Interpretation of Suzhou Tanci Nouns

Suzhou Tanci: A Quyi Art in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. ? The main artistic means are speaking, answering, playing and singing. Shuo is a combination of narration and endorsement, which has both third-person narration and first-person role. The role absorbs and draws lessons from the performances of traditional Chinese opera, appears in sentences, shapes various characters, and is occasionally set off and commented by storytellers.

On May 20th, 2006, Suzhou Tanci was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

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Suzhou Tanci has its artistic characteristics of reason, taste, interest, subtlety and skill (some people close to it turn "skill" into "strangeness"). His songs are usually seven-sentence, which rhymes with pentatonic or Zhongzhou. The basic tune "Book Tone" is sung in a clear and fluent chanting style. The tone of the book is mainly based on language factors, advocating clear articulation and full of charm. Standard basic tunes can be improvised into various bibliographic songs with the content, so-called "sing one song, sing a hundred songs".

The performance of Suzhou Tanci usually focuses on speaking with singing in the middle. When singing, it is often accompanied by sanxian or pipa, and when speaking, it can also be used as props to clap your hands and gather gas. The qupai used in singing is a banqiang storytelling song, the so-called "book tune". Because many musical genres have been formed in the circulation, "book tune" is also called "tone". Most of the early performances were three-string rap by a male artist, and later there were two-person "double-file" and three-person "third-file" performances.