Xuzhou Liuqin Opera of the Hometown of Opera

China is the hometown of opera, and there are many kinds of opera, which evolved from folk songs, dances, raps and burlesque through a long history. The traditional repertoire of opera has grown to tens of thousands of pieces, which are more commonly encountered in Huangmei Opera, Cantonese Opera, Kunqu Opera, Sichuan Opera, and so on. So, how much do you know about opera? Do you know Xuzhou Liuqin Opera? Here with me into the Xuzhou culture to see it.

Liuqin opera, one of the Han Chinese opera. Popular folk small singing "pulling the soul cavity" and "elbow drums" combined and formed. Before it was called Liuqin opera, it was also known as "pulling the soul cavity", usually called "pulling the soul cavity".

The process of its formation, initially only by a single person or two people singing music, artists called "singing door" or "run slope". They hold a bamboo board or clapper beat the rhythm, with (eight sentences) (i.e., dolls) sing "single piece of sub", the content of the folk story, the length can be long or short. " and "three small" plays, such as "playing dry stick", "small study", "drinking noodles", "Wang Xiaoyi catch feet" and so on.

In order to show more characters, but also developed a form of performance by a person rushed to play a few characters in the play, called "on the spot change" or "wipe the hat play", such as "summer three to visit relatives", acting summer three (ugly) to pick up the fourth sister (Dan played) back to his mother's home, the story, brother, sister, father and mother's son. The play has a brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, mother, sister-in-law 6 people, are clowns, Dan has 7 times to dress up the performance, so this play is also known as the "seven makeup".

After experiencing the transition of the "Mop Hat Theater", the troupe formed "seven busy, eight not busy, nine people watching the theater" has entered Linyi, Tancheng, Xuzhou and other cities to perform, which has been accompanied by the willow leaf zither. And increased the line, rich repertoire, and absorbed, borrowed from the Beijing opera and Bangkang opera to develop their own musical accompaniment and performing arts.

Liuqin opera, early called "elbow drums", also known as "small drama", and later because of its unique charm of the singing cavity is known as "pulling the soul cavity", in addition to the "pulling the back cavity". "La Houqiang", "La Huaqiang", "Control Hongqiang" and other nicknames. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the name was changed to "Siping Tune", and in 1953, the propaganda organization of Xuzhou City, together with the Bureau of Culture and Education, officially named it Liuqin Opera after repeated consultation with the artists, based on the willow-leaf zither played by the main player.

Liuqin opera originated in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, about two hundred years ago. Regarding the source of its development, the newly published "Jiangsu Opera Journal - Liuqin Opera Journal" lists three statements, one of which is that it originated from the Taiping Song and Hunting Cavity in the north of Jiangsu Province. The "Taiping Song" is a tune created by farmers to express their joy during the harvest season; the "Hunter's Cavity" is a tune formed by local hunters after hunting, according to local popular folk songs and horns, combined with the local mountains and rivers, scenery and natural sounds.

Liouqin is a kind of tune formed by combining local popular folk songs with local mountain scenery and natural sound.

Liuqin Opera*** has more than 200 kinds of traditional repertoire, including small plays and big plays. In the big opera, there are so-called "pillar plays" specialized in each line of work, such as: the small head of the "Siping Mountain", "Eight Plate Mountain", "Flowers", "Fish Basket"; the second head of the "Point Soldier", "Watching the Lights", "The Bookstore", "Four Suggestions", and the old man's "four," i.e., the old KANG'S The old man's "four", that is, the old Kang's "broken double nails", the old Yan's "small Ao Shan", the old Deng's "Yingtai persuade to marry", the old Yang's "Meng Yuehong cut the stock to save his mother" hook foot of the "two, five against", "Yan Guan", "stopping the horse", "kiln run"; the younger generation of the "big and small curtains", "White Robes", "Liu Guichen Gua Gua"; the older generation of the "five kings, four phases of the Liuqin drama photo" plays.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the People's Republic of China established the Jiangsu Provincial Liuqin Troupe in Xuzhou and the Shandong Provincial Liuqin Troupe in Linyi. It organized and adapted traditional plays such as Drinking Noodle and Leaf, Little Study, and Zhang Lang and Clove. The modern play "Big Swallow and Little Swallow" has been made into a movie.