The Important Value of Dong Cultural Songs

After thousands of years of historical changes, Dong culture is still alive. Dong people are descendants of Guyue people, so both national culture and living habits have been passed down for thousands of years. Dong people's big songs show the unique charm of Dong people to the world in the form of collective chorus. As China's intangible cultural heritage, Dong folk songs sing a nation's natural sound. Come and have a look with me.

It has become an important witness to the contemporary living condition of Dong traditional culture.

On the one hand, under the impact of traditional Dong culture and modern culture, the living space of traditional Dong culture is getting narrower and narrower, and "China" and "modernization" have become the goals pursued by young Dong people intentionally or unintentionally; On the other hand, the traditional cultural customs represented by the tradition of big songs have not disappeared in the daily life of the Dong people. Although the song will be more lively every year, it will still attract people's participation and enthusiasm. Obviously, the more distinct this tradition is in the contemporary era, the more independent the image of Dong people is.

It has become an important carrier of the continuation of Dong culture in the contemporary era.

Dong Jia originally preached and taught students to solve doubts without preaching, and all kinds of words and deeds related to big songs were their traditional way to continue their culture. With the penetration of contemporary "writing" and "image" culture into Dong villages, the tradition of big songs has maintained the continuity and development of a national culture in the contemporary era by the special inheritance method of "oral teaching and collective performance". More importantly, community organizations and traditional customs related to singing transmit the unique "traditional thinking" of the Dong people to the life course of each ethnic group.

It has become an important channel for contemporary Dong people to obtain cultural bilingualism.

With the popularization of school education, Dong children have to receive systematic cultural education in China. The school's knowledge fracture and closed environment relative to the Dong village community have caused children's inevitable alienation from this culture. The continuous folk tradition of big songs provides the impetus and scene for children to understand, acquire and practice this culture, and provides the basic guarantee for the Dong people not to forget the tradition and master the two languages and cultures of Dong and Han.

Become an important link between different generations in contemporary times.

The changing speed of contemporary Dong communities leads to the younger generation of Dong people having different growth experiences and living space from the older generation. Young people live in a contemporary society with complicated information, have more opportunities to communicate with foreign cultures, and can choose a lifestyle different from the traditional one. Differences in living backgrounds can easily lead to cultural conflicts and misunderstandings among Dong people of different generations. The tradition of big songs, which emphasizes universal access and participation, forces young people to participate in the ethnic context and traditional life, which is extremely important for generations to understand and communicate with each other in the common identity context.

It has become an important cultural symbol recognized by the Dong people in the north and south.

With the discovery, research and development of mobile phone by foreign researchers, and its public performances in China and even many important cities in the world, more and more foreigners begin to understand its unique charm and regard it as a typical representative of the overall culture of the Dong nationality. The influence of this cultural phenomenon from the outside to the inside is that the Dong community and the Dong people, who have stopped singing Daqu and even started to use Daqu as their own cultural symbols, accept this singing form as the common national symbol of the North and South Dong people and the common psychological identity object of the 3 million Dong people. No matter how big songs are transformed, who is singing, where to sing and to whom to listen, they are the most typical oral symbols of "our Dong traditional culture".

20 13, Dongxiang children continue to develop this treasure of oriental culture and art through various performances. They not only went out of Dongxiang, entered the city, but also went abroad and became famous at home and abroad.