Songs and Poems in Zhuang Folk Songs

That is, long narrative poems, such as Bubo, Buluotuo, Song Liao, Song of Magu Lake, Six Mountains and Seven Reaches, King Mo Yi, etc. Song Liao has a special form of expression. Brother Liao is not a narrative way to tell a complete story, but a pair of young men and women's feelings of joys and sorrows are expressed by lyric duets against the background of the merger of feudal lords and wars. A group of four sentences, asking and answering each other, are independent lyric poems and story poems with a beginning and an end.

When singing Zhuang folk songs, we must abide by the established etiquette norms and not sing indiscriminately. Especially political songs, etiquette songs and love songs, there are traditional rules for singing on any occasion. Love songs, for example, can be sung at wild songs, but not in front of parents at home. In folk songs, we can't sing anything about sacrifices, weddings and funerals. Even different guests are greeted with different welcome songs.

Due to the differences between northern dialect and southern dialect, Zhuang folk songs have different names: Huan, Xi, Jia, Bi and Lun. In the Zhuang area, each district or township has several tones, including a flat tone for narration, a happy tone for expressing cheerful emotions and so on. According to rough statistics, different tunes in different places add up to more than 1000. Although these folk songs are fixed, they can express different thoughts and feelings. The singing methods of folk songs include solo, duet, lead singer and chorus. No matter solo, harmony or polyphony, they are all colorful and have their own characteristics, among which Funing Guichao folk songs, Jingxi Mahe and Hanlong folk songs, Tian Yang Gumeishan folk songs, Mashan folk songs and Huanjiang folk songs are the most famous. The combination of folk melody and lyrics can produce strong appeal in the audience. In addition to one-part strong songs, there are two-part and three-part strong songs. Unique two-part and three-part folk songs, each part revolves around the main theme, sometimes parallel, sometimes cross, high and low contrast, ups and downs, good to listen to. There are about 100 different tunes in Zhuang multi-voice folk songs. Guangxi Zhuang multi-voice folk songs are distributed in more than 30 counties in six regions of Guangxi, especially in Baise, Liuzhou, Hechi and Nanning. The multi-voice folk songs of Zhuang nationality are ideological, deeply rooted in people's hearts, and their artistic forms are mature and perfect. It is a spiritual civilization created by the Zhuang people in their long-term life practice and a peak in the history of Zhuang folk music.

Zhuang people all like singing. It is said that the ancient Zhuang people used folk songs to talk with their ancestor Buluotuo. It is no exaggeration to say that there are folk songs in places where Zhuang people live in compact communities. In the fields, after the night shift, you can always hear melodious folk songs, and various festivals are indispensable. The original ecological folk songs of Zhuang nationality are different from place to place. For example, different counties in a district have different folk songs, such as Gaoliao songs, euphemistic Napo folk songs, Mashan three-part folk songs, Daxin high-pitched folk songs and so on. And most of them are duets. They not only sing at home at ordinary times, but also have regular folk songs, which are called "singing parties" or "singing parties". The date of the song festival is mainly on the third day of the third lunar month. However, it seems that it is customary to form a song fair on the Spring Festival, April 8, Mid-Autumn Festival, wedding, full moon and the completion of new houses, and occasionally even form a temporary song fair on the way to the market. There are two kinds of songs: daytime songs and evening songs. In the wild, Japanese song festivals mainly focus on young people's "song selection". The night songs in the village mainly sing production songs, seasonal songs, vegetable songs and historical songs that impart knowledge and skills in production and life.