What is the performance form of Yangzhou Youth Hostel?

The performance form of Yangzhou Qingqu is: sitting and singing.

Yangzhou Qingqu is a seated singing performance, with as few as one or two performers and as many as eight or nine performers, and they play their own instruments to accompany each other. The performance format is commonly known as "sitting at an open table": there is a table in the middle, with three or four to six or seven people sitting around on three sides; facing the audience. Each performs an instrument, sings solo or duet, without makeup or other props.

Yangzhou Qingqu is a folk art singing form developed on the basis of folk songs and minor tunes popular in Yangzhou during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is also known as "Guangling Qingqu", "Weiyang Qingqu", and is commonly known as "Xiaoyu". "Singing" or "singing ditties" is mainly popular in Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Shanghai and other places in Jiangsu Province, and is performed in Yangzhou dialect.

Yangzhou Qingqu is traditionally a performance without makeup, without rhetoric and without body, with a light, concise and unpretentious style. The most valuable of these is music, with tunes derived from local tunes and tunes from all over the world, rich in folk character and regional characteristics.

On May 20, 2006, this folk art was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. In November 2019, the "List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Project Protection Units" was announced, and the Yangzhou Qingqu Inheritance and Development Research Association in Guangling District, Yangzhou City was qualified as a protection unit for the Yangzhou Qingqu Project.

Classic repertoire

Yangzhou Qing opera repertoire is very rich, with more than 400 pieces, divided into singles and suites. Most of the singles are about scenery, lyricism, chanting of objects, and lovesickness, such as "Wind, Flowers, Snow and Moon", "Lovesickness in Four Seasons", "Qinghe Weather", "Fireworks Lament", "Struggle between Bamboo and Wood", etc.; the suites are mostly based on folk legends , historical stories, such as "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "The Romance of the West Chamber", "A Dream of Red Mansions", "The Legend of White Snake", "Pearl Tower", etc. ?

Popular areas

Yangzhou Qingqu originated from Yangzhou, the central city of the Jianghuai region, and is mainly spread in Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Nanjing, Suzhou and the vast northern Jiangsu area in Jiangsu Province; It was also spread in other provinces and cities such as Shanghai, Shandong, Anhui, and Yunnan; during the Republic of China, it was also spread to Hong Kong, Taipei and other places.