Jianchuan Shibaoshan is located about 25 kilometers southwest of Jianchuan County in the Laojun Mountain system. Here the peaks and peaks, forests and trees, is known as the "South Heavenly Treasure" of the Nanzhao Dali Grottoes location, but also the annual Bai 10,000 people will be the venue of the activities of the song.
Shibaoshan song will be a grand Bai ethnic area of the national tradition of festivals, will be held from July 27 to August 1 in the lunar calendar, to the stream of tens of thousands of people on the mountain, as you sing song song and known in the world, from generation to generation, known as the "Bai song city". The popular Jianchuan Bai tune was included in the international catalog of famous folk songs.
Song will be, from Jianchuan, Eryuan, Dali, Lijiang, Lanping and other counties and cities of the Bai people from all directions converge here, while visiting the mountains and forests of the ancient temples, while the voice, unrestrained singing song to song. Square more than ten miles of mountain trails, tourists like weaving, such as complaints such as the sound of the three strings, melodious tune sound here and there, this echo, night and day in the mountains and forests.
Playing strings and singing songs was originally a clever way for the Bai youth to seek a soul mate by singing songs as a matchmaker, and the songs would naturally become their most public social occasions. Through the song to understand each other, test their talents, pouring out their hearts, so each lyrics are so simple and innocent, intriguing. Whenever there is a pair of wonderful duet, the onlookers immediately gathered around, people are from the best and most beautiful artistic enjoyment, there are many young men and women is through the song song into a hundred years of good.
Naturally, not only young people, men and women, young and old, as long as the mountain to stretch their singing voice. Elderly people believe that the song will sing the white tune can be happy and auspicious, or weekdays at home has made a wish to the gods, in order to protect the peace of the Qingji, must be on the Shibaoshan sing a hundred or so tunes, so sing the tune has become their wish. Most of the middle-aged people will express their feelings through the song, showing their minds and talents. Song will be popular tunes to the central dialect area of Dali Prefecture popular Jianchuan tunes, accompanied by a dragon's head three strings or blowing leaves, the words are sung for the Bai Poetry "three seventy-one-five" of the traditional format, the rhythm is rigorous, can not run rhymes and tones.
Excellent singers in the familiar mastery of traditional folk songs on the basis of the face of the scene plus improvisation, often wonderful words, moving heart. Once they meet each other, they will be able to answer each other, and they will sing for days and nights without winning or losing. Therefore, Shibaoshan song will be both the white people express their feelings, praise life's grand gathering, but also for the art of folk song exchanges, the inheritance of folk art bridge.
Shibaoshan song will be known as the "Yunnan hanging temple" Baoxiang Temple area as the main venue, where jagged rocks, springs clanking, winding stone steps leading to a building in the cliffs on the wall of the temple. At the foot of the mountain, there is a singing platform and a small square. During the song will become a marketplace dedicated to song service, vendors gathered, a wide range of small commodities, especially a variety of snacks and local specialties most prevalent, for people's leisure and entertainment to provide great convenience, but also to create a strong atmosphere of the festival.
In the night, the street into a bonfire party venue, young men and women play Shibaoshan unique "Xianglong", jumping whip dance, tourists from various regions have also been competing to offer their skills, singing and laughing, converging into a sea of joy.