Cultural Development of Midu Folk Songs

Successive leaders in Midu County have attached great importance to the inheritance and development of local ethnic culture, and put forward the slogan of local ethnic culture construction: "Singing" Running Water "and" Dancing Red Midu Lantern ". 1999, selected 13 famous songs represented by Running Water from more than 400 Midu folk songs, and produced a 60-minute VCD music art film called A Journey to Midu, which was distributed to audiences at home and abroad. In recent years, Midu County has held a large-scale lantern festival every Spring Festival, carried out large-scale lantern singing backbone training and lantern group dance competition, and 1 professional lantern group and1more than 30 folk amateur lantern teams have been active in urban and rural areas all the year round.

"When you get to Hongyan Slope, you can hear songs everywhere", "Ten Midu people, nine can sing lanterns". Midu, where this river flows, is presented to the world with its charm full of local traditional culture.

The Olympic Games are closed. Maybe you remember a song at the closing ceremony called "Moonlight Tonight". This is "Running Water", a Midu folk song!

Her melody shocked people all over the world, but they didn't know it was a popular Midu folk song!

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