Origin of this article

Today, I browsed through my friend's blog and saw my previous comments. This is a piece of gossip about Qin Yan. Because of this message, I thought of watching the play and Qin Yan...... So, I thought about writing about my drama and writing a little bit about Qin Yan.

My message on a friend's blog

That big flower face made me feel very kind, as if I had returned to my hometown, and my ears were the desolate and strong, rough and bold Daqin accent. The Qin people call the big flower face "black head" or "black sa (two tones, Shaanxi dialect, the word is self-made, you can't type, you can only use pinyin)", I think, "black sa" singing voice can represent the characteristics of the Qin dialect very well. In "Da Qin Dialect", the character who sang "Cutting Single Child" has the reputation of "a thunder". Think about it, in the barren and desolate wilderness of Siwang, the wind and sand are all over the sky, only this kind of flat land explosion mine seems to be commensurate with the environment, and can show the Qin people, Qin Feng, and Qin Yun. It is said that when Wang Luobin was imprisoned in Xinjiang and was so depressed that he was about to "isolate himself from the people", it was because he heard the majestic and desolate Qin dialect outside the cell that he mustered up the courage to live again. I would venture to guess that what he heard at that time must have been the singing of a big flowery face.

My play

I don't know, when did I become obsessed with Qin Yan. The memory of Qin Yan is very vague, and it is a long time ago, and all this has to start from childhood.

For some reason, it seems that I have a fascination with stories in my bones. When I was a child, I snuggled up to my grandmother, listened to my grandmother's story on my grandmother's burning kang, and this past scene was engraved in my memory for a long time, never losing its color, let alone dissipating. This warm scene of grandparents and grandchildren is very pleasant to think about now.

My grandmother didn't go to school, but she knew a lot of things, which was my childhood impression. The old man has a very good memory, according to her grandmother's own story, when she was a child, the person who asked for food came to the village, while playing the bamboo board, while talking about the allegro book, running through the door, begging from house to house, she followed behind the person who asked for food, listened to the person who asked for food said allegro, and when the book for food was finished, she also knew it all. In her seventies, she was still able to recite the Allegro she had memorized as a child. I have often been ashamed of myself, and the difference between my memory and that of the old man is more than 108,000; I often feel sorry for her old man for not having the opportunity to study. Thanks to her wonderful memory, my grandmother had a lot of stories in her heart. For example, "Huang's Daughter to King Kong" talks about the reincarnation of cause and effect, "Black Baby and White Baby Picks Up Beans" about brotherly love, and "Xiangshan Temple Vows" about filial piety...... These stories can make me fascinated by them.

's preference for stories is the original reason why I like Qin Yan, because when I first watched the play, I only watched the "plot".

The name of the Qin dialect by the rural people is very simple, just one word - "play". When I was a child, wherever there was a performance, as long as someone said three words - "watch the play and go", I could meet groups of neighbors and villagers, holding the bench, laughing and talking all the way, to the stage.

When I was a child, the economy was not as prosperous as it is today, and life was not as rich as it is now. At that time, there was very little television, and there was not much radio, and it was not easy to watch a play. You have to wait until there is a "meeting" in the township or town every year, and then you may have a play. The word "hui" in the villagers is a bit like the "set" in the written language. However, we also have the saying "set". For those of us on that side, "will" is "will" and "set" is "set", and the two are clearly distinct and cannot be confused. The so-called "meeting" can only be called "meeting" on a few days in a year. The duration of the "meeting" is: each session is generally only three days, subject to the lunar calendar. For example, in our town, there are "March 17th Meeting", "April 8th Meeting", and "September 25th Meeting...... Take the "April 8th Meeting" as an example, this "meeting" is set up to commemorate the Buddha's birthday, and the three days of the eighth day, the ninth month, and the tenth day of the fourth lunar month are the main meetings, and occasionally the meeting period will be extended due to special reasons. For example, Dongbian Town is a two-day "set", and the second, fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth days of the lunar month are ...... It is the "set" day in the east town, and when it meets the "meeting" day, the "set" is the "meeting". In our town, it is a single-day "set", the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh days of the lunar month...... is a set.

"Will" is no less than the New Year's Festival in the memories of our generation and many generations before it. In my generation, because at that time, if there was a "meeting", the school would occasionally take a day off or a half-day holiday, and parents would also give some pocket money, so that they could buy what they wanted to eat and want at the "meeting". I like "yes", not because I am greedy. Strange to say, since I was a child, I knew to save money, and when there was a "will", my mother would give me five cents to buy something to eat, and after each meeting, I would give the five cents to my mother as it was. My hope for "Hui" is due to the fact that there is a drama in "Hui", and watching a play at that time, as mentioned above, is just a story.

Walking for three or four miles, with the mighty flow of people to the township, not going anywhere else, going straight to the theater. In order to be able to see clearly, I tried my best to squeeze to the front of the stage. Anyone who has seen a play in the countryside probably knows very well that the front of the stage is often occupied by children, and if we were destined at that time, perhaps, when you watched the play, you would have seen me crowded in front of the stage. Sometimes, the mischievous children crowded in front of the stage would crawl to the edge of the stage and sit, and the caretakers would beat them with the whistle whip used as a horse in the play. A few times, in the middle of the fight, because I was crowded in front of the stage, I also suffered from the pond fish, and I was pumped several times.

In fact, those children crowded in front of the stage have a lot of fun, and there are not many who actually watch the play, and even fewer can understand the "storyline". According to the villagers, even adults watching the play in the audience, there are not a few who can't understand it.

There is a joke in my hometown:

When a person returned from watching a play, he asked, "What did you do?" ”

He replied, "I'm going to watch a play." ”

The man asked again, "What are you playing?" ”

He replied, "Come out, go in." ”

The man said, "Nothing else?" ”

He replied, "I saw that I would come out for a while, go in for a while, and run around on the platform, what else could I have?" ”

The questioner was speechless and collapsed.

At that time, when I watched the play, I could not only understand it, but also speak it clearly.

My grandmother has small feet, is very old, and has difficulty moving, since I can remember, my impression of her old man is: always lying on her kang that is warm all year round, smoking dry tobacco with a long cigarette bag and pot, when she gets up, she burns incense in front of the Buddha, silently recites the eulogy of the Buddha in her mouth, and occasionally sits on the dismounted stone in front of the old house. My grandmother also liked to watch plays when she was young, but when she got old, she didn't go to the theater much because of her age and health.

Every time I go home after watching a play at a "meeting", I eat first. After eating, he ran to his grandmother's room and lay down beside her.

My grandmother asked me:

"How many people are there?"

"There are a lot of people."

I say.

"What's delicious?"

Grandmother asked again.

"Nope."

I say.

"Your mom didn't give you money? Look at how fine (hometown dialect, meaning saving, slightly stingy, and stingy. I won't give money to my children after a while......"

Grandmother was a little angry.

"Mom gave me the money."

I hastened to explain:

"I watch the theater and don't have time to buy anything."

"Watching a play? What's the show? ”

Grandmother began to be a little unconvinced: most of the plays are what the old people like to watch, do children know how to watch plays?

There is a saying in my hometown: the dog looks at the stars - you know how to be thick. If I'm outside, I'm going to say I've watched a play, and the adults in the village will definitely reply to me with this sentence.

""Bloody Handprints", it's good-looking!"

I say.

"What's going on?"

Grandmother asked.

I told the old man everything I saw. My grandmother was very pleased when she heard this, and praised me and said:

"I really understand!"

Since then, I have had an extra task to watch the play, and I will go home and tell my grandmother.

When I was a kid, I watched a play, and it was really crazy. There are plays at the meeting, which are performed three times a day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the first half of the night. I couldn't have gone to see the play in the first half of the night, because I had to go to school the next day; Moreover, it is not safe to be a small child, unaccompanied; In addition, the place to watch the drama is three or four miles away from home, and the most are nine or ten miles, and it is even more impossible to blind the fire with black lights. Therefore, I can only watch the daytime plays, and there is a long break between the two scenes during the day, and during this time, I am afraid that others will take my place, so I have been standing in front of the stage from lunch to the afternoon play.

This is a play, the summer is fine, the play is dispersed in the afternoon, it is still early, you can rush home before dark; Not in winter, when the play is over in the afternoon, it will be dark early. Therefore, the winter afternoon drama can only give up the second half of the pain.

I remember one time, I was so fascinated by the play that I lost track of time, and when I got home, it was already dark. Halfway through, I met my mother. Mother asked:

"Why are you going, why are you so late?"

"I've watched the show."

I say.

"You have to go home early to watch the play, I thought you let the bad guys run away."

The mother was very anxious, but she didn't lose her temper.

"No, it won't."

I say.

"Have you eaten?"

Mother asked.

"Nope."

I say.

"Did I lose the money I gave you?"

Mother asked.

"Here it is."

As I spoke, I took out five cents and handed it to my mother.

"Why don't you buy something to eat?"

Mother asked.

"There's no effort. I have to watch the play."

I say.

"Look at you, this baby ......"

Mother said with pity.

In this way, during the years at home, I have always been obsessed with the drama - the voice of Daqin, and I have been telling my grandmother about the plays I have seen.

Later, my grandmother died.

Later, I left home to study and work.

Far away from home, the homesickness complex is as deep as a day. For my hometown, in addition to nostalgia for my relatives, nostalgia for the land where I was born and raised, and the drama that I can't give up - Qin Yan.

This is one end of my play.