There is a woman in the village, 45 years old. Bring a medicine bag, the doctor who sells it. If there is a patient, a woman can't ask a fairy at dusk. Clean the room at night and close it. The crowd gathered around the doors and windows, listening silently, but whispering, afraid to cough. Internal and external movements are invisible. At half past midnight, I suddenly heard the sound of curtains. The woman inside said, "Is Aunt Jiu here?" A woman replied, "I'm coming." Then he said, "Does wintersweet belong to Jiugu?" Like a maid answering a cloud: "I'm coming." Their three words didn't convey their meaning, and they kept jabbering.
Hearing the curtain hook moving again, the woman said, "Aunt Liu has arrived." He said nonsense, "Did Chun Mei bring a little boy, too?" A daughter said, "Brother Ou! If you don't sleep, you must be from the lady. If you are heavy, you will be tired! " I heard a woman's attentive voice, the voice of nine aunts asking, the voice of six aunts greeting, the voice of two maids comforting, and the laughter of children, making a noise together. I heard the woman smile and say, "Little Lang Jun is also very interesting. He came all the way to hug the cat. " Then the sound died down, the curtain rang again, and the room was in an uproar, saying, "Why is fourth aunt late?"
A young woman replied in a low voice, "It's a long way to go, Xiu Yuan, beyond words. You just need to spend some time with menstruation. Aunt is slow. " As a result, all the warm and cool voices, and the voices of sitting and calling for sitting, are staggered, and the room is full of noise, and the food is ready. That is to say, I heard that the woman was ill. Nine aunts want ginseng, six aunts want astragalus, and four aunts want surgery. When I moved, I heard Jiugu calling a pen and inkstone. Nothing, origami awkward, pen throwing hat, ink rumbling; After a few strokes, the electric shock sounded and Sue was wrapped in a pinch of medicine.
After a while, the woman opened the curtain and prescribed medicine for the patient. Reflexively entering the room, I heard my third aunt say goodbye, and my third aunt said goodbye. The child was dumb and my cat got up for a while. Jiugu's voice is crisp, Liugu's voice is slow and pale, Gu Si's voice is charming and graceful, and Sanmai's voice has its own merits, which can be distinguished after listening. Everyone was shocked and thought it was a true god. And trying its prescription is not very effective. This is called ventriloquism, which is specially used to sell its surgical ears. However, this is also strange!
Yesterday, Wang Xinyi once said, "I have been to the city occasionally. As soon as I hear string songs, the audience is blocked." A closer look reveals a young man singing loudly. There is no musical instrument, just a finger pressing on the cheek, pressing and smashing; The sound is as loud as a string. I'm also a ventriloquist.
Translation:
A young woman came to the village, about twenty-four or five years old. She came here to practice medicine with skin full of drugs. Someone went to see her, but she couldn't write a prescription herself. She can't ask the fairy until evening. In the evening, she cleaned a small room and shut herself up. Everyone gathered around the door and window, cocked their heads and listened quietly, only listening to whispers inside, and no one dared to cough. It was dark outside, and there was no movement.
At about midnight, I suddenly heard the sound of the door curtain moving. The woman said in the room, "Is Aunt Jiu there?" A woman replied, "I'm coming." He asked again, "Did wintersweet come with Jiugu?" Like a girl's voice, she said, "coming." There is a lot of gossip between these three people. After a while, I heard the curtain hook again. The woman said, "Is Aunt Liu there?" Then I heard several women's voices: "Did Chun Mei come with little Lang Jun, too?"
A woman said, "Why don't you go to bed, naughty boy?" He must follow. The body weighs a hundred pounds and it is really tired to carry it back. " Immediately, I heard women's hospitality, nine aunts' inquiries, six aunts' and six sisters' greetings, two maids' mutual comfort, and children's frolicking voices, all of which came out noisily. I heard the woman smile and say, "Little Lang Jun likes playing very much, so he brought a cat from afar." Then the voice gradually became thinner.
The curtain rang again, and the whole room was noisy, saying, "Why did Fourth Aunt come so late?" Hearing a girl's tiny voice, she said, "It's a long way to go in Xiu Yuan. It took me a long time to come here with my aunt. Aunt walks too slowly. " So everyone asked the voice of cold and warm, the voice of moving seats, and the voice of calling for additional seats. All kinds of voices made the room noisy, and it took a meal to calm down. Then I heard the voice of the woman asking for medicine.
Jiugu said to use ginseng, Liugu thought to use Astragalus membranaceus, and Gu Si said to use Atractylodes macrocephala. After discussing it for a while, I heard Jiugu call someone to bring ink and ink inkstone. Soon, I heard the brush of origami, the jingle of taking off the pen cap and throwing it on the table, and the rumble of grinding ink. Then I heard the crash of the pen on the table, and the rustling of medicine and wrapping paper. After a while. The woman opened the curtain, greeted the patient's name and handed out the medicine bag and prescription together.
After she turned around and entered the room, she immediately heard three girls making other sounds, three girls saying goodbye, the dumb cry of children and the purr of kittens. This happened again for a while. Jiugu's voice is clear and melodious, Liugu's voice is gentle and old, and Gu Si's voice is charming and moving; And the voices of the three girls, each with its own characteristics, can be clearly distinguished by listening.
Everyone was surprised and thought it was a miracle. It's not effective to go home and try the prescription. This is a folk ventriloquism, which is specially used to sell medicine. But her ventriloquism is really excellent.
In the past, my friend Wang Xinyi once said that when he was in Beijing, he occasionally passed by the market and heard the sound of orchestral music. The people around him looked like a wall. He went to the front and saw a teenager singing in a beautiful voice. He has no musical instrument in his hand. He just pressed his cheek with one finger and sang while pressing it. It sounds sonorous, just like a string. They are also descendants of ventriloquists.
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During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many people described ventriloquism performances, and there were many vivid descriptions. Lin Sihuan was born in Pu more than 30 years ago. His article "Preface to Autumn Fu" is similar to Jin Shengtan's style, and he was selected as a middle school textbook because of his clever writing style.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a piece of "ventriloquism" in Volume 7 of Ping's Miscellaneous Records of Xiawai, among which there was ventriloquism written by Hepu. Later, he lamented: "There is a piece of ventriloquism, each with its own merits, and the ones that come out later are more skilled. How to say the composition? " Indeed, Pu's works cast a veil over the ventriloquism performance, which is more interesting.
Pu Songling (1640- 17 15), the author of Kouji, was an outstanding writer in Qing Dynasty. His name is Liu Xian, a blade master, and his nickname is Liu Quan laity. Known as Mr. Liaozhai, he was born in Zichuan, Shandong (now Zibo, Shandong). He was born in a declining landlord family, and his father Pu Yun was a scholar. Because he failed in the imperial examination, he abandoned Confucianism to do business and accumulated considerable wealth. By the time Pu Songling came of age, his family had declined and his life was very poor.
Pu Songling was keen on fame and fame all his life, and was addicted to the imperial examination. However, except for 19 years old, he was admitted to Zhongxian, Fufu and Daodao for three consecutive times, and he was repeatedly frustrated and frustrated. He took the exam for forty years while teaching. It was not until he was seventy-one that he made up a tribute and died four years later.
The rough experience in life made Pu Songling have a certain understanding of the political darkness and the disadvantages of the imperial examination at that time, and the poverty of life made him have a certain understanding and experience of the life and thoughts of working people. So he wrote many works with his personal feelings. Today, in addition to Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, there are also Collected Works from a Lonely Studio and poetry collections.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-ventriloquism