Key Words: 悠悠精美散文
Prose Category: Fine Prose
Essay Source: /sanwen
Dialect, folk songs, local opera is just like the voice of a person, from which can be perceived the person's age, identity, education, origin, cultivation, but also represents the humanities of a place, They also represent a place's humanity, folklore, history and natural environment. My childhood was spent in the melodious and pleasant singing voice and vivid and chic performance of a small local opera called "Dengjantou Opera". It was the unique sound of a small dry plateau at the western end of the Loess Plateau in Lintai, my hometown in the northwest of China. It was the voice of my folks, the ordinary people who had never left the loess, who had never seen the world, and who could not read or write much, who, in the long years when they were facing the loess and facing the sky, sang songs in the form of their rustic dialects to express their depressions brought by the heavy physical labor and the life of silence and poverty, and their love and longing for a better life. The songs are in the form of songs in their simple dialect, expressing their love and yearning for a better life, and expressing their love, understanding and tolerance for the world.
This small opera is called Bowls and Bowls, also known as gongs and drums, not only complete, complete form, with melodious, crisp music and vivid lyrics, and has a very long history. When I was a child, there was no television, and movies were seldom shown, so the most watched by the townspeople was the lantern head opera. The repertoire of this small opera is extensive, and the performance forms are colorful, both the Qinqiang script replica, and the shadow artist's original creation. In fact, at that time I could not understand, is that the name of the play is also from the mouth of adults heard, such as "Monkey touch head", "haunted hell", "burning Li Ru", "Liu Muli eating noodles", "Xuan people hoeing grain" and so on, are rarely seen in other places of the play. After the fall harvest, in the production team's yard, build a simple earth platform, separated by a white cloth, moving to the line of props, in the night after the fall of the cover light, the actors hide in the light can not be illuminated, picking the shadow, according to the needs of the plot, behind the white curtain to make a variety of different actions, accompanied by the words of the song. The person who sings and the person who picks is often a person, the mouth moves with the shadow, and the words and movements are coordinated. Those small and delicate people behind the curtain or laughing or crying, or walking or sitting, lifelike, realistic and moving. The old people who know the opera sat upright on the stage, watching and listening carefully, some women also wiped their eyes and wiped their tears, they were watching the opera, watching the story of the play. And I was watching the play only to see the fun, those myths and legends of the gods and goddesses, calling the wind and rain, clouds and fog, into the sky and the ground, the action is beautiful, clean and sharp, like a movie screen swept across the eyes, the scene than today's TV cartoons more exciting. Sometimes also crowded in the background to see the old man hiding under the curtain, his two hands dexterous, hand shadow also jumped up and down, doing a variety of actions, let a person dazzling.
After watching the shadow Lanjian opera back, I always like to pester my grandfather to tell him about the legend of Lanjian opera and bowl cavity. Grandpa lit up the old dry cigarette and boiled pots of tea while telling me about it. It was a long time ago, there is a storyteller, people look quite ugly, afraid of students see dare not come to listen to the class, will hide behind the curtain to the students, folk known as the curtain storytelling. Listening to the people only hear his voice, do not see his face, some people will propose to light an oil lamp inside the curtain, will be its shadow on the curtain, so that you can hear his voice and see his figure, which is the same as seeing him in person, the effect of listening to the book is much more obvious. In order to commemorate this gentleman, the descendants will imitate his actions, his story carved on cowhide, made of shadow, picked behind the curtain, and then with the bowl to sing, is the earliest shadow bowl opera. Plain and simple story, dissolved into the unrestrained imagination, become beautiful and poignant, to the poor years are not willing to be lonely teenage dream inserted the wings of flight.
And the bowl cavity also has a moving legend. It is said that in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the drought in Lintai was so severe that there was no harvest, and the peasants had to leave their homes and beg along the streets. They made up their own misery into a song, with a string wearing a string of date wood small boards as a rattle, crying while singing, singing a feminine and poignant voice, people touched. This daytime begging for food, night accommodation in the temple, someone inadvertently knocked over the clear oil lamp on the temple table, issued a clear and pleasant sound. So inspired to go out to beg for food during the day, they took the lamp bowl bowl, knocking and singing, those stories of wives separated, broken families made up of ditties in the lamp bowl bowl under the pounding, more sorrowful and touching, so that those rich and powerful landlords also moved to compassion, to help them through the difficult times. So, they believed that the gods were secretly helping them, and after the famine passed, they began to renovate the temple and worship the gods. From then on, every year after February 2, villages and societies all have a shrine meeting, not only for the sake of lively, but also to pray for the blessing of the gods and goddesses to prevent further famines. In the God will, by the head of the special gathering of people singing bowl cavity, the most popular "embroidered purse", "ten lamps", "Yang Yanmei", "Meng Jiangnu crying the Great Wall", "playing the casserole" and so on. The singing is accompanied by gongs and drums, small iron rods knocking on the head of the lamp, and musical instruments such as two strings made of cowhide tendons.
From the first day of the month to the fifteenth day of the month, the fifteenth moon is high.
The wind blows and swings, and the wind is blowing.
The wind is blowing and the willow is blowing.
The wind is blowing and the willow is blowing.
The first thing I want to do is to bring a letter to you and embroider a purse to wear.
The natural purse is made of silk,
and the five packets of floral threads are divided up.
Open the bag of golden threads.
The silver thread is also gone.
The first thing you need to do is to buy the gold and silver threads.
I'm going to make a flower purse and give it to the man in my heart.
These melodious and staccato tunes, just like the "spring" of the spring masters in the first month of the year when the villages are having social fires, are both lively and pleasant to listen to.
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There are four or five townships on the western plateau of Lingtai, and the temple fair begins in February and continues until the end of April when the wheat harvest begins to end, with each township taking turns singing for ten days and a half months. The streets are crowded, in addition to watching the play, the townspeople also livestock and material exchanges, and later because of the downfall of the cow ghosts and snakes, they will be renamed the temple fair for the material exchange conference, generally organized by the township government, the customary, this kind of activity has been continued to the present. Performed by the play will be very formal, organized by the General Assembly to invite the county troupe to sing, sung by the repertoire of Qinqiang, but with all the bowl cavity. Because it is a large-scale singing on a real person. Mother is a fan of Qinqiang, is also a master of singing bowl cavity, the temple will be staged in the play she is every scene must see, what "three into the service", "Wanfu Lotus", "100,000 gold", "two monkeys touch the head", "fire Li Ru", "guillotine beauty case", the mother will be able to memorize the lyrics after watching the home side of the work while humming, and sometimes used to coax the younger siblings to fall asleep at night.
Some of the lyrics are sung in the Qin Opera, but the tone of voice in the crying voice slow board dragging the tone of the auxiliary words "an, ah, ai, which", as well as the end of the yi yi yi yi dragging a long time, so that the rich Guanzhong accent into the authentic Longdong flavor, the mother's soft and mellow tone, like the blue smoke swaying in the breeze, drifting to the clouds and sky, drifting into the depths of the yellow earth, drifting into the clouds and sky, drifting into the depths of the yellow earth, drifting into the clouds and sky, drifting into the clouds and sky. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you'll be able to get your hands on some of the most popular ones.
Sometimes, the county troupe was invited to perform the Qinqiang opera, the townships will organize their own troupe to sing at the temple fair, the actors from the villages and communities to temporarily transfer some of the good singers and dancers, but also in the past some of the private troupe of the original team, they are native old artists, the repertoire sung by the head of the lamp, such as the "separation", "the sound of the well gun", "send fertilizer", "the first and the second", "the first and the second", "the first", "the first". The old performers who grew up in the area sang mostly Lanjantou plays, such as "Separation of Families", "The Sound of Cannons in the Well", "The Story of Sending Fat", "The Struggle to be the First", "Zhaojun and Fan", "Pocket Array" and so on. Those older people will go more, and our children are still in order to catch the hustle and bustle, stand under the stage for a while, you push me to squeeze for a while, and from the side of the stage, look at the actors and actresses thanked for the makeup, while shouting the name of the person they played in the play, the side of the stage jumped off, ran to the back of the stage, and so that the person rushed to the edge of the stage want to curse when they have been unable to find the shadow of the child. Running to the back of the stage still hear the front stage of the cool, sad singing:
"In the first month is the new year, Zhaojun mother went and fan.
Embracing the pipa with tears on her face, letting out a cry out of the Yanmen Pass."
In fact, the bowl cavity heard the most or the field. The endless wheat field, like a golden sea surging and undulating, those hovering on the tip of the wheat waves of dragonflies, was harvested by the scythe flying drive, dancing on the heads of the townspeople. Dancing scythes of the townspeople, lined up in a long line, groups of two, with the cooperation of the team, you chased me, hot and heavy. I led my sister to the wheat field to bring food to my parents, far from being attracted by a voice, it is the village's new aunt, her voice and brittle and bright, but also dragged a trembling aftertaste, floating in the wheat waves:
"The first month of February on the even March, this month and month there are flowers in bloom.
Peach blossoms cracked apricot blossoms, pear blossoms bloomed a piece of snow.
The peas bloom with a little blood in their mouths, and the buckwheat blooms with a fluttering grin."
In my hometown, a lot of people know how to sing the Bow Wow. On snowy days, we sat around our grandmothers on hot pits, braiding hats with straw while listening to her whispering and singing in an old but soft tone. I gazed at my grandmother's mouth, blood rolled thick and eternal moving. The ordinary grandmother from the revered three inches of gold lotus era, although the weather but tenacious and optimistic, may be too much experience of great joys and sorrows, in order to life's sweet and sour, the world's warmth and cold, as well as the fate of the woman's helplessness and misery with the light and lingering ditty described in colorful:
The daughter of seventeen-eighteen, learning to spin cotton hands.
The right hand can't twist, the left hand can't pull.
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