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The toasting songs are singing, the rice wine is fragrant, guests from far away, please have a taste; the reeds are dancing, the songs are flying, friends from all over the world, please stay ...
The people here are hard-working, honest, enthusiastic and hospitable. The ethnic customs here are colorful and the culture is rich. Drink a glass of Miao rice wine and you will fall in love here; listen to a Miao Fei song and you will be intoxicated here; dance a Miao dance and you will fall in love with the life here.
There are many ethnic cultural festivals in Diwei Miao Village. However, among many festivals, the Huashan Festival is undoubtedly the most important.
According to the old people, many years ago, some families in the village had not given birth to a son, so they hoped to pray to the gods for blessings by making wishes for a son. In the end, they got their wish and finally got a son. So, they chose a high, flat and wide hillside and invited all the relatives and friends in the village to sing and dance together to celebrate.
But the current Huashan Festival is mostly due to protecting and inheriting excellent national culture, exploring profound national cultural connotations, promoting national unity, deepening friendship and understanding between ethnic groups, and promoting the development of local economic, cultural and social development of ethnic groups. Organized for harmonious development. The Huashan Festival has therefore become the most important festival in the Miao village, and is held as scheduled every year from the first to the third day of the lunar new year.
On the day of the Huashan Festival, all men, women, children, relatives, friends and neighbors in the village were all dressed in costumes and flocked to the flower slope to sing and dance to celebrate the festival together.
In front of the guests, there were two rows of costumed guests. In one row are young men holding reeds and playing welcome songs, and in the other row are girls carrying horn cups filled with rice wine and singing toasting songs to welcome guests. "Dear guests, you have come to Miao Township. The people of Miao Township are happy to welcome you. Please have a glass of wine from the Miao family. Don't be sad when the guests go back. Drink! Guests from all over the country, drink! Friends from all over." It can be said that it is singing and laughing. The sound of the sheng is heard, and everyone is affectionate as people come and go. "This singing is so heart-warming, and this wine is so refreshing." So said the guests.
Suddenly the sound of horns sounded, and two young men walked slowly ahead carrying flowers and trees, followed by a few old men playing Huashan Lusheng music, and behind them were two rows of young men and women in costumes holding Lushengs. . Walking slowly from a distance, it looks like a giant dragon hovering on the flower slope. The steps were steady, steady, strong and powerful, and the voice was deep and high-pitched, resentful and unrestrained. Such as resentment, admiration, complaints and weeping, it shook the top of Huashan Mountain.
Photographed by Huang Xiaohai
Then, a group of Miao children in costumes played the Lusheng and danced on the stage. Sometimes in the air, sometimes lying on the ground; sometimes upside down, sometimes rotating; sometimes staggered, sometimes dispersed. In response to the rhythm of the sheng, it is sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes hard and sometimes soft. It is as lingering and sweet as the dancing butterflies, as soft and delicate as a dragonfly touching water. It is lifelike and flawless.
This is how the Miao people continue to inherit and protect their culture, preventing it from being lost in the dust of history.
As we all know, the Miao people have no writing to record their culture. Their culture is embroidered on their clothes and skirts, or passed down and protected from generation to generation through oral tradition, or in the form of songs and dances. dissemination and development. I have to be proud of this nation. As Dickens said in his book "Mountain Migration", "There are two tenacious and suffering ethnic groups in the world, one of which is the Miao people in China."
For thousands of years, the Miao people have passed down their culture from generation to generation, which makes me proud and sincerely admired.
The sunset has not yet set, and the breeze is blowing. People come and go on Huashan Mountain, and the singing and the sound of reed pipes blend with people's cheers, talking and laughter. A few young people shouted and called everyone to disperse. Then they carried dry firewood and piled it among the people. Then they lit a fire, and suddenly the Huashan Mountain was in flames. At this time, both old and young, male and female, held hands, danced around the fire, and sang songs.
Several young men either picked up horn cups filled with rice wine or played Lusheng, singing "Toast Song" and "Toast Song" back and forth to toast everyone. Not to be outdone, the young girl also sang Feige.
Standing in the crowd, I was attracted by this soulful and melodious song, mesmerized by this peculiar dance, and infected by this strong national complex. I seem to be drunk in the Miao countryside, drunk in the Miao family's flying songs, and drunk in the flower mountains of the Miao countryside.
The moon rises over Dongshan and night falls. On Huashan Mountain, people have dispersed one after another. The sweet and pure flying songs and the high-pitched horn horns can no longer be heard. Only the gentle breeze rustling the wooden leaves is making a soft sound.
Saying goodbye to Huashan, the Miao Village is dimly lit at this time. Looking up at the starry sky, the stars are dotted. From time to time, the Miao family's toast song floats in my ears, "Please have a glass of wine from the Miao family. Don't be sad when the guests go back. Don't be sad. Drink! Guests from far away, drink! Friends from all over the world..."
Photo by Huang Xiaohai
Miao Lang, Luo Kun, Miao nationality, are undergraduates in the class of 2014 majoring in Chinese language and literature at the School of Humanities, Guizhou Institute of Engineering and Technology.