Withering cross talk: a piece of truth, mountains and rivers shocked

Chapter 31 Thoughts on the Lost Repertoire

"I found the record about the eight screens!"

The discoverer is a little article found in a folk folk art public account with a very small audience.

The article is only a few thousand words long, and most of it discusses the artistic environment at that time and the decline of cross talk.

There is only a little bit, which is to talk about the discovery of the author of this article separately.

"Repertoire Suspected of Authenticity - Eight Fan Screens"

[Eight Fan Screens - one of the lost songs of the lyrics of cross talk Taiping.There are many straight lines describing ancient characters.According to the memories of the predecessors, there are more than a dozen kinds.Has been lost, without any recorded lines. 】

[The existing known records about the eight screens were also occasionally mentioned in an interview with a cross talk successor 20 years ago.The following is part of the interview transcript at that time. 】

Reporter: "In your memory, is there anything that is lost in the traditional art of cross talk?"

The successor: "I remember that when my father's generation was still alive, they often talked about Guankou. Some of them were like boasting about geographical maps on eight screens... and so on."

"There are a lot of guankou performances in these cross talk jokes. But it's a pity that none of them have been handed down."

Reporter: "As the successor of cross talk, don't you inherit these things? Don't you even have some records?"

Passer: "When we first came to the stage, there was already a new type of cross talk. No one has learned these old jokes!"

"It's long and cumbersome, and the effect is mediocre, and the leaders don't like to read it much. If no one wants to learn it, it will be lost!"

"Moreover, it's like a guankou performance. After more than ten years of hard work, I can't tell the taste at all."

"Even if you know how to recite it, you can only talk like you are reading a newspaper. How can the audience be in the mood to watch you read a newspaper on stage!"

Reporter: "Didn't Lao Guankou keep any audio or video recordings of these old jokes back then?"

The successor: "At that time, no one thought it would be lost. After the old gentlemen left, these programs really felt lost."

In a subsequent article, the reporter stated that in other written records or image records, there was no record about the eight screens.

Even in some records of the music association, no relevant records were found.

It's as if the so-called Guankou programs don't exist at all.

This makes people can't help but doubt its real existence.

Because apart from this record, there is no official record.

The rest of the article expresses some discourse about the decline of traditional folk art.

But people who are reading this article now find that the time recorded in the article is an interview from 20 years ago.

But it has been almost 20 years since this article was published!

That is to say, since the interview 40 years ago, no cross talk artist has publicly said the word "eight screens"?
Everyone seemed to have discovered some treasure, and excitedly posted this on the Internet!
"After 40 years, the disappearing cross talk Guankou reappeared!"

Of course, the reason why people are excited is not just because of a Guankou.

It's not just a few lyrics.

More is to see a wave of revival of traditional art!

Why, when traditional art is clearly in decline, some people are still willing to put a hat on themselves to promote traditional culture?
That's because even in the decline, traditional folk art still has a place in everyone's hearts!

This position is undesirable and deeply rooted.

This is also the main reason why no one wants to listen to cross talk anymore, but it still appears in major evening parties every year.

Not only cross talk, but also quyi.

After losing most of the programs, I also performed those bridges back and forth that I don’t know how many times I have watched.

Countless people scold cross talk badly, opera bad, and all kinds of traditional programs.

It cannot be said that everyone is disgusted.

Most people just hate it!

I can't keep up with the times, and I don't want to make progress!
Therefore, every time Xiao Xianrou advertises that he wants to learn opera, cross talk, and promote traditional culture.

Still able to fool most people's favor.

Of course, after repeated coaxing and numerous inactions, people have completely wiped out the last bit of trust.

Completely lost confidence in traditional art.

But this time, someone gave them a little hope!
"I found another piece! Jingyun Drum Fights Changsha! Sure enough! It's still a lost track!"

[Jingyun Drum - Battle of Changsha: It tells the battle of Changsha between Guan Yu and Huang Zhong. 】

(The singing books are divided into the first book, the second book is about Huang Dao Dao, the third book is the horse stumbles, and the fourth book is the arrow shooting the helmet tassel)

(There are only the complete libretto in the first volume, and part of the libretto in the second and third volumes)

Viewers flocked to the site again to check it out.

Under the reminder of others, compared with Lin Qingfeng's libretto, I found out decisively that this is the opening libretto of the third book.

It's just that only part of it was recorded on the record, not as complete as Lin Qingfeng's singing.

The audience was excited again!

What kind of fairy is this!

In the cross talk just now, how much of his ability was hidden in it!
The lost lyrics of Tai Ping come out as soon as you open your mouth, and the words that no one has said are as simple as water.

The lost Pingju opera was sung casually, and the already fragmented Jingyun Dagu libretto was in his mouth, as if it had been sung thousands of times!
What about the rest?
Is it the same as the sources of those operas that have not been found yet?
All are lost?

While searching, everyone started a discussion with great interest.

"Can the eight screens come back out of the rivers and lakes!?"

"Does Lin Qingfeng have the full libretto for those operas?"

"Then will all these gags appear as well?"

"I think it's very possible. Isn't the lyrics of Taiping Fu Lu Shou Xi a so-called lost song?"

"Didn't you guys watch the few small programs before the official performance? Aren't there a lot of Guankou and the like?"

"Wow! I really want to know what surprises those traditional arts can bring!"

"As an opera actor, I thought about it a long time ago. If I can revive some traditional folk art, it will be different. I didn't expect it. I heard a lost piece of music on a cross talk actor."

"Can sing all these lost things so lightly. I really want to know what he can't do."

"I really know what he can't!"

"What won't?"

"He won't have children!"

"When you talk about having a baby, I think of Sister Wang..."

"What if I accidentally got pregnant again?"

"A big iron stick stabbed the director of the hospital!"

While chatting with each other, the audience continued to look for the songs sung by Lin Qingfeng happily.

Backstage, Zhang Yunshun and Lin Qingfeng stood together.

Zhang Yunshun looked at Lin Qingfeng and asked:
"Master, are you still talking?"

(End of this chapter)