Guidong Hakka Tea Picking Tune

Hunan
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Guidong County is located in the southeast of Hunan Province, on the border between Hunan and Jiangxi, and on the southern foot of Jinggang Mountain. It has a total area of 1,452 square kilometers and a total population of 226,000. It has 18 towns, 1 national nature reserve, and a state-owned forest farm. Guidong Hakka tea-picking tunes, with simple and moving language, beautiful and lyrical tunes, and dances that are close to life, deeply and truly reflect the pursuit and yearning of the Guidong Hakka people for a better life. In the Guidong Hakka tea-picking tunes, the reproduction and survival of mankind, the vicissitudes of nature, the evolution of astronomy and calendar, the farming techniques of sowing and farming, and the joys and sorrows of the people are all elements and components of the creation of the Guidong Hakka tea-picking tunes. The diversity of its content knowledge and the reproducibility of history are ready to emerge. The Guidong Hakka tea-picking tune is a living fossil for the study of anthropology, history, and folklore today. In terms of music theory, the Guidong Hakka Tea Picking Tune closely relies on the ups and downs and delicate and soft unique background of the Hakka dialect, and consistently shows the artistic characteristics of simplicity, roughness, softness, intimacy and harmony. After thousands of years of tempering, the Guidong Hakka Tea Picking Tune has gradually formed a unique and colorful artistic charm. It is a recent summary of Hakka culture from ancient times to the present, and it is an artistic model created from life and originated from labor. Its social and cultural value is significant, and the breadth and depth of its artistic influence are incomparable to ordinary regional cultures. In terms of content expression, it is a typical realist treasure, closely following the human feelings of truth, goodness and beauty, and bitterly complaining about the social phenomena of falsehood, evil and ugliness. This has important and practical significance for us to strengthen the moral quality education of citizens and build a socialist harmonious society. In terms of musical form, it is eclectic and flexible. The form structure, the melody of the modal style, the free beat alternation, the unique scale progression, the lining words and the lining tunes in music creation are widely used. Its unique artistic qualities are intriguing and fascinating. (No pictures yet, please provide them.) (No pictures yet, please provide them.)

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