Yi wine song culture, do you know it?

The wine song is one of the customary songs of Chinese folk songs, which has been circulated among various ethnic groups in the country. Wine songs not only reflect the bold character of the ethnic groups, but also convey their hospitable folk style, and also express their pursuit and yearning for a better life. The following is an explanation of the culture of wine songs in Yi culture.

Wine songs are songs sung through wine, with wine as the medium and songs as the form, aiming at promoting the national culture and enhancing the national self-confidence and pride, with high cultural and folklore values.

Our state is one of the birthplaces of mankind, and one of the only two Yi Autonomous Prefectures in the country. In the long historical evolution, the intelligent and diligent Yi people have created distinctive, colorful national culture and art, while creating a unique brewing technology and wine culture related to it.

"Han people are precious to tea, Yi people are precious to wine", Yi people are hospitable and passionate about wine, Yi people's wine culture has a long history. Splendid as the stars of the Yi wine song not only shows the Yi people's bold character, conveying their hospitality, but also on behalf of their diligent pursuit of a better life. Therefore, the Yi people have a saying: "only the old ox that can't dance, only the wood that can't sing".

In recent years, with the general improvement of people's living standards, the region's original inherent cultural forms have not been able to meet the growing aesthetic needs of the public, so some of the Yi singers began to be active in the urban and rural arenas, show off their skills, and the Yi drinking songs from the mountain villages and cottages of the farmers sang in the city of the guests and feasts. More than that, due to a number of deep, highly skilled Yi singers from the provincial and state-level wine song contests to win gold and silver return, their personal wine song album quickly followed, so that the singing of wine songs of the rich atmosphere gradually be formed.

When the sun meets the moon, drink with the stars.

When the sun meets the moon, drink to the stars.

When the clouds melt with the rain, drink to the rainbow.

When man and woman lovers meet, drink to heaven and earth.

When guests come to the Yi family, they drink three glasses of wine to them.

The name of this song is directly called "Wine Song", originating from the Wuding Yi Mountains, and its tune is warm and high-spirited, rough and bold, passionate and sonorous. It has a strong flavor of life and significant regional cultural characteristics, and is one of the most widely circulated of the welcome tunes.