[Concurrent] Shi Majiang's chant live
Shimajiang chant, hey hey hey!
Chuan Qianqiu, hey hey hey!
Huh, huh, huh!
Whoops, whoops, whoops!
The cannon is ready, let it go!
[Explanation] This Shimajiang chant, sung by villagers in Xiaotang Town, Xinshao County, Hunan Province, is a morale-boosting song used by local masons for thousands of years during their labor, and it is also a Hunan provincial-level intangible cultural heritage.
The Shimajiang horn was first formed at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. It has a history of more than 700 years. It is a unique folk song model in southern China that is inseparable from production and labor.
The old man Wang Liliang, who leads the singing in the picture, is the only inheritor of Shimajiang's chant.
He introduced that when the chant is sung, one person leads the chant, and everyone agrees. The ci contains the stories of the people in the Shima River basin who have been digging through the mountains and cutting rocks for thousands of years, production knowledge, and customs.
[Concurrent] Wang Liliang, the successor of the Shimajiang horn, a provincial intangible cultural heritage project in Hunan
The characteristic of Shima River is that there are many stones. Our ancestors had to hit rocks when they opened mountains, fields, roads, and bridges, and created the name (Shimajiang) in their work.
Because rocking must be concentric, must work together, but also be safe, reduce labor intensity, enhance safety, and have a sense of entertainment. (Shimajiang) chants have many functions.
[Explanation] Wang Liliang, 82 years old this year, told reporters that Shimajiang's chants are expressed in various forms, full of thought and story.
When he was 19 years old, he worked as a stonemason with his elders, and fell in love with this singing method when he first encountered Shimajiang chants.
Since then, he has devoted his entire life to promoting Shimajiang chants. Not only did he recruit more than 200 apprentices, he also collected and composed many Shimajiang chants stories and lyrics, and compiled them into programs. Participate in the show.
The reporter learned that in addition to Wang Liliang, many villagers in Xiaotang Town are also singing the Shimajiang chant in their own way.
They learned to be masons from their elders when they were young, and now they are committed to non-genetic inheritance when they are old.
Li Xiangui, 76 years old this year, is one of them. As long as anyone who is willing to learn Shimajiang's chants, he will give him a lesson.
[Concurrent] Li Xiangui, a villager of Jintangwan Village, Xiaotang Town, Xinshao County, Hunan Province
As long as they are willing to learn, we can teach him.
If you want to (learn) to fight rocks, fight dragons, and call that order, we can all tell him.
It is useless for you to be conservative, and you cannot be conservative.
If you have a good master, you need to bring out a good apprentice.
[Explanation] Wang Liliang said that although there are masons who have passed on from generation to generation to carry on the high-pitched and rugged Shimajiang chants, with the advent of mechanical stone carving, the skills that used to rely on hand-carving have gradually been eliminated by history. The Shimajiang chants that must be chanted during work are becoming less and less useful, facing the problem of passing on from generation to generation.
[Concurrent] Wang Liliang, the successor of the Shimajiang horn, a provincial intangible cultural heritage project in Hunan
I suggest to develop (Shimajiang chant) to arrange a few music lessons in the school, you can do exercises between classes, and you can dance hip-hop.
If Shimajiang chants are a good characteristic (cultural tourism) resource, the Shimajiang chants will let the common people look at it, sing it, and yell it.
Guan Ziwen and Wang Haohao report from Shaoyang, Hunan
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]