Longdong Folk Songs
Qingyang, commonly known as Longdong, has a long and splendid history and culture. In the history of Chinese civilization for five thousand years, Qingyang culture has long occupied an important place in history. The location is colorful in the northwest and in the heart of China. In particular, Qingyang shadow puppets, paper-cutting, Longxiu embroidery, Longdong Daoqing and folk songs are known as the "Five Wonders" of Qingyang. Among them, Qingyang folk songs are the most representative art form that vividly reflects the lives of working people in the loess land. As an important link in the inheritance of Qingyang culture and a gorgeous business card for the development of Qingyang culture, Qingyang folk songs play an important role in the inheritance and development of modern Qingyang culture and are of far-reaching significance.
Qingyang folk songs have a long history. During the Yin and Zhou dynasties, Qingyang produced poems praising social life. Especially as early as the time when the ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty developed Beibin, many ballads were sung among the people, including "Bin Feng·July", "Daya·Gongliu", "Xiao" in the "Book of Songs", my country's first collection of poems. Seven folk songs, including "Ya Caiwei" and "Binfeng Dongshan", express the joys and sorrows of the working people, express the homesickness of the garrison soldiers, or praise the merits of the ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty.
In the long history, Longdong folk songs emerge in endlessly, as bright as stars. However, there are very few Longdong folk songs that have been handed down from ancient times, and most of the folk songs that are still circulating today are from the late 19th century to the 1950s. During this period, Chinese society underwent drastic changes, which promoted the rapid development of Longdong folk songs and showed a prosperous scene. Especially in the late 1920s, the Longdong mountainous area became an old revolutionary area, and Longdong folk songs also opened their most brilliant page. Thousands of red ballads were not only widely circulated among the local people, but many ballads became later This folk song was a hit and was sung throughout China, and is still widely sung today. Such as "Our Leader Mao Zedong", "Ten Embroidered Golden Plaques" ("Embroidered Golden Plaques"), "Ten Sings of the Border Area" ("Military and Civilian Mass Production"), etc. Many writers also drew materials from Qingyang folk songs and refined and processed them into many excellent literary works. For example, Li Ji's long poem "Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang" is based on a song called Xintianyou that was popular in Qiaohe and Qiaochuan areas of Huachi County.
Qingyang folk songs include various forms such as minor tunes, Xintianyou, wine songs, and labor chants, and have different expression methods such as solo singing, duet singing, leading singing, chorus singing, and rapping.
In addition, Qingyang folk also sing various folk songs with different contents and expressions as folk songs, or sing folk songs to music, and sometimes they also speak and sing, singing and dancing, which further highlights the uniqueness of folk songs. Flexible and changeable.