Chapter 15: The Orchid Belt that stumped the audience
"A brief introduction, this "Male Burning Clothes" was originally a Qing Dynasty song, and today I will sing it in the voice of the earth and water Nanyin......"
Su Bai on the stage began to explain seriously.
Compared with yesterday's "temporary emergency", he didn't know about the situation in Nanyin in this world, so he didn't dare to talk nonsense, and today his preparation will be much more sufficient.
Last night, he not only had a detailed understanding of the development history and background of Nanyin in this world, but also even the form of the program was referring to the "Liyuan Cantonese Rhyme" program that the old people liked, and talked more about the small knowledge points of Nanyin.
In addition, there is also a reason why Su Bai chose to sing this song "Male Burning Clothes", "Ketu Autumn Hate" is the earliest Nanyin, the words are elegant and gorgeous, after removing those dialect tone particles, it is completely poetry, which can be said to be very sunny and snowy.
And the style of this "Male Burning Clothes" is just the opposite, using the most popular vernacular, with a strong market flavor, and it is no problem to say that it is good to be down-to-earth, and if it is not good, it is no problem to call it a vulgar song of the Riba people.
In this way, it just forms a vulgar contrast with "Away Autumn Hate".
If there is one shortcoming, it is that there is still not enough time to prepare, and it would be better if the lyrics could be printed out and distributed to everyone to read.
Because many elderly people have poor eyesight, those sitting in the back row can't see the big characters on the screen......
And after the foreshadowing, not to mention Deng Bo, Quan Bo and other "Seven King Kongs" who were present yesterday, they would have liked him to talk a little more about Nanyin-related knowledge and song information, and the audience who came today also refreshed their cognition of Su Bai.
Everyone thinks that Su Bai, the "posterity", is very knowledgeable, and quoting scriptures is easy, and the tone is humorous and funny, easy to understand, and it is called a relish.
The only thing I want to cry is Chu Qianyin's children's shoes, after hearing the title of the song "Male Burning Clothes", she felt bad, because even if her knowledge is narrow, she also knows that "burning clothes" is a way to pay tribute to the dead......
After seeing the lyrics again, she almost couldn't hold back and cry "wow" on the spot.
This song "Male Burning Clothes" tells the story of a man who fell in love with the singer on the ship of Zhushuilou in the late Qing Dynasty, and later the man left the provincial capital on business, during which the singer hanged herself because she owed dozens of taels of silver.
When the man came back, he was very sad to learn of this, so he rented a small boat on the river to pay tribute to the souls of the dead, and burned all kinds of paper products while singing, including paper money, clothes and jewelry, boys and girls, rouge gouache, pleated Luo skirts, devil tables, sour branches and many other items, and "sent" them to the underworld for her use......
"Oh my God, help......"
Chu Qianyin felt that she was being targeted.
Originally, she just complained that Su Bai sang the southern sound as if she was doing something "muttering", which was hard to hear.
Now it's okay, people will directly give you a real "Murmur" today, just look at the lyrics:
"Everything is all in place and the fruit is shared, sister, you come to appreciate my sincerity. Burn the page, the money beads, the tears are evil, and the three cups of thin wine lie to the lonely soul of the sister. Burn to the boys and girls and other sisters close to each other......"
It's all about doing water and land rituals on the spot, and you have to cry and mourn to show you!
Chu Qianyin felt a deep despair, at this moment she was already covered with goosebumps, and she couldn't imagine the scene of Su Bai singing at the same time.
But then again, listening to Su Bai's explanation is still very interesting, just like listening to a talk show, the interaction is constant and interesting.
And as he said, some of the market slang in the lyrics, if he doesn't say it, few people can really understand its meaning.
If she could, she would decisively choose not to listen to the singing, and only listen to Su Bai blowing water to tell stories......
"Okay, now let's look at this part of the lyrics: burn to the bud orchid belt, embroider shoes with the same time, but hate that I didn't take my sister to bury the street as soon as possible. So as not to make you suffer a lot in the Qinglou, and all the good agarwood will be used as rotten firewood. This bud orchid took Xiaosheng to buy it by himself, but it's a pity that you re-embroidered the flower shoes well. ”
"Does anyone know what it means to be 'buried in the street'? I knew that I would reward him with a mosquito chicken. ”
Su Bai threw out another question, and the audience instantly resounded with a sound of ear-to-ear exchange.
"To be buried in the street is to be buried in the street!"
Naughty Dunber raises his hand to mischief.
"Bury ...... Buried in the street, this Dun Bo classmate, please get out! ”
Su Bai complained with tears and laughter, causing everyone to laugh again.
In the end, it was Uncle Quan who had to make a move, and he speculated based on the meaning of the sentence in the article: "Does it mean to help her redeem herself?" ”
"That's right!"
Su Bai gave a thumbs up: "'Burying the street' refers to the meaning of redeeming the Qinglou woman, come and come, do what you say, this mosquito chicken will be rewarded to you." ”
"Hahahaha!"
After the grand "award ceremony", Quan Bo made a mosquito chicken with blood, and listened to Su Bai say: "This word is still very easy to guess, but then this word is difficult, what is the Yalan belt, this belongs to the question of the famous test." ”
"First of all, through the embroidered shoes corresponding to the context, we can know that it should belong to the clothing category, and it is matched with the embroidered shoes, does anyone know what it refers to?"
"It's not a sprout bean anyway!"
Dunber is addicted to trick-or-treating......
But this time no one really could answer, although Su Bai gave a hint, presumably it was a woman's clothing thing, but even if she asked the oldest grandmother in the audience, she didn't know what a "sprout belt" was, and the sprout beans were very familiar......
After some discussion, everyone still had no clue and was at a loss.
"Can you look it up on the Internet?"
Uncle Quan tugged at the corner of his granddaughter's clothes and said.
Chu Qianyin has this intention, look at Su Bai's sassy look, hum, what age is it now? Isn't everything solved when you check it on the Internet, you will pretend to be a ghost and coax the elderly, cut!
But when she checked it, she was dumbfounded, the almighty network is not omnipotent, except for finding some places in Lingnan commonly known as snow beans as "sprout orchid beans", and some "orchid sprouts" and other bull's head is not the right horse mouth article title, there is no information about the "sprout orchid belt" at all.
"This ......"
Chu Qianyin was really dumbfounded.
It belongs to the category of clothing and clothing, or it is from the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, and the age is not far away, how can it not be found?
She raised her head to look at Su Bai in astonishment, and found that Su Bai was also smiling and squinting at her.
"Don't search on the Internet, if you don't have it, I really want to know, you can take the time to go to the Bacheng Library and look through the local chronicles of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, customs and other documents."
"If you can figure out what the 'Orchid Belt' is and how the term comes from, maybe you can write a high-quality paper related to ethnology, anthropology, and modern history.
“...... Ethnology, Anthropology, Dissertation ...... It's just a common saying, is it so cruel? ”
Chu Qianyin swallowed her saliva and was directly frightened by Su Bai's words.
Let's not believe it or not, just talking about the serious academic term "thesis" is something she can't imagine now!
Looking at Su Bai's serious expression again, listening to his serious tone, it really doesn't look like he's talking nonsense, is there really any great university question in this "Yalan Belt"?
Chu Qianyin's little heart couldn't help but beat faster, and her mind instantly remembered her father's words last night: "If this is true, then the academic circles in Hong Kong and Macao in the province will be a sensation......"
She suddenly began to vaguely understand why her grandfather cared so much about Nanyin, and she had to find ways to contact experts and scholars for a song that was hard to hear......
At the same time, Quan Bo was instantly interested in Su Bai's proposal, and knew that Su Bai's words must not be bragging.
Why is the loss of many traditional folk rap arts so sad?
Because the value of their existence is by no means only reflected in music, such as the rap art of Cantonese, as the crystallization of folk literature and art, it can be said to be a vocabulary of Cantonese dialects.
In the previous rap works such as Nanyin, Dragon Boat, and Cantonese Praise, there are a large number of Cantonese colloquialisms, idioms, slang, and afterwords, and many words have lost their context and semantics with the change of people's living habits and the disappearance of old objects.
First of all, it is necessary to know that the dilution of dialects is the inevitable trend of modern urban development and circulation, and most of these changes occur naturally and are in line with the laws of social development, so there is no need to be overly nervous about these changes.
But we have to realize the value of tongues, and the difference between their existence and non-existence is great.
The reduction and increase of word meanings in a local language can be said to be a microcosm of regional cultural changes.
If it still exists, it can be traced back to history, and you can get a glimpse of some of the social life forms of the people in the whole region at that time, the history of the development of culture and customs, and so on through many previous words.
But if it doesn't exist, where else can you find it?
So, don't underestimate the common name of this small item, maybe after you investigate, you will really have a big harvest.
And Uncle Quan has the intention to let his granddaughter learn more and learn more about the traditional culture of planting flowers, so what can be better than letting her practice and explore by herself?
"Good! That's it, accept the challenge! ”
Quan Bo didn't even think about it, and directly helped Chu Qianyin take this challenge, so anxious that she jumped on the spot!
"No, I don't want to, school starts in a few days, and I haven't finished my summer homework!"
"If you can find out by yourself, then it's okay if you don't write your summer homework, I'll just tell your homeroom teacher, I brought him out, and I beat him a lot when I was a child......"
Kwon Bo drank tea calmly, ignoring her protests.
"But, but, but he obviously knows the answer, wouldn't it be nice to tell us directly!"
Chu Qianyin's whole person was not good, poor and helpless, with teary eyes and wanted to struggle again.
"Oh, actually, I don't know what the Orchid Belt is, I just believe you can help us find the answer."
Su Bai said with a smile.
Suddenly, Chu Qianyin felt as if there were 10,000 alpacas roaring past in her heart!
I believe you are a ghost, will you not know?
Aren't you ashamed to say this, you are obviously pretending to be stupid and trying to forcibly push me into the pit!
The most important thing is that this pit was dug by his own hands......
At this moment, she suddenly wanted to rush up and strangle Su Bai, step on a few more feet after strangulation, and spit a few more mouthfuls after stepping on it!
"Uh, to put it bluntly, it's just to find an item, I even told you the name of the item, if you still find it difficult, tsk, forget it, it may be difficult for you, just because I didn't say it."
Su Bai shook his head and quietly made up for it.
Chu Qianyin was really stimulated at this time, although Su Bai didn't say it explicitly, but he was clearly mocking himself for not having the Internet and nothing, who can bear it?
"Okay, I'm up for the challenge, if I can find the answer, what do you say? A mosquito can't beat me! ”
"Hehe, if you find the answer, whatever reward you want, as long as I can do it, there is no time limit for the challenge, when it is completed, come and tell everyone what the Sprout Ribbon is, how about it?"
Chu Qianyin's big watery eyes turned, such a relaxed condition, you still haven't sent it?
It's all your own blood to earn, you don't have to make up for your summer homework, you can't find out that you haven't been punished, you can even be lazy and don't check it directly, just say you can't find it, it's beautiful......
"Okay, then it's decided!"
Chu Qianyin agreed very happily.
"Haha, that sister is going to come on, don't let our old man and old lady wait too long."
Everyone cheered, and the laughter never stopped.
Su Bai took everyone to briefly understand the background of the story, and after walking through the lyrics for a while, I saw that it was almost over, and the gags really wasted a lot of time, so I picked up the board and hit it.
- Sing!