閩劇《陳若霖斬皇子》第九場： 中計 Part 10/11

陳若霖（1759年－1832年），字宗覲，號望坡，福建閩縣（今福州市區）螺洲人。清朝政治人物。
陳若霖於乾隆五十二年（1787年）中式三甲進士，授庶吉士，入文淵閣參校《四庫全書》。乾隆五十四年（1789年），授刑部主事，歷任刑部奉天、山西、直隸、廣西、四川等司主事、員外郎，累遷郎中。嘉慶十三年（1808年），外放四川鹽茶道，提為山東按察使。嘉慶二十年（1815年），升為雲南巡撫。嘉慶二十二年（1817年），任廣東巡撫兼兩廣總督，重修《廣東通志》。道光元年（1821年），升任湖廣總督。隔年，調任四川總督。道光四年（1824年）三月，授工部尚書兼順天府尹事。同年改刑部尚書。道光十二年（1832年）因病乞歸，病死於途中，歸葬福州南郊北園山頭嶺。道光帝多次賜御書，陳若霖在家鄉建"賜書軒"收藏，並蓋上"三山陳氏居敬堂圖書"的圖章。
其他閩劇有《陳若霖斬皇子》，演他判一個貝勒死刑的故事，並非史實。
陳若霖曾孫陳寶琛兄弟，有3人進士，3人舉人，人稱"兄弟六科甲"。

陳若霖是清朝的刑部尚書，為官清廉剛正，老百姓為了表達對這位大清官的擁戴，進而有了傳統閩劇《陳若霖斬皇子》。劇情是：清朝皇子鴻杵見宰相之女李雪嬌有閉月羞花之美貌，假傳太后懿旨，騙進宮中，欲行非禮。雪嬌不從，自縊身亡。刑部大臣陳若霖，不畏權勢，判清冤案，斬了皇子，大快人心。此劇清末即有福州評話講演和戲班演出，1945年福州復興閩劇社首演後影響甚大Although the Fuzhou dialect officially defined as a dialect, but from the linguistic definition, the Fuzhou dialect with the standard Chinese language differences are different, and even can not be said of other branches of Min people to understand. In this sense, the Fuzhou dialect is a language rather than dialect.

Fuzhou dialect main passage in the People's Republic of southeastern Fujian Province Min River middle and lower reaches (including its tributaries dazhang Gutianxi Creek and River Basin) to the estuary area, covering 11 counties and cities are Fuzhou, Minhou, Wing Thailand, Minqing, Changle, Luoyuan, Lianjiang, Fuqing, Pingtan, Pingnan and Gutian, overseas Chinese organizations have said Fuzhou Fuzhou ten ap Association.

With the Fuzhou people to overseas migrants, Fuzhou dialect has also spread to Southeast Asia, Japan and the United States and other places in the Chinese community has become quite influential in overseas Chinese.
Native speakers also call it Bàng-uâ (平話), meaning the language spoken in everyday life, even in Malaysia.
eg.- Setaiwan, Kuala Lumpur and Sarawak.
Spoken in: People's Republic of China (Fuzhou and its surrounding counties); Republic of China 馬祖 (Matsu Islands); Malaysia (Sibu, Miri, Sarikei, Bintulu, Yong Peng, Sitiawan and Ayer Tawar); Indonesia; Singapore; and some Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and the west, particularly in the Chinatowns of New York and London .
Centered in Fuzhou City, Fuzhou dialect mainly covers eleven cities and counties, viz.: Fuzhou (福州), Pingnan (屏南), Gutian (古田), Luoyuan (羅源), Minqing (閩清), Lianjiang (連江, Matsu included), Minhou (閩侯), Changle (長樂), Yongtai (永泰), Fuqing (福清) and Pingtan (平潭). Fuzhou dialect is also the second local language in northern and middle Fujian cities and counties, like Nanping (南平), Shaowu (邵武), Shunchang (順昌), Sanming (三明) and Youxi (尤溪).