中英雙語話中國影視演藝圈 第4期:定軍山

The Battle of Mount Dingjun (1905)《定軍山》（1905)The film came from one of four Chinese classical masterpieces, The Three Kingdoms (San Guo Yan Yi), taking place during the Three Kingdoms period of China. The battle was fought between the kingdoms of Wei and Shu. In 215, Cao Cao took Hanzhong and appointed his senior generals Xia Houyuan and Zhang He, etc. Lived and stayed in Mount Dingjun and Mount Tian-dang as well as their mountain passes. Liu Bei, leading his generals and soldiers marched towards Hanzhong in the same year while Cao Cao did not gain a firm foothold there. The old senior general Huang Zhong defeated Zhang He at Mount Tiandang and finally seized Mount Dingjun.《定軍山》取材於中國古典四大名著之一的《三國演義》，講的是三國時 期蜀魏用兵的故事。公元215年，曹操奪取漢中，並派大將夏侯淵、 張郃等留守駐兵定軍山和天蕩山各隘口。劉備趁曹操立足未穩，同年率將兵進軍漢中，老將黃忠打敗了駐守天蕩山的張郃而奪得定軍山。During the early stage of the 20th century occidental film theaters owned by foreigners attracts numerous people while the occidental film theaters owned by Chinese Ren Qingtai on the same street attracted very few. The only reason was that foreigners did not sell new films to Chinese, and what Chinese theaters could merely do was to show those old films.

20世紀初的北京天橋，外國人開設的西洋影戲院門庭若市。同樣一條街，中 國人任慶泰開設的西洋影戲院卻門可羅雀。原因只有一個，外國人不賣你新片，任你幾部老片循環放映。

The year 1905 met the celebration of sixtieth birthday of Tan Xinpei, the notable old-aged male character artist of Beijing Opera. Ren Qingtai, the boss of the Beijing Fengtai Photo Studio, ought his aspiration to make Chinese people's own films. Tan Xinpei performed his adept excerpts, "Volunteering to take the army (QingYing)”，“brandishing swords (Wudao)，" and “cross swords (Jiaofeng)", etc. in the film. When finished film was held in Daguan Building among the moving crowds and such was the scramble of visitors. The Battle of Mount Dingjun (1905) symbolized the birth of Chinese film.1905年，適逢京劇老生表演藝術家譚鑫培60壽辰。北京豐泰照相館老闆任慶 泰忽然獲得了拍攝中國人自己的電影的靈感。譚鑫培在鏡頭前表演了“請纓”、 “舞刀”、“交鋒”等自己最拿手的幾個片斷。隨後，片子被拿到前門大觀樓熙攘的 人羣中放映,結果萬人空巷。《定軍山》標誌着中國電影的誕生。