Jimu News reporter Xu Ying
Correspondent Xie Ning Yu Manxue
"Your applause was so loud that it made my heart itch..." February 24th is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. The Yangtze River Forum invited young folk performers from Wuhan City Wu Jian, deputy director of the Huangpi District Cultural Center, used a combination of lectures and presentations to share "Hubei Folk Arts" with readers, and the interaction was lively on site and online. "It's so good and professional." "Looking at my head," some readers left messages in the live broadcast room.
It is not easy for a song artist, one person is a stage
Wu Jian is the representative inheritor of contemporary Hubei drums. He has used the "rap" method to create and perform "Rap Huangpi", "Folk Ballads We Sung in Those Years" and " Excellent works such as "Rap Wuhan" and "Rap Li Jia Ji".
Wu Jian said that he started learning folk art at the age of 7 and is now 37 years old. It has been 30 years since he became inseparable from folk art. He deeply felt that it was not easy for a music artist. A music artist is his own stage. He talks, sings and acts by himself. To "talk, learn and sing", he needs to be able to master eighteen kinds of martial arts, and he must know astronomy and geography.
Wu Jian introduced the characteristics of folk art to readers in detail. Because folk art performance uses "speaking" and "singing" as the main means of expression, its language must be suitable for speaking or singing, and must be lively, concise, incisive and easy to use. Catchy. Quyi is not like a drama where actors dress up as fixed characters and perform performances. Instead, actors dress up as different characters and perform various characters and stories to the audience in a "one person with multiple roles" way of speaking and singing. Therefore, folk art performances are simpler and easier to perform than dramas. The simplicity and ease of folk art performances enable it to reflect life quickly. The contents of repertoire and bibliographies are mostly short and concise, so folk art performers can usually create and perform by themselves.
Next, Wu Jian used the method of speaking and singing to popularize the "five local specialties" of Hubei folk art for readers - one is talking about martial arts and the other is singing. One of the great sayings is Hubei storytelling, and the four major tunes are Hubei Dagu, Hubei Fishing Drum, Hubei Xiaoqu, and Hubei Daoqing.
Thinking about the innovation of folk art to make young people find it interesting
The inheritance of any culture requires innovation, and Hubei folk art is no exception. Wu Jian began to be widely reported by the media because he began to explore the innovation of folk art more than 10 years ago and produced a series of novel folk art rap videos, which attracted attention on the Internet. This road of inheritance and innovation has led him to this day.
After watching the popular movie "Girls We Chased in Those Years", Wu Jian led young people who love folk arts to create "Folk Ballads We Sung in Those Years". The video, which lasts more than 5 minutes, combines 16 songs filled with Authentic Chinese folk songs are linked together, "A crying man, sells lamp grass, throws it into the river and the dogs bite it" "One cry, one laugh, two eyes with big cannons"... He raps in authentic Wuhan dialect, accompanied by the accompaniment There are traditional allegro and modern electronic rhythms, and the theme song of "The Girls We Chased Together in Those Years" is cut at the end. The short film interprets the atmosphere of youth and fashion, and is also full of a strong "Han flavor" .
Wu Jian studies folk art every day, and when he has an idea, he just does it. "Rap Wuhan" was originally filmed by Wu Jian who raised funds from the public and took a dozen or twenty young people with him at Jianghan Pass. "I want people to see a different taste of Wuhan..."
Wu Jian shared that in order to innovate his music, he went to a Soho bar to listen to a band playing DJs for a month. Facts have proved that folk art is not only loved by the elderly. After the innovation of folk art, young people also find it very interesting. Later, Soho Bar invited him to sing Hubei Dagu in the bar, and he also went to Taipei 101 Building to perform Hubei Dagu.
At the end of the lecture, Wu Jian said that folk art has thousands of years of cultural deposits. It was born among the people and must serve the people. If you love folk art, you must love the audience. Only if you have an audience can you have folk art. At present, Wu Jian has also opened a Douyin account "Wu Jian, Inheriter of Hubei Dagu" online. Jimu News reporter saw that he has gained the attention of more than 60,000 fans on Douyin.
(Lecture pictures provided by Changjiang Forum)
(Source: Jimu News)
