The Changes of Qing Yin Performing arts in Sichuan Province, China

Abstract

This study is "The Changes in the Performing Arts of Qingyin in Sichuan Province, China". The objectives are: 1) To study the history and development of the Qing Yin Performing arts in Sichuan Province, China. 2) To analyze example of the music of Qing Yin Performing arts in Sichuan Province, China. 3) To describe the change in the contemporary status of Qing Yin Performing arts in Sichuan Province, China. These data were collected through a field survey of the inheritors of the Qing-Yin art in Sichuan, China.This paper uses the field survey method to analyze the data of the inheritors of the Qingyin art in Sichuan Province, China.

The findings of this paper are as follows.

1. Investigate the history of the development of Qing Yin Performing arts in Sichuan Province, China.(1) In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Sichuan experienced frequent wars and severe disasters and plagues, and the population declined sharply. The government of that dynasty began to immigrate to Sichuan in large numbers, and the immigrants brought with them local folk songs, which were absorbed by the Sichuan Qingyin performance art and formed a folk art performance form with local characteristics.(2) In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the art of Qing Yin Performing arts in Sichuan Province, China, reached its peak, and the streets and alleys were full of artists singing Sichuan Qing Yin performance art, and the performers kept creating new works, so that the amount of repertoire at that time was greatly increased, and each place also set up its own performance team to perform in the city for a living, and later there were professional Sichuan Qing Yin bookstores and teahouses for artists to perform.(3) In the 21st century, when the country was reformed and opened up, the art of Qing Yin in Sichuan Province of China, with its traditional cultural and regional characteristics, was not well inherited and preserved, and only a few scholars were studying and collecting materials, while with the efforts of some scholars, this folk culture with Sichuan characteristics also had some books and materials, and took to the stage of media dissemination.

The musical characteristics of the Qing Yin Performing arts in Sichuan Province, China are.

2.1) Sichuan Qingyin performing art is divided by the structure of the tune, which is divided into a joint song body and a single song body, and a plate cavity body. The joint body can be sung independently, or as an opening or closing. The structure of the single song is simple, mostly two or four lines, and the panel cadence is absorbed from local operas.2.2) Qing Yin Performing arts uses Chinese pentatonic tuning and four types of melodic techniques, namely descending, wavy, jumping in, and encircling.2.3) The lyrics of Sichuan Qingyin performing arts are of three kinds: first, historical stories, second, natural scenery, and third, love stories.(2.4) Most of the performers of Qing Yin Performing arts in Sichuan Province, China, are women. Occasionally, there are male singers.2.5) The accompaniment instruments used in Qing Yin Performing arts in Sichuan Province are theYueqin, pipa, erhu, and the San Xian. The lead singer controls the rhythm with a sandalwood board and a bamboo drum, and may add wooden fish and banging bells.

After more than two hundred years of development, the social environment has also changed, mainly in the following ways: 1) Changes in the external social environment. The main changes are: the changes in the external environment of the society, mainly in the performance groups, artists, audiences and the content of singing; 2) changes in singing styles; 3) changes in performance techniques; and 4) changes in audiences.

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