Tujia people's weeping wedding songs

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Tujia Wedding Lament

Applicant: Yongshun County, Hunan Province

Project No.: 1056

Project No.: i-112

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: Folk Literature

Region: Hunan Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Yongshun County, Hunan Province

Protection unit: Yongshun Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center

A brief introduction to Tujia people's weeping marriage songs

Applicant: Yongshun County, Hunan Province

The Tujia people's weeping marriage songs in Western Hunan are long folk narrative ballads sung in Tujia language, which mainly spread in Wuling mountain area, Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing, Guizhou and other provinces and cities of Yunnan Guizhou Plateau. "Crying for marriage" is an important custom in Tujia's wedding ceremony procedure. Singing crying for marriage songs is synchronized with "crying for marriage" procedure. Crying to celebrate a girl's marriage reflects Tujia's unique cultural consciousness. The song of weeping for marriage is also called "ten sisters song".

The Tujia people's weeping marriage songs in Western Hunan have a long history. They were very popular in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Peng qiutan, a poet of the Tujia people in the Qing Dynasty, recorded: "the songs of ten sisters love their relatives and are sad to leave. The songs are graceful and very sad. Tears follow the sound, which is the legacy of" Zhupi. " This paper describes the scene of "Crying Marriage" of Tujia nationality. Since childhood, Tujia women in Western Hunan have to learn to sing the song of "crying for marriage". It is a standard to judge women's intelligence whether they can sing the song of crying for marriage. In Tujia wedding ceremony, the custom of singing instead of crying and crying with music is still popular. It is full of the culture and entertainment atmosphere of separation and joy.

In terms of artistic style, Tujia people's weeping wedding songs in Western Hunan are simple in language, vivid in image, fresh in artistic conception and harmonious in rhyme. In the technique of expression, it generally adopts such techniques as Bixing, analogy, exaggeration, homophonic pun and so on. The subtlety is amazing.

Tujia's weeping wedding songs, which are inherited by women's oral literature, have high academic value for the research and development of Chinese folk literature. It is of great social value to study Tujia's history, social life, religious belief and protect Tujia's language.