Northeast duo.

The Northeast Rice-planting Song is an early child of folk culture, after the Yuan Dynasty, farmers spontaneously organized themselves to go from village to village to perform the rice-planting song on New Year's Day. Rice-planting dances were performed in two rows, with men on one side and women on the other. At that time, women were not allowed to dance and perform in public, so they were all impersonated by men who were powdered and dressed in flowery clothes. Rice-planting songs to "women" as the main, next to the men around the Danjiao dance, a moment to tease a little, the performance of the action will gradually have to move their hands and feet, and even some men and women flirting to say mouth. Watching rice-planting songs during the day is not enough, at night, the farmers will sing the best, the most beautiful pair of rice-planting song players invited to the house. "The north-south kang in the northeast, a large family, including the old man, the new daughter-in-law, all warmed on a kang, the rest is three or four feet wide," the rice-planting songs simply can not dance, the artists have no choice but to work on the rap. Light an oil lamp, sing a "White Snake", "embroidered purse" and so on, mostly Jiangnan, Hebei, Shandong and other places of folk songs and short stories, sung in the Northeast tunes. This is the prototype of the two-man show. Spring shoveling and sowing, called "hanging hoe" in the Northeast, have to sing 20 days of duet; fall harvest is over, and then sing half a month or 20 days, the two seasons of the year is almost duet season. When it comes to the cat winter time, the duet is even more essential. In spring and fall, most of the duet performances were sung in the courtyard and in the open air, so there was an alias "Rolling on the ground"; those who performed on the ridges in the fields and on top of the dung heap were called "Rolling on the earth"; those who sang on the side of the kang in the house in the freezing cold were called "Leaning on the edge of the kang". The performance is called "Leaning on the edge of the bed". Those who sang ugly looked at their faces, and those who had their heads wrapped looked at the waves ('head wrapped' refers to a female character who has been dressed up). The simple lighting in the house is not enough to talk about stage lighting, and the clowns hold oil lamps and sing and do around the female characters, so that the audience can see the female characters' pretty faces. They therefore practiced a handful of great skills: how to turn, the lamp is not happy to have a jump, and not happy to have the lamp oil splash out. "Accompanying the capital of the Chronicle" has been recorded in the duo, at that time more than ten kinds of musical forms, duo has not yet today's scientific name, its local name, called "bouncing". "Folk are called 'bungee jumping', and later still called so. The artists didn't want to do it, but the rabbit did. They would like to be called 'Lotus Flower Drop (sound the same as 'brand')', but also made up a special section of the 'say mouth': 'To be called Lotus Flower Drop, happy events will come, go out card Brick, Yuanbao looking home to hold. Whoever wants to call Bun Bun, turns his head and loses his joy, goes out and gets sick when he goes home.'" In the 1930s, Dalian's Taizhong Daily had already used the word "two-people turn", but it was really finalized in December 1952, when the former Liaodong Province held an art performance for the Literature Federation, the artists suggested that the name "bouncing" was not good, and the name was discussed for three days, and finally the name "two-people turn" was proposed. Finally put forward the name "two people".