People who have been to Longdong will marvel at the special topography and landscape here. Severe soil erosion caused by ditches, loess, beams, mounts and other complex and rich topography. The difficult farming life is carried out under such terrain and harsher seasonal conditions, and the profound farming culture is formed and accumulated as a result. Farming activity is human activity, human activity is a living activity, a living activity to express feelings, expression of art. This is close to the northern Shaanxi, similar living environment and life feelings produced similar lyricism. Shaanbei produced a folk song, Longdong not only produced a Longdong folk song, Longdong ballads, and Longdong Taoism, Long opera and other art forms. Longdong folk song "shandandandan blossom red", "embroidered gold plaque", as well as by the folk song changed "the east red" not only sang the liberated areas, and later sung all over China. The land of songs is inevitably the land of music. For thousands of years, the people on the yellow land while farming, and singing, singing their feelings about life, singing their joy, anger, decline, music, thus giving rise to the folk music of Longdong.
And these music according to its source has three types: one is the traditional song, such as "the end of the South Mountain", "water", "Yellow Crane Tower", "Resignation of the dynasty"; the second is closely linked with the Longdong local opera music of the same name song, such as the "Yuan Horn Order", "Water Dragon Song", "Water Drop Jade", "General Order" and so on; the third is the evolution of the song by the local folk songs in the Longdong area, such as "embroidered purse", "small cattle", "the little put cattle", "the", "the" and so on. The third type is the songs evolved from the local folk songs in Longdong, such as "Embroidered Lotus Bags", "Little Cowherd", "Nine Linked Rings", "Pearls Rolling Back the Curtain", etc. These music in Longdong total **** more than 400.
Sona from the Ming Dynasty after the introduction of Longdong, has become the people of Longdong express their feelings, shouting life, heritage of Han music a basic musical instrument.
Those who are usually with the folks, yell the plowing oxen, shouting the Qinqiang or folk songs of the men, meet the red and white celebrations, put down the hands of the plough and harrow, take the beloved suona, called on the partners together to form a "blowing hand class". Go to a family celebration or sad cry compound, the feelings of the master of the house and his emotions of life through the head of a copper suona, or macro macro cool, or delicate and slow blowing to the sky, blowing to the ditch beams, blowing into the Longdong people roughly li's eardrums, laying on the heart of their trembling, rooted in the song crying. The red event can be heard on the "scholar parade", "pink lotus", "ground rabbit", "ghost mill", "parasitic grass", "snow drift", "twelve spring", "peace year", "matchmaking", "four pages of the tile", "Zhang Liang sell cloth", "victory back to the camp". That lively, bold music, is the Longdong people's soul "God of joy". White affair can be heard on the "geese fall on the beach", "hold the spirit of the card", "spring", "sacrifice", "mourning", "crying the Great Wall", "sad tone", "anti-ping tone", "crying the emperor", "spectator spectrum", "wine words", "inhibit Jinniang," and so on, that the pain of pathos of the tunes, that is, the Longdong people thousands of years of life in the precipitation of the feelings of sorrow and bitterness. These native artists on the yellow earth, so the Longdong folk music one by one to listen to the heart remember the inheritance down, and in the case of not knowing the music, suona hand generation to generation. For more than four hundred years, the suona has been passed down from generation to generation without interruption. And gradually developed into a huge musical team of more than six thousand people. They play in the Longdong ditch loess plateau, nourishing, living Longdong people dry heart, Longdong suona has become a living fossil of folk music and art museum.
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