老调,又称老调梆子,是河北省较有影响的地方剧种。保定一带流行这样一句民谚:“做饭离不开灶,看戏看老调。”仅从这民谚就可知老调戏是多么受人民群众喜爱和欢迎了。传说在老调的发祥地安新、高阳一带,孩子刚降生时的啼哭都是老调的腔调味儿。还流传这样一个故事:一位农民边唱老调,边在地里的井台上摇辘轳汲水浇园。恰逢一行人问路,那农民没停止唱,用手指路,手一松开,下沉的水罐坠得辘轳把将那农民打倒在刚浇过水的地上。那农民竟顾 Old tune, also known as the old tune shuttlecock, Hebei Province is more influential local operas. Popular Baoding this popular saying: “cooking can not be separated from the stove, watching the old look at theater.” Only from this Minyan we can see how old tune by the people like and welcome. Legend in the birthplace of the old tune safe, high Yang area, the child just born crying are the old tune cavity flavored children. There is also a story circulating in which a farmer sang an old tune while shaking a wheel on a well table in the field. Just as a pedestrian asked for directions, the peasants stopped singing, fingering their hands and releasing their hands. The sinking pitcher crashed on the potter’s wheel and knocked down the peasants over the freshly poured water. That farmers actually care