[Source: Kunming Information Port_Yunnan] Use singing to convey love and let the world hear Wuding. On July 25, the Chuxiong special performance "There is a Life Called Yunnan - The First Yunnan Folk Songs Singed by Everyone" was held at the Wuding County Sports Plaza in Chuxiong

[Source: Kunming Information Port_Yunnan]

uses singing to convey love and let the world hear Wuding. On July 25, the Chuxiong special performance "There is a Life Called Yunnan - The First Yunnan Folk Songs Singed by Everyone" was held at the Wuding County Sports Plaza in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Attracting many tourists to participate in the "Yunnan·Wuding 2024 Strong Chicken and Wild Mushroom Food Season" to share the audio-visual feast.

Wuding is located in the north-central part of Yunnan Province, on the bank of the Jinsha River. It is an important passage from Yunnan to Sichuan, and it is also a place where the Yi people sing their drinking songs. In 2008, Wuding Yi drinking songs were included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

Luo Rugui, Secretary of the Wuding County Committee of the Communist Party of China, introduced in his speech at the event that Wuding has a profound national cultural heritage. 25 ethnic groups, including Han, Yi, Miao, Lisu, and Dai, have created colorful and excellent traditional Chinese culture in the long history. Traditional folk songs, represented by the drinking songs of the Yi people in Wuding, are high-pitched, resonant, and sentimental. The county will take this event as an opportunity to carry forward China's excellent traditional culture with greater intensity and precision, promote exchanges and integration among all ethnic groups, build a spiritual home for all ethnic groups, and make new and greater contributions to forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. .

The Chuxiong special performance is divided into three chapters: "Fire Chuxiong", "Burning Love Wuding" and "National Harmony". The performers sang classic folk songs such as "Wuding Wine Song to Welcome Guests", "Nasu Girl", "Wuding Waiting for You", "Lisu Love Song" and "Huazhu Lantern Rhythm"; in addition, performers from Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan The Mengba Naxi Orchestra performed "Phoenix Bamboo Under the Moonlight" and "Awa People Sing a New Song" with harmonious and beautiful harmonies.

"Panzhihua City in Sichuan Province is connected to Chuxiong Prefecture by mountains and rivers. We have long been famous for Wuding's strong chickens and wild mushrooms. We came here specially to participate in the ongoing food season. Unexpectedly, we happened to encounter 'Everyone Sings Yunnan Folk Songs'." From Panzhihua City Tourist Li Jun said that in the early morning of July 25, he and his family drove to Wuding, listened to more than a dozen classic folk songs, took many videos and beautiful pictures to share with relatives and friends, and would then enjoy the delicious food in Wuding .

It is reported that the "Yunnan Wuding 2024 Strong Chicken and Wild Mushroom Food Season" lasts from July to October, including nearly 20 series of activities such as the Torch Festival Fire Ceremony and the Drinking and Song Competition. The Chuxiong special event that day attracted about 20,000 tourists and local people. In addition, the Wuding County Propaganda Department and the Rong Media Center also broadcast live through the Internet, with a total of more than 5 million views on the entire network.

The "There is a Life Called Yunnan - The First Yunnan Folk Songs Everyone Sings" event will run throughout the year from January to December 2024, and will be carried out simultaneously offline and online. Offline, provinces and prefectures (cities) are used as units to organize song competition activities at the same level respectively, and programs are selected and submitted according to song competition categories to participate in provincial-level song competition performances based on state (city) units. The performance will ultimately select each song competition category. The top 60 singers participated in the "There is a Life Called Yunnan - Everyone Sings Yunnan Folk Songs" awards concert and publicity promotion activities.

The Chuxiong special event is hosted by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and the Chuxiong Prefecture People's Government, guided by the Yunnan Provincial Cultural Center, and hosted by the Chuxiong Prefecture Culture and Tourism Bureau and the Wuding County People's Government. (Correspondents Wu Xuecheng and Xu Jun, Kunming Information Port)