(New Year's visit to the grassroots level) Wuwei, Gansu: Traditional Folk Arts and Modern "Rap" Exhibition The Beauty of Intangible Heritage
China News Service, Lanzhou, January 29 (Shi Jingjing) "The revitalization of the countryside is guaranteed, and the money in your pocket is brand new..." In late January, the warm winter sun passed through the four-corner pavilion, and Dong Yonghu, dressed in red, embraced Sanxian. Hold the piano lever lightly with the left hand, play the strings with the pick in the right hand, start to sing the newly created Liangzhou Xianxiao section.
The villagers sat in a circle, listening to a down-to-earth little song, and humming to the melody.
Liangzhou Xianxiao, whose formation history can be traced back at least to the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, is one of the ancient and long-standing folk rap arts rooted in Liangzhou District, Wuwei City, Gansu and parts of Jinchang.
It is listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage with its unique dialect singing and distinctive artistic expression.
Dong Yonghu has been performing Xian Xiao as the provincial inheritor of Liangzhou Xian Xiao for more than 30 years.
Liangzhou Xianxiao's performance is in the form of a person accompaniing rap and singing, and the content is mostly stories that praise the sages and persuade others to be kind.
Dong Yonghu believes that traditional lyrics can no longer resonate. In the process of listening to stories, it is important to keep up with the times and understand cultural policies.
The picture shows Dong Yonghu (first from left) playing and singing Liangzhou Xianxiao.
Photo by Shi Jingjing
As a result, Dong Yonghu adapted and created the hot issues and people’s livelihood issues of public concern, including the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, knowledge of epidemic prevention, customs and culture, and friendship between neighbors, using jingle and easy-to-understand dialects. Come out, "Traditional folk art and unique rap rhymes are easy to remember, which is easy to recite and remember, and it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people."
Chen Xiumei, who is listening to the music, said that Liangzhou Xianxiao in the vernacular, let us learn more about the culture related to Wuwei.
In recent years, Dong Yonghu has created sings such as "Liangzhou Xianxiao Singing Reform", "Songs in the City", "Singing and Singing of New Changes in the Countryside" and other sings. In a unique way and simple language, he expresses the changes in peasants' clothing, food, housing and transportation. Cooperate with the local self-music class, changing from single-person rap to multi-person singing, with diversified stage formats.
Yang Guomin, a "post-90s" young man who had returned to his hometown for the Chinese New Year, heard Liangzhou Xianxiao's new singing of the artist's old song, and posted the transcript to the online platform, which was praised by many netizens.
In order to better spread intangible cultural heritage, in recent years, Wuwei has successively promulgated policies such as "Wuwei City Intangible Cultural Heritage Project Support and Reward Implementation Rules (Trial)" and "Wuwei Folk Culture Center Support and Reward Implementation Rules (Trial)".
In addition, the local area conducts live rap live broadcasts through “intangible heritage + network”, communicates with netizens “zero distance”, and uses the Internet to spread intangible cultural heritage through multiple channels.
Now, with the help of local officials, Dong Yonghu has opened the Liangzhou Xianxiao School.
"I hope more people will discover the beauty of intangible cultural heritage, understand the artistic value of intangible cultural heritage, and join the team of inheritance." He said.
Wuwei is a famous historical and cultural city in China. At present, it has 5 representative projects of national intangible cultural heritage and 31 representative projects of provincial intangible cultural heritage.
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