Introduction to pipa:

Pipa, the earliest plucked instrument, is a plucked instrument. Wooden, the speaker is half pear-shaped with four strings on it. Originally made of silk thread, now it is made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon. The neck and panel have "phase" and "product" for determining phonemes. It is an important national musical instrument for solo, accompaniment, ensemble and ensemble.

The origin of pipa:

Pipa is a traditional plucked instrument in East Asia, with a history of more than two thousand years. The earliest musical instrument "Pipa" in China appeared around the Qin Dynasty. The word "Jue" in the word "Pipa" means "two jade collide and make a pleasant knocking sound", which means that it is a musical instrument that makes a sound by plucking the strings. Their names "Pi" and "Pa" are based on the right-handed skills of playing these instruments.

The structure of pipa:

Pipa consists of "head" and "body". The head includes chord groove, chord axis, mountain pass, etc. The fuselage includes phase, taste, sound box, hand cover and other parts. The head of a pipa consists of a chord groove, four hammers (chords) and a mountain pass.

Characteristic style of Changsha Tanci;

1 and the characteristics of Changsha tanci

Changsha Tanci first sang Taoist feelings on drums, and later developed into Qin Yue rap. Later, there were two duets: one played Qin Yue as a backup singer, and the other played drums and small coins. In the early days, they all sang for the street, and the content was mostly "advising the world" and short stories. After 1927, he began to enter bookstores and teahouses and sat in tents to rap novellas.

Quben prose alternated with verse, combined with rap, and mainly sang in verse. There are two kinds of white characters: scattered white and rhyme white. The lyrics are mostly seven words. The early singing was very simple, only changing the disc. Later, it absorbed folk tunes and local opera vocals, and became a combination of plate variants and Qupai Liantao. Specifically, it is the plate cavity of the upper and lower sentence structure, with nine plates and nine cavities.

2. Changsha Tanci Style

The rap style of Changsha Tanci is Liao School, represented by Liao Fuxing. His performance is quiet and has a lazy taste. Zhou School, represented by Zhou Shouyun, wrote many lyrics and sang well. There are Shu schools, represented by Shu Sanhe. His performance is orthodox, but it seems dull.