Pujiang Luantan originated in the late Southern Song Dynasty, and was formed in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. It is an ancient and excellent opera that occupies an important place in the history of Chinese drama. Its main accents are: 357, Luantan Sanjian, Erfan, Luhuadiao, Tiaozi, etc. Accompaniment instruments are mainly flute, suona and other playing instruments, and strings only play an auxiliary role. The melody is gorgeous, smooth and stretched, and it also has emotional characteristics such as passion, sonority, tragic and melancholy. The performance is rough and powerful, with the characteristics of peasant art.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Pujiang was attached to Jinhua, so it became the main tone of Wu Opera. In fact,
the "random play", one of the six loud tunes of Wu Opera, is the random play of Pujiang, and the random play of Wu Opera, which is popular in counties and cities in Wu, Qu, Chu, Wen and Taiwan, is deeply influenced by the random play of Pujiang without exception. It can be said that Pujiang Luantan is the best and most beautiful vocal cavity among the six vocal cavities of Wu Opera, and its music is very rich and expressive. He Lvting, a famous musician, described the coordination of banhu and flute in Pujiang's random plucking music as "green vines around trees, fish and water depend on each other", while Tang He, a famous composer, praised Pujiang's random plucking "357" and "the music is as beautiful as noodles".
In that year, the China Orchestra played a song "357" in West Germany, which charmed all the audience present. Mr. Zhao Songting, known as the "King of the Flute in the South of the Yangtze River", has long been fascinated by the arrangement, adaptation and performance of Pujiang's random tunes, and almost all the main tunes of Pujiang's random tunes have been adapted into instrumental music, which has been blown all over the Great Wall and even across the ocean. In 196, when the Air Administration Song and Dance Troupe was composing the opera "Jiang Jie", the creators made a special trip to Jin, Qu and other places to collect folk songs and stayed for fifteen days. Pujiang random music has been absorbed into the aria of the opera Jiang Jie, especially "tight pull and slow singing", a unique musical expression of Pujiang random music, has been repeatedly used in the opera Jiang Jie. Undoubtedly, the great success of the famous song "Jiang Jie", which is popular all over the country, has something to do with its absorbing a lot of tunes from Pujiang.
In the early 196s, at a national symposium on leather spring held in Anhui, Liu Jiqu, a famous Beijing opera composer, said, "I watched the Wuju Opera" Torture and Imprisonment "randomly, and the expressive force of its music made me soul-stirring and couldn't sleep at night." In 1999, Zhejiang Wu Opera Troupe visited Singapore, and once again captivated the audience in the Lion City with Pujiang random music.
However, under the impact of the economic tide, all kinds of trendy cultural and entertainment activities came into being. As an excellent opera, Pujiang Luantan is like other traditions.
just like art, its survival and development are facing a severe test. However, Wu Opera Troupes all over the world have long lost their original charm, and their distinctive artistic style and characteristics have gradually disappeared, although they still take the Pujiang random play as their main tone. Therefore, the inheritance and development of Pujiang random bombs has become a big problem, and the rescue and protection work has become very necessary and urgent.