"guarantee" - Soil Youqi Errentai Singing Study

Errentai is a popular local Chinese opera which is famous around the area of Inner Mongolia, Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province and north of Hebei Province. It is called Errentai for the reason that most of the play is acted by two actors, one is Harlequin, the other is Dan. From the beginning to the maturity, Errentai has developed for more than a century, and now it has becoming into a miracle of folk opera. As the cradle and the place where Errentai go around, Tuyou Township witnessed the form and the development of this special art. In2006, Errentai has been listed in the first batch of intangible heritage items by the State Council, and in2008Tumoteyou flag was named as "The culture and art town of Chinese Errentai " by the Chinese vernacular art association.Errentai music contains two main parts which are aria and melody type of qupai from. This article will focus on the main characteristics of Errentai music aria at Tuyou Township in the Inner Mongolia.The aria of Errentai in Tuyou Township converge the common characteristics of the Mongolian and Han people’s music art cultures; it is the historical crystallization between Mongolian people’s music art culture and Han people’s. According to the long-termed blend and interracial marriage, culture blend formed gradually, people between two nations get along harmoniously. On this occasion, people of Mongol and Han passed on their own traditional culture to each other. In the course of cultural blend, Errentai formed and developed, according to the unremitting efforts of Errentai artists, this local theater has started to take shape.During more than one hundred and fifty years, Tuyou Township Errentai has developed into a kind of attractive and delighted folk art which combines music, dance, rap, theater and play together. Tuyou Township Errentai is pregnant by civil society and gives serve to the person who has dense mass basis, special art style, broad grassland feeling and full-bodied fragrant fields of Yellow River. Errentai music at this area shows richly and colorfully, the performance is in various forms, the aria which is fresh, beautiful, melodious and distinctive. Either the way of singing skills and articulation or the feminine of lyrics, Tuyou Township Errentai has special local characteristics. Every word shows the honest and humor of the people in Tuyou Township.Nowadays, with the rapid development of society, as the moral support of the people in Tuyou Township, Errentai is indispensible; it is the moral spirit which holds the lives of people there. Errentai can root and even flourish in Tumochuan plain; it confirms the local material progress and cultural progress. To review the growth of Tuyou Township Errentai, the development of this art style will also bring open, and the result of open will decrease our own cultural characteristics, how to inherit traditional culture become harder and harder. For those reasons, now in a pluralistic social situation, whether Tuyou Township Errentai can be inherited and developed well will influence the future destiny of the whole regional culture.This article is divided into four parts which will deep analysis the historical situation, the melodious features, the aria skills and the developments of Tuyou Township Errentai. The first part is the general situation of "Tuyou Township Errentai". The second part is the rhythm and Ban shi aria features of "Tuyou Township Errentai". The third part will analysis Tuyou Township Errentai’s singing skills. The fourth part is the heritage and development of "Tuyou Township Errentai".