Hani multi part folk songs

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Hani multi voice folk songs

Applicant: Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

Item No.: 61

Project No.: Ⅱ - 30

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: Traditional Music

Region: Yunnan Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

Protection unit: Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture

Introduction to Hani multi part folk songs

Applicant: Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

Hani multi voice folk song has a long history, which is mainly spread in several Hani villages in Honghe County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province. Hani's multi voice folk songs include praising labor, praising love, and eulogizing the beautiful scenery of mountains and countryside. The most representative repertoire is "I am at AZ" (planting seedlings folk song) and "love song". There are two ways of singing: instrumental accompaniment and vocal accompaniment without instrumental accompaniment. The singing occasions of Hani's multi voice folk songs are diverse, and terraces, forests and villages can be their performance space. The accompaniment instruments are all made by folk singers themselves. Sanxian and xiaoerhu are only used in Puchun village. The lyrics structure of Hani multi part folk songs consists of three parts: opening lyrics, theme lyrics and auxiliary lyrics. The music form of Hani multi part folk songs shows distinct national and regional characteristics in the aspects of festival structure, mode tone sequence, mode color, mode combination and multi part composition.

Hani multi voice folk songs embody Hani's music wisdom and talent, and show Hani's unique singing talent. In the process of field investigation, relevant experts have collected 8 original forms of Hani multi part folk songs, which are extremely rare and of high historical, scientific and artistic value. Hani multi part folk song is the treasure of Chinese national music, which has attracted wide attention of people in music circles at home and abroad. Hani's multi voice folk songs are associated with social production, especially with terraced rice farming. They are important materials for studying Hani's culture, national character and aesthetic concept.

Hani multi part folk songs are deeply hidden in the hinterland of Ailao Mountain system, and their inheritance completely depends on folk singers. Although it has attracted extensive attention of experts in music and anthropology, it has not been protected in an organized and planned way for a long time. The number of inheritors with comprehensive quality of multi part music is decreasing day by day, and this valuable folk music form is on the verge of being lost.