I don’t know what experts think about it, but from the perspective of an ordinary viewer like me, the most prominent accompaniment instruments for “Playing with Children” are the flute and the huhu. Whichever village is performing a play, the sound of the flute can be heard in the wind several miles away from the village. The melodious melody is very attractive. The flute is rarely used as the main instrument for singing accompaniment in other dramas. When listening to the singing tune of "Playing with Children", if you can't hear the sound of the flute, it's like eating steamed oatmeal without chili, which is not good. The performance of Huhu is more distinctive: the two strings of Huhu are usually separated to prevent mixing, so that they can be played crisply and loudly. Huhu, who accompanies "Playing with Children", does the opposite. The distance between the two strings is very close. When one string is pulled up, one string will produce the main tone, and the other string will produce the consonant sound, which makes the tone mixed. But it is precisely this kind of mixing that produces a soft and low tone, with a unique sense of music. As soon as the sound of the piano sounds like this, it is known to be a "playing with children" tune, which is unique among hundreds of opera types across the country.

This kind of special music is different from any other type of opera, including accompaniment of singing, passages, numerous tunes, gongs and drums, etc. The entire set of "playing with children" music is also an inseparable part of this type of opera.

As an ordinary viewer, I have never gone into the stunts, facial makeup, makeup, etc. of "Playing with Children", but from the lantern dance and Zhu Bajie's facial makeup in the play "Fan the Grave", I can't help but feel Amazed by its magic. In the play "Fan the Grave", Zhu Bajie was lazy and sleeping on the way to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Sun Wukong transformed into a beautiful woman in mourning clothes and teased him, and promised to marry him if he fanned his dead husband's grave dry. The play is interspersed with a lamp dance in front of the tomb: one foot holds a lamp on the sole of the foot, and the other foot dances gracefully and gracefully. Zhu Bajie's facial makeup is an ordinary person's face, with some gangster characters painted on it, and the mouth and nose suddenly become protruding, and two big ears are placed on it, making it look like a pig's head.

As for the origin of "playing children", the local people agree that this accent was handed down by Wang Zhaojun more than 2,000 years ago. Wang Zhaojun made peace with the Xiongnu Chanyu. Although it was voluntary, once he passed Yanmen Pass, he saw the sky with decaying grass, yellow sand everywhere, and the desolate mountains and rivers. He missed his relatives, looked at the wilderness in the distance, and felt sad. He couldn't help but sigh and cheer. Incessantly. A tune played on the pipa strings, which is "playing with children". This is why the accent of "playing children" has a crying sound, and why "one word is three hi". Although we have no way of knowing the specific formation time and process of "playing children" and the reason for its naming, it is a special variety of ancient Chinese opera, with its special literature, music, dance, and fine arts (makeup, facial makeup). )'s rich heritage has become a living fossil in the history of Chinese opera. This is absolutely true and beyond doubt.

The singing tune of Shuaerer is based on the main song as the skeleton, embedded with "happy cymbals", "bitter cymbals", "inverted three boards", "half cymbals", "stacked cymbals" and "plum blossom cymbals" "Zi" and "Chuan'er" and other tunes form a complete set of singing tunes. In terms of expressing passion, it also cleverly absorbs the singing methods of "jieban" and "gunbai" in bangzi opera.

Traditional music is divided into civil and military fields. The literary field has the first big banhu, the back string banhu, and the big flute (also known as Qudi, also known as Sumei); the martial arts field has big gongs, small gongs, drums, cymbals, etc.

The main representative plays include: "Lion's Cave", "White Horse Pass", "Farewell to the Lady", "Seven Wise Men", "Three Filial Plate", "Golden Wooden Fish", "Buddha Hall", "Couplet Pearl" and more than 40 plays.

After liberation, there was only one professional troupe for playing children in Datong City, while there were countless amateur troupes in rural areas.

The State Council approved the publication of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists determined by the Ministry of Culture, and Datong City’s Hua’er and Luoluo tunes were listed on the list

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