Single-string, originating from Beijing, is also known as single-string brand song. It arose during the Qianlong and Jiaqing years of the Qing Dynasty and was formed at the end of the Qing Dynasty. When singing, the octagonal drum beats the festival, and its song cards are numerous, the tune is rich, and most of them reflect real life.
In addition to Suiyuan Le, famous artists such as Deokshou Mountain, Quan Yueru, Rong Jianchen, Chang Shutian, and Xie Ruizhi have carried forward the art of single string to the extreme! Nowadays, there are very few single strings sung in large performances.
Xie Jin, a cross-talk actor of Beijing Deyun Society, was born on March 5, 1982, and on December 10, 2009, he was taught by Li Wenshan, an old cross-talk actor who was also a member of The Deyun Society, and Xie Jinbai's late cross-talk master Wang Shichen. He is also the inheritor of Xie Pai's single string, and his father, Xie Tianshun, is also a cross-talk actor of Deyun Society.
Xie Ruizhi, Xie Jin's great-grandfather, the founder of Xie Pai Single String, his single string brand song singing pays special attention to the use of voice, unique. The artistic language he uses is humorous but not vulgar, funny but not elegant, good at using serifs, more satirical sentences, and it sounds endlessly evocative. Representative works "Agarwood Bed", "Zhuo Erniang", "Wu Shihui", "Gao Laozhuang", "Butterfly Dream", "Cuiping Mountain", "Pearl Shirt" and so on.