Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Miao old marriage, "living fossil"

Miao old marriage, "living fossil"
Also known as the carved wood, otherwise known as Miao and open pro song is a song Bing Miao wine, because it's mainly bamboo and wood carved in the round on top, Miao people have - the stick and singing, so there is such a Title. It is spread in Southeast Guizhou willow Shibing County Town area.

Miao is a singing and dancing, previously married women have to marry to open the pro-duet songs, if not tell me you'd be Fajiu. A song to open tens of thousands of pro-line, involving a wide range, were ancestors to catalog in the form of a flute carved on the size of the song stick. Those disorder lines, one to contain hundreds of lines, a bar dozens of songs recorded by more than ten thousand symbols line lyrics. So the song stick was inserted in skirts, the singing process if there is time to secretly find out what Wangci will remember.

A song stick, songs can be graphic symbols division down from the singing, you can sing from bottom to top. Quenan out the details of the outsiders, so shibing people to have "local administrative officials literacy 9900, no one can recognize thoroughly engraved Road," one said.

Willow Town 17 km away from the Shibing county, where tree-lined, green bamboo. Zhaiqian is an open tin pa, Walled feet existence of a bucket-like thick underground springs, this water Qinglie, sweet, Jiuyu fail to rise, drought is not dry all the year round turning flows, moisturizes the side of the land. The village has 200 households with more than 1,000 people. Here year round temperature of 12 ℃ - 16C ℃, annual precipitation in the 1060 - 1200 between the winter and no cold, hot summer. Living in the here called the high slope Miao Miao - for many Hmong in one.
Miao Dao is carved in the form of Poems by Cource of body composition, it describes the age-old marriage Hmong Marriage Customs, carved wood signs are not complicated, it produces around the age of Miao matriarchal clan to patriarchal over-age, some people refer to Hmong Marriage The epic poem or the development of Hmong marriage, living fossils. It is this form of recorded songs with the wine of marriage Hmong origin, interpretation, and its development and progress.

Poetic language colloquial, colloquial, a strong breath of life, while it with rich, magnificent imagination, created a dare to the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of freedom of the Miao girl image, showing the Hmong marriage persistent pursuit and longing. Wine song melody whole workshop is truly multi-duplication. It is widely held in the Miao nationality, a long time to sing is not bad, is product Sheng Miao wine songs.

Use more maple carved Road, Lei Muk, or bamboo production, a total of 27 cells, each cell with a simple symbol record, the song has repeatedly, antiphonal singing and other forms, it is within the Miao groups in China, the only surviving one of the oldest carved wooden notebook symbols.

Miao engraved Road has been included in the national first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection list.

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