Sichuan local entertainment program similar to Errenzhuan

Sichuan Plate

A variety of Sichuan folk arts. Sing while tapping the porcelain plate with bamboo chopsticks. In the past, it was also called singing plate, singing ditty, plate ditty, etc. It is mainly popular in cities and villages in eastern and western Sichuan. It originated from the popular folk "Dazhan'er". During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, there were blind artists in Wushan who played small tunes on plates.

In the 1920s, folk artists from Hubei came to Sichuan to perform and sing disc tunes. They were well received by the masses and became popular in Sichuan. The singer holds a porcelain plate in one hand and a skill in the other, and strikes different parts of the plate such as the edge, surface, back, and bottom to produce different sounds. There are different techniques such as trembling, rolling, sliding, and dotting. The tunes sung are mostly folk tunes. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there has been considerable artistic innovation, from one-person standing singing to two or more people's walking singing and performance singing integrated with dance, and the accompaniment of pipa, erhu, dulcimer and other musical instruments has been added. , a number of new songs appeared, such as "Land Reform", "Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea", "Opening of Chengdu-Chongqing Road to Traffic", "Looking at My Daughter", "Three Daughters-in-law Fighting for Mother-in-Law", etc.