Before liberation, during the period from the first ten days of July to the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar every year, a small table was set up temporarily at sunset in the shantang in the streets and lanes of Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang, with a long square table in front and a "wind lantern" on the left and right. On the left and right sides of the table stood a gentleman in a white summer dress, saying "good books" one by one. At that time, the most famous "good book" joke was "playing reed flowers", saying that the clothes that stepmother made for his ex-wife's son were not cotton, but reed flowers, and the children were shivering with cold. His father hit the child with a stick. As a result, after the cold coat was broken by a stick, he found that it was not cotton, but reed flowers. Therefore, the father and son cried bitterly and hated the woman for being too cruel. Other "good book" jokes include Looking Around Henan and Mill Life.
After the reform and opening up, at the end of 1983, Hubei Quyi Circle held the second Baihua Book Fair in Hankou, and Hanchuan's Good Book was later performed as a program of Xiaogan regional team in People's Paradise. The new "Good Book" refreshed the audience. First of all, the content was innovated, jumping out of the circle of simply persuading goodness in the past, but promoting new people and new things in real life such as family planning; Reforms have also been made in form, changing the "one talk and one announcement" of two actors in the past into "one talk and two singing" of one man and two women, and adding music accompaniment, which not only inherits, develops and innovates the elegant artistic style of Good Book, but also won warm applause from Wuhan audience. Wang Yuanxiang is from Liujiage, Hanchuan City, Hubei Province. He was born in 19 19. His father studied in Japan in his early years and was a graduate of Waseda University. Yuanxiang studied in Wuchang Dagong Middle School before the Anti-Japanese War, but we graduated from Wuchang at the same time as 194 1 and were the first students of the school. After liberation, Yuan Xiang was appointed as the cultural curator of Hanchuan City and concurrently served as the screenwriter of Hanchuan Han Opera Troupe. He specializes in "good books". In his 80 s, he died of illness.
1989, in his book Recalling the Past of Hankou, he said that "Wuhan people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival (the first to fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month)" with the title of Talking about Good Books. There is a festival drama "Yong Dong's Parting" on at the theatre. In the evening, river lanterns are sent to various good halls, gongs and drums are loud, and' good books' are circulated in the streets. Speaking of' good books' is to persuade people to do good deeds, which is conducive to social stability. Therefore, good churches advocate' good books', and most of the lecturers are highly respected celebrities and don't receive remuneration. 193 1 year, Wuhan was flooded, and a large number of semi-professional' good books' artists trapped in Jiangcheng and Hanchuan came to the Han group class to say' good books' to make a living. At that time, there was a murder case in Haizi in Caidian Town, Hanyang County, and someone compiled it into a' good book' called "One mouthful of blood". The' good book' artists in Hanchuan seized the book and made a big fuss about it. Their speeches made the listeners cry and attracted a large audience of Wuhan workers. There is a teahouse called Win Taiwan in Sanshu Street, Hankou. Pan and Wang Haiyuan, the "good books" of Hanchuan, are invited to perform in the hall. 1935 to 1943. It can be seen that Wuhan listeners love the genre of' good books'. "Hanchuan good books have more than 300 excellent masterpieces, and 100 is often told. There are more than 300 people who specialize in preaching and creating good books in Hanchuan.
In the new century, influenced by the impact of foreign culture and the rise of multiculturalism, and the death of some accomplished old artists, young people can be unique and some excellent tracks are on the verge of being lost. At present, the inheritance and development of Hanchuan's good books have encountered unprecedented difficulties, with the loss of young artists' files and serious loss of traditions, which urgently need support and protection.
The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, Quyi was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. On June 24th, 2007, 1 1, Hanchuan No.2 Middle School organized senior three liberal arts students to listen to "Hanchuan Good Book" in the stepped classroom.
"Good Books in Hanchuan" is a literary genre initiated by Makou native Wang Haiyuan, and has been included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. In order to carry forward its artistic essence and make this excellent school on the verge of extinction glow again, the city has planned to let young people contact and understand this school. Hanchuan Haoshu has always had the educational function of forbidding evil and persuading good. Four old artists who came to our school this time publicized the contents of clean government education to the students in the form of "Good Books of Hanchuan", and their soul-stirring singing aroused the students' strong * *.
The 2006 International Symposium on "Good Books in Hanchuan" sponsored by Hanchuan Municipal Government and the Research Center of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Central China Normal University was held in Hanchuan. 36 Chinese and foreign experts and scholars attended the seminar and submitted papers.