Survey on the current situation of She music and analysis of causes

In the process of completing this article, the author has visited the natural township of the She ethnic group and some neighboring areas, in search of the singers of the original ecological mountain songs on the great trouble, although the words handed down in the minority, but in the current status of the transmission of tunes is no longer optimistic.

China is a large country with so many ethnic minorities and so many varied and rich original music cultures, but we are watching the decline of the original national music culture that has been nurtured by our countrymen in the land where they have survived for thousands of years. It is undeniable that it exists on the edge of people's spiritual life as a weak culture.

Taking the She song as an example, we may not have to worry about its demise in the short term, but it is indisputable that we have already seen the fact that most of the existing She youths are not interested in the song and are not willing to learn it. When the next generation loses the environment and possibility to learn the traditional songs, there will be a generation gap and obstacles in its transmission, and its demise will be nearer with each passing day.

The reasons for the decline of traditional culture are complex and numerous, and are summarized as follows:

(1) Economic development has led to convenient transportation, which has accelerated the integration of ethnic minorities and Han Chinese. Nowadays, Luoyuan territory of the She people for a long time with the Han integration, life in all aspects have been very heavy traces of Sinicization, only a very small number of neighboring areas because of the inconvenience of transportation, slow economic development, so far can still retain a more complete and pure traditional culture, but social change and historical development will not stop, the trend of integration of nationalities has led to the fuzzy assimilation of the characteristics of the culture has been obvious.

(2) The rich and varied modern acoustics make people's auditory nerves strongly stimulated and give people more choices, therefore, the masses in the areas that spawned the original music are generally more common among the ethnic minorities because of the lower level of culture, which can easily lead to the inferiority complex due to the backwardness of the economy and the idea of revering the outside world as well as curiosity about the new things will motivate some of them (especially the young people) to be fresh, The curiosity for new things will prompt some of them (especially young people) to be interested in fresh and fashionable music, which will lead to the loss of a large number of the original audience in the competition between local music and foreign music.

(3) There are some defects in the traditional original music itself, for example, the Luoyuan She Mountain Songs do not have a lot of ups and downs in the melody, and lack of auditory tension, or even monotonous, so it is difficult to satisfy the people's aesthetic needs.

(4) The decline of social activities (folk activities) on which traditional music is based has created obstacles to its transmission.

(5) Although the survival and development of original music has attracted attention in the academic world, it has not yet attracted enough attention in the whole society.