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Artistic Characteristics of Bamboo Board Songs

Because each song of the "Five Sentence Board" consists of five lines of lyrics. The singers of the Bamboo Board Song hold four bamboo boards in their hands and rhythmically strike the bamboo boards in succession as a prelude (with an interlude after each song), aiming to attract people's attention and gather an audience. It has a long history, forty years of age, generally can sing on a few. The lyrics of the Bamboo Board Songs are pure and fresh, easy to understand, with wonderful double entendres, vivid shapes

and a certain key pattern. Singing is catchy, melodious and beautiful. Bamboo board song performance form is flexible, can be solo (with a white, as rap), rap. Propaganda national policy, laws and regulations, and praise the good. Singing forms and development of group singing, joint singing, and with folk music accompaniment, the effect is very good, because the surface has become a favorite form of propaganda singing. Production tools and materials

Bamboo boards made of bamboo or moso bamboo, water bamboo, about six inches long and one and a half inches wide, in order to make its sound crisp, more than tung oil cooking dip. Four pieces of bamboo board in the first to the third piece of a more stable grip is not easy to slip on both sides of the middle edge with a small amount of serrated, generally on one side of the four teeth, the other side of the five teeth, meaning "five lakes and four seas"; the fourth piece of bamboo board is a side of the straight toothless, the other side of the full length of the cut into a jagged shape, so-called "saw plate The fourth piece of bamboo board is straight and toothless on one side, and the other side is cut into a sawtooth shape, which is called "saw board".