Brocade song

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Jinge

Applicant: Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province

Item No.: 262

Project No.: V - 26

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: quyi

Region: Fujian Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province

Protection unit: cultural center of Xiangcheng District, Zhangzhou City

Introduction to Jinge

Applicant: Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province

Jinge is an important form of Quyi singing. It is popular in Southern Fujian plain including Xiamen, Jinjiang and Longxi and Taiwan Province with Zhangzhou as the center. Its original name is zajinge, and Jinge is the common abbreviation. It was born in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, and flourished in the middle of Qing Dynasty. Together with Quanzhou Nanyin, it is known as the sister flower of Minnan folk art. After 1940s, Jinge began to decline.

The performance form of Jinge is that many people sit around and sing, accompanied by pipa, Dongxiao, Erxian, Sanxian, Muyu, Shuangling, etc. Its singing music is rich and complex, including the main tunes commonly used such as "wukongzi" and "sikongzi", "zazazai" and "nianzazai", and the tunes absorbed from sister art such as "Zage" and "huadiazai". The most famous traditional programs are Chen sanwuniang, Qin Xuemei, shanboyingtai, Meng Jiangnu, Miao Changyuan, Dong Yong and LV MENGZHENG. The richness of Jinge's singing style reflects its open and inclusive character in art, and reflects the spirit of the people in the popular area.

Jinge is rooted in the folk, the lyrics are easy to understand, the melody is beautiful and fluent, and has a strong local flavor. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, when Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, he also brought Jinge to Taiwan, and combined it with local folk songs and ditty to form a new form of "singing boy". This can be seen from the nurturing and expediting effect of brocade songs on sister art.

With the passage of time, people's interest in brocade songs has become increasingly indifferent, and the art of brocade songs is facing the crisis of extinction at any time, which needs to be protected.