Which traditional singing art is non-heritage

Mongolian long-tone folk songs and huomai are the world's intangible cultural heritage.

Mongolian folk song is a form of folk song created by Mongolian herdsmen during their long period of nomadic labor, which has a unique rhythm and style; huomai is an ancient and mysterious "throat art" of the Mongolian people, which relies on changes in the oral cavity and the tongue, so that a person can sing the melody of more than two voices at the same time, and is inscribed on the list of World Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009. In 2009, it was inscribed on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

Humai is a magical art of singing created by the indigenous peoples of the Altai Mountains, in which a singer sings two or more parts of a voice at the same time, purely using his or her own vocal organs. The basic structure of the relationship between the vocal parts of the hula is a combination of a sustained bass and a melody flowing above it. It can be divided into "overtone huomei", "vibrato huomei", "composite huomei" and so on, and it is unique among the folk songs of all ethnic groups in China.

Artistic Characteristics

Humai is a singing art originating from the Altai Mountains in western Mongolia, in which a singer sings two parts of a song at the same time purely by using his or her own vocal organs. While producing a sustained basic bass sound, the singer sings a harmonized melody. Hula singing is produced under special regional conditions and production and lifestyle, and its vocal methods and sound characteristics are relatively rare, unlike the world-famous singing of the Mongolian long tones.

Vocal experts describe this singing method as "as high as the top of the dome of the sky, as low as the bottom of the sea, as wide as the edge of the earth". Huemei vocal principle is special, sometimes the vocal folds vibrate, sometimes do not vibrate, is the amount of gas in the cavity to produce **** song. It uses special sound techniques, a person at the same time singing two parts, forming a rare polyphonic form. The singer uses the closed-air technique, so that the breath violently impacts the vocal folds, emitting a thick bubbly sound, forming a bass voice part.