Culture and Art of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture

The ancient music in the Bai music cave was originally Taoist music. In the Ming dynasty, it was introduced from the mainland to the southwest. Subsequently, in the long historical evolution, this kind of Taoist music was gradually accepted by southwest ethnic minorities, and gradually integrated into national music and musical instruments, and finally formed the ancient music of Dongjing with national characteristics.

Weishan Dongjing Music and Dali Dongjing Music are two branches of Dongjing Music. Weishan Dongjing music is integrated with the classicality and solemnity of Nanzhao music; Dali Dongjing music combines the beauty and beauty of Bai folk music. Although there are occasional differences in timbre, there are flute, gong, drum, erhu, sanxian, winding and bell as accompaniment in musical instruments. Bai nationality tune

Bai nationality tune is a tune that Bai people sing casually when they sing and dance. Singing in white dialect has a strong flavor of life.

Reciting tone

Chanting is a tune played by Bai people when they worship God and recite scriptures. The main musical instruments are wooden fish and so on. The melody is solemn and harmonious, and it looks simple and deep. However, unlike Dong Jing's classical music, there are still some differences in timbre and tune.

Benziqu

This song is actually a kind of white tone, which is divided into solo and duet. In solo, except for the first paragraph, the second paragraph is often infinitely repeated, only slightly adjusted in rhythm and emotion; In the duet, each person has eight sentences, which are repeated.

Blowing cavity

Playing the popular name "Bench Play" is one of the ancient Bai operas. The boundary of the opera is Dali, and the south of Dali is called Nanpai, and the north is called Beipai. The styles of the two factions have their own characteristics. Blowing cavity pays attention to rhythm, with diverse styles, vivid performances and strong local colors.

Dabenqu

Big Ben, also known as this song, is a unique folk rap art of Bai nationality. This book is often sung by one person and accompanied by three strings. Most of the lyrics are Bai folk stories and Han literature works, such as the story, Big Brother of Blue Season Club, Liang Zhu and so on. In the process of development, this sub-tune gradually formed the southern cavity, the northern cavity and the Haidong cavity. The southern cavity is euphemistic and gentle, the northern cavity is straight and smooth, and the thirteen cavities are high and thick. tie-dye

Tie-dyeing is a traditional craft of Bai nationality with a long history. Apply wax to the homespun with a wax knife, then tie different parts of the homespun with cotton cloth and dip it with dye. After drying, take off the bundled cotton cloth, and puncture marks with different patterns will appear on the homespun. Because different binding parts of cotton cloth will cause different patterns, the techniques of tie-dyeing are diverse and changeable. Tie-dyed homespun products are very rich, such as tablecloths, door curtains, clothes, ethnic bags, hats and so on.

Jianchuan woodcarving

Jianchuan woodcarving has fine workmanship, diverse shapes, vivid and beautiful images and hard and flexible texture, which can be described as the essence of various woodcarvings in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Surrounding the Three Spirits is from April 23rd to April 25th in the annual summer calendar. The festival around the Three Spirits will last for three days. On the 23rd festival, people gathered in Shengyuan Temple at the foot of Wutai Mountain in Cangshan to pray for a song. On the 24th, people crossed Xizhou Town and headed for Naner Village by the sea. They sang and celebrated in the main temple that night. On the 25th, the crowd walked along Erhai Lake to Ma Jiuyi main temple in the east of Chongsheng Temple in Dali, where they prayed and celebrated, and then went home.

March street, also known as Guanyin city, is from March 15 to 21 of the lunar calendar every year. March Street is the biggest traditional festival of Bai people, which is not only a grand meeting of material exchange, but also the center of various cultural and sports performances such as horse racing, Yunnan opera and lanterns.

Shi Baoshan's duet is held every year from July 26th to the first day of August. Laobai people think that they can get good luck and happiness by stretching their voices on the Shi Baoshan that day. Therefore, on the day of the festival, the surrounding Bai people will gather in Shi Baoshan, Jianchuan and Dali from all directions to sing appropriate songs and go sightseeing.

Playing sea games, also known as corpse festival. Shangguan and Xizhou begin on July 23rd of the lunar calendar, while Dali and Shimonoseki begin on the eighth day of August of the lunar calendar. Bai people dressed in costumes gathered on the shore of Erhai Lake, swimming around Erhai Lake in floats, singing folk songs and tuning. There will also be grand dragon boat races in Dali and Shimonoseki.