Brief introduction of rap art in Tang and Song Dynasties

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the art of rap was not fully formed. The popular "Shuo" in the Tang Dynasty and the "Vulgar Shuo" (variant) of Buddhist propaganda teachings can be regarded as the predecessors of rap music today. In the Song Dynasty, with the rise of Goulan and the prosperity of street culture, the art of rap matured.

The representative of rap art in Song Dynasty is Zhu Gong tune. Zhu Gong tune is an ancient Han folk art, which belongs to the large-scale rap literature in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. It was developed on the basis of Bianwen and Jiao Fang Daqu and Zaqu, and was named after several sets of songs with different Gongdiao singing in turn.

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The rap music in Song Dynasty tends to be mature, which is marked by the existence of places where rap artists sell their skills in some cities, and the artists joined by literati organize book clubs to write lyrics for storytellers. The main types of rap music in Northern Song Dynasty are drum lyrics and Zhu Gong tune, in addition to singing, Tao Zhen and elegant lyrics.

The complete works of drum ci are Zhao's self-edited "Up-regulated Butterfly Drum Ci", which is included in Waiting for the Shark Record. This is also the style used between rhymes. In the verse part, there are 12 epigrams of "Dead Hua Lian". Before the first song, there is "a song companion, first set the style, then listen to nonsense words"; In the future, there will be a white line in front of each song, "Sing with the labor, and then speak with the previous voice".