Linglong Tower, what is the full text of Linglong Tower Tongue Twister?

Linglong Pagoda is a famous part of Xihe Drum and belongs to traditional Chinese culture and art. Nowadays, it is also used as a tongue twister or a tongue-in-cheek in various performance forms such as allegro and cross talk.

Original text of "Linglong Pagoda":

There is an old monk high on the mountain, wearing thousands of layers of robes.

If you ask the old monk how old he is? He once remembered the Nine Clarifications of the Yellow River.

Five hundred years ago, Qing Yicheng, the total number was 4,500 winters.

The old monk accepted eight disciples, and all eight disciples had Dharma names.

The eldest disciple’s name is Qing Tou Leng, and the second disciple’s name is Leng Tou Qing.

The third disciple’s name is Seng Sandian, and the fourth disciple’s name is Dian Sanseng.

The fifth disciple’s name is Bunghulubaer, and the sixth disciple’s name is Baerhulubeng.

The seventh disciple’s name is Sui Feng Dao, and the eighth disciple’s name is Dao Sui Feng.

The old master taught them the eight arts, and the eight immortals crossed the sea and showed their talents:

The young man can play the chime, and the young man can ring the bell.

The monks at three o'clock can play the pipe, and the monks at three o'clock can hold the sheng.

You can play drums by jumping on a gourd, and you can chant sutras by jumping on a gourd.

Suifeng knows how to sweep the floor, Suifeng knows how to light lamps.

The master asked them to change it, but he didn’t know if it would work.

He can't beat this stupid young man's chime,

He can't hit this stupid young man's bell.

The three-pointed monk cannot play the three-pointed pipe of this monk,

The three-pointed monk cannot hold the three-pointed sheng of the three monks.

Benghulubeng can’t beat the drum of Benghulubeng,

Benghulubeng’er can’t recite the sutra of Benghulubeng.

He can't sweep the fallen ground with Sui Feng, and he can't light the lamp with Sui Feng.

When the master saw this, he became angry and wanted to beat eight of his apprentices.

With helpless eyes, each of the eight disciples was about to be beaten.

From outside, five more wandering monks came.

The five monks expressed their love and ordered them to count the exquisite pagodas behind them.

The Linglong Pagoda has thirteen floors. When you go out, you will count the single floors and when you come back, you will count the double floors.

Whoever can count them is the senior brother.

If anyone cannot count Linglong Tower, he will be punished by kneeling until dawn.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, the first floor of Linglong Pagoda.

A high table with four legs, a monk and a sutra,

a cymbal and a chime, a wooden fish and a lamp.

A golden bell, worth four taels, was stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, the third floor of Linglong Pagoda.

Three high tables with twelve legs, three monks and three scriptures,

Three cymbals, three chimes, three wooden fish and three lamps.

Three golden bells, twelve taels, were stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, the fifth floor of Linglong Pagoda.

Five high tables with twenty legs, five monks and five scriptures,

five cymbals and five chimes, five wooden fish and five lamps.

Five golden bells, twenty taels, were stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, the seventh floor of Linglong Pagoda.

Seven high tables with twenty-eight legs, seven monks and seven scriptures,

Seven cymbals and seven chimes, seven wooden fish and seven lamps.

Seven golden bells, twenty-eight taels, were stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, the ninth floor of Linglong Pagoda.

Nine high tables with thirty-six legs, nine monks and nine scriptures,

nine cymbals and nine chimes, nine wooden fish and nine lamps.

Nine golden bells, thirty-six taels, were stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda has eleven floors.

Eleven high tables with forty-four legs, eleven monks and eleven scriptures,

Eleven cymbals and eleven chimes, eleven wooden fish and eleven lamps lamp.

Eleven golden bells, forty-four taels, were stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda has thirteen floors.

Thirteen high tables with fifty-two legs, thirteen monks and thirteen scriptures,

Thirteen cymbals and thirteen chimes, thirteen wooden fish and thirteen lamps lamp.

Thirteen golden bells, fifty-two taels, were stunned when the wind blew.

Count backwards.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda has twelve floors.

Twelve high tables with forty-eight legs, twelve monks and twelve scriptures,

Twelve cymbals, twelve chimes, twelve wooden fish and twelve lamps.

Twelve golden bells, forty-eight taels, were stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, the tenth floor of Linglong Pagoda.

Ten high tables with forty legs, ten monks and ten scriptures,

Ten cymbals and ten chimes, ten wooden fish and ten lamps.

Ten golden bells, forty taels, stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, the eighth floor of Linglong Pagoda.

Eight high tables with thirty-two legs, eight monks and eight scriptures,

eight cymbals and eight chimes, eight wooden fish and eight lamps.

Eight golden bells, thirty-two taels, were stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, the sixth floor of Linglong Pagoda.

Six high tables with twenty-four legs, six monks and six scriptures,

Six cymbals and six chimes, six wooden fish and six lamps.

Six golden bells, twenty-four taels, were stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, the fourth floor of Linglong Pagoda.

Four high tables with sixteen legs, four monks and four scriptures,

four cymbals and four chimes, four wooden fish and four lamps.

Four golden bells, sixteen taels, were stunned when the wind blew.

Linglong Pagoda, Linglong Pagoda, the second floor of Linglong Pagoda.

Two high tables with eight legs, two monks and two scriptures,

Two cymbals and two chimes, two wooden fish and two lamps.

Two golden bells, eight taels in total, were stunned when the wind blew.

The monks stopped at the Linglong Pagoda and looked up to see a sky full of stars. Looking at the ground, there is a hole.

Looking inside the pit, it’s frozen. Looking at the ice, there is a pine tree.

Looking at the pine tree, an eagle has fallen. Look inside the room and see an old monk.

The monk looked at a sutra. Read before menstruation, light the lamp.

Look at the wall, there are nails. Look at the nail, hanging the bow.

Looking at it, I squinted my eyes. It was dry and windy in the northwest. Talk about strong wind, very strong wind.

Ten people saw it, and nine were shocked.

The stars scattered all over the sky, and the pit on the ground was leveled.

The ice in the pit was scraped away. The pine trees on the ice were blown down,

the eagle on the pine trees was blown away, and an old monk was blown away.

The monk's sutra was scraped over, and the lamp in front of the sutra was blown out.

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The nails on the wall were scraped off, and the nails on the bow were scraped off.

In an instant, all that was blown away was that the stars were scattered, pits flattened, ice melted, pines fell, eagles flew, monks walked away, sutras were turned over, lamps went out, nails fell off, and bows collapsed.

Singer of "Linglong Pagoda": Ma Zengfen

Ma Zengfen, female, born in Beijing in 1921, is a Xihe drummer. At the age of five, he learned art from his father Ma Liandeng. He went on stage at the age of seven and has performed in Ping and Tianjin. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as an actor of the Central Radio and Rap Troupe and the first and second director of the Chinese Quyi Artists Association. In 1960, he won the title of National March 8th Red Flag Bearer. He is good at singing short sections, and together with his father, he created the "Ma Pai" singing style of Xihe Dagu. She is good at performing repertoire including "Xue Family General", "Flowers Singing Tongue Twisters", "Jiang Zhujun", "One Penny and Two Meters", etc.

Ma Zengfen is talented and intelligent. He not only learned to sing Xihe drum since he was a child, but also learned to play Sanxian. When he was 5 years old, he started singing Xihe Dagu in Laidi, Tianjin with his father Mr. Ma Liandeng. At the same time, he also served as Sanxian accompanist for Mr. Ma. When he was 7 years old, he made his debut on stage singing Xihe Drum in Tianjin's Daguan Tower and became famous. When he was 11 or 12 years old, he became famous in the opera and folk arts performance circles in Lujing, Tang and Hebei areas. Her extraordinary artistic talent and skillful acting skills have won the love of the audience.

At the age of 15, he performed on the stage with famous Beijing drum performing artists Liu Baoquan, Bai Yunpeng, Sun Xiaoxuan, Luo Yusheng and cross talk performing artists Chang Baokun and Zhang Shouchen. Before liberation, the main traditional repertoire she performed included "Generals of the Yang Family", "Generals of the Hu Family", "Xue Gang's Rebellion against the Tang Dynasty", "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", "Linglong Pagoda", "Splashing Water in Front of Horses", "Wandering the Lake", etc.

At the age of 17, she successfully recorded her first solo album "Linglong Tower" for the first time with her superior artistic skills. This popular aria is still praised by people today. Ma Zengfen's singing voice is resonant and can be summed up in four words: "hua", "beautiful", "sweet" and "crisp". Her singing voice is bold, lively, lively, full of emotions, fresh, flowing, and infectious. She pays great attention to music styling and is full of the flavor of the times.

Ma Zengfen’s life beats with the pulse of the times. She strives to perfect herself while pursuing perfection in art. She devoted herself to her art, and at the same time she used the Xihe drum as a weapon to fight, being a good propagandist and a vanguard on the broadcasting front. He was rated as an advanced worker many times in the Broadcasting Bureau (later the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television).

As an outstanding representative of the broadcasting industry, she attended the National Advanced Workers Conference, and she was named the National March 8th Red Flag Bearer. She has been invited to Zhongnanhai many times to perform for the central leaders, and was honored to be invited to have lunch as a guest of Premier Zhou Enlai. She went to the mountains and countryside many times, joined the army, and went to the factory to sing. The shooting range at the military training range, the machine tool in the workshop, and the threshing floor in the fields were all her stages. Deeply loved by the majority of workers, peasants and soldiers.

Extended information:

In the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), the British EMI record company in Shanghai planned to record Xihe Dagu's "Linglong Tower Tongue Twister" record, but the original candidate Jiao Xiulan was not available for a while. After finding it, he chose Ma Zengfen, who was only fourteen years old at the time but had already made a name for himself. After the record was released, Ma Zengfen's popularity was greatly increased.

In 1954, Ma Zengfen, the Central Radio and Rap Group, compiled the traditional cross talk "Tongue Twisters of Eighteen Sorrows" into Xihe Dagu music and lyrics for singing. There are sixteen different tongue twisters in the original cross talk. Seven of them were carefully selected and processed into lively and interesting performances of Xihe Dagu music and lyrics. In 1956, it was recorded by China Record Company and distributed nationwide.

Tongue twisters are originally about talking, so the last word of some sentences rhymes with oblique tones. However, the specifications of Xihe Dagu require that the last word of all sentences rhymes with flat tones. Some of the tongue twisters Erhuayun's vocabulary is also difficult to pronounce. Ma Zengfen has the courage to break through the old rhythm and sing with new methods such as counting and singing, dancing and singing, pretending to sing, and speaking and singing. He requires the three-stringed accompaniment to jump fast and slow like a counting board soundtrack, with a clear rhythm. At the end, the singing becomes more and more The faster it comes to an abrupt end. Then it was transformed into two sentences [Second Board]: "I can't sing enough tongue twisters in one sentence. I don't sing well. Please give me more opinions." It ended slowly, which was both interesting and memorable.

Ma Zengfen not only completely inherited the excellent essence of Xihe drum art, but also constantly innovated to describe and portray the characters of the times. For example, when she sang "Qiu Shaoyun" by volunteer soldier Qiu Shaoyun, she changed her accustomed lively and smooth singing tone, and the whole tone was solemn. In order to add emotional exaggeration, she does not add coloratura, but mostly uses extended and lowered tunes to enrich the singing effect. At the beginning, she recited four lines of poetry with a solemn tone, bringing the audience into the war-torn environment of the Korean War. The narration is added in the middle of the aria to alternate the rap and rap and increase the expressiveness.

The seven rhymes of the seven-part tongue twister in "Flower Singing Tongue Twister" are as follows:

1. "Sixty-six-year-old Liu Laoliu", You Qiuzhe.

2. "Ten roads are black", and there are piles of ashes.

3. "Go out of the front door and head due south" is exactly the same thing as before.

4. "The bench is wide and the pole is long", which is the same as the Yangtze River.

5. "Two sisters went shopping for lanterns", which is the same as the previous one.

6. "A small temple on a high mountain", far away.

7. "If you have nothing to do, go out to the west of the city", the same is true.

The seven-paragraph tongue twister uses seven rhymes. This rhyme structure is called "Hua Zhe", so it is called "Hua Sing" in the title.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Linglong Pagoda (famous Xihe Dagu section)