Yuezhong is one of the three major types of theater in Henan, popular in Henan and the northern part of Hubei.
There are three kinds of performances: the first one is shadow theater; the second one is puppet theater; and the third one is a big troupe of Yuezhong.
These three forms of performance are still popular in the rural areas of northern Hubei, western Anhui and Nanyang in Henan.
Because of its long history, the music of the Yueju in Henan has both a large number of songs and a more complete plate accent.
The main singing style is "Yue tune", and sometimes it is also sung by "Blow cavity", "Kun cavity", "seven lines half", etc.
The music of Henan Yue tune is popular in the rural areas of northern Hubei, western Anhui, and Nanyang, Henan.
The main singing style is "Yue tune", and sometimes also "Blow", "Kun" and "Seven and a Half".
Accompanied by the Sihu (commonly known as the "heavenly ladder") as the main instrument (thus the Yue tune is also sometimes called "four strings"), lying flute, Yueqin as a supplement, and later gradually added a short pole fell hu, moko, erhu, suona, three strings and pipa.
Social fire Yangge is a long-established folk song and dance art, generally sung in the Spring Festival, red and white celebrations and agricultural leisure time, which originated in the primitive ancestors of the totem of Chong, sacrificial songs and dances, after a long
long history of evolution, to the middle of the Qing Dynasty was formally formed.
Beach song social fire rice-planting songs, also known as "shooting tiger", mainly sung during the Spring Festival, known as "playing rice-planting songs" or "singing social fire".
According to the performance time to points, there are "social fire" and "night social fire" two types.
"Social fire" in the daytime performance, to play the main, to sing as a supplement; "night social fire" in the night performance to sing the main, to play as a supplement.
According to the form of performance, there are walking high foot, high lift, horse social fire, singing songs, playing lion, playing dragon lantern, playing boxing, twisting the big head, pounding garlic pots, moving the boat, run the style of paper horses.
Singing in the 1950s before and after the "big singing", "small singing" and "Yangge" three categories.
"Big singing" is also called "messy bomb" or "bang bang", is today's Qinqiang.
"Small singing" is divided into "back of the Palace tone" and "Yue tone", "back of the Palace tone" and by the "front back of the Palace". The "Dorsal Palace" is composed of four tunes: "Front Dorsal Palace", "Twisted Silk Tune", "Fallen Gold" and "Back Dorsal Palace"; The "Yue tune" is divided into "Xiaoqu" and "Suqu", and "Xiaoqu" is also called "A string of bells". "a string of bells", "set of songs" is also called "nine cavity eighteen tunes".
The ryuns are a kind of song and dance drama, which can be divided into "production life drama", "once in a lifetime", "demon bitch", "Shame" and "Talking" and so on.
The following is mainly about the "small singing" and "Yangge".
First, "small singing" "small singing" in the "back of the Palace" was originally a musical term, that is, refers to the "three-string stringing law ", where the 5 6 3 is set for the main palace tone, set 1 5 1 for the back of the palace tone.
The lyrics of the back of the song passed down in the Tangge area to date are more than thirty, and it is a kind of strict genre of the song words.
"Back Palace Tunes" generally have four tunes, one is the "former back Palace Tunes", the lyrics for the seven lines; the second is the "twisted silk tunes", also known as "string felt tunes"; the second is the "twisted silk tunes", also known as "string felt tunes"; the second is the "twisted silk tunes", also known as "string felt tunes"; the third is the "string felt tunes". String felt tune"; three is "fall down the golden tune", full name "fall down the money tune"; four is the "back of the Palace tune", the lyrics for the quatrain.
"back palace" tune both "front back palace tone" and "back back palace tone" called "double back palace ", such as "Sage Figure", "Wang Xiang lying on the ice", etc.; only the "front back of the palace tone" no "back of the palace tone", and the "end of the Yue tone" fall sound called "single back palace", such as "Jiang Wei sigh Han", "drunken children", etc.; some "back palace tune" in the middle of the addition of several other tunes, plus tunes collectively referred to as the "farce", such as in the "Wu Wang Cai Lian In the "King Wu's Picking Lotus" and "The Qin Room Sends Lights", there are "Flip Words", "Yang Liu Qing", "Shandan Plum Blossom" and "Ping Tune". Some of the "Back Gong Tunes" also add several short four-character phrases of the same tune to the "Back Gong Tunes", which are called "urging phrases"; there are also a small number of "Back Gong Tunes" with the "Back Gong Tunes" of the "Back Gong Tunes", which are also known as the "Back Gong Tunes".
"Small singing" in the "Yue tune" has a "small song" and "set of songs" two.
The "little song" is also called "a string of bells", that is, a tune from beginning to end with only one tune, such as "the dowry" sung only with "weaving handkerchiefs", "selling straw hats" only with "the Yang family embroidery lotus", "the Yang family embroidery lotus", "the Yang family embroidery lotus", "the Yang family embroidery lotus", "the Yang family embroidery lotus". "Yang family embroidery purse tune"; "set of songs" is also called "nine cavity 18 tune", that is, a tune in the cavity of a variety of changes, such as in the "five parties to watch the lanterns" there are
"Yue tune" has a variety of accents, about eighty kinds, the source of its name has four categories: First, the name of the tune passed down orally over the generations, such as "flower tune", "flipping tone", "flat tone", "flat tone", "flat tone", "flower tone" and "flat tone", and the name of the tune of the tune of the tune. The first is the names of tunes passed down orally from generation to generation, such as "Flower Tune", "Flip Tune", "Flat Tune", etc.; the second is the names of tunes named after the song names of "Xiaoqu", such as "Kite Flying Tune", "Butterfly Annunciation Tune "The third is the name of the tune according to the content of the lyrics and the emotion of the singing voice, such as the "difficult tune", "sad tune", "sad and angry tune", "The Tune of Annunciation", "The Tune of Tearfulness", etc. Fourthly, the names of the tunes named after plants such as flowers and willows, such as "The Tune of Shandan Plum Blossom", "The Tune of Golden Hairpin Flower ", "Yang Liuqing tune", etc.; in addition, there are a number of cavity without a name or do not know the name of the tune.
The lyrics of "Yuezhong" have been passed down for thousands of years, and can be divided into two categories: "textual transmission" and "oral transmission".
"Textual circulation" refers to historical stories and legends of gods and goddesses from ancient times to the present that have been recorded in writing, such as "Three Emperors Rule the World", "Qujiang Beats the Son", and "Trial of Su San", etc. "Textual circulation" refers to the lyrics that have been passed down orally by the people, and they are the real life of folk production at various stages of history. The "textual circulation" refers to the oral lyrics of the people, which is a true portrayal of the production life of the people in various stages of history, such as the "December", "Hei Chong Chong", "String Felt" and so on.
Regardless of the mode of transmission, are loyal and good generals, men and women in love, life as the main content of the sad and happy, which is about the love of the song is also known as the "sour song".
Yuezhong can be divided into two types of narratives: "Narrative Song" and "Eighteen Pieces".
"Narrative song" a song recounting a story, such as "mat felt", "Ten Mile Pavilion", "King of Wu rebel" and so on.
Eighteen Rip is based on imagery such as flowers, moon, wine, etc., pulling and mingling allusions to various characters of the past and future dynasties into a single tune, such as Embroidery Ten Scenes, December Generals, etc.
In the "Narrative Song", a tune narrates a story.
In the "small singing", whether it is the "back of the Palace" or "Yue tune", the form of singing can be divided into "cited Dan", "sit", "sit", "sit", "sit", "sit", "sit", "sit", "sit", "sit", "sit" and "sit".
The "small singing" in both the "back of the Palace" and "Yue tune", the singing form can be divided into "citing Dan", "sitting class" and "move the boat" three kinds.
"Lead Dan" refers to the Spring Festival in the social fire Yangge singing, with the erhu, three strings and other musical instruments for accompaniment, to the student, Dan four or eight people in pairs to walk a step called "eight steps" step singing, called "twisting", or to the "eight steps", or to the "eight steps", or to the "eight steps". Eight Steps", or "Twisting Circles", when several roles are sung in a circle together; "Sitting Class" refers to sitting and singing for red and white events throughout the year, and is also known as "Hexi" or "Qingxi".
In the public arena called "public field", in private homes called "private field".
Second, "Yangge" As mentioned earlier, the social fire Yangge singing song in the "Yangge", its "production and life drama" a true reflection of the people's production and living conditions and their inner spiritual world at various stages of history. As mentioned earlier, the "rice-planting songs" of the social fire songs, their "dramas of production and life" truly reflect the people's production and living conditions at various stages of history and their inner spiritual worlds, such as "Hoeing Cotton", "Hoeing the Field for Four Girls", "Gathering Vegetables", etc.; "Once in a Lifetime" is generally a love song expressing the private feelings of men and women, such as "Blue Yulian Carrying Water", "Selling Water", "Selling a Grate", "Cutting Silk", etc.; "Demon Lady Generally, it refers to the stories of mistreatment of daughters and daughters-in-law by their stepmothers and families, such as "Guixiang Women Carrying Water" and "Wang Denglong Repudiating His Wife", etc. "Throwing Scandal" is generally a humorous skit to make people laugh, such as "Gua Daughter-in-law Worshipping Her Father-in-Law", "Gua Wazi Pulling a Donkey" and "Zhang Gong Carrying His Wife"; "Talking mouth" is also called "Wang Chang", similar to the modern fast board, such as "catch fleas", "live pimples", "said bald", "Kung family mountain blind date" and so on.
The "rice-planting songs" of the singing songs, most of the tunes for a tune, such as "wild magpie flowers", "Erniang harmful lovesickness", etc.; a small number of borrowed from the "Yue tune" in the "small song" tunes, such as the "wild magpie flowers", "Erniang harmful lovesickness" and so on.
Tangge social fire Yangge song, from the content and tunes and the old man's story, its sources are three: one is the creation of the local people, the second is absorbed by the neighboring areas such as Longxi, Lomen, Gangu and other places of the tune, the third is the immigrants from Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places to bring the tune.
In short, the beach song social fire rice-planting song from the performance form, lyrics, tunes, content, and sources, etc. have their own distinctive style and local characteristics, passed down from generation to generation and the development and evolution, has become today's beach song in the flower of folk culture and art of a wonder.