Jiujiang folk song

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

Applicant: Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province

Project No.: 1071

Project No.: Ⅱ - 141

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: Traditional Music

Region: Jiangxi Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province

Protection unit: cultural center of Chaisang District, Jiujiang City

Introduction to Jiujiang folk song:

Applicant: Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province

Jiujiang folk song is a kind of folk song with the typical feature of "three tone tune", which is popular in Jiujiang County in the northwest of Jiangxi Province.

Jiujiang folk songs have been sung in Jiujiang for more than a thousand years. In Bai Juyi, a poet of Tang Dynasty, the poem "Zhouzi language at the root of the fence, Fishing Song at the entrance of the alley" in his poem "bitter rain, soaring rivers and lakes", reflects the popularity of Jiujiang folk songs at that time. There is a record in Jiujiang official records of the Ming Dynasty that "folk songs were originally left by the ancients, but they forgot their ancestors if they didn't sing them.". The Jiujiang "three tone" folk songs in Jiangxi volume, a collection of Chinese folk songs published in March 1996, have 50 works selected. In 2007, Jiujiang "three tune" folk song was listed in the second batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage protection list of Jiangxi Province.

Jiujiang "three tone tune" folk song has a wide range of themes and rich contents. Its main values are as follows: first, the tune is changeable, including high tune, flat tune and low tune. Gaoqiang folk songs are characterized by high tone, wide sentence width and long tune, commonly known as "playing narrow tone" and "earning red face"; pingqiang folk songs are characterized by low tone, symmetrical sentence width, delicate depiction and good at Lyric narration; low tune folk songs are characterized by low pronunciation, and people often use them to sing long stories. The second is "singing white", people can see people and things anytime and anywhere, touch the scene and feel emotions, and sing freely. Third, the genre is "three tones" Gong Diao five sentence style, and the lyrics are mostly parallel sentences. The unique style of Jiujiang folk songs plays an important role in Chinese folk music.

Jiujiang folk songs are handed down from generation to generation in the form of "oral transmission, impromptu singing", which has a broad mass base. "If you want to sing, you can sing. I have more folk songs than you. I sing folk songs every day as a meal, at night as a quilt, and I feel happy when I sing folk songs." With the common language of life, singing out people's deep feelings for folk songs. Jiujiang folk songs give people endless aftertaste with rich imagination, sincere emotion, simple language and ingenious techniques.