China News Service, Sanjiang, Guangxi, March 11th, Title: Playing with "Intangible Cultural Heritage+" Guangxi Dong people's songs "sing" to create new vitality
Author Huang Yanmei Gong Pukang
Snatching fireworks, stepping on reeds, Dong songs, national costume show... …On March 11, the second day of the second lunar month, Meilin Township in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Guangxi held the "February 2" Dong Song Festival. The colorful folk activities attracted tens of thousands of tourists.
Sanjiang County is the only Dong autonomous county in Guangxi and the county with the largest Dong population among the five Dong autonomous counties in China. Meilin Township in the county is known as the "Dong Song Song" roots in Guangxi, and has been awarded the title of "Hometown of Chinese Folk Culture and Art".
The event kicked off with the melodious singing of thousands of Dong people. Wu Chunyue, a "post-80s" singer from Zhongzhaitun, Xinmin Village, Meilin Township, Sanjiang County, and her companions performed many Dong songs such as "Cicada's Song", "True Color Song" and "Squirrel Song", and applause rang out again and again.
The Dong song, which has a history of about 2,500 years, is a multi-part, non-conductor, unaccompanied, natural chorus folk chorus form in the Dong region of China. The song imitates the sounds of insects, birds, mountains, flowing water, valley echoes and other natural phenomena. The sound has the characteristics of natural harmony, deep and high-pitched, gentle ups and downs, fresh and sweet.
"The Dong people have a saying that 'food nourishes the body and songs nourish the heart'. The villagers have loved singing Dong songs since they were young. We hold the 'February 2' Dong Song Festival every year to connect friends with songs, convey love through songs, and display The local customs and customs help Dong intangible cultural heritage be passed down from generation to generation." said Wu Pingli, a Dong singer in Meilin Village, Meilin Township, Sanjiang County.
In Meilin Township, everyone loves to sing Dong songs. Each village has more than one Dong singing group. Children begin to learn to sing Dong songs and play the Lusheng when they are learning to speak. The Dong Song Festival in Meilin Township has a history of 288 years and is the vital carrier of the inheritance of Dong songs.
In recent years, Meilin Township has fully relied on its unique advantages such as the boundaries of Guangxi and Guizhou provinces (districts) and colorful ethnic customs, focusing on benefiting the people, shaping tourism with culture, and developing industry with culture, and has continuously enriched the "February 2" Dong Song Festival The content of the activity is to use "intangible cultural heritage +" to break the barriers of traditional culture and "get out of the circle".
At this Dong Song Festival, Dong embroidery, intangible cultural heritage parade, Dong Pipa Song, Thousand People Duoye and other wonderful programs were performed in turn. In addition, the shocking scenes of wooden rafts, the fireworks competition known as "Oriental rugby", and Dong folk customs such as "official bearers" and hundreds of family banquets show the diverse style of Dong township's intangible cultural heritage to tourists from all over the world.
"This is my second time coming to Meilin Township to participate in the Dong Song Festival. The villagers' costumes are gorgeous, the activities are rich, and the scene is very shocking. It reflects the unique national cultural customs of the Dong people. I want to recommend it to more people." from Guangxi Tao Changyu, a photography enthusiast from Liuzhou City, said.
Sanjiang County is known as “China’s Dong people in Sanjiang”. In recent years, the county has continued to popularize the art of Dong songs among the people, innovatively inherited and promoted intangible cultural heritage, and through the integration of Dong traditional culture with tourism, sports and other industries, the Dong songs "hidden in the mountains" have frequently entered the international stage. .
Nowadays, in Sanjiang County, many intangible cultural heritage skills are actively exploring the road to industrialization development. "Symbols" representing Dong culture such as Drum Tower, Fengyu Bridge, Duoye, and peasant paintings attract a large number of tourists from home and abroad every year to "explore the secrets." ". "Intangible Cultural Heritage+" is becoming a new engine to promote rural revitalization. (End)
