"Welcome the New Year in the First Month" is a Shanxi folk song. The world's outstanding folk song "Dragon Boat Tune" is adapted from Lichuan Lantern Song "Planting Melon Tune". Lichuan Lantern Song is a folk singing form with colorful dragon boats as props for Tujia people on holidays in Lichuan. It developed in the early Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years.
In the late Qing Dynasty, lantern songs became more and more popular in Lichuan. There were many kinds of lanterns, such as "the first eight out", "the last eight out" and "miscellaneous lamps". Guadiao is sung in Baiyang, Moudao and Wang Ying in Lichuan City, Enshi Prefecture, southwest Hubei Province. Lichuan is known as the hometown of dragon boat melody.
Generally speaking, Selling Tangyuan is a Taiwan Province folk song. In fact, this song was composed by China's outstanding composers Chen Dieyi and Yao Min in the 20th century, and was first sung by Fang Jingyin. It's an episode of the movie Peach Blossom Spring. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Lantern Festival, a festival to eat glutinous rice balls and enjoy lanterns, became very popular.
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Tujia people have a long history of playing with lanterns. The Tongzhi edition of "Supplement to the Records of Nanfu" records: "After the Ninth Festival, there was a dragon lantern performance in the countryside, which was mixed with lions, elephants, forests and fish to fight against the epidemic." "Records of Lichuan County in Tongzhi County of Qing Dynasty" records: "In Kuya, dragon lanterns and lion lanterns were used to drive away the epidemic, and snuff competed until the Lantern Festival."
It can be seen that the early lantern-playing in Tujia area is actually a Nuo activity in Tujia area. Witches carry dragon lanterns and lion lanterns, set off firecrackers, and preside over ceremonies along the way to exorcise ghosts.
Tujia people love singing and dancing, and they like watching lights while singing. After returning to their homeland, the custom of Tujia people playing with lanterns has not changed. In the first month, there are many kinds of lanterns, such as dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, colorful dragon boats, clam shell lanterns, ground dragon lanterns, lanterns, etc., and lantern songs also flourish.
As recorded in the Tongzhi Edition of Xianfeng County Records, "After the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, there were dragon lantern plays in the countryside, mixed with paper lion plays, paper dragon boats, cars and other plays, singing and dancing along the door." At present, there are still nearly 100 traditional lantern songs in Lichuan, and "Dragon Boat Tune" is adapted from Lichuan lantern song "Planting Melon Tune".
1953 in the spring and summer, Zhou, a music cadre of Lichuan Cultural Center, listened to Ding Hongru, a farmer singer, recording the lyrics of "Planting Melons": the first month is the New Year (hey hey), and melon seeds only enter the garden (hey hey). In February, the spring breeze (e-yo-yo) began and the melon seeds took root (e-yo-yo). March is Qingming (eyah youyou), and the seedlings grow into forests (eyah youyou). April is long summer (e-yo-yo), and melons and fruits are put on the shelves (e-yo-yo).
May is Duanyang (e-yo-yo) and melon tastes new (e-yo-yo). It's hot in the dog days of June (hey hey), and melons are eating (hey hey). It's cool in July and autumn (hey hey), and the melon skin is yellow (hey hey). August Mid-Autumn Festival (e-yo-yo), picking melons (e-yo-yo). September is the Double Ninth Festival (eyah yo), and all the melon seeds have gone down (eyah yo). Melon is finished in October (e-yo-yo), so the seeds should be left to (e-yo-yo).
As can be seen from the lyrics, Melody Planting tells the story of growing melons for ten months, and it is a standard agricultural song. /kloc-in the summer of 0/955, the lichuan county Museum of Literature and Art held a county-wide rural amateur literary performance, and Zhou suggested that Baiyangba rehearse the dragon boat dance adapted from his "Planting Melons". During the rehearsal, Huang, the dance cadre of the cultural center, suggested that the colorful dragon boat and other physical props should be removed, and the songs should be performed by two people, which was well received.
1956, the further dragon boat dance participated in the first folk song and dance performance in Enshi area and was rated as an excellent program. From 65438 to 0958, "Dragon Boat Tune" (also known as "Dragon Boat Tune") was included in the performance program of Hubei Province Mass Art Tour Counseling Troupe. Since then, "Dragon Boat Tune" has spread to the whole province, the whole country and even the whole world, and has been rated as one of the most popular songs in the world.
For decades, solo, duet, chorus, lead singer, song and dance and other forms have been widely used on the stage of literary and art groups in many provinces and cities across the country. Lichuan City is proud of being the hometown of Dragon Boat Tune, and both amateur and professional troupes enthusiastically adapt and re-create it in various literary forms.
Some scholars believe that the melody of Dragon Boat Tune is beautiful, and its rotation is related to the "Ba people" (Tujia ancestors) song in Song Yu's Ask the King of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty, which is one of the most typical features of traditional songs in western Hubei.
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