Meizhou Hakka folk song

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Meizhou Hakka folk song

Applicant: Meizhou City, Guangdong Province

Item No.: 42

Project No.: Ⅱ - 11

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: Traditional Music

Region: Guangdong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Meizhou City, Guangdong Province

Protection unit: Meizhou Cultural Center (Meizhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center)

Introduction to Meizhou Hakka Folk Songs:

Applicant: Meizhou City, Guangdong Province

Meizhou Hakka folk song is a folk song sung in Hakka dialect by nearly 5 million people in six counties, one city and one district of Meizhou city. It spreads in the Hakka area of northeast Guangdong Province and spreads to overseas Hakka settlements of Meizhou nationality.

Meizhou Hakka folk songs spread and multiplied with the formation of Hakka people in song and Ming Dynasties, which is the product of the integration of Central Plains culture and Meizhou indigenous culture. Its lyrics are full of poetic flavor, similar to Zhuzhi Ci, with the lingering charm of "national style" and "Wu Song".

Meizhou Hakka folk songs have nearly 100 kinds of tones, high and long, smooth and smooth, with little fluctuation; higher range, narrow range; more steps, less jumps; free rhythm, various beats, often mixed with a variety of beats.

There are tens of thousands of lyrics of Meizhou Hakka folk songs spread among the people, including labor songs, political songs, ritual songs, customs songs, love songs, other life songs and children's songs, covering all aspects of Hakka life. Among them, the number of love songs is the largest, the content is the most wonderful, and the literature value is also the highest.

Meizhou Hakka folk song is an important part of Hakka culture and a treasure of folk music and literature. It has a valuable reference value for the study of literature and art, sociology, history, linguistics, folklore, religion, Hakka and so on. In the late Qing Dynasty, Huang Zunxian, Qu Dajun and contemporary Zhong Jingwen all attached great importance to the collection, collation and research of Meizhou Hakka folk songs.

Meizhou Hakka folk songs have always been passed down orally. Nowadays, the ranks of singing folk songs are seriously aging, and many excellent mountain singers have died one after another. Teenagers no longer like singing and listening to folk songs. The situation that folk songs are not popular and there are no successors is becoming more and more serious. Rescuing and protecting Meizhou Hakka folk songs is of great significance for preserving Hakka culture, enriching Chinese culture and enriching Hakka people's cultural life.