In fact, the original ecological art activities in the folk have been developed for a long time, because of its simple and natural, and seem fresh and real. Original ecological as a new thing, the last one or two years like the April wind and rain slowly moisturizing the Chinese land.
The original ecological first appeared in the Zhang Yimou "impression? Liu Sanjie" evaluation. At that time, Zhang Yimou used the real mountains and waters of Guilin as the stage, allowing local farmers to sing and dance to their heart's content, and the blurring of the original artistic performance was thus discovered. Yang Liping and her "Impression of Yunnan" carried forward the original performance - the locals in Yunnan used their daily life dance with primitive style, squeezed into the TV and screen, and met with thousands of households. Since then, the original ecology has officially germinated. And CCTV "Spring Festival Gala" A Bao's appearance, counting really make the "original ecology" has a formal name, bear mixed praise and criticism of the sweet and sour bitter and astringent fruit. The original "lower barrens", which was disdained by some so-called experts, exuded a powerful charm! Pure and simple chanting to a new form of simple art to the stage, gradually accepted by the people.
And in the "Twelfth CCTV National Young Singers Television Grand Prix", the original ecological singing and was given and American, popular, national singing position, really included in the ranks of the art. Perhaps, this new wildflower will become a new star in the field of art, from now on will enter the music of everyone, into thousands of households.
Original folk songs
Original folk songs, as the name suggests, is the people of all ethnic groups in our country in the practice of production and life created in the folk widely circulated in the "original flavor" of the folk singing music form, they are the Chinese nation "oral intangible cultural heritage
Original folk singing music is an important part of the "oral intangible cultural heritage" of the Chinese nation.
Original songs, original songs is a combination of folk art, folklore, uncommercialized, have their own unique culture, preserving their own unique customs of the song, the flavor of the countryside, without any modification.
Folk songs are the crystallization of the wisdom of people of all races, and a vivid portrayal of people's lives in various historical periods. These songs arise directly from the folk, and have long been circulating among farmers, boatmen, footmen, shepherds and women, reflecting all aspects of the life of the times, and can be said to be a vivid picture of the people's life in various historical periods. These songs were created orally by the public and have been continuously enriched and developed in circulation, with more and more refined lyrics and perfect tunes, which have high artistic value. The language of folk songs is vivid and evocative, it is not a simple language of life directly, but also pay attention to the rhyme, pay attention to the traditional poetic techniques, from life and above life, is the people's masterpiece, is the essence of the language of the masses.
China's folk songs are extremely rich in variety, mainly including the long and short-toned pastoral songs of Inner Mongolia, the Man Han tune and the climbing tune of the Hetao and the surrounding areas, the Shanqu and Xintianyou of northern Shaanxi and northwestern Shanxi, the flower children of the Gan, Qing, and Ning regions, the twelve Mukams of Xinjiang, the sister songs and the Maoshan song of southern Shaanxi and northern Sichuan, the Wu song of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Hakka songs of the intersecting areas of Gan, Min, and Guangdong, the morning songs and the Dading mountain songs of the border of Yun, Gui, and Sichuan, the morning songs and the Dading mountain songs, and the Dating mountain songs of the border of Yun, Guizhou, and Sichuan. Morning Songs, Dading Mountain Songs, and Midu Mountain Songs, the Luti and Harmony Folk Songs of the Tibetan-inhabited areas, as well as the mountain songs of various other ethnic groups.
According to experts, the term "original ecology" is borrowed from natural science. Ecology is a state of survival and development between organisms and the environment, and the original ecology is everything that survives in a natural condition. The original folk song is something expressed naturally by the people, while the adaptation of many folk songs is a variation of the original ecological condition and belongs to the non-original ecology.
Original singing is just a kind of expression that distinguishes it from academy folk singing, which has mostly absorbed some Western singing styles, but original singing is a kind of primitive and unprocessed singing style." As a judge, he believes that in addition to scoring the contestants in the original singing group rigidly in terms of pitch and timbre, he should also pay attention to whether the contestants are better able to grasp the national style.
Original folk dwellings
The Encyclopedia states: "Folk dwellings, in modern times, will be palaces, government offices outside the residential buildings collectively referred to as folk dwellings. The so-called residential is where people live. Folk dwellings are divided into modern folk dwellings and traditional folk dwellings, and traditional folk dwellings are divided into original folk dwellings and form folk dwellings. Those dwellings that have been well inherited in terms of history, locality, culture, wholeness, architecture and life are the original dwellings. Their value lies not only in the building itself, but also in the fact that they carry the original flavor of the local life, carrying the historical imprint of the original ecological environment.
Original Dance
The so-called original dance should be the result of the ancient forefathers' "insufficient singing, dancing and footwork", and it is a "cultural source" that is less invaded by modernization. "The first is a folk dance that is less likely to be invaded by modernization and has a cultural origin.
It is generally believed that the original dance is square rather than theater, self-indulgence rather than performance, participation rather than viewing, random rather than standardized, labor-saving rather than deliberate, and inheritance rather than creation. Original dances are folk dances handed down by ordinary people in folk rituals or folk activities.
Grappling from the perspectives of ethnology, folklore, and ethnic and cultural psychology, we will find that the original dance has some of the following spiritual and cultural connotations: the worship of totem symbols as the sacred power; the rituals with the theme of the life essence; the theme of harmony between man and nature; and the popularity with the tone of folk life. Each of these dances may not necessarily be fully encompassed, but they are all related to one or more of these elements.
Worshipfulness with totemic symbols as sacred power. Totem is the mark and symbol of primitive clans and tribal groups, and totem culture, as the primitive accumulation layer forming the deep structure of national culture and psychology, has the original significance of the yuan of the national culture, the source of the national soul, and the true nature of human nature. Primitive dance is the expression of totem worship or itself is a kind of animal movements as totem symbols for dance movements, so that it can obtain the group identity marking, satisfy and realize the social collective consciousness and belonging psychology. For example, the Dragon Dance is inseparable from the Han people's totem worship of the dragon. The worship of copper drums in the minority, the worship of bamboo, many ethnic Nuo Nuo dance of heaven and earth in the worship of the gods, is an important element in the original ecological dance. Totem worship dance, originated from the worship of the gods and the need for ancestral beliefs.
Ritualistic with the theme of life essence. Rituals are people's way of behavior, and ritual dance occupies an important position in the original dance. Ceremonial dance arises from the reverence for and reliance on supernatural deities. In primitive society, primitive religion, totem worship, witchcraft sacrifices and other activities are inseparable from the dance. Ceremonial dance can be divided into two kinds in terms of behavior, one is worship behavior and the other is imitation behavior. Whether it is the worship of the gods or the attachment to the gods and pretending to be gods and ghosts, the purpose is to use the power of the gods to realize the exorcism of evil spirits, reflecting their pursuit of life and the aspiration of life, and entrusting people's wishes for a better future.
Thematic of harmony between man and nature. China is a traditional farming society, in the relationship between man and nature, the dominant idea is the "unity of man and heaven". This concept is reflected in the psychology of primitive culture, which is the reverence for nature and obedience to the natural order, and on this basis to achieve harmony between man and nature. The initial meaning of "heaven" is "God", people can only passively obey. Later on, people believed that heaven was nature, referring to nature and the laws of evolution of the natural world. The "unity of heaven and man" is the harmony and unity between man and nature. Expressed in the original dance, is to reflect the people praying for heaven and praying for the ground, to get the wind and rain of the various ceremonial dance, and has the nature of the original folk dance, also contains a large number of similar content.
Popularity based on folk life. The original dance exists in the people as the content of human activities, is a part of the folk life and production activities, is the folk life as the tone of the folk dance art to the public aesthetic interest. Production activities are the most basic activities of human beings, and with the form of human physical activities as the basic form of expression, it forms the original dance reflecting the labor activities, and at the same time expresses the beautiful feelings that naturally flow from the labor. The Miao bench dance and the Yi "A-Mei Chito" dance of the Guizhou Province's Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture are such dances originating from production life.
Original folk songs and the ecological protection of national culture
(1) When people re-recognize the artistic charm of the original folk songs as if discovering a new continent, they are all shocked by the increasing numbness of their own traditional national culture in the modern industrial society. In the increasingly modernized metropolis, in the commodity society under the impact of fashion culture, we are farther and farther away from the original folk songs. People living in this era, it is difficult to have the opportunity to appreciate the flavor of pure folk songs, not to mention the unique aesthetic characteristics of the original folk songs full of simple personality of the cultural tradition and its rich connotations, which will inevitably lead to the formation of the group's value orientation deviation. "Original ecology" originally refers to a state of survival and development between organisms and the environment, and the original ecology is everything that survives in the natural condition. Original folk song is a record of folk primitive culture in the course of human development, and it is an important part of national "oral and intangible cultural heritage" with rich and full cultural connotation, and it has high research value like historical relics. As an intangible cultural heritage, original folk songs are the fastest to be lost and more difficult to be preserved, and should be protected as a matter of priority. But the reality is just the opposite, in the protection of cultural relics, the original folk songs are always forgotten objects.
With the changes in production and lifestyle, the implementation of Mandarin Chinese, the impact of popular culture, the original folk songs rely on the survival of the cultural ecology has been damaged, some traditional folk songs have lost the singing environment. The function of some folk songs has been lost, and the culture attached to this function has also shrunk. Today, folk songs are subject to foreign cultural impact is a historical inevitability, but the demise of folk songs for the Chinese nation, is an irreparable loss. With the death of old singers one after another, many beautiful and melodious folk songs have also gone with them. The disappearance of a folk artist is often the disappearance of a folk song museum. Due to the lack of clear educational ideological guidance, music education in primary and secondary schools has not insisted on teaching original folk songs, resulting in many children not being able to sing their own folk songs. As for the professional teaching field which takes the inheritance and dissemination of music culture as its own responsibility, after experiencing the total rejection of folk music during the "Cultural Revolution" period and the strong impact of Hong Kong and Taiwan songs on the original folk songs, the teaching of original folk music has gradually been marginalized, and the courses of folk songs, operas, and Chinese operatic singing have become fewer and fewer, and have even been cut down for no reason. Professional colleges and universities have few audio-visual materials for study and reference, and there is no financial support for going to the folk folk songs, and most of the folk vocal works in the audio-visual stores are composed songs sung in Western or popular singing styles and a wide variety of new folk songs. Many singers who learn ethnic singing pursue media overnight fame, just imitate the famous big-name singers, never go to seriously learn the traditional folk style and technology, thus ethnic vocal students ethnic art nutrition is seriously inadequate.
(2) In the absence of any media publicity and momentum, the best-selling of a record created by integrating the melody of the western folk song muqam into simple and catchy pop elements has made some record companies discover the business opportunity of repackaging folk songs in a stylized way, and have penetrated into the traditional original folk songs, tapped the aesthetic connotation of the era of folk music, and promoted the original folk songs in a market-oriented way. Following the pace of the times, the original folk songs are being promoted in a market-oriented way. The powerful thrust of combining commercial interests and social demands has led to a strong trend of returning traditional music themes and styles in the field of popular music, and some professional music workers have begun to take traditional folk music as their materials, and have written a large number of "folk song covers" or folk music covers in the "trinity of ethnic, classical and popular music languages". Some professional musicians began to use traditional folk music as the material for writing a large number of "folk songs" in the "trinity of ethnic, classical and popular music languages" or folk music adaptation. This so-called "new folk music" is different from the single regional color of the traditional original folk songs, but draws inspiration from folk songs, and borrows a lot from European and American jazz, blues, rap and other characteristics. After the downturn of folk music in urban culture in the 20th century, "New Folk Music" concerts have seen a rare boom. The rise of "new folk music", as a special music and cultural phenomenon of "seeking the wild for the loss of music", shows that the people of China are trying to get rid of the bias of the theory of the "center" of cultural values, and are pursuing the trend of the return of traditional cultural values. The "New Folk Music" is a special musical and cultural phenomenon that shows the tendency of the people of China trying to get rid of the bias of the "center" theory of cultural values and pursuing the return of traditional cultural values. The absorption and transformation of original folk music elements by "new folk music" is a useful attempt to innovate folk music. However, for a long time, because professional musicians have used a large amount of folk music materials to create many excellent folk music works with wide influence, people mistakenly think that professional creation is the only successful way to develop folk music, and that only by combining modern music elements is the only way out for folk music to go to the world. What's more, in recent years, under the banner of "innovation", some organizers of folk song festivals, only from the box office value and economic benefits, expand the extension of folk songs infinitely, randomly capture a few titles, invite a few foreigners and big names, sing some specious songs, and make an artistic activity called "Folk Song Festival "Artistic activities, completely turned into a commercialized speculation.
It is true that tradition should be a living organism that changes and develops. As a form of intangible culture of our nation, folk songs are bound to change with the times, and positive and beneficial exploration attempts should be encouraged. However, innovation must have a deep understanding of the original folk songs and a genuine concern for the development of folk music art. The innovation and development of folk songs should never be done at the cost of losing the individual characteristics of national art, subverting traditional art and losing the cultural spirit. The transformation from rural folk songs to urban folk songs has always been an inevitable trend in the circulation of folk songs. However, to continue the development of urban folk songs, it is necessary to draw rich nutrients from the original folk songs, which is the only way out to avoid the decline of urban folk songs. The creation of national style songs by professional musicians has made a historic contribution to the development of Chinese folk songs, and will undoubtedly remain an important link between the original folk songs and modern social life, and one of the most important ways for the innovation and development of Chinese folk songs. The creation of "folk songs" that are out of the ordinary and regard weirdness as innovation is by no means the direction for the development of Chinese folk songs.
(3) The original folk songs in different parts of China have a long tradition, and the many ethnic groups, rich ethnic languages and unique folk customs have given birth to the breathtaking art of folk songs. In the "Ten Major Collections" of Chinese traditional arts in the 1980s, as many as 400,000 Chinese folk songs were collected. Such a rich advantage of traditional music resources is rare in the world. The original folk song culture retains the most refined information of the national survival process, and is the most basic spiritual element for the continuation and growth of the local civilization. Original folk songs are the roots of national music and art, and more and more people are constantly exploring the adaptive transformation of folk songs in the new historical period in order to inherit and develop Chinese folk songs. However, those folk songs that are attached to the typical production and life style of agricultural societies are no longer their own once they have "developed" with the economic transformation. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt a museum-style protection, must maintain the original living environment of the folk songs, so that the folk songs in their own ecological space to survive and develop.