The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty Chapter 170: Acting with music

The words of Zhang Shanren made Yun Yanhui very interested in the folk artist from Zezhou. He liked all kinds of folk art in Bianjing very much. I really admire those artists.

Almost all the top artists like Zhang Shanren have their own amazing features. Since Zhang Shanren said that he saw his younger self in that person, Yun Yanhui naturally thought, at least meet that person. ,Learn about.

Since Yunyan answered yes, Zhang Shanren took him to see the man.

"I'm young, in my twenties, surnamed Kong, Kong Ji." Zhang Shanren introduced Yun Yan back, "His team said it was a team, but in fact, only three or four people were left in order to go to Beijing. Now, I live in the place of the Nine Mountains Book Club."

Yun Yanhui was quite surprised, "He has already joined the book club after only a short time in Beijing?"

Book Club is an organization popular among folk artists. Because of the wide range of art such as speaking and drama at this time, such an organization came into being.

Mr. Shuhui in the book club are all talented artists, such as Zhang Shanren, or literati who have no fame or aspirations. Most of the texts on the market are written by them.

To ask Yunyan to come back and understand is similar to a modern industry association.

In this kind of place, there are certain requirements for recruiting new members.

Jiushan Book Club is the largest and most influential book club in Bianjing. This Kong Ji was able to join the book club so quickly and still live in the book club's place. I think it is definitely more than Zhangshan people's appreciation. to use.

The Jiushan Book Club has a long-term rental place for the members' activities. Kong Ji lives there temporarily. Because there are no performances yet, so when Yunyanhui and Zhangshanren go there At that time, he and his class were all there.

Although I haven't met, I know that Kong Ji hasn't started performing, so Yun Yanhui draws a picture of him in his heart. This person has a lot of ideas. It can be said that he is a little down and out, but he does not go to the show. He can make people agree that he lives in the book club, and Zhang Shanren appreciates him. There is absolutely no problem in introducing a few performance opportunities, right? , but he would rather rehearse at his residence rather than go, and he really had the idea of ​​becoming famous in the first battle.

At the base of the Jiushan Book Club, Yun Yanhui saw three little ladies of fourteen or fifteen years old, and a young man in his twenties, who could only be said to be upright, and was teaching a little girl sentence by sentence. The content of the ladies' lyrics must have been sent by Kong.

"Mr. Kong," Zhang Shanren shouted, Kong Ji raised his head, Zhang Shanren smiled, "I brought the person you want to see."

Kong Ji was refreshed when he saw Yun Yan returning, and told the three little girls to find another place to practice on their own. He walked up and sang, politely, "I don't know if Mr. , I'm sorry for the poor reception."

So far, those who have a good relationship with Yun Yanhui have always called him Yan Ge'er. Those who are not familiar with him or do not know him are mostly called Xiao Langjun because of his youth.

It is also different from Shen Kuo and Kong Ji. Shen Kuo called Yun Yan Hui Yun Lang, and Kong Ji respectfully called Mr. Yun.

And listening to Zhang Shanren's name, I also know that Zhang Shanren also highly respects Kong Ji, Yun Yanhui returned the salute very politely, and also called him Mr. Kong.

Kong Ji asked the two of them to sit down and poured tea, "One cup of rough tea, please forgive me."

Zhang Shanren took a sip of tea, and his attitude was very casual, "Ah, I knew I would get some tea from Brother Yan."

Yunyan replied: "Brother, half of the mixed tea in my place was stolen by you!"

The man from Zhang Shan said witty and authentic: "If you don't rob the rich family's tea, you will lose money." He coughed twice, "Cough cough, don't joke, Mr. Kong, talk to Brother Yan about business affairs."

Yunyan smiled back and said, "I would like to hear the details."

"Where do I start..." Kong Ji lowered his head and thought for a while, then slowly said, "Three months ago, I was still in Yang'a, where my team was only able to make ends meet."

"Yang A's quyi is very famous, it is very unusual to have a foothold in Yang A." Yun Yan replied sincerely.

Kong Ji smiled and said nothing, "I learned art when I was a child, and my teacher once gave me a lesson and told me that when I was fifty years old, I could master my skills, and when I entered Beijing, I would definitely be famous all over the world. .But before that, if you enter Beijing, you will only be smashed into the sand."

Yunyan thought about what to say, but still shut up, okay, only his master is allowed to fortune-telling, and other people's masters are not allowed to fortune-telling? Let's assume that Kong Ji's master also has real skills.

Kong Ji added: "But three months ago, when I was doing fortune-telling for the people in my team, I noticed something was wrong, and I taught a lesson for myself, but found that my time was ripe ahead of time. So, I have come to Beijing regardless of objections."

Yun Yanhui stared at him with wide eyes.

Kong Ji smiled bitterly: "I know, you may not believe it, but after I came to Bianjing, I asked again and again, and I forgot the fortune. I really feel that you are my destined noble. Help me, probably, I'll have to wait until I'm fifty."

"I believe you!" Yun Yan smiled back and said, "Even if you don't count, you should know that I can help you. All the artists in Bianjing know it. Xiao Chang'e is the one that makes me popular. Yes."

Kong Ji was dumbfounded, "It's true..."

She said so, but Yun Yanhui didn't believe it at all in her heart. If Kong Ji said that he had fortune-telling and that Yun Yanhui would be able to help him, it must be false, because everyone knew that Yun Yanhui could hold people up. However, Kong Ji mentioned that his own hexagrams have changed. Isn't that a response to Yun Yanhui's crossing?

With the sudden arrival of Yun Yanhui, Kong Ji has the possibility of an early red fate. Of course, if this happened to be nonsense, there would be nothing to say.

Yun Yanhui couldn't say what was in his heart, he just spread his hands.

"Cough, it's not good to just say that it's not a good job? If you don't talk about hexagrams, you have real skills, no matter what hexagrams, Brother Yan will help you," Zhang Shanren was anxious, feeling that Kong Ji Putting the cart before the horse, if you want to talk about fortune-telling, just like Brother Yan said, you don't need to fortune-telling to know that he is a noble person. "Mr. Kong is indeed very powerful. He is proficient in speech, music, and opera."

Kong Ji said shyly: "Well... I recently completed a book."

Kong Ji took out his notebook and showed it to Yun Yan.

Yunyan looked back at the book, and turned the first page to see nothing, but after reading a few pages, she realized that something was wrong, and she was a little excited and asked tentatively: "This book is different from ordinary people. It's not the same."

“This is not a script,” Kong Ji said honestly, pointing to the passages on the script, “This is a script I wrote before. After the adaptation, there are songs and words in it. My thoughts , is to connect them in series, to present this story with qu and bai, and in the way of performance, it draws on Gu Zi Ci, Daqu and other methods. Several of my disciples have performed two performances in their hometown, and the response... Not bad."

"Looking at the lyrics, these songs are all in different palace tunes?" Yun Yan asked again. After so many years in the temple fair, he still knows some of this knowledge.

It's easy to see, Kong Ji nodded, "Yes, there are also some folk minor and major tunes." After all, his team originally played those, and Zaiyang A was able to collect a lot of tunes.

Zhang Shanren squinted, "I think this is very good, it will definitely be popular."

Of course, of course it will be a big hit!

Yunyan thought to herself.

"Let's see Yanyan." Yun Yan stopped and asked Kong Ji to give it a try.

It is also necessary to inspect the goods. Kong Ji beckoned and called his disciples. Because there were not enough manpower, he and two disciples brought pipa and zheng to accompany them. Tingting curled up and began to sing a song.

The sound of the pipa is clear and moving. The female disciples sing the song, sometimes accompanied by some corresponding movements, and there are some narrations inserted in the middle. After the whole set of songs is sung, it can be heard that it is the historical story of Zhaojun's departure from the fortress.

——But from the beginning to the end, this female disciple is singing alone, and only sings a story from a third-person perspective.

After the performance, Yunyan smiled and stroked her palm.

Zhang Shanren nodded, "Mr. Kong also played it to me before, but listening to it again, it's still so beautiful."

"Did Mr. Kong have a name for this... this form of performance?" Yun Yan asked back.

Kong Ji shook his head, "Not yet, in fact, I think... it still needs to be sculpted." This is probably the reason why his master said that he needs to be fifty years old to be famous in the world, and the current music is still a bit jerky. , Kong Ji also wanted to know in his heart, is it possible that Yunyan's kung fu is so powerful that even seven points can be praised as twelve points?

Who knows, Yun Yanhui's words are amazing.

"You use a lot of palace tunes in this piece, and you mainly use pipa as accompaniment. It's called Zhugong tune or Tanci, which are all good." When Yunyan returned to this point, Kong Ji and Zhang Shanren were already very close I agree, I think it's very appropriate, but what he said next is amazing, "And I also think that your phrasing needs to be refined and improved!"

Kong Ji was stunned for a moment, and he heard it clearly. Zhang Shanren also said that although Yun Yanhui knew how to think about the stage, it was not suitable for performance, and sometimes even listening to slower songs would sleep.

Now, he's going to give his opinion on the technique of Tan Ci - that's where the name comes from -?

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Why not?

After Yun Yanhui and Kong Ji had a few words about the book, they confirmed that this was the original form of Zhugong Diao.

Zhu Gong Diao, also known as Tan Ci, was formed by absorbing the essence of various quyi, mainly singing, supplemented by Bai, and performing long stories with tunes. Although it declined later, it inherited the poetry of Tang and Song Dynasties and inspired the north and the south. Opera has paved the way for the art of opera in later generations.

Yuan Zaju, to a large extent, draws on the success of Zhugong Diao.

The reason why operas are operas is because they use "qu" to perform "play", and this is the innovation of Zhugong tune, which introduces music into the story, and combines the two to lay a good foundation for the birth of opera .

Yun Yanhui understands that the noble man Kong Ji calculated, although he can praise people, he can't praise the twenty-year-old Kong Ji for his fifty-year-old artistic achievements.

His usefulness lies in the fact that he has seen those mature modern drama arts, Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera...

If someone can give Kong some inspiration to improve or even improve his performance art of Zhugong tune in advance, that person must be Yun Yanhui.

The opera, which has been brilliant for many years since its birth, appeared in advance on the folk stage of the Northern Song Dynasty where hundreds of flowers bloomed? Yun Yanhui felt that she was very happy to see such a scene!

Yun Yanhui stood up and said firmly: "First of all, I suggest you to take a look at the popular lectures of our Daxiangguo Temple. The common lectures here may not be the same as the ones you have seen - you have to let the audience It is more immersive to integrate into your story. Secondly, look at the performance of Zaxi and integrate it into it.”

"..." Kong Ji only felt as if a thunderstorm had struck his Tianling cover, and a new world was split in his head, causing him to lose his voice for a while.

An expert looking at the door, Yun Yan replied with just a few words, but before he said it in detail, Kong Ji was already thinking, don't say twelve points, he thinks he can run for one hundred and twenty points!