When I was a child and listened to Qin opera, I always felt that it was a group of people roaring at the top of their lungs. When I got older, I felt that it must be rock music from the ancient times. Whenever the burden of life weighs on people, You always need to find some outlet to vent, and Qin Opera should be like this. How much pressure you have to survive will make you scream crazily. By the time I reached adulthood, Qin Opera, in my eyes, had become a pastime for people after dinner. It had even been submerged in the river of pop music for many years, and I gradually ignored it. Qin Opera seems to have become a kind of nostalgia and reminiscence, taking us back to our childhood and childhood, to our hometown and time that we cannot go back to.
As an authentic Shaanxi native, Jia Pingwa naturally has a deeper understanding of Qin Opera. In his writing, those who love Qin Opera love it to death, and those who hate it also go to the extreme. The roughness and heroic spirit of Qin Opera are in There seems to be no market in the southern basin, which is more suitable for melodious and elegant tunes. Therefore, "other opera types can travel around the provinces, but Qin opera is like the people of Qin, never leaving home." If you have not personally experienced the vastness and magnificence of the 800-mile Qinchuan River, you may never be able to find the foundation of Qin Opera. Here, there are vast horizons, vast plains, and "a group of Qin Shihuang's terracotta warriors and horses that are alive" "Come back", there are ancient Qinchuan bulls and "Yaozhou porcelain bowls as big as heads". People like to eat a bowl of beef steamed buns on a stone roller. At this time, when you listen to Qin Opera, you will feel that it is like "The sound of nature, the sound of earth, and the sound of human beings."
In the eyes of Qin people, Qin opera, Xifeng wine, Changxian spicy food, big leaf cigarettes, and beef steamed buns are the five major elements of life. What Qin opera brings with them is a kind of nostalgia and harmony that permeates their bones. No matter how difficult the conditions are for artistic talents, as soon as they stand on the stage of Qin Opera, they feel as if they have been injected with chicken blood, and they are no different from artists. Jia Pingwa described what happened on the rural stage. In addition to the strong aura, you can see the most original rural life with drama both on and off the stage. In their eyes, Qin Opera is an inevitable experience in life and an indispensable element of life.
On this loess land where emperors of thirteen dynasties are buried, on this land where stone tablets of the Han and Tang Dynasties can be seen in the grass and fields, generations of Qin people have performed the endless life of human beings. Although the old friend is no longer here, this artistic singing style permeated with the painstaking efforts of countless Qin people continues to live on in people’s bones. Do you know what is in Qin Opera? It condenses the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of the people of Qinchuan for eight hundred miles. Qin Opera is worthy of being the "family symphony" of all the people of Qin!