Liao songs of Zhuang Nationality

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Liao Song of Zhuang Nationality

Applicant: Pingguo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Item No.: 569

Project No.: i-82

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: Folk Literature

Region: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Type: new item

Applicant: Pingguo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Protection unit: Pingguo County folk culture inheritance Exhibition Center

A brief introduction to Liao songs of Zhuang Nationality

Applicant: Pingguo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Liao Song of Zhuang nationality is a famous long ancient song of Zhuang nationality. After long-term oral recitation, it was processed by Zhuang literati, recorded in ancient Zhuang characters and properly standardized in format, forming a relatively complete collection of songs. Liao songs of Zhuang nationality are all popular in ancient Zhuang characters, and the content is relatively fixed, which reflects the status of Zhuang nationality's labor, production, life, love, marriage, and development history. They are mainly popular in Pingguo County, Tiandong County, Tianyang County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the middle reaches of Youjiang River, Mashan County and Dahua Yao Autonomous County of Hongshui River Basin, and Wuming County of Yongjiang River Basin Guoxian is the central area.

Liao Song of Zhuang nationality is a kind of relatively standardized formatted folk song after processing, and its inheritance is a combination of written inheritance and oral inheritance. Liao songs of Zhuang nationality express their thoughts and feelings with distinct artistic images, and unfold the plot in a lyrical atmosphere. The basic vocabulary, word formation and grammatical structure of the ancient Zhuang language reflect the rich cultural connotation of the ancient Zhuang language, which has important folklore and ancient culture research value.

Nowadays, the living inheritance environment of Liao songs of Zhuang nationality is facing the severe challenge of modern life style, and the crisis is getting deeper and deeper, which needs to be protected urgently.