An article introducing the local culture of Zhongshan

(This may be said to be more famous, Baidu Encyclopedia)

Zhongshan Saltwater SongsSaltwater songs are a form of folk song expression, mainly circulated in Guangdong Zhongshan, Panyu, Zhuhai, Nanhai and other coastal and river network area of farmers and fishermen, and Zhongshan Tanzhou is the Pearl River Delta region saltwater songs representative of the area. Saltwater song is a kind of fishing song sung by fishermen in the Guangzhou dialect, also known as "Saltwater Sigh", "Sigh Brother and Brother", "Sigh Aunt and Sister", and "Vernacular Fishing Song". Tracing back to as early as the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, salt water songs have been popular in the Pearl River Delta region. In the Pearl River Delta region, in order to spice up their lives and increase friendship between villages, people gradually formed a custom of singing songs in return. Mostly before or after the harvest, they would set up a singing platform to compete; during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they would also swing their boats to the center of the river, forming a "Mid-Autumn Saltwater Song Ring". Edit this section of the artistic characteristics of the salty water song in Zhongshan Tanzhou has the longest history, widely circulated, rich repertoire, and still retains the traditional singing style, such as the use of Cantonese Zhongshan subdialect singing, the use of "ah lang", "ah", the liner used in the "sister good ah lang," "good ah lang," the singing of the improvisation of a very strong, with the word to seek the cavity. The content of traditional salty water songs is mainly love songs, and its representative songs include "Pair of Flowers" and "Pearls at the Bottom of the Sea are Easy", etc. The distribution of "Salty Water Songs" is very high. Saltwater song" distribution center in guangdong zhongshan county, because of the different song cavity is divided into "zhongshan saltwater song", "dazheng song" (popular in zhongshan dazheng saltwater song), "goumei song" (plus the liner notes "gou mile sister" saltwater song), "gaotang song" (popular in the gaotang region of saltwater song) and so on. The lyrics are in the form of upper and lower stanzas, with a free number of words in each stanza. The same stanza (upper and lower stanzas) has the same rhyme scheme, and the stanzas can be changed to another rhyme scheme. Pair of Flowers" is a common repertoire of Zhongshan "Saltwater Songs", which has some ****same questioning style as the "Pair of Flowers" folk songs in the northern region, and the local characteristics are the title and melody of the singers, such as "Sister good ah lang" and "Brother good ah lang" appearing four times, together with "Good Sister ah lang", "Good Brother good ah lang" and "Good Sister good ah lang", and "Good Sister good ah lang". and "Good sister" and "Good brother" appear four times. and "Good brother, good sister, good brother, good brother, good brother" appear four times, which greatly increases its special local color. The structure of Xianshui Song: Xianshui Song has two forms of long phrases and short phrases, each with a different pitch and pulling accent, while the singing form has solo and duet; it is generally composed of the upper and lower phrases, that is, a single phrase, which is mostly used in solo or question-and-answer type of duet; there is a compound phrase composed of four phrases; sometimes, because of the song head, the liner notes, or the need for the narration, it will be the music expanded or prolonged, thus constituting an unconventional structure, which is not always the same. Sometimes, because of the song's title or the need for narrative, the section will be expanded or lengthened, thus constituting an unconventional free form, such as the "Long Sentence Saltwater Song", or the narrative form of a long poem, but its structure basically remains in the four lines of one section of the compound musical section. The melody of the salty water song is analyzed in this section: it takes the first and second phrases as the basic form for melodic development, except for the beginning of the song, the pause in the middle and the end of the song, which are basically fixed, the melody in the middle of the song is expressed around the main tone in two degrees of gradation, upward or downward, and adding or subtracting flowers; most of the melodic compositions in the middle of the phrases are "due to the words and the cadences", which are subordinated to the level of the language tones, and the treatment is more flexible and maneuverable. Therefore, for the same "Xianshui Song", the melody of the first phrase and the melody of the second phrase will be different, only that the beginning, the end or the trailing of the phrase will remain unchanged, which forms the characteristics of the "Xianshui Song". In terms of the state of life, the rhythms of the songs are inseparable from the daily lives of the people living on the water. This is like a product of art, which always has a "mysterious" connection with its creator. This connection may be a kind of "*** sound", rhythmic *** sound. The life of the water dwellers, is swinging, because to rowing, because the water will hit the boat and make the boat began to rock; so, saltwater songs are also in the swing or rowing on the basic rhythm of the composition, is mainly in the regular rhythm, to the eighth note, sixteenth notes alternately, and because of the language and feelings of the needs of the dotted notes and syncopated, so that the irregular rhythm in the contrast to the changes that give a person a beautiful, smooth feeling. It gives people a beautiful and smooth feeling. Listening to the salty water song, it is like seeing the magnificent scene of thousands of sails competing on the water. Edit This Section Inheritance Significance Tanzhou is the birthplace of Zhongshan folk songs. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Zhongshan Saltwater Song had its heyday. During the Cultural Revolution, the salty water song was banned, ten years of fault on the salty water song Tanzhou impact is very big, this year seventy years old old people may still clearly have memories, and 50-year-old people can only be a little bit of singing. With the passage of time, a generation of famous singers, such as from the fifties on the country, the province is famous, has been the backbone of the salty water song of the king of the song He Fuyou, Liang Rongsheng, Chen Shi, etc. died one after the other, and now Tanzhou survives to have a systematic singing of salty water song is not more than 10 people, and most of them are already very old. Coupled with the influx of foreign cultures and changes in the cultural consciousness and value orientation of the younger generation, the ecological environment of the salty water song has undergone great changes. According to a survey conducted by the relevant parties, most of the local people no longer know what the salty water song is, and the endangered status of the salty water song can be imagined. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, May 20, 2006, Zhongshan salty water song by the State Council approved the inclusion of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.