Chapter 581: The Role of Storytelling

Storytelling is a pure language art, more niche than cross talk, the selling point of cross talk is fun, the selling point of storytelling is the story, most people are willing to stop for fun, because the fun is short and fast, and the story is long.

Listening to a book requires a lot of patience, and the premise is to be attracted by the story, so if you want to say a good book, it is hundreds of times more difficult than cross talk.

In essence, storytelling is a kind of oral literature, which is different from written literature, film and television literature, and drama, but due to the emergence of modern film and television pictures, it has attracted most people's visual stimulation, so this oral culture has entered a low period.

But there are pros and cons, although the book review is long and slow-paced, but there is an advantage that you can listen to it anytime and anywhere, and it is very convenient as a leisure entertainment to relieve boredom.

In the old society, people called storytellers sir, because storytelling was not only to please the audience like other entertainment activities, but also had the ability to educate the Quartet.

Storytelling is derived from the traditional rap form, but later it became blue, because although the rap form of singing is novel, but the flat story is monotonous, although there are musical instruments, but it still has great limitations.

However, after the advent of storytelling, it not only expanded the limitations, but also increased the depth, and opened an era of original or changed stories from all angles, creating a batch of very valuable folk literature.

The focus of storytelling is the word 'commentary', and traditional storytelling has almost no character dialogue, it is a third-person storytelling, and the narration process is mixed with the evaluation of the characters, stories, and the background of the times.

And because Mr. Storyteller has some cultural level, for some allusions are also handy, adding some allusions to the storytelling, as well as historical stories, or using the broad and profound characteristics of Chinese characters, to carry out some homophonic stalks or ambiguous stalks, will bring a very interesting burden effect, so that people can increase their knowledge while listening to the story.

This is a very important function of storytelling, called 'idle white children'.

There is also an important point that the storyteller is respected as a gentleman, in today's words, it is 'output values', and the shaping of values is very important for a nation-state, unified and correct values, being able to distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil, and understanding accidents.

In the past, when there were no such educational resources as now, the folk art of storytelling as an art form assumed the role of conveying values.

For example, "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin" and the like, the robe belt book takes the famous generals and virtuous ministers as the protagonists, describing their heroic behaviors and feelings of family and country in resisting the faint monarch, resisting foreign invasion and defending the country, and exporting a collective sense of patriotism.

In the later period, there were short fighting books dominated by chivalry, with swordsmen and righteous warriors as the protagonists, describing their heroic acts of hoeing the strong and helping the weak, punishing the evil and promoting the good, and helping the world and saving people. This kind of personal heroism, the value of pleasure and revenge.

There is a kind of monster book left, with the main content of the stories and legends of gods and ghosts, such as "Journey to the West", "Liao Zhai", "Fengshen" and the like, there is no obvious value output in this kind of book, but there is a more important value of gods and monsters, which is to expand cognition.

Most of the authors who write about gods and monsters use ghosts and gods to distinguish people's hearts, and use gods and monsters from other worlds to borrow the past and the present, and at the same time, they also stimulate thinking from another angle, and the way of thinking in diversity can make values more perfect.

Storytelling has both these most basic ideological outputs, and it has a strong role in shaping the values of the people, and storytelling has a lower threshold than Peking Opera, which is suitable for all ages.

However, with the overall decline of modern traditional culture, traditional values have also been changed by modern values, and the content of storytelling has gradually ceased to be accepted by the broad masses of the people, which has put this art born in the folk into a crisis.

Mr. Jin Wensheng's generation is the experience of witnessing the decline of storytelling, in the early years, a storyteller was able to support a teahouse, and ten people who spoke cross talk were not able to beat one storyteller.

Although modern storytelling has declined, the gentlemen of the storytelling gate are still making unremitting efforts to create and use other ways to revive storytelling, such as Mr. Jin Wensheng, who brought Western masterpieces in the form of storytelling into university lecture halls, which have been widely acclaimed.

There is also a Mr. Li Youyuan, who changed the folk song of his hometown to the song "Dongfang Hong", which is well-known to the people of the whole country.

Shan Tianfang is a representative of the marketization of storytelling, and his creation of "White Eyebrow Hero" has created a taste that meets the taste of contemporary young audiences, and has made great contributions to the progress of storytelling, which can be said to be a classic of modern storytelling.

It's a pity that the overall decline of storytelling has caused a shortage of younger generations, and there are not too many talents emerging, and the old gentlemen are getting older and older, resulting in the phenomenon of generational discontinuity.

In the face of the great era, the power of the individual seems extremely small, but no matter how small and difficult it is, these folk artists still insist on their respect for their ancestors and love for their craft, hoping to give full play to the last residual heat and leave a way back for storytelling.

They are all looking forward to the hope that if one day storytelling rises again, at least let the younger generations not forget that the traditional materials and stories are still there.

The word art, in the interpretation of folk artists, is that art is craftsmanship, and art is ability.

Craftsmanship is the craft of eating, and skill is the ability to sell money.

A craft can only be sold, in order to eat, this is folk art, they are different from those born in a rich family, they know the hardships of life, so they are closer to the people, their artistry or not so professional strong, but in human nature is more noble.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and the overall decline of traditional folk art has caused these folk artists to lose their living space, not because their craftsmanship is not good, nor because they have no ability to sell money, but because they are 'indirectly' excluded.

It is precisely because of this that these folk artists rarely accept apprentices in the later period, because they come from a hard life and know the pain of not being able to eat, they can't 'mislead people's children', in this realm of human nature, there is a difference between folk artists and artists.

Therefore, although Jin Wensheng found out that Wang Yao, a very talented heir, he still chose to back down to Xu Feng, because he at least had to ensure that Wang Yao had something to eat.

Follow Xu Feng to at least develop, this is the ethics of a folk artist, even if he is worried that there will be no successor, he will not easily mislead people's youth, he would rather grit his teeth and sort out the literature and leave information.

In this respect, he can be called 'a disciple of the saints'.

However, there is also his temper in it, Mr. Jin Wensheng has hard bones and integrity, and he may rarely ask for help in his life, so although Wang Yaofei did not have too many requirements for Wang Yao when he was Huang Tengda, although he is seventy years old, he still pays practical actions to continue to work hard for the development of storytelling.