Tujia people's weeping wedding songs

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

Applicant: Guzhang 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: Guzhang County, Hunan Province

Protection unit: Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of Guzhang County

A brief introduction to Tujia people's weeping marriage songs

Applicant: Yongshun County, Hunan Province

Tujia Wedding lament is a long narrative and lyric song sung by Tujia women in wedding ceremony. Crying wedding songs are popular in the Tujia inhabited areas in Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing, Guizhou and other provinces, and Guzhang County in Western Hunan is one of the main areas where crying wedding songs are sung in Tujia language.

Tujia people's weeping marriage songs have a long history. After the reform of Tujia Nationality in Qing Dynasty, "Xing Kui" and "Kufa" became popular as the main contents of Tujia marriage customs. Many of Zhuzhici written by poets in Qing Dynasty are the evidence of the popularity of this custom.

In Guzhang, the singing of Tujia's weeping marriage songs consists of five procedures: weeping voice, weeping parents, weeping brothers and sisters, weeping sisters and weeping relatives. Mother daughter weeping is an important part of weeping wedding song, which runs through the whole process of getting married. Secondly, there are crying to wear flowers, to dress, to leave the mother's mat, to kiss on the back, to get into the sedan chair, to scold the matchmaker, etc. "Love Pro grace, hurt parting, song for the graceful voice." It is of great academic value to study the history of Tujia nationality.

Tujia wedding crying songs mostly use rhetorical devices such as Bixing, analogy, parallelism and repetition. The lyrics are simple, straightforward and easy to understand. The sentence patterns are vivid, flexible and different in length. There are also seven character sentence patterns, which are not poetry or words on the whole. When crying, the voice and rhyme are integrated, beautiful, fluent and touching, which is full of strong literary and artistic appeal and language research value.

Tujia's crying marriage songs embody the collective wisdom of Tujia women for thousands of years. They have different artistic styles and rich national characteristics. They are extremely important and precious long volumes of Tujia oral literature. They are of great value in the study of Tujia's social history, culture, local customs, national psychological beliefs, language and music.