Gaoyou folk song

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Gaoyou folk songs

Applicant: Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province

Item No.: 574

Project No.: Ⅱ - 75

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: Traditional Music

Region: Jiangsu Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province

Protection unit: Gaoyou Cultural Center

Gaoyou folk song introduction:

Applicant: Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province

Gaoyou folk song is a popular folk song in Lixiahe area of Northern Jiangsu Province. Its Ci and music can be traced back to the "scattered flowers" in the ancient "exorcising" performance. This folk song style began to take shape in the yuan and Ming Dynasties, and got preliminary development. From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the development of Gaoyou folk songs was at its peak. Wei Baisen, a Gaoyou poet in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, wrote a hundred "Qin you Zhu Zhi Ci". Among them, the poem "it's like Tianfu Yangge, singing together, and families are separated by piles" reflects the unprecedented popularity of Gaoyou folk songs at that time.

Gaoyou folk songs are mostly improvised works of the masses, which are very rich in content. According to the theme, there are mainly labor songs, including counting duck eggs, working, carrying songs and unique Gaoyou Yangko, Che Shui, Da Wo songs, ramming songs, Niu songs, etc.; there are Life songs that teach life experience and life knowledge, such as "advise husband not to gamble", "he Zi song", etc.; there are love songs that sing love and love songs that express men's and women's feelings, such as "Gaoyou Northwest Township" 》There are political songs and revolutionary struggle songs that record the social situation of each period, such as "the culture of Qi Xin Xue" and "sending husband to join the army". In addition, there are some primitive religious and ritual songs.

Gaoyou folk songs are mostly sung in the way of "interlocution", "dialogue" and "one leading the public harmony". The music is mainly composed of pentatonic scale and six tone scale with clear angle or changing palace. There are often four, five and six degree jumps. There are many interlining words such as "yiyakeziyo". They are smart, lively, witty and witty. In addition, they are skillfully arranged with changing tone, decorative tone and interlining words Beautiful melody, full of sentiment. Gaoyou folk song artists inherit the traditional singing methods, so that this ancient folk song continues to play its due role in the new era.

Gaoyou folk songs are a combination of rice culture, water culture, duck culture, fishing culture and other cultural elements in Lixiahe area, which has the research value of folklore, sociology and anthropology. In recent years, with the death of old folk singers, some original singing techniques are gradually lost, and a large number of Gaoyou folk songs are quietly passing away, which are in urgent need of rescue and protection.

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