On the banks of the beautiful Lancang River, there lives an ancient ethnic group, who are close to nature, industrious and brave, loyal and kind, peaceful and contented, and can sing and dance well, so they live happily and blissfully.
As a member of China's 56 ethnic groups, the Lahu, with a population of 460,000, originated from the ancient Qiang people in Gansu and Qinghai, and lived a nomadic life in the early days, and then gradually migrated to the south, and eventually evolved from a migratory nomadic people to a sedentary farming people, settling in the Lancang River basin. Lancang is the center of Lahu culture in the world, with 216,400 Lahu compatriots living in its territory, accounting for 41.9% of the total population of the county. Gathering one-third of the world's Lahu population and one-half of the country's Lahu population, Lancang has become the only Lahu autonomous county in China. In the 1950s, a familiar song "Wedding Vow" and a screen classic "Lusheng Love Song" let people know the Lahu who can sing and dance well. Today, "Happy Lahu" and "Can't Let Go" are popular songs that have become cultural business cards for the outside world to understand Lahu.
From the end of primitive society, feudal lordship direct transition to socialist society Lahu nation. The narrative epic "Mupa Mipa" is the encyclopedia of Lahu, which is like a song flowing in the hearts of the Lahu people, passing down the traditional virtues of diligence, bravery, thrift and simplicity left behind by their ancestors through folk singing, preserving the connotation of Lahu culture and the long and splendid Lahu civilization in its entirety, and profoundly influencing every aspect of the production and life of the Lahu people, and becoming a valuable inheritance material of the Lahu people for generations to come, it It is long and gentle, but without losing its masculinity, with the passion of a blazing fire and the softness of a clear spring. These from the mountains of the nation, the sunshine of the nation, the happy nation, a few days and nights of singing, singers as intoxicated, understand, do not understand the listening to all the stirring, people's thoughts were taken back to the ancient times, the ancient moving melody in the Lahu people's original dream, people come from that, no matter how far away, the hometown is always letting people haunted. Listening to this heavenly music, harmonious sound, feel the original folk customs, in a harmonious **** melting thick atmosphere, those beautiful songs and brisk dance, let a person really feel that this is the root of the Lahu people, the soul of the spirit of the spiritual yearning.
The creator of CCTV's "Walking the Border" program once exclaimed: "Why are the Lahu people so happy? Because they fear the gods, worship nature, ask for very little, can sing and dance, so happy nature is also accompanied at any time. Yes, any nation, as long as a contented heart, happy will follow. Just as there is no dress rehearsal in one's life, only continue, no do-over, no matter happy and sad, like it or not, there is no choice, we have to bear the responsibility, and set happiness as the main theme of life. Mupa Mupa" vividly describes that: during the festival, no matter men, women and children in the village, no one needs to supervise, everyone will consciously participate in the social behavioral norms of the village, the individual's wholehearted participation at the same time, people's spiritual enjoyment and recreation will be fused into one. These may also be a release for Lahu as a happy nation.
The Lahu people, who come out of the gourd and run toward the sun, are always singing and dancing to convey their love, whether it's for a wedding or a ritual celebration. Lahu people are good at a variety of tunes, there are beautiful and lingering love songs, there are loud and clear mountain songs, there are solemn and solemn rituals, there are mournful and sorrowful funeral songs, and there are more than 100 narratives of the ancestor's deeds of the ancient song of the majestic and melancholy. There are more than 100 sets of Lahu Lusheng songs and dances, which can show the influence of different social forms on the creation, evolution and development of the dance. Some of the sets simulating chickens, ducks, monkeys, birds and simple labor show the simple life and thoughts and emotions of the primitive production period, such as hunting and gathering; the drums of the gods, which are the special instruments for the Lahu rituals, are capable of rendering Lahu's concepts of good and evil as well as their agreed codes of conduct, which are shocking to the mind and the heart. The 99 sets of pendulum dances, without deliberate carving and modification, can let people experience the original national art accumulated in the production life of Lahu; Lahu hanzi plays the tunes of Lusheng or rough and wild, or delicate and elegant, and the dancers are intoxicated, and their emotions are sublimated in the incessant music of the shengs. Since the Lahu people do not have their own words, they can only use songs to pass on their own culture and review the history of their own people. For them, everything can not be expressed by songs and dances, and in this sense, it is also a happy nation that sings and dances out.
The old Dabao, a little-known Lahu village where the original Lahu songs and dances have been famous, has a guitar that travels in all directions. Here is a man will play the lusheng, dance the lusheng dance, is a woman will dance the pendulum dance, they mastered the lusheng dance and the pendulum dance with high ornamental and artistic infectivity. Unique multi-voice chorus tune is beautiful, colorful lyrics, sung with a guitar in hand since the accompaniment, since the singing, in Lahu language vividly demonstrated their delightful production and life scenes, coupled with the choral music of the simplicity and innocence, magnificent, showing a unique artistic infectious force. Li Na toms is the old Dabao native of the ordinary Lahu women, this happy Lahu woman, with the love of the national culture of the sincere enthusiasm, created more than 30 Lahu songs, which "Happy Lahu" "truly love you" "Happy New Year" and other songs have been shot into MTV in the CCTV "Charming twelve," "dumping" and other columns to play. Naxus is very obsessed with the Lahu national literary creation and cultural heritage, with the Ya'er Art Troupe to a "Happy Lahu" sung by the motherland north and south of the river, writing a "happy Dabao, happy Dabao, harmonious Dabao," a new chapter. They are not only in Beijing Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall sang the "Happy Lahu", but also in the overseas singing the "Happy Lahu", so that the world to understand the culture of Lahu, to understand the beautiful Lahu mountain town - Lancang. Li Naosu also because in the propaganda to carry forward the Lahu culture in the process of outstanding achievements, honorably elected as the party's eighteen delegates.
Literature and art is the national spirit of the torch, is the era of the horn. Today, Lancang is focusing on promoting the strategy of "famous county of Lahu culture", and will accelerate the construction of six cultural centers, including Nangling Township Menghu Bing Village Yeqo Lahu, Jiujing Township Menghu Gen Village Lao Dabao, Nuofu South Section of Divine Drums, Kailang Village of Fubang Township of the Township of Weaving, Bali Village of Donghui Township of the Township of Dancing, and Mengnuo Village of Mengnuo Village of Muga Township of the Township of Rudong, where Lahu culture has been blown. The Lahu epic of creation "Mupamipa" inheritance base and the protection of many inheritors, through the penetration of cultural soft power, efforts to create a unique Lahu cultural brand of Lancang characteristics, the unique charm of Lahu culture is from here out of Yunnan, to the country, into the world.