Northern Shaanxi storytelling

According to word of mouth, storytelling in northern Shaanxi has been carried out in Yulin area in the long feudal society. At that time, the pipa was called Scorpion (the instrument was like a big scorpion), and two pieces of wood were called Lengzi. Many artists or blind artists make a living by telling stories by playing the pipa and tapping the board, and mostly sing "Lotus Falls" by tapping the bamboo board with "double tones". Later, tones such as disyllabic, monosyllabic, falling tone, adagio and bamboo board were gradually formed in northern Shanxi and northern Shaanxi. There are as many ballads in northern Shaanxi as "Nine Shen Eighteen Tunes", and the pipa is popular in Yan 'an, Ganquan, Yanchang and Wuqi. Sanxian is popular in Suide, Shenmu, Fugu, Inner Mongolia, Yellow River and some surrounding counties in Gansu Province, and the storytelling is monosyllabic; Jia county and Wubao are East Roads; Dingbian, Zhidan, Jingbian, and West Cool Plum Blossoms. There are three kinds of double tones: adagio, martial arts, allegro and both long and short books.

The customs and characteristics of storytelling in northern Shaanxi are as follows: 1. Most of them have no history and no cost. For example, there are more than 20 kinds of books 120, such as "Flower Willow", "Ying Huang" and "Sweat Towel", most of which were copied by hand after 15 and circulated among the people; Second, the language is rich in vocabulary, mostly peasant language, easy to understand and spread, and is deeply loved by farmers; Third, it is simple and easy to follow the form of ancient folk music concerts. It can be placed on the kang in winter and under the tree and on the ground in summer. These characteristics were inherited and developed by Han Qixiang, a famous storyteller, and became a unique flower.

Han Qixiang: 19 15 Hanjiayuanzi Village, Hengshan County, where three generations were long-term workers. He was blind at the age of 3, left his father to sell tofu at the age of 6, drove the donkey to the landlord's house at the age of 9, learned storytelling from the teacher at the age of 65,438+03, and began to make a living by storytelling and singing at the age of 65,438+04. He can speak hundreds of traditional bibliographies in Yu Ben and play more than 50 folk songs. In 65,438+0940, he went to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and began to embark on the road of "storytelling in northern Shaanxi". Over the past decades, he has compiled such famous articles as Biography of Current Affairs, Wang Pi's Journey to the South, Qiao Liu's Reunion, and Returning to the Hometown, which laid the foundation for the survival and development of storytelling in northern Shaanxi and added new glory to China's Quyi Wenyuan. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Han Qixiang was the vice chairman of Chinese Quyi Artists Association and the chairman of Shaanxi Branch of Chinese Quyi Artists Association.