"Second sister, you sit firmly in the flower pavilion, listen to the second brother from the beginning to the end of the table to love..." Turning up the octagonal scarf, holding a large flower fan, the two people turned to sing, and the thick northeast wind came to the face.
Young actor performs duo turn "Back to the Cup"
For a while, the duo was referred to as "three customs" (vulgar, vulgar, and kitsch) and sketched. As a source growing up in the countryside, the original ecological duo will inevitably occasionally bring some "dirty" and "yellow" and other "three customs" colors, but the mainstream is still healthy and upward, evil and good, and its humorous and grounded unique style and local characteristics, for hundreds of years, in the vast northeast countryside, has a broad mass base, has a broad market. Some classic traditional passages, complete stories, popular lyrics, humorous language, rigorous structure, are still loved by the people.
The two-person rotation is actually a traditional music and art category. Its true face is completely different from what people imagine now.
The duo turned "Xiangfei Dream" and won the Performance Award of the 6th China Quyi Peony Award
In Lishu County, Siping City, Jilin Province, in this "hometown of Chinese two-person transfer" named by the China Qu Artists Association, there are many two-person actors who have worked hard to inherit and develop a good two-person relationship.
The duo originated in the three eastern provinces and have a history of nearly 300 years. The two turned to the countryside and reflected reality, and in the years of singing, classic works such as "The Great West Chamber" and "The Return to the Cup" emerged.
In the 1980s, the Lishu County Local Theater rehearsed the pulling scene "Breaking the Three Strings" Performed by Dong Xiaofang, Chen Shuxin, Guo Xiujie
"I'd rather give up a meal than two people to turn" "Ten thousand people around two people"... The two men turned from the field, from among the people, like a large corn dancing in the wind, exuding a lively vitality and having a deep mass base.
The two-person rotation is not only two people turning, it is a tree with many branches, a type of singing voice, but there are a variety of performance forms, which can be roughly divided into three categories: "single out of the head", "double play (two people turn)", and "pulling the scene". Among them, the "pulling scene" is a small folk drama in the northeast dominated by Xiao Dan and clowns.
In the 1980s, the Lishu County Local Opera Troupe rehearsed the duo's "The Sun Is Out" performers: Wang Ying and Bai Yongxiang
Since the 1980s, the two-person transfer has developed rapidly, and there have been professional two-person performances represented by professional art academies and troupes, and folk two-person performances represented by folk artists and private small theaters.
The duo came from the countryside and were inclusive in the development process. Some of the duo actors have a keen sense of conforming to the changes of the times and life, and put the popular acrobatics on the stage to obtain audience laughter and economic benefits with interactive small theaters. However, in order to have performances every day, some people watch the scene, and some of the two-person theaters have the disadvantage of blindly catering to the audience, and even the problem of "three customs".
All along, the question of whether it is a "two-person turn" or a "two-person show" and the reflection on what is the real two-person turn is constantly.
In fact, as early as the beginning of the founding of New China, Traditional Chinese Opera and QuYi have experienced a "filtering", to extract the essence from the rough, to preserve the truth from the false, and to introduce the old and the new. Obviously, entering the new era, the duo need to "filter" again, eliminate the "three customs", and look forward to the phoenix nirvana.
The answer given by Pear Tree is "Keep the scriptures and continue to compose new poems".
The duo's "Double Chrysanthemum" won the 11th China Quyi Peony Award Program Award
The pear tree duo has a rich melody, flexible forms, and humorous language. In 2014, the "Pear Tree Two-Person Transfer" was included in the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In 2010, Zhao Dandan, an actor from the local opera troupe in Lishu County, Jilin Province, performed the duo's "Xiangfei Dream" and won the "Peony Award", the highest honor of the National Quyi Competition. In 2020, the duo", created by the troupe, won the "Peony Award" again.
Young actors rehearsing duo turn "Three Tones Banana Fan"
In the local opera troupe of Lishu County, Jilin Province, there are a number of national first-class and second-class actors. Nowadays, there are a large number of young actors, and the average age of the troupe is about 30 years old. According to Zhao Dandan, the current chairman of the lishu county local opera troupe co., LTD. in Jilin Province, in recent years, the troupe has recruited a group of young actors from all over the country who love the two-person transfer, injecting young vitality into the inheritance and development of the pear tree two-person transfer.
The duo turned the troupe to send the play to the countryside
The development of art is inseparable from the folk soil. Over the years, the two people in Lishu County have insisted on going to the countryside to perform, sending plays to the countryside and returning to the fields. Now, on multiple video platforms, the Pear Tree duo has gained a new group of fans with its unique charm.
"We put the social benefits of the two people in the first place, take into account the economic benefits, and combine the two." Zhao Dandan said, "We must let the two people turn healthy and sustainablely .) ”
Text: Meng Haiying Zheng Zhiwen
Photo and video footage: Propaganda Department of the Siping Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China Siping Radio and Television Station
Video Editor: Li Chengwei
LOGO design: Jiang Di
Planner: Meng Haiying Zheng Zhiwen
Coordinator: Zhu Sixiong
Source: People's Daily client Jilin Channel