Quyi genre

According to different artistic features, musical tunes, languages, origins and popular areas, it can be divided into many different schools, such as Yangzhou Pinghua, Shandong Qin Shu, Crosstalk, Henan Pendant, Jingyun Drum, Suzhou Tanci, Sichuan Yin Qing, Haolaibao, Zanha and Big Ben.

According to the script characteristics, performance forms and music forms, it can be generally divided into five categories: storytelling, cross talk, allegro, drum music and rap books. Drum is popular in North China and Northeast China. Usually accompanied by three strings, the actors sing along with the drums. Some don't have to be accompanied by musical instruments, but only sing with drums. It is the product of the Yellow River Basin, prevailing in the late Qing Dynasty and evolved from folk songs. One of the earliest northern drums is the Ploughshare Drum (namely, Shandong Drum and Pear Drum). Its melody is developed from a folk song combined with productive labor in the rural areas of northern Shandong, with strong local color and simple and healthy local flavor. Why is it called a big drum? There are several different versions of this. It is said that drums are developed from farmers' yangko, and farmers sometimes beat drums to lead songs. Yangko drum was originally very big, but later it was changed into a small drum with reference to the flat drum used by monks to teach soil. It is said that drum ci used to be good at performing great books, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties. Therefore, the book in charge of the lyrics of the drum is called the drum book, or drum for short.

There is also a saying that playing drums is to attract the audience and bring everyone together, that is, playing drums to tell stories, which was later misrepresented as a drum book. In a word, no matter how to explain it, there is no doubt that the drum was born and raised in the Han nationality. There are more than 20 kinds of drums in China, most of which are named after regions. Such as Xihe Drum, Shandong Drum, Jing Yun Drum, Laoting Drum, Beiban Drum, JD.COM Drum, Fengdiao Drum, Pinggu Drum, Tangshan Drum, Nanyang Drum, Shangdang Drum, Northeast Drum, Anhui Drum, Heluo Drum, Hubei Drum, Taiyuan Drum, Guangxi Drum, Changsha Drum, Jiangxi Drum, Jiaodong Drum, Huainan Drum, etc. According to musical instruments, there are iron drums, wooden drums, plum drums, pear drums and voiceless drums. Big books are medium and long books. Even talking, singing, talking and rapping while performing. This kind of music, such as Xihe Drum in the north and Pingtan in the south, is very popular with farmers. Judging from the theme, the rap books in the north are basically traditional books, such as Hu Jiajiang and Xue Jiajiang. However, South Rap Book has created a number of bibliographies reflecting real life and made great achievements. Like Tantan's True Love and Fake Love, through the different attitudes of the two sisters to love, it praises the noble and beautiful soul of her sister and exposes her ugly and despicable soul, which is of great enlightenment and educational significance to how young people should treat love, marriage and life. He won the first prize for creation and performance at the National Quyi Performance Observation Conference hosted by the Ministry of Culture 1982, and was adapted into radio drama, drama and TV series, which became popular all over the country.