The first of the Tujia folk songs is the Shan Song, which is usually a seven-word phrase, a four-phrase song, or a five-phrase song. There are many themes, mainly lyric songs, narrative songs, god songs and so on.
Man: Little girl I call you,
I call you ten times,
You do not answer me,
When did you get offended?
Tell me one word at a time.
Woman: My brother, you called me,
How can I open my mouth when my mother is in the house?
When my mother is not in the house,
I carry pigweed on my back to see you come.
Gongs and drums song:
Also known as digging songs, mountain gongs and drums, gongs and drums, etc., it is a kind of labor song, which mostly expresses the labor scenes of the Tujia people. For example:
Bundle up the belt to be vigorous,
Dig it up to be bucket-shaped.
Digging the side of the brother to be strong,
step by step forward.
Hand Waving Song:
Originally, it is a ceremonial song and dance performed by the Tujia people to honor the King of the Earth. The lyrics are mainly myths and legends and scenes of past production and life. For example, the Song of Human Origins:
The rain poured down,
for seven days and seven nights,
and the water from the well,
Yongni not Sony,
drilled into the window of the melon.
The water rushes rolled up the slag,
and tightly blocked the melon window.
The water rose and broke the sky,
the sky collapsed to the earth,
the earth rose to the sky,
the sky turned over, and the earth turned over.
Long narrative poems:
For example, "The Golden Cockerel," which has seven chapters and 724 lines:
Sells -
The steward asks only how many sheep,
The toff asks only how strong the sheep are.
Who cares if Chun is hungry and cold?
Only the eldest laborer asks about the cold and the warmth!
Ransom--
A piece of paper and a life,
Today I am a free man.
The long laborer lit a fire,
and the contract of sale turned to ashes.
Reunion -
The rainy sun is a false love,
How many words of the matchmaker's speech are true?
With love and intent, heart to heart,
What need is there for a matchmaker to make a needle?
Reunion--
Life is not a loss, death is not a loss,
Like a green vine wrapped around a pomegranate.
The green vine is wrapped around the pomegranate tree,
and the flower is dead and the vine is dry.
Wailing Songs:
Singers gather in front of the sacrificial tent, one person beats the drum and sings, sometimes with the help of the crowd, and sing in turn. Except for the parts with fixed lyrics, most of them are sung as they are made up. Generally, each line of seven or ten words, two or four lines of a song. For example:
The Xiaoya family is playing drums tonight,
The three relatives are coming to pay homage.
Full of children and grandchildren are wearing hemp,
Filial sons and daughters are howling in pain.
Crying Marriage Song:
The song sung by Tujia girls before they get married in the sedan chair while crying. There are the ancestor, female crying mother, mother crying female, sister crying sister, sister crying sister, crying brother and sister-in-law, crying sister, crying combing hair, crying wearing dew clothes, crying to eat master and mother, crying 100 guests, crying on the sedan chair, and so on.
One of the most interesting curses against the matchmaker is:
The matchmaker is a dog, and he eats from the other end.
The mother-in-law's family is a good son-in-law, and the mother-in-law's family is a good dowry.
The sparrows in the trees are coaxed to come, and the monkeys on the rocks are tricked into leaving.
The peas bloom from corner to corner, and the matchmaker eats them.
The iron tree blossomed eight inches long, and the matchmaker ate it and rotted his intestines.
Crying for the father is also quite unique:
There are many stars in the sky and the moon is not clear,
The kindness of the father can not be said enough,
It is difficult to say all the words.
One is afraid that we will suffer from hunger, the other is afraid that we will get sick,
Three is afraid that we will be dressed in uglier clothes than other people, and we will wear the stars and the moon and take a lot of pains.
The fourth fear is that we will be uneducated, so we will be sent to school to study,
To raise your daughter as a human being, we will spend money on her.
One foot and five inches of the daughter's plate, just short of bringing it to the mouth;
hard times and hard days, freezing and starvation, and the heart!
Daughter's life is a mistake, her parents' hard work is wasted;
I am leaving my parents today, and my heart is drenched with tears!
It's hard for a daughter to be filial to her parents, and it's hard for her to take her parents to the end of her life!
Sisters to cry words:
Sister: Solo tree twelve yards, we have the same root and the same yards;
Today sister to be separated, leaving the embroidery building is very lonely!
Sister: the twelve yards on the Solo tree, we have the same father and the same mother;
The sisters are going to leave this day, it is difficult to part with each other, it is difficult to break the love!
Sister: The selvage tree came to the stage to stage, my sister's heart is difficult to forgive;
Throw your sister in-laws to go, and only on New Year's Day and come again!
My sister: the Solo tree to Taiwan to Taiwan, look at my sister's heart more forgiveness,
More to admit sister sister to treat, sister's teachings to remember the heart of the mind!