Jingzhou Miao Nationality Song

Hunan
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"Tng" is the sound of beating drums. "Song Tng" was originally a kind of "polyphonic Miao song", that is, a kind of song sung by male and female choruses in antiphonal singing. This kind of song runs through all kinds of life of Miao people, so it has become the representative of "polyphonic Miao song". Later, it became a convention that Miao people regarded "Song Tng" as the general term of "polyphonic Miao song". There are many folk activities in the "Qiaoli" area, and almost all folk activities involve specific singing methods. For example, "sitting in the tea shed", "sitting at night", "getting married", "beating the three days", "Lixia Festival", "stepping on the reed pipe", "singing festival", "ancestor worship" and so on are inseparable from singing Tng. On the surface, the Miao singing Tng is just a kind of folk singing method of Miao people, but in the hearts of the Miao people who "feed food to nourish the body and sing to nourish the heart", the meaning of singing Tng is by no means limited to "singing". The Miao people, who have no written language, use "songs" to complete the functions of recording, communication and inheritance. They choose to use "songs" as the main means to record and pass on their own culture. They celebrate festivals with songs, men and women use songs as a medium for love, help each other with songs during production and labor, use songs as a substitute for crying during funerals and sacrifices, and narrate Miao history with songs. The lyrics of Miao songs are mostly seven-character four-line, and the last words of the second and fourth lines generally pay attention to rhyme. They usually use metaphors, personification, exaggeration and other rhetorical techniques. Its content involves many aspects of traditional culture such as historical legends, sacrificial rituals, production and labor, marriage and love, persuasion, singing and chanting, etc. It has strong literary quality and profound connotation, and is the "oral literature" of the Miao people. When singing, it is mainly sung in the Miao dialect (suanhua) of Zhongqiao Fengchong Village (fan songs are pure Miao language). "Suanhua" is a Miao dialect that is different from the local Miao language and the surrounding Dong language. It is a sinicization of the Miao language. The pronunciation is similar to the local Chinese, but with a slight Miao accent. It is difficult to sing the song in pure Miao language, but it is easier to sing it in "sour language". In 2006, Jingzhou Miao song was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County Cultural Bureau is the main body of protection.

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