Changyang known as the "hometown of song and dance", Changyang Mountain Song, Changyang South Song, Bashan Dance is known as "Changyang culture three treasures", strange stone, bonsai, root art is known as "Changyang cultural industry three treasures ".
Changyang Bashan Dance has won the National Square Dance Competition "Group Star Award" Gold Medal, a large-scale Tujia wedding song and dance drama "Tuliba People" has been awarded the national "Five One Project Award".
In 2006, the Tujia "Sa Ye'er ho" was selected as the first national intangible cultural heritage protection project, and in 2007 the 14th National Square Dance Competition won the Group Star Award.
Changyang Mountain Song, Nanqu, Changyang Weeding Grass Drum and Gong and Du Zhenwan Story were selected as the first batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage protection list.
In 2008, the "Tumiao Brothers and Sisters" group, composed of Changyang County's "farmer brothers" Wang Aimin and Wang Aihua, and a Miao girl, won the gold medal in the CCTV's 13th Young Singers Grand Prix for original singing.
Changyang Mountain Song
Changyang Mountain Song is known as the "three treasures" of Changyang culture with its rich singing content, flexible singing form, loud and clear, and enthusiastic singing style, along with the Southern Song and Bashan Dance.
Changyang mountain songs are mainly labor songs, love songs.
Labor songs are produced in the labor, and sung in the labor.
Different ways of labor and natural environment have formed different styles of labor songs.
For example, the boatmen and rowers of the Qingjiang River have a strong and powerful horn song, and there are gongs and drums for hoeing in the fields.
When singing, by two or three, four people in the field in accordance with a certain song while sounding the gongs and drums, while singing and hoeing with the field, but the content and order of the singing is flexible, there are no strict regulations, most of the improvisation.
Changyang's mountain song has a solo, duet, a person leading the crowd and other forms of singing.
The five-sentence mountain song is a particularly developed style of Changyang mountain song and folk song, which is based on the basic seven-sentence grid, five sentences for a paragraph, and a paragraph of independent chapters.
There are also a number of five-sentence phrases (the longest is 32), known as "catching five sentences" or "platoon song".
The fifth line of the five-sentence song is often a sublimation of the mood, the artistic interest of the place, so there is "five-sentence song five single, four easy to five difficult" said.
Thus, the five sentences require the fourth sentence to be able to end, the fifth sentence to the peak, the finishing touch.
Nanqu
Nanqu is also known as "silk string class".
It is an ancient local song in Hubei, rich in words and beautiful.
Before the liberation, the song gradually declined, many people only know the name of the southern song, but not heard the sound of the southern song.
1961 to 1964, the province, specializing in the county cultural authorities have organized a special team, the South Song excavation and finishing, counting more than sixty visits to the South Song old artists, collecting traditional repertoire of more than 140 (excluding the same repertoire and different parts of the text), 32 songs, there are still [water gourd], [fire gourd], [shoulder back of the Jade], etc., songs, the old artists only know the name, and the cantata The old artists only know their names, and the singing is lost.
The South Song is mainly circulated in the Changyang, Wufeng territory, according to the text analysis, and other types of similarities, but has a unique point, although not native, but with the Changyang local language, folk songs and ditties quite a combination of the Changyang first digging and finishing, it is named "Changyang South Song".
It is now included in the Dictionary of Chinese Opera.
Bashan Dance
Bashan Dance, also known as the "Bayu Dance", the local Tujia people also called the "Sajuerho", which is characterized by: cutting drums to the rituals, called the whistle to the rise and fall of the singing voice, singing, rugged dance, reflecting the simplicity of the children of the Tujia and simple; its form: one person to clap the hands of a man, the dance of a man to the end of the song, the dance of the Tujia children's simplicity.
As far back as the Yin and Shang dynasties, the Ba people helped the Wuhua about the dance before and after the dance, in order to Rin Yin people have fallen back.
Liu Bang, Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, several times to see its dance, music and its fierce and sharp, so that the musicians to learn the introduction of the court, sounded for the "Bayu Dance".
In recent times, the excavation of Ba Chu culture, will be refined and sublimated, named "Bashan dance", "funeral dance" of the name, known as the five lakes and all over the world.
In 1986 in Urumqi, Xinjiang, held a national minority sports event, "Sajuerho" was known as "Oriental disco".
Four courses of tea
The four courses of tea have unique metaphors.
The first tea - "Jankan tea", used to entertain daily visitors.
The second tea - egg tea, is used to entertain the "gaga guest".
That is, after the addition of children to the family, the whole "toast rice wine" on the egg tea.
The third tea - yin rice tea, is used in the wedding banquet before eating.
The fourth tea - tea soup, used in winter to keep warm.
Silankapu
Silankapu can be traced back to the time of the ancient Bajans.
Ancient Ba people as Tujia forefathers, in addition to agricultural production, but also good at weaving, its "mulberry silkworms, hemp" became tribute.
Thus, "Yu will be the lords in the Huiji, the execution of the jade and silk of ten thousand countries, Bashu to go to." ("Huayang Guozhi - Ba Zhi") the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Tujia region of the textile industry has developed, the job of the "cloth" has become a tribute to the famous products.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhu Geliang in Shu, "now the people are poor and the country is weak, the only thing that can not be funded by the enemy is the brocade" decision-making, the people of the Tujia region gradually mastered the Han's advanced dyeing technology, weaving colorful "earth brocade".
The Tang and Song dynasties, with the Tujia region and Han economic exchanges increased, the Tujia region's textile industry has further developed, the emergence of a "female weaving, household more machine sound" social atmosphere.
After the reclassification, the Tujia Silankappu weaving skills further improved, especially the Tujia girls, from the inconvenience with their mothers practicing weaving skills, the girl grows up to get married, but also must have their own hand-woven Silankappu works as a dowry, and thus this process has been carried forward.
Fill the room
"Fill the room" is a kind of remarriage custom in China, but in Exi region, there are several kinds of special relations of fill the room customs: one is "uncle on sister-in-law", that is, after the death of his brother, his single brother (sister-in-law called his brother as "brother-in-law"), and the other one is "brother-in-law".
In the Changyang Houhe area, there are different customs, depending on the "uncle on the sister-in-law" marriage customs for the wrong; two for the "uncle on the brother", uncle refers to the uncle, brother refers to the brother-in-law, that is, the younger brother died, the single brother can be married with the sister-in-law; three for the "sister died sister following", "sister died sister following", the single brother (sister-in-law called his brother "little uncle") can be married with the sister-in-law. "Sister dead sister following", that is, married compatriot sister died, her sister can be married to her brother-in-law.
Newlywed three days without size
On both sides of the Qingjiang River, the father-in-law and daughter-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law in the usual way is to guard each other, the meal is different tables, line different road, sitting on different stools, words do not answer, otherwise it will lead to jokes.
But within three days of the wedding, but no such taboo, eunuchs, uncle brother can participate in the new room, can be to the new girl to ask for cigarettes to ask for sugar to ask for purse, jokes with each other, fight, do not constraints.
This is what is referred to as the "three days without size" rule.
The new daughter-in-law within three days, do not do housework, do not go down to the kitchen, such as guests in general, "three days down to the kitchen" after, can not be casual, all in accordance with the mother's house has been taught to act.
This custom is still alive in the western region of Ezhou.
Xiangfushi Cuban ruins
Xiangfushi ruins are located in Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in western Hubei fishing Xiakou town southeast 0.5 kilometers of the north bank of the Qingjiang River, 97 kilometers from the east of Changyang County, located in the middle reaches of the Qingjiang River.
The site terrain northeast high southwest low, slope-like, southwest facing the Qingjiang River, down from the Qingjiang River surface of about 30 meters.
The geographical environment is very unique, is a typical riverside cottage type cultural sites.
The site was discovered in 1983, with an area of more than 30,000 square meters, but the area with more exposed relics is only 700 square meters.
In 1988, 1989, and 1995, three successive archaeological excavations, in the center of the site area **** excavation of more than 400 square meters, access to the Xia, Shang, Zhou period of stone, pottery, bone and copper and other cultural relics of nearly 10,000 pieces and a number of early Shang period of the Bajian burials.
A large number of oracle bones from the Shang and Zhou periods and two ceramic seals from the late Shang and early Zhou periods were also found.
Related books
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BaTu Culture Series, with its connotations spanning the ancient and modern worlds, deals with the history, cultural relics, and development of the Changyang Tujia, and is an all-encompassing interpretation of the Tujia's history and humanistic spirit.
A full set of "series" about 3 million words, by the "Grange", "Changyang Tujia source research", "Ba regional research", "Ba people source research", "village space and folk narrative logic", "Changyang modern military history", "Changyang celebrities biographies", "the Tujia Sabaerho" and so on the composition of 10 volumes.
Among them, "Changyang Literary and Artistic Search and Deposit Collection (first edition)", "Changyang Literary and Artistic Search and Deposit Collection (sequel)" two, is the history of Changyang since the Ming and Qing dynasties of the collection of cultural and artistic information.
"Tujia Literature Original Series", which is a multi-angle record of the survival of the descendants of the Ba people, the depth of expression of the spirit of the times of the Tujia people of a "literary biography".
By the "old Ba Zi", "Ba people first gentleman", "Huang Xuelu story", "Tianheping file", "Wangyang Zhuang", "love affection", "follow the sun", "no sound shouting", "as expected", "children and kites" and so on the composition of 10 books, about 1.5 million words.
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