Song Festival (48 Village Song Festival)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Song Festival

Applicant: Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province

Project No.: 1209

Project No.: Ⅹ - 134

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Guizhou Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province

Protection unit: Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of Tianzhu County

Introduction to the Song Festival (48 Village Song Festival)

Applicant: Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province

488zhai Song Festival is a folk song festival popular in the middle and lower reaches of Qingshui River in Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province, including 13 song fields. Every singing venue is held once a year, from March to September of the lunar calendar. Most of the opening time is on the day of "Wu" in the middle of the month, which is called "Tuhuang" locally. When it comes to the meeting time, there are people on the hillside and beside the road, singing one after another.

There are many singing venues in the 488zhai Festival, including Dong District, Miao district and Miao Dong Han mixed district. Lyrics, singing rich, Riverside tune, high slope tune, Castle Peak tune, Ali tune. However, no matter which area or cavity, they all sing in Dong language. Therefore, all kinds of cavities and villages can understand and sing, which is formed in history.

Generally speaking, the "song hall" is composed of villages or families. Song hall is mainly composed of Kan song. People use songs to make friends and compare their literary ability, belly ability and eloquence ability. In addition to Dong traditional folk songs, there are also a large number of sets of songs with historical stories of the Han nationality as the theme, such as "singing the Three Kingdoms", "singing about the Tang Dynasty", "Mu Guiying in command", "Mao hongyuying", "Luoyang Bridge" and so on. Singing ancient songs and narrative songs are the biggest characteristics of the song field. Narrative song is the main content of Kan song. It often tells a story with passion through singing about people and things. This kind of song is most popular among people.

Every village has some influential singers and singers. Some old singers and geduns have never been to school, but they have excellent memory and export into songs. They can recite the historical stories and ballads of the Three Kingdoms, Fengjiao, Lidan, Liangzhu and so on.

Nowadays, the number of singing venues is declining. Most of the singers are middle-aged and old people, and few young people can sing folk songs.