Song hopping: poetry, song and dance are integrated into the mass self-entertainment activities. The people with the reed-sheng, flute music melody rhythm, singing and dancing, a person led the singing, the crowd chorus. From the content of the lyrics are divided into Panqu (row of songs), miscellaneous songs (scattered songs), songs (defense) several kinds. Panqu? Rich in narrative poems, most of which are summaries of astronomy, geography and production knowledge, as well as stories and tales from the past and present, such as "Worshiping the Twelve Genus" and "Relying on the Father and the Son in the Battlefield", etc. The songs are divided into several types. Miscellaneous Songs is an improvisation, touching the scene, directly expresses the chest, often for the seven lines or five lines. Songs? The first time I saw this, it was a very good time for me to go back to my old school.
The song: from the content of the lyrics are divided into narrative songs, custom songs, love songs. Narrative songs? is a method used by the Yi folk to recount history, events and experiences, such as "cauliflower yellow", "top soldier tune", "pregnant with a child", etc. The customary songs? Custom Songs Reflecting customs, local customs, national taboos, and the contents and procedures of sacrificial activities from different perspectives, these songs include "Delivering the God of Wealth", "Worshiping the God of Happiness", "Sacrifices", and "Marriage Songs". Love Songs Mainly expresses the love between men and women. The tune of the song is stable, soft, the rhythm of the regular rigorous, diverse styles, adaptability, singing form of flexible, mountain villages, weddings and funerals can be sung.
Mountain songs: divided into labor songs, pastoral songs, roaring mountain tune several kinds. Mountain songs are mostly sung in the wild, not subject to environmental restrictions, is to express the singer's inner thoughts and feelings and life of a self-indulgent tunes. The rhythm is free, the tune is stretching, abandonment, high and impassioned, wide range, more decorative tone and more use of free prolongation.? Labor Songs There are "Rice Planting Song" and "Grass Gathering Song". Pastoral Songs There are "Cattle Herding Song" and "Sheep Herding Song". Howling Mountain Songs There are "dumping flower mountain", "chasing mountain tune", "big over the mountain", "chasing sister", "over the mountain tune", "Shunjiang side", "over the mountain tune", "dripping water tune", "climb the mountain tune", "down the river tune" and so on.
The folk instrumental music of the Yi ethnic group consists of three types: wind and pipe music, bowed string music and percussion music. It is also used as accompaniment for songs, dances and singing.
Wind music: there are trombones, mouth strings, suona, flutes, lusheng, reed straws, big buzzing tube, trumpet, etc. Lusheng is mostly used as the accompaniment for dancing songs. The reed-sheng is mostly used as an accompaniment for dancing songs, and has five, seven and nine pipes, which can play the pentatonic scale. The trombone has a bright and deep sound, and is mostly used in the marriage ceremony to play the trombone. The trombone has a loud, deep sound and is mostly used in the marriage ceremony as a trumpet. Trumpet tune in addition to accompany the dance, in the wedding field can also play the watchtower tune, absent tune, welcome the bride tune, send the bride tune, pick up the tune; worship tune and other repertoire.
Bowed string music: there are large three-string, small three-string, moon, four-string, erhu and so on. The three-string playing skills are mostly? Rolling? and? Pluck? The strings are mostly set in four and five degrees. The repertoire of sanxian is more, there are joyful and sorrowful. Popular Sanxian repertoire are: Shun Jiangbian, two fold a, turn over the tune, straight song, turn over the song, hasten the song, go out the tune, catch the horse tune, three stomping feet, three feet tune and so on.
Percussion: sheepskin drums, wooden fish, chime, mango, gongs and so on. They are mainly used for mastering beats, passages and adding atmosphere to the performance.
Yi folk dance. Simao area of the Yi to jump hope, also known as jumping song, playing the song of the dance is the most abundant, about more than 100 sets of paths, the region's counties are popular: flash song, Shun save song, a small inverted save, big inverted save, straight song, monkey car mill, combined foot song, chicken survey song, sheep tearing beat, horse hoofs, three stomping feet, sheepskin dance, three strings of the dance. In Jiangcheng County, the popular smoke box dance, seven girls, Duli Le Guole, Yeni Thirst, four-string dance, clap hands, A Qu color, jumping god and so on. The Yi dance is characterized by cheerfulness and hilarity.