What is Yangzhou Tanci?

Yangzhou Tanci, formerly known as Xianci, is a genre of Tanci system based on Yangzhou dialect.

Popular in Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Nanjing and He Lixia, Jiangsu Province, it began in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. In the early days, one person played three-stringed accompaniment, hence the name "string words".

Yangzhou Tanci has a history of more than 400 years since its birth in the late Ming Dynasty, and it is a wonderful work of China art.

As a historical witness of social civilization, Yangzhou Tanci, an intangible cultural heritage, contains unique national values.

For thousands of years, its pen and ink complement each other and are passed down from mouth to mouth, and its roots are enduring and precious among the people. It not only has a long history, orderly inheritance and sociality of bibliography, but also has strong artistic features, vivid images, unique ingenuity and lingering feelings. Its lyrics are mainly dual seven sentences, and the superimposed single sentence is called "Feng Nod". Music tunes come from three aspects:

1, evolved from the folk songs of the Ming Dynasty;

2. Absorb the tunes of some North-South operas and local operas for transformation;

3. Artist's creation. The main tracks are Children's Play, Lock South Branch, Sanqi Pear Flower and so on. Feather harmony, business tone, simple but elegant, antique.

There are four ways to inherit Yangzhou Tanci: family inheritance, mentoring and singing, Quyi group enrollment and school training. The traditional ways of inheritance are mainly family inheritance and mentoring inheritance. Moreover, the expression, playing, speaking, singing and acting are emphasized, and the requirements for tanci artists are particularly high. There are three famous storytellers.