What are the famous Yuan songs and what are the classic Yuan songs?

Find out what Yuanqu is.

Yuanqu both includes loose songs and opera songs.

After Tang poetry and Song poetry, Yuanqu, which became a literary flourish, has its unique charm: on the one hand, Yuanqu inherits the beauty and tactfulness of poetry; On the one hand, the society of the Yuan Dynasty put the scholars in the position of "eight prostitutes, nine Confucians, and ten beggars", with political dictatorship and social darkness, so that the Yuan Qu radiated an extremely dazzling brilliance of battle and revealed the mood of resistance; The sharp edge is directed at social evils.

directly denounced the society of "not reading is the highest, not being literate is the best, and some people praise if they don't know things", and directly pointed to the world style of "everyone is embarrassed, and no one can see money". The works depicting love in Yuanqu are also more pungent and bold than the poems of the past dynasties. These are enough to make Yuanqu maintain its artistic charm forever.

Yuanqu content

The composition of Yuan Qu includes two types of genres: one is the loose song that includes Xiaoling, with the number of songs and sets; The second is composed of a set of songs, interspersed with bin bai and Kefan, specially designed for the performance of miscellaneous dramas on the stage. "Sanqu" is the opposite of "opera".

A drama is a script used for performance, writing lyrics, confessions, movements, etc., for various characters.

Loose songs are simply lyrics used as a cappella. In terms of form, sanqu and words are very similar, but in language, the words should be elegant and subtle, while the sanqu should be popular and lively; In terms of rhythm, the words are stricter, while the loose songs are more free. Sanqu is divided into two categories from asanas:

Xiaoling" and "Loose Sets".

Xiaoling, also known as Ye'er, has a short system, usually just an independent piece (a few contain two or three pieces). The loose set consists of multiple pieces and requires a rhyme to be used at all times. The song cards of Sanqu also have various names, such as "Chattering Order" and "Blowing the Wind".

Happy Spring", "Hillside Sheep.

"Red Embroidered Shoes" and the like, these names are mostly very slangy, which also shows that sanqu is closer to a folk song than a word.

The top 20 classic songs are as follows:

First place: Ma Zhiyuan's "Tianjingsha Autumn Thoughts".

Second place: Zhang Yanghao's "Hillside Sheep Tong Caring for the Ancients".

Third place: Wang Shifu "Just right, farewell to the long pavilion".

Fourth place: Xu Zaisi "Folding Gui Ling, Spring Love".

Fifth place: Guan Hanqing's "Rolling Hydrangea".

Sixth place: Zhang Kejiu "Selling Flowers, Nostalgia".

Seventh place: Bai Pu's "Tianjingsha Autumn".

Eighth place: Zheng Guangzu "Toad Palace Song".

Ninth place: Xu Zaisi "Water Fairy, Night Rain".

Tenth place: Wang Shifu "December Guoyao Folk Song, Farewell Love".

11th place: Bai Pu "Drunk East Wind: The Fisherman".

Twelfth place: Zhang Yanghao "Water Fairy: Yongjiangnan".

Thirteenth place: Yao Sui's "Relying on the Railing, Sending Clothes".

Fourteenth place: Guan Yunshi "Sai Hongqiu: Generations of People".

Fifteenth place: Zhang Kejiu's "Leaning on the Railing, Jiang Ye".

Sixteenth place: Guan Hanqing's "A Flower, Not Fu Lao" (excerpt) Seventeenth place: Ma Zhiyuan's "Night Boat, Autumn Thoughts" (excerpt).

Eighteenth place: Georgie "Water Fairy: Revisiting the Waterfall".

Nineteenth place: Wang Heqing's "Drunk in the Sky, Song of the Big Butterfly".

Twentieth place: Zhang Mingshan "Water Fairy: Ridicule Time".

Tianjingsha Qiusi (Ma Zhiyuan).

Tianjingsha Autumn (Bai Pu).

Tianjingsha Spring (Bai Pu).

Hillside sheep Tong care for the ancient (Zhang Yanghao).

Tianjingsha Xia (Bai Pu).

Tianjingsha Winter (Bai Pu).

Chaotianzi Yong Trumpet (Wang Pan).

Laurel Order: Spring Love (Xu Zaisi).

Slope sheep Lishan nostalgia (Zhang Yanghao).

All of the above are classic yuan songs.

Yuan qu, also known as sandwich, was a form of literature and art that prevailed in the Yuan Dynasty, including miscellaneous operas and loose operas, and sometimes specifically referred to miscellaneous operas. Miscellaneous opera, a form of performance characterized by burlesque and comedy in the Song Dynasty, developed into a form of opera in the Yuan Dynasty. Each book is mainly composed of four folds, adding wedges at the beginning or between the folds, and each fold is composed of the same palace tune and rhyme of the Beiqu suite and bin bai.

Such as Guan Hanqing's "Dou E's Injustice" and so on. It was popular in the Dadu (now Beijing) area. There were also miscellaneous dramas in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but each book was not limited to four folds.

Sanqu was a form of music that prevailed in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties without binbai. The content is mainly lyrical, and there are two kinds of small orders and loose sets.

The 50 famous Yuan songs are as follows:

1. "Tianjiao Qiaojing Sha Qiusi".

1. Original text. Withered vines and old trees, faint crows, small bridges and flowing water, ancient roads and westerly winds and thin horses. As the sun sets, the broken intestines Kai Youjian people are at the end of the world.

2. Translation. Dead vines entwined the old trees, and on the branches roosted crows that had returned to their nests at dusk. Under the small bridge, the water is murmuring, and there are several families next to it.

On the ancient and desolate road, the autumn breeze is bleak, and a tired thin horse carries the wanderer. The sun is slowly setting in the west, and the extremely sad traveler is still adrift at the end of the world.

2. "Tianjingsha Autumn".

1. Original text. The lonely village is in the sunset, the light smoke is old and the jackdaws are under the shadow of a little Feihong. Green mountains and green waters, white grass, red leaves and yellow flowers.

2. Translation. As the sun set in the west, the sunset on the horizon began to dissipate, leaving only a faint color, reflecting the quiet and lonely village in the distance, dragging out the long shadow.

Light smoke drifted into the air, a few crows perched on the rickety old trees, and a wild goose flew down in the distance, streaking across the sky. Enchanting scenery; The frost-white grass, the fiery red maple leaves, and the golden flowers swayed in the wind, and the colors were very bright.

3. "Water Fairy: Yongjiangnan".

1. Original text. A river of smoke and water shines on the clear land, people on both sides of the strait connect the eaves, and the lotus bush is light in autumn for a while. Watch the sand gulls dance again and again, and roll the incense wind ten miles of bead curtains. The painting boat is on the horizon, and the wine flag is blowing in the wind. Love to kill Jiangnan!

2. Translation. A river of smoke and water reflects the clouds of the clear mountains, the eaves of the people on both sides of the river are connected to the eaves, and a lotus flower floats in the water in the autumn light is peaceful and leisurely. Watch the sand gulls fly back and forth, and the fragrant wind reveals the bead curtain on the shore of ten miles.

The painting boat seems to be sailing from the sky, and the wine flag is high and waving in the wind, what a lovely water town in the south of the Yangtze River.