(Bamin Qianzi) Inheritance, Innovation and Network Platform: The 430-year-old She nationality song species is revived

　　China News Agency, Fujian Ningde, April 2nd: Inheritance, Innovation and Network Platform: The 430-year-old She nationality song is revived

　　Author Lv Qiaoqin Wu Yunjie

　　"Tea is planted in the deep mountains, the buds of the Qingming Valley Rain are green, the Qingming Valley Rain Tea is prosperous, and the tea-picking sister is walking around the mountains..." When a reporter from Zhongxin News saw Lei Qingmei, she was singing She Ge in the live broadcast room, and her singing voice was clear and tactful. And the original ecology.

　　"Wear She's clothes and sing She's songs to show the original She's style." Lei Qingmei said that every time she broadcasts live, she will sing a few original She's folk songs for netizens, hoping that through this method, more people will understand and understand In love with She Song.

　　Ningde City, Fujian Province, is the largest She nationality inhabited area in China, so far it retains a strong She nationality style.

"Double Tone" is the only remaining two-voice folk song in She folk songs. It has a history of more than 430 years and is the most advanced and complex expression of She folk music. It has been included in the first batch of national intangible culture. Heritage List.

　　Lei Qingmei, born in Ningde City in 1998, is a She nationality "two-tone" singer and an original dancer.

Over the years, she has been active on the Internet, promoting the traditional culture of the She nationality through live broadcasts and small videos.

　　"When I first came into contact with 'Double Tone', I felt very distinctive and very pleasant." In a music class in junior high school, a piece of "Pangu Song" by Lei Meifeng, the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project, deeply Deeply attracted Lei Qingmei.

　　After class, Lei Qingmei began to keep trying to figure out the Shege she had learned in class, and sometimes she dared to ask Lei Meifeng for advice.

Lei Meifeng felt her love for Shege and accepted her as a disciple.

　　"As a She ethnicity, language has become the biggest obstacle for me." Lei Qingmei said with a smile, since she was not used to speaking She language since she was a child, she was almost completely unfamiliar with She language, so she could only use pinyin to mark lyrics and read aloud.

　　For more than a year, learning She Ge has become almost the whole of Lei Qingmei's life. After getting up and washing up every day, she goes to the She Nationality Music Activity Center to practice singing, and then goes home to rest after practicing.

With the accumulation of vocabulary, Lei Qingmei slowly began to master the skills of "two-tone", and it took 12 years to sing.

　　Lei Qingmei said that many of her partners who have studied She Ge with her have given up because they have no chance to show and can't see the future.

　　For thousands of years, the She people have inherited and accumulated the culture of the She nationality through the transmission of oral language and the teaching of skills at hand.

However, with the rapid development of modernization, the rich and colorful She culture is facing the dilemma of gradually disappearing and losing its vitality.

　　In Lei Qingmei's view, what she lacks most in the inheritance of Shege is the display platform.

In order to better inherit and carry forward the "Double Tone" of the She nationality, Lei Qingmei put on She clothes, sang She songs on various online platforms, and integrated the original ecological She nationality "Double Tone" with modern music, making her creation more in line with modern youth People's aesthetic "Sheshan Tea Song" and "She Township Ballad" gradually became popular on the Internet; she founded the She Song and She Dance Public Welfare School to drive children to carry forward the excellent national culture.

　　Lei Qingmei said that as the younger generation, we should boldly use our own methods to make the cultural heritage of the She nationality show a different color.

　　On the CCTV Spring Festival Evening in 2022, Lei Meifeng and Lei Qingmei appeared in the original ecological scene performance "Song of the Land" with a song "Tea Picking Song", letting people all over the country know about the ancient and precious kind of song "Double Tone".

　　"In the future, we will continue to innovate She Ge and carry forward the national culture." Lei Qingmei said, hoping to take on the responsibility of inheriting and promoting She Ge and other She culture.

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