The content of the wedding song

Wedding songs are a wonderful flower in Han folk culture. "Jiahe County Records" contains: "Married, in-laws and daughters get together and sing at night." Or hold up a small porcelain basin and dance to the song. Generally, a wealthy family will sing for two to three nights when they get married, indicating that they are married; If the family is poor and sings all night, it means that the partner is married. The content of dowry songs is very extensive, from "thinking about a mother and having a daughter" to "flying frost on the temples of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law", all of which reflect women's life. To sum up, it can be divided into five parts: playing songs, Long song, wedding dance, crying wedding songs and performing songs. 1, short melody, distinct rhythm, diverse styles and flexible structure, accounting for 90% of the whole wedding songs. Generally sung by young women, their songs are short and pithy, with four sentences, six sentences, five sentences, three sentences and two sentences, and each sentence is generally seven words, six words and four words. There are single-segment, double-segment and multi-segment bodies. Lyrics spread history and production knowledge; Singing about women's working life; There are festive and playful; Have the ability to vent emotions; Have yearning and pursuit for a beautiful marriage life; A person who opposes feudal marriage ethics. For example, the song of copper coins is a humorous nursery rhyme. Sister as White as Silver is a hymn to the beauty of the girl. "Reunion Song" is a festive song full of harmonious atmosphere; Seeing my sister off is a reluctant farewell song. "Send my sister 330" means that there are more than 300 songs to send my sister alone. The sun shines on the Yang family, which shows the love between men and women. The well-known "Half-liter Mung Bean", "Hump Bean" and "Wedding Songs" show women's resentment and struggle against feudal marriage, and such songs account for a large part of wedding songs. Such as: "send the shuttle across the street, wipe your tears sleeves, sister, when will you come?" Peach blossoms, I turn around. Peach blossoms bloom once a year, no more than camellia blossoms several times. ""half a liter of green beans choose beans, my mother's children don't choose home, and my mother loves me! Ten million homes are not allowed, rest assured to the poor, my mother will hurt me! Marry a chicken with a chicken, a dog with a dog, and a hammer. My mother will hurt me! " "Dead matchmaker, plague matchmaker, ate a lot of old bitches. At the beginning of the first day, you ate two dead people. You were buried in the slope of the road. Niu Yi's feet, the horse's feet and the dog came out of the intestines and dragged them. In addition, in the historical integration, Juge also sang many other folk songs, such as Soldiers' Song, Anti-Japanese Song, Man Zi Song, No Song, Longbow Song and so on. 2. This song is a soothing and sad narrative of Long song. Generally, they are sung by old singers with long lyrics, such as 126 in Sister Luo at the end of eighteen years, 194 in Song of butterfly lovers and more than 30 shorter sentences. Its contents are mainly historical legends, and folk stories such as Mulan Ci and Liangzhu Song circulated in other places are also introduced. There are 15 Long song songs collected, most of which are stories of marriage tragedies, such as Four Sisters at the End of Eighteen Years, Song of Butterfly Lovers, Flower Girl, Vegetable Rice, Going to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the first month, White Lantern Flying Flowers and White Bowl, etc., all of which are the unfortunate experiences of women's marriage circulated among the people. There are also folk songs such as "Don't sing classics, don't sing essays" in Long song, urging people to be filial and virtuous, and brothers should follow each other and not be treacherous. 3. A warm, cheerful and witty wedding dance. Generally, the music in the constituency is lively, with songs and dance music. When the companions sang till dawn, the Langs' sedan chair came and the atmosphere in Getang was heating up. Singers picked up daily necessities such as tea sets and wine utensils (usually plates, teapots, incense sticks, umbrellas, pot lids, rice bowls and pipes) and danced, pushing the warm farewell atmosphere in the karaoke bars to a climax. At present, there is 18 wedding dance music arrangement. There are round, light and soft dances: incense dance, passionate, colorful and smooth; Selling wine and dancing, grinding dance, very humorous; The cotton dance, water dance and boat dance in the workshop show women's diligence, enthusiasm and cheerfulness; The mother's shouting for the woman reflects the complicated mentality of mother-daughter parting. " "Jiahe County Records" records: "After ten days of marriage, the bride cried when she saw her relatives, the bride cried when she dressed up, the sedan chair cried, and her companion cried for her. "Weeping wedding song is an emotional music, and the tone is relatively free to sing. Its lyrics are composed by crying, that is, singing together. Most of the content is nostalgic, and some blame their parents and scold the media. There is also "crying for a seat". The bride sings this song in tears first, and when everyone is seated, the girl who married her sings the song of marrying her. 5. Praise the songs that tease the groom. This is an old custom of Jiahe. Three days after marriage, the groom took the bride to the bride's house to pay homage, and the bride's sister-in-law and aunt got together. First, they make tea with pepper, pin chopsticks to death, and stick a piece of red paper under the glass. If the groom doesn't pay attention, he will make a fool of himself by eating tea. After three rounds of drinking, my sister-in-law began to read poetry, with a sonorous tone and cadence, which was called "four sentences" In addition to "the groom's gentle and graceful, good to his sister, send a pair of silk shoes to grow old together." "In addition to the four established cannot be changed, most of the other four sentences are impromptu, and some are not necessarily four sentences. Up to now, 2 1 sentence has been collected and sorted out. Looking at the singing content and forms of Jiahe wedding song, it is a lyric long poem that pours out women's feelings, and a lyric folk song and dance drama with the main content of reflecting women's wedding customs.