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Chapter 17 send a song

Maqiao Dictionary 韩少功 1740Words 2018-03-19
If you see the men in Maqiao gathered in twos and threes, squatting in the corner of the ground, or sitting by the firepit, and habitually resting their chins on one hand or covering their mouths, you can know that they are singing.They sang in a conspiratorial manner, not only in a low voice, but mostly in secluded places, avoiding the eyes and ears of outsiders.For them, singing is not so much a public performance as it is more like a game in a small circle.At first I thought it was because I was afraid of the ban and political criticism from the government, but I later learned that even many years before the "Cultural Revolution", they had this sneaky singing style.Do not know what is the reasons of that.Singing by Maqiao people is also called Pange, or Fage, which probably has a similar nature to "speech" at a meeting and "handling" at a card table.Mei Cheng in the Han Dynasty wrote the famous "Qi Fa", which refers to a kind of poetry and prose, mostly in the form of questions and answers.Maqiao's posting of songs was mostly a question-and-answer confrontation. Whether it was the "posting" of the Han Dynasty is unknown.Young people like to listen to hair songs, and give timely comments or applause on every line of the lyrics.If one of them is more generous, he may spend money to buy a bowl of wine, or use his face to credit a bowl of wine to reward the singer.Take a sip of wine after a round of slow hand delivery. Of course, with the power of wine, you can produce more murderous and tricky lyrics. The hand of the mouth is withdrawn.Their songs always start from national events.For example, ask who is the prime minister of the other country?Who is the president of the country?Who is the chairman of the National Military Commission?Who is the Vice Chairman of the National Military Commission?Who is the elder brother of a certain vice chairman of the National Military Commission?What kind of disease did the elder brother of a vice chairman of the State Military Commission suffer from recently and what kind of medicine did he take?and so on.These puzzles really blew my mind.Even if I read the newspaper every day, I’m afraid I can’t remember the important people from far away like they do, and I can’t remember their lung cancer or diabetes so accurately.I guessed that these men who stink of cow dung must have some kind of special training for their strange memory.They never forget their lord in the wild, and their ancestors must also be used to paying attention to the movement in the court.Next is to send filial songs.Singers often have to blame each other, accusing each other of not playing cotton wool for Lord Gaotang, or buying longevity wood for Fengsheng’s godfather, or not sending bacon to uncle or uncle on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, or that the bacon was not fat enough to two inches, There are also maggot arches in the meat, and so on.They are always righteous and strict, asking whether the other party dislikes the poor and loves the rich?Is it ungrateful?Is it the pig and dog's heart that grows from the pig and dog food that we eat every day?Of course, the other party must be quick-witted, and promptly use reasons such as weather or foot pain to excuse his misdeeds, and quickly launch a counterattack to find out new unfilial acts of the other party—even if he exaggerates the facts.They must stand up to the mutual trial of this singing, and this kind of folk morality is strictly accepted.The above is the necessary opening battle, which reflects the singer's position.After posting these, you can rest assured, and you can rest assured to post some Jujue songs. The extended meaning of "jue" is a joke, for example, "juejuehua" refers to witty words.The further extended meaning is not serious, such as "juejue song" mostly refers to flirtatious songs.Jue Jue Ge enlivens the senses of the body and is the most exciting program for young people. It can still be carried out in a confrontational way, but one side has to be the male role and the other side is the female role; one side wants to love, and the other side has to reject love.I have carefully recorded some: I don’t know how to stay when I miss my sister, I don’t know how to step on rocks when I walk, I don’t know how to hold up chopsticks when I eat, I don’t know how to stand up when I’m squatting.The other song is even more dull: Sister Xiang is so angry that she doesn't accept her food. She eats without meat every day. If you don't believe me, you take off your clothes and look. The skin is the skin and the bone is the bone.There are also those who praise the conspiracy of female idiots to kill their husbands, which can make people jump: the husband is good and good, and my husband is like Huang Chai. He was killed with three axes and two axes. Friends, come here to roast people.There are also some who sing sadly: One is hard to give up and the other is hard to leave. I return a shadow and paste it on the wall. I haven’t seen each other for ten and a half months, and I cry with my shadow.There are also those who expressed despair about love: You and I love each other in vain.It's like raising human chickens by using a mill (rice?), when my sister's children grow up, they don't call me a buddy instead of me!These are just love songs.When the love song is sent out to a certain time, the singers will lead to the "down song": I see that you are a woman in her twenties, don't close the door and pretend to be serious, I see that your face is picky, and your crotch is already wet.Your dog barks non-stop, and the running water in front of your door is white and heavy.Your family's bed household is so powerful that they drilled a pit in a day. ...At this time, if there is a woman in the audience, she will blushed and cursed and walked away quickly, while the younger generation will watch their unusual backs, like a cock that wants to fight, with its neck stretched out and its eyes wide open. Flushed, gearing up, restlessly standing up for a while, squatting down for a while, a fiery smirk appeared on his face.They deliberately exaggerated their laughter so loudly that the women in the distance could hear it.There are also songs about women’s sufferings, such as Wan Yu from Xiacun, who posted a song about a woman watching her illegitimate son lying in a wooden basin and drifting down the Luo River: “Walk slowly, don’t let rocks touch you.” Broken head, it's not because your mother doesn't want you, you don't have the embarrassment of your parents.You walk slowly, don't let the wind and waves wet your body, not because of your mother, you wake up in the middle of the night and shout three times... The wooden basin encountered a whirlpool in Wanyu's mouth, turned around and went back Back drifting, it seems reluctant to let go, and still wants to return to mother's arms hahaha.At this point, the women next to her had red eye circles and began to wipe their eyes with the corner of their clothes, and the sound of snot came and went.The corner of Bunren's mother-in-law's mouth fell, she dropped a basket of pig vegetables in her hand, threw herself on another woman's shoulder, and began to cry.

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