What does China's traditional folk art mainly mean?

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Quyi, as a kind of rap art, has a long history, but it has no independent status. In the history of China's art development, rap art once belonged to "One Hundred Dramas in Song Dynasty" and was performed in Washe and Goulan (the activity place of folk geisha in Song Dynasty). In modern times, it was attributed to "what variety", and most of them performed in Beijing Tianqiao, Nanjing Confucius Temple, Shanghai Xujiahui, Tianjin "Sangu", Kaifeng Suoguo Temple and other folk entertainment places.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many mature rap arts were given a unified and stable name, collectively known as "Quyi", and entered the theater.

Quyi has a long history. As early as ancient times, China folk storytelling, jokes, and especially playing, singing, jumping and laughing all contained the artistic elements of Quyi.

In the Tang Dynasty, the emergence of popular stories such as street novels and stories about spreading Buddhism to the people, and the popularity of Daqu and folk tunes made the rap skills flourish. Since then, Quyi as an independent art form began to take shape.

By the Song Dynasty, due to the development of commodity economy, the city was prosperous, and the citizen class grew, the rap performance had a special position. Professional artists, speaking skills, drums, various palace tunes, singing and income were extremely prosperous, which were recorded in detail in Meng Yuan's Dream of Tokyo and Ned Weng's The Sound of the Capital.

From the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the early Republic of China, with the germination of capitalist economy, the number of cities soared, which greatly promoted the development of rap art. On the one hand, folk rap with strong local color in the surrounding areas of cities flowed to cities one after another, and it became more and more mature in performance practice, such as Daoqing, Lotus Falls, Fengyang Flower Drum and Overlord Whip. On the one hand, some old songs have changed in the process of communication, combining the characteristics of various regions and dialects. For example, Yuan and Ming Ci with scattered rhymes gradually evolved into Tanci in the south and Drum Ci in the north.

During this period, new varieties and new songs of Quyi emerged constantly, and many types of Quyi were famous artists and schools. Most of the Quyi varieties we see today were spread from the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China.