Do you know all the characteristics of Wa music in Hainan?

Wa people mainly live in Ximeng, Cangyuan, Menglian, Gengma, Shuangjiang, Zhenkang and Yongde counties in Yunnan Province, and some of them are scattered in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and Dehong Autonomous Prefecture. Wa people have their own language, which belongs to the Wa language branch of South Asian language family and is divided into three dialects. In the past, the Wa people had no writing. 1957, they created a script scheme in the form of Latin letters.

Wa folk songs are mostly feather tones and sign tones, and the melodies are usually La, Duo and Hot, or so, Duo and Hot, which are the backbone tones, with a low range and a narrow range. Termination is characterized by homophones. The rhythm is dominated by regular two beats.

Among Wa folk songs, labor songs, custom songs and love songs are very rich, and multi-voice folk songs have "playing tune".

The structure is mostly a single paragraph corresponding to the upper and lower sentences or a complex paragraph composed of two pairs of upper and lower sentences, and it is slightly changed and repeated; Others add a swing cavity at the beginning of the song or a lining cavity at the end of the song.

The main form of singing is solo or chorus, in which the improvisation of the lead singer is light and strong, and the harmony of the lead singer is fixed. All festivals and entertainments are accompanied by simple dance movements and percussion. Lyrics like to use metaphors and prefer to add direct narration.

1964, at a gathering of soldiers and civilians in Wa Mountain, the lively and cheerful scene inspired Yang Zhengren, a soldier in Wa Mountain in Ximeng, to create "Wa people sing new songs". Over the past 40 years, "Wa people sing new songs" has been sung all over the country.

Wa music is primitive, simple, beautiful and healthy, and it is unique with its simple tone and rough style.

Songs are folk songs, including labor songs, love songs, religious songs, funeral songs, celebration songs, children's songs and so on. The musical instruments used are mouthpiece, piccolo, cucurbit silk, single-stringed piano, wooden drum, elephant foot drum, bronze chime, hairpin and so on.