Allegro is a popular folk art form, what is its origin?

In the early years, Allegro was called "counting treasures", which evolved from the "lotus fall" when beggars begged along the street. In feudal society.

The social status of Allegro artists is very low, but the "ancestral master" they worship is Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang also used to be a beggar, legend has it that the form of singing along the rhythm of the percussion while knocking on the cow bones is his invention.

The most important feature of Allegro is that the performer needs to rap the lyrics to the rhythm of the bone or bamboo board, and the content of the lyrics can be ready-made stories and truths, or they can be randomly composed according to the current situation.

Because the audience's appreciation needs must be considered at all times when begging, the performer must have a high ability to improvise lyrics. Of course, due to the relatively fixed rhythm and the frequent use of clichés, the early Allegro often had the shortcomings of monotonous plates.

Such as the following paragraph: please be please, let is let be, three please Mao Lu Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang, borrow the east wind.

Burn Cao Cao. Millions of soldiers.

Cao Cao's soldiers were burned for millions, and the bow of the ship borrowed wolf tooth arrows.

This Allegro exemplifies the creative characteristics and shortcomings of the improvisational Allegro: first, there is a lot of repetition between sentences, because the performer must rap sentence by sentence quickly, and if he can't make up new words for a while, he can only borrow the ready-made words of the previous sentence.

Secondly, the relationship between the preceding sentence and the following sentence is probably not very large, which is also because the performer cannot carefully scrutinize and process the lyrics in order to quickly compose the lyrics。In addition, this allegro vividly reflects the rhythm of a four-plate, which is the most common way of forming a rhythm in the early Allegro. After listening to it too much, it is easy to feel monotonous.

Summary: Of course, as Allegro as an art gradually matures, the artistic level of lyrics has been greatly improved, and the rhythmic forms of knocking on the board have also become quite rich (such as letting the board, catching the board, etc.).

Although Allegro has stepped onto the stage of art, as a popular form of opera, it still maintains the characteristics of being close to social life. Performers often collect materials from daily life and compose lyrics, which can reflect the current folk customs to a certain extent.

At first, it was a way for beggars to beg for money, and it slowly became a form of performance, and sometimes it appeared in some funerals and in some folk activities, and each place developed a different form, which developed and grew in the Qing Dynasty.

It is called "Shulai Bao", also called "Shunkou Slip", "Flowing Mouth Rut", "Lianzizui", which evolved and developed from the "Lotus Fall" sung by the poor people in the Song Dynasty.

This kind of folk art was the first in the traditional folk arts, and it also gives people a catchy feeling, which first appeared in the Qing Dynasty, and is more famous for the Allegro of Tianjin, Hubei and Shandong.

Allegro was known as Shulai Bao in the early years, also known as Shunkou Slip, which is a manifestation of folk art, the most famous is Tianjin Kuaibao, which first appeared in the Ming Dynasty.

There are three main ways to perform Allegro: single-stand Allegro, counter-mouth Allegro and group Allegro. The counterpart allegro retains the original name of "Shu Lai Bao", and it is also called "counterpart allegro".

It has also appeared in factories and troops.

Three or four people sang the "group allegro" and a dozen people performed the "allegro group". Some areas have also developed Allegro sung in local dialects according to the local language environment, such as Tianjin Allegro, Shaanxi Allegro, Lanzhou Allegro, etc.

Allegro art is flexible, diverse, and colorful. In terms of expression, there is an allegro book that one person says, two people say "Shu Laibao", and three or more people say "Allegro group" (also called "group mouth Allegro").

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