Bazhai folk songs

The Ba Zi music Song of Ba Zi A Yan contained in HIVE BOX Records was accepted by Wu Rong, a music scholar, at the order of Si Zhuang. The Bazi people mainly live in Puli Basin in central Taiwan Province Province. At present, the settlements that can still preserve some languages and music are distributed in Li Ailan and Tieshanli on the platform of Wuniulan in Puli, as well as Niumian Mountain, Shoucheng Tomb, Daxie and centipede Lun. Due to the sinicization, the cultural tradition of the Bazi nationality has almost disappeared, and its musical style can only be understood through the remaining "leading field" festival.

The sacrificial song "Ayan" sung during the leading period is the medium for the communication between the Bazi people and the gods. Its sad melody, accompanied by the footsteps of priests leading the people to cross their hands, is particularly touching at night. At present, the folk songs collected by ethnic musicians in Bazhai, Sizhuang and other places in Puli can be roughly divided into four types:

(1) A Yan, a traditional festival song, has a fixed tune and is catchy for everyone. The only difference lies in the style and theme interpreted by the singer.

(2) market songs sing church hymns, including "God created heaven and earth" and "before the glory of my savior".

(3) The traditional nursery rhyme "Cradle Song" is a ballad sung by all Ba Zi languages and tunes except A Yan.

(4) Minnan folk songs include longbow songs, bad karma songs, homesickness songs, mutual praise songs, Four Seasons Spring and so on. These ballads are characterized by seven words and one sentence, four paragraphs, and rhyme at the end of the sentence, which is similar to the form of seven-word quatrains.