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What are the artistic characteristics of Kunming yangqin

Summary: Kunming Yangqin is a traditional rap art of Kunming, Yunnan Province. In the Ming Dynasty, popular in Kunming's pairs of books, the Qing Daoguang years Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou Yangqin Tantanzi, the basis of the formation of the traditional rap varieties, accompanied by musical instruments to the Yangqin-based, and other erhu, three strings and so on. The following article is a detailed introduction to the Kunming Yangqin's artistic characteristics and historical origins, let's learn more about it! First, the historical origin

Kunming yangqin, is in the Ming Dynasty, popular in Kunming pairs of books, the Qing dynasty during the Daoguang period of Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou Yangqin tandem into Kunming on the basis of the formation of the traditional rap varieties, accompanied by instruments to the yangqin is the main, and the other erhu, three strings, and so on.

Kunming yangqin rappers are mostly goze, and they make their living alone or in groups by selling their skills on the streets and alleys, or in teahouses, markets, courtyards, or private homes, and their repertoire is ordered by the audience.

In 1950, the Kunming Opera Artists Association was established, and yangqin artists participated in the "Opera Association", and the Xiangyun Street Popular Amusement Ground became the main place for yangqin rapping. New songs were added, such as "Singing Twelve Labor Models" and "Cooperative Production is Really Good", and the Marriage Law was publicized.

In 1954, as non-goze youths joined the yangqin rap team, small plays sung to yangqin tunes, such as "Three Shoulders for a Shoulder" and "Volunteer Fiancée," appeared on the stage of the popular amusement park, and since then, yangqin rap has gradually evolved into kunming opera, with the form of sitting and singing gradually disappearing. The more famous yangqin artists in the later period include: Gao Shuxi, Ni Xuanhua, Zhang Yiqing, Li Chunwu, Xu Peiran, Peng Yushan and so on.

The Artistic Characteristics of Kunming Yangqin

Kunming Yangqin has a beautiful singing voice, rich in tunes, with strong local characteristics of Yunnan and lyrical components, but also capable of expressing narrative content, which can be roughly divided into four categories according to the different sources and characteristics of its singing tunes: "Ancient Tunes", "Minor Tunes", "Small Tunes", "Small Tunes", "Small Tunes", "Small Tunes", "Small Tunes", "Small Tunes", "Small Tunes", "Small Tunes", and so on, According to their different sources and characteristics, they can be roughly divided into four categories: "ancient tunes", "minor tunes", "major tunes", and "book tunes". Narrative singing in the above four types of singing has a large share, and can be said to be the main body of Yangqin singing. For example, "Youqin", "Self-Leveling", "Yangtong", "Sanban", "half moon", "counting west", "book tune", "interrupting tune", "Mending Tank Tune" and so on. This kind of singing generally has the upper and lower sentences or four phrases, the latter is the most numerous, with the structure of the beginning and end. This kind of singing word more cavity less, said in the singing, singing in the said, like saying like singing, has a very strong plasticity, melody towards the local language and Kunming tone, rhythm is very close combination.

Three, repertoire

The repertoire of Kunming yangqin rap is divided into three categories: books, scriptures and flowers. The "book" is based on the preaching of "Xiangshan Baozhuan", a kind of good book, or classical novels and historical themes; the "sutra" is the "Cave Scripture" and other fixed religious rituals or fixed The "Jing" is the rap with fixed religious ceremonies or fixed contents of "Jing" and "Confession"; the "Flower" is the yangqin rap other than the above two categories. The tunes of Kunming yangqin are divided into four categories, namely, major tunes, minor tunes, classical tunes and book tunes.

The main tunes of the major tune category are "Yangtiao", "Daoxiang", and "Ruling Reed", which specialize in narratives and are often used to sing tunes with plots and characters, such as "A Single Dagger Goes to the Meeting" and "Burning Pipa Spirit". The main tunes of the minor tune category are "The Beauty of Yu", "five nights", "Linglong board", "Four Seasons", "Flower Drum Tune" and so on, more than a hundred, the form of short, flexible use, divided into two kinds of commonly used tunes and special tunes, the repertoire of the "Mouse Tattletale", "Meng Jiangnu Crying the Great Wall" and so on.

The classical tunes include "Parasitic Grass", "Cutting Indigo Flowers", "Silver Nuance", "Inverted Plate Pulp", "Playing Date Pole", etc., which are mostly used for singing Yuan and Ming opera books and traditional folklore stories. Artists call it "big eight sets" and "small eight sets", each of which is a complete paragraph. The repertoire includes Zhu Baichen Repudiates His Wife, Jiang Shilong Snatches the Umbrella, and The Eight Immortals Celebrate Their Longevity. The book cavity is the strongest tune of rap, more words and less cavity, with speaking and singing, mostly used for singing religious themes of the long good book. Often raps the repertoire of "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Dream of the Red Mansion", "Peach", "Linguan", "Ancestor Beiyue", "Fire Wheel Nanyue", "before the Fragrant Hill", "Longhua", "Snowy Hill", "after the Fragrant Hill high king", "Confession of the Emperor Liang", "New Mother of the Megaliths" and so on.