"If we talk about the origin of ventriloquism, I'm afraid it will be traced back to the ancient wilderness period. At that time, in order to lure prey or scare away powerful beasts, humans would imitate the call of some animals. The most primitive ventriloquism began here. Later in the Warring States Period, there was also a legend that ventriloquism who was good at rooster crowing and dog stealing helped Mengchangjun escape from danger."

"In the Tang and Song dynasties, there was an organization called "Xuexiang Sound Club" in the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the art of oral skills was greatly exhibited. The Tokyo Menghua Record records that the oral skills are written by Ba Niang imitating hawkers, which is awesome."

"The Song Dynasty was a dynasty with great spiritual and material richness. Various folk art exhibitions were very fast. During the Song Dynasty, there were next door dramas. Oral artists rely on eight-foot barriers, such as tables, chairs, fans, and stroke rulers. Artists speak in the barriers and learn to sing and imitate various animal sounds. During the Song Huizong period, there was an oral artist named Liu Baiqin, who could imitate many animal sounds and had very high skills."

"Until the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, our art of oral skills was truly mature, and it was a hundred operas. The expression of oral skills in the Bai Opera Zhuzhi Ci by Li Zhensheng, a Qing Dynasty man, was that the green silk was so invisible, and the graphic sound was wonderful than the truth. Who knew that everyone was noisy and there was no other person who had disappeared, and this was what he said."

"Before the 1930s, our performances were all behind the barrier. As the saying goes, we only heard the sound but did not see the person. After the 1930s, we slowly walked out of the barrier and performed face to face with the audience. With the help of modern technology audio amplifiers, we have the possibility of performing a large scale. We actors performed everywhere over the years, including abroad. However, the part I performed before was a traditional ventriloquy performance, which had a barrier."

Zhang Yushu roughly introduced the history and origin of yi's ventriloquism to He Xiangdong.

He Xiangdong listened very carefully and seriously.

Zhang Yushu continued: "Our ventriloquist skills and your crosstalk can also be said to be from the same school. The ventriloquist skills were also called "similar sound" and it also emphasizes talking and learning to sing behind the barrier. At that time, there were two people performing individually, which were similar to your crosstalk's stand-alone. Later, some ventriloquist skills artists walked out of the barrier and started performing in front of the audience. There were also the prototypes of crosstalk. At that time, there were also differences between bright crosstalk and dark crosstalk. There were also ventriloquist skills in your crosstalk. You must have listened to your master's performance."

He Xiangdong nodded and said, "Yes, my master is good at logging and learning birds' screams. However, when he learns birds' screams, he will stuff a small instrument into his mouth to help him, otherwise he will not be able to learn it. In fact, you are more smart."

Zhang Yushu also laughed and said, "I just rely on this to make a living. If even this is compared by your master, how can I live?"

"Hehe" He Xiangdong also smiled.

Zhang Yushu said: "I also have a position in the Shanghai Acrobatics Team. I can only take half a month to teach you at most, so your study pressure will be very high during this period, so you have to be prepared."

He Xiangdong also curled his smile and nodded very seriously and said, "Uncle Zhang, don't worry, no matter how much pressure I feel, I can bear it. Come just."

Zhang Yushu touched He Xiangdong's head with relief and said, "What I mainly teach you during this period is the luck of oral skills, and the use of oral, lips, tongue and throat. These are all basic skills. You must practice solidly. If you have a tall building, it depends on the solid foundation. Just like your crosstalk, it takes decades of water grinding skills to become a talent. Don't try to reach the sky, it is impossible."

He Xiangdong nodded to show his understanding.

Zhang Yushu continued to teach: "The breathing method of ventricular techniques was a single breathing method. In the sound method of birds on CCTV's episode, bird experts introduced us to the special living structure of birds. The singing of birds can actually last for several minutes. They have no vocal cords, but they have a chirping tube. The chirping tube has a sound function. This kind of living method for birds is the cyclic luck method and the cyclic sound method."

"This method has a great enlightenment for us, especially Brother Yuliang uses the special conditions of the sound of the vocal cords, and his years of exploration and practice, and finally researches the circular luck method and the circular sound method. This method can use qi repeatedly and sound for several minutes, reaching more than ten times that of a normal person. The rhythm is also more harmonious and the effect is very good. This is what I want to teach you."

He Xiangdong nodded and said yes, and Zhang Yushu began to teach how to be lucky.

"Qi" is the driving force of sound. If there is insufficient qi, the sound will be insufficient. Scientific luck is the fundamental and basic foundation of oral performance. The method of practicing circulating luck is to first strengthen the breathing volume of the lungs according to the physiological breathing rules and sound principles of the person, and then practice the exhalation volume. The time for exhaling breaths gradually increases from short to yi minutes or even longer in the first ten seconds. Qi sinks into the dantian, relaxes the lungs, relieves the pressure of the lungs, and inhales with the nose and mouth, cleverly steals the air and stores the air, so that the air can feel endless.

Zhang Yushu guided He Xiangdong to practice the method of luck over and over again, especially to teach the tricks of stealing qi and storing qi. In fact, the first thing to practice the respiration of the lungs is to practice the amount of breathing in the lungs, but Zhang Yushu didn't have much time, so he could only teach methods first. He can only wait for He Xiangdong to go back and practice slowly by himself.

He Xiangdong is also very smart and learns very quickly. Basically, Zhang Yushu has taught him all the time, so there is no need to say the second time. Zhang Yushu is also very happy and repeatedly praised He Xiangdong as a good seedling.

All day long, both of them practiced the cycle of luck.

He Xiangdong also lived here that night, so he made up with Zhang Yushu and had a bed with him. The next day, just as the light of the day, He Xiangdong got up and ran to a place where no one was doing morning class. After all, he is a crosstalk artist and he can't give up his contributions every day. Artists also have a saying about practicing qigong: "If you don't practice for a day, you will know if you don't practice for two days, and if you don't practice for three days, you will know if you don't practice for three days."

After practicing morning class, He Xiangdong returned to the guesthouse. After breakfast, Zhang Yushu began to teach verb skills.

Because ventriloquism imitates the wind, thunder, rain, and electricity in nature, as well as scenes such as animals, musical instruments, wars, etc., it requires a variety of complex sound methods, with human voice as the main sound, and is combined with the human body's mouth, teeth, lips, tongue, throat, small tongue, oral muscles, soft palate, etc. ventriloquism also has its own unique sound domain and scale, using single and double tones round and hoarse sounds, as well as chopping, dragging, and combination sounds in the scales to complete the performance. Because ventriloquism emphasizes the false and real, it also has a method of inverting the voice, and combined with the regular voice, which is the so-called cyclic sound method.

Traditional ventriloquism performances are about speaking, learning, singing and playing, and actually belong to the category of folk art. However, after the founding of New China, the ventriloquism masters Sun Tai and Zhou Zhicheng directly entered the acrobatic troupe from Hong Kong to the mainland, so ventriloquism was classified as acrobatics.

However, during the later exhibition, the ventriloquism gradually disappeared in the acrobatic performance, and the ventriloquism disappeared from the acrobatic stage. However, the quintessence industry was unwilling to admit that ventriloquism was an ideology member of the quintessence industry, and ventriloquism became an unclaimed orphan. The current situation was awkward, which was really sad.
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