Ningxia Culture - Country Music - Ningxia's "Flowers"
Ningxia's "Flowers" is a colorful wonder in the vast treasure trove of ethnic arts in China. In the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on the mountains and rivers of the wilderness, the farmhouse, where there are Ningxia people in the activities, where the "flower" will flutter up.
"Flowers" is a unique style of mountain song, its tune is high, loud and clear, the lyrics are simple and fresh, giving people a sense of quiet and elegant. Since ancient times, Ningxia flowers have been widely circulated in the grassland on the Seychelles. Wu Zhen in the Qing Dynasty wrote the poem "Flowers are more interesting than Xing, Fan female also flow", indicating that this genre of folk literature has long been produced flowers. Ningxia flowers and Gansu, Qinghai provinces popular flowers in the form and content of different. The popular flower tunes in Gansu and Qinghai used to be named with "order", such as "Xining Order" and "Linxia Order", which are named with the region; "Sala Order" and "Security Order", which are differentiated with the ethnicity; and "White Peony Order" and "Safflower Order", which are expressed with the flowers. The flowers of Ningxia do not use the order, what they want to sing, and express the emotions of the heart, which have the desire to pursue a happy life, but also the sincere eulogy for the love of life and death, and so on, which constitute the main content of the flowers of Ningxia.
Ningxia flower performance form is also very flexible. Ningxia people who love to sing flowers sometimes single roaming flowers, sometimes two people on the flowers, there is a collar and a combination of flowers. Singing flower people can sing the field scenery, farming season, but also singing landscape, flowers, birds, insects and fish, all the flowers are out of the mouth, are from the bottom of the heart out of the song. Ningxia people sing flowers alternating between true and false voices, pitch also up and down, which is the proverbial "mountain flowers" and "soil flowers". Some people also like to sing "dry flowers", hand to a lap behind the ear, open mouth on the singing, pitch, rhythm of the fast and slow, entirely by the singer based on their own preferences, without any instrumental accompaniment, there is no fixed statute. Ningxia Hui singers sing flowers, but also in the tune rubbed into some of the components of the albatross and ballads, and even the Islamic chanting tones added to the unique style.
"The people of Ningxia Hui prefer flowers, but they don't leave their hands, and the flowers don't leave their mouths. In the mountains and rivers of Ningxia, the melodious and high-pitched flower children rise and fall. From the ten or so years old goat herder to the seventy or eighty years old, from the strong handlebar to the courtyard to do the housework of the pretty daughter-in-law, everyone can improvise a few lines of flowers: "Flowers is the song in the heart, a day without rambling shall not live." "In the daytime, I can't live without flowers, and at night, I can't sleep without flowers." This form of literature and art, full of earthy flavor, has always inspired the people of Ningxia to develop and advance.