How many kinds of China Quyi are there? What are they? [

Quyi is the general name of all kinds of rap arts of the Chinese nation. Quyi has a deep origin in China. It is a unique art form formed by the long-term development and evolution of folk oral literature and singing art. Its main characteristics are telling stories and portraying characters. After the dynasties of Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties and historical evolution, there are about 400 kinds of folk quyi, which can be roughly classified into five categories: storytelling, cross talk, allegro, drum music and rap.

Storytelling category

The characteristic of storytelling is that an actor tells a story, but only talks but doesn't sing. Actors often insert some comments into stories. Stories are usually told in Mandarin. However, there are also kinds of dialect storytelling, such as Suzhou storytelling, Yangzhou storytelling, Sichuan storytelling and Hubei storytelling. During the storytelling performance, there is a table and a chair on the stage, and there are three props on the table: waking water, folding fan and handkerchief. Actors perform or sit or stand. The storytelling performance emphasizes the effect of "a mouthful of typhoon and snow is a mouth". Generally speaking, storytelling is a long book. Its artistic structure is rigorous, the plot is tense, the story is vivid, and there must be suspense between paragraphs. In performance, it is often necessary to shape characters with the help of actors' body shapes and facial expressions, and to simulate various objects with props.

Crosstalk class

Crosstalk has the characteristics of being relaxed, lively, funny and humorous. Generally, there is a stand-up crosstalk of one person; These two people have a good cross talk; Crosstalk with more than three people. The one-man show in the south and the comedy in Sichuan also belong to the category of cross talk. Crosstalk is characterized by making people laugh. A cross talk must have several big "burdens", that is, paragraphs, in order to achieve the best artistic effect. Speaking, learning, teasing and singing are the four basic skills that cross talk must have.

Allegro class

Kuaishu mainly refers to Shandong Kuaishu which originated in the southwest of Shandong Province. Shandong Kuaishu is a folk art form that uses Shandong dialect. It is said in singing, said in singing and sung in singing. During the performance, an actor in a gown stood in the center of the stage, holding two half-moon-shaped copper mandarin duck boards in his hand, playing various rhythms to cooperate with his narrative and performance. Shandong Kuaishu is full of stories and humor. It makes jokes through misunderstanding, clever platform and self-contradiction.

Allegro is a folk art form in which an actor takes two big bamboo boards in his right hand and five small bamboo boards in his left hand and rap with bamboo boards. In addition, Liu, Tianjin Allegro, bamboo books and so on are also different forms of this rap art.

drum music

Drum music, including tanci, drums, fishing drums, piano books, zaqu, etc. , is a kind of music form mainly composed of lyrics.

Rap class

Mainly refers to a long and continuous play, in which the actors must talk and sing together. Such as Xihe Drum, Henan Pendant, Pingtan, Fuzhou Pinghua, etc.

In 1980s, with the popularization of TV in the lives of ordinary people in China, Quyi art also expressed and developed itself with the help of this new media. The "TV Bookstore" and "Quyi Miscellaneous Altar" of the TV station were launched; The appearance of crosstalk MTV provides a new opportunity for the popularization and development of Quyi art.

China Quyi Troupe, with its strong folk and mass character, is not only cherished by the people of China, but also attracted the favor of scholars and friends all over the world who are interested in oriental culture. In the past twenty years, China Quyi artists have gone abroad to introduce this interesting China citizen. Introduction to foreign audience art; Many foreign experts also came to China to study and specialize in China Quyi. The fact that China Quyi has evolved shows that the real national art belongs to the world in the end.