Four seasons production

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Four Seasons production

Applicant: Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

Item No.: 24

Project No.: I-24

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: Folk Literature

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 four seasons production

Applicant: Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

The four seasons production of Hani people is transmitted to the Hani inhabited areas in Honghe, Yuanyang, Luchun, Jinping, Jianshui and other counties of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, and its origin is not later than the Tang Dynasty. As an encyclopedia of terrace production technology and etiquette taboo in mountain area, Hani's four seasons production tune includes five units: introduction, winter, spring, summer and autumn. The introduction part emphasizes the significance of the four seasons production tune inherited from the ancestors for the survival of Hani people. The rest part describes the procedures and technical essentials of terraced cultivation according to the order of seasons, as well as the corresponding knowledge of astronomy and calendar, natural phenology change law, Festival ceremony knowledge and life etiquette norms.

The four seasons production tune system is strict, easy to understand, can be recited and sung, the language is lively, close to production and life, and has a long history of inheritance, with a broad mass base. It is not only a comprehensive summary of terrace production technology, but also a masterpiece of Hani social ethics.

The four seasons production regulation has witnessed the evolution of Hani's terraced rice civilization, which has important reference value for the study of the historical and scientific value of human terraced rice civilization. At the same time, its straightforward, simple, humorous language expression style gives people a kind and touching artistic enjoyment and aesthetic experience. No matter in the past or now, the four seasons production tune, which is handed down by mouth and heart, plays a guiding role in the production and life of Hani society.

With the social changes, the arrival of economic globalization, especially with the influx of foreign strong culture, the values of Hani young people have changed, and the inheritance of the four seasons production tune of Hani people is in a situation of lack of successors. At present, there are few senior artists and priests who can systematically sing the four seasons production tune, and few young Hani people devote themselves to learning the four seasons production tune. It is urgent to rescue and protect the four seasons production regulation.