original Miao songs, Miao clothing show... On January 20, a special "village evening" was held at the basketball court of Laershan Town, Fenghuang County, Hunan Province. The event was crowded with people, and many villagers from surrounding towns came to watch. At the same time, the number of online viewers of the "Village Evening" live broadcast on the Douyin platform exceeded 7.8 million.
Not long ago, under the guidance of the Public Service Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Chinese Cultural Center Association and Douyin Live jointly launched the "I want to hold a village evening" event, inviting talented anchors from all over the country to hold a "village evening" in their hometowns. Douyin Live will target high-quality Events and anchors will be provided with traffic support and operational training. This "Village Evening" initiated by the "Miao Sanman", a local band in western Hunan who is also a Douyin anchor, is also the first event of the project. At the same time, the gongs and drums anchor "Tang Yao, Luogu and Zhang Yong" also held a "village evening" in his hometown of Bozhuang Village, Linfen, Shanxi, and the "village evening" jointly performed in the north and south.
Anchor held a village party, Miao songs and drums appeared together
At the beginning of the "village party", the band "Three Barbarians of the Miao People" presented an original song "Dumping Baba", which is a song adapted from the Miao custom of marrying a bride. At the end of the song, the band members threw glutinous rice cakes at the village party. Shi Jichang, the lead singer of the band
, said that giving with one hand is smooth sailing, and giving with ten hands is perfect. When receiving a bride, there are many "hands" (dialect, meaning of program), and each hand has its own language for receiving relatives.
The band members of "Three Barbarians of Miao" are all born in the 1990s and are good at integrating Miao language and Miao customs into popular song creation. Another song "A San Rushing to the Show" sung by the village evening band introduces the unique custom of Miao young men and women expressing their love.
In addition to band playing and singing, this "Village Evening" also features many programs from nearby villagers with Miao cultural characteristics. Most of the performers in the Miao drum performance brought by the villagers of Duoxi Village in Laershan are farmers, the oldest of whom is 58 years old. The members of the lion dance performance come from the nearby Daigao Village and Baguo Village in Lianglin Township.
There were also seven girls from Laershan who brought group dances for girls. They are full-time mothers on weekdays. Tang Cui, a performer at
, told reporters that when she saw Sanman, a Miao man, recruiting for a program in the village, she immediately signed up. She and her teammates have been preparing for this "village evening" for nearly a month.
North and South Village Gala PK, each showing the characteristics of his hometown
During the "Village Gala", the Miao people Sanman also had a live PK with the Douyin gongs and drums anchor @ Tangyao Luogu Zhang Yong who was holding a village evening in Linfen, Shanxi, more than a thousand kilometers away. During the competition, the Miao Sanman Band and the local Miao children sang the song "Autumn", which describes childhood country life. Zhang Yong performed the majestic gongs and drums "The King of Qin Calls the Soldiers" that represent the local culture. This classic drum music shows the historical story of Li Shimin's military training in Linfen. In the live broadcast room, the online audience praised the song one after another, and the sounds of drums and songs from the north and south intertwined.
At the end of "Village Night", the Miao Sanman Band also revealed the origin of the band's name.
lead singer Toothpaste introduced that Sanman is the name of a village, located above Luotuo Mountain Village 10 kilometers away from the scene. "There are almost no homes there. We found this place specially to play music and live broadcast without disturbing the people. We named it 'Sanman Village'.
At the same time, "Sanman Village" is also the utopia in the hearts of the band members.
Hometown vs. The music creation of Sanman Miao people is of great significance. Just like a big tree needs to take root in the solid land, each of their songs cannot be separated from their hometown. This is why they decided to hold a "Village Party" in their hometown. Name this "Village Evening" "I'm pretty good in my hometown".
Xiaoxiang Morning News photographer Chen Shixian reported in western Hunan
