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The name "quick board" appeared later, in the early years was called "counting to the treasure", also known as "smooth talk", "flow mouth rut", "practicing the mouth", from the Song Dynasty, the poor people sang the "Lotus Flower Drop" evolved and developed. The same as the "Lotus Flower Drop", at first it was sung by beggars when they were begging along the street. As a begging singing activities, the history of quite a long time; as a form of artistic performance, it is relatively late. As I said before, the old artists always want to find a historical figure, as the founder of the ancestor, in order to add color, "number to the treasure" artists are certainly no exception. So in the history of the beggar group to find the Ming dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang, as the ancestor. Cloud visitors "jianghu series of talk" said:

We have discussed with their generation, why worship Zhu Hongwu? According to them, Zhu Hongwu was born in Zhongli County, Haozhou, Anhui Province, in the Yuan Dynasty at the time of Emperor Wenzong. Father's name Zhu Shizhen, mother Guo, had four sons and a daughter, three sons were separated due to the chaos, the female has been married. The fourth son, the Hongwu Emperor, was unusual since his childhood. They say that this baby is not an unusual character, the future will certainly be outstanding ...... Zhu Hongwu named Zhu Yuanzhang, the word Guo Rui, to the time he would talk, called his father died, called his mother died, leaving him alone, with his Wang Ganniang day, and its growth, sent to the Huangjue Temple monk, the elders gave him the name of Yuanlong monk. Elder treats him very generous, the temple monks treat him very thin, after the death of the elder, the monks will Zhu Yuanzhang expelled from the temple, his Wang godmother sent him to the Ma family to Ma cattle ranchers. The place where the cows were herded was a rocky mountain, but he had bad luck, the cows died of disease, or buried in the mountain, or ate their meat, and were expelled by the Ma clan. Wang Ganma died of illness, Zhu Hongwu had to go from house to house to ask for. Because of his life, call anyone as master who is sick, call anyone as mom who is also sick, after the people of Zhongli County are not allowed to call him in front of the door to call the master and mom. Zhu Hongwu in the cattle ranching place of their own sad, teenagers, life is hard luck, to whose family to ask for whoever's family is sick. Not allowed to shout in front of the door, how to beg? He suddenly saw two pieces of cow bone on the ground, the urgency of the wisdom, want to use this cow bone knocking, begging from household to household. So he used this cow bone every day to beat and beg along the door. Zhongli County people are afraid of its call master and mother, every heard the sound of cattle bones in front of the door to, will be leftover food to take to the door, to Zhu Hongwu. Until today, the poor family beggars, do not call their parents, that is, their heredity.

Social people called the cow bone, the poor family's people called the cow bone, "Taiping drum". There are thirteen small copper bells on it, which were also left by Zhu Hongwu. Legend has it that there is a copper bell can eat a province, there are bells thirteen can eat thirteen provinces.

"Counting to treasure" artists of this kind of statement more than to push the present and the ancient color, can only be prepared to say." Beiping Guide" said:

"Counting Lai Bao", formerly known as "good people know", the whole broken clothes have, dedicated to Zhu Hongwu, holding a bamboo board, there are also holders of cattle bones. Adoption of disciples, according to the household to ask for money. Recently, Tianqiao and many other places, there are based on this art, set up a performance.

"Counting to the treasure" has changed from begging singing activities to "put down" selling art. The anonymous "Du Men Zh Zh Zhi Zi" said: "Recently, people are always curious, the news talk about people. A group of people gathered like a swarm, surrounded by a wild cry. The development of "counting to the treasure" has gone through three stages: first, begging and singing along the street, second, "put down" to sell their art, and third, stage performances.

Old Beijing Tianqiao has "counting treasure" field, but not fixed. All because of "counting to treasure" not earn much money, vulgar language, not easy to attract the audience, the owner is not willing to rent to the "counting to treasure" artists. They see where there is empty space, where to say, over time, also occupy a place. Tianqiao "counting treasure" artists in the more famous are small sea and Cao Ma-zi. Cloud tourists, "Jianghu Congzhuan" in the cloud: "small sea is a long time Tianqiao, as far as Longfu Temple, Guoguo Temple, Land Temple to catch a temple fair, never out of Beiping. Cao Ma Zi is specializing in going out of the cave, Beiping to not earn money, to the villages and towns to catch the fair, the temple fair. Tianqiao although there are still some say counting treasure, but the art is not strong, not as good as Xiaohai, Cao pazi, and no one attention."

The performance form of fast board

In the past, when artists sold their art along the street, they often saw the scene and orally improvised words. They saw what they said, and were good at making up and singing along, publicizing their own opinions and expressing their feelings. From making up, acting, to singing, than any form of rapid. For example, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Cao Dekui, a counting artist, made up a verse (at that time, using cattle bones to beat the beat): Bone a beating sound even sound, no other table table before the Qing Dynasty. The people suffered during the dictatorship era, and were starved into skeletons and bones. Since the year of Guangxu Gengzi, the Boxer Rebellion broke out in Beijing. There was panic in the city and black smoke everywhere. Seeing the Qing Dynasty being overthrown, the people all said yes. It vividly reflects the voice of the people. In the War of Liberation, the People's Army further utilized the role of the folk songs. The war heroes made up and performed a lot of quick-pan works to boost the morale of the people. Comrade Bi Gefei, who was known as the "king of quick-playing boards", praised quick-playing boards, saying: Singing of heroes and victory, criticizing the concrete and practical. It entertains and guides the work in a meaningful way. There are two main forms of performance of quick-playing boards: singing by one person and lip-synching by two people. Counterpart still retains the original name of "counting to the treasure", also known as "counterpart fast board". In factories and military units, there have also been three or four people singing "group mouth fast board" and a dozen people performing "fast board group". In some areas, they have also been developed into quick-playing boards sung in local dialects, such as Tianjin quick-playing boards and Shaanxi quick-playing boards, etc., which have played a good role in education and entertainment. There are various forms of quick-playing boards, such as "counting treasure", "quick-playing book", "small quick-playing board", "Tianjin quick-playing board", etc. "Counting treasure" is sung by two people. The "counting treasure" is performed by two people; the "quick-board book" is performed by one person; the "small quick-board" is mainly a form of mass cultural activities, except for the return section; the "tianjin quick-board" is sung in the tianjin dialect.

The art of quick board is flexible and colorful. From the expression, there is a person said the quick board book, two people said the "counting treasure" and more than three people "quick board group" (also called "group mouth quick board").

From the point of view of the length, there are a few sentences of the small fast board, there are short paragraphs that can be said for ten minutes, and there are also like a commentary book that can be said for many days "trailing work".

From the square sound point of view, there is a fast board spoken in Putonghua." In addition, some places also use the local dialect to sing the Tianjin quick-play boards. In addition, some places also use the local sound to sing a rap art form similar to the fast board, such as Shaanxi fast board, Sichuan money board, Shaoxing lotus flower drop, and so on.

From the content point of view, there are both storylines to win, but also a clue through a number of small stories of the so-called "multi-part narrative", and no story at all.

From the point of view of rhyme, there is a rhyme to the end of the fast board, fast board book, but also often change the rhyme of the "number to the treasure".

The Artistic Means of Qiban

The "baggage", "exaggeration", and "exposition" are the common artistic means of Qiban, but they are not unique to Qiban, and are not found in other art forms, which have an important influence on the formation of Qiban's artistic characteristics.

(1) The baggage of quick-playing board, especially the "counting", has a humorous and witty artistic style, and the same with the art of comedy, "baggage" is an important means of structuring the plot and delineating the characters." Baggage" is the lifeline of comic art, without "baggage" that is not a comic. Although "baggage" is often used in the fast board, it is sometimes used in the plot and characterization, and "baggage" takes a secondary position.

(2) hyperbole is not only used to organize the "baggage", but also used to add color to the description, make it vivid, sometimes both roles. As Li Bai said in his poem, "White hair is three thousand zhang, and the edge is like a long sorrow." In fact, there will never be three thousand zhang of gray hair. But people in life recognize that it will not have, but in the art of appreciation but understand its existence, the beauty of hyperbole is here. As mentioned earlier, as the language art of hyperbole, both can not be credulous, but also can not not not expand, therefore, is often a big place reasonable, small place can not be dead key. Such as Du Fu "Hyrule":

Believe that the male evil, on the contrary, is a good woman; born of a woman is still married to the neighbor, born of a man buried with a hundred grasses! If you understand from the perspective of linguistic exaggeration, it is undoubtedly the outpouring of grief and indignation, a tearful indictment of the darkness of the society at that time. On the other hand, if the literal meaning of the words, "born men buried with a hundred grass", the men are all dead, so the birth of a woman to "marry than the neighbor", how can it work? Said like a joke, in fact, in the creation and appreciation of music and art can often be encountered.

(3) The book is mainly a narrative, with a lot of descriptive components, often using the technique of rendering the abstract content to become a concrete image, distinctive and vivid.

Fast Book and Fast Board belong to a category of Chinese Opera that is similar to singing. However, there is a difference between Quick Book and Quick Board, which are two subcategories of the same category.

While both the quick book and the quick board are performed in a highly rhythmic counting or chanting manner, the lyrics sung are all regular rhymes. But there are also differences, in addition to the different forms of rap performances due to different types of songs, that is, the use of different dialects, so that the tune of rap or chanting a different sense of rhythm, the lyrics are also different: the quick book or in the development of the basis of the quick board of the quick board book, generally perform a strong storytelling and portraying the typical image of the character of the middle and long program, the lyrics of the rhyme is usually a rhyme to the end of each item; and the quick board is generally only a rational or lyrical short story of strong lyrical performance. The rhyming method of the lyrics is relatively free, which is called "flower rut", that is to say, it can freely change the rhyme in a paragraph of the lyrics. Whether it is a quick book or a quick board book, the basic sentence of the lyrics is a seven-word sentence based on the structure of the upper and lower sentences, but as long as the actual use of the rhythm and tune with the rap is not contradictory, often embedded words, increasing or decreasing the word, the sentence is free and flexible.

There are many different kinds of songs depending on the region where they are distributed, the dialect they use, and the style of their raps. There are many different types of songs, such as Renqiu Bamboo Book, which is popular in Shandong Province, Gong and Drum Book, which is popular in the suburbs of Shanghai, and Quick Book, which is formed and popular in Tianjin. The most famous and influential is the Shandong Quick Book, which has spread throughout the country.

There are also different types of quick-playing boards depending on the region of distribution, the dialect used and the style of singing, such as the counting boards, the talking drums, the Shaanxi quick-playing boards, and so on.

Fast books and fast boards are very simple in their performance form, usually accompanied by actors standing and holding small percussion instruments that beat the beat, rapping on their own. There is a person to perform the "single mouth" form, two people to perform the "mouth" form, and three people or more than three people to perform the "group mouth" form. The musical instruments used for accompaniment are also different according to the specific types of songs, such as the Shandong Shushu, which uses two crescent-shaped, square-inch-sized copper pieces, which are performed with one hand, known as the "mandarin ducks board"; the counting board or the quick board uses a large and a small two-payment bamboo percussive instruments, of which the big board is two pieces and the small board is five pieces, with the big board being larger and the small board having five smaller pieces of bamboo, and the small board being smaller. The five pieces of bamboo are smaller, with a string knot, the performance of the actors left and right hand holding a large board and small board rap. Between passages, they often hit the beat, playing a variety of fancy percussion effects to entertain the audience.

Fast Book and Fast Board, as rhyming and reciting types of verbal rap art, pay great attention to the creation of the language of the lyrics themselves and their artistic charm. Not only are there the usual techniques of "fugue, ratio and Xing" used in traditional Chinese poetry, but they also rely heavily on the colorful rhetorical techniques of the Chinese language, such as prose, counterpoint, doubling, overlaying rhymes, harmonies, puns, metaphors, etc. In terms of aesthetic style, they are also very popular with the audience. In the aesthetic style, but also advocate the comedy color and entertainment effect, pay attention to the fun and humor, but also pay attention to make people laugh "gimmick" or "baggage" creation, the pursuit of the aesthetic realm of fun and education.