Cheshui chant is a kind of labor chant, which is popular in rice-growing provinces in the Yangtze River basin. There are various forms of vehicle water, such as pedal waterwheel, hand-propelled waterwheel, windmill, cow-drawn waterwheel and so on. There are also many tunes in the song, and several tunes are connected together to form a larger multi-segment musical form. Some rhythms are free, some are regular, and the music is rough. If you hurry to plant seedlings in the field, the rhythm will be more urgent and the singing will be more enthusiastic. The lyrics are mostly improvised, and the more fixed ones are "counting sparrows", "counting cats", "counting toads" and "counting water". There is also a whole song that only sings the lining words, and the singing form is chorus, often accompanied by gongs and drums.
Oil-pressing bugle is a kind of labor bugle, also called oil-pressing bugle. It is a bugle that workers in oil-pressing plants shout when pressing vegetable oil. Generally, there are three different methods for squeezing oil: bump squeezing, squeezing and hammer squeezing, and the quantity varies according to the squeezing methods and regions. "Bump the horn", when bumping, a rough bump wood about two feet long is hung, and several people push the big wooden wedge in the oil tank to squeeze oil. When you play a song, you shout a song. The steps and actions of playing and squeezing are under the unified command of the song, so you are nervous. The "disc twisting horn" uses a spiral disc to squeeze oil. Several people operate the disc wringer, and the movements should be neat, shouting and operating. "Hammer bending" is generally operated by two people, who hammer the wooden wedge to extract oil. The two sang the song in pairs, and operated while singing.
Mianyang chant is the most common one. Mianyang is located in the middle of Jianghan Plain, with more than ten lakes including Dongjing River, Tongshun River, Tongzhou River, Liuxi River, Paihu Lake (Mianyang River in ancient times), Husha Lake, Carassius auratus Lake and Lulin Lake. Because of the low terrain and many lakes and rivers, it often flows nine times a year, which brings great disasters to the people. In order to make a living, people often fight floods and build dams every year. Mianyang people have created countless beating songs in hard work, so Mianyang beating songs came into being.
Playing the trumpet is also called folk songs, with high pitch and strong sense of rhythm. Singing while playing, the masses use it to coordinate their actions and relieve fatigue when repairing dikes and dams. Sentence patterns are generally seven words and crosses, and there are also five sentences. Singing at the construction site is similar to pounding the trumpet. Fighting can be divided into lifting and flying. There were four people, eight people and ten people fighting. The lead singer doesn't play when singing, but the masses play when singing.
There are usually three tools used for scraping:
The first one is a stone. That is the stone grate that farmers use to press millet on the threshing floor. It was tied with four wooden poles and carried by eight people.
The second is flaky, also known as Fang Shi Ying or flying stone. It is made of a generous stone weighing more than 100 kg, with holes in the four corners, and it is thrown out by eight people with ropes. It is ups and downs, high-spirited, and spectacular.
The third kind is a raft. There are two kinds of cymbals, one is square and the other is cylindrical. Only one person, at most two people, can lift it.
Most of the lyrics are improvised, and some sing historical stories. These tunes often absorb local minor tunes. The singing form of Mianyang Ci is chorus. The lead singer has lyrics and the chorus plays a foil role. There is no actual content, just some exclamations, such as hi, ya, Yang, Hua and so on. The lead singers are all masters of reciting songs, and their voices are so loud that they can be heard clearly from miles away in Fiona Fang. The people who heard it were really thunderous and refreshed. There is a lead singer and two duets. There is also a "song of throwing the ball", which is more demanding. A pair of eight people take turns to lead the singer and sing while playing, which is very interesting.
The content of Mianyang Ci is very extensive, some are based on historical stories and folklore, some are popular lyrics and poems, and more are based on the lyrics of Mianyang Opera scripts, such as Standing on the Flower Wall, White Fan, Qin Xianglian, Persuading Gu and Debating Marriage. Another is to test the level of lead singer. It's all improvisation, singing and editing, singing whatever you see and wherever you want. The language is simple and funny, and life is rich. There are many kinds of tunes 10, including slow tune, urgent tune, langdang tune, ocean flower, night hehe, Keyo-hehe, etc. According to the beating speed, it can be divided into the slowest "four levels"; Slow "high cavity"; Medium speed "four skins"; Fast Huayang and Langya Tune; The fastest "dragon boat paddling" and so on, among which the medium-speed one is used the most. 1962 The Provincial Music Association collected and sorted out the songs of Miyang and published them in Hubei Folk Songs.
With the progress of the times, damming has been replaced by machinery, and the beautiful snoring can no longer be heard. As a precious folk cultural heritage, Mianyang Song Ci is contained in the treasure house of traditional folk art. Tian Ge is used for sowing, weeding, watering, weeding, threshing and other fields. There are many kinds of Tian Ge in Mianyang, including Tian Yang Song sung by paddy field ploughing, Grass Cutting Song sung by dry land ploughing and Google Beating sung by paddy field ploughing. Grass-cutting songs have the greatest influence and are mainly popular in areas with more dry fields such as Maozui, Zhengchang, Zuohe and Sanfutan. There are two kinds of songs: main melody and aria. When singing, there is harmony. The leading songs are high tune, sad tune, flat tune and other minor tunes. The crowd and the chant sang a fire of Yin and Yang, smiled at the girl and led the donkey across the bridge. Popular in Zhanggou, there are spring sounds, rushing words, leading sounds and human voices.
The tune has both the lyricism of folk songs and the beauty of minor. Generally, there are several men and women singing barley songs in flail playing places, playing and singing face to face. The singing is loud and powerful, the rhythm is coordinated, and the atmosphere is very warm. Everyone and the hymn are episodes, and there is no specific content. The lead singer has a certain story with the same content as the local flower drum or lyrics, and also improvises. Also known as ditty. Generally speaking, rural women sing softly when they embroider shoes indoors, and they also have the habit of singing minor tunes when they take a nap in the field or enjoy the cool summer night. Minor reflects a wide range of life, and there are many love themes. It is often divided into four seasons (such as four seasons' lovesickness, four seasons' beauty, four seasons' songs and four seasons' sighs), five watches (such as urging five watches, sighing five watches and calling five watches), ten watches (such as ten episodes, ten thoughts, ten hates, ten gifts, ten glasses of wine and ten fans) and twelve watches. (12 o'clock) There are flowers, birds, fish and insects, which express their feelings by contrast. The lyrics are popular and vivid, easy to remember, beautiful and delicate, euphemistic and implicit, mainly including ten embroidery and embroidered purse tones. Most of the ancient paintings in Mianyang are developed from minor. In the famine years in the old days, Mianyang minor was often accompanied by four-stringed three-stick drums and playing discs, which became a means for people to earn a living by performing arts. And has been developed, showing tenacious vitality.
Also known as Caidiao, it is a folk song sung by folk dances such as lotus picking boats and lions. Most of the lyrics contain congratulations and happiness. The tune is cheerful and lively, the atmosphere is warm, accompanied by gongs and drums, which are deeply loved by the masses.
There are various forms of folk songs in Mianyang, and the most enthusiastic atmosphere is Lantern Song. This is a song sung by people who play lanterns on holidays in urban and rural areas. Mianyang people have the habit of playing with lanterns on holidays, especially from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month. Song and dance are popular and have not declined over the years. There are lotus picking, clam shell essence, lotus beating, seahorses, lions, dragon lanterns and ground flower drums everywhere. Some even pretend to be "stories" of a TV set, such as The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Little Old Man with a Back, Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon, etc., with various forms, so the lantern songs are particularly rich. The characteristics of this kind of folk songs are that most of the lyrics are auspicious and have the meaning of blessing and celebration; The tune is cheerful and lively, and the atmosphere is festive. Using various props, colorful costumes, singing and dancing, accompanied by gongs, drums, suona or stringed instruments, is the most attractive festival cultural activity in the vast rural areas. There are "Two Kaaba", "Song of Armed Riot", "Song of Native Cow", "Song of Young Pioneers", Song of Women's Liberation, Song of Confession Army Soldiers, Song of Flood, Being a soldier must be a Red Army and so on.
These red ballads have a strong shadow of the times and a distinct class consciousness and class feelings. 1977 "Revolutionary Historical Folk Songs in Western Hunan and Hubei" (arranged by Yang Wuqing, etc. ) collected by Huang Xiaolin and Kang Dade, participated in the provincial cultural performance and won the creative performance award. 1982, released by Nanguo Record Club. It is a folk song that reflects people's new ideas, new life and new fashion. I don't have time to go back to my mother's house. Sister Liu loves omnipotence, and the girl likes to drive a machine to roll a boat. My sister transplanted rice and I threw away my grandson. I think of my brother, engagement is just a song, and lotus picking is on September 8. But most of them are written by amateur authors.
Mianyang new folk songs were born in 1958. The representative work is How Do I Have Leisure Time to Go Back to My Mother's Home, written by He Liangyou, a musician of Xinghe Provincial Group Art Museum, a farmer in Xiangou Village, Xiantao. Singing because the collective production is very busy, "how can I have leisure time to go back to my family?" There is also a masterpiece "Love My Mom", which was sung by Wang Yuzhen, a native of Mianyang. Generally speaking, it reflects the work, production and life in the era of "People's Commune" and "Great Leap Forward". ?