Haimen folk song

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Haimen folk song

Applicant: Haimen City, Jiangsu Province

Item No.: 593

Project No.: Ⅱ - 94

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: Traditional Music

Region: Jiangsu Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Haimen City, Jiangsu Province

Protection unit: Haimen Cultural Center

Haimen folk song introduction:

Applicant: Haimen City, Jiangsu Province

Haimen is located in a corner of Jiangsu Province. Its land system was formed by sediment deposition in the river. It was not officially established as a county until the 33rd year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1768). At that time, a large number of farmers from Chongming, Jurong and other places came in droves to reclaim land in Haimen area. They brought the dialects and customs of Jiangnan, as well as the folk songs of Wu dialect. After a long period of development, the unique Haimen folk song finally stands out from the working life and tends to be stereotyped. In 1931, Guan Jiange collected Haimen folk songs and compiled Jiangkou love song, which caused a sensation in the literary and art circles. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, Haimen folk song troupe was formally established, which provided a special organization for the inheritance and development of this distinctive local folk song.

The language of Haimen folk songs is vivid, the music is pure and sweet, melodious and graceful, which can be divided into Lyric folk songs and Narrative Folk Songs. Lyric folk song, also known as "short folk song", is a kind of impromptu folk song composed and sung by people during or after work. It has four, six or eight sentences, and the sentence pattern is mainly seven characters. Narrative Folk Song is also known as "Changshan song". The lyrics are often dozens or even hundreds of sentences long, with complete story plots and singing tunes such as folk song tune, Duihua tune, Buddha praying tune, Youhu tune and Haozi tune. There are solo and duet forms when singing.

Haimen folk songs are rich in content, involving almost all aspects of social life. Among them, there are works praising labor and showing people's yearning for a happy life, such as "tamping folk song"; there are works singing love and showing young men and women's persistent pursuit of pure emotion, such as "huawanglang"; there are works showing optimism, such as "I sell folk songs, don't ask for money"; there are also works reflecting the working people's resistance to exploiters, such as "I'm invited by the next head" Kung Fu, etc. Haimen folk songs have been handed down from generation to generation in an orderly way.

As one of the manifestations of Jianghai culture, Haimen folk songs are closely related to the production and life of local people, from which researchers of dialectology, folklore, ethnomusicology, history and other majors can find precious materials. There are numerous singers in Haimen mountain in the countryside, and it is not rare that they can sing hundreds of folk songs. At present, with the passage of the month, the old mountain singers have died one after another, few of them are alive, and the traditional Haimen folk songs are gradually declining, so it is urgent to protect and inherit them.