The Original Text and Translation of China's Ancient Prose

There are people who are good at spoken English in Beijing. Guests will have a big banquet and an eight-foot barrier will be built in the northeast corner of the hall. The ventriloquist will sit in the barrier with a table, a chair, a fan and a ruler. The guests sat around the screen. A moment later, I heard the sound of a beat from Wickwood inside the screen. The whole room was silent, and no one dared to speak loudly. Hearing the barking of dogs in a distant alley, a woman woke up, yawned and stretched, and her husband was talking in his sleep. After a while, the child woke up and cried.

The husband woke up. The woman comforts the child to eat milk, the child cries with a nipple, and the woman whispers him to sleep. The other eldest son woke up and kept talking. When it's true, women clap their hands, their mouths blare, their chests cry, their eldest son wakes up, and their husbands scold their eldest son, all of which are wonderful. The full house of guests had no long necks. They listened carefully with their heads held high, smiled and praised silently, which made them feel wonderful. After a while, the husband began to snore, and the woman's voice gradually disappeared.

There was a faint voice, the mouse's sosso, the basin and container overturned, and the woman coughed in her dream. The guests relaxed a little and gradually straightened up. Suddenly, a man shouted "fire", the husband shouted, and the woman shouted. The two children burst into tears. At that time, hundreds of thousands of people were shouting, hundreds of children were crying and hundreds of dogs were barking. The voice pulled down by Zhongli, the fiery voice, the whistling wind, and hundreds of works together; There are hundreds of cries for help, shouts of married with children, shouts of grabbing water and splashing water.

In this case, there should be some sounds, not the same. Although people have hundreds of hands and fingers, they can't point to one end; A man has a hundred mouths and a hundred tongues in his mouth. You can't name a place. So the guests changed their colors and left, bravely armed, two wars, and a few (want to go first. Suddenly clap your hands and all kinds of sounds disappear.

Remove the screen inside, a person, a table, a chair, a fan and a piece of wood.

There is a person who is good at ventriloquism in Beijing. One day, there happened to be a grand banquet for guests. In the northeast corner of the living room, an eight-foot high curtain was placed. The ventriloquist sat in the curtain, with only a table, a chair, a fan and a piece of wood.

The guests sat together in front of the curtain. After a while, there was only a clap of hands from the curtain, and the whole audience was quiet. No one dares to speak loudly. I heard a dog barking in a deep alley in the distance, and then a woman woke up with a yawn and a stretch. She shook her husband and talked about things between husband and wife.

My husband was talking in his sleep, but he didn't promise her at first. The woman kept shaking him, so their voices gradually mixed together and the bed made a "chug" sound. After a while, the child woke up and burst into tears. The husband asked his wife to comfort the child to eat milk, the child cried with his nipple, and the woman hummed to coax him.

Husbands get up to pee, and women get up to pee with their children in their arms. Another big child in bed woke up and nagged loudly. At this time, the woman patted the child's voice with her hand, hummed the child's voice, the child cried with her nipple, the voice of the older child just waking up, the voice of the bed, the voice of her husband scolding the older child, the voice of peeing in the bottle, and the voice of dissolving in the bucket sounded at the same time.

All kinds of wonderful effects have been achieved. There is not a full house of guests who don't cran their necks, squint their eyes, smile slightly and admire silently, which makes them feel wonderful. After a while, the husband began to snore, and the voice of the woman patting the child gradually stopped. I vaguely heard the sound of mouse activity, the tilting of pots and pans, and the coughing of women in dreams.

The guests relaxed a little and gradually straightened up. Suddenly, a man shouted, "Fire!" The husband got up and shouted, and so did the woman. The two children began to cry together. After a while, hundreds of people were shouting, hundreds of children were crying and hundreds of dogs were barking.

There was the sound of houses collapsing in the middle, the sound of fire bursting, the whistling wind, and the sound of Qian Qian's thousands of voices ringing together; It is also mixed with the voices of hundreds of people asking for help, the shouts of firefighters knocking down burning houses, the sound of saving things, and the sound of splashing water.

There is no sound that should be heard in this situation. Even if a person has hundreds of hands and hundreds of fingers in each hand, he can't point out which one makes sound; Even if a person has hundreds of mouths and each mouth has hundreds of tongues, he can't tell one of them apart.

In this case, the guests were so scared that they left their seats, rolled up their sleeves to show their arms, and their thighs trembled that they almost wanted to run away first. Suddenly, when I woke up, all kinds of sounds disappeared. Open the curtains and look inside. There is only one person, a desk, a fan and a piece of wood.

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The development of ventriloquism:

Tang and Song Dynasties: During the Tang Dynasty, there was a social organization specialized in training ventriloquists, called "Learning Elephant Society". There is a description of "learning like a music club" in Dream in Tokyo and Old Stories of Wulin.

Song Dynasty: The ventriloquism art flourished, and The Dream of Tokyo reflected the social life of Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty most completely and comprehensively. It is recorded in the book that the art of ventriloquism in the Song Dynasty was quite exquisite. 1 13 1 year, next door ventriloquism began in the Song Dynasty, with an eight-foot barrier as invisibility, one table, one chair, one fan, one foot and one stroke.

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the famous ventriloquist "Thrushcross Yang" was good at learning the songs of thrush birds and could answer them in the bushes. His performance "Two Birds Fighting for Food" personified two thrush birds and made a story performance. Its superb skills have amazed the capital and spread to this day.

In the Qing Dynasty, ventriloquism developed from simply imitating a certain sound to being able to make up a story with various sounds at the same time, which was listed as one of the "hundred plays", namely "oral play", commonly known as "next-door play". Its performances such as "military hunting" and "pigs fighting for food" are vivid.

During the Republic of China: Hundred Birds Zhang, formerly known as1903-unknown, from Beijing. One of the "Eight Eccentrics" of Beijing Tianqiao is good at learning "A Hundred Birds Contend", so it is called "A Hundred Birds Zhang". In Qing Bu Lei Yong, a poem recorded his ventriloquism.

Baidu Encyclopedia-"Mouth Skills" (article by Lin Sihuan in Qing Dynasty)

Baidu encyclopedia-ventriloquism