Artistic characteristics of Ziyang folk songs

Ziyang folk songs are divided into folk songs, minor songs, folk songs, flower drums, filial piety songs and new folk songs. His music style is mostly lyrical, narrative and dancing, which is suitable for performing actions, showing plots and reflecting the complex feelings of characters. Labor chant is the foundation of Ziyang folk songs, and boatman chant is the core of labor chant, which occupies an important position in Ziyang folk songs. Its style is rough and heroic, its tone rhythm is complex and changeable, and its life atmosphere is strong. Folk songs refer to all kinds of Shan Ye songs other than labor songs, which can best represent the characteristics of mountainous areas. The lyrics of many folk songs are improvised in labor, and they sing along with music, mostly to express love; Minor, like folk songs, has a large volume, a wide range and relatively fixed lyrics. Its style is characterized by exquisite and smooth melody, beautiful melody, smooth and fine rhythm, narrow range, strong narrative and personal feelings; Folk songs are popular folk oral literary forms and improvised songs. They are songs that reflect the life customs of Ziyang people, and they are sung by Ziyang people at weddings, funerals and other ceremonies. The new folk songs are the product of the new era and new life, and they are newly created Ziyang folk songs with distinctive characteristics of the times and strong political atmosphere.

When young people in Ziyang County, Qinba Mountain area in southern Shaanxi fall in love, they should sing passionate love songs and songs. For the funeral of the elderly, we should sing a sad song of mourning; When working in the field, you should sing loud and inspiring trumpets, gongs and drums; When picking tea, there should be graceful Huashan girls and shepherds of love songs; When you get married, you should sing a wedding song and a wedding song. The road reported to Brother Lu, and the mountain reported the woodcutter's song.

When Ziyang people welcomed their relatives, the groom, bride, guests attending the wedding and the people who sent them off all sang folk songs and shouted songs along the way. Villages along the roadside also have the custom of preventing brides from singing. If they meet fans, the wedding team will stop to sing with the bride. The song that Ziyang farmers sang when they worked for the gang was called gongs and drums. The singing method of gongs and drums is that one person knocks and sings by himself, and everyone works to help. If someone doesn't dig the grass roots into the soil while working, the leader will sing: Hey-the grass is broken and the grass is broken, and it lives again after a rain. Sweating in the hot sun, the bamboo basket draws water with a sieve! If everyone works fast and someone lags behind, he will sing and urge or say a few well-meaning sarcastic words: Hey-geese don't fly away from each other, so work harder. Don't learn from the lazy toad in the corner, stop at one step and hurry!

Ziyang people are mostly descendants of immigrants from Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Fujian, Guangdong and other places in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, so Ziyang folk songs have obvious southern imprint, and quite a few of them are directly from the south. Such as Sang Mu's pole, ten embroideries, inverted tea picking and so on.

There is a folk saying in Ziyang County that folk songs are not false or true, such as reporting Lu Ge. What I reported to Brother Lu was a rhyming jingle, singing freely and singing together. It is something that is said when something happens, either for fun or for encouragement.

Ziyang's singing competition is more interesting. Some are in the same village, and some are between neighboring villages. There are two kinds of songs: day and night. Singers only agree on the time, place and number of participants in advance, regardless of gender, age and age. In addition to singers and singers, there are people watching and cheering for the array.

Most of the day will be on the hillside, and the two sides will stand on a hill and sing face to face. Or sing on both sides of a small river across the water. Most of the songs are panqu, and there are questions about history, ancients, geography and myths, as well as about birds, animals and flowers. Some ask questions about current affairs, while others sing happy life. Night songs are often held in winter and spring. In ancient temples or spacious hotels. On both sides of the song, a pile of charcoal fire was burned, and men, women and children sat around the fire. You sing the questions and I'll sing the answers. You sing a hero, I sing a hero; You sing famous mountains, I sing great rivers; You sing Liu Hai Xi Jin Chan, and I sing Dong Bin Xi Peony. Singing is like a stream, one after another, singing wisdom, warm atmosphere, often all night, singing nonstop.

The collection of Ziyang folk songs is extremely rich. The total number of songs found has reached 5028, and 828 songs have been printed into a book. Genre includes ballads, folk songs and minor, including social fire songs, folk songs, religious songs and minor. The representative tracks of Ziyang folk songs are Lang Dui Men Singing Folk Songs, Singing Folk Songs, Washing Clothes and Nanshan Bamboo. Ziyang County is named as the hometown of folk songs by the Ministry of Culture because of its profound accumulation and extensive singing.