China News Service, Jinzhong, July 7 (Yang Jieying, Zhang Yun) A reporter learned from the Propaganda Department of the Jinzhong Municipal Party Committee in Shanxi Province on the 7th that 3266 (group) Chinese and foreign players signed up for the "Zuoquan Folk Song Exchange".
As of 24:00 on June 30, the total number of people applying for "Zuoquan Folk Songs" reached 3266 (group), an increase of 1187 compared with the total number of 2079 people registered in 2019, an increase of 57.1%. Judging from the registration of this year's sea elections, it presents the characteristics of a wider diversity of players' geographical distribution and a younger inheritance of age structure.
Among the registered players, 516 were from Shanxi (group), accounting for 15.8% of the total number; 689 minority singers (group), involving 19 ethnic minorities, accounting for 21.1% of the total number.
From the perspective of the composition of players, there are 653 non-genetic inheritors or original ecological singers (group), accounting for 20%; local folk singers, folk song-related actors and folk song lovers 1,457 (group), accounting for 45%; foreign singers 13 (group).
The oldest applicant is the 70-year-old Yao Changwang, vice chairman of the Wuxiang County Drama Association of Changzhi City, and the youngest is Wang Yuqi, the heir to the 8-year-old national intangible cultural heritage project Zuoquan "Little Flower Play".
In terms of geographical distribution, it increased from 25 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) to 32 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) last year. From the perspective of ethnic distribution, singers from 19 ethnic groups including the Zhuang, Mongolian, Miao, and Korean ethnic groups participated. Among them, six ethnic minority contestants, such as the Naxi, Dong, and Kazakh, registered for the first time. Judging from the distribution of nationality, it increased from 10 last year to 13 this year, involving 13 countries on 5 continents.
In order to improve the level of specialization, this year we will increase our efforts to cooperate with major domestic music schools. Teachers and students from 26 colleges and universities outside the province such as China Conservatory of Music, Central University for Nationalities, Shenyang Conservatory of Music, and 6 colleges and universities in Shanxi Province, North China University, and 50 professional groups actively signed up. Among them, the number of college athletes registered increased from 679 last year to 1143 this year, an increase of 68%, 178 masters and doctors, accounting for 15.8%, and 64 professional vocal teachers, accounting for 5.6%.
This year's "Zuoquan Folk Songs" online voting time starts from July 1st to July 30th.
As a representative of the original ecological folk songs in the Taihang Mountains, Zuoquan folk songs have been widely sung as early as the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and have become a form of entertainment for local people when they work and relax. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, folk songs were closer to life, and there are still some songs that have been handed down from that year. Since the 1940s, there have been more than 100 Zuoquan folk songs.
During the War of Resistance Against Japan, as the headquarters of the former enemy of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Zuoquan County, cultural workers and folk artists worked together to explore and organize Zuoquan folk art, and created a large number of new folk songs with the theme of uniting anti-Japanese, which were widely circulated in the Taihang Mountains. (Finish)