Quyi Storytelling and Ballad Arts

Daoqing and Yugu Fish-Drum Ballads

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Ballads sung to a bamboo fish drum and clapper slips, grown from Daoist song

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Pingshu and Pinghua Storytelling

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One table, one chair, a gavel block and a fan: long tales told in speech

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Drum-Ballad Storytelling (Gushu)

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Long tales sung to drum, clappers and strings: the regional dagu and guci

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Suzhou Pingtan

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Wu-dialect storytelling: pinghua spoken, tanci sung to sanxian and pipa

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Shidiao and Xiaoqu (Ditty Songs)

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Regional art songs sung to clappers and plucked strings, from Ming–Qing popular tunes

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Cantonese Yuequ and Naamyam

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Cantonese sung narrative: yuequ, Guangfu naamyam, muyu songs and dragon-boat songs

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Qinshu (Dulcimer Ballads)

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Seated performers sing story ballads to their own yangqin and fiddles

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Errenzhuan

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The Northeast's sung-and-danced duet of a dan and a chou, with fans and handkerchiefs

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Danxian and Paiziqu (Linked-Tune Ballads)

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Ballads sung as suites of linked tunes, led by Beijing's danxian

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Kuaishu and Kuaiban (Clapper Recitation)

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Rhymed storytelling chanted at speed over the clatter of bamboo clappers

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Xiangsheng (Crosstalk)

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Telling, mimicking, teasing and singing: the comic word-play of Beijing and Tianjin

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Jingyun Dagu (Beijing Drum Ballad)

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Short drum ballads sung standing at the drum in Beijing speech

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