Wu Zhen, a poet of Lintao in the Qing Dynasty, once praised that "the flower child is more than happy, and the woman is also elegant".
The Tang Dynasty is the golden age of poetry. Sui and Tang Dynasty before the Bingling Temple Grottoes appeared in the unprecedented and unparalleled pomp, marking the unprecedented prosperity of the culture of Hezhou. Has taken shape of the flower also get faster development, in order to make the lyrics easy to sing, people gradually make her rhyme, metrical. Comrade Malon according to the Dunhuang grottoes found in the Tang Dynasty folk tunes of some fragments of the lyrics: "Frequent full drink drunk as mud, / gently replace the golden goblet"; "...... Chao Chao standing in the west of the city gate, / the wind blowing tears point double pendant "and "Anchorage to the depths of the blue waves, / several beaches", etc., which led to the view that "Linxia flowers are related to words and may have been produced in the beginning of Tang Dynasty", which is worth paying attention to.
The peony is the symbol of flowers, and it is omnipresent in the names of songs, tunes, lyrics and liner notes, and its status and the degree of its praise have reached the point of "peony worship". This is consistent with the poem "Giving Peonies" (i.e. peonies) in the Book of Songs, and the custom of revering peonies in the Central Plains at the time of the Tang and Song dynasties. Linxia Flower Children. It is mainly circulated in the area of Hezhou, Gansu (now Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu). It is the school with the widest circulation, the greatest influence and the most audio-visual publications among the two major schools of Hua'er, and it is extremely popular with the masses of eight nationalities such as Han, Hui, Dongxiang, Tu, Sala, Bao'an, Tibet, Yugu and so on.
In Gansu, no matter is the grassland herdsman, the woman in the field, or the river raft worker, the foot of the road brother, all will believe in the mouth on a few flowers on the heart. And Tao Mian flower children singers, every year in summer and fall before the harvest, spontaneously held a grand folk flower children singers race song conference, the time has a long and short. Such as Gansu Province, Lotus Hill and other places flower event is more famous, not only local singers to participate in, the neighboring provinces and counties of the flower singers also ring offer songs. Linxia flower child is characterized by rich tunes, with lyricism, beautiful words, simple, vivid, image, strict structure. The lines are divided into two kinds: four lines and six lines. Singing is also relatively free, and mainly solo, but also duet and joint singing. Its tunes are melodious, high-spirited and exuberant. There are more than a hundred kinds of music scores (known as "Order"), and no less than forty kinds of music scores have been widely circulated. For example, "Hezhou Order", "Ga Ma Order", "Foot House Order", "Big Eyes Order", "Cangang Order", "Ga A Sister Order", "Sara Order", "Baoan Order", etc., are well known in the areas where they are spread. The family name is known to all.
Taoshen Huaer is the general name of "Lotus Mountain Huaer" and "Minxian Huaer".
It is one of the two major genres of the Northwest Flowers (the other is the Huangshi Flowers), which is mainly sung among the Han Chinese. Widely popular in Gansu Province, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Kangle, Hezheng County; Dingxi area of Lintao, Weiyuan County; Wudu area of Minxian (Minzhou), Wudu, Dangchang, Wenxian; Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Lintan (Taozhou), Zhuni, Zhouqu County and other places.
According to the tone, the words, the singing style, and the Tao Mian Huaer is divided into "South Road Huaer" and "North Road Huaer". Among them, "the south road flower child" to Minxian Erlangshan flower child will be the center, "the north road flower child" to Kangle County Lotus Hill flower child will be the center.
Taoshen Hua'er is called "grass article" by local people, and is divided into "Benzi Hua'er" and "scattered Hua'er". The so-called "Benzi Hua'er", refers to the singing of this set, there are stories of historical figures and folklore, such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "White Snake Biography", "Liang Shan Po and Zhu Yingtai", etc.; "scattered flowers" are mostly for the singers to touch the scene, improvised short songs, the words of the words are sung by the singers. The short song, the number of words, lines and paragraphs are very free, generally rhyme. Some of the rhyme to the end, known as the "single set"; where a song in two or three rhymes known as the "double set".
Taoshen Huaer according to the singing form, is divided into "the beginning of the song", "question and answer song", "pair of songs", "joint singing
According to the form of singing, they are divided into "opening songs", "question-and-answer songs", "pair songs", "joint songs", "life songs", "short songs" and "long narrative songs".
All in all, the Taoist Mende Flowers have various formats, free structure, flexible singing, and are y loved by the local people.
***After the establishment of the country, "flower" was given new content, mountain, ground, construction site everywhere singing, not only on the stage, but also sung to Beijing.
"Hua'er" is very rich in content. There is a traditional, by the thousands of refined and left the lyrics, there are also touching the scene, spontaneous improvisation. Singing Hua'er is commonly known as "Manju" (漫少年). The folk proverb says: "Shaanxi's chaotic bomb, Hezhou's juvenile". Hezhou is the ancient name of Linxia, Linxia is the birthplace and hometown of flowers, Linxia flowers sing words and tunes into "Hezhou flowers" and "Lotus Hill flowers" two categories. There are also two major categories: North Country Flowers, South Country Flowers, East Country Flowers and West Country Flowers. Its structure is divided into two sections, the first section is mostly picaresque, and the second section is the theme of the song. The music of "Huaer" is compactly combined with the lyrics, and consists of symmetrical phrases above and below. The tune changes with the lyrics, "Huaer" sings in Linxia dialect, with a strong local flavor, the tune of the lyrics of the ups and downs, strong and weak changes are very big, and often add glissandos, leaning, even tone, trill, decorative sounds, etc., with a high-pitched, long, crisp, enthusiastic and unrestrained characteristics, Linxia popular "Huaer "Because of the different national languages, customs and customs differences, singing habits change, with unique national characteristics and artistic features.