entity Updated 2026-08-22 Tags: Performance, Opera, Chinese-Classics, Tang-Reception

《贵妃醉酒》 / Guifei Zuijiu

《贵妃醉酒》 / Guifei Zuijiu enters the wiki through Qinji 131-2 as the performance branch of the episode’s alcohol theme. The source presents 杨贵妃 drinking after Tang Minghuang fails to arrive at Baihua Pavilion and instead goes elsewhere.

The episode treats the work as a staged version of drunken desire, abandonment, and palace humiliation. It also says older versions included more explicitly erotic material, while 梅兰芳 later reshaped the piece by removing or softening material that the source calls unsuitable for broader audiences.

Connections

  • 杨贵妃 - central character of the staged drunken scene.
  • 梅兰芳 - performer/reformer credited with reshaping the work.
  • 酒作为权力催化剂 - source concept for alcohol as revelation rather than sole cause.
  • 李清照 - adjacent female drinking/literary branch in the episode.