Representative plays of Liu Zi, Hunan Province

The representative tracks of Liu Zi, Hunan Province are as follows:

There are many kinds of songs, rich in content, delicate in description and simple in style. According to the cultural department of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, there are more than 100 rails, and the structure of these rails generally consists of three parts: head, flap and tail.

Judging from the content described by Qupai and the life reflected, these 100 Qupai can be divided into three categories: a Qupai performed independently; Repeated variations of a qupai; A plurality of music cards are combined; After a brief introduction and leadership, a fully developed and various qupai (called "valve" by the people) is the second; On the basis of the "valve" structure, the gyration and circulation characteristics of Qupai combination have been further developed.

Different qupai, gongs and cymbals play differently. For example, horse workers have single gongs and flower gongs; Earth gongs can be divided into opening gongs, forcing gongs and boring gongs. The cymbals are divided into bright beating, dark beating, side beating, rubbing beating, squeezing cymbals and covering edges.

When playing, the four musical instruments are centered on the jockey, the head cymbals and the second cymbals are alternately struck, and the earth gongs are inserted in time and skillfully matched, so that the performances of "guide plate", "singing songs", "hen singing eggs", "sheep and birds calling for spring" and "tiger" are orderly. Since 1949, Da Liuzi has been introduced to the United States, Germany, Poland, Russia and other countries by art groups from all over the world, causing strong repercussions and great sensation.

Since the early 1970s, Wufeng writers and artists have done a lot of collecting and sorting work on Liu Zi of Tujia nationality in Wufeng. 1In June, 1986, China Conservatory of Music went to the United States to perform China ancient music, and the song "Golden Rooster Coming out of the Mountain" by Liu Zi of Yongshun Tujia nationality was the finale of each performance, which won endless applause and won honor for the Chinese nation.

During the period of 1998, the special column of "People's Spring and Autumn" of Hubei TV station interviewed and filmed the Tujia people in Wufeng, and it was broadcast on Hubei Satellite TV channel on June 18 and 25 of the same year for publicity and reporting.