What are the Suzhou Commentaries?

The more classic Suzhou commentaries include: "Du Shi Niang", ? The Ludang Love Thoughts", "Three Laughs", "Legend of the Japanese Robe", "Stroke of the Golden Phoenix", "Legend of the White Snake", "The Jade Dragonfly", "The Pearl Tower", "Western Han Dynasty", "Eastern Han Dynasty", "The Three Kingdoms", "Sui and Tang Dynasty", "The Golden Gun", "The Passage of Yue", "The Martyrs", and so on.

Playing the lyrics just to say, gimmick, playing, singing as the main artistic means. When playing the lyrics, it is mainly accompanied by the three strings and the pipa, which can be played and sung by themselves or accompanied and accentuated by each other, and the lyrics emphasize "reason, taste, interest, detail and skill". Suzhou Scale Bomb was once praised by a national master as one of the "most beautiful voices in China", and the pleasant singing voice and elegant lyrics are one of the artistic characteristics of the pianoforte.

Suzhou commentary is the use of the Wu language spoken in the performance of the traditional form of opera storytelling theater. It is produced and popular in Suzhou, as well as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and is sung in the Suzhou dialect. It has a long history and was popular in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The most famous artists include Wang Zhoushi, who sang for Emperor Qianlong.

In the Jiaqing and Daoguang years, there were four famous artists: Chen Yuqian, Mao Xianpei, Yu Xiushan and Lu Ruiting. During the reigns of Xianfeng and Tongzhi, there were Ma Rufei, Zhao Xiangzhou, Wang Shiquan, and so on. After that, there were many famous artists, and the art of Suzhou commentary has lasted for more than 200 years.

Suzhou commentary on the play is both spoken and sung, and can be roughly divided into three types of performances, i.e., one person's single file, two people's double file, and three people's three files. The actors all play and sing by themselves, accompanied by the small three-stringed instrument and the pipa.

The music of the singing voice is a plate change body, and the main tunes are [book tunes] that can be sung in different styles and contents, and at the same time, it also absorbs many tunes and folk songs and ditties, such as [Fei Jia tunes] and [chaotic chicken cries]. The [book tune] is the basis for the development of various genres of singing, it is sung by different artists, forming a colorful genre of singing.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Suzhou Dumplings