The Tang Dynasty already had a two-person comedy, what's the difference between then and now?

Comic opera is a popular form of literary performance in contemporary society, and has been popular and prosperous for more than half a century since the old generation of artists Hou Baolin, Ma Sanli and others counted on it. However, it is still not clear to people, in fact, comedy has more than a thousand years of development history, at least in the Tang Dynasty, the two-person comedy has been popular.

Examining the history of literary activities in the Tang Dynasty, we find that there existed a kind of "military theater", which was an early form of two-person comedy. The so-called "Sengjun theater" is also known as "getting Sengjun". Tang Duan Anjie, "Lefu Miscellany" cloud: "Kaiyuan, Li Xianhe is good at this play, the Ming Emperor specially authorized Shaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaos. It is Lu Hongjian wrote the words 'Shaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaoshaos', cover also."

Why is the "Senator's Opera" the equivalent of a two-person comic opera?

Some experts say that the form of their performances, "is to dress up the characters, with dialog to answer, and with the expression of movement," and sometimes also add songs and dances chanting. And its actors are generally only two, one is called "senjun", playing the role of smart and witty; the other is called "cangfeng", playing the role of stupid and slow, the two also use the learning (mimicry of the characters), say (narrate the story), Both of them also use learning (imitating characters), saying (narrating stories), teasing (questioning and teasing), singing (singing and dancing) and other means, extremely witty and humorous, making it very interesting, elegant and popular **** appreciation.

In terms of its content, it is mostly based on real-life anecdotes or imitations of certain comical characters; the purpose of the performance is mainly for fun, and sometimes it is also meant to be satirical or admonitory. These are also the characteristics of comedy, and their origin is very obvious. Literary circles and academic experts have written articles, all of which believe that the military theater is the ancient form of performance of the comic opera.

In the Tang Dynasty, the performance of senjun theater was not limited to the court.

Xue Neng's poem "Wu Ji" said, "This day, the flowers are like snow, and the daughter's strings and pipes make the senator." It can be seen Wu Yue that is, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is very popular military theater. Yuan Zhen (元稹)when he was a local government official, he had a close relationship with Liu Caichun (刘采春), an entertainer from Huaidian (淮甸), and it is evident that this form of literature and art is also popular in the Huaihe River valley.

Li Shangyin's Poem of a Jiao'er said, "I suddenly learned from the Senjun, and called out to the migratory birds by the sound of their voices." Even small children are familiar with the military theater. It can be seen, the military theater has been a household name, women and children know, become the community up and down have been familiar with, love the cultural performances.