On Suzhou Pingtan

Pingtan is a language art, which tells history, martial arts monsters, the past from ancient times to the present, or talented people and beautiful women, or Jin Goma iron, with bizarre plots.

Suzhou pingtan is euphemistic and intoxicating. Sing in the soft Suzhou dialect. The melodious string sound and beautiful and euphemistic singing of the three-stringed pipa are pleasing to the eye.

Suzhou Pingtan penetrates the beautiful charm of Jiangnan water town into the marrow of the rhyme of Tanci, turning it into the soul of Pingtan, making people feel their appreciation of the art of Pingtan, just like drinking a large bowl of rice wine specially made in Jiangnan water town, which is fragrant, refreshing and pure, and makes people slightly intoxicated. I'm afraid that's what the ancients meant by decadent voice.

Suzhou pingtan began in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which is similar to the origin of storytelling and drum writing in the north. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, urban handicrafts were quite developed, which brought opportunities to the popularity of Pinghua rap. In order to meet the leisure needs of local people, Suzhou Pingtan, which is sung in dialect, was born.

Pingtan, Suzhou is a flowing river, and bookstores and teahouses are just a pier or harbor above this river. As the tide rises and falls, ships come and go. Let's make a pot of green tea, enjoy the autumn wind on the first floor, and recall the years when pipa and Heizi were weaving.

Hundreds of years ago, pingtan artists came from one town to another and sang and rapped in bookstores and teahouses. There is no theater in the town, so it is rare to give a few performances a year. The usual entertainment is listening to pingtan in the bookstore or teahouse. On a small desk, the old desk on the desk is surrounded by the words "the legacy of Jingting" on a red background, and the couplets on both sides read: Mention the past Kossa Shige, come early tomorrow.

Once upon a time, there was a small town, and the small town had Pingtan. On the rivers and lakes, boat leaves come and go from one town to another, and some storytellers stand at the bow in graceful clothes.

It's almost the end of the year, and storytellers who have traveled all over the country have gathered in Suzhou to attend the book club with their best books and plays.

Storytelling used to be an important activity in the field of pingtan, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival Evening. The interesting thing about storytelling is that if the storyteller doesn't perform well, the old audience sitting below will give him the wrong prefix: which section of the book is unreasonable, which lyrics don't rhyme, and which sentence is inappropriate. ...

The relationship between storytellers and audiences is special. Among the old listeners, there are people with high cultural literacy, and there are also many people who are well-informed and familiar with the world.

Pingtan is not only the art of playing and singing about the world and human feelings, but also the art of commenting on good, evil, beauty and ugliness. These people can't help but participate in the creation. Those masterpieces handed down from ancient times, those popular sound files, are polished bit by bit in such an environment.

The vitality of Suzhou Pingtan is reflected in the softness of Wu dialect. Without Wu as the mother tongue, Pingtan would lose its soul.

There is a saying that "it is better to listen to Ningbo people gossiping than to listen to Suzhou people quarreling and swearing". Suzhou dialect is soft and sweet, and the water is delicate and delicate. Taste, waxy, My Sweetie. Ningbo dialect is short and sonorous. The smell is too strong. It tastes salty and hard, and it's not delicious.

Someone joked that Suzhou people eat a lot of sugar and glutinous rice, put sugar in cooked dishes and eat fresh goods produced in water towns, so Suzhou people will talk sweetly. People in Ningbo eat pickles and edamame at both ends every three days, such as bibcock roast, salted yellow croaker and smelly wax gourd, all of which are salty goods. Can you call him Wu Yu Ruan Nong Ruan Nuo? So Ningbo dialect was salted and became hard and salty. Just one side of the soil and water to support one side. Of course, this is just a joke.

When Suzhou people express different opinions, there is a mantra: "Are you talking about a book?" Storytelling is storytelling. Commenting on stories is a big book, and typing is a small book. It can be seen that Suzhou Pingtan is famous for its "unique".

Pingtan, embroidery and Suzhou gardens are also called Suzhou Three Musts. These three wonders, whether pingtan, embroidery or garden art, are so exquisite, fresh and beautiful. You can see the beautiful Suzhou through this alley.