The origin of storytelling in northern Shaanxi?

The origin of storytelling in northern Shaanxi is difficult to study. According to folklore, storytelling in northern Shaanxi began when Huang San ruled the world. According to legend, a long time ago, an old man gave birth to three sons and grew up to be slaves. The eldest son was named rhubarb, and the slave owner cut off a hand. Huang Er, the second son, had a broken leg, and san huang, the third son, blinded his master. The three brothers were reduced to begging in Qinghua County, northern Shaanxi. One day, rhubarb picked up two rotten boards, knocked on the boards and begged along the door, said some auspicious words, and the owner gave them some leftovers. Once upon a time, when people ate sheep, they picked up their intestines, dried them, spread them on boards, and then made their own pipa. From then on, they cooperated with each other, playing and singing. Huang Er wants to know who will bang the banger after his eldest brother dies. He had a brainwave, simply tied two boards to his leg and sang while playing. Later, the eldest brother and the second son went to Linxian County, Shanxi Province, but san huang stayed in northern Shaanxi. After marriage, they gave birth to five sons and taught them the skill of playing the pipa. After getting married, eldest brother received 36 apprentices, passed on Sanxian to 18 apprentices, settled in Yulin area, and passed on the skills of lotus, pipa and Sanxian to future generations. This folklore is enough to witness the long history of storytelling in northern Shaanxi.

Nine times out of ten, the earliest storytellers in northern Shaanxi were blind or semi-blind, commonly known as teachers or booksellers. Storytelling is their means of making a living and is regarded as a cheap business. People with discerning eyes don't talk about books, and storytelling has become the patent of the blind for a long time. In order to support their families, they not only tell stories, but also engage in some activities with feudal superstition, such as fortune telling, seeing a doctor, calming the nerves, thanking the earth and locking dolls. For a long time, the disabled or beggars dragged the blind and walked from village to village all the year round to make a living by telling stories.

With the changes of the times, people with vision have joined the ranks of blind storytellers, injecting new blood and vitality into the ancient storytelling in northern Shaanxi. The form of storytelling in northern Shaanxi has also undergone great changes, from the original one-person rap to two-person duet or multi-person singing. The musical instruments used are no longer a single pipa or sanxian, but also erhu, banhu, flute and dulcimer. The changes in quantity and musical instruments have further broadened the expression forms of storytelling in northern Shaanxi. At the same time, it also plays an important role in depicting the characters, rendering the environment and atmosphere in the book. Now there are three kinds of storytelling in northern Shaanxi: single storytelling, double storytelling and multi-person storytelling. There are also nine-cavity and eighteen-tone storytelling tunes, mainly flat tones, supplemented by happy, bitter and martial tones. The change of their music tunes is particularly important in the whole story-telling process, including the expression of story plot, the rendering of emotions and even the tone.

Please play my three-stringed piano and make a note, and listen carefully ... ",storytelling in northern Shaanxi is a rap art, and singing accounts for a large proportion. Artists say, "Bones sing is meat". In the bookstore, besides listening to ancient myths, historical legends and folk stories, you can also learn history and listen to the news. Storytellers can go from one state to another, be well informed, talk about politics, anecdotes and gossip. He can tell you vividly, and laugh at and whip those evil, evil and ugly, praise and praise the truth, goodness and beauty. Northern Shaanxi said that every book in the book rarely has a tragic ending, which is rare in other sister arts.

Northern Shaanxi storytelling, a popular folk art of rap, made gratifying achievements as early as 1930s. At that time, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region carried out the activities of reforming old storytelling, and reformed some books that promoted religion and feudal superstition. Gao and others created dozens of new books, such as Reunion in Qiao Liu, Victory in Yichuan, Turning Over and Revenge with Blood and Tears, which were well received by the people in the border areas at that time. 1in August, 946, Han Qixiang told Chairman Mao and Mr. Zhu about the new book "Zhang Yulan Attends the Election Conference" in the Central Auditorium of Yang Jialing, Yan 'an. After listening to the book, Chairman Mao praised: "Your new book speaks well ...". After the national liberation, Han Qixiang's storytelling in northern Shaanxi was all the rage. He can say that there are 500 or 600 old and new books, and he is a master of storytelling in northern Shaanxi.

When it comes to storytelling in northern Shaanxi, people will think of these people: (19 15- 1989), Tian, Xie and Cao. ...