Tibetan folk songs (Huarui Tibetan folk songs)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Tibetan folk songs (Huarui Tibetan folk songs)

Applicant: Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province

Project No.: 614

Project No.: Ⅱ - 115

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: Traditional Music

Region: Gansu Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province

Protection unit: Tibetan language and writing guidance center of Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County

Introduction to Tibetan folk songs (Huarui Tibetan folk songs)

Applicant: Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province

Tibetan folk songs are the main form of folk music in Tibetan areas, which can be divided into folk songs (pastoral songs), labor songs, love songs, custom songs and chanting sutras. Folk song is called "La Lu" in Weizang area, "Lu" in Kangba area, and "Le" in Anduo area. It is a kind of free singing song in the mountains. Labor songs are called "Le harmony" in Tibetan. There are many kinds of labor songs, and there are specific songs in almost all kinds of labor. Love songs include love songs and tea songs, while custom songs include wine songs, guessing love songs, wedding songs, arrow songs and farewell songs. Chanting tune, also known as "six character Zhenyan song", is a kind of song sung by Buddhist believers when they worship god Buddha in temples.

Huarui Tibetan folk songs have been popular in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County and its surrounding areas in Wuwei City, Gansu Province for more than 1500 years. According to Dunhuang documents, the ancient Tibetans used folk songs as a way of communication. In the 11th century, "Le" style folk songs became one of the most popular folk songs in Anduo Tibetan area, and gradually developed. As a branch of Anduo Tibetans, Huarui Tibetans inherit and carry forward the form and connotation of Le style folk songs, and gradually form Huarui Tibetan folk songs with unique local characteristics.

Huarui Tibetan folk songs are characterized by vivid, simple, popular, easy to sing and cadence. According to the content, it can be divided into ballads, love songs, weeping marriage songs, allegory songs, persuasion songs, humorous songs, welcome songs, etc., which are rich in content and complete in variety. Their singing forms include solo, duet, chorus, singing and dancing, question and answer style, etc., and their representative works include songs of fortune sheep, trilogy of Genesis, Xi Zan, etc.

Huarui Tibetan folk songs are popular in all kinds of celebrations, banquets and life occasions. They are entertaining, artistic, local and national. They shoulder the important task of cultural enlightenment. Their contents are very extensive, from primitive religious culture to historical geography, from local conditions and customs to social production, and comprehensively reflect the process of national change. They have a profound understanding of life and a deep understanding of harmonious nature It is a Encyclopedia of Tibetan social life of Huarui. At present, influenced by the rapid change of traditional life style, the folk art groups in Tianzhu County have dissolved one after another, while the local audio-visual preservation methods are relatively backward. In this situation, the transmission channels of Huarui Tibetan folk songs are becoming increasingly narrow, and there is a crisis of survival. It is urgent to invest human and material resources to carry out the rescue and protection work as soon as possible.