actually a pretty good story
ah yes, the origin of cheng cheng hanji can't touch me at all kitchen in the dungeon
Hahaha lol 😂
I swear I didn’t bang paul
What an amazing play. I came here for the meme and left with this wonderful experience.
"with a single step, you pierced the clouds and now follow dragons and accompany phoenixes" Chen Shimei does not deserve that epic of a complimemt
That was great, I just watched all of it.
Thank you for the upload and incredible translation.
rewatching this now. still brilliant and underappreciated.
I have ALWAYS wanted to sit in and enjoy a Chinese Opera but the language barrier always stops me so THANK YOUU!!
1:49:39: Kitchen in the Dungeon
the dude betrayed his wife and still expects her to look after his parents.....the f!!! the arrogance of this dude!!!
When he said: 🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲🈹🈵🈹🈲, I felt that 😔
the best part is, those emoji words were probably actually used in the play
@@bdstudios6088 nah its utter nonsense
i felt it when he said: kitchen in the dungeon
什么 the fuck
Thats like typing 🅱️🆑️🅾️🆖️🆒️🆗️🅿️🆓️🆘️🆔️🆙️🅰️🆎️🅿️🆙️🆚️🆕️🆓️🆒️🔠🔡🔤🚾 for people who speak mandarin 🤣😅
幾位主角都演唱的很棒，青衣也很不錯，看起來都是實力派資深的演員，好好看哦~讚！
Yes
That moment when you’ve endured 10,000 hardships to reach the city and your husband won’t recognize you:
And try to murder you lol
12:31 "halt pauper!"
*said pauper is wearing a giant diamond on her forehead*
Based off my understanding the diamond like headgear is to denote the gender of the character. As u can see from the princess’s headgear, the blue crown is much more fancier and thus denoting her status and wealth, while xianglian’s head is mostly bare and lacking jewellery, showing that she is poor
Vine por los memes de crédito social, pero me quedé por lo interesante.
Pd: Ese juez es un crack, literal se pasó el hecho de que la princesa podría mandarlo a matar u otra cosa por hacer justicia. Ojalá en latinoamerica algún día tengamos esa justicia
y al final mando a matar al juez ? o el juez murió de viejo ? o por alguna enfermedad ?
@@habinadadsadelsilvadiaz8700 fue sentenciado a muerte
Que pro, viniste por el meme y te quedaste con tremenda opera China. Los memes son cultura
Ya somos algunos xd
Y si, el juez llamado Bao Zheng es toda una leyenda en las historias folclóricas chinas por ser garante de la justicia.
You must fight and take justice in to your hands. To kill the tyrant.
I wanted to know how much 1 li was in this play, but the value of 1 li had changed throughout the eras (today 1 li is 500 metres). After looking at Wikipedia, I found out that this play is based on a true story that happened in the Song Dynasty. The length of 1 li in the Song Dynasty was around 323 standard international metres. 10,000 li was the distance that Qin Xianglian traveled, so multiplying 323 by 10,000 gives 3,230,000 metres traveled. In metric, that's 3230 kilometres. For the Americans, that's around 2007 miles.
I have no one proofreading my work so if I managed to get something wrong, correct me in the comments and I'll fix it.
Also I came here through Ching Cheng Hanji
Edit: The play was from the Song dynasty, not the Qing. Fixed it
Ok now do the silver measurements
In fairness, IIRC 10,000 li was a metaphor for a really long distance.
The story of this play does take place in the Song Dynasty, but Peking Opera was a form of performance that only became popular in the Qing Dynasty. One theory is that the original version of the play was recorded as a clapper opera, Ming Gong Jian (明公断). The original version of the play was the clapper opera Ming Gong Jie (明公断), which was adapted in 1953 by the Chinese Academy of Opera with reference to a local theatre play, and with the addition of the first and last parts.
@@LordRalphingtonPukesmythe Just look opposite-of-down "tael" on ..
@@LordRalphingtonPukesmythe .. W. pee dee ah.
It is amazing as the shake and tone of actors let people watching from a long distance can feel the character’s rage, shock and sadness
this was a beautiful play made me cry
I always saw the memes about it but decided that I should see where it all truly began. This entire play was absolutely phenomenal, I loved the story and was satisfied by the ending! I'm definitely going to watch this again soon!
Fun fact: The guy named Chen Shimei is a real-life official in Qing dynasty. He is a successful man who never commit crimes. But one of his old neighbors who hated him wrote this opera, in which Chen is potrayed as a bad guy in Song dynasty who betrayed his wife, etc. The neighbors' family was an opera troupe, so the performed this opera everywhere. When Chen's descendants knew about it, a hand-to-hand fight broke out between two families.
Impressive translation. Accurate both in literal meaning and poetic quality of language.
"Of the 36 stratagems, fleeing is best!"
Could easily be played for comedic-villain effect even in English, like have him rev up his legs to try to run away but they just grab him there
Spanish subs!! The world demands it!!!! Also, awesome working translating it to English!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It's amazing how a fan can translate these wonderful operas and helps spread the art worldwide, while the official channel offers no translation at all!
This is awesome. I think I'm into Chinese opera now.
2:07:16 I think the subtitles should say: “Let us see how you close this case.” But I could be wrong.
did i watch a 2 hour chinese opera because of a meme: yes
did i enjoy it and glad i found it: hell yes
The Prime Minister and The Prince Escort seemed to have strong buddy energy
超爱超爱!!!!! 太喜欢他们的语气和音乐，配的好! 牛牛牛牛牛牛牛!!!!
I’m definitely booking a stay at Zhang Sanyang’s inn on my next holiday.
Well, the prince consort went there but he’s dead now. 😢
300 taels of silver would be 18.75 jin, in Song dynasty 1 jin = 640g, so that's 12kg of silver
Xianglian is strong indeed holding that much of silver
Wonder Woman
she grew her muscles carrying shumei all those years
Phenomenal translation (and attempt), thank you so much !!!!! May you always be blessed
2:15:16 To do justice, you got to have power/strengh to back it up. Without Wang Chao and Ma Han, the two supercops to get Xianglian's children back, Bao Zheng won't be able to continue his justice.
38:42 that run was exquisite
Did you know that if we translate your comment into literal spanish it would be: "esa corrida fue exquisita" So spanish speakers would see translated your coment understanding this: "that CUM was exquisite"
Increible verdad
Thank you for tranlsating this and uploading
It's one of those moment where I appreciate the depth and color of every culture on the Earth
20:20 really hit it right at the feels
I, too, came here through following funny internet videos, and stayed with the realization that this is the kind of China I've always wanted to see.
its amazing that the meme as actually started making me look up these traditional shows, and i'm noticing, do they have a specific way of walking? it seems intentional, like at 1:49:57 , look at the dude in the red on the right, when he turns to the left he seems to do a manuever, you expect his right leg is gonna move forward first but its his left leg, the same happens at 1:50:28 , it seems almost intentional the way they move, even their clothing seems to be made for it, almost as if it's meant to represent you can't expect anyone's next move, idk maybe i'm over analyzing but seems interesting to me
It's just the opera style
Peking Opera movements are very interesting. They seem to move with a bit of stiffness but they do it with finesse. Their costumes are also interesting because the white sleeves seem to represent something. They sway their white sleeves when they express emotions such as anger or anything really.
@@joshcymon22 yea very intriguing indeed
And also how they'd always spend a few seconds just getting their hand to the tip of the sleeves. This stuff got me feeling like discovering favourite new cartoons as a child.
Definitely, like any art form. It’s just the mannerism of the art
i am starting to become intrested in chinese culture because of this video. very nice translaiton i just cant imagine the time it took you to make this video. udnerated and sad that people don't understand the meaning of this. came here from the memes, stayed here for the gem!
I'm brazilian, i'm watching the video, you did a good work!
eu vim pelo tropia!
who knew Ching Cheng Hanji was actually about betrayal. And ngl it sounds kinda cool
I would love to see this kind of opera live! This is beautiful I really enjoyed it!! The only downside being that I don't understand Chinese so I wouldn't understand watching it live, which is really sad.
Nowadays many theaters would show subtitles on the screen. Some theaters also show English subtitles for Beijing Opera. It's very different expierence to watch it live. Hope someday you can watch a live show😊
@@alyssa1364 that's such a relief! Thanks for sharing this info!
Yes, just like western operas it is hard to make out the words even if you understand the language, when it is sung in operatic voice. Often native speakers will also read subtitles.
Even native Chinese speakers don't understand most of the singing without reading subtitle. Two reasons: 1.tonal language loses intelligibility in music 2. the scripts are very poetic
2:09:01 In case you are wondering what kind of responsibility a Chinese man is taught to shoulder.
Can’t believe I watched that entire opera. The notes in the description really helped me understand more of the context. I have one question though… is the dowager the emperors mother or wife?
The dowager is the emperor's mother while the princess is his younger sister. The dowager was envolved in another case call "The Wild Cat for Crown Prince" (狸猫换太子)
"Dowager" literally means “royal widow” so it can't be emperor's wife
she's the wife of ex-emperor tho
A dowager is emperor's mother. A famous one was Empress Dowager Cixi from 1800s.
If someone replaces every gong sound with a vine boom it'll be a a complete masterpiece
I will sell my left nut for that
@@turcanudan9386 lol
And every wooden clapper with the among us noise
This is my favorite story in Chinese opera.
i like how i landed here because of a video game character, but now i’m soo into chinese opera lmao
YunJin?
@@worm2976 yep..
Oh boy, Genshin Impact at it finest
i am Vietnamese and don't understand the language. But i stay and watch the whole video.
I used to go to the Vietnamese opera when i was around 5-8 year old and watched these Chinese opera : Lu Bu hy Daichan, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, San Hau, .....in Vietnamese languages. We threw the money on stage instead of clapping as a token of appreciation. The best spectator was allowed to drum if he please after a scene and he had to throw the most money to the stage. i am not sure this art still exist and popular in Vietnam anymore.
Later, i read Chinese literature, history and and poem too.
i went to China in 2008 and most of immigration workers don't know much of China and world culture. only University student know some....