Little fever faints

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Xiao re Hun

Applicant: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Project No.: 274

Project No.: V - 38

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: quyi

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Hangzhou funny Art Theater Performing Arts Co., Ltd

Brief introduction of xiaorehun

Applicant: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Xiao re Hun is a popular form of banter in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, also known as "Xiao Luo Shu", commonly known as "selling pear paste sugar". It originated from the "Shuo Chao newspaper" on the streets of Hangzhou in the late Qing Dynasty. "Chao Pao" was a local tabloid in Hangzhou at that time. Because of the poor printing quality, in order to attract customers, the newsvendor read out the main news on the newspaper while beating the Gong, which was called "Shuo Chao Pao". Later, the artists changed the saying of the newspaper to "saying the news and singing the newspaper" and wrote and acted by themselves. Because the form is funny and humorous, the content is funny, the lyrics are easy to understand, and the singing is a familiar folk song and tune, so it is deeply loved by people.

In 1905, Du Baolin applied the form of rap newspaper to selling pear paste sugar, which changed the way that sugar sellers used to make a living by simply singing a little song or telling a little joke, and changed the content of rap from news newspaper and life anecdotes to programs with simple plots, characters and conflicts between spears and shields. Because most of the programs express dissatisfaction with real life, they often lead to officials to drive them away. In order to avoid investigation, this form is called "little hot faint", which means that the actors themselves are dizzy and say nonsense. The form of performance is determined as one person's self percussion, rap and singing, with singing as the main and speaking as the auxiliary.

At the beginning of the Republic of China, Gai world playground was established in Hangzhou, and Du Baolin was invited to perform. In order to enrich the performance and skills, he transplanted the "Xiaoshan people worship the door god" and other programs from the drama next door to Hangzhou. He also absorbed the performance skills of "learning vernacular" (learning local dialects) and "chanting" (imitating sounds and learning the singing of birds) from the drama next door. He also called his own form of talking and singing "awakening the world and talking and laughing", but Hangzhou people still call it Xiaore Hun.

Xiao re Hun is not only deeply loved by the audience, but also affects the formation and development of sister art. In 1927, Du Baolin's students Jiang Xiaoxiao and Bao Lele came to Shanghai to perform "fruit jokes" and other small hot and faint programs, which were warmly welcomed by the audience. Since then, many small hot "mouth selling" programs have been gradually transplanted or adapted into solo programs, such as "Qinghe bridge" and so on. Later, the farce developed on the basis of Shanghai farce, that is, the one-man show, has also been transplanted and adapted into some popular programs, such as huoshao tofu shop.

Later, some people called it "xiaoluoshu" according to the characteristics of the accompaniment of percussion gongs in xiaorehun's performance. Up to now, there have been six generations of successors. Although they are still active on the stage, most of them are old and in urgent need of training successors. Moreover, a large number of traditional songs need to be recorded and sorted out, so it is urgent to rescue and protect them.