Traditional Chinese Opera Music in Dai Music

Dai drama is developed on the basis of Dai folk songs and song and dance music, and draws lessons from the expression means of Han drama art, and spreads to Dehong, Baoshan, Lincang and other Dai inhabited areas. Dai opera includes a variety of male and female vocals, with male voices mostly in feather mode and female voices mostly in sign mode. Since the 1950s, Dai drama has absorbed a variety of Dai folk songs and dance music, enriching the singing content and enhancing the expressive force of music. The aria of Dai opera is basically a section composed of upper and lower sentences, and its changes are repeated. Because the number of lyrics is more or less, the length of aria phrases is also different. In the past, Dai opera was only accompanied by drums, gongs and cymbals, and then gradually adopted a variety of national musical instruments and western stringed instruments to form a new Dai opera band. The national musical instruments of the Dai people belong to playing instruments, such as cymbals, cucurbits, clarinets and konoha. Plucked musical instruments include piano, oral string, etc. Bowstring instruments include western reeds and horn reeds. Percussion instruments include elephant foot drum, light dragon, light edge, light state, gong, cymbal and so on. The ensemble of elephant foot drum, gong and cymbal is the main form of Dai instrumental ensemble.

Since 1950s, China artists have collected, sorted out and studied the national music heritage. Zanha Association was established in Xishuangbanna to organize folk singers' singing and creative activities. Musicians of all ethnic groups have created and adapted various genres of music works, including Dai drama A Bing and Sangluo, dance drama movie music Princess Peacock, dance music peacock dance, Little Busuo, Chasing Fish, On the Road of Sending Grain, songs There is a Beautiful Place, Xishuangbanna, My Hometown and so on.

Representative musical instruments: cucurbit silk, Bawu, etc.