Huangling Folk Songs

Shaanxi
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Huangling folk songs are a form of musical expression that is spread in urban and rural areas of Huangling County, Shaanxi Province and surrounding areas. Its generation, development and evolution are interrelated and interdependent with poetry and dance. Huangling folk songs have infinite artistic charm and are a precious intangible cultural heritage of Shaanxi Province. Huangling County is located in central Shaanxi and is named after the mausoleum of Emperor Huangdi, the ancestor of the Chinese nation. The Huangling folk songs that are spread here have a long history. According to the "Lüshi Chunqiu Ancient Music", "Huangdi ordered Linglun to determine the musical scale." This shows that there were relatively primitive musical concepts in the era of Huangdi. The famous "Xianchi", "Yunmen" and "Mugang Drum Song Ten Chapters" at that time were the original musical works in my country. Huangling is the birthplace of Chinese civilization. The smart, wise, hardworking and simple Huangling people have continuously enriched and enriched their own musical style on the basis of inheriting classical music. This is the original and original Huangling folk song. Huangling folk songs, like Huangling old yangge and other Huangling folk cultures, have strong vitality and appeal, and realistically reflect the development and evolution of Huangling history from different aspects. Huangling folk songs originated in the middle of primitive society, developed in the Han Dynasty, matured in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, flourished from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China, and were in a period of rebirth and transition from 1948 to the early period of the "Cultural Revolution". The "Cultural Revolution" was a period of decline, the 1980s was a period of development for Huangling folk songs, and the 1990s was a period of revitalization. Especially in the new century, with the development of folk culture protection work, Huangling folk songs have been rejuvenated through a series of excavations, collections, and sorting. Huangling folk songs not only have a long history, but also a wide variety of types, pure melodies, and rich content, showing a deep and strong regional characteristics and profound cultural connotations. The melody of Huangling folk songs is different from the rough and bold folk songs in northern Shaanxi, and different from the slow and lingering folk songs in southern Shaanxi. Because folk songs are a kind of happy language voice that people use to express their emotions, express their aspirations, place their hopes, and vent their enthusiasm in their long-term production and life, the local language, living environment, customs and traditional concepts of Huangling make Huangling folk songs high-pitched and open, smooth and undulating, euphemistic and peaceful, lively and cheerful, and full of dance characteristics. In the continuous inheritance and development, some fixed tune and melody patterns have been formed. There are mainly: embroidered purse tune series, ten lantern tune series, ten pairs of flowers tune series, four-six tune series, running dry boat tune series, climbing tower tune series, picking beans tune series, raising oats tune series, other tune series and new folk song series. The lyrics of Huangling folk songs are mainly about praising historical figures, historical stories or love between men and women, persuading the world, 1, or improvising by seeing the scene. Playing and amusing can all be included in the lyrics, and there are also lyrics that express enthusiasm because of joy, sadness, and sorrow. During the singing process, according to different tunes, the corresponding lyrics are accompanied. The basic content of the lyrics is fluent and catchy, and the vocabulary rhymes like poetry, mostly four or six sentences. The singing content of Huangling folk songs reflects the voice of the people of Huangling, records the joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness of the people of Huangling, tastes the ups and downs of people, and decorates people's customs and customs. It involves a wide range of topics and extremely rich content. According to the singing skills, it can be divided into lyrical, narrative, and questioning styles. According to the singing content, there are love songs, reasoning songs, persuasive songs, praise songs, humorous songs, revolutionary songs, medicinal songs, seasonal songs, farmers' proverbs, crying songs, and mourning songs. Love songs are folk songs that reflect the love of young men and women. The content includes praises for pure love and exposure of the feudal marriage system. It is mainly a love song for love, lovesickness, and the singing method is lyrical. The reasoning songs are often used to explain something1. They are sung in a question-and-answer style, mainly in duets, and the singing method is question-based. The persuasive songs are mainly folk songs that educate people to be good and abandon evil, and to accumulate virtue and do good deeds. The mourning songs, also known as filial songs, are mainly to express one's grief for deceased relatives. The singing form of Huangling folk songs is quite free. It is mainly performed while performing the old yangko. According to different performance occasions and situations, they improvise and sing impromptu. There are mainly solo, duet, round, continuous singing and chorus singing forms. Solo singing means that one person sings alone, such as "Ten Lanterns", and other dancers perform corresponding movements. This is the song and dance in the stage performance in the current sense; duet singing is a question-and-answer style, such as "Ten Pairs of Flowers"; chorus singing and dancing, emphasizing collective participation, such as performing "Shen Shen Xiang". Since its formation, Huangling folk songs have gone through development and evolution, forming the following basic characteristics: (i) Huangling folk songs are an important part of Huangling old yangge, and the two complement each other, so Huangling folk songs have interdependent characteristics. (ii) Huangling folk songs are a form of cultural entertainment that the people of Huangling create and sing in their production and life, so they have a wide range of mass characteristics. (iii) Huangling folk songs have a wide range of themes and rich content, especially the lyrics have a certain degree of artistry and thought, which plays a social role in educating people through entertainment, enlightening people's wisdom, and promoting social progress and development, so they have social characteristics. (iv) Huangling folk songs are the embodiment and expression of the true feelings of the people of Huangling. Through everyone singing and communicating together, they can get physical and mental entertainment, so they have the characteristics of self-entertainment. (v) Huangling folk songs have beautiful melodies, gentle and melodious, and pleasant to the ears, with beautiful characteristics. (vi) In the continuous development process, Huangling folk songs have formed their own unique melody format, which has stylized characteristics. (VII) Huangling folk songs are sung freely and generously, highlighting improvisation and improvisation. The lyrics are derived from the local language commonly used in life and are easy to understand, so they have the characteristics of mass popularity. (VIII) The lyrics of Huangling folk songs are easy to understand, concise, and full of emotion. Most of them are four sentences in a paragraph, and each sentence has the same number of words. There are flat rhymes like couplets and flat rhymes like poems. They are catchy even without a tune, so they have literary characteristics. (IX) Huangling folk songs are traditional local art nurtured by the soil of Huangling. They are unique in terms of performance occasions, singing styles, and song melodies and charms, so they have unique characteristics. (X) Since their emergence, Huangling folk songs have learned from many others and formed their own system. In the process of development, enrichment and improvement, they have been continuously spread, thus affecting the singing methods of folk songs in the surrounding areas and even other regions, so they have the characteristics of diffusion. (XI) The tunes of Huangling folk songs are simple and plain, not gorgeous or ostentatious, showing the unique characteristics of simplicity. (XII) Huangling folk songs have been tempered. Although they have been impacted by other folk songs and modern songs and have been neglected in contemporary society, they are still widely sung in towns and villages due to their tenacious vitality and deep mass base. They have become a part of people's spiritual and cultural life, so Huangling folk songs have the characteristics of inheritance. Huangling folk songs are a musical form created by the hardworking and intelligent people of Huangling. In the process of more than a thousand years of transmission, inheritance and development, they still maintain the original and original musical characteristics, and are very valuable intangible cultural heritage.

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