Product: Peking Opera Si Lang Visits His Mother
Starring: Deng Min, Huang Binqiang, Li Hongmei
Performed by the Second Troupe of China National Peking Opera Company
Published by Beijing Culture & Art Audio-Visual Publishing House, 2005
Media: 2 DVD discs
Language: Chinese
Subtitle: Chinese
ISBN: 7883012274
ISRC: CN-C02-05-0008-0/V.J8
 
Silang Visits His Mother is a famous play of Beijing opera. This play was performed by Deng Min, Hung Bingqing, Lin Hongmei, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of China Peking Opera Theatre.

Story Synopsis

"Generals of the Yang Family" was a very powerful force of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). The story is about Yang Si Lang, the fourth son of the family. Since he was captured by the northern Liao State in a huge lost battle, he named himself with a Liao style last name for escaping. Then he was married to a Liao princess named Tie Jing. It was fifteen years later, the military led by the Yang family go north to attack Liao State again. Yang Si Lang wanted to meet them when he heard that his old mother had come to the frontier this time. Since there were battles between the Song and Liao militaries, he asked Princess Tie Jing to help him for taking an order board from her mother. Then Mr. Yang went through the Liao pass successfully and proceeded at very high speed to the Song camps. He was captured out of the camps by his nephew and brought to his whole family later. Mr. Yang Si Lang called on his mother in the frontier fifteen years later, finally. Everybody here was crying with surprises and sorrows. Yang Si Lang then hurried back to Liao at dawn after a brief reunion. Liao military captured him in his way home. The Princess's mother saw through his being one of "Generals of the Yang Family" and ordered to behead him. The Princess Tie Jing begged to her mother for saving him. Mr. Yang Si Lang finally escaped from death in the hard-tries of his wife.

商品名称：京剧《四郎探母》
主演：邓敏、黄炳强、李红梅
演出：中国京剧院二团
出版社：北京文化艺术音像出版社，2005
介质：DVD
碟数：2
字幕：中文
ISBN：7883012274
ISRC：CN-C02-05-0008-0/V.J8
 
本剧为中国京剧院建院五十周年经典剧目展演之精品剧目。

剧情介绍

宋朝杨家将六郎杨延昭挂帅北征，杨母佘太君押粮随进，兵迫雁门关的消息，勾起身陷辽邦十五年，改名木易，现为驸马的四郎杨延辉的亲情之思。四邓急欲过营探母，无耐敌垒阻隔，难以成行。四邓的情怀，被美丽善良的铁镜公主察知，四邓详述隐情，剖白身世，打动公主。公主盗令箭，助四耶出关会亲。杨家骨肉重聚，互诉离情。天将破晓，四郎恐连累公主，与全家泪别，返回辽营。萧太后欲斩四郎。公主为之求情，终被赦免。