Belief in mobile phone photography

What kind of songs can be sung for thousands of years only by the singer's memory and oral singing on the basis of no written records?

What kind of people, what kind of occasions, why do you want to sing this song, and it is three days and three nights, day and night?

When I was on a business trip in Guiyang and visited Yangming Temple, I came across a photo exhibition called "Looking for the Road to Ancestor Soul". Photos give people a strong visual impact. I am curious about this subject, so I stopped to watch it carefully.

At this point, we can simply answer the previous questions: this is a heroic epic song that has been passed down by Mashan Miao singers for thousands of years, called Duck Green King. It is such a group of people called "singers" who have been inheriting such epics for thousands of years.

We all know that the Miao singer who believes in ghosts and witches is actually a wizard. People believe that they can travel through time and space, communicate with heaven and earth, communicate with ancestors and talk with ghosts and gods.

In the Miao people's concept, death is not the end of life, but the reunion with the ancestors of another world, and production and life will continue. Influenced by this deep-rooted concept of life and death, the singer began to hold ceremonies to help the deceased return to their hometown to meet their ancestors, which is also the theme of "The Road to Finding Ancestors". This ceremony was passed down as a funeral folk custom, and it is for this reason that the epic "King Yaru" was replaced.

What kind of epic is King Aru?

The history of the Miao people in Mashan has no written records, but has been passed down from generation to generation through word of mouth.

It is through the description of these histories that we can tell the dead: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? ...

Some people spend their whole lives answering these three questions, while philosophers spend their whole lives studying these three questions and constantly exploring the ultimate meaning of life. For Miao people, it is more important to know where they went after death and how to return to their ancestral homeland. It is with this belief that the people of Mashan Miao people still want to live in a difficult environment despite the harsh living environment, because they know that they can still find a way to return to their hometown and meet their ancestors after death. These are their beliefs and beliefs, and they constantly draw courage and strength from them.

Most of the singers who are still singing today are old. The picture shows an old but determined singer. Although many of them are illiterate, they are the embodiment of faith, the witnesses of civilization and the great inheritors. Their lives are valuable because they have found hearts for their own people, gained the courage to live and the peace of death.

1939, at the age of 22, she learned the "ancient songs" of the Miao nationality, and she was invited to attend any wedding or funeral in the stockade.

From 65438 to 0935, he learned to sing Duck Green King at the age of 27, and sang and organized ceremonies 1000 times.

In 1944, the old branch secretary, the rolling king and the singer are the most influential people in the local Miao village.

This epic has been handed down by 3000 singers in Miao village. We seem to see the pictures of singers practicing singing hard in the back of the house, in the fields, in caves and in the moonlight in the wilderness.

The singer is dressed in robes, wearing a hat and holding a sword. Facing the dead, he is full of awe and solemnity. This is the power of faith and the sacredness of human beings.

People from generation to generation have been living nonstop. From the day they were born, they began to grow and struggle in this world, then they aged, died and returned to nature. Everyone will become history, and so will what he experienced. Some will be remembered, and some will disappear with the passage of time.

Mashan Miao people have experienced countless funerals since ancient times, and people have repeatedly listened to generations of singers singing "Duck Green King". Only by doing this repeatedly can the national history and culture be passed down and the national cohesion be formed. The reason why a nation becomes a nation is that people become people.

PS: Looking at the aging singers, I can't help worrying that no one will continue to inherit this culture. Fortunately, these spiritual wealth has been listed as intangible cultural heritage and attracted the attention of sociologists. They are also trying their best to preserve and protect them. So they will continue to inherit, continue to tell the history of mankind, tell the story of you and me, let people gain the strength of life and give life a special meaning. ...