What were the rap music in Song and Yuan Dynasties?

The main forms of rap music in Song and Yuan Dynasties are: Tao Zhen, Guci, Zhu Gong tune, singing and selling.

A popular folk rap art in Song Dynasty, also called "Tao Zhen". People sang in the Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and even Qing Dynasty. The record of "Tao Zhen" was first seen in The Old Man of West Lake in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was widely used in Lin 'an (now Hangzhou) and other places, and there was "Tao Zhen" in the performance: "Singing elegant words only recruits children; All the people who listen to Tao Zhen are villagers. "

Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem "The boat swam near the thatched cottage and the boat retired", the fourth sentence of which: "The setting sun is ancient Liu Cun, and the drum is blind. Who is in charge after death, the whole village has heard about Cai Zhonglang. " It is generally believed that it was about singing Tao Zhen in the countryside at that time.

Drum Ci is a kind of rap art in China Song Dynasty. Similar to Bianwen, it is a mixture of verse and prose, and its length is relatively short. Therefore, most of the sketches are short and pithy, each with only about ten chapters of singing, named after the accompaniment of drums.

As one of China's ballads in Song Dynasty, drum lyrics are named after the accompaniment of drums. However, drum lyrics are not necessarily limited to techniques such as rap and cross-rhyme prose accompanied by drums, but also include a variety of performance forms and systems. Composed of poems or slow words, the musical form, the number of chapters, the use of musical instruments, the playing system and so on are all chosen by the creators, that is, the singers.