Quju was developed on the basis of Henan Quyi. At first, performers sang while walking on stilts, and then gradually developed into high-platform music. Drum music is a kind of rap art combining music cards. When singing, three or five people clap their hands on the sandalwood board, which is contrary to the previous three-string accompaniment. If they need help, they will help together. Every song is sung in a certain order. Around the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a combination of drum music and stilts appeared, which was called "stilt music". When I first appeared, I didn't wear makeup, and I didn't distinguish between occupations. It's just a few people walking up and down the street on stilts, singing songs with a story, accompanied by three stringed instruments. It was not until around 1920 that stilt songs with simple makeup and rough division of labor appeared, and drum music was mostly performed by folk tales of characters, such as little fairy, soap washing and fishing. The transformation of "stilt music" from ordinary folk songs and dances to formal "Gaotai music" is a landmark event, which has formed a qualitative leap in the development of musicals.
As early as the seventh day of the fourth lunar month in the Republic of China 15 (1926), the drama club "Le Tong Society" (composed of "friends" on stilts, Zhu Wanming, Chen, Li, etc. ) is led by Zhu Wanming of Zheng Tie Furnace Village, Linru County, Henan Province. The farmers who watched the performance built the ox cart carrying stilts into a high platform, and removed the stilts outreachers to sing on the stage, and sang plays such as "Xu Zhuangyuan Sacrifice Tower" and "Sheep Eight Sisters Noisy Hotel". This made stilt music go to the podium. Two months later, on June 13th of the lunar calendar, Liwa Village sang a temple fair for Longwang Temple every year, and built a 0.5-meter-high platform in front of the temple, with a shed on it and a large piece of red cloth hanging behind it. It's like a stage. Geng Chengeng, Kong Haidong and Liu Jinshui are from Yichuan ... Dengfeng Wang Tianshui, Fan Suilin and Li Gotha ... and there are songs such as Ding Lang confessing his father, Tianhe Ji, Liu Quan Entering the Melon, Song Wu Killing his wife and Book Club. The new performance method has received unexpected good results. From then on, Taizi Quzi stepped onto the stage, called Henan Quzi, and later called Henan Quju. Henan Quju was formally born. After the temple fair, the news spread far and wide, and a steady stream of invitations to sing for them attracted famous performances from all over the country and actors from our village to go out to perform, and wrote the four characters "Awakening People's Troupe" on the red cloth. This is the earliest troupe in China. 1927 began to perform in other places to make a living. It soon affected nearby counties and towns, and many singing organizations appeared. This form of performing on stage without stilts became more common in the late 1920s. It also affected Zhu Wanming. After watching 1928 Luoyang's civilized drama, I was greatly inspired and changed my mind. They joined hands with their "playmates" to go to town and performed No Smoking, Let Go of Your Feet and Victory Stage in a courtyard of Luoyang Laoji. Since the 1930s, the stage tunes have gradually borrowed from the brothers' operas, and the number of accompaniment instruments has gradually increased, gradually developing into a sound "civil and military field", thus forming a complete local opera and developing towards standardization. Quju absorbed percussion music from Henan Opera, Beijing Opera and other operas, and enriched the orchestral music according to the needs of singing accompaniment. The repertoire has gradually changed from family life drama to historical drama (robe with drama), from small Chinese drama to big drama, and all walks of life have gradually improved.
However, in the early 1930s, the general theatrical troupe remained in an amateur nature: there were only ten people in a class club. During the performance, they didn't talk about the price of the play, but only asked about the food. If you receive a gift, the whole class will share it equally. At that time, advanced classes appeared one after another in Runan, Zhoukou, Xinyang and Nanyang.