There was a pair of little beggars, and the couple especially liked Zhou Guzi's ditty. Begging every day, I stayed in front of Zhou Jiazi's temple at night and eavesdropped on her singing a ditty. At this time, Zhou Guzi returned to the temple and loved to sing "Think of a nun". I learned a lot after a long time. Since then, when people come to beg for food, they often sing a little song to others to please their owners and send more dry food. Later, other beggars saw that they were much more demanding in singing ditty, so they followed them to learn to sing under the temple. Day after day, year after year, many beggars learned to sing Zhou Guzi ditty.
Zhou Guzi's ditty is widely circulated. More and more people like this music. Beggars have more chances to survive. As a result, beggars organized themselves, playing games, catching temple fairs, singing concerts, celebrating banquets, and being busy with weddings and funerals. ...
From the initial dry mouth to the sound of gongs and drums. This formed the embryonic form of Zhou Drum Opera.
There is an artist named Li Dexing in Zhangqiu who used to sing Zhangqiu Bangzi. Because the play occupies a large number of people, it is often impossible to earn food. Later, I heard that a group of beggars rushed to the meeting and sang Zhou Guzi's ditty, which was very popular, accounting for less people and earning more money. I led several people to follow them, watching and listening, learning these beggars' "gadgets", beating gongs and drums again, and starting a new performance, which achieved great results. Because the tunes are easy to learn and most of them reflect everything in the people's village, they are very popular in rural areas. Especially in operas, men and women love each other, flirt with each other, hold a grudge, and their parents are short-lived. They go with the flow, banter, simple and easy to understand. Favored by rural women, they are called "tying their wives and pouting". Li Dexing's son sang Zhou Guxi and became popular! People gave him a stage name "Root Column" (meaning a column on the stage. Maybe that's his real name. Not detailed. Author's note). At that time, there was a local mantra: "Touch a pillar, big braid, and don't think about men for three days (men in the Qing Dynasty wore braids)". I heard the drums and gongs of a pillar, and the cake was stuck on the door frame. Zhou Guzi's singing style spread and had a great influence, and some local troupes also transplanted and changed their singing. According to Zhang Jinxia, an old artist in Zhoucun, his master used to sing Bangzi and Yangko, and he stole Zhou Guzi's singing as early as Roots.
The father (Deng Hongshan) of the five-tone master "Fresh Cherry" used to sing Zhangqiu Bangzi. Subsequently, Deng Hongshan, Wang Huakui, Wang Huayuan and others were led to sing "Zhou Drum Opera".
Zhoucun is the performance place, base and birthplace of Zhougu Opera. The "Zhougu Opera" class represented by "Fresh Cherry" sang in Zhoucun and became popular on the Internet. Cheng Laizhou Village, one of the four major Peking Opera artists in China, watched the performance of Fresh Cherry and greatly appreciated it. It is said that he also learned a trick (sleeve) from him. Later, he sponsored the opera box and supported him to record in Shanghai. The "Zhou Ancient Opera" was officially renamed as "Wuyin Opera" ... These are naturally another story.