Pizhou Singing Flower
Singing Huaxiang in Pizhou is a folk art project in the second batch of representative projects of Xuzhou's municipal intangible cultural heritage. Singing Huaxiang in Pizhou is also known as "saying Huaxiang" and "speaking Bao". It was called "saying music" in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and "saying music" had already spread among the people in the Han Dynasty, commonly known as "Jinkou". It was called "singing double reeds" in the Tang Dynasty, and "saying Huaxiang" and "singing Huaxiang" after the Song Dynasty. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, large areas of northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong suffered natural disasters year after year, and many victims left their homes to beg for a living. When begging, the victims learned to sing Huaxiang and say auspicious words to get more alms. Later, people used the art of singing Huaxiang as a word of leisure and entertainment, and used it for singing and entertainment. The props of the art of singing Huaxiang in Pizhou are simple. The artists hold bamboo boards and knots in their hands and run around the streets and alleys and the stage of the courtyard. Thousands of things in the world are themes for artists to sing and sing. Its artistic language is vivid, free and lively, with varied rhymes. The lyrics are in the form of three-word sentences, five-word sentences, seven-word sentences, and ten-word sentences. There are both flowery sentences with the same rhyme and sound, and there are also more difficult "one-whip" rhyme paragraphs. Pizhou's singing of flowers has unique art skills, which condenses many talents of artists such as speaking, singing, and performing. Every artist who sings flowers can compose and sing, and is eloquent. When singing, the weight is appropriate, and the speed is appropriate. Every time they reach the wonderful place, they sound the double board, talk endlessly, and the sound is like thunder. They shake the baggage from time to time, set buttons, and make the listeners laugh. The unique skill of the singing of flowers is to stop the board, which can make the listeners have endless aftertaste. The rap content of Pizhou's singing of flowers is extensive, and there are more than 500 new and old book paragraphs. The traditional paragraphs include "door head song", "collection head song", "shop song", etc. It records and inherits the history and culture of Pizhou and the folk rap art. It is the essence of excellent national folk culture and art, and has influenced and promoted the development of Chinese folk art creation. It spreads and praises the production and life of the working people, ethics and morality, satirizes and criticizes social ugliness, punishes evil and promotes good, and expresses people's emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, as well as thoughts and emotions of love and hate. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)