Practitioners and Pioneers of Barmore Hakan Folk Heritage Culture

Preface to Liangshan Feelings: Barmore Ha's Personal Works

In the Yi area, the name Barmore Ha has always been associated with the Tate Dance of the Yi people. He advocated, planned and participated in the creation, standardization, popularization and popularization of "Dati Dance". The Yi Shi Qi (Youth Dance) composed by him not only inherited and carried forward the ancient cultural traditions of the Yi people, but also had a far-reaching impact on the innovative development of Yi folk dance and music art.

Comrade Barmore and I went to the Southwest Youth League School at 1950, and later worked together in youth work. From acquaintance to acquaintance, we are old comrades-in-arms for decades. In recent decades, Comrade Barmore Ha has a special liking for yi dance in his busy administrative work, and has always insisted on collecting Yi folk songs and traditional music materials in his spare time, and has created many lyrics and songs on the basis of absorbing folk music elements. For many years, he also served as the president of Liangshan Yi Society, while writing and devoting himself to the study of Yi culture. He is the author of On the Discipline Construction of Yi Studies in China, Shan Ying Group and the Development Trend of Yi's Original Ecological Music, Fifty Years of Vicissitudes and Great Changes, Welcome to the Millennium Yi Studies Prosperity, and the Yi Family with Daughters in Harvard, etc. Barmore Ha has long been committed to the protection and dissemination of Yi culture, the inheritance and innovation of Yi traditions, especially in national music. With the support of him and Ba Maw's sister Yi group, Shan Ying group and Hei Hu group (the predecessor of "Made by Yi people") successively went out of Daliangshan, which promoted the development of original music of Yi people. Therefore, as a collector and advocate of Yi folk music, Barmore Ha is also a pioneer and practitioner of Yi modern "new folk music". As a Yi people, I try my best to integrate my traditional cultural thinking of folk songs and poems and my profound experience of national culture into the practice of music creation, so that the tunes can be rooted in the fertile soil of Liangshan and the songs can be permeated with the characteristics of the times. Contemporary Yi musician should be a poet with a sense of historical mission: watch over the people, inherit the culture, and build a higher musical ideal with the spirit of Yi songs and poems. Under the contemporary social and cultural situation, the original ecological music of Yi people should focus on expressing the uniqueness of Yi culture in China, embodying the vitality of ancestors' traditions, enriching the expression of human nature and inheriting the humanistic spirit of folk art. ...

Comrade Barmore Ha's knowledge and understanding of folk songs and music is profound, and his experience in collecting, sorting out and composing is also rich. Therefore, innocence, simplicity and beauty can be reflected in his album Love in Liangshan, such as Beautiful Liangshan, Meet Liangshan, Welcome to the charming Lugu Lake, and Fifty-six children sing a song together. These works are the highlights of his music creation for many years. Music is not only a language, but also a "sound". We hope that more musicians, ethnomusicologists and listeners will care about the development of original music of ethnic minorities in China, and pay attention to the "sound" and its profound cultural expression from the specific music time and space in Liangshan.

As the son of the Yi nationality who is over 70 years old, Comrade Barmore Ha selected 12 songs from his previous works to express his love for the motherland, the nation, his hometown and his compatriots, and compiled them into an album "Liangshan Love" for publication. I feel happy and blessed for this, and write down these feelings as a preface.

July 6(th), 2005