Cangzhou Muban Dagu

Tang Guifeng is playing Cangzhou Muban dagu

Location: Cangzhou of Hebei Province

Artists: Tang Guifeng（67）

Cangzhou Muban dagu is one of the original roots of Jingyun dagu. There are four schools in China's quyi, including Qing, Mei, Zhao, and Hu. No matter what kinds of quyi, they all belong to these four groups.

According to Cangzhou's actors, they are the offspring of the Qing school. Among all the living Muban dagu performers, Tang Guifeng enjoys the highest position, as he can sing more than one hundred ballads.

Cangzhou Muban, with a history of 3,000 years, is a unique form of music in the whole country. During the Qing Dynasty, Cangzhou Muban was active in Hebei. As the story goes, the Cangzhou actor Li Chaochen even performed for the emperor Qian Long, and received high praise.

At the end of China's Culture Revolution (1966-1976), Cangzhou Muban reached another peak. At that time, there were more than twenty teams to perform in different villages. However, history not only recorded the bloom of Cangzhou Muban, but also its desolation. In the 1980s, many young actors switched to other jobs, and Cangzhou Muban faced its swansong.

Tang Guifeng said that at present only 8 people between the ages of 50 and 60 are able to sing Cangzhou Muban, adding no other people, especially young people, want to learn this old music.

Therefore, people in the cultural circle of Cang County gave taken the initiative to collect and save this traditional folk music.

Because most of the old actors cannot read or write, the work of sorting out information is not an easy task. But researchers understand the importance of their job. Therefore, in the past several years, information covering 300,000 characters has been recorded.

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