Historically, people only regarded it as a fighting horn to inspire morale and bravely kill the enemy, and then it was handed down as a national art and became a characteristic culture of the Loess Plateau in China.
Magnificent gongs and drums are a kind of collective percussion performance popular in Linfen, which is named after the drummer's various brave gestures during the performance. It is often performed in celebration of the Lunar New Year, harvest, mass demonstrations and other festive occasions. It is said that the majestic gongs and drums first appeared in the period of the ancient Yao emperor. It has a history of more than 4000 years. Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, when Yao Di's two wives, E Huang and Nv Ying, visit their parents, people from the Yao tribe will beat gongs and drums to see them off. When they came back, people in their village saw them off in the same way. Since then, magnificent gongs and drums have become a custom. Many big villages have their own gongs and drums teams.
Loess Plateau Culture —— Folk Songs in Northern Shaanxi
Folk songs in northern Shaanxi are the crystallization of the spirit, thoughts and feelings of the working people in northern Shaanxi. They are the closest companions of the working people in northern Shaanxi and the most direct reflection of their lives.
Main types of koji
Northern Shaanxi is a place where folk songs gather. There are many kinds of folk songs, which are commonly called "folk songs" or "sour songs" locally. There are mainly more than twenty kinds of Xintianyou, minor, wine song and Yulin ditty, among which Xintianyou is the most distinctive and representative.
Folk songs in northern Shaanxi have distinct regional characteristics: simplicity, atmosphere and beauty-soil is the dross, volume is magnificent, and beauty is provocative. This popular and beautiful quality is enough for him to stand in the hall of music and vent the trend of Huang Zhong and Da Law in minor.
Northern Shaanxi folk dance drama "Hanging a Red Light" In northern Shaanxi, people's emotions such as joy, anger, sadness and joy can be expressed in the form of folk songs. Whether standing on the top of the mountain, walking on the winding mountain road or marching on the road of Ma Pingchuan, melodious songs floating in the wind can be heard everywhere. This is a folk song in northern Shaanxi. "Women cry sadly and men sing sadly." In fact, men, women and children in northern Shaanxi like folk songs. On the Loess Plateau, there are both the deep and graceful songs of the aunts and grandfathers, and the high-pitched songs of "Stop the sheep from returning to the cows" echoed by the younger generations. Northern Shaanxi is a world of folk songs and a sea of folk songs.
There are many kinds of folk songs in northern Shaanxi, including Four Seasons Songs, Wugeng Tune, Langong Tune, Jiuge, Yangko, Labor Song, Dance Music, Yulin Xiaoqu, Shaanxi Suite, Errentai, Folk Songs, Religious Songs, Home Exploration Tune, etc. , mainly in minor and belief in heaven.
Selection and introduction of main koji varieties
Folk songs in northern Shaanxi
Minor: Narrative-oriented, usually with scenes, characters, storylines and details. For example, harming a doll, Sister Yu, seeing off a lover, four guarantees and working in Liulin are all long narrative folk songs.
Xintianyou: Xintianyou (called "Shuntian Tour" in the border area of Inner Mongolia and "Qu Shan" in Shenmu Fugu) is a folk song widely popular in northern Shaanxi. It is the product of improvisation and can be sung freely according to different situations. If the villagers are working in the fields, herding sheep in the mountains, chopping wood in the Woods and driving donkeys to pull coal, they will sing loudly. Its language is simple, its rhythm is obvious, its rhyme is changeable, and it is generally a two-sentence structure, with the upper and lower sentences rhyming and the other sentences not rhyming. Based on seven sentences or cross-sentences, the first sentence focuses on comparison or scenery writing, and the second sentence focuses on care, combining reality with reality. The melody is melodious and unrestrained, with distinct rhythm, harmonious rhyme and strong lyrical color. It fully embodies the uninhibited character of northern Shaanxi people. It has two sentences and one paragraph, which can be divided and combined, or it can be composed into a song independently, similar to "Sanqu".
Folk songs in northern Shaanxi reflect rich social life. Most of the popular folk songs in northern Shaanxi were produced from the end of 19 to the 1940s, which not only reflected social changes, but also "long-term workers' songs", and reflected the struggle of the people in northern Shaanxi against the oppression and exploitation of the feudal unified class, especially the revolutionary historical folk songs, which were a group of precious revolutionary historical materials. For example, the famous "When the Red Army's Brother Comes Back" and "Flowers Bloom in Shandandan" are all very valuable. But among more than 8,000 folk songs in northern Shaanxi, such works are few after all. Most of the works reflect ordinary people and ordinary things. For example, kannika nimtragol is homesick, older girls are looking forward to getting married, younger girls are divining, drummers are greeting relatives, people who are away from home miss their hometown, young people love each other, and couples quarrel for fun. Also, masons decorate the monotonous sound of stone hammers with songs; Farmers use songs to drive away loneliness and sadness; People who drive away the spirit of sacrifice spread melodious songs all over the rugged narrow path; Sentimental kannika nimtragol poured out her sorrow for the inheritors of folk songs in northern Shaanxi with her songs. These are basically expressions of feelings. In addition, people in northern Shaanxi also use folk songs to serve their daily lives: vendors use songs to peddle, farmers use songs to pray for rain, festivals to celebrate and entertain, men and women hold ceremonies with songs when they get married, they use songs to guess fists when drinking, they use songs to tell historical stories, they use songs to socialize, they use songs to tell important historical events, and young men and women use songs to talk about love and tell new things about couples. Even if the scandal is thousands of miles away, it is spread by singing; Strange people and strange things, praise them.
Loess Plateau Culture —— Regional Dance
As a performing art, dance creation has a very broad free space. In dance creation, we should not only be faithful to life, but also boldly absorb regional cultural elements, plus our own creative efforts, so that the works have a unique artistic style.
A series of outstanding works by Zhang Jigang, a famous choreographer in China, are like yellow loess, which are the most distinctive regional cultural dance elements extracted by the choreographer in people's life on the Loess Plateau. The theme of the whole work is distinct, with a strong cultural style of the Loess Plateau, frank, calm and unpretentious.