On June 5438+1October 65438+August, 2007, the 4th China Postal Culture Festival was held in Gaoyou, the only city named after postal service in China. That night, at the special literary evening of "Charming Postal Capital", China Folk Writers Association officially awarded Gaoyou the honorary title of "Hometown of China Folk Songs", and Gaoyou became the only "Hometown of China Folk Songs" in China at that time. Compared with Guangxi, Yunnan and Xinjiang, Gaoyou folk songs in He Lixia in the middle of Jiangsu Province seem to be little known. Why did you take the lead in becoming the hometown of folk songs? To this end, yesterday, the reporter interviewed Tao Siyan, vice chairman of China Folk Writers Association, and other related experts in Gaoyou.

Jiangsu is an important "hometown of songs"

Tao Siyan told reporters that the cultural feature of Jiangsu is "Wu Han Yun Feng", which is reflected in folk songs such as Wu Ge in southern Jiangsu and Chu songs in northern Jiangsu.

According to the available data, the "Scattered Flower Tune" popular in Gaoyou is one of the ancient folk songs to exorcise evil spirits in northern Jiangsu, and there are many qupai with the same name as the folk songs still popular in Gaoyou, such as "Pulling the oar upside down" and "Broken Bridge". Gaoyou and its surrounding areas naturally become fertile ground for folk song creation. Jiangsu has always been an important "hometown of songs" in China. For example, Jasmine is one of the most influential folk songs in China.

Gaoyou folk songs have formed a pedigree of inheritance.

Jiang Wending, Chairman of Gaoyou Federation of Literary and Art Circles, introduced Gaoyou folk songs which have been listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list. After detailed investigation, there are five generations of known folk singers, and the last four generations are all active in the folk. Wang Lanying, a 70-year-old man living in Gaoyou Town, likes listening to and singing folk songs since childhood. He learned many folk songs from his grandmother, which is a famous "folk song basket" in the local area. When he lived in Lizhuang, Xinhua Village, Gaoyou Town, the folk song "Counting Duck Eggs" sung by her attracted the attention of Gaoyou middle school teachers at that time. After Suoxing composed the lyrics, Wang Lanying still sang. In the second national folk music and dance performance, she sang Gaoyou folk songs such as Counting Duck Eggs and Making a Busy Song in the form of chorus with Xia Guozhen and Long Xiuluan, which made Premier Zhou praise again and again.

Xia Guozhen 1960, a famous folk singer in Gaoyou in the 1950s, is now 7 1 year old, and sings the folk songs of Gaoyou water town when attending the National Congress of Cultural and Artistic Workers. At the closing ceremony of the conference, Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou took a group photo as a souvenir.

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"Borrowing" Gaoyou Folk Songs

Gaoyou folk songs are widely circulated in gaoyou lake and He Lixia. It mainly includes hymns, minor, love songs, various life customs songs, children's songs, antithesis songs and so on. The melody is beautiful and simple, the rhythm is euphemistic and brisk, and it has a strong He Lixia water town style. Since 1980s, Gaoyou has held 3/kloc-0 competitions in succession, and collected nearly 500 Gaoyou folk songs.

"In fact, many familiar songs and melodies around us are Gaoyou folk songs." Zhang Jianhua, secretary-general of the Provincial Folk Writers and Artists Association and a national first-class composer, is very active. Gaoyou folk song "Counting Duck Eggs" has been compiled into the music textbook of nine-year compulsory education primary schools in Jiangsu Province. In the 1970s and 1980s, Nanjing Little Red Flower Art Troupe also sang duck eggs all over the world.