Chapter 98 Tage

"Stepping on the song" is a very popular form of performance among the folks. While singing, the festival is based on stepping on the ground, and singing along with each step.Li Bai has a famous poem "Gift to Wang Lun", which describes that when he was in Jing County (now in Anhui), a villager Wang Lun often entertained him with fine wine. scene: This form of "stepping songs" can be traced back very far. According to the third volume of "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes", when Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty was on October 15th every year, maids of honor and concubines "entered the Lingnv Temple together, and played the flute to build , the song "Shang Ling". Now that we are together and stepping on the ground with our arms together, we will sing "The Red Phoenix Comes".Folk step songs may be earlier.In the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the increasing number of records, we can imagine the popularity of tage among the people.Tang "Yueyang Fengtu Ji" said: "Jing and Lake folk customs, gathering or praying at the age, drums are often played, and men and women sing songs, which is called the 'song field'." :

The cheerfulness and enthusiasm of "Tage" is also loved by people in the government and the public. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, there were already "Tage" in the Jiaofang ("Jiaofangji" includes "Liaotage", "Duantaozi" and "Treading the Golden Lotus").Wei Chikuang, a man in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, had "Guan Nei Ren Upstairs Stepping Poems".The literati began to write lyrics for "Tage". "Old Tang Book Ruizong Ji" contains: "On the night of the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor's Yu'an Fumen watched the lanterns, and the scholars who were able to write wrote "Tage", and the tone reached the clouds." Sometimes, Tage is almost all night and day and night. the point.Volume 3 of Zhang Zai's Chaoye Qianzai: "On the fifteenth and sixteenth nights of the second year of Xiantian (713), the city gate was not closed, and a lamp was made outside the Anfu Gate. A lamp looks like a tree of flowers. There are more than a thousand prostitutes in the palace, dressed in silk, wearing brocade, shining pearls and emerald greens, and applying vermilion powder. The wonderful Jane Chang'an young women, more than a thousand girls, danced and sang under the lamp wheel for three days and three nights. , it didn’t begin.”