The Historical Development of Linxian Sanxian Book

The Linxian Sanxinshu is a Han Chinese opera art form popular in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, northern Shaanxi and western Jin. Linxian County has become the core development and dissemination area of Sanxianshu in western Jin because of its vast population, strong independence and compatibility of local culture, and the public's admiration for and inheritance of folk music and art.

To use the three-stringed as the main accompanying instrument rap books and named, the countryside folk called "talking books" or "blind man talking books". The most striking and amazing thing about it is that blind people who have not received any schooling are able to perform it vividly. Historically, in order to survive, the blind have devoted themselves to playing the three-stringed storytelling, which has been passed down orally and by ear from generation to generation of blind people, and is not taught to the able-bodied as an absolute taboo in the industry. Linxian County has always been a difficult environment for the survival of the place, blindness due to disease abound, as long as it is not a serious pentatonic, blind people will join the ranks of storytelling. People are amazed at the superhuman memory and expression ability of blind artists, mouth like a river, gabbling, a wonderful performance, a thousand people bowed to the ear. Excellent blind artists can not only play the book text brilliantly, but also can now sing, the audience is even more surprised, resulting in a star-studded effect, that is, the authentic "grassroots star". Because of the unique art, blind artists in public is known as "Mr.", who can not say "blind" this word, their income exceeds that of ordinary farmers, and therefore married and had children, repair kilns and build a house, a small life of taste.

It is said that the song was introduced to Linxian County from Liulin during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, so it is also called Liulin tune. It belongs to the art of playing and singing. It is characterized by blind storytelling. Initially, it was religious in nature, the people sought God's blessing after getting sick, and made a wish in front of God, "if the disease is good, please ask the blind man to say God said three days", at first, the blind man was proud of God, please God, God, God, and sent God to read the words, and later developed into a long ancient book. Linxian three-stringed book popular in Linxian, Xingxian, Fangshan, Lishi, Liulin, Jiaxian, Wubao, Yulin and other places in northern Shaanxi Province, which is prevalent in Linxian.

The Linxian Sanxian Book is evolved from a kind of ritual with mysterious color, which was first performed for the general public to seek God's blessings and to honor God's wishes. Prayer for more than individual households, by individual households to extend the storyteller as a spokesman for the expression of rap and ritual activities, the village as a unit to pray for rain, the blind spokesman for the rap. Later, gradually in the agricultural leisure time, it will be by the good people or the people in various forms of money to invite the storyteller, has become an indispensable entertainment activities."