One day a Cantonese Opera Troupe appeared in Leizhou City, and the news immediately spread all over the streets of Leizhou City.
Leizhou people's singing has a long history, which has been recorded since the Song Dynasty. Su Zhe, the younger brother of the then literary leader Su Shi, was demoted to Leizhou.
Although Su Zhe can't compare with Su Shi, he is also a typical all-rounder in history. He is not only proficient in the four books and five classics, but also proficient in temperament. After Su Zhe came to Leizhou, he brought the most advanced and outstanding culture of the Central Plains to the local area and integrated it into the life of Leizhou people over time.
Later, with Tang Xianzu, the most famous playwright of the Ming Dynasty, being demoted to this place by the imperial court, a singing competition with Lei Ju charm gradually appeared in Leizhou. Later, a girls' choir with unique local characteristics was formed.
The local people heard that there was a foreign Cantonese opera troupe coming to Leizhou to perform, and they all wanted to see what the foreign opera troupe was like. Later, the news reached the ears of local artists who specialize in girls' songs in Leizhou. These artists said that they would rush to the place where the Cantonese Opera Troupe performed during the performance of Cantonese Opera, and sing and compare with each other.
When artists stepped onto the stage and waited for the performance to begin, they suddenly found that they could not understand everything in front of them. The high stage is only part of the performance, and the things in the background are completely invisible. In addition, the arrangement on the stage, in their view, is almost extravagant, which makes these artists feel uncertain.
With the sound of a musical instrument, an artist in a martial arts costume came out from the background. His costume not only includes tassels, feathers, flags on his shoulders, robes and armor, but also draws his face.
During the performance, the artists use these costumes, combined with facial muscles, eyebrow eye movements and beard skills, to bring the characters to life and bring a heroic and unrestrained feeling to all the audience.
Seeing this scene, the artists of Leizhou local daughter's song class suddenly lost the courage to compete. Listening to each other's rigorous lyrics and appreciating the progressive stories, these Leizhou artists are very eager to master this unheard-of opera.
Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it. Finally, after a period of time, Leizhou artists have completely mastered Cantonese opera through hard study. So they started the first Leizhou song class according to the experience of girls' singing class.
As soon as leizhou song Class was born, it immediately swept the backward local girls' singing class in Leizhou, and established an unshakable absolute position in Leizhou.
With the performance of leizhou song Class in various places, the performance environment has gradually changed: with a fixed performance venue, singing classes have appeared for many years, and professional artists, scripts, performances and music have also developed. The scripts, performances, costumes, props and faces of Leizhou Song Class are the same as those of Cantonese Opera.
Lei Ju is developed from leizhou song, a folk song of Leizhou Peninsula, and leizhou song has a long history. Long ago, the local working people had the habit of leizhou song singing and teasing each other.
In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, duet was popular in leizhou song. During the festival, singers gather, improvise, answer questions and compete for talents, which are deeply loved by the masses.
Mafuqiao, Baisha Town, Leizhou City, is the earliest platform for two-person duet. 165 1 year, a museum was built here to accommodate singers. Since then, famous singers have often been invited to duets all over the world to become professional artists, and began to form singing classes with Lei Ju charm. After the female singer joined, the masses called it "Niang Song Class".
The so-called "Niang Song Class" consists of two singers, a man and a woman, with singers as the main and singers as the auxiliary. When singing, the man holds a fan and the woman holds a towel, switching places and singing while jumping.
At that time, most of my daughter's songs urged the world to do evil and good. For example, the songs that advised the world to quit smoking and gamble in the early days were persuaded.
At first, these exhortation songs were just narrative songs based on local real events. Later, in order to express their thoughts more deeply, artists fictionalized the plot, typified the story and performed it in different roles according to different characters, which became the embryonic form of the play.
The script performed by the chorus is called "this song" by the masses. The oldest song "Breaking the Machine and Teaching Children" was edited and edited by Chen Changqi in imperial academy in Qing Dynasty and passed down from generation to generation as a revised version.
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, rural amateurs also got together during the slack season to form a team and perform on tour, which was called "singing class" by the masses. Later, Cantonese opera was performed in Leizhou Peninsula, and artists from Leizhou Song troupe learned from Cantonese opera in succession, learning its performance form, costumes, gongs and drums, and music, making the performance of Leizhou opera completely a form of opera.