The "shouting mountain song" in the hometown is wild and humorous, even very "colored", very fleshy, but it also shines with the wisdom of the low-level labor author, and there is a "Song of Ten Lepers" that has also amused the famous cross-talk performance artist Li.
Mountain songs are sung and have a tune. But the "shouting mountain song" in our hometown is different from the mountain song in many places, which is shouted out with a kind of labor charm, the content is directly lyrical, wild and humorous, and sometimes with a little "color". Among them, they often shine with the sincerity and wisdom of the low-level laborers of the past.
My hometown is in Yuanjiang County, northern Hunan Province, which after liberation once belonged to Changde District, and then to Yiyang District, and is now a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Yiyang City. Yuanjiang is the superposition of Dongting Lake area and hilly area, known as the land of fish and rice, just like the famous Xiang singer He Jiguang sang in the song "Dongting Fish and Rice Township", the scenery is incomparably beautiful, but the folk style is very optimistic, simple, but also with a little bit of self-satisfaction and humor of the townspeople.
The low-level laborers in their hometown include boat drivers, fishermen, carrying boats (porters), farming, craftsmen and small businesses. There are also emotional expressions of mutual hatred or mutual love between them, using "shouting mountain songs". This kind of "shouting mountain song" uses the vernacular slang, often in conjunction with the rhythm of labor, and there are old passages that have been handed down for many years, and there are also new passages that have been compiled by chance. And the well-compiled new paragraphs have unconsciously spread and become old paragraphs.
"Shouting mountain songs" is also a kind of mountain song, but it is different. The mountain song that we are generally familiar with is a folk art form commonly used by all ethnic groups, and the key is that there is a tune sung.
But our "shouting mountain song" in xiangbei is shouted out, of course, it will not be a dry shout, but a shout with an inner rhythm in a cavity, a humorous and funny shout that amplifies the dialect and local language.
Speaking of our wild "shouting mountain song" in xiangbei, here is a "song of ten lepers" that many adults and children in our hometown can open their mouths:
A leper picks up a piece of ginger,
The leper shouted soup.
Three lepers take the scoop,
The four lepers are packed in bowls.
Five lepers hot feet,
Six lepers shouted to buy medicine.
Seven lepers shouted to buy the board,
Eight lepers shouted and wentuging their eyes.
The nine lepers shouted mourning,
Ten lepers cried until the light of the night!
In fact, this is a bizarre story of a leper family. The growth of lepers on the head was a common disease among the low-level laborers in our hometown before liberation. At that time, the shaving master was walking in the streets and alleys, a razor shaved thousands of heads, causing leprosy inflammation (tinea capitis) circulating, there is a father and son brothers are all lepers is not unusual at all. Even if you obviously don't have ringworm, someone will superimpose a "leper" name behind your name. For example, your name is "Qingyun", when you arrive in our hometown, others are familiar with you, and they will affectionately call you "Qingyun Leper"!
This "Song of Ten Lepers", starting from a leper picking up a piece of ginger, is a comedy, some shouting soup, some scooping, some using bowls, very lively. But starting with the five lepers (Hunan dialect to read "Wo") da foot, the plot takes a sharp turn and evolves into a tragedy. From buying medicine and not being cured, to buying a board to dig a grave to carry the funeral, and finally crying all night. Among them, the leper family, a little benefit, can be happy. In turn, a little illness may not be cured, and sorrow and crying. In the form of "Shouting Mountain Song", "Ten Leper Songs" shouts out the past survival difficulties and the fate of the low-level laborers in xiangbei's hometown, and cries like a complaint in the wild funny, more like black humor!
Speaking of this "Ten Leper Songs", I once made a cross-talk master laugh! It was around 1996, and I was the director of a research office at a large conglomerate in Shenzhen. Several famous performing artists were invited by our seniors to attend the new product launches of our subsidiaries, which is considered to be a grassroots and deep life. In the evening, there was a party within the group, and various departments took turns to perform programs on stage. The boss named me to come to the stage, but I could not sing and dance, and I was in a hurry to "shout" this "Song of Ten Lepers" on the stage in the vernacular of my hometown. Although everyone may not understand it all, the response from the audience is still quite enthusiastic, and even a cross-talk master sitting in the front row is happy to laugh and applaud me. Afterwards, I really hope that the cross-talk master can include this "Ten Leper Songs" in his cross-talk material, then the "shouting mountain song" in our hometown may be more widely disseminated.
The "shouting mountain song" in xiangbei hometown has many passages expressing the love of men and women, and some even directly shout out the desire for the opposite sex, of course, mainly men to women. Maybe it's because in the past, it was not easy for low-level laborers to beg for a courtesan (marrying a daughter-in-law), and there were many bachelors. This kind of "shouting mountain song" full of mysterious imagination and desire for women, some of them are really "colored", listening to the flesh and numbness. Those who are too vulgar to ascend to the elegant hall, here is the right and recorded a "Friendship Sister":
Friendship sister walking twisted, twisted,
I am ashamed to see myself.
Last year was still two grains of water chestnut,
Two balls bulged at the chest this year.
I'm just afraid of brother Lang looking at it,
The heart will be planed autumn!
I can only tell you that the Hunan dialect of "beating planing autumn" means swimming, floating water. The difference between this shouting mountain song and the meaning of sexual pleasure expressed in the section of Liu Sanjie throwing a hydrangea duet mentioned above will not be too far away, but it is straightforward and more numb. Well, you guess the rest. Maybe you will think of the stinky beauty and crush of the girl, but hope you try not to think too crookedly and save spraining your neck.
The ancients said "eating men and women", in fact, our hometown in northern Hunan "shouting mountain song", which is mixed with some bold content of heterosexual attraction is also understandable.
The content of "shouting mountain songs" is all-encompassing, with food, clothing, shelter, labor and friendship, mood and sorrow, sarcasm, and each taking what he needs. Of course, what is not necessarily handed down is good. To evaluate and appreciate it today, we can take its humorous, simple, even wild, self-deprecating essence, and take its vulgar, extreme dross.
I personally believe that the "shouting mountain song" in our hometown in northern Hunan has at least left us a rich legacy of folk song art and folklore research, which should be cherished and valued by all of us.