Were simple and sincere Ma Street, the book will be a lot of people, including Henan, people may not know, Baofeng County in Henan Province has a place called Ma Street, each of the first lunar month 13, there will be a folk hip-hop event. Is said to have been 600 years of history. That day, thousands of local folk artists gathered in a spontaneous Baofeng li Ma Street, south of 15 villages, who in days curtain to shore up land for the station, a small side of the river outside the village, winter wheat fields will be books, went so far as books, sing books, sell books. By "book" is the dramatic storytelling. Tens of thousands of listeners to take cold, riding Huang Chen linger afternoon a memorable one.
Local artists are invited to go home opera story-telling ritual practices. Each of those artists is the use of the time the book will sell itself. Like the annual Canton Fair, the different is: Canton Fair trading of commodities, where trading is the artist of the theater.
We are 8 am more in local government departments under the unified arrangement came to Ma Street villages. Under the morning mist shrouded the horse has been Jiecun crowded. A lot of people have been pulled last night, a big bundle of a large bundle of sugarcane to set up a stall. Lane on both sides filled with a variety of stalls, there are selling food, selling used, fortune-telling, playing Monkey's. Floating in the air bursts of Meat and ground cow dung mixed taste. Ma Jie Cun is a typical small rural village in the north. Bending a small dirt road, next to a mixed old and new houses, covered with cement, but also Wong Nai covered. On the road is a steady stream of rush to see a play in the main venue for the farmers. Like visiting the flower market in Guangzhou as the Chinese New Year.
As we walked the main venue of the flow of people. Wide winter wheat fields were packed with dense populations. To squeeze in., the original art placed a lot of people have their own stalls, there is one person, two, and three or four people, with two sugar cane erected a wire, a table covered with a red banner, write what the person or What theatrical troupe, to sing up. Most singing storytelling. One person singing, and played a mix of people. Instrument that is used in two strips of wood, and some can not tell the names of musical instruments, some are tied to their feet and legs swinging became music. The people who put hard to sing and listen to people attentively. Squeeze in the crowd, everywhere is really strange feeling. Yi people perform most of the clothes did not wear, easy to sing at a table on the up, onlookers watched the Youziyouwei people, the atmosphere casual and boisterous. Although we can not understand what they sing, but with interest the feelings of the rich, folk customs is really a joy to use.
Artists are local folk artists, they are relying on this traditional theatrical entertainer for a living. Really incredible, in Henan quietly in a small village, actually lasted for several centuries a lively book will be popular.
Author: xie1129
