Songs and dances were held on March 19th, 2011, the village committee and the senior citizen association of Gaobao village in Malu Township organized the "2011 Gaobao Village Second Tunbao Style Festival". At the scene of the event, the participating teams either sang songs, jumped on the ground opera, or performed dances, the wonderful performance won the audience a burst of applause, the scene atmosphere is warm and full of festivities.
Unlike the last "Ethnic Style Festival", all the participating teams were from the masses, and some people from Anshun City and Pingba County were also invited to perform. Dressed in national dress Tumboldt people in beautiful music accompanied by a fashionable dance, not a flavor. During the preparations for the event, all relevant departments of the county and the village government have been generous, the county senior university also sent a representative team to participate in the event. The village elderly association responsible person introduced, spring plowing is held in the event, one is to let the love of life Tumblr can be in a short entertainment, recuperation into the intense spring production, two is to enhance the unity of the various ethnic groups, and through this to let the unique Tumblr culture again colorful, and inherited from generation to generation.
Six hundred years, hard-working Changshun County Road Township Tunbao people in the fields of cultivation, the oral often sang a kind of self-edited songs, tone content simple and high-pitched, singing songs, no script, out of the mouth, reflecting the local Tunbao people's hard work and wisdom, open-minded. Songs mainly involving love songs, four seasons song, congratulations song, self-sighing song, plate song, etc., every time the Tumboldt family organizes a big or small happy event, we have to invite one or two pairs of excellent male and female singers to sing one or two days to increase the festivities and lively atmosphere of the grand.
Tunbao people of all ages love to sing, listen to songs, especially favorite songs, singing songs are not subject to specific environmental constraints, can be sung throughout the year, chopping wood on the hillside, cutting grass and cattle, planting rice seedlings in the rice fields, weeding in the field, walking on the rugged mountain roads in the countryside on the flat road to catch the horse-drawn carts, picking tea in tea gardens, washing clothes by the riverside and so on, are a good place to sing. With the progress of the times and the great development and prosperity of culture, Tumboldt culture has been emphasized and developed. Through singing mountain songs, the wit and wisdom of Tumboldt people are revealed, which also makes the listeners unable to stop laughing and hurt their stomachs. Tumboldt songs have accompanied generations of Tumboldt people, enriched the spiritual life of Tumboldt people, and constructed a characteristic cultural space for Tumboldt people. Whenever the mountain song together, the mood suddenly feel comfortable, the elimination of bitterness, fatigue, the joy of endless, happy and forgetful.