Buddhist Music (temple music of Lengyan Temple)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Buddhist Music (temple music of Lengyan Temple)

Applicant: Zuoyun County, Shanxi Province

Item No.: 637

Project No.: Ⅱ - 138

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: Traditional Music

Region: Shanxi Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Zuoyun County, Shanxi Province

Protection unit: Zuoyun County traditional music Protection Association

Introduction to Buddhist Music (temple music of Lengyan Temple)

Applicant: Zuoyun County, Shanxi Province

The Buddhist music of Lengyan temple in Zuoyun County was spread in Zuoyun and Liangcheng County of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It was originally an East Road School of fanbei tune in northern China. With the monks' Sutra singing and Buddhist activities, it was produced and sung in the early Ming Dynasty, enriched and developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the long-term spread process, it absorbed the elements of Tianzhu music, Qiuci music, Anguo music and other Buddhist music, and combined with local folk music, gradually formed a kind of temple music with Mongolian and Han characteristics and exotic customs.

The temple music of Lengyan temple is composed of two parts: praise song and instrumental music. There are more than ten eulogizing songs, such as six character eulogizing, convenient gathering and three conversions, and 28 instrumental playing songs, such as Liu Yaojin, zuotar Sutra and youtatar Sutra. The musical instruments used include Guanzi, Sheng, shougu, gongs, dangzi, Yinqing, Kaizi, cymbals, shoupaizi, etc. The music in the temple of Lengyan temple is usually sung by monks in chanting sutras and Buddhist activities, and also played in various folk rituals. His eulogy has a deep and steady tone, a solemn and elegant melody, and a solemn and solemn music atmosphere with chanting scriptures. His playing styles are diverse, including the rough and unconstrained of Mongolian music and the tactful and fluent of Chinese melody. In the exciting and fluctuating music melody, there is no lack of Sanskrit.