Fast board is a popular folk art form, what is its origin?

The quick board was called "counting to treasure" in the early years, from the beggar begging along the street when the "Lotus Flower Drop" evolved. In feudal society, the social status of fast board artists is very low, but they worship the "master" is the Ming dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang. Because Zhu Yuanzhang was once a beggar, legend has it that he invented the form of singing while knocking on the bones of a cow and following the rhythm of the percussion.

The most important feature of the "fast board" is that the performer needs to sing the lyrics to the rhythm of the bone or bamboo boards, and the content of the lyrics can be a ready-made story and reason, or it can be randomly made according to the current situation.

Because the audience's needs must be taken into account at all times when begging, performers must have a high level of ability to improvise lyrics. Of course, because of the more fixed rhythms and the frequent use of set phrases, the early beguines often suffered from a lack of monotonous flatness.

For example, the following passage:

Invite is invite, let is let, three invitations to Zhuge Liang.

Geliang Zhu Geliang, borrow the eastern wind, fire Cao Cao's millions of soldiers.

The fire burned Cao Cao's millions of soldiers, the bow of the ship borrowed the wolf's tooth arrow.

This quick tempo typically reflects the characteristics and shortcomings of the improvisational quick tempo:

First of all, the repetitive borrowing between the sentence and the sentence is more, this is because the performer must quickly sing and sing one sentence after another, and can't make up any new words for a while, so he can only borrow the ready-made words of the previous sentence.

Secondly, the relationship between the first and second lines is probably not very strong, also because the performers are unable to elaborate on the lyrics in order to make them up quickly. In addition, this quick tempo distinctly reflects the rhythm of one line and four panels, which is the most common rhythmic composition in the early quick tempo. It is easy to feel monotonous after hearing it too much.

Summary:

Of course, with the gradual maturation of the Allegro as an art, the artistic standard of the lyrics has improved greatly, and the rhythmic forms of the knocking boards have become quite rich (e.g., letting the boards, catching the boards, etc.).

Despite the fact that quick-playing boards have come to the stage of art, as a popular form of opera, they still maintain the characteristic of being close to social life. Performers often collect material from daily life and compose lyrics, which to a certain extent can reflect the current folk customs.