Where is the folk art of Jingyun Daji

Jingyun Daju is mainly popular in North China and Northeast China, including Beijing and Tianjin.

Beijing Rhythm Drum, one of the Chinese operatic styles. It was developed from the woodblock drums popularized in the Cangzhou and Hetian areas of Hebei Province, and was formed in Beijing and Tianjin. After the Hebei woodblock drums were introduced to Tianjin and Beijing, Liu Baoquan changed the voice tone to Beijing to spit out the words, absorbed the stone rhyme book, the horse head tune and some of the singing style of Beijing opera, created a new cavity, specializing in singing short pieces, called Jingyun drums, which belongs to the drums category of music and songwriting.

The singing of Jingyun Drum belongs to the board cavity, which can be divided into slow board, fast board, stack board and live board. The basic cadences are the starting cadence, the flat cadence, the falling cadence, the high cadence, the long cadence, and the sad cadence. The flat cadence is suitable for narration, the high cadence expresses exciting emotions, and the falling cadence expresses gentle and relaxed emotions.

Jingyun Drum is characterized by half-speaking and half-singing, and there is speaking in singing and singing in speaking. Therefore, the lyrics also play an important role in the singing. Lyrics are basically seven-word sentences and cross sentences, mostly the repetition of the upper and lower sentences, and pay more attention to the tone of the rhyme, and the natural articulation of the singing. The main accompanying instruments are the big three-stringed string and the four-stringed hu, and sometimes also the pipa. The actors beat their own drums to master the rhythm.

The repertoire of Jingyun Drums is as follows:

The traditional repertoire of Jingyun Drums includes "The Meeting of the Single Dagger", "The Battle of Changsha", "The Bowang Slope", "Zhao Yun Intercepts the River", "Borrowing Arrows from Straw Boats", "Troubling in the River", "The Great Western Chamber", "The Sacrifice to Harriet", "The Sorrowful Autumn of Dai Yu", etc. There are many other repertoires that can be sung in the traditional style.

There are "Chang Ban Po", "The City of the White Emperor", "The Exploration of Ching Wen", "Fan Jinding Scolding the City", etc., organized by Liu Baoquan, Bai Yunpeng and others based on the works of Zidishu, and there are also some small segments of scenic and lyrical "The End of the Ugly Years and the Beginning of the Years", "Returning to the Boat in a Wind and Rain" and so on.

After the liberation, the Jingyun Drum has made relatively remarkable achievements in pushing the boundaries of modernization, and new reforms have been carried out in both singing and performance. The excellent repertoire reflecting modern life includes "Huang Jiguang", "Glorious Voyage", "Han Ying meets his mother", "Liu Hulan" and new historical works "Yugongyishan", "Full River Red", "Crouching to Taste the Guts" and so on.