What are the famous folk song festivals in China?

Abstract: Folk songs are mainly distributed in plateaus, hinterlands, mountain villages, fishing villages and minority areas. It is widely circulated and rich in reserves. Folk songs are one of the basic genres of Chinese folk songs. Folk songs with free rhythm and long melody are sung by people to entertain themselves while walking, chopping firewood, grazing, mowing grass or at folk singing parties. So what are the famous folk song festivals in China? In addition to the famous Meizhou Folk Song Festival, what other traditional folk song festivals are there? Then take a look at China’s famous folk song festivals listed in this article! Chengbu Miao Nationality Folk Song Festival on June 6. People of all ethnic groups in Chengbu Miao Township have loved singing folk songs since ancient times and have formed a custom. As far as I know, there are many types of folk songs, including four-line songs, row songs, pan songs, flower songs, love songs, drinking songs, production and labor songs, historical legend songs, rocking songs, pipa songs, hymns, Songs of filial piety and anti-songs include curse songs, songs to ridicule the world, songs to encourage the world, and songs to praise the world, etc. They sing during festivals, during production and labor in the mountains and fields, when young men fall in love with girls, during weddings and funerals, and when they are free at home, especially on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year. Day is the customary day for them to sing folk songs with their golden voices. As the saying goes, "One mountain thunders and thousands of mountains respond, and the Miao and Dong villages sing."

Time: The sixth day of the sixth lunar month

Location: Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Hunan Province

Meizhou International Hakka Folk Song Cultural Festival Meizhou Hakka Folk Song Cultural Festival has a population of nearly 5 million A folk song sung in Hakka dialect, it spreads in the Hakka area in the northeastern part of Guangdong Province and also spreads to overseas Hakka areas inhabited by Meizhou origin. Meizhou Hakka folk songs spread and multiplied with the formation of the Hakka ethnic lineage during the Song and Ming dynasties. They are the product of the fusion of Central Plains culture and Meizhou indigenous culture. Its lyrics are very poetic, similar to Zhuzhi Ci, and have the aftertaste of "national style" and "Wu song". Meizhou Hakka folk songs have nearly a hundred kinds of tunes. The pitch is high and long, smooth and smooth, with little fluctuation; the range is higher and the range is narrower; there are more steps and fewer jumps; the rhythm is free and the beats are diverse, often A mixture of various beats and singing. Meizhou Hakka folk songs have tens of thousands of lyrics circulated among the people, including labor songs, current political songs, ritual songs, etiquette songs, love songs, other life songs and children's songs, etc., covering all aspects of Meizhou Hakka life, among which love songs have the largest number. , the content is the most exciting and the literary value is also the highest. In order to promote Hakka culture, Meizhou holds a folk song festival every Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a very lively folk song competition.

Time: December every year (the specific time is subject to the current holding time)

Location: Meizhou City, Guangdong Province

Sichuan Roaring Folk Song Festival Festival is a festival custom of the Han people. Popular in Pixian area. It is held every year during the Dragon Boat Festival. At that time, people from far and near went to Wangcong Temple to offer incense, worship Emperor Wang and Emperor Cong's virtuous followers, and wish the crops a good harvest. Pixian County was once the capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom. Legend has it that after Emperor Wang succeeded to the throne, he retired to the mountains and transformed into a cuckoo. Every February when the cuckoos bloomed, it flew back to the Chengdu Plain and screamed day and night, urging farmers to hurry up with spring plowing until they vomited. The blood dyed the azaleas on the mountain red, and the Shu people thought it was the soul of Emperor Wang who had returned. This is the story of "the cuckoo cries blood" in folklore. Therefore, Pixian County is called "Juan City".

To commemorate Emperor Wang, later generations organized the Juancheng Song Contest around the 15th day of the fifth lunar month every year. The venue for the song contest was Wangcong Temple. The singers participating in the singing competition are all local farmers, who mainly sing folk songs. Singing folk songs is also called "Howling Folk Songs" in Sichuan. Most of them are self-composed and sung, with a strong local flavor. During the singing competition, various cultural, entertainment, sports activities and local product exhibitions are held in the county.

Time: Around the 15th day of the fifth lunar month every year

Location: Pi County, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

Zhuang Song Festival (March 3 Song Festival) The Zhuang people have always been famous for their ability to sing and dance. It is famous for the Zhuang people in Guangxi, and among them, the Zhuang people in Wuming District, Nanning City are famous all over the world. On May 27, 2016, "Wuming County" was officially renamed "Wuming District" and officially included in the urban area of ??Nanning, bringing "Wuming·Zhuang Township" into another realm. Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, also known as the "March 3 Song Festival" or "March Song Fair", it is an annual traditional song festival of the Zhuang people. Every time during the song festival, Zhuang girls and boys form separate groups. The singers stand on the stage and sing folk songs to each other according to certain procedures and singing methods. Most of the folk songs are in the form of guessing and interrogation, composed and sung at the same time, and a farewell song is sung at the end. On this day of the Song Festival, every household makes five-color glutinous rice and dyes colorful eggs to celebrate the festival. The song festival usually lasts for two or three days at a time and is held in an open space not far from the village. A singing booth is set up with bamboo and cloth to receive singers from other villages. The main body of the antiphon is unmarried young men and women, but the elderly and children come to watch and enjoy. Small singing festivals have one or two thousand people, while large ones can have tens of thousands of people. Next to the song festival, vendors gather and private trade is active. The nearby people provided accommodation and food for those who came to attend the singing festival, and they all received them warmly regardless of whether they were acquaintances or not.

Time: The third day of the third lunar month every year

Location: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

The Jing ethnic group in Guangxi sings the Ha Festival "Ha" or "Sing Ha". In Beijing language, it means "singing", and "Changha Festival" means "singing festival". The specific dates of the Ha Festival vary from place to place. Wanwei and Wutou Islands fall on the tenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, Shanxin Island falls on the tenth day of the eighth month, and Hongkan Village falls on the fifteenth day of the first month.

There are "Ha Pavilions" built in various places for singing Ha. In the main hall of Ha Pavilion, the tablets of the island-protecting gods such as King Zhenhai and the tablets of the ancestors of various surnames of the Jing nationality are enshrined. The activities of the Singing Festival are divided into four parts, namely welcoming the gods, worshiping the gods, singing at the table and sending off the gods. The main activity of the entire festival is singing. The main roles in singing Ha are "Brother Ha" and "Mei Ha". During the singing, Hamei, the lead singer, stood in the middle of the pavilion, holding two small bamboo pieces in her hands, and banging them swaying while singing; Hamei, the co-singer, sat on the ground next to her, beating bamboo coconuts with both hands. After Ha Mei finished singing a line, Ha brother played the shamisen according to the tune. Such singing and accompaniment make the singing, piano and bamboo music blend into one, which is very pleasant to the ear. There are more than 30 kinds of tunes for singing.

Time: Wanwei and Wutou Islands fall on the tenth day of the sixth lunar month, Shanxin Island falls on the tenth day of the eighth lunar month, and Hongkan Village falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month

Location: Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Dongxing City Wanwei Island, Wutou Island, Shanxin Island, Hongkan Village

Bajiao Mountain Song Festival Bajiao Mountain District belongs to the Dajiuding Mountains and is the capital of the migration of the Qiang and Di people to the inland Han cultural area. On the route, many related place names and customs have remained until now, among which Qiang Han folk songs fall into this category. According to local people, folk songs have existed since ancient times and are in memory of the second king. Farmers in the Bajiao Mountain area like to sing folk songs and antiphons while working. In 1986, under the guidance of the Municipal Folk Literature and Art Integration Office, a collection of folk songs in the town was conducted. 111 folk songs, 30 folk stories and 93 folk proverbs were collected and included in the provincial volumes. Since the establishment of the town cultural station in 1981, a town-wide folk song singing competition has been held every year. The first session was held on September 27, 1983, with 22 singers on stage. In the past two decades, 15 singers in the town have won awards in the city. According to statistics in 2005, there were 402 singers in Zhenshan.

The Weibaoshan Chaoshan Song Festival is held from the first to the fifteenth day of the second lunar month every year. At that time, people of all ethnic groups in Weishan and neighboring cities and counties such as Dali, Eryuan, Midu, Nanjian, Yangbi, Fengqing, and Yunxian will wear their own national costumes and go to Weibaoshan to attend the meeting. The Weishan Folk Cave Sutra Association plays simple and elegant Cave Sutra music in various temples. Vendors from all over the country set up stalls in Weibaoshan, selling food, mountain products, local specialties, small commodities, etc. to meet the needs of the pilgrims. The 13th to 14th day of the second lunar month is the Weibaoshan Singing Festival, held at the Weibaoshan Peihe Tower Singing Hall. The Yi people from the surrounding villages will gather in the singing field wearing colorful national costumes and carrying musical instruments such as sticks and sticks, and form a circle to hold singing activities. The people in the pilgrimage first gathered around to watch the singing and dancing, and then joined in the singing procession. The singing procession could last for several rounds. Today's Weibaoshan Mountain Fair is also a mass entertainment singing activity and a grand national singing competition.

Time: The first to the fifteenth day of the second lunar month

Location: Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

The predecessor of the Nanning International Folk Song Art Festival is The Guangxi International Folk Song Festival was founded in 1993 and officially changed to its current name in 1999. It is jointly sponsored by the Social and Cultural Library Department of the Ministry of Culture, the Cultural Propaganda Department of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Nanning Municipal People's Government. It is an integrated festival that integrates culture, tourism, economy and trade. It is a comprehensive large-scale festival. The art festival is held once a year and will be held in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Since 2004, the Nanning International Folk Song Art Festival has successfully opened a new chapter in cultural cooperation between China and ASEAN in the practice of serving nine consecutive China-ASEAN Expos, and has also become an important platform for cultural exchanges between Guangxi and other parts of the country and the world.

Time: September or October every year (the specific time is subject to the current holding time)

Location: Nanning City, Guangxi

Shibaoshan Song Festival Bai Nationality Jianchuan Shibao Folk Song Festival is held every year from July 27th to 29th of the lunar calendar, lasting three days. At this time, tens of thousands of Bai young men, women and singers from Jianchuan and neighboring Dali, Eryuan, Yunlong, Lanping, Heqing, Lijiang and other counties gather at Shizhong Temple, Baoxiang Temple and Haiyunju in Shibaoshan. , Jinding Temple, all over the mountains and plains, and even in front of the solemn statues, Bai love songs are played and sang. The lyrics are tactful, graceful and catchy, commemorating a legendary young and beautiful female singer two thousand years ago, and at the same time making new friends and even finding a lifelong partner. Just as some singers described it: "In the antiphonal singing venue on Shibao Mountain, the songs are like spiritual springs with endless roots; the songs are like the leaves of the trees on the mountain, and the sounds are connected with the sounds of the heart." The main venue of the Shibaoshan Song Festival is the Baoxiang Temple area, known as the "Yunnan Hanging Temple". Here there are rugged rocks, jingling mountain springs, and twists and turns of stone steps leading to the temples built on dangerous cliffs. At the foot of the mountain, there is a singing platform and a small square. During the singing festival, it becomes a market dedicated to the singing festival. There are many vendors and a variety of small commodities, especially various snacks and local specialties. It provides great convenience for people's leisure and entertainment, and also sets off a strong festive atmosphere. .

Time: July 27th to July 29th of the lunar calendar every year

Location: Jianchuan County, Yunnan Province

Forty-Eight Villages Song Festival The Forty-Eight Villages Song Festival is The Northern Dong Dialect Song Festival, mainly held in Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province, China, is a traditional ethnic festival for ethnic minorities, mainly Dong and Miao, to gather, sing and make friends and fall in love with young people. It is known as the "Ethnic Ecological Museum". It is representative, with its original ecology, long history and research value in the fields of ethnicity, folklore, music and other fields. It was listed in the second batch of intangible cultural heritage list of Guizhou Province in 2007.

There are "four major singing venues" in the history of Forty-Eight Village. Apo'ao, Xiutian Village, Zhulin Township, is one of the four major singing venues. Every year on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, there are a sea of ??people on the hillside here, singing one after another, echoing each other from a distance, and the scene is spectacular.

Time: The 15th day of the seventh lunar month every year

Location: Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province

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