About Tibetan National Songs

Tibetan rap music has Zhonghong, folding Ga, Mana Mani and so on several kinds, mostly sung by folk artists and monks.

Zhongxiao: meaning storytelling song, there are said to have sung, widely circulated, the content of the long folk tales or narrative poems, such as "King Gesar biography", "Tibetan Ridge - Nyi Mai Gongjue" and so on. The number of singing is very large, most of the characteristics of recitation, the structure is composed of the upper and lower phrases of the section and its changes repeat.

The folding ga: is the poor wandering artists begging, or traveling monks to perform a kind of rap music. Most of them use the cow horn huqin to accompany the music, pulling themselves to sing. Some artists only use wooden sticks as props, one side of the rap, one side of the show action. Some of the words told stories, some improvised words, mostly praise for the master of the auspicious words. The music is simple and plain, characterized by rap.

Mani Mani: is an ancient form of rap. Most of the singers are nuns or folk artists, they hang up the scroll depicting the story of the sutra, to the masses to sing the story of the painting.

Popular characteristic songs are: "Sky Road", "Tibetan Plateau", "Laundry Song", "beautiful girl Zhuo Ma La", "Tibetan young man", "hometown", "Potala", "Zhuo Ma", "Jiren Lasso", "Lhasa girl", "meet you is my destiny," "Plateau Red", "central gold Duo Duoduo", "grassland Gesang La", "South of the Colorful Clouds", "CangYangGaTso love song".

The Tibetan people have created a splendid national culture, with a rich cultural heritage in literature, music, dance, painting, sculpture and architectural art. As early as around the 12th and 13th centuries, there appeared monographs on Tibetan folk music, such as the Sakya Pandit Zhi-Gongge Kyanzan's <> and so on. The ancient graphic musical scores of the Tibetans, the centralized music scores, are preserved and used in the temples to this day. Tibetan traditional music is distinctive and varied, including folk music, religious music and court music. Folk music can be divided into five categories: folk songs, songs and dances, rap music, opera music and instrumental music. The folk music of the three major dialect areas of Weizang, Kang and Amdo has obvious differences in style, and the types of music are not the same. Religious music, including chanting music, religious ceremonies, music and dance Qiangm, monastery instrumental music; court music and dance Gaer only in Lhasa Potala Palace and Rikaze Zashlunbu Temple. Folk music plays a major role in traditional music. Central shift spectrum folk songs, including mountain songs (pastoral), labor songs, love songs, custom songs, chanting and so on.