At that time, the traditional repertoires that could still be sung were: 6 North West Chamber, 2 Pipa1,4 Jade Hairpins, 8 Peony Pavilion, 4 Moon Worship Pavilion, 6 White Rabbit, 8 Lv Mengzheng and Beijing. In addition, the old artists can recall nearly 100 traditional opera names and recite more than 300 traditional tunes.
Modal aria is a combination of qupai, and there are occasionally overlapping sentences with three, four, five, six and seven characters in long and short sentences. When singing, most words or numbers are used at the end of each sentence, or the words at the end of each sentence are repeated with different melodies after a beat. The voices of the band help each other, and the melody of each phrase tends to decline. So some people think that "tune" is "out of tune".
The tuned music is composed of percussion instruments, and there are as many as 28 kinds of percussion instruments with different timbres. Later, due to the influence of local Kunqu opera and random play, flute and banhu accompaniment were added to a few folding dramas, and the ending accent was still retained. Artists call it "Siping".
Experts in the field of traditional Chinese opera unanimously affirmed that the new tune is a living fossil of China opera. The latest research results show that tune tune is the product of the transfer of tune from north to south, the transfer of tune from south to north and the interchange of tune from south after reunification at the end of Yuan Dynasty, with a history of about 600 years. Zhang Dai, a famous writer in the Ming Dynasty, even boasted a wonderful song and recreated it in Tao An Meng. By the Qing Dynasty, the shift clubs had blossomed everywhere, and there were dozens of performance groups such as Song Fengtai and Lao Fengtai in Xinchang alone. At that time, there was a saying that the box was sealed at the end of the year. When the artist came home, he said he would perform, so he could appear. This shows the grand occasion of that year.
In the Ming Dynasty, tunes appeared in Yuediao, commonly known as high-pitched or high-pitched. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Zhang Dai, a native of Shaoxing, first appeared Qupai singers in Memories of Dreams: Zhu Chusheng, Female Opera Ear and Qupai Opera Ear. Zhu Chusheng described in Zhang Dai's Dream of Tao An was a famous opera actor at that time. A female opera refers to an actress who sings. The tune, which Shaoxing people call Gao Qiang, is characterized by unstained strings, dry singing, accompaniment and accompaniment of gongs and drums. Qupai is popular in old Shaoxing prefecture, counties under Taizhou prefecture and parts of Ningbo, Zhoushan, Wenzhou and western Zhejiang. At the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Xinchang tune entered its heyday and spread in Hangzhou. Qupai's style and singing style include tune, Kunqu tune and Siping tune, with the main tune as the auxiliary tone, which is the only script in Shaoxing. From the end of Ming Dynasty to the middle of Qing Dynasty, Qupai and Kunqu were popular in Shaoxing. At the end of Qing Dynasty, Kunqu opera tended to decline, and its tune was only welcomed by audiences in Nanjing, Shaoxing, Wenzhou and Taiwan Province. According to Li Ciming's Diary of Yuemaotang, there are a number of jade classes in Shaoxing between Xianfeng and Tongzhi, and there are Laofengtai, Fengwutai and Datong Garden in Xinchang, commonly known as the 12-and-a-half-shift classes, with 200 employees.
Since War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Shaoxing tune tends to decline, and the tune-makers join the troupe, and Xinchang tune stands out. After the Republic of China, Qupai performances in various places gradually decreased. At 1959, Xinchang county established a professional tune-tune troupe, which recorded in the name of Xinchang tune-tune. Despite the twists and turns, Xinchang tune is still active on today's stage.