What does Guo Fu mean?

Abdominal language is not really talking to the stomach, and it is impossible for anyone to talk to the stomach. (Note: This is not absolute. Nearly ten years ago, it was reported that a person in Shanghai had his vocal cords removed because of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. He trained hard to burp, that is, let the air flow through the esophagus when he burps, and then control the abdominal muscles in a special way. In half a year, he developed the ability to speak with abdominal muscles. He taught many people who had the same experience as her, and he got nothing. It is said that a person from Taiwan Province Province also suffered from nasopharyngeal carcinoma. After the operation, he became a teacher and learned this skill. He wanted to reward Shanghainese with a large sum of money, but Shanghainese politely declined. The man in Taiwan Province Province lamented: "I didn't expect such people to exist in this society now." After some training, we changed the way we speak. When we speak, we basically rely on the joint movement of lips, teeth and tongue to complete pronunciation. But when we speak ventriloquism, after training, we can pronounce the upper and lower jaws or even the closed lips. This pronunciation process needs training and skills, and it can be said that it is completed only by the tongue. And as long as you train for a period of time, many people can master this skill.

When we speak normally, especially when we sing, we should use oral resonance to produce sound. In another case, when you speak in a low voice, you are afraid that others will hear you, so you only use vocal cords for pronunciation to minimize oral resonance. Another way is to sing in falsetto, such as singing folk songs in northern Shaanxi, which is another way to pronounce with sound. The folk artists mentioned above use two kinds of sounds (perhaps with whistles) and get wonderful artistic effects. Abdominal language, on the other hand, swallows the speech into the stomach, makes the sound resonate in the abdominal cavity, and lets you hear the ambiguous voice through the stomach.

When practicing "ventriloquism", you can make a loud noise without listening to your stomach with your ears. Abdominal language is not difficult, just inhale or swallow. I'm not used to it at first, but I'll get familiar with it gradually, and my pronunciation will become clear from yum-yum.

History of ventriloquism

Abdominal language originated in ancient Egypt and has a history of more than 3000 years. China's history books also recorded ventriloquism performances. Only now, few China artists can perform ventriloquism. When performing ventriloquism, actors usually manipulate a puppet, and they start a dialogue according to the story. Through the time difference of performance, the story content is expressed compactly and smoothly with different voices and intonations.

The following are some passages about ventriloquism in Qing Ren Lei Chao:

"There is a so-called close, he is also a witch. Speaking of begging for death, it is also called Guan Wu. Women can do it, this is the so-called ancient spirit. Legend has it that ghosts lose money to others before they die, and then enter their own stomachs. With the power of ghosts, people will lead to dead souls, people will pay back with money, pay off their debts, and ghosts will be gone. In fact, holding your breath is not a disease, but you eat your ears with sophistry. "

"Kangxi, Zichuan has a spiritual aunt who can ask the fairy in front of people. Ask the patient what medicine to take, what evil things he encounters, and where he wanders, and he can answer in the air. It is said that you can cure it with someone, so don't worry about the immortal. The soul can go back somewhere. It's true in the dark, it's true in the dark room, and everyone respects and believes in playing tricks face to face. If you carefully measure where the sound comes from, it is not in the air, not in the mouth, but above the chest and below the throat. "

"Fu Ling Qian has only one son in Hua County, named Master, who died of dysentery at the age of fifteen. His mother's thoughts are so eager that she calls her belly her soul. When the mage arrived, he chanted, mumbled and yawned, saying that Fuzai was coming. Ling shouted as soon as she entered the door, "Are you lucky? Before I die, can you recite the chapter of Mencius taught by the teacher by heart? Wu Moran. Ling said,' If you can't recite it, recite it first.' The witch was silent again. Ling was furious and tarted it. The wizard said,' I am very lucky. Ling said,' What's the matter with slapping me?' The witch tuba, but ran away with her head. "

Abdominal manifestations

Japanese master of Chinese

Yishitang is almost a household name in Japan, just like Jacky Cheung is in China. His ventriloquism performance is unique, he can manipulate two puppets at the same time, and can unfold the plot with seven different voices and intonations, which is the first of its kind in the world. His works are based on people, animals, nature and other customs and interesting stories, and are expressed by unique acting skills and humorous ventriloquism, so they are deeply loved by Japanese audiences. Yishitang once performed in China. Performed 9 programs including Grandpa Pig, Flower Cat, Little Monkey and Alphabet.

Zhihong Deng, the first ventriloquist in China.

When he was a beginner in ventriloquism, Zhihong Deng read a lot of materials and planned to learn from the president of the American ventriloquism Association. "If you want to learn ventriloquism from him, it is as difficult as learning basketball from Yao Ming." Zhihong Deng said.

At a party, Zhihong Deng met his ventriloquism teacher Dennis. Dennis trained him from the simplest basic skills.

Six months later, Zhihong Deng began to practice independently. "My biggest regret at that time was that some Japanese learned ventriloquism before me. Unfortunately, I didn't learn it first among Asians. " Zhihong Deng said.

Zhihong Deng said that China had never learned ventriloquism. Therefore, after practicing ventriloquism for six years, I can be said to be "the first ventriloquism in China".

The best ventriloquist Zhihong Deng has ever seen can manipulate six dolls at the same time, and one person can switch between six roles.

However, Zhihong Deng doesn't want to be so tired for the time being. He can talk for 50 seconds at a stretch now.

Zhihong Deng should practice for at least half an hour to an hour every day, but generally not more than two hours, so as to avoid excessive fatigue of vocal cords.

Zhihong Deng has been living alone in a community in Tongzhou since she came to Beijing. He described the baby boy as "my closest companion".

Junior means young people in English. Junior year, a young man with a partial comb, his eyes and chin move easily, wearing blue jeans and leather shoes, less than one meter tall and very handsome. It is said that Junior took photos of Zhihong Deng's childhood.

During the interview, Zhihong Deng kept tidying junior's hair with her fingers like a child.

Abdominal language has been popular abroad for many years, its peak was in the 1970s, and it was often used in American radio and television.

According to Zhihong Deng, after the death of an American ventriloquist, his doll was put in a museum.

The master was not very famous before his death, but his southern accent and a doll dressed as a squire became idols for American audiences.

Zhihong Deng recalled the master he had met: "I saw an American named Bill Boli at the scene. He can sing while drinking milk. He uses a transparent glass cup to let you see clearly. "

"There will be the best RanLucas. He can sing while smoking. People are smoking and dolls are singing. I haven't thought about how to do it until now. "

[Edit this paragraph] Hongbo, the first professional ventriloquist in Chinese mainland.

Hongbo was born in Jinsha County, Guizhou Province, and now lives in Beijing.

In 2004, Hongbo began to contact ventriloquism, and it has been four years since then. During the four years of self-study of ventriloquism, Hongbo experienced too many ups and downs, including questioning when he heard ventriloquism for the first time, being surprised when he saw ventriloquism video for the first time, jumping when he tried to practice for the first time, being frustrated when he failed in challenging difficult practice for the first time, being uneasy when he showed ventriloquism video for the first time, being happy when he owned his own professional puppet for the first time, and saying "800" clearly in ventriloquism for the first time.

Through talking with Hongbo, I know that ventriloquism is not as mysterious as everyone said, and the practice method is not as circulated on the Internet, but there is a special practice method. It is said that there are not only schools specializing in ventriloquism performances abroad, but also institutions specializing in the production and sale of professional hand puppets, theaters specializing in ventriloquism performances, special ventriloquism TV programs, and even an international ventriloquism festival in the United States.

Hongbo said that the most difficult thing in ventriloquism performance is pronunciation. Compared with the pronunciation of English and other languages, the pronunciation of Chinese ventral language is more difficult, because Chinese pronunciation is four tones and must be clear and definite. This is why ventriloquism is very popular in Europe, America and other countries, but few people know it in China. Even if I know, I mostly just know from Jin Yong's novels and don't know what ventriloquism is. No one has seen ventriloquism with his own eyes, and no one can perform ventriloquism in Chinese. At my repeated requests, Hongbo improvised ventriloquism, which probably included reciting a Tang poem and a tongue twister, and singing a Peking Opera "Su San Qi Jie". This is my first live performance of ventriloquism. It's really amazing. If I don't look carefully, I can't see that the sound of the puppet is actually made by Hongbo.

Now, Hongbo has mastered various skills of ventriloquism performance, skillfully used ventriloquism for dialogue, and also integrated popular singing, folk singing, bel canto singing, original singing and even singing of children's songs, Beijing opera and other local operas into ventriloquism performance, making his ventriloquism performance unique. Terry Fator, winner of the second season of America's Got Talent, is now a household name in the United States. He not only won the grand prize of $6,543.8+0,000, but also made the ventriloquism performing art loved by many people all over the world. Hongbo said that his performance style is similar to TERRY FATOR's, but not exactly the same, because he mainly imitates the voices of different types of songs, while TERRY FATOR imitates the voices of some famous singers. He also said that in the future, China's crosstalk performance may also be integrated into ventriloquism performance.

When talking about the present situation of ventriloquism performance in China, Hongbo said frankly that ventriloquism performance art, as a brand-new art form, is still in its infancy in China, and it needs to learn from foreign counterparts in ventriloquism performance, ventriloquism teaching, ventriloquism program creation, professional puppet making, audio-visual product publishing and many other aspects. He hoped that people of insight inside and outside the industry would maintain communication and strengthen exchanges between industries, and that the media and friends from all walks of life would pay more attention to and publicize China's ventriloquism art, so as to promote the healthy development of ventriloquism performing art in China.

In the past two years, with the development of the Internet, online video has also become popular rapidly, which has made the ventriloquism performing arts have a more convenient communication channel. Many ventriloquism performing artists have also opened their own blogs on the Internet and uploaded their own ventriloquism videos for everyone to watch. People have a deeper understanding of ventriloquism performing arts.

The appearance of ventriloquism filled a blank in the art history of China. Judging from the current development momentum, ventriloquism performance has great development space in China. Variety shows, TV series, movies, theater performances, advertisements, public welfare activities, commercial performances, etc. Television programs will be more novel, unique and vivid because of the addition of ventriloquism performing arts.