Tibetan National Art: To "Grow" Upwards and "Take Root" Downwards

China News Service Lhasa, January 5 Title: Tibetan National Art: To "Grow" Upwards, but also to "Take Root" Downwards

China News Service reporter Zhao Yan

Recently, a Tibetan boy named Dan Gaoxi integrated the Zamu Nianqin (six-stringed qin) with Tibetan opera, bringing a special performance to the national audience. Tseten Droga, a vocal performer from the Shigatse National Art Troupe in Tibet, was deeply moved: "Tibetan national art has once again received everyone's attention, and as a national music actor, I am very inspired and proud. ”

On January 5, Tserdan Zhuoga (first from right) attended the Second Plenary Session of the Fifth Session of the Eleventh People's Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region in Lhasa. Tibet Autonomous Region People's Congress deputy Tsering Zhuoga from Dingri County, Shigatse City, Dingri County is known as the "hometown of Luo Harmony", as a Tibetan folk song and dance, Luo Harmony has been included in the list of China's national intangible cultural heritage projects, which is a comprehensive art form that integrates song, dance, music and singing. Tserdan Zhuoga, who participated in the 2022 New Year's Concert in Tibet, told reporters that he can participate in up to 80 grassroots performances every year, "I hope to bring the best sound to all corners of Tibet and even China in the purest way." China News Service reporter Gong Galaisong photographed

In her opinion, the Tibetan autonomous region people's congress deputy Tseten Zhuoga, who is from Dingri County, Shigatse City, is known as a nation that "can talk and sing, and can walk and dance" is inseparable from the living environment in which people grew up.

Dingri County is known as the "hometown of Luo Harmony", as a Tibetan folk song and dance, Luo Harmony has been included in the list of China's National Intangible Cultural Heritage Projects, which is a comprehensive art form that integrates song, dance, music and singing. Influenced by his mother, Zhoga especially likes to sing. Once, when the Tibetan Spring Festival Gala was broadcast on a television set, she was under 4 years old at the time, pointing to a singer and saying casually, "In the future, I will stand on the stage and sing like her." This sentence caused the family to laugh.

"No one expected that one of my jokes would come true more than 20 years later." She just participated in the 2022 New Year Concert in Tibet, telling reporters that she can participate in up to 80 grassroots performances every year, "I hope to use the purest way to bring the best sound to all corners of Tibet and even China." ”

In this way, Tszeda Zhuoga brought Tibetan national art to the international stage with his original intention. She has been to Germany, Switzerland, Mongolia and other countries to perform, Dingri Luo harmony, Lazidui harmony, Saga Jia harmony and other original ecological songs and dances from Tibet, by overseas Tibetan compatriots and local people widely praised, "they feel that the protection of traditional Tibetan art is shocking." ”

The second Dan Zhuoga said that tibetans have advocated nature since ancient times, and if national art is integrated into nature, it is like a big tree full of vitality, which must not only grow upwards, but also take root downwards.

In order to inject vitality into traditional ethnic art, Tibet has stepped up its efforts to promote the inheritance and innovation of art in recent years. It has been learned that the Department of Culture of the Tibet Autonomous Region has made every effort to provide the soil and environment for the growth of national art, encouraged artists to create works of art that are rich in Tibetan characteristics and loved by the grass-roots people, and supported them. The literary and artistic works supported and rewarded cover literature, drama, music, dance, fine arts, photography, calligraphy, folk art and other art disciplines.

The second Dan Zhuoga introduced that the group that inherits national art is gradually becoming younger. Nowadays, ethnic musical instruments such as Bi Wang (similar to erhu), Yangqin, zamu nianqin and so on have successively entered the Tibetan campus classroom. Folk art troupes have been set up in 18 counties and districts of Shigatse, and girls and boys in their early 20s have become the main force of the art troupe, and they follow the old artists to participate in exchanges and performances in various places, learn basic skills, and take over the "baton" of inheriting national art.

"Standing on stage requires enough confidence, which stems from our solid business foundation." The next Dan Zhuoga told reporters that she grew up in the environment of singing and dancing, but the knowledge of music theory was very weak, and later entered the Art College of Tibet University to follow the professional teacher system to study, coupled with the strict self-discipline in learning life, so that she gradually gained a firm foothold on the stage.

"The works can reflect the lives of farmers and herdsmen and are liked by the grassroots people, which is also an important part of the downward 'rooting' of art." Tsedan Zhuoga said that the excellent Tibetan national art has been precipitated for thousands of years and has become a part of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. As a national artist, he shoulders the responsibility of promoting and inheriting national art. "I hope that in the future, the works I will interpret will make more people interested in national art, narrow the distance between national art and the people, and further show its unique artistic charm to the people at home and abroad." (End)

Source: China News Network