Chaoshan music fortune-telling _ Chaoshan music fortune-telling songs

It is a form of self-entertainment in which people hold a song book (Chaozhou song book), sing alone and listen to it. No stage, no accompaniment. Especially loved by women. The lyrics are 7 rhymes, with strong story, clear clues and popular language. Traditional repertoire is rich, including historical romance, myths and legends, folk stories and so on. Generally, one person sings and everyone listens, without going on stage or accompanying. Some professional artists clap their hands with bamboo boards. Chaozhou ballads have strong stories, clear clues and popular language. Its lyrics are basically seven rhymes, which are flat in Chaozhou dialect. There are two kinds of rhymes: Chaoan Rhyme and Jieyang Rhyme, and each group is rhyming. Sometimes according to the story and emotional changes, insert a paragraph of three sentences, five sentences or three three four, three seven seven sentences. The last word of each rhyme group is very long, the aria has a basic cavity, there is no fixed score, and the rhythm changes rapidly with the situation of the book. Some albums are written in verse, spoken in white, and spoken in white is relatively short. Chaozhou song bibliography is closely related to Chaozhou opera repertoire, and they are often transplanted and adapted from each other. Chaozhou songs include historical romance, myths and legends, and folk stories. Popular Chaozhou songs include Guo Tai Min An, Wan Hua Lou, Xue Dongzheng, Double Bai Yan, The White Rabbit, Li Jing Ji, Su six niang and Golden Flower Girl. Most of them are medium and long articles, as well as the names of flowers and birds. A long picture album, such as Double Bai Yan, has 26 volumes, more than 40,000 lines and 300,000 words. The novella also has more than 10 volumes, and the short story is divided into two parts, and the shortest one has hundreds of lines. In Chaozhou, woodcut albums circulated in the Ming Dynasty, and there were more than 10 bookstores publishing albums in the Qing Dynasty. Li Wanli Hall, for example, has published five or six hundred kinds of picture books. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), amateur writers created a large number of Chaozhou songs reflecting real life, and some literary and art groups innovated and enriched the singing, performance forms and accompaniment music of Chaozhou songs and put them on the stage. There are new albums, such as White-Haired Girl, Red Coral, Nanhai Great Wall, Li Shuangshuang and Red Lantern.

The more popular Chaozhou songs are:

The seven fairy sisters tell fortune, and they are infatuated with their relatives. My sister is like a red flower in March. My sister walks out of the garden, forgets, and keeps the wind and rain in mind. The moon, English songs, gongs and drums, a pot of good tea and a pot of moon that night, I asked the roadside grass, colorful clouds, at midnight. ...

These songs are well-known Chaozhou songs in chaozhou people.