Poya love song

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Poya love song

Applicant: Funing County, Yunnan Province

Project No.: 1057

Project No.: i-113

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: Folk Literature

Region: Yunnan Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Funing County, Yunnan Province

Protection unit: Funing County Cultural Center

Introduction to Poya love song:

Applicant: Funing County, Yunnan Province

Poya love song is a collection of love folk songs recorded by 81 picture symbols on the local cloth. It is called "buwagen" in Zhuang language, which means "folk song with patterns painted on the local cloth" (now known as "Poya song book" by local people). It is mainly spread in Liuyi and zening of Funing County, Yunnan Province, naguan and laojiesanzhai of Guichao, Baibi of zhesang Township, Huajia Township, etc The village of the Zhuang nationality is located in the village of Poya in Peiai town. Pictorial symbols include moon, star, tree, rice, plough, axe, bird, horse, man, clothing, bird, house, maple leaf, etc. Each picture symbol represents a love song or the same kind of love song. A singer can sing a song just by looking at the picture symbols. The anthology recounts in detail the touching story of a young man and woman from acquaintance, acquaintance, love to dating and growing old together. The collection of songs adopts the structure of couplet, which has the continuity and integrity of the plot, which is rare in the love poems of ethnic minorities. The protagonist's tortuous love process reflects the production and life, folk customs of the ancient Zhuang nationality, covering literature, music, pictures and other folk arts, with rich connotation and the legacy of the book of songs. Love songs are sung in the northern dialect of Zhuang language, with men and women singing in harmony. The main tunes are "Fen Diao", "Fen Biao", "Fen er'ai", "Fen Ge Ma" and other minor tunes of Zhuang folk songs. Most of the sentences are five character, each song has four or dozens of sentences. The main rhyme is the beginning and ending rhyme, waist and tail rhyme. The rhyme is strict and harmonious. The melody is beautiful, euphemistic and pleasant to hear, the technique is flexible and changeable, and the rhetoric is appropriate, which has high artistic value.

Poya love song has a broad mass base and folk heritage, is the classic love song of Funing Zhuang folk songs, has high artistic value. The ancient farming mode, folk etiquette and dress culture of Zhuang nationality involved in love songs are of great value to the study of Zhuang history, folk customs and folk music. The picture symbols used in love songs are called "the bud of characters" by the experts of philology, which provides valuable clues for the study of the origin of characters.