Is Nanyin a Minnan dialect?

Nanyin is a traditional music in Fujian Province, which is popular in southern Fujian, Taiwan Province Province and Southeast Asia, and is known as the "mother of Nanguan". Nanyin is an ancient musical form sung in Minnan dialect, with rich and colorful content, lively and diverse forms, beautiful melody and strong local color.

During the Han, Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties, immigrants from the Central Plains brought music culture into southern Fujian with Quanzhou as the center, and merged with local folk music, forming a cultural expression with the charm of ancient music in the Central Plains.

Nanyin originated in the Tang Dynasty and was formed in the Song Dynasty. Nanyin's singing method retains the traditional and ancient national singing method before the Tang Dynasty, and the second creation of singers and performers is very casual, while Nanguan's performance also maintains the characteristics of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Its music is mainly composed of three categories: finger, score and song, which is a rich and complete category of ancient Chinese music system.

The singing form of Nanyin

Quanzhou Nanyin plays and sings in the form of right pipa, three strings, left hole flute and two strings, with clappers in the middle, which conforms to the expression of harmony songs of "silk and bamboo are more harmonious and festival performers sing" in Han Dynasty. Its Miyachi notation is a system of its own, which is the remains of ancient music notation. Curved neck pipa, ten-eye nine-section flute, two-stringed and three-stringed bangzi, etc. Hengqin is also inherited from ancient musical instruments.

There are more than 2,000 instrumental music and harmony music in Nanyin, including commercial music, Tang Daqu, French music, Yan music and Buddha music, as well as ci music and opera music since the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Nanyin is sung in the standard Quanzhou dialect archaism, and its pronunciation retains the phonology of ancient Chinese in the Central Plains. Pay attention to articulation when singing, and echo the sound. Nanqu is beautiful in tune, slow in rhythm, simple and elegant, euphemistic and affectionate. ?

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanyin