The documentary "Mountain Songs Are Like Spring Rivers" (long-form version) produced by Guangxi Radio and Television Station will be broadcast on Guangxi Satellite TV at 21:20 tonight, which shows the audience the leafy Guangxi folk songs and the thick and brilliant national culture in the form of folk songs, and records the stories of the people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi praising the Communist Party, praising the new era, and jointly building a beautiful homeland under the leadership of the Communist Party of China over the past century, especially since entering the new era.
Located in the beautiful south of China, Guangxi, the mountains and the sea are connected, and the landscape is magnificent. In the 1960s, the musical scenery film "Liu Sanjie" filmed in Guilin, Guangxi Province, was released, and Huang Wanqiu, played by Liu Sanjie, became a household star of that era. In May 2021, Huang Wanqiu wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping, reporting on the harvest experience of engaging in literary and artistic work over the years. In June, she received a reply from the general secretary, who encouraged her to "continue to play the exemplary role of old artists and lead more literary and art workers to create for the people and sing songs for the times." Over the years, generations of art workers and people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi have tirelessly spread and carried forward the national culture represented by "Liu Sanjie", they have worked and lived together in the long river of history, the cultures of various ethnic groups have been continuously exchanged and integrated, and folk songs have become an important link to promote cultural exchanges among various ethnic groups and promote the cultural identity of the Chinese nation. Many artistic workers also came to Guangxi to collect styles, and created and adapted a large number of classic folk songs and other works of art that were widely circulated throughout the country, and "Stars in the Sky Accompanied by the Moon", "Zhuangjin Dedicated to Chairman Mao", "Strong Family Teenagers Grow Up Under the Red Flag" and so on became the classics of the times.
Since ancient times, guangxi has spread the legend of Liu Sanjie, a song immortal. Wei Lidan is a literary and art worker, and she often appears in public as the local "Liu Sanjie" image in Yizhou. "Liu Sanjie" is a song fairy of Zhuang folklore, she is intelligent and astute, the song is like a spring, beautiful and moving, is the embodiment of the working people who love mountain songs and are good at singing mountain songs. Under the guidance of the Party's leadership and the Party's literary and artistic policies. Through the excavation, collation and promotion of liu sanjie, a national folk tale, Guangxi has made "Liu Sanjie" a typical representative of Zhuang culture. It has also become the longest-lasting, most-covered, most influential and representative cultural phenomenon in Guangxi.
Guangxi Longlin Autonomous County is located on the Qiangui Plateau. Since 1978, various forms of household contract responsibility have developed rapidly here, activating the villages that have been sleeping for many years, and the De'e polder here is also bustling, and the song polder that accompanies the polder commodity trade is also becoming more and more lively. In order to reflect the changes in the lives of ethnic minorities after the reform and opening up, Guangxi lyricist Gudi and composer Huang Youyi came to Longlin De'e Township, which has a strong ethnic minority style, and they saw the Yi girls dressed in colorful costumes on the polder, joyfully purchasing their favorite fabrics and small crafts, and walking back to the cottage together.
In Shanglin, Guangxi, a stone stele carved in the first year of Emperor Gaozong's Yongchun (682 AD) belongs to the national key protected cultural relics. Its inscriptions are the same as the piao sentence structure that prevailed during the Han and Tang dynasties. The ancestors of the Zhuang people drew on the ancient Chinese Piao wen to pay attention to the characteristics of battle and sound rhythm, and created the Four-Six Mountain Song that was popular in the Guizhong region. Wei Youchuang is the inheritor of the Shanglin Siliulian Mountain Song, and in August, when the harvest and robbery are the busiest, he and the villagers form a small team to help each other, and they do not forget to pull a few mountain songs after work. Mutual assistance in agricultural work is a long-standing tradition of all ethnic groups in Guangxi, and singing while working is also a long-standing custom.
Guangxi Gewei has a long history and has gone through vicissitudes, and today Guangxi's modern cities still retain the ancient cultural form of singing mountain songs, which is rare in cities across the country. Young Wei Zhibao majored in vocal music in college, from childhood with his grandmother to learn mountain songs, catch up with the song, after graduation he did his best to take care of the elderly grandmother, but also often with the grandmother back to the song to show his skills, he from the song to appreciate the charm of traditional culture, but also in the mountain song to learn the true meaning of diligence, filial piety.
The deep popular base is the vast fertile soil of folk songs. Mo Chaice, who grew up from this fertile land of folk songs, traveled through the fields and countryside to find the secrets of the Zhuang people's songs. Song is an ancient folk literature and music genre of the Zhuang people in Guangxi, mainly popular in the Zhuang areas of the Youjiang River Basin, how to integrate traditional songs into the vision of the new era of communication, and express the consciousness and self-confidence of national culture in international languages, Mo Qice has been exploring. He collaborated with Wei Qingqing, a singer who is also from his hometown, to compose a song "Moon" using traditional songs and modern vocal music. The old rhyme is passed on in a new form.
In Guangxi, the nostalgia of all ethnic groups standing in solidarity and watching out for each other has been condensed and passed on in labor and song, and has lasted for a long time and has endured for a long time. The traditional Dong song "The Song of Cicadas" is inspired by the sound of cicadas, one person, everyone and, without conductor, without accompaniment, this coordination mechanism is closely related to mutual cooperation in labor production. Most of the places where the Dong people live are places where mountains and rivers blend, they pick tea, grow rice, fish, all of them are labor scenery, these folk songs that exude a strong local atmosphere, only the people of all ethnic groups living in the local area can sing out so naturally and emotionally.
Huanjiang is the only Maonan Autonomous County in China, where Maonan, Zhuang, Han, Yao and other ethnic groups live. On May 9, 2020, Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County withdrew from the sequence of poverty-stricken counties, and the Maonan ethnic group achieved poverty alleviation for the entire ethnic group. The maonan people's representatives wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping, reporting their joy at achieving poverty alleviation, and expressing their determination to unswervingly follow the party and continue to promote rural revitalization. Singer Qin Xiaolin synthesized the mountain song tune of the Maonan, Zhuang, Han and Miao ethnic groups, wrote the gratitude and joy of the compatriots of all ethnic groups after realizing a well-off life into the lyrics, and created "Ten Odes to the Party", the song tune is relaxed and cheerful, the lyrics are catchy, the emotions are simple and sincere, once launched, it quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys.
In 1999, the first "Nanning International Folk Song Art Festival" was held, which became a high-profile cultural hotspot and a loud cultural brand with its distinctive internationality, nationality and modernity, as well as its grand scale and innovative spirit. Through the stage of the folk song festival, a number of national art treasures on the verge of being lost in Guangxi have attracted the attention of the world, the folk songs of all parts of the country and all ethnic groups have shined brightly, and the folk songs of other countries with exotic styles have made a stunning appearance. "Impression Liu Sanjie", taking the waters of the Li River as the stage, integrates the song immortal Liu Sanjie, ethnic customs, and Li River fishing fire into the landscape of Guilin, and the content of the performance is the real life of the local fishermen, and the mountain song is the soul of this landscape live performance.
Mountains and rivers blend and sing in songs. Since 2014, the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has made the traditional March Three Songs Festival a public holiday in the whole region. The annual "Zhuang March 3, Eight Gui Carnival" activity has become a grand song for the people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi. Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era is a magnificent Guangxi and an important part of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Guangxi has worked cohesion, formed the greatest common divisor, drawn the largest concentric circles, and jointly built a demonstration area for casting a solid sense of national community. The people of Zhuangxiang have a good life, and thousands of people sing thousands of people, and they live in songs every day.
The documentary was selected as a support project for the development of the film and television industry in 2022, and a key documentary on the centenary of the founding of the Party by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. The feature-length version will be broadcast on Guangxi TV tonight at 21:20 on January 3, 2022. Stay tuned!
Editor| Lu Ting
Responsible editor 丨 Liu Xu