Pair of Flowers from Huangmei Opera What answers are as follows:
"Pair of Flowers" is selected from the Huangmei Opera, "Playing Pigweed"
Pair of Flowers:
A traditional ditty that is widely popular in the north of China. The singers compete in intelligence, impart knowledge, and entertain games by asking each other questions and guessing the names of flowers. It is sung in various forms, some accompanied by musical instruments, and some even accompanied by gongs and drums while dancing and singing.
The songs are mostly in the form of sectional songs, with twelve sections, each of which is sung for a month, with one section for questions and one section for answers, and constantly overlapping, with the sentences getting tighter and tighter and the alternation getting denser and denser, and the more they are sung, the more enthusiastic they become. Each section has only two lines, such as the question, "What flowers bloom in the first month?"
Answer: "It is the spring flowers that bloom in the first month." What follows is a large section of liner notes. There are mutual address "brother ah" "sister ah", there are playful, amusing "get ah", there are imitation gongs and drums "seven rongdong, eight not rongdong "
The river is a very lively place.
Hebei, Shaanxi, Henan, Liaoning and other provinces have their own more typical tunes. In addition, the Northeast and North China is also popular "against the flower", that is, in December to start, backwards to May, is also quite distinctive.
The "Against Flowers" is taken from the Huangmei Opera's "Beating Pigweed", and its singing belongs to the "Flower Cavity", i.e., folk tunes. The beat is flexible, the tune is bright and fluent, and it has a strong sense of life, with distinctive local characteristics and folk song colors.
The "Pair of Flowers" is a question-and-answer song with the theme of flowers. Various kinds of flowers, as artistic symbols, are placed in the lyrics, which set up metaphors for the scene and express emotions through the flowers, thus arousing associations for a better life. The work retains a lot of colloquialisms and dialects, such as "么 "代 "什么", "么用用用", "么杆子么叶", all of which are from Anhui Anshi, China. ", all of which are in the Anqing dialect of Anhui Province.
The local color of the language adds to the local flavor of the work. The liner notes, such as "Deer feed, Deer feed feed on feed," give the work the flavor of a folk song, but also create more room for performance. The funny performances of the two main characters utilizing the liner notes leave a deep impression on the audience.