Each folk culture is the crystallization of the labor of the local people. She folk songs can be found everywhere and are expressed in the form of She singing. She singing forms include solo, duet and unison singing. Most of them are sung during important festivals, while working in the fields and visiting friends and relatives. So, here's a deep dive into the She culture to see their mesmerizing She folk songs.
She is a member of China's multi-ethnic family, distributed in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Anhui Province, more than 60 counties and cities in some mountainous areas. Eastern Fujian and southern Zhejiang are the main settlements of the She people. The She people have a long history. The word "She", meaning "slash-and-burn", was first used as an ethnic name at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. Since the Yuan Dynasty, "Shemin", the exclusive name of the She people, has been commonly found in Chinese historical records. In the 7th century at the latest, the She people had already settled in the border area of Fujian, Guangdong and Gan provinces.
Songs and customs
Songs and customs mainly include love songs on the road, and "comparing the belly", "being a cousin", "being an in-law", etc. The songs are mainly held in the fourth month of the lunar calendar. Songs are mainly in the fourth lunar month, "Dragon Festival" in Fuan Muyang around the Suti Hill of the Niu Shi Gang song, the first day of June in Fuan Liouyang Baiyunshan song, the seventh day of July in Fuan Shekou, Yingkeng Baiyunshan song, the 15th of August Mid-Autumn Festival in Fuan Chengguan town of the song, the first nine days of September Xiapu Chengguan Mayang Muelianshan and Xinan Ge Yunshan song, and so on.
Labor on the mountain, a single person is often to song drive loneliness, someone heard in the distance, listening to the age of the opposite sex, it is often connected to the development of love singing. There are often people singing to each other on the mountain, so some people say that Shexiang is a sea of songs, so some people also call She songs as mountain songs. Guests of the song, mainly singing love songs, married people on both sides are not bound, can be completely false drama, both unmarried are begging for, often sung to a lifelong companion.
The guest song, generally on the whole night, midnight when the host family burned snacks to entertain all present, sing to dawn, to sing the twelve Chinese zodiac song to send the song god, ending with "nagging song nagging to the sky big light, send you out of the countryside, sing a song of peace and incense, all year round to protect the well-being of the". At the end of the song, the main singers in the village have to collect some money as "hand pay" for the guests. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a pair of shoes or boots that you want to wear.
In addition, the She wedding custom, there are three lively scene. One is to welcome the bride team arrived at the door of the woman's home; the second is to borrow pots and kill chickens; the third is the wedding banquet wine after three rounds, red mother, sisters raise their glasses to toast, the bride served with a pair of red candles lamps, wine marigolds, silver bracelets on the toast plate, accompanied by the bride's sisters according to the seat of the guests to sing the "Toast Song". Toast from the chief of the first guest uncle began, sang the toast song, sent a pair of shoes to uncle, uncle will be prepared to put the red envelope to the plate, and will drink the wine, and then one by one to the other guests.
The lyrics of the She folk songs are very much about rhyming and have a poetic meter, generally seven lines, two lines, two lines, four lines, and one line. The tunes of She folk songs are mostly in the traditional Chinese five-tone folk tuning style, with a simple melodic composition consisting of five tones: Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, and Fei. The Shang tuning style and the Jiao tuning style are more common, and in some areas, there are also the six-tone tuning style and the four-tone tuning style, with very little clearing of the horns and the changing of the Gong and the Zheng.
Although the five-tone modulation of She folk songs is the same as that of traditional Han Chinese folk songs, the arrangement of the scales is different, and the musical color is completely different, which often gives people a feeling of simplicity, clearness, longevity, and purity. The basic rhythm of the She folk songs is that one note corresponds to one word, and the word is extended only at the end of the sentence, which is a typical type of tightness in the front and looseness in the back. The rhythmic patterns include the "flat narrative" of one word and one note, the "tight and loose" of first tightening and then loosening, and the "loose and tight" of first loosening and then tightening.
The main inheritance methods of She folk songs are activity inheritance, family inheritance, teacher inheritance and text inheritance. She people in the lunar calendar every year on the third day of the third month to organize a grand song fair, competing songs, learning from each other. In the rituals of sacrifice and marriage and passing on of teachers, folk songs are used to string together the whole ceremony, and the rituals and folk songs are passed on from generation to generation.
The She people sing and practice mountain songs with their parents since they were young, and at a certain time they have to learn songs from their teachers. The She people use Chinese characters to memorize historical songs, and the title page of every family's mountain song book is "Gao Huang Ge". In recent years, a large number of new compositions of She folk songs have appeared, continuing the history of the textual transmission of She folk songs.
Significance of inheritance
She folk songs are oral literature created by the She people in the struggle for production and life, the crystallization of the wisdom of the She people, and an important part of the traditional culture of the She people. Most of the folk song works are stored in the minds of the She people, and are passed down from generation to generation through the oral tradition, and some of the folk songs have been passed down to the folk by handwritten manuscripts recorded in Chinese characters in the She language. The She folk songs mainly reflect the integrity and diversity of the Chinese musical culture. In addition, the culture of She songs and words has high academic research value.
The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and on May 20, 2006, the She folk songs were approved to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
What are the She folk arts?She embroidery is also known as "flower making" or "embroidery". She embroidery craft originated from She women's clothing. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, She women wore lace shirts, and the lace was usually embroidered by the women themselves, but the complex embroidery of plants and animal patterns was done by tailors. She seamstresses not only made clothes, but also specialized in embroidery. People's appraisal of their craftsmanship not only depended on the craftsmanship of their clothes, but also on the skills of their embroidery.
She embroidery artists are mostly men, but most of the She women can embroider. She embroidery includes embroidery of clothes, pants, bibs, grains bags, children's hats, tobacco bags, shoes, hats and tent curtains, mainly dress embroidery. The most common and prominent is women's embroidery on their blouses and aprons, with blouse embroidery on the neckline, suit buckets and slit corners, and apron embroidery on the skirt. She women's dresses and skirts, which are mainly characterized by embroidery, are not only enviable clothing art, but also a striking symbol of the nation.
She embroidery has obvious regional differences. Most She embroideries in Guangdong, Jiangxi, Anhui and Zhejiang are relatively simple, while those in southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian by Wenzhou are very complex. This is probably influenced by Wenzhou Ou embroidery and is also related to the relatively developed economy and culture of the region. There are many patterns in She embroidery, the most commonly used being the pointed teeth pattern and the centipede foot pattern. Plant motifs include peony, plum, peach, lotus, chrysanthemum, orchid, pine, bamboo, pomegranate, Buddha's hand, Lonicera japonica (honeysuckle), etc.; animal motifs include dragon, phoenix, deer, sheep, magpie, arowana, bat, butterfly, mandarin ducks, unicorn and lion, etc.; in addition, there are also some images of characters in dramas and legends, swords, gourds and other artifacts held by the Eight Immortals as well as the zither, books, beads, balls, ruyi, vases, rocks, pavilions and dragon-gates, etc. .
She 86-year-old memory loss but still remembers the hometown folk song, why the old man remembered the song so well?The 86-year-old Lei Chunhua, a first-generation non-genetic inheritor of She folk songs, has been followed by many children in the village to learn to sing. As he grows older, the old man's memory fades. But love will not dissipate, this is the first generation of the local traditional culture of deep feelings, love their hometown folk songs, cultural heritage it!
She folk songs can be found everywhere, expressed in the form of She singing. Whenever the festivals and celebrations will be singing, even in the mountains and fields of labor, visiting friends and relatives to welcome the guests, but also often to the song dialogue. She sings in solo, duet and unison. Among them, unaccompanied singing is one of the She people's favorite forms of folk singing. "Shuangyin" is a two-voice repetitive singing style in which the She people are good at, also known as "Shuangzhuolu". Located in Guangzhou's Zengcheng District, the She people here were called Yao before 1956, and their genealogy also refers to them as Yao. Although the village has been somewhat sinicized, you can still see the flavor of ethnic minorities. The mountains hide pristine forests, and the village has a long history of various unique landscapes. The She have their own language, folk songs and costumes, are good at singing mountain songs, and they have their own totem worship.
Yaodong moonlit night, men and women across the ridge and sing, Xing to love, the sound curls, still the legacy of the immortal singer. A word a thousand _ hundred fold, mournful and long, commonly known as mountain song, Mei, Chao Hakka especially. The so-called Yaodong refers to minority groups such as the Bureaucrats or the She and Yao tribes, and here it refers to the mountain villages in the eastern part of Guangdong Province in general. Regarding the origin of Hakka songs, they are mainly inherited from the barbaric music culture tradition in the south, mainly the She and _, although their culture still belongs to the Chu culture system. Therefore, "Hakka songs are rooted in the Hakka land", not in the Central Plains.
The She Village is located in Guangzhou's Zengcheng District, where the She people were known as the Yao people before 1956, and their genealogy is also known as the Yao people. Although the village has been somewhat Sinicized, you can still see the flavor of the ethnic minorities. The mountains hide pristine forests, and the village has a long history of various unique landscapes. The She people have their own language, folk songs and costumes, are good at singing mountain songs, and they have their own totem worship.
The origin of the She folk song "Gao Huang Song". HelpShe is one of the less populous ethnic groups in China, living in the southeast of China in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Anhui Province, where more than 90% of them live in the vast mountainous areas of Fujian and Zhejiang. The She are one of the typical scattered ethnic groups in China. They call themselves "Shanha". "Ha" means "guest" in She language, and "Shanha" refers to the customers living in the mountains. However, this name is not recorded in the history books. During the Tang Dynasty, the ethnic minorities, including the She ancestors, living in the border area of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi Provinces were generally called "barbarians", "barbarian bureaucrats", "mine barbarians" or "mine bureaucrats". "Dong Bureaucrat". At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the names "Shemin" and "Quanmin" began to appear in history books. "She" (She) means slash-and-burn cultivation. During the long feudal society, the She people were forced to migrate continuously. After liberation, the name was changed to "She". According to the Fifth National Population Census in 2000, the population of the She people is 709,592, and they use the She language, which belongs to the Miao and Yao group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. 99% of the She people speak a language that is close to the Hakka dialect of the Chinese language, but with a slight phonological difference from Hakka, and a few words that are completely different from the Hakka language. They do not have their own written language, but use Chinese as a common language.
The She people of various places regard Phoenix Mountain in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, as the birthplace of their ethnic group. Legend has it that their ancestor, Discus, was buried there, and it is believed that the women's headdresses are dressed in the form of phoenixes in order to honor their ancestor. Among the She people, there is a widely circulated legend of Pan-gou, which belongs to the nature of totem worship in primitive society. According to the legend, their ancestor Pan-gou was able to marry the third princess of the Emperor because he helped the Emperor to quell a foreign invasion, and after the marriage he moved to the mountains and gave birth to three men and one woman, the eldest son surnamed Pan, the second son surnamed Lan, the third son surnamed Lei, and the son-in-law surnamed Zhong, and his descendants gradually reproduced and became the She people. This legend is not only a household name, but also in the genealogy, painted into a chain of pictures, called "Zutu", hanging out during the holidays to hold a grand ancestral ceremony, worship is very pious. Each family has an ancestral staff carved as a dragon's head, which is also the main symbol of the She totem. The She people still use Lan, Lei and Zhong as their main family names.
During the long feudal society, the She people were forced to migrate continuously. In the process of migration, while expanding their land, the She people created a splendid and colorful culture and art with distinctive national characteristics. She literature and art are very rich. Mountain songs are the main component of She literature, mostly expressed in the form of singing in the She language. Therefore, She literature is basically oral folk literature. Whenever they celebrate festivals, their songs fly, even when they are working in the mountains and fields and visiting friends and relatives, they often talk to each other in songs. There are more than 1,000 mountain songs and 40,000 to 50,000 lines of songs handed down to us. Among the long narrative poems, the most famous one is "Gao Huang Song". The Song of the High King, also known as the Song of Pangu, the Song of the Dragon King, and the Song of the King of Discus, is a seven-character epic poem of 300 to 400 lines long. In the form of a myth, it recounts the legend of the She ancestor, Mr. Pan Gou, who performed miraculous feats, and how he defied the odds to produce four descendants, namely, Pan, Lan, Lei, and Zhong. It reflects the primitive religious beliefs and totem worship of the She people. Especially, they also painted this legend as a serial portrait, called Zutu, that is, on a piece of cloth and silk about ten zhang long, more than 40 portraits of this legend were painted on the scroll in a serial fashion with colored brushes, which were treasured for generations.
Artistic Characteristics of She Folk SongsSongs and customs mainly include roadblock love songs, guest than belly talent, do cousin, do in-laws, etc. The songs are mainly performed in the fourth month of the lunar calendar, which is the fourth month of the lunar year. Songs are mainly in the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the Dragon Festival in Fu'an Muyang area of the Suti Mountain She Folk Songs Niu Shigang Songs, the first day of June in Fu'an Liuyang Baiyunshan Songs, the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month of the song in Fu'an Shekou, camping pits Baiyunshan Songs, the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Fu'an Chengguan Town Songs, the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth month of Xiapu Chengguancheng Mayang Muelianshan and Xinan Geyunshan Songs, and so on.
Laboring on the mountain, single person often to song drive loneliness, someone heard in the distance, listening to the age of the opposite sex, it is often connected to the development of love singing. There are often people on the mountains singing to each other, so some people say that Shexiang is a sea of songs, so there are also people who call the She song as a mountain song.
Farming time, the village came to the guests, the village of similar age of the opposite sex will be active, the sky is dark, the singers to the host's home to set off a firecracker, pouring into the middle of the hall to start the song: the sun fell in the mountains of the plain in the yellow, too (to see) to see the brother (sister) mother hole (Lang hole) to come, the sister (brother) risk (no) Na (things) good hospitality, Ansar (tonight) line to play the big store (to the song). If the guest is a singer, he will quickly match the song; if the guest is not a singer, he will be scolded by the song so that he will have to learn it when he goes back to the village. If the guests come, no one in the village to the song, will also be regarded as the village incompetent. To find guests to the song, the village on the field singers must be similar age of the opposite sex, the guest must be non-village married She folk song; the main family, such as three years of mourning period or build houses erected columns, not to the song, to the right to be put on other people's homes to go to the right. Guests to the song, mainly singing love songs, married people on both sides are not constrained, can be completely false drama, both unmarried are begging for it, often sung to a lifelong companion.
The guest song, generally on the whole night, midnight when the host family burned snacks to entertain all present, sing to dawn, to sing the twelve Chinese zodiac song to send the song god, the end of the nagging song nagging to the sky big light, send She folk song your song god out of the countryside, sing a song of peace and incense, all year round to protect the well-being of the people. At the end of the song, the main singers in the village should collect some money to give to the guests as hand pay. Of course, if you have a real relationship with the singer, it's not a matter of giving away a little bit of money.
In addition, there are three lively scenes in the She wedding custom. First, when the welcoming party arrived at the door of the woman's home; secondly, when borrowing pots and killing chickens; thirdly, when the wedding banquet wine after three rounds, Chiming, sisters raise their glasses to toast, the bride served with a pair of red candle lamps, wine marquee, silver bracelets on the toast plate, accompanied by the bride's sisters according to the seats of the guests to sing the "Toast Song". The toast starts with the first guest, uncle, who sings the toast song and sends a pair of shoes to uncle, who then puts the prepared red packet on the plate and drinks the wine, then toasts the other guests one by one. The two-voice She song "Shuangyin" is passed down in Monkey Shield She Village of Badu Town, Jiaocheng District, Ningde City, Fujian Province, as well as in the neighboring She villages. It is the only surviving two-voice She song among the She songs in China. She "Shuangyin" is different from other She songs because of its unique way of singing and the combination of polyphony of the vocal parts. It is of great academic and practical value.
She two-voice mountain song "double tone" the main forms of expression
1, two-voice mountain song "double tone" is a clear singing, singing form, each voice at least 1 person, the number of people singing each voice can be more or less, regardless of the voice of the men and women, Women sing separately, can also be sung by the same gender in both parts, but love songs must be sung by men and women each singing a part. 2, two-voice mountain song "double tone" word law lyrics structure is basically a seven-word sentence, four lines of the body, four lines for a line. 3, two-voice part of the mountain song "double tone" voice combination form There are the following types: (1) support voice by two voices at the same time singing the same melody and its variants, (2) and tone between the two voices of the rhythm is basically the same, the melody is basically different, constituting a variety of different intervals relationship. The phrase ends on the same note. (3) In the chorale style, one voice comes in and the other follows. The head and tail are placed on top of each other. (4) The imitative form consists of the same melody and its variants, appearing successively in the form of imitations in unquestioning voices.
The Academic Value of the She Diatonic Song "Shuangyin": In the history of music, the common She folk songs have only a single voice, but the She "Shuangyin" is a multi-voice folk song, and it is not common to see similar She "Shuangyin" songs among the folk songs of other ethnic minorities. The She "Shuangyin" is a polyphonic folk song, and among other ethnic minority folk songs, there are not many folk songs like the She "Shuangyin" with polyphonic nature. Secondly, the rich content and basic characteristics of the She "double tone", and its history of inheritance are rare in the She folk music culture and other minority folk songs in China. Rescuing and protecting the She "two-tone" will not only enrich and perfect the history of Chinese music, the history of Chinese minority music, but also the history of the world music, which will have a certain promotion effect. The practical value of the two-voice She folk songs lies in the fact that it will have an important contribution to the construction of spiritual civilization in the She region and even in the whole country, enriching the cultural life, improving the cultural quality of the people, promoting the all-round development of national unity and progress, and constructing a harmonious socialist society. She folk songs can be roughly divided into narrative songs (including myths and legends and novels), miscellaneous songs (including love, labor life, teaching knowledge, ethics and morals, entertainment life, etc.), and ceremonial songs (including marriage rituals, ancestor worship and merit songs, etc.) according to their contents.
The tunes of She folk songs can be broadly categorized into two main types: mountain song tunes and Shigong tunes. Mountain song tunes include: Fu Ning, Fuding, Xiapu, Luolian, Lishui, Jingning, Longquan and Wencheng tunes. Shigong tune includes chanting tune and singing with doing public morality action.
She mountain songs are mostly sung in falsetto, and there are three variations according to the singing method, such as the flat speaking tune, falsetto singing, and putting on high notes. There is also a two-tone form of singing in Qidu, Baidu and Jiudu in the northern part of Ningde, Fujian Province. It is sung by two men and two women with the same lyrics, and the tunes form a branching, imitative or harmonic relationship with each other. This form of singing was once prevalent for a period of time, and the representative repertoire includes "Wind Blowing Bamboo Leaves, Tidi Tidi," etc. The song is now endangered. It is now endangered and needs to be rescued.
She people like to sing songs, not only wedding celebrations, singing on New Year's Day, but also in the production of labor, entertaining guests, leisure rest, talking about love when singing, and even in the funeral sadness, but also in the song instead of crying to pour out their feelings. She folk songs are generally written in four- or seven-character rhymes, with four lines, and there are also a few songs with three or five words in the first line, which rhyme, and the last word of the third line must be in an oblique tone. There are many She folk songs in the form of solo, duet and chorus, including narrative songs, custom songs, labor songs, seasonal songs, novel songs, revolutionary songs, children's songs and miscellaneous songs. There are 935 wedding songs and 642 dirge songs of the She people in "Chinese Folk Literature - Zhejiang Province Volume", and there are also 4 long songs such as "Fighting Wine Bureau", "Fighting Salt Boss", "Ancient Songs" and "Songs of Mrs. Soup" compiled with local historical facts. She singing forms include solo singing, duet singing, and singing in unison. Among them, unaccompanied songs are the favorite form of music of the She people. She songs have different tunes depending on the region. For example, there are four tuning areas in the eastern part of Fujian, namely, Fuding Tuning Area (popular in Fuding, Zherong, and the northern part of Xiapu County. It belongs to the five-tone Shang tuning style), Xia Shang tuning area (popular in most of Xiapu County, Fu Ning County and other areas, belongs to the Shang tuning style), Fu Ning tuning area (popular in Fu'an, Ningde, Shouning, Folk South, Gutian, Zhou Ning, western part of Tsuerong, etc.), Luo Lian tuning area (popular in Luoyuan Lianjiang, Ningde, southern part of Feiluan, etc.), and She people in Zhejiang has 5 basic tunes, namely, Lishui tuning, Jingning tuning, Wencheng tuning, Longquan tuning, and Rui'an tuning. Throughout, She songs are characterized by a soft voice, and in terms of lyric structure, the songs are relatively neat, with more than 7 words a line, and four lines into a paragraph (also known as an article). A folk song, less than 1-2, more than 7-8; tuning is mostly pentatonic tuning, Gong, Shang Angle, Levitation, Feather five kinds of tuning are available, of which the Shang tuning is the most widely distributed, followed by Angle, Levitation, Feather, Gong tuning again.
The She people specialize in two-part repetitive singing, which is called double-tone, and the She people call it double-stripe fall. In singing, with the nature of the round singing. Double tone is initially sung by two people, and develops to the point where it can be sung by three or four people. Generally not more than 4 people. Two voices on the part of two people singing, two singers can be a man and a woman, can also be two men and two such as a man and a woman by the two re-singing, male first or female first sing can be, after the singer can be in the first singers sing after two words or four words to pick up the song, with the former singers to sing the same lyrics and similar but not exactly the same tunes. Double tone in singing, generally men and women use falsetto voice, later men dare to sing with real voice, sound more clear voice. She falsetto singing pursues serenity, tenderness, cleanliness and simplicity. Due to the different singing styles, the same song can be sung in plain tone, falsetto singing and treble and three different tunes. The singing of double tone does not strictly regulate the time and occasion, but it must be sung in the singing season, that is, from the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar to the 3rd day of the 3rd month of the following year as the singing season of She family. Especially in the first month of the lunar calendar, March 3, August 15, September 9 and other festivals, the She family always travels in groups to visit friends and relatives, singing as a conversation, and also holds grand singing sessions. This is a good time to appreciate the She family's two voices.
She folk songs pay attention to the rhyme of the She language, many people can improvise and sing, and some singers sing for one or two nights without repeating. Some singers sing for one or two nights without repeating themselves. They sing in falsetto with the sounds of li, luo, ah, yi, le, etc., and they do not sing in falsetto when they are learning the songs, which is called "flat singing". Each county has a tune for singing joyful songs, and the whole nation is united by one tune for singing sad songs. The form of singing is solo, duet, and unison, rarely accompanied by movement and instrumental music.
Transmitting the teacher to learn the teacher is the activity of the She master to learn the teacher to learn the teacher's disciples, in the holding of the teacher to learn the teacher's ceremony, all the priests sit on the feast table, by the host teacher who presided over the ceremony of transmitting the teacher to learn the teacher's rhythmic drums on the table to sing their own song of soldiers. When passing on the mantra to the master, the priests blow, shake, pull, and bang on the sound of props and instruments such as bell knives, dragon horns, flat drums, bells, and qin xiao, sometimes reciting incantations and chanting, and sometimes singing and dancing. She folk songs can be divided into short songs and long songs according to the number of songs, independent of a short song, usually sing short songs; a few, dozens or even hundreds of folk songs for an overall content of the long song (or narrative song), such as the "High King Song", "sealing the Golden Mountain", "the hour song", etc., Jingning area, there are also "playing salt bar", "playing the liquor board", "Mrs. Tang song", and other long songs. The Song of the High King is a long song that describes the legend of the origin of the She people, which is regarded by the She people as a treasure of the She people and an epic of the nation, and has been sung by the She people for generations, with 112 poems***.
Labor songs are sung to express the agricultural seasons to be followed in each production work, introduce the knowledge of production, how to strive for a good harvest and realize a good life. Some of the songs that have been widely circulated include: the 24 Seasons Song, the 12 Hours Song, the Planting Song, the Plowing Song, and the Tea Picking Song. The "Chopping Wood Song" is one of the widely circulated labor songs in the She ethnic area, which is sung by all She people of both sexes, young and old, and the exact date of its formation is not known. The song is an improvised labor song sung by She girls who meet young men chopping wood when they are working in the mountains and fields, and its content is philosophical and has the sentiment of love between a man and a woman.
The love songs, also known as the edge songs, are the most numerous, the most widely circulated and the most stirring folk songs among the She folk songs. Most of the love songs are set against something to express the love between men and women, young men and women talk about love through love songs, pouring out their sincere feelings to each other, eliminating all obstacles, realizing the purpose of men and women as husband and wife, even if the middle-aged and old-aged singers sing to the song, but also good to interspersed with heart-wrenching love songs to help. Love song duet" She language, called nag song, that is, men and women sing to each other, is a unique form of national style of cultural life, as long as you go into the She village, you can hear the mountains, the fields of men and women sing to each other. Love song duet, basically a man and a woman singing, each singing a song, a song and a young men and women meet, generally by the female lead singer, the male according to the lead singer's lyrics to respond to the content of the lyrics, so and singers to sing along with the compilation of the more difficult. Love songs in addition to field labor singing, there are also night singing, starting after dinner, the end of dawn. One is not to hinder the labor time; two can attract many listeners.
She people like to sing songs, to song speech, communication, song on the matter, good and punish evil, song to pass on knowledge, than the wisdom of the fight, the more characteristic is in the funeral grief, song instead of crying, pouring out grief. Lamentations, also known as funeral songs, formed a long time ago, so far She Village She adults died into the coffin, the spirit of the hall on both sides of the benches, where the deceased under the generation are seated and sing lamentations, the entire spirit of the hall did not bawl, only the lamentation song, most of the content of the lamentation song in memory of the dead, remembrance of the deceased during his life as a good man, to express the respect for the dead, pray for the deceased's peace of mind, repentance of the deceased during his life and the lack of care of filial piety son of the commendation of unfilial rebuke, the content of the song, the song, the song, the song is not a good thing, but it is the most important thing. The tune of the song is low and sad.
The She people also have songs of merit that memorialize their forefathers and recount their history. The Song of Merit has a handwritten text with unified lyrics and is danced by specialized priests, and it is the song that must be sung to do various types of merit. The difference is that the merit song has action, props, location in the master between or in the home stove side, the song has: the sound of the call, month after month singing, the big parting, small parting, daughter-in-law bitter, rolled line, cattle cubs pass, twenty-four filial piety, five sighs, filial piety, Zaojun protection, folder song and so on the 12 paragraphs, sing to sing three rounds of the content of the song folder song, sung by a group of three, a person carrying a basket on the shoulder (there are also used to cut the grain), hand grabbed a handful of white rice, the other two people Carrying a bag, around the coffin, the song dance, like catching a crane, through the crane, crane, crane, crane, meaning that the attraction of the soul ascension to heaven, the deceased immortal master riding a crane to heaven, singing the crane song, jumping crane dance.