Video Play of Traditional Suona in Hubei Rural Areas

Suona, as long as they are rural children, they will not be strangers. There used to be weddings, funerals and weddings, and everyone had to blow suona. As the king of all kinds of musical instruments, suona is a traditional wind instrument in China and a very common instrument in daily life. Suona has the following characteristics: First, it has a loud voice and strong penetration. Once the suona is played, the volume is loud enough to drown out other instruments being played. Even if it is far away, the sound of suona can still be clearly heard. Second, the timbre is outstanding and distinctive. When the suona sound comes out, you can know what it is without thinking. It is easy to distinguish and has strong penetration. The perfection of suona is also the result of years of development and innovation, which can make more people understand the charm of traditional musical instruments, encourage more people to understand and learn traditional musical instruments, and promote the excellent traditional culture of China.

Suona consists of five parts: whistle, gas tag, invasion, pole and bowl. Suona is generally divided into pitch category and length category. The pitch category is suona, which can be divided into three types according to the pitch of drums: treble, alto and bass. The long and short categories are divided into small suona, medium suona and large suona. According to regional classification, it can be divided into Hakka suona, Zhoujiaban suona, Bolin trumpet, Zichang suona, Minxi suona and Qinyang suona. So the suona culture is still very deep.

Suona is always the most unique, loudest and charming existence in musical instruments. It is also a science to play the suona well. The first thing is to be strict, which requires us to press the sound hole completely with our fingers, so that the sound is more accurate. Second, the lung capacity should be large. It takes a lot of energy and time to play suona, which requires us to strengthen the exercise of vital capacity in order to make the whole song complete at one go.

There is still a long way to go before suona becomes a popular musical instrument. On the one hand, we should increase publicity. Although suona is a folk musical instrument, we should dig deep into its culture and publicize it through news media and short videos. The second is to do a good job in talent training. No matter how good an instrument is, someone needs to play it. This requires schools to increase the training of relevant personnel and cultivate more talents who like suona instruments.