On December 17, the 2021 Chinese Native Folk Song Festival opened in Pengshui Miao Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing. Hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government, the Festival of Native Chinese Folk Songs was held in Pengshui Miao Tujia Autonomous County, Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County and Qianjiang District of Chongqing Municipality with the theme of "Singing a Beautiful Life".
Among the 15 programs in which the opening ceremony was performed, not only the Dong national song "Happy Dong Family" and the Miao folk song "Jiao'ayi", but also the Yi ethnic performance and singing of the sea vegetable cavity "Golden Bird and Silver Bird Flying", as well as the Sichuan River trumpet, Tujia folk songs, Qiang mountain songs, Hakka mountain songs, Tibetan songs and dances and other folk songs with great regional and ethnic characteristics.
Under the premise of strictly implementing the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, the 2021 China Native Folk Song Festival will be carried out in the form of "reducing the scale of activities and combining online and offline", and the main activities include the opening ceremony performance, the original folk song exhibition, the native folk song thematic academic seminar (online), the native folk song into the scenic spot, the special exhibition of Chinese folk songs (online) and the closing ceremony performance. On December 18, folk song exhibition and performance activities were held in Qianjiang District and Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County of Chongqing Municipality, and on December 19, the closing ceremony was held in Qianjiang District, Chongqing City.
The 2021 China Native Folk Song Festival, with the theme of "Singing a Beautiful New Life", aims to comprehensively display the traditional folk songs of various regions and ethnic groups in China, and build a platform for the display, exchange and promotion of traditional folk songs and representative projects of national intangible cultural heritage in traditional music.
Held every two years, the China Native Folk Song Festival is a cultural event that displays achievements, exchanges experiences and promotes innovative development in the field of protection and inheritance of traditional folk songs and traditional music intangible cultural heritage in China. This year's folk song festival has been actively participated in by 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country, and 249 folk song exhibition programs have been collected from all over the country in the early stage, with more than 1,300 applicants, and the number of declarations has exceeded that of previous sessions. After the selection of the organization, a total of 184 people from 38 exhibition teams participated in the on-site exhibition and performance. The exhibition and performance program involves 37 representative projects of intangible cultural heritage at all levels, including 23 representative projects of intangible cultural heritage at the national level, 42 representative inheritors of representative intangible cultural heritage projects at all levels, and 10 representative inheritors of representative projects of intangible cultural heritage at the national and provincial levels.