The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty

Zhang Shanren’s words made Yun Yanhui very interested in the folk artist from Zezhou. He liked all kinds of folk art in Bianjing very much. He has been in touch with him since he lived in Daxiangguo Temple and sincerely admires him. Those entertainers.

And top artists like Zhang Shanren almost all have their own amazing things. Since Zhang Shanren said that he saw a young self in that person, Yun Yan naturally thought, at least meet that person and get to know it. .

Since Yun Yan answered, Zhang Shanren took him to see that person.

"I am young, in my twenties, and my surname is Kong, Kong Ji." Zhang Shanren introduced Yun Yan back, "His team said it was a team, but in fact, only three or four people were left in order to go to Beijing. Now, Live in the place of Jiushan Book Club."

Yun Yanhui was quite surprised, "He has already joined the book club in just a short time since he entered Beijing?"

The book club is an organization popular among folk artists. Because of the wide range of art such as speaking and zaju at this time, such an organization came into being.

Mr. Shuhui in the book club are all artists with literary talents, such as Zhang Shanren, or literati who have no fame or ambitions. Most of the texts of the scripts on the market are written by them.

To ask Yunyan to come back to understand, this is similar to a modern industry association.

And in this kind of place, there are certain requirements for recruiting new members.

The Jiushan Book Club is considered to be the largest and most influential book club in Bianjing. This Kong Zhi can join the book club so quickly and can still live in the book club. I think it is definitely not just Zhang Shanren’s appreciation and use.

There is a long-term rental place in Jiushan Book Society, which is used by members for activities. Kong Ji lives there temporarily. Because there are no performance activities yet, when Yun Yan and Zhang Shanren go there, he And everyone in my class is there.

Although he hadn't met, but knowing that Kong Ji hadn't started performing, Yun Yanhui had a sketch of him in his heart. This person is very thoughtful. It can be said that he is a little bit down, but he does not go to the show-he can let people agree that he lives in the book club, and Zhang Shanren appreciates him. It is absolutely no problem to introduce a few performance opportunities. However, he would rather rehearse in his residence than go, and he really wanted to become famous in World War I.

In the base area of ​​the Jiushan Book Club, Yun Yan saw three little ladies of fourteen and five years old, and a young man in his twenties, who could only be said to be upright, and was teaching the little ladies to sing sentence by sentence. The content, it must be Kong Ji.

"Mr. Kong," Zhang Shanren yelled, Kong Ji raised his head, Zhang Shanren smiled, "I have brought the person you want to see."

When Kong Ji saw Yun Yan coming back, he refreshed his spirits and asked the three little girls to find him to practice on their own. They walked up and sang well and politely, "I wonder if Mr. Yun will come here and stay at the guest's office. Zhou, it's rude."

So far, if you have a good relationship with Yun Yanhui, you call him Yan Ge'er. Those who don't know him well or don't know him are mostly called Xiaolangjun because of his young age.

That is to say, Shen Kuo and Kong Ji are not quite the same. Shen Kuo is called Yunyan Hui Yunlang, and Kong Jizun is called Mr. Yun. They have similarities in the same way.

And listening to Zhang Shanren's name, I also know that Zhang Shanren also respected Kong Ji very much, Yun Yanhui responded very politely, and also called him Mr. Kong.

Kong Ji invited the two of them to sit down and poured tea, "I hope you can forgive me for a cup of tea."

Zhang Shanren took a sip of tea with a very casual attitude, "Ah, I knew I had some tea from Ge Yan."

Yun Yan replied: "Brother, half of the mixed scented tea in my place was beaten and snatched by you!"

Zhang Shanren jokingly said: "If you don't grab the tea of ​​the rich, you will lose money." He coughed twice, "Cough cough, don't laugh, Mr. Kong, you can discuss business with Yan Ge'er."

Yun Yan smiled back and said, "I would like to hear the details."

"How do I start..." Kong Ji lowered his head for a moment and said slowly, "Three months ago, I was still in Yang'a, where my team just can make ends meet."

"Yang'a's folk art is very famous. It's very unusual to have a foothold in Yang'a." Yun Yan replied sincerely.

Kong Ji smiled and didn't say anything. "When I was a kid, my teacher used to calculate a lesson for me and told me that I was 50 years old and my skills were great, and I would be able to be famous in the world when I entered Beijing. But that Before I entered Beijing, I would only break down and sink the sand."

Yun Yan recalled what he said, but still shut up. Okay, he is only allowed to fortune teller by his master, and is not allowed to fortune teller by other masters? Let's just think that Kong Ji's master also has real abilities.

Kong Ji said again: "But three months ago, when I fortune-telling for the people in my team, I noticed something was wrong, and I learned a lesson for myself, only to find that my time was ripe in advance. Therefore, I ignored my objections. , Come to Beijing."

Yun Yan looked at him with eyes wide open.

Kong Ji smiled bitterly: "I know, you may not believe it, but after I came to Bianjing, I asked again and again, and forgot about it. I really think that you are my noble man. If you refuse to help me, Probably, I still have to wait until I'm fifty."

"I believe you!" Yun Yan said with a smile, "Even if you have no fortunes, you should know that I can help you. All the artists in Bianjing know it. Xiao Chang'e is my favorite. "

Kong Ji dumbly said, "It's true..."

When Yun Yan said that, he didn't believe it at all in his heart. If Kong Ji said that Yun Yanhui could help him in his fortunes, it must be false, because everyone knows that Yun Yanhui can help him. However, Kong Ji mentioned that his own hexagram had changed. Wouldn't it be the result of Yunyanhui's crossing?

With the sudden arrival of Yun Yan, Kong Ji had the possibility of a red fate in advance. Of course, if this happened to be bumped into by a blunder, then there would be nothing to say.

Yun Yan couldn't say what was in his heart back, just spread his hands.

"Ah, don't you just say that it's not a good job? Don't talk about the hexagrams, you have real skills, no matter what the hexagrams, Ge Yan will help you," Zhang Shanren was anxious, thinking that Kong Ji was putting the cart before the horse. If you want to talk about fortune-telling, just as Ge Yan said, you don't need to fortune-telling to know that he is a nobleman, "Mr. Kong is indeed very good, and he is familiar with speech, music, and various operas."

Kong Ji said faintly: "Well... I recently completed a book."

Kong Ji took out his notebook and showed it to Yun Yan.

Yun Yan looked back at the book, and when he turned the first page, there was nothing wrong, but after reading a few pages, he noticed something was wrong. He was a little excited, and asked tentatively: "Your book is not the same as ordinary Chinese. Too the same."

"This is not a storybook," Kong Ji said honestly, pointing to the paragraph on the book. "This is a storybook I wrote before. After the adaptation, there are singing and clarification in it. My idea is to They are connected in tandem, presenting this story in tune and white, and in the way of performance, they have absorbed drum lyrics, big tunes and the like. Several of my disciples have performed two shows in their hometown, and the response...not bad."

"Looking at the lyrics, these tunes are all different palace tunes?" Yun Yan asked again. After so many years in the temple fair tile, he still knows some of this knowledge.

It's easy to see, Kong Ji nodded, "Yes, there are some folk minor tunes and big tunes." After all, his team was originally performing those tunes, and there are many tunes that can be collected in Yang'a.

Zhang Shanren squinted his eyes, "I think this is very good, and it will definitely be popular."

Of course, of course it will be very popular!

Yun Yan thought back in his heart.

"Let's play it." Yun Yan held it back and asked Kong Ji to give it a try.

It is also right to inspect the goods. Kong Ji beckoned and called his disciples. Because of the lack of manpower, he and the two disciples brought the Pipa and Zheng together to accompany them. One disciple stood there with a curvy body. , Began to sing a song.

The sound of the pipa is crisp and moving. The female disciple sings the song, sometimes accompanied by some corresponding actions, and there are some words in the middle. The whole set of tunes can be sung and you can hear it. It is the historical story of Zhaojun going out of the country.

-But from beginning to end, this female disciple sang alone, and only sang a story from the third-person perspective.

After the play, Yun Yan smiled back and stroked his palms.

Zhang Shanren nodded, "Mr. Kong has also played it to me before, but it is still so beautiful to listen to it again."

"This... Is Mr. Kong famous for this kind of performance?" Yun Yan asked back.

Kong Ji shook his head, "Not yet. Actually, I think...I still need to sculpt." This is probably the reason why although he is talented, but Master said that he needs to be fifty years old to be famous in the world, the current song is still a bit jerky, Kong Ji thought I also really want to know, can Yun Yan be so good at rejoicing people, even if he is a seven-pointer, he can be a twelve-pointer?

Unexpectedly, Yun Yan said astonishingly in reply.

"You use a lot of palace tunes in this set, and it is mainly accompanied by pipa. It is called Zhugong tune or Tanci, which is good." When Yun Yan said back to this, Kong Ji and Zhang Shanren agreed. I think it is very appropriate, but what he said next is amazing, "And I also think that you need to refine and improve the storytelling!"

Kong Ji was in a daze for a moment. He inquired clearly. Zhang Shanren also said that although Yun Yanhui knows how to think about the stage, he has no idea about the performance. Sometimes he even falls asleep when listening to slower songs.

Now, he has to comment on the technique of Tanci-this is the name?

…

Why can't it?

After Yun Yanhui talked a few sentences with Kong Ji, he confirmed that this is the original form of Zhugong Tune.

Zhugong Tune, also known as Tanci, is made by absorbing the essence of various folk arts. It is mainly singing, supplemented by white, and performing long stories with tunes. Although it declined later, it inherited the poetry of Tang and Song dynasties, and developed the southern and northern operas. The art of opera in later generations opened up the way.

Yuan Zaju, to a large extent, draws on the success of Zhugong Tune.

Xiqu operas are operas because they use "qu" to perform "drama", and this is the innovation of Zhugong tune, which introduces music into the story and combines the two to pave the way for the birth of opera.

Yun Yanhui understands that even though the noble man Kong Ji calculated can praise others, he can't praise the 20-year-old Kong Ji as a fifty-year-old artistic achievement.

His usefulness lies in the fact that he has seen those mature modern dramas such as Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera...

If someone can send Kong some inspiration to improve or even improve his Zhugong Tune performance art early, that person must be Yun Yanhui.

The opera, which has been glorious for many years since its birth, appeared in advance on the folk stage of the Northern Song Dynasty where a hundred flowers blossomed? Yun Yanhui felt that he would be happy to see such a scene!

Yun Yan stood up and said confidently: "First of all, I suggest you go and read our Daxiangguo Temple's vulgar talk. The vulgar talk here may not be the same as what you have read-you have to let the audience blend into your story. , It feels more immersive. Secondly, let’s take a look at the performances of miscellaneous dramas and incorporate them into it."

"..." Kong Ji only felt as if a ray of thunder had struck his Tianling Gai, and a new world was cut out in his head, making him silent for a while.

An expert watching the doorway, Yun Yan replied in a few short sentences, and he hadn't said it very carefully. Kong Ji already thought, let alone twelve points, he felt that he could go one hundred and twenty points!